"This is for the Senior members of CS, those born before 1947. Baby Boomers and Generations X & Y are welcome providing you are over 18 🙂
But this is definitely for people who are facing the last long haul. We have survived babyhood, childhood, being teens and twenties... We have learned to read and write, to drive, have probably been married and the women have survived child birth.
The challenges are constant and the near misses of death are also there. If we have become a senior we have learned to survive so much, and along the way we have, of course, gathered a great deal of knowledge about life.
The belief that age diminishes us is not true, it changes us and not all of it is bad. Yes there can be various forms of dementia for some, but that is also a disease that can happen in younger people. Alzheimer's can also occur - it is another form of dementia and generally occurs in people over 65, although that can occur much earlier too and not everyone is going to get it.
Most of us keep our mental alertness up to the moment of death, even if we lose our hearing and our eyesight, but of course this can happen at any age too.
What changes is our physical strength, which diminishes but our mental strength and patience grows, it has to of course, to deal with this aging thing.
Arthritis, heart trouble, strokes - all these things associated with age can happen at any time in your life - arthritis can happen when you are a child but they don't like giving out new hips and knees until you are in your 50s and 60s or later. We can talk about that too.
Cancer can happen any time and that is also something we can discuss here if you like.
The point of this thread is to give the Seniors a chance to talk about how they are coping with age, the challenges it presents and the fears that can come with it... loss of hearing or sight, aging spouses, living alone, retirement villages, even death...
So I will ask that the Juniors treat us in kindly fashion and remember, all this is going to happen to you too - providing you avoid death before you get here 🙂
So, onward and upward. Let's go...."
Mint leaves, that was what I was trying to recall yesterday. I could see them but couldn't remember their name.
Oh those were the days Richo, when the Americans hadn't changed our language and we had our own way of talking and doing things and factories like Vegemite and Sao biscuits were, along with IXL jams were still Australian owned.
No drug problems back then either, smoking and drinking were the main sins and back then of course smoking wasn't considered a problem.. (maybe that was not good tho)
We didn't have the Govt confusion and unpleasantness that exists nowadays and if there was any it was behind closed doors and the public didn't hear of it.
The Prime Ministers seemed sincere and hard working and we respected them... Heck! I was never embarrassed by Menzies or any of the others when they went overseas. They spoke well, dressed well and had manners.
Not so nowadays 😞
Evening seniors.
Not doing the political stuff:O.
We will have Lakeland and the others in here-lol.
Darki-its like Bonds bluey singlets.
Had a few from many years ago-now grey and have a few holes.
Keep the shape.
Recently purchased 3 copies by mistake.
Wore em once over the last long weekend-washed em and
hung em one the line.
They ended up a bell shape and were wider than long.
Not a happy camper---well was at the camp but
not after doing the washing.-lol...............Richo.
Richo could that be due to the wearer changing shape? :^O
Next time pull them long before hanging them out 🙂
arvo all.
just giving this a kick in the pants...B-)
Right on Gil and I have been tardy 🙂 so much going on at present... I HATE 2012 😞
No you are right Richo, no politics... Sorry 🙂
Anyone remember the old Austin A30s ? Just passing a memory on :^O
My aunt drove one for many years and it always looked like a shoe she was wearing :^O
