"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...."
Just lost a long post-not doing it again............Richo.
Aaawwwwhhhhhuuuuu? I feel cheated Richo 😞
Did anyone else go to school holiday camps run by the Churchs or the YWCA or YMCA.
I remember going to a number of them.
No moon I didn't but some of the older kids I was helping to raise did... wasn't too sure about one of the masters 😞
We stopped after that.... bloomin' blazers X-(
Well my wood is sort of burning - kinda - sigh!.. still he is bringing another load for free on Monday and he suggests salting it in with this lot..
Probably last me a couple of years the way it's going.
Yep, cold and overcast here today. Some days 15˚ is sunny and beautiful to garden in, but this is not one of those days.
Do kids go to Sunday School any longer? I did when I was about 12, but don't hear of it any more.
Hahahaa Gil :^O
I worked in a inner city office in Sydney for a little while and the Ozzie accent ruled.
My accent is more English because my mother was English, so I was considered a 'bluddy pom' until I learned to speak Oz and then I was accepted.
Can still drop down into Oz if required, but haven't had a reason to for years 😞
Thinking about that office, it was for Bennett & Woods who made a lot of machine parts and everyone sat in little cubicles on their own watched over by a superior and updated cards with the machine numbers on them...
Can't remember the finess of it, but my god it was boring. Didn't last in that job.
Poor Gil 😞 isn't it hard when you lose someone who really has been a help and a happy one at that.
I do hope your next one is as good.
I had my mower men here today... in fact I had FOUR of them. The place was like a bee hive with whipper snippers and ride ons going flat out for two and a half hours...
It's done my outlook on life a lot of good as I was beginning to feel I would never get it done . Now I don't have to.
I was at lunch with friends today and I was about to tuck into a Caesar salad when one of them observed "Isn't it funny, not so many years ago we would never have thought of food like this."
So right! We are all so conservative back then weren't we. Now it's anything goes and hasn't that altered our foods and what we buy and cook now.
The days of the meat and three veges has almost gone I think.
