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"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...."
Gil I have had peacocks sitting on the top of my roof with their beautiful tails trailing down into the gutters... Seen them in the trees around my place in NSW too...
They were pets, but ran wild and loved it :^O
Glad your mower didn't cost any more than that.
Yes bunny only 59... I can remember when the war ships were anchored in Sydney, when Sydney was blacked out every night, including the bridge.
My mother can remember having to catch the ferry across from Millers Point to Milsons Point because the bridge hadn't been built yet.
We are walking encyclopaedias but we'll soon be gone just like all the other encyclopaedias have... catch us while you can :^O
Hi ya richo 🙂
Hi Darki--like the spare parts trade---the young blokes keep
throwing out the parts books from under the counter-
because its all on the puta.
Most of the puta listings only go back 20 years.
I have to recall part nos from my head-or look in my collection
at home if a customer has an older car or is restoring one.
PS-the peacocks would have been a nice sight...Richo.
I wonder Richo, do you think the younger generation are merely on computers too?
Maybe we are the last of the real humans and now they are throwing us out... Hope I can remember my spare parts number 😞
I often wonder..........
What on earth would happen if the computers all over the world suddenly got a virus that blew them all up? Catastophe or not?
Nuh! I don't reckon, we would have to teach the young how to live without 'em :^O
I was in Dymocks book store in Sydney many years ago when all the lights went out and the cash registers that told the cashiers what change to give stopped running.
Would you believe none of the young cashiers had any idea how to count out change?
I stayed with her until the lights came back on doing it for her 😞
So yes, we'd have our uses again :^O
