"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...."
Hi ya jackass and all 🙂 I took my eyes off screen for a second and there you are again :^O
There's a wonderful old book shop up in Salamanca Place in Hobart, but parking is so difficult I haven't really explored it... must do so some time.
As for old planes - my father used to collect the WWI & WWII magazines on planes, I think he had the whole set but no doubt he left them to his step son, so I haven't seen them for years.
He was into Vintage cars, so that's what I grew up with, some of them were wonders to behold including a Tourquat Marie a French touring car. It seated 12, was soft topped with a timber steering wheel I could hardly get my hands around, a crank to start her and a 6 foot long engine block... wonderful creature she was.
Ya know Heathmal, I never even thought of Pink Floyd when I chose my ID, I suppose it was somewhere in the back of my mind, but as I tend to pull things out of the empty air (brain) all I know that is what I chose 🙂
Well my small dog goes in for her operation tomorrow and I will be sooooo glad when it's over and we can begin the healing process... phew!
See ya later
