"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...."
Oh heck mum, you didn't need that, but what a quaint kid... he's quite beautiful and he sure had landed in the right family...
How's channy dealing? it must be hard for her too 😞
Hahaa I love that,
Just as well I have large plates lol
Well I had a viewer today for the property and there is a chance they will buy... i won't know until Monday or Tuesday... in the meantime the place I wanted has sold, but my rep says he has another place in mind for me that he feels it is even better, so I will trust him and see what happens |
I found out something (well at least one something I didnt know) those of us born before 1947 are known as the silent generation. Anyone know why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation
the label "Silent Generation" was first coined in the November 5, 1951 cover story of Time to refer to the generation coming of age at the time, born during the Great Depression and World War II, including the bulk of those who fought during the Korean War. The article, (which defined the generation at the time as born from 1925 to 1945), found...[1] The article stated:
The phrase gained further currency after William Manchester's comment that members of this generation were "withdrawn, cautious, unimaginativ...Strauss and Howe in their book Generations as their designation for that generation in the United States of Americaborn from 1925 to 1942.[2] The generation is also known as the Postwar Generation and the Seekers, when it is not neglected..."Greatest" Generation.
In England, they were named the "Air Raid Generation" as children growing up amidst the crossfire of...World War II.
Strangely enough we were talking about this at lunch today 🙂
