"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 Richo... tch! tch! :^O
I suppose you have a Windows computer. I have a Mac.
Cut and Paste is what you do when you write a post on, say, an email and then take it from there to this thread.
If the post is lost here, then you still have a copy... but I don't know what Windows has that would be the same.
Can anyone else help Richo????
Elizabeths... oh yes I remember those pants with lace on the back for special occasions , and we had meat and 2 veg so you must be healthier than me. 😛
I also wore usually white socks but special ones had little chickens around the top. And big ribbons in the hair..... sometimes floppy if they weren't ironed.
Anyone remembers this 'trick' poem for kids....
I saw Esau sitting on a seesaw how many S's in that?
The answeer ?????
I remember that too and the answer is NONE :^O
Now can someone remember why? I can and so can a couple of others here 🙂
...and singlets. We always wore a singlet 🙂
Back for the moment, but don't know for how long ... sigh!
Evening seniors----tis the weekend-woopie.
Re my post 547-ta for the advise given by Rose and Darki.
Not as easy as that for me.
Had a puta since 2008 and never done a right hand click.
Have purchased 300 items -used paypal-forums etc,
but dont do any fancy stuff-lol.
My favorite son does the updates and technical issues.
I just plod along!--------------Richo.
PS-cant teach an old bloke new tricks.
Oh come on now Richo, my old dog has just learned a whole lot of new tricks ... you could if you were bothered to :^O
