by Undecided 23 Replies latest jw friends
I think I know where you are in this getting old thing. I turned 71 last November.
Didn't like it a bit. But like you said, I lift weights, do sit ups and pushups and walk at 3.5 mph on the treadmill in winter.
So far every thing works. I have noticed that the memory is not what it should be, but I expect some of this.
I intend to travel and do the several things that I missed in younger days.
Wish you you the best Ken.
Outoftheorg
Congrats on staying 50 all this time!!! Well done!! :)
That reminds me of an excellent book on the subject:
New Passages, by Gail Sheehy
Also of interest:
The Creative Age, by Gene D. Cohen
(don't roll over yet!)
Getting old beats the alternative! I'm hanging on to 58 for a couple more months. ugh. You need to spend
time with my 90 year old mother, who is waiting to die. She can hardly see or hear, but her mind is pretty
darn sharp. The body is shot. She just came out of her 'cocoon'; she puts herself into every few months...goes
to bed, doesn't want to talk, etc. Thinks it is time for her to pass on. This last time I got rather depressed over it
and was not very gentle on her! Then I decided it is her choice, not mine, to live her days as she wishes; I can
only give positive thoughts (hard to come up with when you are dealing with someone like this!).
she's in a nursing home and this morning told the nurse she'd just eaten her last breakfast. When I saw her tonite,
after supper, she told me how good it was; we had a pretty interesting chat and she said she'd go out for a hamburger
with me when the weather gets nicer. So, ups and downs.
The more I'm around her, I think I'd like to die before I get old. (someone's words from a song in the 60's??)
AuntieJane
I badly want to ring the neck of the guy who came up with the rather stupid idea that these are our "golden years." On the other hand life is worth living in spite of memory problems aches and pains and all the rest that goes along with ageing.
GaryBuss is correct, old folks should be careful on snow and ice and being stuck in the house can be the pits, but we have TV, computers, newspapers books and mags, (Not WT publications) so we have the means to entertain ourselves.
