To: Jim Robinson
I’ll be 83yo in seven weeks. Here’s a bit of advice. Stay busy and stay focused on whatever you’re busy doing. IOW, live for and in the present moment. Get yesterday’s life out of your mind, because thinking about the past will exacerbate depressing thoughts and trigger depression. When it’s time for bed in the evening you should feel worn out from the day’s activities and sleep should come rapidly.
Try to minimize the amount of time you’re by yourself. Stay engaged with others, many others. If possible, seek out others in distress who will welcome anything you can do to help them. You’ve been a great inspiration to me and to countless others, as all on this thread have acknowledged.
Godspeed!
Thanks. I’m 77 this year. Every day is a blessing. Enjoy life until your last breath.
There it is......... wisdom. It just bubbles up.
On May 1, I turned 82. On June 1, my wife and I celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary.
At 11:30 or so this morning I will take my van about 200 miles to visit a site my client assigned me to visit. I go on such visits one or two days a week.
Last Friday, I attendred the First Friday Lunch gathering of
my High School class og 1960. There were 15 there. Two have had strokes, one was hospitaqlized for several months and the rest have all sorts of malades. But some of us are in pretty good condition still and carry on very active lives.
My motto has become “Don’t let the old man in” My models are Clint East Wood who made a movie at 90 something and Warren Buffet who keeps a hand in at 90+
Because you just don’t know. While alive, live