if 85 is very very old, what’s this author gonna call 90, 95, 100 or more?
maybe this year will bring the author a new view, that it’s all a choice on how you see things or feel etc at any age young or older.
one more thought. I read a book years ago titled “It’s not about you, it’s about God” written buy a woman who had a major challenge in her late teens, or early 20’s,, which totally changed her as she realized the book title answered her many questions.
If this author started each day with that thought, than many of his listed things would be easier to figure out, or not even on the list because he’d be wiser and realize life is about learning who God made you to be (usually stronger and better able in ways than we could ever imagine) and He has things for you to do with your time that you will never know unless you get on board with Him. Any other way to live is selfish and apart from God.
1, 3 and 9...
The rest? Meh...
No use for Bob Marley. Ever.
1. Nobody’s thinking about you. (If you’re lucky, the important people in your life are thinking about you — as well as themselves, which is human nature.)
2. Make young friends. (If you can find them. Everybody we know is old.)
3. Try to see fewer than five doctors. (Maybe three max.)
4. Get a dog. (Cat.)
5. Don’t hear the cheers. (Don’t know what that means.)
6. Everyone’s in pain. (Pretty much.)
7. Listen for Bob Marley. (Why?)
8. Join a gang. (Yes. Women’s gangs are critical for mental health.)
9. On regrets. ... Learn to live with them. (You’ve got no choice.)
10. Start and end every day by listening to Louis Armstrong. (Listening to, and singing (loudly) along with, Christian music.)
Another idiot from New York writes a book that will be unpurchased and unread by most, and quickly forgotten by all. To have made it to age 85 without a personal relationship with God through His Son, Jesus...now that’s worthy of a discussion regarding how to find hope and joy and salvation and freedom and peace in one’s old age.
Our earthly life is but a blip in the realm of eternal life...a mere pinpoint in a timeline we can barely fathom. We each have an eternal destination, and we each need to accept Jesus as our savior, in order to have the true knowledge that we will spend eternity in heaven, before and with God Almighty. There is only one alternative eternal destination...to which most are headed ...and that one is eternally painful, hot, dark, lonely and brings the dweller such thirst that can only be imagined... without any hope of relief. The time is short. Choose wisely. Salvation and hope may only be found in Jesus.
I will agree that almost no one thinks about you. Or even cares about you. But hopefully your family does. Maybe a very few select close friends too.
I think a better way of putting it is: You are not the center of the Universe. Though it does seem that way because we are the center of our own lives.
I also doubt that listening to Bob Marley will do anything for me.
Your spouse, kids, and grandkids absolutely do think about you.
Start every day with God. He created you. He gave His son to die for you so you have been purchased with the shed blood of Jesus that can cleanse you from all sin. Give Him first place today. No guarantee that all will be well, but guarantee that He can be your peace and LIFE through the day.
Give yourself to Him; ask Him to reveal Himself to you - and He will. Even the apostle Paul was asking to know the Lord more near the end of his life: Philippians 3:8 - 12
I just go here (80) and I’m already sick of it.! :(
“How to Be a Happy 85-Year-Old”
Impossible. Only if you are totally senile and detached from reality.
Having a 23 year old girlfriend who likes to cook and do housework should be added to the list......I’m still looking.
If you aren’t “old” yet, lose the weight, cut out the sugar, and get outside and move.
I’ve seen enough octogenarians to know that doing that being sick and miserable is a horrible way to spend the last decade of your life.
A nice breakfast and a few productive minutes on the toilet would work for me!
I call my age, 67, my young old years. Everything still works almost as well, or at least well enough, so life is not too much of a bother. Just keep moving and learn new things that you might not have had time for when you were young and raising a family. Try to use different parts of your brain for various endeavours. New recipes, be engaging with folks who help you out at the grocery store (it brightens their day too to know they are not nameless clerks) and go to church. I think for me the key is relationship (but I’m a woman) and movement. My neighbor is turning 100 this July. She gardened and mowed her own lawn up until a few years back. But she still walks to her mail box, drives her car during non-peak hours, and maintains her friendships. She only takes blood pressure medication. When I visited her last she looked pretty frail and tired, but she said that she liked to keep moving so she doesn’t lose the ability to. Cheers to everyone from the young Oldies, Middle Oldies and Old Oldies. We can make it through with God’s help and our faith. Personally I hope He calls me home before I hit my 90s but I have a brother with an intellectual disability and I would not like for him to be left alone. But God’s will be done in all things.
I’m 92 and I call this article “horse poop”...
Having children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren is the key to a happy old age...
Plus, having a wife you met in 1958 and married in 1960...