Posted on 04/16/2018 5:37:36 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Bump
Thanks for posting. Sooo very true.
I’m bitter and surly NOW! Why should I change?
Ditto
Good post!
To which I’d add:
Never consider yourself to be old. Old is always 15 years older than you are. So if you’re 70, you’re not old. 85 is old. And if you’re 85, you’re not old. 100 is old.
One more bit of advice I heard last summer from a doctor on a island in Canada. “If you want to age gracefully, don’t fall.”
He thought it was crazy that I was a ski instructor, but I don’t fall much on the slopes. I am cautious on the slopes, and I always try to hold on to a railing on stairs. I have slipped on stairs too many times.
Great post, thanks.
Or, do it your way;)
Again, I often wonder what they were thinking. They risked their livelihood and wealth for what reason? Most of it was for the right reason, freedom, but they were not all pure in their thinking. Some realized they had lost everything already because of the British Monarchy.
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose? Folks, the reality is the liberals are going to destroy our wealth.
****I’m bitter and surly NOW! Why should I change?***
Because you should;) LOL!!!!
Live forever, or die trying.
Forwarded to appropriate family members
I liked step one: “It’s time to use the money you saved up. Use it and enjoy it”. Unfortunately, I didn’t time it well and used it all up on Medical expenses and taxes. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. Getting old is expensive - trust me on that!
Wise words my friend... Wise words
Disagree with #1 since I rationally conclude I’ll be traveling to the other side before my wife and I’d like to leave her free from money woes.
May I add: Don’t act old. I have known a lot of people who reach an age (it could be 55, 60 and such) and suddenly “accept” a certain type of behavior. For example, I know a man who retired at 60 and suddenly put on velcro shoes, a sweater and gave up gardening (not for any sort of declining health or physical ability but because he felt he had reached “that age”). Nonsense. Growing old with dignity doesn’t mean you have to fit into a stereotype... be you..
Not in the age-range suggested, but very good advice, except love for others compels me to share my faith sort of in violation of #19.
Admittedly, as I age I am more and more mindful of the need to remain cheerful. This is good advise, but I find it difficult in a world with such pain and sorrow. Nonetheless, I am certain of my rich future and need to remain focused on that.
Thanks for posting.
Regarding spending:
Give to charity, it feels better than being extravagant.
MESSAGE TO THE YOUNG: Solve your problems as soon as you can and before it's too late. It's nice to be old with solved problems and plenty of happiness and peace of mind, but the converse is not nice at all.
I'll never forget Linda Lee Meade's spur-of-the-moment advice, back in 1959, when, as a Miss America contestant, she was asked what advice she would give her daughter if she had one and knew that she would never see her again:
"I would tell her to find out as soon as she can just what she needs to be happy and to trust herself and to trust God and not stop until she finds it."I'm quoting from memory, almost 60 years ago. I hope I didn't misquote.
LOL, a sure sign the end is imminent.
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