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Subject: Fwd: How to age your way. How Best to Age? Do it Your Way
email | 1/19/2019 | unknown

Posted on 01/19/2019 1:18:33 PM PST by sodpoodle

I can hit the golf ball any way I can and laugh if it goes in the lake. That's the breaks. I'm just happy I can still hit that golf ball.

As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend.

I have seen too many dear friends leave this world, too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.

Whose business is it, if I choose to read, or play, on the computer, until 4 AM, or sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 50, 60 & 70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love, I will.

I will walk the beach, in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves, with abandon, if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They too, will get old.

I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And, I eventually remember the important things.

Sure, over the years, my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break, when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet passes? But, broken hearts are what give us strength, and understanding, and compassion. A heart never broken, is pristine, and sterile, and will never know the joy of being imperfect.

I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face.

So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.

As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong.

So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day (if I feel like it).


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KEYWORDS: blessings; seniors
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To: sodpoodle

21 posted on 01/19/2019 2:35:45 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: sodpoodle

bttt


22 posted on 01/19/2019 2:37:39 PM PST by aberaussie
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To: whinecountry

I see the same thing and still I feel like a bad son every time i leave the place.

As for getting old, it is inevitable of course and we will all die one day. Im just working to be prepared for that and not mess up too badly.

How old would you be if you did not know when you were born? A good question.

I don’t mind so much getting old as I do seeing it in others.


23 posted on 01/19/2019 2:41:52 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: Sacajaweau
I'm 75...fortunate to have engaging hobbies and very good health.

75 is the new 55. Unless you are Ruth Bader Ginsburg then 85 is the new 95, or if you are diabetic Sonia Sotomayor then 65 is the new 85. Just ask the other people here.

My wife and I were both very competitive athletes in our younger years. We still like to tandem bicycle ride especially. The funny thing is... most the other cyclists we see on the bike paths and country roads are middle aged or well beyond. Young people these days seem to be less adventurous and very inactive compared to people who were young adults in the 60s, 70s and 80s. And they are a whole lot fatter than we were as well.

24 posted on 01/19/2019 2:45:05 PM PST by fireman15
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To: Sequoyah101

You are a good son. It’s gut-wrenching watching a parent decline.

For those on this thread looking for resources for parental care, my wife and I struck gold when we found my mother a “residential care home” run by Filipinos. They tend to be loving, family-oriented people. Far better than a commercial “assisted living” facility.


25 posted on 01/19/2019 2:51:51 PM PST by whinecountry (Semper Ubi Sub Ubi)
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To: onyx

That would be great! I’d welcome it!


26 posted on 01/19/2019 2:52:53 PM PST by BunnySlippers (LQBTQ)
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To: IronJack

:-)


27 posted on 01/19/2019 3:00:27 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: onyx

Hey, are you the person in the photo with Jim Rob? Amnd, did you go to the first Los Angeles Freeper get together?

If so, I may have met you!

I was at the first Freeper gathering around, Santa Monica, Marina del Rey or someplace?


28 posted on 01/19/2019 3:01:57 PM PST by BunnySlippers (LQBTQ)
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To: freedumb2003

No fifty is the beginning of old.


29 posted on 01/19/2019 3:03:57 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: sodpoodle

Would love a house mate.


30 posted on 01/19/2019 3:04:48 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: tet68

I wish I could gather all of you up and have you all as neighbors.


31 posted on 01/19/2019 3:10:49 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: newfreep

bless you


32 posted on 01/19/2019 3:11:56 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: sodpoodle

Plan G - Nursing Home Plan

Say you are an older senior citizen and can no longer take care of yourself.

The government says there is no Nursing Home care available for you. So, what do you do? You opt for

“Medicare Plan G”.

The plan gives anyone 75 or older a gun (Plan G) and one bullet. You are allowed to shoot one worthless politician.

This means you will be sent to prison for the rest of your life where you will receive three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating and air conditioning, cable TV, a library, and all the Health Care you need.

Need new teeth? No problem. Need glasses? That’s great. Need a hearing aid, new hip, knees, kidney, lungs, sex change, or heart? They are all covered!

As an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you at least as often as they do now! And, who will be paying for all of this?

The same government that just told you they can’t afford for you to go into a nursing home.

You will get rid of a useless politician, while you are at it.

Now, because you are a prisoner, you don’t have to pay any more income taxes!

In some states you can still vote.

Is this a great country or what?

Now that I’ve solved your senior financial plan, enjoy the rest of your week.


33 posted on 01/19/2019 3:12:49 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Liberals//GOPe's 2019 Strategy, mantra, plan = 'No Borders, No Walls, No USA at All!'!)
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To: sodpoodle
"Being alone is the worst situation for seniors..."

I know that if I live long enough I will rue the day that I even broached the subject, but here goes:

I retired five years ago, and my wife joined me two years later.

ALL of our children and grandchildren (who I dearly love) live within ten miles of the homestead.

It seems there is not a moment of any day/week/month that someone is not at the house, either for a visit, babysitting, you name it.

Again, I love them all dearly, but contrary to the common complaint assigned to senior citizens, for me a little "alone time" would be a rare treat once in awhile.

34 posted on 01/19/2019 3:15:53 PM PST by daler
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To: Grampa Dave

Grampa Dave, I could come up with a list of suggested politicians. When do we start?


35 posted on 01/19/2019 3:28:42 PM PST by NorseWood
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To: sodpoodle

Frank Sinatra would agree.


36 posted on 01/19/2019 3:40:58 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: NorseWood

Right now, I’m in pretty good health and have a great loving wife, good friends, close adult sons and their families living nearby.

Also, the internet allows us to keep in contact with relatives and surviving friends on a regular or sporadic basis.

If things change, we can get together.

What is sad about this suggestion, are some of the news reports of seniors doing whacked out things to get arrested.


37 posted on 01/19/2019 3:41:02 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Liberals//GOPe's 2019 Strategy, mantra, plan = 'No Borders, No Walls, No USA at All!'!)
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To: Chickensoup

bite your tongue whippersnapper!


38 posted on 01/19/2019 4:25:14 PM PST by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: sodpoodle

Your a good ol cornball.
I stay with my MIL so she is not alone since my FIL passed, she’s 82 and kind of getting a little forgetful.
It just happened to be the best course of action 3 years ago but, wow, I didn’t think it would be 3 years. She was batty in the belfry but I got her off the bad meds she was on.
That was what made it seem like it would not be so long.
Now, she’s doing better.

She doesn’t want assisted living and I can’t really blame her.

I’m commited now, don’t rally see an end close by, my wife spends the weekends with me.
In the big picture, that was always the same anywy when we were both working and just passing by eachother during the week and weekends too run down to do much.

MIL does not have to be alone, it is just unnecessary.
Other alternatives, she’s just not ready for, I think she deserves to be happy.


39 posted on 01/19/2019 4:38:03 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: fireman15

Me and my wife are going on a two day bike trip that will take us 48 miles this summer, and hopefully I will make the trip both ways by myself later in the year in 3 days. The feeling of the wind at 25 self propelled MPH is amazing.


40 posted on 01/19/2019 5:36:25 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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