“How old would you be if you didn’t know when you
were born?” -Warren Miller
I feel for those alone
My new boss is in a giant house alone. Well 5 cats and a dog but no woman
Can’t imagine life without my dear wife
This is a decade year for me.
Last night I was watching “Golden Girls” with my wife (a favorite to fall asleep to). I realized they were in their 50s when the show started.
My reaction: “GOLDEN Girls??? They should have called it MIDDLE AGED Girls!”
My friend said it best: everyone else gets old. We don’t.
The fact we hear music on the radio from 35-40 years ago and it is considered contemporary seems to help with the “suspended in time” feeling.
I am a senior alone. All my family members ... and my brother... died by there time I was 30.
It’s hard.
Hi.
Come to Jesus and you won’t be alone.
Come to FR and take your chances.
Amen.
5.56mm
Some wonderful thoughts, thank you for passing them along.
“I’m not a ‘senior citizen’, I’m old!” - Mom
“How old would you be if you didn’t know when you
were born?” -Warren Miller
When we’re kids, we can’t wait to grow-up. When we’re grown-up and getting older, we just hope time will slow down.
I'm 75...fortunate to have engaging hobbies and very good health. I try to get out every day to be part of the world.
So am I. I'm also sometimes forgetful.
bttt
Would love a house mate.
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.
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.
Frank Sinatra would agree.
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.