Of course, it's not the year that's giving us the bird. It's the democraps. They've done this to the year, done this to us, done this to America, done this to the world. And I want them to pay. Bastards.
Posted on 09/12/2020 9:11:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Stefina Rugal has seen a lot of the past century. She has lived through two world wars, the Spanish Flu, and now COVID-19, and she says 2020 has been the craziest year she has experienced yet.
“I think there were easier times then than there is now. Now it’s a lot of fighting and it seems like disagreements and stuff like that and I don’t like that. Everything’s different and it’s strange to me,” she said.
Rugal turned 103-years-old on Monday – a woman who has shared a lot of laughs and a lot of joy. Despite these difficult times, she has found a way to stay in good spirits.
“I just think of good things, not bad things. I like my friends. I like my boyfriends,” she said. “I don’t know, I just like everybody. I’m not hateful.”
Sophie Fairman, the assistant executive director at Stillwater Senior Living, has been helping Rugal since she first moved in two years ago.
“She’s always just been my buddy. Every activity that she would come to she would always just be happy, laughing all the time. She’d get other people out there and going,” she said.
Fairman says Rugal’s smile, laughter, and how engaged she is with the people around her is inspiring. It was only right they celebrated her 103rd birthday together.
“She got a little neck pillow. She loves it. She had her cake and we sang to her. She had a good time,” Fairman said. “Oh, and we put a big sign in the courtyard that said ‘Stefina turned 103.'”
Rugal’s son, Ronald, normally flies in from California to celebrate his mother’s birthday, but since COVID-19 ruined those plans, he sent his love from afar through a sweet video.
Some of Rugal’s favorite memories are with her son and late husband, who she was married to for 63 years. Fairman says that Rugal frequently talks about the two and can tell how genuine their love was. She feels that’s one reason why she has lived such a long and happy life.
“She always talks about her husband, mostly about how he looked,” Fairman said. “She keeps pictures of him when they were younger in her room. You can tell she has just been genuinely happy and not because of material things.”
Rugal also talked about the long walks she use to take when she was younger. She said she would at least walk one mile a day to enjoy the fresh air and get her body moving.
” I think if you live a good, healthy life and be good to people, like people, be kind to people…I think that you’ll get a long good with everybody. I do,” she said.
The last bit of advice Rugal left us all with as we ended out conversation was this: stay calm, stay home, and just take it easy.
Of course at that age, 2020 is probably all you remember.
In my experience, very old people remember plenty about years past, even lifetimes of years. It’s the recent past that they seem to lose.
Of course, it's not the year that's giving us the bird. It's the democraps. They've done this to the year, done this to us, done this to America, done this to the world. And I want them to pay. Bastards.
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It is mot the America we grew up in. Get ready for the post election revolution
You will get your chance post election
My mother was just a couple of months shy of 102 when she passed. She could remember every detail of events from when she was a child or young adulthood. She and her last remaining sibling could sit and reminisce about their childhood and other family members from “back then” for hours. But, she couldn’t remember much from just the day before.
Ha. Gotta like a 103 year old woman who has “boyfriends” (plural). I don’t even know what that means for that age bracket, but God bless her.
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Yes, you do! It means: Holding hands.
Regards,
My mom was 96 when she passed away. Same thing, except she could still remember everything including current events. She was trying hard to finish knitting the last of the afghans that she made for every grandchild. IIRC she got 9 rows done on my son’s before she collapsed the following day, and died a few days later.
My beloved mom is nearly 99. She lives with me and we have fun together. She said the same thing today. In her long life she has never seen a year like this one.
“...she has never seen a year like this one.”
A LOT of crazy things have happened in 99 years.
I’m guessing that 2020 seems so bad because everyone (even 99 year-olds!) can get up to the minute information from every city and every corner of the world. Just SO MUCH information.
It would be interesting to pick some year, find all of the crazy things that were mentioned in the papers, and then post it all, 24/7 and see what it would feel like.
I’m guessing the protest years from the late 60’s would be interesting. Obviously that was covered a lot as was Vietnam. But then had in other places (South America coups? Hong Cong flu? Cold War stuff?) Have each of them blaring in your head all the time - that would seem like a pretty crazy year too.
Obviously nothing like Covid-19. Maybe pick a year when Polio was really bad.
Hopefully your mom is able to stay safe. An older woman at our church got Covid. 95 years old. Spent 2 days in the hospital and she is recovering. They tested her 97 year old husband. He has it - but no symptoms!
Unfortunately they seem to be winning. I hope the tide turns.
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