82?
you have a couple years on me...
I find it amusing that they assume everyone over 75 is going to be a slobbering, hobbling, crutch on family and society...and their answer is - DIE
No one seems to wonder if we can’t still be, though maybe nor marathon runners, relatively healthy and viable, especially to our families.
The Native Americans values their elders for the wisdom they had gained over the decades - wisdom they could draw from, wisdom they could pass down to the younger generations, etc.
I still write a column (30 years now) with a good following. It’s a nostalgia column that includes stories of how people lived a more self-sufficient lifestyle, full of ways to make and provide for ones needs. It’s particularly popular in this day of ‘prepping’.
I teach my grandchildren - and great grandchild - how to knit, make soap, make butter, whey and cheese, garden, forage, love of the woods and waters, how to paint (have a lot of grandkids that inherited the artist-genes) etc etc.
I still live on my own. I have dog - and we take long walks -
I’ve had CHF for 18 years following a heart attack. If I’d taken all the meds the docs prescribed and ‘progressed’ as my docs expected, I’d either be long gone or a drooling idiot by now. Not to mention shuffling along, stooped over with my osteoporosis.
Instead, I did research and took responsibility for my health. Most of it involves simply the right foods, the right supplements, exercise etc. (And for me, not taking the statins, and about 12 other drugs that were prescribed, that I researched and opted not too - that have since been taken off the market - for killing people.)
One thing docs do NOT want to hear is the word “supplements.”
The point is: take CARE of yourself! (I’m healthier than a lot of 57 year olds I know :)
“I teach my grandchildren - and great grandchild - how to knit, make soap, make butter, whey and cheese, garden, forage, love of the woods and waters, how to paint (have a lot of grandkids that inherited the artist-genes) etc etc.”
Good for you. Being a fairly urban person I cannot do a lot of those things. Lucky grandkids. :-)
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