I'm assuming you meant that as a sarcastic joke.
It sounds like you might have good genes. But I am interested in whether you think that something about your attitude might also have protected you somewhat from stress.
Also, it times of great stress, would you say that you do anything to "get away" or avoid thinking about it, even for a short time.
I probably do have good genes, but I suspect my attitude will enable me to live longer than my parents. My grandfather who was happily married to his second wife, and loved his work lived to be 98. He said the key to long life was drink plenty of water and take long walks. Hydration and exercise are indeed recommended. His sister was a very cheerful outgoing person and lived to 103 or 104. On the other hand my father who had been quite fit but had high blood pressure, had a stroke while standing in a grocery line, on a Friday, in a big city, while contemplating a 90 mile drive to collect rent from deadbeats. He died soon after at 90. I think the proximate cause of death was his poorly controlled life long anger.
In addition to a positive attitude and good nutrition, the other major move I made was learning how to dump negative feelings. See my comment 61. That has helped me survive a great deal of the stress of the past 25 years. Next month I will be 74, and feel as good as I did 20 years ago. Now if I could just stop eating the cherries, blueberries and other sweet stuff and do another round of the Atkins Diet Induction Phase, I could dump those darn 25 pounds. Cheers.
I forgot to answer your question about “getting away”. As a child in an unhappy relatively poor family with no TV, my escape was books. From grade 6 to 12 I read about 300 books a year. Then I was called a teachers pet, and had few friends, but I had my books. In college I discovered boys and they discovered me, so I did not read much. After marriage and a build up of stresses, I began reading a lot more again. Even today, if I really want to escape and don’t have a chance to do an emotional session, I will read a real page turner all night, maybe get an hour of sleep, and then the next night I will really get a good night’s sleep.