On Growing Old
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I've wandered around hospitals most of my adult life and seen more people die than Cecil B. DeMille. And my wife has been from anywhere relatively normal to a wheelchair and everywhere in between at one time or another.
I'm familiar with old.
It's not the optimum, but it is what happens if you live long enough. Best advice I can give, is have something you need or want to do, every morning you get up. It can be a big project or a very small one. But get up and move.âCry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!â
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terroristsâ "due process". â Buck Sexton
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I've wandered around hospitals most of my adult life and seen more people die than Cecil B. DeMille. And my wife has been from anywhere relatively normal to a wheelchair and everywhere in between at one time or another.
I'm familiar with old.
It's not the optimum, but it is what happens if you live long enough. Best advice I can give, is have something you need or want to do, every morning you get up. It can be a big project or a very small one. But get up and move.@Jolly said in On Growing Old:
But get up and move.
I'm not depressed about getting old, exactly. I'm just cogitating on aspects that are more difficult than I had realized they would be.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. â Mike Ditka
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I've wandered around hospitals most of my adult life and seen more people die than Cecil B. DeMille. And my wife has been from anywhere relatively normal to a wheelchair and everywhere in between at one time or another.
I'm familiar with old.
It's not the optimum, but it is what happens if you live long enough. Best advice I can give, is have something you need or want to do, every morning you get up. It can be a big project or a very small one. But get up and move.@Jolly said in On Growing Old:
I've wandered around hospitals most of my adult life and seen more people die than Cecil B. DeMille. And my wife has been from anywhere relatively normal to a wheelchair and everywhere in between at one time or another.
I'm familiar with old.
It's not the optimum, but it is what happens if you live long enough. Best advice I can give, is have something you need or want to do, every morning you get up. It can be a big project or a very small one. But get up and move.Yep. Things that don't move stagnate.
âI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.â ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Jolly said in On Growing Old:
But get up and move.
I'm not depressed about getting old, exactly. I'm just cogitating on aspects that are more difficult than I had realized they would be.
@Catseye3 said in On Growing Old:
@Jolly said in On Growing Old:
But get up and move.
I'm not depressed about getting old, exactly. I'm just cogitating on aspects that are more difficult than I had realized they would be.
Years ago, I built a carport and storeroom onto the house...I cut the timber, helped saw it and friends helped me build it. Ain't no way I could even build the forms for the slab (well, maybe, if you held a gun on me ). Anyway, the old man that finished the slab, worked and rounded the concrete up to the backdoor, instead of the normal one inch or so drop.
He looked at me and said, "Son, one day you'll be old, too. Nice to be able to wheel a walker or wheelchair through without having to pick it up".
I wish I had been smart like that about the whole house.
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@Jolly said in On Growing Old:
I've wandered around hospitals most of my adult life and seen more people die than Cecil B. DeMille. And my wife has been from anywhere relatively normal to a wheelchair and everywhere in between at one time or another.
I'm familiar with old.
It's not the optimum, but it is what happens if you live long enough. Best advice I can give, is have something you need or want to do, every morning you get up. It can be a big project or a very small one. But get up and move.Yep. Things that don't move stagnate.
@Mik said in On Growing Old:
Yep. Things that don't move stagnate.
That's what I tell my wife about the beer in the fridge.
I was only joking
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@Mik said in On Growing Old:
Yep. Things that don't move stagnate.
That's what I tell my wife about the beer in the fridge.
@Doctor-Phibes said in On Growing Old:
@Mik said in On Growing Old:
Yep. Things that don't move stagnate.
That's what I tell my wife about the beer in the fridge.
It is especially true for beer.
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A couple of years ago I just decided I wasnât going to do that old man thing. I keep active and busy and donât think about growing old. I donât celebrate my birthday since I treat everyday as my birthday.
@Renauda said in On Growing Old:
A couple of years ago I just decided I wasnât going to do that old man thing. I keep active and busy and donât think about growing old. I donât celebrate my birthday since I treat everyday as my birthday.
Your time is coming.
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@Renauda said in On Growing Old:
A couple of years ago I just decided I wasnât going to do that old man thing. I keep active and busy and donât think about growing old. I donât celebrate my birthday since I treat everyday as my birthday.
Your time is coming.
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@Renauda said in On Growing Old:
Am older than you.
Get off my lawn, youngster.
I'm probably the oldest person here (72).
What's pathetic is that your mind is OK, but your body says, "Fuck YOU." Going for walks, sitting on a horse, etc are so much more difficult than they were 5 years ago.
My health is actually pretty good - all issues seem to be well-controlled with medications, but the deterioration is relentless, and it really PISSES me off.
Fearful of turning 60 @Doctor-Phibes ?
I laugh in your face.
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@George-K said in On Growing Old:
@Renauda said in On Growing Old:
Am older than you.
Get off my lawn, youngster.
I'm probably the oldest person here (72).
What's pathetic is that your mind is OK, but your body says, "Fuck YOU." Going for walks, sitting on a horse, etc are so much more difficult than they were 5 years ago.
My health is actually pretty good - all issues seem to be well-controlled with medications, but the deterioration is relentless, and it really PISSES me off.
Fearful of turning 60 @Doctor-Phibes ?
I laugh in your face.
Iâm not Phibes, and I turned 60 some years ago. I happily take full advantage of senior discounts at stores and venues. And yes there are times that Rub A355 is my friend. Havenât gone as far as DSMO ointment like a few of my friends. Had sciatica attack last June after spending a morning up a ladder dead heading the Lilac bushes. Wonât do that again. To hell with dead heading lilacs. Never enjoyed gardening, donât and wonât miss it.
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@George-K said in On Growing Old:
@Renauda said in On Growing Old:
Am older than you.
Get off my lawn, youngster.
I'm probably the oldest person here (72).
What's pathetic is that your mind is OK, but your body says, "Fuck YOU." Going for walks, sitting on a horse, etc are so much more difficult than they were 5 years ago.
My health is actually pretty good - all issues seem to be well-controlled with medications, but the deterioration is relentless, and it really PISSES me off.
Fearful of turning 60 @Doctor-Phibes ?
I laugh in your face.
Iâm not Phibes, and I turned 60 some years ago. I happily take full advantage of senior discounts at stores and venues. And yes there are times that Rub A355 is my friend. Havenât gone as far as DSMO ointment like a few of my friends. Had sciatica attack last June after spending a morning up a ladder dead heading the Lilac bushes. Wonât do that again. To hell with dead heading lilacs. Never enjoyed gardening, donât and wonât miss it.
@Renauda said in On Growing Old:
To hell with dead heading lilacs. Never enjoyed gardening, donât and wonât miss it.
Indeed. I've always hated any kind of yard work.
F-Dat.
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@Renauda said in On Growing Old:
To hell with dead heading lilacs. Never enjoyed gardening, donât and wonât miss it.
Indeed. I've always hated any kind of yard work.
F-Dat.
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@George-K said in On Growing Old:
Indeed. I've always hated any kind of yard work.
F-Dat.LOL. I think George and Renauda just did some righteous bonding.
@Catseye3, I may have posted before.
I remember a day in August when I was around 13 years old. I was pushing a lawn mower around the front yard of my house. I was sweating like crazy and was ready to die.
I promised myself that I will always have enough money to pay someone else to cut the grass.
My hatred of gardening, etc was born on that day.
My hatred has thrived, and now, in a condo, it's irrelevant, but not lessened.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Catseye3, I may have posted before.
I remember a day in August when I was around 13 years old. I was pushing a lawn mower around the front yard of my house. I was sweating like crazy and was ready to die.
I promised myself that I will always have enough money to pay someone else to cut the grass.
My hatred of gardening, etc was born on that day.
My hatred has thrived, and now, in a condo, it's irrelevant, but not lessened.
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I recently bought a commercial grade zero turn lawn mower. In the past I had work crews who took care of those things, but when I sold out I don't have any employees any more. My yard is about 8 or 10 acres, so it takes a while to mow. So far im enjoying riding around playing with the machinery. Other than that, i pay some guys to weed eat and all that stuff. I just enjoy the fresh air and riding around part.
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I planted over 150,000 wild flowers this year.
I didn't actually count the seeds, I just added up the totals on the seed bags.
And hundreds of more substantial plants.
If you are old, you must garden.
@Copper said in On Growing Old:
I planted over 150,000 wild flowers this year.
I didn't actually count the seeds, I just added up the totals on the seed bags.
And hundreds of more substantial plants.
If you are old, you must garden.
Second Hand Lions, indeed.
