I Want To Age With Dignity
Feb 26, 2015 07:44:45 #
Last week a friend of mine from my university days came for a visit. After explaining to me how much better she feels about herself after plastic surgery, she recommended I try it.
Now I can only speak for myself, but I thought what a waste of money. I am sixty years old. I understand the right doctor can give me the face and body of a forty year old. That does not change fact , I am an old lady. I do not dress as a young woman. That ship has sailed.
I try to stay abreast of current events and not stay stuck in the past. I try to learn something new each day. I am capable of change esp. if someone can show me the error in my thinking.
I do not fight age. Don't get me wrong, I try to look my best. I just want to be the best I can be for my age. I stay in shape. I exercise but that is mostly due to the illness. Staying strong slows MS. Besides, it would not be good to be old and weak.
I would just like to age gracefully. I would rather use my finances to try to leave a better world for my grandchildren, not a beautiful corpse. I choose to enjoy each aspect of my life. Being old sucks sometimes but in some ways is much better. I am old and I'm ok with that.
Now I can only speak for myself, but I thought what a waste of money. I am sixty years old. I understand the right doctor can give me the face and body of a forty year old. That does not change fact , I am an old lady. I do not dress as a young woman. That ship has sailed.
I try to stay abreast of current events and not stay stuck in the past. I try to learn something new each day. I am capable of change esp. if someone can show me the error in my thinking.
I do not fight age. Don't get me wrong, I try to look my best. I just want to be the best I can be for my age. I stay in shape. I exercise but that is mostly due to the illness. Staying strong slows MS. Besides, it would not be good to be old and weak.
I would just like to age gracefully. I would rather use my finances to try to leave a better world for my grandchildren, not a beautiful corpse. I choose to enjoy each aspect of my life. Being old sucks sometimes but in some ways is much better. I am old and I'm ok with that.
Feb 26, 2015 08:01:49 #
When your beautiful on the inside as you obviously are, the beauty on the outside just radiates~~~ :thumbup: :thumbup:
Feb 26, 2015 08:08:38 #
SWolf...Beauty is 'skin deep'. You have a beautiful mind and intellect. I appreciate your thought processes. I stay in the woods in my 'cabin' here in TGE 'foothills ofvtge Ozark Mountains in eastern okla. Age 76. Enjoying my peace and tranquillity. Enjoy your 'wisdom cycle' of life.
Feb 26, 2015 08:10:20 #
Age 1to 27, youth cycle. Age 28-54 work/ productive cycle; age 55-81 Wisdom cycle of life... PYTHAGURAS(:-
Feb 26, 2015 08:39:39 #
okie don wrote:
Age 1to 27, youth cycle. Age 28-54 work/ productive cycle; age 55-81 Wisdom cycle of life... PYTHAGURAS(:-
How nice to know I'm old enough for the "wiser part." Any idea when I can expect it to kick in?
Feb 26, 2015 08:45:02 #
Loki wrote:
How nice to know I'm old enough for the "wiser part." Any idea when I can expect it to kick in?
You know, I'm guessing it must be an "individual" thing. She Wolf has obviously achieved that "state of grace" that equates to wisdom. I'm a couple years short of 70 and I don't think a day goes by that I don't say to myself "what WERE you thinking??!!??" :oops: :wink:
Feb 26, 2015 09:09:50 #
Searching wrote:
You know, I'm guessing it must be an "individual" thing. She Wolf has obviously achieved that "state of grace" that equates to wisdom. I'm a couple years short of 70 and I don't think a day goes by that I don't say to myself "what WERE you thinking??!!??" :oops: :wink:
It's just as I have opined, lo these many times; I'm not trying to tell God how to do his job, but I would have appreciated my youth a lot more if I'd had to be old FIRST!
Feb 26, 2015 09:11:08 #
Loki, Searching,
Been doing a lot of reading at 76...
Got into 'numerology', this took me to PYTHAGURAS. He was one smart dude at 530BC. Maybe I can explain his theory sometime. Pretty interesting.
Been doing a lot of reading at 76...
Got into 'numerology', this took me to PYTHAGURAS. He was one smart dude at 530BC. Maybe I can explain his theory sometime. Pretty interesting.
Feb 26, 2015 09:14:48 #
Don't we live in a plastic world? 60 is hardly an OLD lady and doing plastic surgery isn't going to make you feel better inside. Oh sure on the outside you might, and I say might, look better but I'm willing to bet when it comes right down to it you'll have a body of a 40 year old with the mind and thoughts of a 60 year old. If you a vain person it again might help but what happens if they screw up? Nope, stay the way God intended!
She Wolf wrote:
Last week a friend of mine from my university days... (show quote)
Feb 26, 2015 09:15:27 #
okie don wrote:
Loki, Searching,
Been doing a lot of reading at 76...
Got into 'numerology', this took me to PYTHAGURAS. He was one smart dude at 530BC. Maybe I can explain his theory sometime. Pretty interesting.
Been doing a lot of reading at 76...
Got into 'numerology', this took me to PYTHAGURAS. He was one smart dude at 530BC. Maybe I can explain his theory sometime. Pretty interesting.
How does finding the hypotenuse of a right triangle help my arthritis?
Feb 26, 2015 09:16:08 #
Loki, my wife will be 70 this year come October. Your a young chick!(:- see Lamas in pic. I have thought about raising some here in NE Okla. I assume you do???
Feb 26, 2015 09:17:31 #
Feb 26, 2015 09:44:47 #
okie don wrote:
Loki, my wife will be 70 this year come October. Your a young chick!(:- see Lamas in pic. I have thought about raising some here in NE Okla. I assume you do???
Llamas? NO WAY. We have enough chickens to keep us in eggs, 3 dogs and 4 cats. That is enough.
Feb 26, 2015 09:48:50 #
She Wolf wrote:
Last week a friend of mine from my university days... (show quote)
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I can relate with MS, She Wolf, as I have had it for 18 years. Like you I want to age gracefully, try acting, or SASS, Volunteer for both. I sure have and I feel other than a couple bad days now and than, I enjoy my life better than being an MS Ambassador, because I enjoy expressing my freedom of expression through action(keep moving). :thumbup: :thumbup:
With that in mind, I will Age with Dignity, never looking back, but only to the future. ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
Feb 26, 2015 09:48:59 #
Searching may Loki? Georgia. That's where I met my bride 50 years ago. Come May1st. Peachtree street, Atlanta GA. Got me a Tennessee wo-man... (:-))
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