Later years, bonus years! A special time in our normal human lives. Enjoy!
”Lost the will to get up. Tend to stay in bed most mornings. Often til 11 Don’t care what I look like. Uninterested in clothes shopping. No wish to go on a cruise or go out to eat. Don’t go to exercise classes or gym. Taken to wine in the evenings. No relatives within 200…
What a year! No, not politics.
Just want to share with you my absolute amazement at what being in your 84 th year can be like.
One of the many delightful surprises in this Strange Land of Old Age, has been this calm acceptance, this adjustment to later life. The change in the focus of pleasures that one cannot imagine at all when you are younger.
What a delightful thought, that our lives are rather like that of a grape. Our tended youth, fizzing twenties, settling mid years leading to later years where we develop to this stage of ripe fullness: a time when we reflect back on life, review it, relish it and extract from it all the best of what we have experienced.
Adrenaline: challenge, activity, people and shared fun….the best antidote to depression, the pick me up, the buzz in life at any age.
For the majority Later years are great years! Why so much sad negativity everywhere?
Let’s shout it!
Touch, human touch is important for all of us.
The need for sensuality doesn’t stop with age!
