Comments on: Old age is the happiest time

By: Mary_Caruso

Mary_Caruso — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:46:33 +0000

I think the 50s are the best…less stress because kids are grown up and gone, the grandkids are great fun, you’re still young enough to do the things you love to do, you don’t sweat the small stuff anymore, you have wisdom and your priorities straight, and hopefully some financial security by now. It’s a great time of life. I wouldn’t be anywhere else.

By: WichiWomn

WichiWomn — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:11:41 +0000

Pre, the new slogan for lemons is: If life hands you lemons, find a friend with tequila and make it a party. :)

As one who will turn 50 in a few months I’m not particularly looking forward to it. I guess it’s the milestone effect and the reflection upon one’s accomplishments that has my attention at the moment. However, I firmly believe that life is what you make it and it beats the alternative. In fact, to assure I’ll have a great time I’m throwing myself a birthday party with a band. Life is Good!

By: WichiWomn

WichiWomn — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:08:08 +0000

Pre, the new slogan for lemons is: If life hands you lemons, find a friend with tequila and make it a party. :)

By: Mary_Caruso

Mary_Caruso — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:26:56 +0000

To all you young ones who smoke…QUIT NOW…I have never seen anyone with a life long smoking habit who enjoys their retirement due to smoking related illness. Most die in their 60s and ealy 70s and it’s a pretty miserable death. So if you want to work your butt off only to have no quality of life and probably die right after you retire, then keep on smoking.

I remember what a teacher told me when I was 17, “If you keep smoking and manage to live into your sixties..you’ll wish you hadn’t (lived)”.

By: time » Blog Archive » Comment on Old age is the happiest time by time » Blog Archive …

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:11:38 +0000

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By: Boxlock

Boxlock — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:57:15 +0000

Nope, won’t let it come out in Greek

By: Boxlock

Boxlock — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:56:15 +0000

Oh, shoot. I pasted in the Greek letters for Grace and it came out wrong in case you are wondering what all the ????? were for. I’ll try again.
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By: Boxlock

Boxlock — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:54:07 +0000

ksgrm, Posted April 27, 2008 at 1:22 pm |
“At 63 I have a hard act to follow because my mom is 93,…I look at my lifestyle and I don’t see myself as old. Enjoying what we were able to save from lots of years of hard work. I find joy in my grandkids. They are much more fun than kids.”

Girl…you aren’t old, you’re still a kid with the blessing of the genes you likely got from your Mom.
And AMEN on finding joy in your grandkids! Let me suggest that they find much joy in you too.
With your and your husbands hard work, planning and saving, you have earned a very long and joy filled retirement so you two get after it. ?????

By: Regular

Regular — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:24:37 +0000

One gets looks of disdain when they flip out the AARP card at my age from the 75 year olds and above. to them I’m just a whipper snapper.

By: writerdog

writerdog — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:20:07 +0000

Rage I turned 50 last Augusta, with all due respect STFU! :> hee! You should have heard my wife laughing the day she went out to get the mail and proudly and snidely announced to me “OH RICK…. your AARP invite is here!”.

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Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:23:11 +0000

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Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:50:45 +0000

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Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:50:45 +0000

By: WSClark

WSClark — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:24:53 +0000

“WS, you’re my dad’s age! LOL.”

Alright, that was a low blow!

(wink!)

By: Rage

Rage — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:32:51 +0000

Indeed, pmom. One thing we tend to forget is that health problems can screw up one’s life in old age. . .and before old age.

By: chicago » Blog Archive » Old age is the happiest time

chicago » Blog Archive » Old age is the happiest time — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:07:14 +0000

[...] Andrew Sullivan wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptDespite the inevitable pains and sorrows of aging, the University of Chicago study found that older people are more satisfied — the odds of being happy increase 5 percent with every decade. In part that’s because older people have … [...]

By: Political_mama

Political_mama — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:05:34 +0000

I also have to say, one of my clients right now, husband and wife, rich…or they were anyway….he’s told me many times he shouldn’t have to live the way he is now. Which sucks to me, because he’s got grandsons who are far worse off than he is physically. I don’t think he ever considered that a health crisis would take his ability to walk…and that’s pretty much it with him. He goes through horrible depressions. His sweet wife has Alzheimers but she just lets everything roll off of her. She’s got it..when they had to sell their dream home to move into something handicapped accessible, the downsize she just acted like oh well…she was so happy to have a house where she and her hubby could share.

Today after I made them lunch, I was doing dishes and the conversation was Wife: Oh darling, I have such trouble with names anymore, someday I might not even remember yours. Husband: That’s ok dear, I’ll tell you what it is.

I teared up at this exchange…such a hard thing for him. She’ll never remember the exchange, she doesn’t even know that she’ll probably be there soon. I really hate Alzheimers.

I do get aggravated with him, he could be so far worse off, and had he not been so wealthy to start with, most of the things available to him aren’t to most other people.

By: Political_mama

Political_mama — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:56:02 +0000

WS, you’re my dad’s age! LOL.

By: Political_mama

Political_mama — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:54:49 +0000

Well I gotta say my experience is skewed, I get the sickest of the population to deal with. I’d say they are happier because they actually had opportunities that we don’t get today. They actually got to see the fruits of their labor, they could support a family and save on one income. They believed in helping their kids get their footing so that their kids would have something to grow on instead of tossing them out the door. And they also have the depression and the dust bowl days that reminds them that things could be worse.

By: WSClark

WSClark — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:42:10 +0000

Ah, old age - I never thought I would have lived this long or I would have taken better care of myself.

I will be fifty six in a month or so and other than being certifiably crazy, I am doing well. I enjoy the Hell out of life, more so now than ever before.

It’s funny how your expectations change as you get older - as do your goals.

I still have a four corners road trip on a Harley to do - but right now the biggest stress I have is dealing with my 93 year old father and trying to out do myself on the grill.

Life is good, God is great and today is a beautiful day - get outside and play with your grandchildren!

By: ksgrm

ksgrm — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:22:17 +0000

At 63 I have a hard act to follow because my mom is 93, still lives alone and takes trips frequently. Her baby sis is 89 and lives in Laughlin, AZ about a 2 hour drive south of Vegas. Sis’s health wasn’t good enough to come to my mom’s house so 2 years ago my sister and I flew out with her so she could visit. She insisted in spending 2 days in Vegas. Loves the casinos. This past winter she took the flu and it turned into double pneumonia. The respritory therapist told us she wouldn’t make it. She was too tough for that. She finds joy in everything she does. Looking forward to a week in Branson with my seven sisters and our husbands.

SS will not let anyone live high on the hog, trust me. I stay busy with business and volunteer organizations. My husband and I take trips as often as possible. Last summer it was Alaska this summer we are planning Australia.

I look at my lifestyle and I don’t see myself as old. Enjoying what we were able to save from lots of years of hard work. I find joy in my grandkids. They are much more fun than kids.

They tell me I am the best grandma ever and my husband says it is because I never tell them no. Could be.

By: Rage

Rage — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:15:13 +0000

“But I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” :)

By: lindainks55

lindainks55 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:01:15 +0000

Sure, Rage. Unless you’re ready to call it quits there is little way out of getting there. I tried getting younger for a number of years, without success.

By: Rage

Rage — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:58:15 +0000

I can’t join AARP for another 4 years.

Am I allowed to comment on this thread? :)

By: Predestined

Predestined — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:39:48 +0000

One more thing. I knew you’d say no to being less happy, but I wanted it in print so others would see it and think on it. I often cringe when I hear, “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade”, only because it sounds so trite, but the message behind it is what counts.