We All Get Old

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Added: Thu. Jan 24, 2008 2:17pm
Posted in: Aging

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As we grow we learn how to read, to write, drive a car, and how to vote. We never learn how to be old. We never think of being old. And yet, becoming old is a natural turn of events in every person's lives.

We all know we will, ( unless we die), get old!    We look at our parents family albums and see old people, and we skip to the next picture, and look at the younger ones, playing on the beach, or riding their bikes.

Why do we skip the old people, who are sitting on their chairs, watching instead of participating. Is it because we do not want to think of ourselves looking like that? Or is just that we are really not concerned as to why they are sitting, we do not care, and we do not want to know.

Closing our eyes to the needs of the old, does not make the fact that each and everyone of us WILL get old!! The only alternative is to die!!! There are no choices in between.

So instead of ignoring the old, it is important to prepare ourselves to the possible limitations that aging brings, the loneliness that might overtake us, when a spouse dies, and we have to face each day, month, year alone.

When we think of the words Senior Years, medicare comes to mind. When we think of the words Senior Years, we should think of retirement, finances, remaining independent, living on a fixed income, transportation, cooking and buying for one, feet hurting, bones not flexible as before, problems getting up from a chair.

This is what we should be concerned about, but we do not think of this, until we are actually old, and find that not only are our funds limited, but our range of motion is also limited.

But in today's world, most of the young only want to think of ''Lets Buy a New Car''

Wait...they will get old also. It is inevitable and a Fact of Life.