h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If a person is sensisible, experienced, sympathetic, is not suffering from any condition that makes him-her unable to work... What´s the matter with their age?
Teachers, politicians, doctors... there´s a lot of jobs that required experienced people, who, like good wine, get better with age.

Models:... well I´m thinking about some old people whose words are always worhtwhile reading or listening to.
They are writers, actors... famous and common people. They all share an optimistic attitude. They read, talk, walk... and are always busy.

I´m not considered younger (41)by the society standars, but I don´t care at all about age. I feel that any age has its own pleasures, we should be more aware of that and take advantage or just enjoy them.

I´ll try to be a charming old lady if I´m so lucky of getting old( and of keeping myself healthy)

I´ll have a house in the countryside, will grow vegetables and wonderful , I´ll spend a lot of time in my garden and in a lab preparing perfumes with my herbs; I´ll read , I´ll dance I´ll write , paint...
When I finish my journey, I´ll have my suitcase full of good moments. I began to collect them time ago.

Mar

I guess the elderly were revered in ages past because there were so few of them and they wouldn't have been kept artificially alive. It's the reverse now. I'm fairly old and all for good wine. Still, sad for Ming.

Even in the past the elderly were not all well respected. Where I come from, it was not all that unusual for a farmer to let his parents starve or to even poison them. Ageism is nothing new, it was always there.

Yes, I know it was far from universal. Where did you come from?

I come from southern Austria. Most farmers there were very poor. There was the saying: 'Übergeben heist nimmer Leben.' Which means: 'Retireing is dieing.'

that´s too sad

But in some societies, the older generation are revered, as the head of the household as they have the most knowledge.

H

Dear Mar,

I read your entry and your homepage with interest.

One phrase worried me

"......and of keeping myself healthy"

Sadly even if one does keep oneself healthy, Nature has the final word.

All one can do is to try and eat healthily; accept the situation with as much equanimity as one can; and to try and do as much as one can without upsetting the applecart.

Being nearly twice your age, and staring the ultimate illness directly in the face, I find that I am so appalled at the horrid things that Nature is challenging me with I am having difficulty in trying to hold my own and holding my head high.

One thing I do NOT need is to see the sad way in which so many people cope with problems which one should overcome.

Compassion,understanding. encouragement and kindness are vital to help one survive as one gets older and as Nature takes over one's chronological age!!

With all good wishes that you will achieve your ideal of a happy old age.

Christiane.
Radiantjoiedevivre
aka AlsoRan and
aka Also Ran1

Thanks for info, Pris 137. Only just read it because I got "lost".