You can't learn to be old until you gets old. Now you might ask, how do you know when you have gotten old. The answer is the one my mother used to give me about kneading bread dough. You knead it until the dough 'feels right'. My next question was, "How will I know when it feels right?" With dough, it feels right when it no longer sticks to your fingers and gets springy. With old age, it is when you realize that you can no longer do many things you used to do, no longer want to do the things you used to do, and no one else needs you to do the things you used to do. In fact, things don't 'feel right' any longer.
To be old properly, you have to give up things graciously and gratefully. When you no longer can do things to the standard you always required, you have to learn to do new things. When arthritis makes doing work with your hands requiring fine hand coordination, you might have to find a new hobby or someone to do the job you used to do by yourself.
It is wise to sell equipment you will no longer use while it still has some resale value. (I never mastered that one and have a full house of things that are now becoming collector's items), When new technology requires a long learning curve, you just have to accept it as a fact of living in the 2000 year millennium. It may have happened somewhere but I have neither heard nor seen such an occurrence as having . As you watch all the friends of your own age pass on to the celestial, eternal playground, it is important to separate yourself from the simple similarities such as age or training.
Aside from all the tasks which go on , even through our gallop to the next phase, maintenance and preservation of your body will remain the single most time consuming and important task. When you spend more time staying healthy than anything else you do, you have gotten old. Live with it. The next step requires no lessons.
To be old properly, you have to give up things graciously and gratefully. When you no longer can do things to the standard you always required, you have to learn to do new things. When arthritis makes doing work with your hands requiring fine hand coordination, you might have to find a new hobby or someone to do the job you used to do by yourself.
It is wise to sell equipment you will no longer use while it still has some resale value. (I never mastered that one and have a full house of things that are now becoming collector's items), When new technology requires a long learning curve, you just have to accept it as a fact of living in the 2000 year millennium. It may have happened somewhere but I have neither heard nor seen such an occurrence as having . As you watch all the friends of your own age pass on to the celestial, eternal playground, it is important to separate yourself from the simple similarities such as age or training.
Aside from all the tasks which go on , even through our gallop to the next phase, maintenance and preservation of your body will remain the single most time consuming and important task. When you spend more time staying healthy than anything else you do, you have gotten old. Live with it. The next step requires no lessons.
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