@sonhouse said78 is still a good age assuming our health isn't deteriorating too fast. We also have experience and the hope of starting or completing something new.
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I am most likely older than you at 78 and the thing I see for me is I write tunes for guitar, mandolin and keyboards and started a soundcloud account back when I was a young pup of 75 but I continue to surprise myself, have 100 tracks there now, more than a half gig of MP3 files which would be more like 5 gigabytes of WAV files, 70 of my own compositions there ...[text shortened]... American and Irish tunes.
So for me I have gotten more creative than ever before in my short life.
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@torunn saidUsing both your mental and physical parts is an important thing to do at any age but most importantly as we "mature".
78 is still a good age assuming our health isn't deteriorating too fast. We also have experience and the hope of starting or completing something new.
@great-big-stees saidYou know the expression: If you don't use it you lose it! 😉
Using both your mental and physical parts is an important thing to do at any age but most importantly as we "mature".
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@very-rusty saidThis is a good age, still being able to socialize with people, take walks, see beautiful things, listen to music, play chess and canasta too sometimes. It's a good age.
You know the expression: If you don't use it you lose it! 😉
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@torunn saidWe all try and tell that very same thing to each other, but we know it was much better when were a few decades younger. 😉
This is a good age, still being able to socialize with people, take walks, see beautiful things, listen to music, play chess and canasta too sometimes. It's a good age.
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@very-rusty saidNo Rusty, it wasn't much better then. Many things were better, others were chaos. What I don't have now is the chance of some physical activities I used to enjoy (running, skiing), and the need to dream.
We all try and tell that very same thing to each other, but we know it was much better when were a few decades younger. 😉
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@torunn saidI was talking about physically of course. In some cases mentally as well, but not in yours! 😉
No Rusty, it wasn't much better then. Many things were better, others were chaos. What I don't have now is the chance of some physical activities I used to enjoy (running, skiing), and the need to dream.
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-Removed-I think I've become more contemplative and more contented since I (recently) entered my 6th decade. I was born on what one might call the wrong side of the tracks, and attended about the worst schools in Surrey, but I've made up for that and have been lucky, health - wise, despite smoking too many roll - ups. I've more or less given up drugs and alcohol due to lack of interest.
I feel lucky to have had the 70s as my formative years, and I think my head is still stuck there somewhere, I don't 'feel' old at all, kept young I daresay by my evergreen lady - friend, with whom I have enjoyed love and intimacy since we were respectively 17 and 16 years old. We never married (never marry your lover).
Moving to Indonesia was the best move we ever made, and we are drifting into early retirement from public life. Past mistakes (we've all made them) still rancor sometimes, but we learn by those and it's all part of that which makes us what we are. And as to the future, well, keep breathing I guess, and see how it goes from there....
@indonesia-phil saidI was born in the 70's.
I think I've become more contemplative and more contented since I (recently) entered my 6th decade. I was born on what one might call the wrong side of the tracks, and attended about the worst schools in Surrey, but I've made up for that and have been lucky, health - wise, despite smoking too many roll - ups. I've more or less given up drugs and alcohol due to lack of ...[text shortened]... what we are. And as to the future, well, keep breathing I guess, and see how it goes from there....
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-Removed-Playing chess helps to keep my mind sharp.
And .............
I’ve taken on the leadership of a clan that is a dynasty on this chess site.
And I am happy to say, I have continued the tradition of another championship season this year.
And btw, I am eating more fruits and veggies, drinking a glass of milk daily.
Still like my beer now and then. 😛
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidLike Andy, I do believe I too have ties older than you are!!! 😉
I was born in the 70's.
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Yes, I still do wear them as I don't often wear a tie! 😉 They are still like new, someday I will have to pass them on to a charity.
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