As we reflect on the spectrum of life, we require lots of care and love at the beginning and at the end of our life cycle. However, everything in between generally comes to define the body of our life and how well we lived.
I have a secret, that you have to promise not to tell anyone...there are no mulligans in life.
We go from being modeled and educated with marginal amounts of responsibility, to becoming a participant in "the world" where we not only aide in the stabilization of socio-eco systems, but also facilitate change among the status quo. During the latter stage of our functional use, we garnish a tremendous amount of responsibility; however, to quickly we have to relinquish the leverage and flexibility that we created for ourselves in order to enjoy "our golden years", to finally becoming an individual that is no more self-sufficient than a 2-year old child.
There is nothing that can be done to change the past. However, if we are able to change our perspective and understand our elderly a little more, then maybe we can add a little more utility to their lives while they are still here with us, we may even learn something from them to help save this ailing America.
Let me state that, I'm just an American that has a passion for community and care about a group of people called our "Greatest Generation."
These are the same Great Depression kids who value a dollar bill, these are our most proud Patriots, this is the generation that embraced "The American Dream", these are the employees who worked one job their entire life, these are the husbands and wives that honored their wedding vows. Even more so, this is the last generation that was subservient to convention - in other words, they did things because they were supposed to do them and didn't challenge systems or authority.
If you had to supply a present definition of getting older , I would have to say it is the gradual contraction of an individual's environment, sphere of influence and scope of interaction - in short, a loss of independence and the introduction of co-dependence.
Now our Depression kids have become depressed. Anxiety and Depression have become more wide spread in our elderly than in times past. Why? Easily stated in the pharse, "...I used to be able to do [fill in the blank]."
The purpose of this blog is to help myself, you, your family, your friends and others to try and age with a little more grace and help others do the same.
As my high school Accounting teacher would always tell us, invest your time...don't spend it.
Hope you enjoy the anecdotes.
I have a secret, that you have to promise not to tell anyone...there are no mulligans in life.
We go from being modeled and educated with marginal amounts of responsibility, to becoming a participant in "the world" where we not only aide in the stabilization of socio-eco systems, but also facilitate change among the status quo. During the latter stage of our functional use, we garnish a tremendous amount of responsibility; however, to quickly we have to relinquish the leverage and flexibility that we created for ourselves in order to enjoy "our golden years", to finally becoming an individual that is no more self-sufficient than a 2-year old child.
There is nothing that can be done to change the past. However, if we are able to change our perspective and understand our elderly a little more, then maybe we can add a little more utility to their lives while they are still here with us, we may even learn something from them to help save this ailing America.
Let me state that, I'm just an American that has a passion for community and care about a group of people called our "Greatest Generation."
These are the same Great Depression kids who value a dollar bill, these are our most proud Patriots, this is the generation that embraced "The American Dream", these are the employees who worked one job their entire life, these are the husbands and wives that honored their wedding vows. Even more so, this is the last generation that was subservient to convention - in other words, they did things because they were supposed to do them and didn't challenge systems or authority.
If you had to supply a present definition of getting older , I would have to say it is the gradual contraction of an individual's environment, sphere of influence and scope of interaction - in short, a loss of independence and the introduction of co-dependence.
Now our Depression kids have become depressed. Anxiety and Depression have become more wide spread in our elderly than in times past. Why? Easily stated in the pharse, "...I used to be able to do [fill in the blank]."
The purpose of this blog is to help myself, you, your family, your friends and others to try and age with a little more grace and help others do the same.
As my high school Accounting teacher would always tell us, invest your time...don't spend it.
Hope you enjoy the anecdotes.
