Wellness

[jlkz]

@ALRATIBA 

You and I both, even though I just turned 76 !

While waiting for the hair salons to reopen, every time I went by a mirror the widening white path on my head kept screaming "old ", but I ignored it at first.  Months later I felt myself responding to the widening path !

When I came back from the first "recovery" appointment, I really felt younger and seemed to have more energy.  My stamina isn't what it used to be and certain moves are long gone.  Can't easily get up off the floor, so certain exercises and cleaning out lower kitchen cabinets are a thing of the past !

[RetRN]

Some days are definitely better than others, but I am grateful for each and every day. 

[SilleeMee]

For me growing old with disabilities has been a challenge and a test to my ability to withstand them. A burden involves a struggle and that happens to me more than I want. But where that leads me is to look for the opportunity to get over it and that is where I challenge myself and look forward to another day into growing old.

[SurferWife]

I'm 54 & the aches & pains are starting to creep in...nothing bad, but I do feel it.  Oh, well, it happens (or will) to all of us.  Then one glorious day, the Lord will call me home to be with him for all eternity.

[Sooner]

Many people are terrified of growing old.

I personally am offended by the term "senior."  I am not graduating high school, I am old.  Older. Not Young. So what?  I am not ashamed of being old.  I am not senile enough yet to think I am not old. So don't treat me like I don't know! 

If you can't accept the fact that you are old, older, elderly, aged, then you are going to spend your last years unhappily chewing on that fact rather than thinking about the day God has given you and what you might do with it! 

[PhilaLady1]

I think growing old is both, a gift AND a burden.  Most of us agree that waking up every day is a gift, and better than the alternative ( not waking up).   The burden part is, well, not going to complain about aches and pains and things I have and feel that I did not in my younger years. That, my friends, to me, is a burden.

[PA Mom-mom]

@newname0  My grandmother was born in 1880 and lived to be 97 years old. She was bent and crooked with arthritus, but it never stopped her. She used to say, "I don't know why God keeps me alive so long, but I'll do my best every day." And, she really did do her best! I want to keep that in mind.

[Goldengate8361]

I don't see it as a gift or a burden. It just "is what it is."

[Tessa Mendoza]

It's a gift, but I can understand why those living with severe pain every day of their life, whether physical or mental, might feel otherwise.

[AngelPuppy1]

I don't really understand this statement.  Growing older is a gift.  Every day is a gift and you realize it more and more the older you get.  Nobody is guaranteed any set number of days.  Is there a burden to getting older?  Yes, in some ways. there is.  The burden of ill health and losing loved ones.  Being lonely is another burden of old age for many.  Also, growing older, a person can be a burden on loved ones or friends.  I'm trying to live each day as a senior citizen as a gift.