#old-age — Public Fediverse posts

You know you're getting old because your children no longer need you to solve their lives. And now they help you, they bring you food and they keep you company because they perceive you as vulnerable. On one hand, there's the sadness of slowly losing vitality, losing yourself, and on the other hand, the peace of mind of having that support in your later years and knowing that you didn't do so badly.
#children #oldage #vejez #hijos

The night feels longer,
but the stars seem closer now—
he talks to their light.

#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage #old #age

A quotation from Maugham

For the complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English novelist and playwright [William Somerset Maugham]
The Summing Up, ch. 73 (1938)

More about this quote: wist.info/maugham-william-some…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #maugham #somersetmaugham #wsomersetmaugham #aging #completeness #gettingold #goodlife #growingold #livingwell #oldage #perspective #pleasure

Doing an advanced care plan / advanced care directive?

What's your thinking around resuscitation / major surgery after you're treated as incompetent / in a locked environment without free exit?

#OldAge #EndOfLife #DoNotResuscitate #DNR #Wills #Competency #Disability #Illness #Dementia #TBI #Stroke

Doing an advanced care plan / advanced care directive?

What's your thinking around resuscitation / major surgery after you're treated as incompetent / in a locked environment without free exit?

#OldAge #EndOfLife #DoNotResuscitate #DNR #Wills #Competency #Disability #Illness #Dementia #TBI #Stroke

Her stories grow short,
but the silence that follows
holds their full meaning.

#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage #old #age

A quotation from The Bible

Don’t abandon old friends,
      because newer ones are not their equals.
   New friends are like new wine;
      when wine ages,
      you will drink it with good cheer.
   
[Μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃς φίλον ἀρχαῖον,
ὁ γὰρ πρόσφατος οὐκ ἔστιν ἔφισος αὐτῷ·
οἶνος νέος φίλος νέος·
ἐὰν παλαιωθῇ, μετ᾽ εὐφροσύνης πίεσαι αὐτόν.]

The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 22b. Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 9:10 (Sir 9:10) [tr. CEB (2011)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/84860/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #oldtestament #apocrypha #sirach #ecclesiasticus #aging #friends #friendship #loyalty #maturity #oldage #wine

He forgets the names,
but remembers the kindness—
love never needs words.

#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage #old #age

Muay Thai going well. 4 sessions so far, two per week (Wed/Sat). Still need more cardio, and stamina, but making it through the full training now, albeit gasping for air at times.

Great fun, but need to hit something on Mondays now.
#muaythai #training #exercise #cardio #fitness #oldage #healthOver60

Autumn leaves whisper,
as if telling old secrets—
the wind understands.

#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage #old #age

As a member of the superannuated elite, I would note that the cool thing about getting old is about how every day is Saturday in the Park. Think it was the Fourth of July.

Seriously, though, old age is the one demographic category you can't escape, if you live long enough.

Think I'll give Mr. Moyn's book a pass, for fear it'll propose a Midsommar bluff jump. And I just don't wanna.

#ThirdRailOfPolitics #OldAge #pensioners

As a member of the superannuated elite, I would note that the cool thing about getting old is about how every day is Saturday in the Park. Think it was the Fourth of July.

Seriously, though, old age is the one demographic category you can't escape, if you live long enough.

Think I'll give Mr. Moyn's book a pass, for fear it'll propose a Midsommar bluff jump. And I just don't wanna.

#ThirdRailOfPolitics #OldAge #pensioners

The mirror grows kind,
reflecting not just the face—
but the life within.

#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage #old #age

This is great. Still people in there.

#dementia #seniors #oldage

This is great. Still people in there.

#dementia #seniors #oldage

Deep into the second series of the fabulous HBO Max medical drama, The Pitt, this line popped out from a character & I wanted to share it for its wisdom & poignancy:

'While every old person knows what it is like to be young, no young person can know what it is like to be old...'

That is not only a truism, but its a really instructive way of understanding the trouble that society often has with ensuring our older members have the best life they can....

#OldAge #politics #society

Deep into the second series of the fabulous HBO Max medical drama, The Pitt, this line popped out from a character & I wanted to share it for its wisdom & poignancy:

'While every old person knows what it is like to be young, no young person can know what it is like to be old...'

That is not only a truism, but its a really instructive way of understanding the trouble that society often has with ensuring our older members have the best life they can....

#OldAge #politics #society

Old slippers, worn thin,
yet still waiting by the bed—
ready for the day.

#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage #old #age

A quotation from Trotsky

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian politician, Marxist, intellectual, revolutionary [b. Lev Davidovich Bronstein]
Diary, Notebook 2 (1935-05-08) [tr. Zarudnaya (1958)]

More about this quote: wist.info/trotsky-leon/16761/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #trotsky #leontrotsky #aging #expectations #growingold #oldage #surprise #gettingold

A quotation from Trotsky

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian politician, Marxist, intellectual, revolutionary [b. Lev Davidovich Bronstein]
Diary, Notebook 2 (1935-05-08) [tr. Zarudnaya (1958)]

More about this quote: wist.info/trotsky-leon/16761/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #trotsky #leontrotsky #aging #expectations #growingold #oldage #surprise #gettingold

The tea cools again,
but she savors it slowly—
haste left long ago.

#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage #old #age

I haven’t had an organised fight for maybe ten years now. Then Covid hit. Had all the vaccines, which saved my life. Really!

But - My cardio is shot to hell. My muscles shrank. I got stiff and less mobile.

I need to get back in shape. Lost around 2 stones this year, closer to my fight weight, but more fat than muscle there imo.

Too old for ring fighting now (full contact muay thai - I doubt the club insurance would cover me) but hoping to get fit enough to train and at least spar again.

It’s weird how I don’t feel as confident on the street any more. If I got into trouble now I would be forced to hospitalise or kill assailants, since I can’t last long enough to just embarrass the idiots like I used to.

I’m sure the forces of law and order would prefer me not to create casualties, so this is for society’s benefit too. 😇

#oldage #covid #muaythai #fighting #fitness #muscles

He nods off at dusk,
dreams walking where legs cannot—
a sweet, endless field.

#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage #old #age

Sometimes I feel old but today the reason for this feeling was trying look for the Space Hulk computer game on both GoG and Steam and finding the new one.

On Steam it was called Space Hulk (Classic). Still it's not the classic Space Hulk game from 1993 which is apprently impossible to get anymore. (I seem to have misplaced my cd-rom version and I'm not sure how easy it'd be to get to run anyway.)

Yeah yeah it's almost 35 years old.

#games #spaceHulk #oldAge #ancientHistory

Sometimes I feel old but today the reason for this feeling was trying look for the Space Hulk computer game on both GoG and Steam and finding the new one.

On Steam it was called Space Hulk (Classic). Still it's not the classic Space Hulk game from 1993 which is apprently impossible to get anymore. (I seem to have misplaced my cd-rom version and I'm not sure how easy it'd be to get to run anyway.)

Yeah yeah it's almost 35 years old.

#games #spaceHulk #oldAge #ancientHistory

On Aging

Did you also, upon turning 28, realise you were no more as young as you used to like to think you were?

Morning breaks softly,
time bows, then moves aside—
grace in growing old.

#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage #old #age

A quotation from Maugham

For the complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English novelist and playwright [William Somerset Maugham]
The Summing Up, ch. 73 (1938)

More about this quote: wist.info/maugham-william-some…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #maugham #somersetmaugham #wsomersetmaugham #williamsomersetmaugham #aging #completeness #goodlife #growingold #oldage #perspective #pleasure #gettingold #livingwell

A quotation from Thoreau

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #walden #age #decline #elder #instruction #oldage #senescence #teaching #wisdom #youth

I'm at that stage in life where I think everyone is my age - except for people my age - they look old! Anybody else experience the same?
#OldAge #Old #Perspective

I'm at that stage in life where I think everyone is my age - except for people my age - they look old! Anybody else experience the same?
#OldAge #Old #Perspective

Forgotten faces,
yet the heart still remembers
the warmth of their eyes.

#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage

Forgotten faces,
yet the heart still remembers
the warmth of their eyes.

#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage

Light Hearted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARAYZAsK5yk

Light Hearted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARAYZAsK5yk

I can't help financially, but I can share. I have my personal #disability, not to mention #DecadesUponDecades (I'm exploring new ways to say #OldAge or #CreakingOldBones) but I want to help however I can so i share. I hope something good comes out of this.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lykeugyupikwfvernnxl64lq/post/3mnkypnqkrk2o

I can't help financially, but I can share. I have my personal #disability, not to mention #DecadesUponDecades (I'm exploring new ways to say #OldAge or #CreakingOldBones) but I want to help however I can so i share. I hope something good comes out of this.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lykeugyupikwfvernnxl64lq/post/3mnkypnqkrk2o

This is the last video in my series on developmental psychology. It includes a close tie to philosophy, because while explaining all the stages of adulthood, and wisdom (usually associated with old age). I also discuss dying, from the perspective of the dying person, and the mourners who remain.
https://youtu.be/JYKVezGfl2s
#psychology #pihlosophy #wisdom #wise #development #adulthood #oldage #death #dying #mourning #stages

This is the last video in my series on developmental psychology. It includes a close tie to philosophy, because while explaining all the stages of adulthood, and wisdom (usually associated with old age). I also discuss dying, from the perspective of the dying person, and the mourners who remain.
https://youtu.be/JYKVezGfl2s
#psychology #pihlosophy #wisdom #wise #development #adulthood #oldage #death #dying #mourning #stages

Forgotten faces,
yet the heart still remembers
the warmth of their eyes.
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage

Forgotten faces,
yet the heart still remembers
the warmth of their eyes.
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage

Old and furious, because old age isn't just about walking, you have to do it with style.

:frogblush:

Vieja y furiosa, por que ser viejuno no está reñido con ir por ahí con estilazo.

https://ko-fi.com/cleefhanger/shop

#oldage #old #granma #abuela #cartoon #ilustration #mastoart #fediart #art

The cane taps the floor,
a steady drum of patience—
age keeps its own beat.
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage

Morning tea grows cold,
the sun climbs without hurry—
so do I these days.
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage

Wrinkles softly bloom,
stories carved in gentle lines—
time’s quiet garden.
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage

Wrinkles softly bloom,
stories carved in gentle lines—
time’s quiet garden.
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage

Morning tea grows cold,
the sun climbs without hurry—
so do I these days.
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage

“It is #oldage, rather than #death, that is to be contrasted with #life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with #time.” — Simone de Beauvoir

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 48.41 Jarā Sutta: Old Age

“When young, one is subject to aging; when healthy, subject to illness; when alive, subject to death.…”

Read the sutta
📖 https://daily.readingfaithfully.org/sn-48-41-jara-sutta-old-age-2/?=MDS

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#death #health #OldAge #sickness #TheBuddha #SamyuttaNikaya #Theravada #PaliCanon #RealBuddhaQuotes #Suttas #Dhamma #Buddhism #Buddha

Wrinkles softly bloom,
stories carved in gentle lines—
time’s quiet garden.
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage

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