if your 70 or plus?

Question

what keeps you going and intersted in life is there a secret in keeping young

Answer 1

My grandad is almost 82 and says he lives for his great grandkids. he wants to see my daughter and my niece and nephew grow up as long as he can.

Answer 2

The secret is to ignore the ringing of age and instead focus on the growing up that are the best years of your life (i.e. Teens, twenties). You learn so much from these years and they stay with you for the rest of your life. There's nothing whatsoever frightning in growing old but when you have your grandchildren you can pass on the secret of how to live your life without the fear of age in your head. Don't let any fear hold you back as you will not learn and grow about the world which lies ahead before you.

Answer 3

The answer to this (as far as my life is concerned) is simple.
work as long as you can. (I worked up to the age of 80 and only stopped then because my boss retired) Socialise as much as possible with people younger than yourself.(try to think like them) Don't keep looking at the calender. Get into a gym for a few hours a week. Mainly keep your mind active and don't let your brain go to sleep. Get a hobby going (I've taken to teaching myself to oil painting) Having been able to socialise throughout my service in the RAF and civvie street, my memories are abundant. Can still SAFELY drive at 80/90 when conditions are favourable (no kidding and no 'white knuckles' either). keeping the sex life alive is a great attribute.
To summarise
" THINK YOUNG YOU'LL STAY YOUNG"

Answer 4

My Dad is 78, he worked hard all his life and built up several businesses. He decided to retire completely this year and handed over the work to my brother and nephews.He is always there to offer advice and support to all of us. He has a wonderful nature, great sense of humour, and is admired and respected by the entire family, all of which keep him going. My mother is 74 and still works alongside my brother, sisters and nephews on a part time basis.She also has a great sense of humour and there is always plenty of smiles and laughter in their home. I think being surrounded by love and the feeling of being needed and useful keeps them both young.

Answer 5

i am 65 so near enough to answer your question.
In the uk i was in a wheelchair due to severe authritis for 1 year, and i moved to egypt because it never rains here in Luxor, therefore i have my life back, a new start and a new business, i get about as much as i can my interest has turned from self pity and relying on others. to helping others. all the time i am told i am no more than 45. "the secret"
there is none, life is what you make it. be good to others it is returned in multiples, also be bad it is returned, today i am off to see Der el Medina the village of the workers of the pharonic tombs, my new hobby, i think it will be my last as there is so much of its history to learn and not by reading, my legs can actually take me there to see for myself.
my new business also is taking others to see this hobby of mine. myegypt.co.uk

Answer 6

The brightest light is hope in the darkest of hours of our life, but there is power also in this light in form of good anticipations and happy expectations we often bear so casually. The power that when goes awry causes havoc bringing along hosts of ill considerations and worried thoughts in the moment present. What keeps people going in general is what people have in their mind for the moments to be unfolded; what keeps me going in specific is what I have in my mind for all the moments to be what I am going to be. And yes, talking of the passing of an age always make people agonisingly conscious of themselves for what they have and what they are.

If I were seventy plus now, no, not even that far, if I were only few years older than what I am now, I would understand that I could have hoped batter, could have hoped for much better things in my life then that is my now. But if I were a lot older than what I am now, I would certainly dream of being the same age again as I am at this moments in time. The present worries that keep pecking on my mind then would have seemed like a music made by a real woodpecker busy in his house building activity in the middle of a beautiful enchanting forest where I would find myself blissfully happy to be for a time. I would think what a golden, the age now, I let go without cherishing it properly, and without realising what I could do with most simply things in my possession then, the present. I would think of nothing but being young again, as I am now; I would want nothing but to have all I have now; I would simply like to be what I am now. If I were seventy plus I would fall in love with my younger self for real, and with all those people who I had as my company.

Answer 7

My mother in law just turned 70 - she doesn't look it though. She has had her fair share of ups and downs and got her knee replaced last year. The difference since she had it done is incredible - she loves spending time with her grandchildren who vary in age from 21 to 2. She meets up with friends almost every day and my sister in law and I always visit once a week. She loves going to the cinema and learnt to swim after she retired. I think judging by her and my dad, who is in his late sixties, is that age is a matter of attitude to life and how you occupy yourself

Answer 8

Keeping an interest in life is a sort of ongoing thing. I've been interested in life in all its variations for most of my seventy years and being here has shown me that I can pass quite a lot of it on to you young people. Well, some of you, anyway - there's a lot of people here who type before they think, and don't even look at what they've typed!
An active sex life is also a good motivator . . . .

Answer 9

am not 70 but some times feel it! my mam is over 80 and just loves life her life and being a part of every one elses we love her to bits and she contributes enormously to our family yes she would say life is good for her..although her health is far from100% her mind is as sharp as a tack ..lets cheer the over 60's 70's 80's and 90's lets hope they all make 100.

Answer 10

Fit and healthy.
Good diet.
Love.
Younger friends.
Still working (part time) at stuff I love.
Children, grand children, great-grandchild.
Love of and fascination with life, people, all the mysteries..
Meditation.
Good genes.
Just the general, amazing WOW!! of everything.
Loving all of it - even the bits you can't stand.
And when I do feel down, rest and wait for the up to come back.
Love! Getting it, giving it. living it.
Should I stop now?
Jon C

Answer 11

The secret in keeping young is never believing you are old.

Some people's attitudes change as they age because that is what is expected of them. Well bollox to that! Ignore your age and carry on doing what rings your bell! "Acting your age" only leads to gloom and doom!