If you were 80 years old ...?

Question

Imagine yourself as an 80-year-old, what will yo do?
Be creative but sensitive, humerous too! Thx

Hey, guys, I need this for an essay, so as much points as possible please

Answer 1

I'm not in a nursing home yet! I take good care of myself, so I'm probably gonna be one of those 80 year olds that goes skydiving and stuff.

Answer 2

I just spent a few hours last weekend with an 80 year old man. So my view of 80 is a little bit affected by the experience.

He griped about how a 17 hour plane trip from Viet Nam was too much to bear and his lifetime of travel was likely over.

He told me he had fallen at the golf course that morning and had to be helped up and driven home. He decided not to go to urgent care because it cost too much and he was afraid they would report him to the state and the state would take away his driver's license.

He told me his wife was out of town and he was eating cereal 3 times a day.

He complained about his aches and pains and his bowel movements -- or lack of them.

He told me how his many medications made him feel miserable and how drug interactions were a likely issue but his doctors hadn't been able to resolve the issues.


It made me think that I need to live the rest of my pre-80 years with gusto since they are going fast and being 80 doesn't look like much fun.

Answer 3

If I were 80 years old, I will appreciate everything around me and give God the glory every other day that I live because it is not by my power or by my might but by the special grace of God and God only.

In fact,
1. I will love people as I have never done before
2. I will read the bible for more inspirations daily in order to move closer to God
3. I will be kind to mankind
4. I will counsel the needy
5. I will dream of heaven and do those things that will lead me home gently at death
6. I will consider every other day a blessing
7. I will review my will and do more for churches
8. I will enjoy myself with good music, light meals and great dresses that I have
9. I will teach the little children grandchildren and great grand children how to live a purposeful life
10. I will pray that God will make you yourself attain the age of 80 which you so much desire.

Its great to have your question answered.
Good luck

Answer 4

If I were 80 years old I would kiss the ground when I got up in the morning. If I could still pull my own weight I would be so grateful. I would share all of my adventures with as many young persons who would listen and still look for a new one.I would have to get used to the gray color of my face and hope to be able to afford Clairol for my hair. I would not grow old gracefully. I would do whatever I was capable of within limits of the law. The world is a wonderful place if you believe it to be. I would love to still be able to dance like a young girl of course no one would like to see that because it is freaky when older persons act younger than some young ones. They call it senility.I would try to keep in touch with all the persons who kept me laughing and hope they were well...I would have surround sound and many videos in my home to keep me going.I never want the music to be irrelevant.

Answer 5

I think I would get up every morning around 8:00 and go to McDonald's for an Egg McMuffin- if I'm 80, I probably won't care about getting fat, so maybe I'll have the hash browns as well. Then I'll come home and do the crossword puzzle in the newspaper. Then at 10, I'd turn on the TV so I could watch The Price is Right, and yell at the contestants who are bidding unfairly. After my show, I think I'd go to the zoo, because here in Denver, seniors over 70 get in for free, so why not? Maybe I'd bring along an easel and paint some of the animals, and it wouldn't mind if my paintings were crappy because it's not like I'm trying to make a living out of it. It's just a hobby. After the zoo, I would maybe go to my local bingo parlor and play a few games of bingo. It would also serve as my social interaction for the day, because all my pals are there. I'd eat lunch at the snack bar there, because I assume I'll still like hot dogs and nachos when I'm old. I am betting I'd still have good teeth because I take very good care of them now. Between games we would talk about politics and cholesterol and stuff like that. Maybe I'd win a bingo jackpot, which I would take to the mall and use on gifts for my grandchildren- toys and cute little clothes and maybe I'd save out a nice crisp $20 for each of them too if the jackpot was a big one. Then I'd go home and start dinner, and my husband (who I hope is still alive) will come home from his day of sailing his sailboat, and we will watch Wheel of Fortune together while our dinner of grilled chicken breasts and mashed potatoes cooks. He will be very impressed how fast I can solve the puzzles, and I'll tell him it's because of all the crosswords I do. Really, it will be because I am quite good at stuff like that, but I won't want to make him feel dumb for not figuring them out, so I'll act like it's because I practice. It won't matter anyway, because he won't have heard a word I said because he refuses to wear his hearing aid. He thinks it makes him look uncool. We will eat our dinner in front of the TV and watch the prime-time lineup, and he'd tell me about all the stuff he saw while he was sailing, and I'll tell him about bingo and the zoo and all, and then he could put his head on my lap and I could stroke his bald little head and then we'd probably fall asleep at like 9:00 because we're old.

Answer 6

I think I would take college classes for free. Not just for the education but to interact with the young people. I will also travel a lot. Go back to Italy again and visit where my family came from. I will drink a ton of red wine and play cards with the others in my apartment building.

Answer 7

LOL - crazy question.

I am only 80 so that is easy whatever I want. It is no longer old.

So as I have no responsibility for others any more I can eat, sleep, go out and do what I want, when I want.
I have a pension, but I have no obligation any longer to eat healthily or save my money so I am going to order pizza in the middle of the night for me and my friends whilst we are having games nights.
Ditto, I am going to drink alcohol, I won't have to worry about a hangover, because I don't have to sober up if I don't want to. My friends wont care if I don't go to bed.
I will probably be doing a language course, a meditation class flower arranging and a painting class? Why dunno but the healthy eighty year olds I know do these so maybe it is an age thing.
I am going to make sure I can keep getting up the stairs, because I have this fantasy of throwing water balloons out of the top room window at the Postman who never brings mail till late afternoon.
I will probably wander around in a ballgown, I will use my pension to buy them from the charity shops and have big hats, and dancing shoes and a sequin bag. I will wear them all the time, to collect the fruit from the trees, to go to classes, because I am old no one will care.
I am going to flirt with the really good looking twenty year olds too and they will flirt outrageously back. They always do with older people.
When I go out for tea, I am going to try everything I fancy, just a few bites of this, a few bites of that and six deserts if I am hungry. Nobody will even comment because it is expected of me.
I am going to use my heating allowance from the Government on Taxis to take me to have lunch with my friends in residential homes, so I can join in their activities for the day for free as visitors can.
I will rent a ground floor apartment at the coast I have spent lots of time at since childhood, two weeks each year and I will eat candy floss for breakfast, play on the slot machines and walk down the beach collecting things, that I will never bother to take home.

I am going back to drinking coffee, I will probably like the buzz by then and all coffee will be Shade Grown Fair Trade by then too.

I sound crazy, maybe but older people is my social work specialism so I have lots of positive examples of people who are aging. I have always loved the following poem too and will use it as my mantra - first verse quoted only.


Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

By Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
and satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick the flowers in other people's gardens
and learn to spit.

Answer 8

I would hope that I would not be in an old folks home checking out butts of other 80 yrs old. I would hope to spend time with grandchildren and maybe purse intrests that I cant right now like travling.

Answer 9

If I were 80, I'd get up every morning, and go for a long walk with my herd of goats (that's right, goats!). Of course I'd be outrageously dressed, in wild skirts and blouses, looking every inch a gypsy grandmother. I'd also wear jewlery that sparkled and made lovely tinkling noises.

I'd carry on conversations with the goats while I walked. I'd have my hiking stick too...hopefully it would look like something a wizzard would use.

After our early morning stroll, and putting the moon to bed, and welcoming the sun for the day, we'd head back to the barn. I'd milk some of the does, and collect up the eggs from the chickens.

I'd leave a pan of milk out for the fairy's which inhabit my farm (they look a great deal like cats).

Being old, I'm quiet sure I'd be flatulent. Every time my rear end tooted, I'd blame it on an animal...some of them would look guilty too.

I'd make oatmeal for breakfast, top with fresh goats milk. I'd enjoy breakfast with my Mom (I fully expect her to still be around as we are long lived people) and my beloved husband. I'd pinch his butt when he turned around.

I'd start making the bread for lunch and dinner after breakfast. As I kneaded the bread dough, I'm sure I'd toot a bit more...I'd blame it on the dog.

Once the bread was safely baking, we could retire to comfortable chairs in front of the fire. All three of us would read....or argue over who got to read the latest farming magazine before the others.

My Mother and I would argue over what type of bird was at the birdfeeder outside the window. We'd both tell the other one she was a doltish old crone, who didn't know a thing.

Lunch would be the main meal of the day for us. Homemade bread, with goat milk butter, homemade jams, hearty soups or stews. Very good, healthy meals, filled with fiber.

I'd go out for another walk to make sure the farm and all the animals were being cared for the way I wanted. I expect my children and grandchildren would have taken over the hard work by then. Hubby would be spending the rest of the afternoon in the shop working on old tractors, and instructing grandchildren how to do mechanical things.

Dinners will sometimes bring the entire family together. I will listen to granddaughters talk about how and where they rode the horses...secretly I will envy them their youth, and wish I could still ride horses like the wind.

We'd sit around the table talking about farming, and the latest animals being born. The grandchildren would be included, and converse with us in complete sentances. After dinner the younger ones would clear the table, and wash the dishes. I'd get out the homemade desert. If I farted, I'd blame it on whichever child was standing closest.

I'd have the children serve the adults desert, since it's important for them to learn manners. Afterwards, we'd play card games, and board games to keep everyones minds active and sharp.

I'd take sleepy little children off, and cuddle with them in a big chair, while I read them wonderful fairytale books.

The older children would all giggle, roll their eyes, and say, "Grandma!" when I pinched my hubbies butt.

There would be lots of hugs and kisses, laughter, and conversation. Good food, and plenty of animals.

Yup...being 80 is going to be fun!

~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 10

I want to be physically active(and be mentally with it),still getting around on my own.I want to live in my own home and, not some nursing home.I think that I might be a little more sensitive.I think that it would be pretty good to even do a marathon.I have heard of people doing that at that age.