2007-11-12 16:07:53 · 25 answers · asked by Wickwire 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
wouldn't that depend upon your age at the time? To a child, a Christmas present can affect you greatly. To a teen, a love affair is the best thing that ever happened. To a young adult, a child may or may not be the best thing that could happen. To an older person, surviving a heart attack may be the best thing that could happen..hell, I cannot pick just one thing that was best, for in reality, everything that has every happened to me, everything I have ever done, has lead to this point in time, the good and the bad. For me, this point in life, at least at this particular time, is good. For so many others here, my heart lies bleeding by the end of the night....I want to help them so badly, yet I just do not have the funds to do so. I see so much misery here, not because of mistakes or wrong turns in life, but just life itself. How can a wonderful woman every know she will be deserted by her husband? How can a man know he will be disastrously crippled by this evening? Life is what it is, at times it sucks, at times it glows. I see so many, many people here who have no idea how they will eat tomorrow, how they will pay the rent...it kills me! Yes, I am a sucker and probably a fool. But I cannot help being what and who I am. Being on Seniors has been a very strong eye opener to me, for I see so many determined people stuck in helpless situations...too old to start over again, no energy left to keep a job. Daily, I see ads on TV asking for money to support children in other countries...what about our own country! How can we ignore so many here while helping others there? I don't understand it. Seniors seem to be the lowest on the totem pole in our own country..everytime there is a cut in spending, it is at senior's expense. And I hear those who scream, "they should have prepared for this time....to hell with those lunatics! Who in their right mind would NOT prepare IF they could, but those who are forced daily to live hand to mouth seem to get no respect in this country. Sorry for the soap box, I am hurting very deeply for so many here at this time. Perhaps it is time for me to shut off this computer and get away from so many of life's rejections. Good night and peace. Phil
PS: I swear, you sit around all day trying to get my goat...every time you ask a question, you do it in such an unpretentious way, I open my soul to you...stop it already...I do not want others to know me so well. Phil
2007-11-12 18:04:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
No. i think a level of challenge, sadness, melancholy and anger - yet to no longer the quantity I even have felt it, in those activities which affected me individually. i think of all and sundry has an opinion approximately contemporary activities and that opinion is, for sure in line with, their very own journey of existence. To be honest IF human beings have been straight away affected by contemporary activities, there would be much less e.g. situations of toddler abuse - while human beings have their suspicions, yet do no longer act on them. there's a ways too plenty apathy while it includes taking the bull by using the horns and stepping as much as the plate and saying 'i think some thing is incorrect and that i choose which you will look at it.' i'm of direction conversing of addressing subjects at a close-by point, no longer a countrywide point, or a international point. If in basic terms all and sundry would take accountability and look out for the vunerable, extremely of blaming 'the equipment' for it truly is shortcomings and failings after the form!
2016-10-02 06:07:58 · answer #2 · answered by renate 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The single most life changing event would be the pregnancy at 16 . It would have been very different had I been able to finish school and go into the military. That was the game plan in mind.
2007-11-13 00:16:18 · answer #3 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When you get to your sixties, you have a lot of events to choose from that have impacted your life in a powerful way. The most recent event for me was my husband's stroke and having two neurologists say he would be a vegetable for the rest of his life. That turned out not to be entirely true but it's been a long road to travel to get back to normalcy and happiness.
In a broader context the assassinations of the JFK and his brother Bobbie are also high on the list.
2007-11-12 16:45:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
My Granddaughter having a Brain Tumor at the age of 8
My Husband dying at the age of 48, we were married for 27yr
My Son Falling from scaffolding 5yrs ago, and causing the most traumatic events that followed for him.......unbearable for me to see and I feel helpless
Theses things have all happened in the last 10yr, and has led to my nervous breakdown
2007-11-12 19:00:57 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ HOPE ♥ 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is true...
There is not just one event.
Each time something monumental happens, (It always seems like something bad) you think nothing could be worse than this!
They say that we are not given more than we can deal with. Sometimes I get weary of all that I am meant to deal with.
My parents divorce certainly affected me deeply (age 1).
Moving to California
JFK assassination (and all the others subsequent)
The death of my aunt within the same week.
My marriage
The birth of my four children
The birth of the fifth child given up for adoption
The death of my granddaughter
The death of my roommate in our living room
My father's death
Graduation from college at age 59!
2007-11-12 18:41:14 · answer #6 · answered by Ravenfeather 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The 2000 presidential election.
2007-11-13 11:08:09 · answer #7 · answered by oldtimer 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My husband just walking out with no warning. Just the week before he said he was trying to quit smoking so he would have longer to be with me.
I had a hard time for awhile but now it's OK. He died of cancer about 4 years after. It took me a long time(years) but I'm OK and wiser.
2007-11-12 21:37:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It was the day I was diagnosed with Diabetes. And having to
crash diet to get my blood sugar levels down into the safe
level. Little did I know what was waiting in the years ahead as
the result of the disease. It's kind of like a slow death sentence with organs breaking down the longer you have it.
I wish I had been more aware of taking better care of myself
so that it wouldn't have happened. But my father and his
mother also had it happen to them in later years of their life.
So I suppose, I was predisposed to inheriting it.
2007-11-12 16:58:47 · answer #9 · answered by Lynn 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Just had a real shock a few minutes ago, my friend of 58 years lost her husband today. He was in Mexico so it is going to be a battle to get him back and cost her a fortune. Money is no object but her health is bad and that is a real problem. Prayers for my friend.
2007-11-12 16:21:20 · answer #10 · answered by lilabner 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋