Footlose Old-timer
Ten years ago, I turned 60. A day before I did, I mused, “Tomorrow I will be 60 years old. What would life be like?” Two days later, I found the answer, “It’s the same.” Life was still the same at 60 as it was at 59. The only earth-shattering event that came upon me was the…
If you’ve reached this far, celebrate. Be happy and rejoice; be grateful. Why? Because getting old is an accomplishment no less like finishing the Badwater Ultramarathon. Many of your contemporaries aspired to wing it, but fate says otherwise. Or people younger than you. Yet, here you are, alive and kicking. Eager, like a raging bull, to give…
“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude of what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.” – Zig Ziglar If you doubt Zig’s wisdom, then you must be living a wretched and ungrateful life. How else could it be if you have…
You don’t need to be lonely because you live alone, or lacking in social interaction. Take a lesson from the 2 guys in prison who, one night, looked outside of their cells through the prison bars. One guy saw the beautiful full moon set against a dark sky, dwarfing the millions of twinkling little stars…
“The sadness of death is only surpassed by the sadness of solitude,” – a doctor discovered in a heart-wrenching way with one of his patients. The doctor knows that he is dying. So does the patient. It’s not the kind of death after a few days or weeks or months of pain. It can come…
Are elderly people cranky? Does their mood rise and fall like the tide, or follow the lunar cycle? These are the common perceptions younger people have of elderly people. While a few may fit the mold, but they are the exception rather than the rule. A lot of old fellas are friendly, jaunty, jovial and…
Has this ever happened to you? You wake up in the morning feeling great and ready to go. After a wonderful sleep, you feel refreshed and full of vigor for the tasks ahead. Then from out of the blue, something intruded into your mind that agitated you, made you feel restless and irritated or nervous….
Right now, a guy is struggling with depression. He could be the guy next to you in a coffee shop or sitting forlornly in a park. He could be walking along aimlessly in a shopping mall or sitting in the far corner of a dark movie house. Or it could be you. You are listless…
If you are experiencing breathlessness, chest pain, wheezing, coughing with some sputum, you are showing symptoms of respiratory diseases. They will cause breathing difficulties and may cost you a good night’s sleep. Some respiratory diseases do not respond to Grandma’s home-cure recipe of a “couple of decongestants, lots of rest and drink plenty of water.”…
“You have cancer,” your doctor said in a very calm and professional way. No matter how he said it, the gruesome news that you have the dreaded disease of cancer will still hit you like a vicious punch in the gut. You will slump in your chair like an empty sack. Your face gets tight; life seems…
