How to stay young
joanlawson
Member Posts: 8,681
Thought for the Day - How to Stay Young
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay 'them!'
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
Any more ideas gratefully received
Joan
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay 'them!'
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
Any more ideas gratefully received
Joan
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i'll just hang on to joan's coattails, so i'll always be young
sangita0 -
Dear Joan
Done all ten Never worked. Still gasping for breath :shock:
Shall I carry on with the pills.0 -
Thanks Sangita. I am trying my best. I take my best friend as a role model. She is 86 years young.0
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trisher wrote:Dear Joan
Done all ten Never worked. Still gasping for breath :shock:
Shall I carry on with the pills.
Rubbish Trisher :!: You are one of the youngest at heart people I know :!:0 -
i've joined you all to learn to be young at heart.
till now i've always been older than my years. i think it's time i changed my tactics
sangita0 -
naseebapnaapna wrote:i've joined you all to learn to be young at heart.
till now i've always been older than my years. i think it's time i changed my tactics
sangita
Well I think you've come to the right place. This forum is full of young at heart lovely people.0 -
hi trisher,
i agreew ith jaon, i think you are one of the youngest at heart people here, but then so is she, so i think that could be why you all get on so well
sangita0 -
Oh Joan got a problem with 2 I think you should always help if you can
8 and 9 well I ain't so good at them but the re I do and you know I am trapped in a old worn out body but my head stays too young I think Cris x
Hi Sangita I reckon your doing ok flower Hope your not knocking your self out too much there? ((( ))) xx
Hey Trish your young at heart flower and a very good person so keep taking the tablets to comply with 8 or 9 I think it was and than come and have a bop to this ((( ))) xx0 -
thanks for asking cris, i'm doing well.
i'm up late tongiht as i made it my w/e i'm going to give my mind some fun with you all here tonight, hten spend the next week working.
i'm amazed at all you here. i know i do have my ilnesses to live with, but you all here, are teaching me inner strength i didn't know i had the abilty to reach or could reach.
so each and everyone of you here.........my (young ) heartfelt thanks for all the support adn all the strangth
sangita0 -
Hi Cris
Re 2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
I know what you mean, but some people do moan about trivial things and can be a bit depressing.0 -
joanlawson wrote:Hi Cris
Re 2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
I know what you mean, but some people do moan about trivial things and can be a bit depressing.
Hi Joan,
Not if you don't let them and sometimes a hug goes a long way...... and other times you get hit I shall send you a ((( ))) and hope I don't have to duck Purs to Tommy x
Hey Sangita you got loads of inner strength Just look at our user name. Hope you have a good week end and why are we up at this time of day?! xx0 -
well i try to smile not frown , i try to throw guilt in the bin learnt a long time ago to say no in the nicest way , love to read and watch quiz programs. always asking questions even get some answers .i also say i love you to thoses around me and try not to suffer fools but some times you have to put up with them (at work). do like this positive attitude keep it upval0
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I IS young - Arent I??? :?
Nice one Joan
I got some bad number 2's too (did that come out right???) :oops:
and I tell Daisy i love her at least 100 times a day
Love you ALL
Toni xx0 -
delboy wrote:Your chronological age is an accident of birth, your actual age is how you live your life so live it to the full each and every day.
Totally agree, Del, and I'm trying my best :!:0 -
rehab44 wrote:10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
Consider it don Joannie
That's nice, Rehab, and we all love you too
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
You often provide us with plenty of this one0 -
I love surrounding myself with young people....and to everyone on here including you rehab.....
BarbaraxLove
Barbara0 -
barbara12 wrote:I love surrounding myself with young people....and to everyone on here including you rehab.....
Barbarax
Hi Barbara
Being in the company of children and young people can make you feel either young or very, very old, depending on your attitude :!:0 -
joanlawson wrote:barbara12 wrote:I love surrounding myself with young people....and to everyone on here including you rehab.....
Barbarax
Hi Barbara
Being in the company of children and young people can make you feel either young or very, very old, depending on your attitude :!:Love
Barbara0 -
I have never actually voiced this before, but here goes. I don`t enjoy being with the friends of my own age, that I have had for years, as much as I enjoy being with two very special ones in their early fifties. I love the older ones, and would do anything for them, and they me, but we seem to be on different wavelengths at times.
If I spend much time with them, I`m always glad to get home. They seem to have embraced getting older, and all that goes with it a bit too readily. Not me!! I know I`ve got Arthur, and high BP, I don`t want to talk about it all the time!
The other two are so different, and we can have great fun, or be deadly serious, and put the world to rights. One does the same job as me, so that`s a bonus. The other one really appeals to my feminine side, and is as daft as I am about clothes, and jewellery, and perfume and.....Oh well, you get the picture. Age is just a number, and as long as I go out smelling of Chanel 5, I`ll be happy!........Ange.0 -
Going to get labeled 'pervert' or 'there's always one' for this
11. Have sex, make love to the one you love. you always hear doctors saying how having sex keeps you young. :oops:
Steve0 -
fester wrote:Going to get labeled 'pervert' or 'there's always one' for this
11. Have sex, make love to the one you love. you always hear doctors saying how having sex keeps you young. :oops:
SteveLove
Barbara0 -
fester wrote:Going to get labeled 'pervert' or 'there's always one' for this
11. Have sex, make love to the one you love. you always hear doctors saying how having sex keeps you young. :oops:
Steve
Quite agree :!: I was going to write this one, but I was too shy :oops:
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barbara12 wrote:fester wrote:Going to get labeled 'pervert' or 'there's always one' for this
11. Have sex, make love to the one you love. you always hear doctors saying how having sex keeps you young. :oops:
Steve
Oooh!!
Barbara! :oops:
TMI!!!!0 -
They seem to have embraced getting older, and all that goes with it a bit too readily.
I know people who seem old at 40, and others who are young at 80. Some people seem to lose their zest for life, and it is an attitude of mind to stay young at heart. Like you, I work on it daily, and I have no intention of embracing getting older.
Now pass on the Chanel 5 :!:
Because I'm worth it :!:0
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