Do Senior Citizens still have aspirations and can they still achieve them at their age?
My best friend, Jeanie, created a group of crafters who work in our church all year long, coming up with ideas for designs and useful crafts. It’s called “No Idle Hands.” The group is largely made up of senior citizens. They raise a lot of money for charities when Christmas rolls around. Lots of people, like my Mom, travel a lot. She learned enough of 14 languages to get around, including Swahili. At 78 she went to Antartica and then rounded Cape Horn. She learned a lot about the environment and global warming. She could speak Spanish in Argentina, Chile and Peru (self-taught.) Bick and Lorene Bickerstaff just celebrated their 70TH wedding anniversary. He is writing a history of Methodism, and the both of them do hospital visits to people in the congregation who are sick. A woman I know who is 63 learned how the play the dulcimer (a stringed Appalachian instrument) and now has a group of 15 who have learned. A blind woman in her 70s sings in the church choir as an alto, memorizing all
Being a Senior Citizen does not mean you can’t dream, make goals, achieve or learn. It is a myth that all old people will become demented. It’s Time for New Age Thinking to Overcome Longevity Prejudices http://bulletin.aarp.org/opinions/otherv… Older Brains Seen As Advantage For example, in studies where subjects are asked to read passages that are interrupted with unexpected words or phrases, adults 60 and older work much more slowly than college students. Although the students plow through the texts at a consistent speed regardless of what the out-of-place words mean, older people slow down even more when the words are related to the topic at hand. That indicates that they are not just stumbling over the extra information, but are taking it in and processing it. http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/005…
