Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: aging in community

[Wayne Tyson (landrest]

Well, I'm a bit older than you, and know what you mean. I make it a point to 
associate with young people and treat them kindly. I had a young woman I 
know tell me today that she realized that we're still the same person we 
were when young, with the same feelings and needs; our bodies are just 
older. In our discussion, we agreed that grumpy old farts were probably 
grumpy when they were younger. I have some limiting physical issues that 
must be lived with (some things just must be endured), but optimism really 
is the only option.

In the community I grew up in, younger people simply helped others, 
especially older folks, by doing things for them that they could not do for 
themselves. One day they will be old too--if they are lucky. Older people 
can still contribute to the community, but do so in different ways. One very 
great, late friend of mine had osteoarthritis so bad that her hands were 
almost unusable and she was in great pain all the time, but she suffered the 
little children and younger adults to come unto her for emotional healing. 
She wrote wonderful, real, poetry. Fair "trade?" Priceless.

WT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Villines" <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ aging in community


> On Sep 18, 2013, at 6:27 PM, Wayne Tyson <landrest [at] cox.net> wrote:
>
> > I confess to not having read every post, but who among those posting is 
> > in
> > the category being discussed?
>
> I'm 71 and beginning to feel the effects of aging on hearing. I just can't 
> hear when children are running around yelling. Particularly riding those 
> plastic cars and horses. Loud music hurts.
>
> People are very self-righteous about what they perceive as the needs of 
> children but multi-generational concern doesn't extend so far up the 
> ladder as it does down.
>
> Sharon
> ----
> Sharon Villines, Washington DC
> "It is harder to be kind than clever. KIndness is a choice and hard. 
> Cleverness is a gift and seductive." Jeff Bezos' Grandfather
>
>
>
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