Life of an old person.
“Every day, it’s important to ask and answer these questions: “What’s good in my life?” and “What needs to be done?”
This post was supposed to be published by 11 am this morning but I couldn't access the Readcash platform and I guess it's a general issue for everyone. It came back later when I thought it was already late for my posting time but I guess my time of posting is about to change or perhaps, I would try to fix it back to its normal time which I am already used to.
I don't want to leave my blog empty again without posting for the day and so, I am changing my mind posting at 8:10 pm tonight.
Stages of development according to Erikson starts from being a child who learns to depend on an adult for survival and chooses either to trust or not to trust an adult depending on how he or she is being cared for, and it moves on to the last stage for an old person who tries to reflect on his or her life to see if he or she has lived a life of integrity or despair. It's such a big regret when someone reflect on his or her life to see how miserable he or she had lived her life while being a young child.
I have always heard from people that living the best life in a youthful day will grant you the best physique while in old age but I have seen many old men and women that have lived their life so recklessly which is now telling on them today. By that time, they start to think of how they have lived their lives, either in a good or bad way.
Whenever I sit with my grandmother, I will always be surprised and proud of her because she lived a good life even when she was still in her youth. She never used her body carelessly, and to see an old woman of over 90 still looking agile and can see, also walking by herself without allowing anyone to hold her, is a sign that she lived her life in the best way and she has never for once regretted her lifetime.
There was an old woman my friend talked about one day. My friend's grandmother and this old woman were friends in their youthful days but she had lived her life as a harlot that she couldn't even stand straight today but bend. I wonder how she would feel so comfortable in such a position and she will never want to be left alone indoors but to work around the surroundings even in her state.
One thing we are always reminded of is how to take care of ourselves, eating good meals now that we are young because whatever we do now will bring the result when we have reached the old age stage and by then, we would start thinking of how we have lived our lives as a youth.
Also, there is a need to live the best life now as we won't be able to do that when old age strike. Returning home after seeing my boyfriend off, two old women were carried like a baby from one car to another. One of the old women was brought into the car I boarded and while waiting for other passengers, she saw someone hawking necklaces and bracelets, she told her daughter to get them for her because she likes them.
For someone like her, I believe she would enjoy her prime them and even be someone who loves to party and rock any style. Perhaps she had no time for such then and seeing it now, she felt like a young girl again with that necklace and bracelets in her hand.
There are some things like exercising and eating good meals, as young people so that when we are old, we won't have to spend money on hospital bills trying to treat one ailment or the other.
I have seen an old woman who still looks like a young person and someone of the same age already faded and her face wrinkled and when I try to understand why it is so, I conclude that it is how they have lived their lives.
One example I will give is that of my father. When he was a young man, he has been advised to stop drinking alcohol especially dry gins with harmful substances but he never listened and he still drinks them today. Now, he is over 63+ and not looking okay as he should be. Whereas I know of an old man who is 70+ who still looks so much like a young person and can still lift his body very well.
It is how you live your life today that will bring the result for you tomorrow and whatever happens while we are old is as a result of how we have lived our lives during our youthful days. I hope you understand my point in all I have said here.
Thanks for your time
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[October 13, 2022] (No 285 articles for the year)
What we do to our life today will also contribute to our life in the later days. Honestly speaking, even at my age now, I already felt that I am a weakling.