My mother used to say that the growing old is not weak. Being young and invincible, thought mother complained too much. Now, when I am older and wiser, I realize that she was right.
Think about it.
We have a long period of workplace training in order to get older. we would think that with all the experience behind us, we would be better at it. one of the problems, however, is that someone keeps changing working conditions.
20 years ago, I took an adult education course in computer programming at the local Gymnasium. as I told my husband, “it’s getting so if you do not know how to use the computers you are functionally illiterate.”
Today, with a smattering of my computer knowledge to me I be besieged by PDA, iPod, smart phones, Facebook and tweeter. Someone has changed the working conditions.
Some of us can still remember the halcyon days of the family doctor, General Practitioner, who, if he (and they were mainly he is) does not make House calls-at least he does not charge you an arm and a leg for an Office calls.
Someone has changed the working conditions: how many of us have problems with getting in to see a doctor in the first place?, and the cost of an Office call is so high that we will only go if it is absolutely necessary. sickness insurance, which was supposed to make health care more accessible and more affordable, have spiraled out of control. many of us do not even Afford health insurance.
Aging is no, not for wimps.But the alternative is not everything, great, either.Harvard professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot in her book, the third chapter: passion, risk, and adventures in 25 years after 50 I say:
“We must develop a compelling vision of later life:, not dependent on an orthogonal reduction after fifty, but recognizes it as a time of change, growth and new learning, a time when our against gives us hope.”
As I think about all this, it seems to me that this is the challenge that many of us Baby Boomers face: we have worked hard for all of our lives and it is so tempting to rest on our laurels and will be set in our ways.
The picture of the stodgy old curmudgeon or the pleasure of old biddy comes to mind. I suspect that it is, how many young people believe us-we are so far over the Hill ….
We are perhaps so far over the Hill, we have started up a second ago! We are those that change our own working conditions. We settle not in our ways, and we do not settle for the same old same old. we look forward to the twenty or thirty more good years of life, and we are determined to make it count for something.
It has been said that the past is over and done, that the future may never come, and that all we really have is today. it was never more true than in my life right now, and I assume that the same is true for you. Let’s make right now the best years of our lives.
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