Just in case you think your old

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Just in Case You Think You're Old!
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Jeanne Louise Calment had the longest confirmed human lifespan on record: 122 years and 164 days. It seems that fate strongly approved of the way Madame Calment lived her life.

She was born in Arles, France, on February 21, 1875. When the Eiffel Tower was built, she was 14 year old. It was at this time that she met Vincent van Gogh. "He was dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable," she recalled in an interview given in 1988.

When she was 85, she took up fencing, and she was still riding on her bike when she reached 100. At the age of 114, she starred in a film about her life; at age 115 she had an operation on her hip, and at age 117 she gave up smoking, having started at the age of 21 in 1896.

Apparently, she didn't give it up for health reasons, but because she didn't like having to ask someone to help her light a cigarette once she was nearly blind.

In 1965, Jeanne was 90 years old and had no heirs. She signed a deal to sell her apartment to a 47-year-old lawyer called André-François Raffray. He agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs on the condition that he would inherit her apartment after she died.

However, Raffray not only ended up paying Jeanne for 30 years, but died before she did at the age of 77.

His widow was legally obliged to continue paying Madam Calment until the end of her days.

Jeanne retained sharp mental faculties. When she was asked on her 120th birthday what kind of future she expected to have, she replied, "A very short one."

Quotes and Rules of Life from Jeanne Louise Calment:

"I'm in love with wine."

"All babies are beautiful."

"I think I will die of laughter."

"I've been forgotten by our Good Lord."

"I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it."

"I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often."

"If you can't change something, don't worry about it."

"Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life."

"I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine."

"I have a huge desire to live and a big appetite, especially for sweets."

"I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit."

"I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky."

"Being young is a state of mind, it doesn't depend on one's body, I'm actually still a young girl;
it's just that I haven't looked so good for the past 70 years."

At the end of one interview, in response to a journalist who said, "I hope we will meet again sometime next year." She replied, "Why not? You're not that old; you'll still be here."


 
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Kadee46 said:
I was sent this email and thought it was worth sharing


Just in Case You Think You're Old!
b14b600cfe1d3bfce920d5513f439956.jpg

Jeanne Louise Calment had the longest confirmed human lifespan on record: 122 years and 164 days. It seems that fate strongly approved of the way Madame Calment lived her life.

She was born in Arles, France, on February 21, 1875. When the Eiffel Tower was built, she was 14 year old. It was at this time that she met Vincent van Gogh. "He was dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable," she recalled in an interview given in 1988.

When she was 85, she took up fencing, and she was still riding on her bike when she reached 100. At the age of 114, she starred in a film about her life; at age 115 she had an operation on her hip, and at age 117 she gave up smoking, having started at the age of 21 in 1896.

Apparently, she didn't give it up for health reasons, but because she didn't like having to ask someone to help her light a cigarette once she was nearly blind.

In 1965, Jeanne was 90 years old and had no heirs. She signed a deal to sell her apartment to a 47-year-old lawyer called André-François Raffray. He agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs on the condition that he would inherit her apartment after she died.

However, Raffray not only ended up paying Jeanne for 30 years, but died before she did at the age of 77.

His widow was legally obliged to continue paying Madam Calment until the end of her days.

Jeanne retained sharp mental faculties. When she was asked on her 120th birthday what kind of future she expected to have, she replied, "A very short one."

Quotes and Rules of Life from Jeanne Louise Calment:

"I'm in love with wine."

"All babies are beautiful."

"I think I will die of laughter."

"I've been forgotten by our Good Lord."

"I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it."

"I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often."

"If you can't change something, don't worry about it."

"Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life."

"I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine."

"I have a huge desire to live and a big appetite, especially for sweets."

"I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit."

"I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky."

"Being young is a state of mind, it doesn't depend on one's body, I'm actually still a young girl;
it's just that I haven't looked so good for the past 70 years."

At the end of one interview, in response to a journalist who said, "I hope we will meet again sometime next year." She replied, "Why not? You're not that old; you'll still be here."

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@Kadee46 , thanks. This a fascinating read!
 
Sounds very much like Captain Tom Moore who walked 100 laps of his backyard and raised millions of pounds for charity
There is Capt Tom and the next photo is of all the 100th Birthday cards he received in the hall of the Bedfordshire School

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And on the morning of his special day, Captain Tom received a very special birthday card from Queen Elizabeth II herself, delivered, as the Royal Family Instagram account notes, by “the Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, The Queen’s personal representative in the county.” The monarch wrote in the card that she’s, “so pleased to know that you are celebrating your one hundredth birthday. I was also most interested to hear of your recent fundraising efforts for NHS Charities Together at this difficult time. I send my congratulations and best wishes to you on such a special occasion. Elizabeth R.”
 
My maternal grandparents were married for a little over eighty years before granddad died suddenly. Grandmother followed him eight months later and that was in 1978. To this day I still miss them both, but Jeanne Louise Calment is an inspiration, I intend to emulate my grandparents, I've been married for 52 years, so another 28 to go.
I do hope that you are all still around to join in our celebrations.
 
I know a couple who’ve been married 75 years ,they still come to our social ballroom dancing
venue but sadly they are getting slower each time we see them ( once a week ) they still dance so neither use anything to assist with their walking, and Marg still dose all their cooking .
They married when I was 6 days old and have kids a few months younger than me
I still miss my grandparents who died at 69 and 77 many years ago ( in 1967 - 1968 )
@horseless carriage
 
Kadee46 said:
I know a couple who’ve been married 75 years ,they still come to our social ballroom dancing
venue but sadly they are getting slower each time we see them ( once a week ) they still dance so neither use anything to assist with their walking, and Marg still dose all their cooking .
Have you ever seen Virginia Harvey? Here she is dancing the quickstep, a dance every bit as lively as a jive.
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For what it's worth, my wife and I are life long ballroom dancers. In our youth we thought that we might be good enough to turn professional. Ha! Some hope! We spent three months re-enacting a dance made famous by Fred & Ginger, and we had the help of a professional choreographer. It was an enlightening experience, we realised that we just didn't have the talent. I became a manager in the world of logistics and my wife became a paramedic in the ambulance service. We continued to dance, but only as amateurs, and only for fun. It was hard to accept at first but when I discovered that even those at the very top of the dance ladder, didn't make anything like the squillions that I thought they did, it was quite cathartic to accept our limitations.

This was the famous routine that we did but nowhere in the league of the maestros.
 
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For what it's worth, my wife and I are life long ballroom dancers. In our youth we thought that we might be good enough to turn professional. Ha! Some hope! We spent three months re-enacting a dance made famous by Fred & Ginger, and we had the help of a professional choreographer. It was an enlightening experience, we realised that we just didn't have the talent. I became a manager in the world of logistics and my wife became a paramedic in the ambulance service. We continued to dance, but only as amateurs, and only for fun. It was hard to accept at first but when I discovered that even those at the very top of the dance ladder, didn't make anything like the squillions that I thought they did, it was quite cathartic to accept our limitations.

This was the famous routine that we did but nowhere in the league of the maestros.
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Ah, but you must have had a lot of fun and enjoyable moments (and tired feet)!
Fred and Ginger .. can't get much classier than that.
 
We are only amateurs ( social dancers ) we enjoy the social side of the dancing it keeps our brains sharp remembering the steps , well it helps :):) we did a waltz on NYE called the alpha modern waltz .....easy as ...but we along with many others who haven’t seen it on a program for well over 12 months we couldn’t remember the middle part of the dance ..oh well we had fun laughing at ourselves for stuffing it up . We have a friend who says says there are no medals on the stage at our dance.
We on average know about 140 maybe more ....different dances ... it I’m not admitting I’d be able to get up and dance them without looking at a clip of certain dances first .

On average we have about 50~ 60 dancers attend a Tuesday afternoon or a Saturday night
a good 15% of those are over 90 years old and pretty fit for ages
 
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