What Did You Discover About Yourself After You Became A Senior Citizen?

I have discovered how important it is to have friends and reconnect with family members and to stay in contact. To care about others and they in turn will care about you. Maybe I feel less invisible because in stores and other places people hold the door for me or offer to get something off a shelf for me because I am a old lady with a walker or mobility chair. In a nutshell, people are kinder than I thought.
 

Two things immediately come to mind.

I became acutely aware of my mortality, and the consequent heightened awareness to make the very most out of every day and enjoy life to the fullest, hold no grudges, and not sweat the small stuff.

Also, my GAF broke šŸ˜‚ making the above so much easier!
 
Supernatural said:
If we get the bus pass at 60 plus other wee services, officially that should be the age for all. What confused me and hit me like a ton of bricks was being told by the one on the phone on the day registering hubby's death that his pension was now gone and that I'd have to stay single for another 4 years if I wanted to get it added to my own or see any monies from it. That was a shocker which I've not recovered yet. I expected to receive it as OAP and survivor's.

Otherwise, people have been helpful and the benefits have been good. The few annoying bits, but I ignored those jealous bits, are about my hair not having greys enough and no I don't colour, all natural haha!
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In England we don't get the Bus pass until 66... :(...I don't get any other benefits other than free eye tests and free prescriptions...
 
All my life, I prioritized marriage/relationships, and tried to fit in or be accepted. Now that I've given up on all that, I think I have a more attractive personality. Ironic.

Also, having tried for 20 years to grow my hair, it's finally at shoulder length and looking pretty good. Imagine if I'd spent those years on something worthwhile....
 
officerripley said:
I'm amazed I'm still alive; when I learned about nuclear war at the age of about 10, I really didn't think I (or anyone else) was going to live this long.
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Yep I was the same. My mother was a depressive so she kept banging on about the nuclear war and how the best thing for us all if the Bomb landed right on our heads and we'd feel no pain. How we should fear the Yellow race because Nostradamus predcited it.. so we really didn't think we'd get to be old. .. even now I just take every day as it comes, I definitely don't plan more than a few weeks ahead..
 
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Capt Lightning said:
Ah, but you have the benefit of not having Nicola Sturgeon and her loony left "green" cronies - and you pay lower tax and booze is usually cheaper.
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...but we pay for your free hospital Parking, and your free prescriptions which we don't get ourselves, and I don't drink alcohol..... :cautious: ..however you're right.. I'd trade that for not having Loony Jimmy sturgeon.... time that ridiculous woman was ousted ...
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I realized how important being at the ocean is to me. I also found out that I like dried basil and that what I thought was a tablespoon was actually a half tablespoon!
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I discovered that the teaspoons we have in the drawer actually measure at 2 teaspoons. :oops:

Gary O' said:
I thought getting old would take longer
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Yea, who knew??? :LOL:

And...
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DebraMae said:
My GAF broke also, @Ronni. Old people don't get rude, they just get honest. I always try not to hurt anyone but I am a lot more honest than I used to be and I have been enjoing every minute of it.
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Yes! I am way more outspoken than I have ever been. Authentic and transparent. I try always to be kind and tactful, gentle when I need to be, but I donā€™t sit on my feelings anymore so as to not offend or hurt someoneā€™s feelings. Sometimes thereā€™s no way around that if I am going to be true to myself.
 
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