Are You A Senior Who Enjoys The Simple Life?

Honestly, I don't see apex predators as cruel. Now, I'd be horrified, terrified, petrified, mortified if one decided to pounce on me. But, don't believe they kill out of cruelty. More just matter of fact. It sure ain't pretty but it's just survival on a purely wild animal level.
 

That Guy said:
Honestly, I don't see apex predators as cruel. Now, I'd be horrified, terrified, petrified, mortified if one decided to pounce on me. But, don't believe they kill out of cruelty. More just matter of fact. It sure ain't pretty but it's just survival on a purely wild animal level.
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Totally agree - it's not like they drown their prey in a bucket of water, or poison them, or ... or ...

... never mind. :rolleyes:

It's like when people look at a cat "playing" with a mouse and they say "OMG how cruel! What a horrid little creature!"

No - it's how they learn and practice. It's like sparring for a boxer - you have to stay in shape to survive. It's also how Mom Cat teaches her youngins how to hunt.

It's Nature.
 

We have no dog. no cats . no rats or mice here.. amazing just an occassional cockroach that comes in and I catch it and send it home to the house it came from I won`t kill them either.. but we live a really simple life.. by choice we have to as not had the ability to do any better with 2 marriages and yours mine and ours and a previous home to pay off with hubby`s first wife grabbing it all

.. but now we have our own home its a relocatable home . 2 bedroom in a nice park.. nice neighbours and very quiet.and a swimming pool if we feel like a cool off .. shops and malls are close by 3 min up the road and doctors and other necessary ones 5 min away so life is rosey.. of course we have our own roses to smell and enjoy , a verandah to sit and watch the world go by ... we have travelled the world when we did have our home we sold it and used the cash to do our trips and then buy this little relocatable home.. pay rent for the site .. and now we are content to sit and relax.. play some music .. watch Foxtel and of course have a garden to enjoy home grown veggies

.. we drive a car 1995 model , still goes well and not done 100000 km on the clock yet.. so life is happy and is what we make it to be ... don`t need too many clothes as just to be tidy is ok for me.. and of course I love my transcribing online parish clerk works its one of my highlights to help others find their ancestors from 1560s onwards if they were from my parishes.. yessss love the simple life .. "Just give me the simple life" :)
 
We like the simple life,and are pretty much home bodies, we have two 12 year old vehicles and have lived in our own modest home since 1979 the only real luxury we would like to have at the moment is a camping holiday, but due to a family illness we want to be here to help when needed
Loads of money and luxuries don't interest us, as long as we have our health a roof over our head and 3 meals a day we are happy.
 
Justme said:
I don't like dressing up or wearing makeup. I like to live comfortably but doing things my way.
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One thing I am finding with growing older, and that is I am not much interested in impressing anyone, or worrying about it if I scoot to the store in my grubs w/no makeup. I had a lifetime of that, thinking no one would like me unless I looked a certain way, and oh yes, acted a certain way. I try not to dance with too many folks when I go to the grocery store, but if I have my telephone come on with "latin beat" I can't help myself:partytime: Ok, so I don't get out enough:eek:
 
nwlady said:
One thing I am finding with growing older, and that is I am not much interested in impressing anyone, or worrying about it if I scoot to the store in my grubs w/no makeup. I had a lifetime of that, thinking no one would like me unless I looked a certain way, and oh yes, acted a certain way. I try not to dance with too many folks when I go to the grocery store, but if I have my telephone come on with "latin beat" I can't help myself:partytime: Ok, so I don't get out enough:eek:
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I have never been interested in impressing anyone. I have always done my own thing, I never wanted to follow the crowd. I was a teenager in the 60s, but had no interest in pop music (or any other music for that matter), fashion or anything else that went with 60s culture. I wasn't interested in boys either, and would never have wanted to make myself attractive to them. However, I met my husband to be at 15, I am still not sure why we decided we were an item as we are so very different, having nothing in common, but we have stuck it out for nearly 45 years of marriage.
 
Justme said:
I am still not sure why we decided we were an item as we are so very different, having nothing in common, but we have stuck it out for nearly 45 years of marriage.
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Congrats on a good long marriage Justme, we're less than ten years behind you! :apple:
 
nwlady said:
I try not to dance with too many folks when I go to the grocery store, but if I have my telephone come on with "latin beat" I can't help myself Ok, so I don't get out enough:eek:
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I know what you mean about that latin beat Nwlady, does it to me too! A Zumba class is a good fix. ;)
 
Sea, you sound a lot like me. I bought my house back in my 20's and it has long been paid for. It is a very simple, small house. Huge mansions have been built all around me on my block. I now live in what is considered to be one of the "best neighborhoods" in the city. I like having a lot of clothes, but don't spend a lot of money on them. I don't like to dress up. I prefer wearing jeans. I don't need a fancy car either.:eek:
 
Aging bodies force us into a more simple life until the point that if we live long enough we become simple...
 
I don't care about impressing anyone. Status symbol stuff never appealed to me. I enjoy dressing up maybe 2 or 3 times a year, otherwise I'm casual.

We do spend a lot on travel as we enjoy seeing the world, but we are still casual.

I was really hoping that when we went to live in Uganda for two years that I'd learn to enjoy the simple life and would continue to enjoy it when we got back home. I was hoping I wouldn't take our spoiled westerners life for granted when we returned. Aye, for about a month after getting home! Cold showers, constantly losing electricity and sometimes water, no washing machine, dead slow internet, having to boil water to drink did at times become very trying! There is simple, and there is simple.
 
Ellie said:
I love the simple life, always have. I've never owned my own home, don't eat in restaurants, buy all my clothes second hand, can make, cook, fix everything on my own....bake my own bread, and totally appreciate people who have the same lifestyle and values! Thanks, SB!
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I like how your philosophy close to my own thoughts on a simple way of living and I do prefer living a simple life, with some fun and adventure thrown in ever so often when tolerable.

Ameriscot said:
I don't care about impressing anyone. Status symbol stuff never appealed to me. I enjoy dressing up maybe 2 or 3 times a year, otherwise I'm casual.

We do spend a lot on travel as we enjoy seeing the world, but we are still casual.

I was really hoping that when we went to live in Uganda for two years that I'd learn to enjoy the simple life and would continue to enjoy it when we got back home. I was hoping I wouldn't take our spoiled westerners life for granted when we returned. Aye, for about a month after getting home! Cold showers, constantly losing electricity and sometimes water, no washing machine, dead slow internet, having to boil water to drink did at times become very trying! There is simple, and there is simple.
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Agree Ameriscot, there's simple and then, there's simple. I sometimes have these fantasies about living in some deserted location but then I start thinking about, plumbing, electricity, no library and the like and it loses it's appeal. :D I do know though that if the body would cooperate, I would love to go off to help in a third world country, but, I know I am needed just as much in US, so I do what I can when I can while I'm here, still to get away from the ways of westernization sometimes is a very appealing idea. Then again, I probably wouldn't survive considering how much stuff I lugged with me when I used to go camping, including a double airbed.
 
AprilT said:
I like how your philosophy close to my own thoughts on a simple way of living and I do prefer living a simple life, with some fun and adventure thrown in ever so often when tolerable.



Agree Ameriscot, there's simple and then, there's simple. I sometimes have these fantasies about living in some deserted location but then I start thinking about, plumbing, electricity, no library and the like and it loses it's appeal. :D I do know though that if the body would cooperate, I would love to go off to help in a third world country, but, I know I am needed just as much in US, so I do what I can when I can while I'm here, still to get away from the ways of westernization sometimes is a very appealing idea. Then again, I probably wouldn't survive considering how much stuff I lugged with me when I used to go camping, including a double airbed.
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I was prepared for having an outdoor pit toilet, so you can imagine my total relief when I found out we had an indoor flushing toilet! The inconveniences were just something you got used to. I loved the people!! We probably had the nicest volunteer's accommodation of any of them, but we did it ourselves and spent a small fortune to be comfortable. We bought a used car. The only volunteers that did that were the ones like us - retirees on pensions who had extra money. The joy of just deciding to go on a safari on the spur of the moment for a few days was amazing!
 

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