107 Year old woman: Key to long life is living alone/never getting married

Marie5656

Marie5656

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This sweetheart just celebrated her 107th birthday. Gave her secret to long life as never marrying and living alone. Has to be in genes, too. She is the eldest of 4 children...and they are all alive.

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See, I knew peace and quiet was good for you. My therapist, when I went, would keep asking if I was socializing. I'd tell her I go online and go out to the store and doctor, and to family events, if I can't avoid it.
Oh we can't have you isolating yourself!
But, I'm so calm and peaceful on my own. I have nice a routine I'd say.
Nooo, you can't do that, it'll shorten your life!!!
I quit going. She made me feel like a freak. I'm too stupid, I need a caretaker...oh geez.
 
Judycat said:
See, I knew peace and quiet was good for you. My therapist, when I went, would keep asking if I was socializing. I'd tell her I go online and go out to the store and doctor, and to family events, if I can't avoid it.
Oh we can't have you isolating yourself!
But, I'm so calm and peaceful on my own. I have nice a routine I'd say.
Nooo, you can't do that, it'll shorten your life!!!
I quit going. She made me feel like a freak. I'm too stupid, I need a caretaker...oh geez.
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They all advise to be socially active and have lots of relatives and friends to achieve a healthy and long life. They all fail to admit that it depends on the personality. Some people crave the social and drama filled life, others are like you and me and prefer peace and quiet and privacy. Demanding that people like us should be social is guaranteeing that we will live a shorter and stressful life. Like the adage says, "To each his own". And, I've only seen a therapist twice in my long life. I bet if you see ten therapists at the same time and tell them the identical facts to each, you will get ten different opinions. I just save my ''therapy money'' and use it for stuff I enjoy.
 
got it in one !!!!! peace overrules everything -
no stresses from the other half ' no kids making u pull your hair out 'sitting up waiting for them to get home '
single is a calming factor for sure --wish someone told me at a earlier age eh'
 
At one time, stress was considered as one of the main reasons why people died before their time. My one uncle is an example of that. We never knew when he would go off. It didn’t take much for him to launch. He died at 52 y/o.
 
If you ask a dozen old people over the age of 100 what is the key to long life ... you will get a dozen different answers.
No two people do things and/or live life the same way ... and a few of them make it to 100.
 
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Judycat said:
See, I knew peace and quiet was good for you. My therapist, when I went, would keep asking if I was socializing. I'd tell her I go online and go out to the store and doctor, and to family events, if I can't avoid it.
Oh we can't have you isolating yourself!
But, I'm so calm and peaceful on my own. I have nice a routine I'd say.
Nooo, you can't do that, it'll shorten your life!!!
I quit going. She made me feel like a freak. I'm too stupid, I need a caretaker...oh geez.
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I get this reaction too. I think the problem is that people feel insulted when you say you're perfectly happy with your own company. Most people dislike being alone, as though they feel incomplete unless there is someone for them to interact with.
 
As stated by John Donne in 1624. No man is an island...and true even in the year 2019 when we all should be getting around in flying cars, have appliances popping up from the floors of our kitchens and heating our homes with atomic reactors.
 
Liberty said:
On record as the oldest person who ever lived, Jeanne Calment lived to the ripe old age of 122, passing away in 1997. The French woman “used to eat more than two pounds of chocolate per week,” according to her obituary. The chocolate actually could have really benefited her health. She also smoked and enjoyed a Sunday glass of port until age 120 —
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Actually, there is a claim she was not that old, and was using her mother's ID.
"According to a paper written by mathematician Nikolay Zak and supported by gerontologist Valery Novoselov, the real Jeanne Calment died in 1934 at the age of 59. The woman who achieved fame as history’s oldest person was actually her daughter Yvonne, who assumed her dead mother’s identity in order to dodge steep French inheritance taxes."
https://nationalpost.com/news/world...e-calment-was-actually-a-99-year-old-imposter
 
Pepper said:
Actually, there is a claim she was not that old, and was using her mother's ID.
"According to a paper written by mathematician Nikolay Zak and supported by gerontologist Valery Novoselov, the real Jeanne Calment died in 1934 at the age of 59. The woman who achieved fame as history’s oldest person was actually her daughter Yvonne, who assumed her dead mother’s identity in order to dodge steep French inheritance taxes."
https://nationalpost.com/news/world...e-calment-was-actually-a-99-year-old-imposter
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Yeah, yeah, yeah...remember the Russians were the ones trying to claim the title as the "oldest village people" or whatever in the world and were proven to be "fake" themselves.
 
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