OneEyedDiva
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For me it's Who smells funny or bad, has a house that smells funny or bad, has no friends, has no reason to enjoy life and lost my ability to be independent.
Finish This: I Don't Want To Be The Old Person Who_____________
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OneEyedDiva
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I've faced that conundrum too Marg...LOL.OneEyedDiva, I gave you a LOVE, but I wanted to give you a HAHA, too, but it only allows me one!
Okay, my turn...
... mirrors that of a few old people I have known in my day.
So I do as you did. I'll chose one icon from the "Like" choices and put the other one in a comment. See...great minds think alike. I love it, OED!I've faced that conundrum too Marg...LOL.
jujube
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I don't want to be the old person who complains about everything. I'm going to try my best to keep my complaining to myself.
fmdog44
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- Houston, Texas
My only fear now is Alzheimer's. I watched it in my dad and the other in the rest home. Criminal that it happens to people.
JaniceM
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- still lost between two shores..
... can no longer fend for myself and must rely on others.
That is my worst fear, and even more so now that I know the way people are treated (or should I say mistreated) in old-age care homes.
Treacle
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- Swindon Wiltshire UK
Looks back at life and reflects on all the negatives rather than acknowledge all that has been accomplished despite the set backs. Je ne regrette rien. ☺
asp3
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- Silicon Valley, CA
...only sits around doing nothing.
Unfortunately that's the course my mother has chosen. It was a conscious choice at some point but she's decreased her physical fitness so that's about all she can do now.
I also thought about saying "stop learning" but that's almost like doing nothing for me.
Unfortunately that's the course my mother has chosen. It was a conscious choice at some point but she's decreased her physical fitness so that's about all she can do now.
I also thought about saying "stop learning" but that's almost like doing nothing for me.
Aunt Bea
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I don't want to be the old person that stops just inside the entrance to the grocery store to put away sunglasses, wipe down the cart handle, get the grocery list out of the purse, blow their nose, etc...
I don't want to be the old person at the checkout line that seems shocked when it's time to pay and then fumbles around for five minutes finding the money, putting away the receipt and the change, etc...
I don't want to be the old person at the checkout line that seems shocked when it's time to pay and then fumbles around for five minutes finding the money, putting away the receipt and the change, etc...
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Sliverfox
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Aunt Bea, just described me.
Hanging my head down.
Hanging my head down.
Lewkat
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- New Jersey, USA
I don't want to be the old person who forgets to be thankful for my life.
@Aunt Bea described me as well , we seem to encounter those type every time we go shopping .
We say to one another when it happens our ice cream will be melted before we get through the checkout.
We are both very independent that’s why we try to keep as fit as possible so we never have the need to rely on anyone in our old age
We say to one another when it happens our ice cream will be melted before we get through the checkout.
We are both very independent that’s why we try to keep as fit as possible so we never have the need to rely on anyone in our old age
treeguy64
Hari Om, y'all!
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- Austin, TX.
- - - who fails to find where Gary is staying, so we can share Nurse Cutie!
Sassycakes
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- Pennsylvania
I don't want to be the old person that my daughter has to take care of all the time.
Pappy
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I don’t want to be the old person:
Who walks out of the men’s room with his fly open and toilet paper stuck on the heel of his shoe.
That becomes so disabled to take care of my self and find myself in some old nursing home.
I don’t want to die first. Selfish I know, but I couldn’t make it without my life partner.
Finally, I don’t want to become the old fart that can’t laugh at himself, now and then, and ever loose my humor.
Who walks out of the men’s room with his fly open and toilet paper stuck on the heel of his shoe.
That becomes so disabled to take care of my self and find myself in some old nursing home.
I don’t want to die first. Selfish I know, but I couldn’t make it without my life partner.
Finally, I don’t want to become the old fart that can’t laugh at himself, now and then, and ever loose my humor.
