Old age is something to look forward to, to kick off your shoes and inhibitions and relax for the remainder of your life. Or is it?
Most of us will be unable to continue our lifestyles when we retire due to fiscal foolishness and irresponsibility..
We will have to move to a building or area that will accommodate senior citizens only. Isn't that wonderful? Just think, everyone in your surroundings growing old together gracefully without the distractions of noisy families and their kids. If we are fortunate, we will have the meals provided for us. More fortunate, we will have entertainment provided as well. Just think we have TV and the Internet and Restaurants and Shows to go to. We will be be fed like Kings and Queens almost to overindulgence, then have to go on diets because we are overweight.
Why exercise when we can drive or be driven? Why interact with people of all ages, races, nationalities and religions, when we can can stay with our own peers and grow old gracefully?
Just think, with proper care, one can spend a quarter to a third of one's life in a retired or vegetative, I mean blissful state.
My Sister lives in one those retirement communities where everyone growing older together is maybe not quite so blissful . Seventeen years ago, it seemed like a nice idea but reality has taken hold. Her peers are dying at an alarming rate. Since many of her peers now require aides and housekeepers to care for them, robbery and violence is now occurring where it had never occurred before.
Personally, I would not rather spend the remainder of my life in a blissful mode in the Garden of Eden. I would much rather spend my time in a more positive manner living life to its fullest, surrounded by family, friends and neighbors and. working until the day that I die. I do not want to spend my waning years in a building or area surrounded by people who I do not know being stuffed with food like an animal for slaughter and entertained as a contented cow.
A place and a way must be found for older people to work and thrive as long as possible in their own homes and environs. This would do two things: 1. It would bring older people back into society in a constructive manner and 2. It would limit the cost to society of supporting people in their Golden Years.
