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11 responses to “Video of the Week: A Remarkable Conversation about Aging”

1. Thank you for sharing my poem but there is a mistake in that I am not Puerto Rican, I am black. Please make the appropriate edit.

   Thanks,
   Natalie Patterson

   Reply to natalie patterson

   1. Hi Natalie, our apologies. We have made the correction.

      Reply to Barbara, Senior Planet editor

2. When you get old, you made it, baby! You can do whatever you want because nobody’s watching or maybe you realize that nobody ever was.

   Reply to Pamela Harms

3. It would be very interesting to see this type of dialogue amongst men of younger and aging men.

   Reply to Alston Greem

   1. Alston, thanks – good observation.

      Reply to Barbara, Senior Planet editor

4. How astute these young women are. How amazing this young Puerto Rican Poet is about aging. Yep, gotta agree, it’s scary at times, but heh, all if we have is now and all that’s to come is death at some point. SO get busy living…. I say, and I said that in High School after graduation, don’t waste time, go, do, be, love, laugh, cry, but please don’t feel sorry for yourself, it’s a big waste of energy which can be used to take yourself along the path and do more than you ever thought possible….aloha

   Reply to stephanoitis

5. Acceptance of looks (wrinkles etc); never use age as an excuse for anything; learn to love yourself and love being alone; don’t use the ‘o’ word .. we are mature and experienced.

   When people ask me how I seem so young for my age, I say, “Attitude, attitude, attitude, and posture.”

   Once we pass the age of reproduction, the world is our oyster.

   .. and guys love it ….

   Reply to Joy Lacey

6. OMG, I’ll be 88 in December — I don’t recall ever worrying about getting older the way people seem to today! I’ve got plenty of wrinkles and my energy isn’t what I’d like — but I’m so grateful to still be here — unlike the majority of my friends that I’ve known all my life. Friends and energy, that’s it — wish I still had them. I make the most of my looks, respecting my age — not trying to look like something I’m not. I try to eat healthfully and make the best I can out of every moment. I’ve got GREAT memories!.

   Reply to Annamay

7. Aging is inevitable – if you’re fortunate to go through it!!!. What are the alternatives? Everything is life is perception and attitude!!! For me, my aging is about gratitude and attitude. It’s difficult for me to comprehend why many senior women – and men – hesitate in accepting their “age”. The reality is – you are that age. If you treasure yourself, those around you will feel the same way about you. Be honest, share your feelings, express love, hug, kiss – and all that good stuff. Focus on your own “being” – do things you enjoy – be with people of all ages – I love being by myself too. My life, as many others, was not simple or easy but in being an octogenarian, I am filled with gratitude for all of it.

   Reply to Lenore Schmidt

8. excuse typos
   unfortunately even wtjh population “aging, agesm seemss more ingrained than ever and even the most affected don’t recognize their oppresssion. The young woman who said she feared being invisable in the future she iis so right, but the anti ageism movement begun by NOW with so much consciousness raising and also protest irnically got derailed iwth new generationof women and no doubt the eocnomy too whcy so depends on businessess which make you look younger.

   The most oppressed people are those really elder, for obviously so many reasons.and often deserted by their own families. And of course none of them were in the group meeting or writijng about age here
   .I’m one of the very few surviving NOW membersin
   that long ago movement which so lamentably got derailed Still banging the drum but for how long…

   Reply to bettedewing@aol.com

9. How extraordinary to listen to these young woman who are talking about their attitudes about aging and the marginalization of older adults in our society.

   Reply to Hope Reiner