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Aging Well | Last Active: Mar 18 1:17pm | Replies (234)
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@mir123 This is a great question!
"what has worked for you, as a rule, to address kinds of suffering that can't be avoided?" My regular mindset follows a fairly logical pattern, rather than emotional. My goal at this point is to have or create the best quality of life I can figure out. This means playing to the strengths I know within myself. Using appropriate humor. Figuring out how best to address any suffering, and making my life more palatable. I now use a cane full time, but the ones I have, have been "prettified"! Thinking and being logical about solutions. Understanding that others around me may be in similar situations and offering them a "place to land" and holding space for them.
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@gingerw Your response is so helpful and well thought out! I know what you mean about canes. In my late thirties I realized a cane would help me walk. I decided to start ASAP because I'd seen people resist canes later in life for fear of appearing "old." A few years later, on my honeymoon in Hawaii with my second husband, we were out at a restaurant on X-mas eve and three very elderly ladies came in. They looked like sisters, or maybe friends. They were all on walkers and the walkers were decorated with blinking holiday lights and festooned with fancy plastic and paper flowers. This sight remains an inspiration!