Tag: aging
Aging into Homelessness
Homelessness &Elderly
Write Me Down
WRITE ME DOWN
If one day I don’t remember, do not feel helpless, my love.
You will have much work to do.
You must remember me enough for both of us….
Write me down.
Put the things that make me ‘me’, in a beautiful box, with my treasured photos and my joyous memories.
Build my essence whole again with pictures, words, music, recipes.
The things which sparked my spirit.
If one day I begin to fade, my love, do not feel hopeless.
Put yourself straight to this task.
I was very much here, so very much alive, you know that better than anyone.
You know me enough for the world, so tell the world who I am.
Because if I have forgotten me, it is vital that you don’t.
Remember me, my love, remember all of me, enough for two…
And then I won’t be gone.
Donna Ashworth
From ‘wild hope’ 🩶
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Where have you been ? Kathy Metea
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Do narcissists get worse with age?
Behavior and treatment by aging / dying Narcissists
Aging Narcissist
The ugly truth …
Ageing is a nightmare for a narcissist because they’ve fabricated, over the years, a false personality based on a sense of superiority. They need followers, attention, adoration, and validation which feeds the dark void of their deepest selves where they believe themselves worthless. The shame and self-loathing are hidden behind the grandiosity of the false self. As they age, they don’t get better at accepting criticism, and their need and reliance on external validation doesn’t alleviate either. Alienating parents get a lot of validation and support from their children, but this source, unlike them, grows up, and (hopefully) becomes independent. They can become incredibly bitter. They can also become lonely as many friends might have had enough of them by now. Alienators/narcissists like to control situations, but they can’t control time and the ageing process.
Please see more of my posts on Instagram. I post them there first, two or three a day. They’re there to spread awareness about parental alienation, to inform and to uplift. I hope they help.
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She Lived 122 years , 124 days
Meet Madam Jeanne Louise Calment, who had the longest confirmed human lifespan: 122 years, 164 days. Apparently, fate strongly approved of the way she lived her life. She was born in Arles, France, on February 21, 1875. The Eiffel Tower was built when she was 14 years old. It was at this time she met Vincent van Gogh. “He was dirty, badly dressed, and disagreeable,” she recalled in an interview given in 1988.
When she was 85, she took up fencing, and still rode her bike when she reached 100. At the age of 114, she starred in a film about her life, at age 115 she had an operation on her hip, and at age 117 she gave up smoking, having started at the age of 21 in 1896. She didn’t give it up for health reasons; her reason was that she didn’t like having to ask someone to help her light a cigarette once she was nearly blind.
In 1965, Jeanne was 90 years old and had no heirs. She signed a deal to sell her apartment to a 47-year-old lawyer called André-François Raffray. He agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs on the condition he would inherit her apartment after she died. However, Raffray not only ended up paying Jeanne for 30 years, but then died before she did at the age of 77. His widow was legally obliged to continue paying Madam Calment until the end of her days.
Jeanne retained sharp mental faculties. When she was asked on her 120th birthday what kind of future she expected to have. Her reply, “A very short one.”
Here are the Rules of Life from Jeanne Louise Calment:
“I’m in love with wine.”
“All babies are beautiful.”
“I think I will die of laughter.”
“I’ve been forgotten by our Good Lord.”
“I’ve got only one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it.”
“I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry often.”
“If you can’t change something, don’t worry about it.”
“Always keep your smile. That’s how I explain my long life.”
“I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything’s fine.”
“I have a huge desire to live and a big appetite, especially for sweets.”
“I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they’re starting to rust and buckle a bit.”
“I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I’m very lucky.”
“Being young is a state of mind, it doesn’t depend on one’s body. I’m actually still a young girl, it’s just that I haven’t looked so good for the past 70 years.”
At the end of one interview, the journalist said, “Madame, I hope we will meet again sometime next year.” To which Jeanne replied, “Why not? You’re not that old; you’ll still be here!”
The image with the wings is a piece of art by
L. Lichtenfells
Aging & Narcissism
Older , owning ALL ages
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be . . . This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages . . . the delayed adolescent, the childish adult, but that they are in me to be drawn on; to forget is a form of suicide . . .
Far too many people misunderstand what putting away childish things means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I’m with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don’t ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child’s awareness and joy, and be fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup.”
~ Madeleine L’Engle
Art: unknown
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