I want to live to 100? If I need to be healthy, an unequivocal YES. When I need some kind of emissions from the plant, the answer should be negative. To learn how to do it and well, I went to the source.
John Ward, grandfather to us, he died a few months before his 106th Birthday. At the time of his death he was in better health than I do. His memory was clear, his sense of humor intact, and the only thing about life that really bothers him that he could not go so far as usual, and they do not hear very well. He announced loudly to the wedding, it would be much better if he had heard what was going on, by warning the crowd, the possibility that "There will now follow could kiss!"
Grandpa was right. There is a special set of rules that come into play after the activation of 100, and you speak your opinion was one of them. You might even say, away with some of the ladies, they were big and needed to lose weight, certain death for us young people. What does this have to do with living to age 100? I think it relates to, what appears to be the first key to longevity. Grandfather lived a life relatively free of stress. Oh, I do not mean that he did not see the hard times, after all, the people depressed and half a dozen wars.
Problems under stress and is not the same, however, and if a problem occurs, quietly put Grandpa to deal with them and do not leave things to him. It is not easy to rattle. When times are hard hit, and he had to feed a young family, he went to the oil fields in Oklahoma because there are jobs. He was a man setting an oil rig, and though he by nature a very honest man, the welfare of his young family made him the man in the eye and tell him that he knew of oil wells. Then he went to the first people to see he had ever seen. Unrattled and unshakable, he immediately took them a helping hand and has spent his entire career working in the oil fields of Oklahoma and Texas.
The second movement is more important. A large part of his life he was an oilfield pumper. For the reader, the function of oil fields have widely spaced wells, and they were treated and pumped each day, a process that involves turning a pump on and off, and wait. Most pumpers drove pickup trucks and made their rounds over their large surface area at least twice a day. Grandpa went to his lease, again at least twice a day.
He loved to go there all his life, and even after retiring from the oil field school crossing guard position in his 90's. In fact, when a reporter interviewed him for his 105th Birthday and the secret of his longevity, he said, asked, "does not count work? Absolutely, but more to his feet while he was doing. In later years, he used a walker, mainly because he sat on a high place, when a pause in the efforts needed urgently.
It was true. Would have to decide to start with a walker are undercut for many, daunting to others. His grandfather took him into just another step in a line adjustments which do not define everything in terms of being a man, but allow to continue to work around the world with him on his own terms.
One of the most important secrets to his longevity is that my grandfather wanted to live. While both a little worn and tired of all this, he was still asking what was happening around him. He always wanted to be involved. If it is a wedding or a funeral or a meeting, it was just not the same without him there. He was a formidable opponent to Domino as many of us young people (only in our 50's), often discovered.
He had a goal to want to live in three centuries. At one second after twelve on the first January 2001, the world has welcomed the new century Wild Acclaim. Grandfather looked at it with interest, but he welcomed her third.
He was 33 years old when penicillin was discovered that he too never have. In fact, he never had any medication stronger than aspirin in his life. He does not smoke, which has been a factor. "I smoked a pipe for a while, but I think it is cutting on my wind, so I resigned. Upon termination, he realized that Prince Albert was in his shirt pocket he can until the letters.
Grandfather always ate simple, natural foods they prepared at home, and often raised. Her garden was large enough to not only save on the grocery bill, but the good, healthy food. In the jargon of today, which are lower in calories than the food was not the cholesterol saturation.
Grandfather did not live in the past. I do not remember him and said, "Well, back in my day ..." Not that he does not speak, and certainly not in detail remember exactly. He 'was not simply stop when someone asked a specific question. He was more interested in what happens at this moment, and this desire to continue to have interest, is another key to a long life.
At a birthday celebration (the most important events was) a great-great-granddaughter was astonished to realize that he lived before computers. She could not understand, even if we declare that, for all practical purposes, it was older than cars, planes, and even. . . electric light. It was too much for them, they take on the story of what she reads in books or found on the Internet. Grandfather lived.
Grandfather told me that the best way to measure his life was in a hurry. When he was a little boy (he was born in 1895), it is not have a horse, if his speed was such that he, you might run ten miles an hour might. He is a graduate of a horse and possibly a car and climbed to the dizzying speed of 20-30 mph airplanes, cars and trains developed, and its speed came a 100 mph most of the unthinkable. He saw the world when his Lindbergh's nonstop flight across the Atlantic History in 1927 and watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon after 42 years. Well, even though it will never happen, in theory, he could get on the space shuttle and walk thousands of miles per hour. All these changes have met in the course of his life.
The key to longevity. Oh, yes, it is also an important genetic, hereditary, we can not do much with this one if we do not, and he did. He was eighty years old sisters and the eighty year old man. Longivity runs in the family.
You see, he has never given autonomy. Grandfather lived in a retirement community, not a nursing home. It was where is the help, and meals are prepared, but it was still his own master. He relied on others for transportation to the things to go, but found no shortage of people wanting to be, the only one to take. He had to make adjustments with regard to his age, but it was still very much control over his own life. He was the one that determines when it's time, his license was retired, and not the state, and as usual, his decision was correct.
The big key was his own grandfather. He was happy. The man was an elf. His eyes sparkled and a smile always played with the mouth to erupt at the slightest provocation into a shy smile, which was completely irresistible. He held his court, where he met with a sense of humor that he does not try to hide. At his age, what terror had no life? What's the worst that can happen? The only thing he kept at bay longer than most of us are still alive? He wanted to live, but not afraid to die. It was a Christian and he knew what was waiting on the other side, a beloved wife, children and even great-grandchildren .. He welcomes each new day as a gift and enjoyed. Never be depressed or discouraged, in order to seduce him. That is, what do elves.
In his 100th Birthday of my friends fell through the celebration and I wanted to meet him. I said Sure, "select it. A 100-year-old man should not be hard to find." At least you would not believe it, but it took a dozen men before they went to him, including his son. If I no longer enough to be put into effect, she confessed that he lives more than men knew some sixty-year (pushing her husband) in the ribs, "including this one. It is very difficult to tell in which Age is an elf.
There is no truth that the earth trembles here. Nothing we have not all heard before. I believe the hour is to see what can happen when they are mounted and put into practice a vivid example.
Can we all live, one hundred years? No, although projections say more and do more of us will. If we live to be older, we will be able to do so in a way where we happily ever after? I think this is my grandfather, Ward showed us as if we are wise enough to hear the teachings. Who in his own words, "We are only as old as we ourselves can choose."
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