canesisters
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..nothing short of miraculous that any of us are getting any sleep, with only 50-60 hrs of work a week - what a bunch of lazy slackers we are.
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seedcorn
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@Nyboy understand what I typed can be interpreted. Not my intent. As owner/operator I know you work a lot of hours. What I think would help you sleep is a job where you can turn your brain OFF and just work. Guessing you are under a decent amount of stress that you no longer recognize. Keeping customers happy, employees happy and working, Dad, making pay roll plus other things. A day working as slave labor might be just the ticket. Works for me.
@catjac1975 If your body is short vitamins, need them and take them. For most, a healthy diet with outside sun, no need for vitamins from pills. But it is a national growth industry making billions.
@catjac1975 If your body is short vitamins, need them and take them. For most, a healthy diet with outside sun, no need for vitamins from pills. But it is a national growth industry making billions.
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Seed my older sister worked a high pressure job, she counted the hours till retirement. After 6 months she started going a little crazy, she got a job as a cashier for locale Kohls. No pressure low pay, but loves going to work now.
digitS'
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Dad did that, too.
I mostly read "The Longevity Project." Initiated by a psychologist almost 100 years ago, it was wholeheartedly about attitude. I couldn't get myself to do more than skim the sections on suicide and war experience. Avoidance is an attitude? Yeah, I guess that's what I was doing
. I also left the "public health" final part, unread. The frustrations I feel right now about that are sky high.
Anyway, Dad was moved into "rehab" this week and immediately complained that they got him there with no one now to help him go on walks over the weekend. They shouldn't have told him that their attitude was TGIF, yesterday but ... he's probably already awake and would have been complaining that no one is helping him cruise the hallway with his walker at 5am.
Anyway, 35 YEARS ago ... he couldn't just retire and enjoy the activities that he claimed then that he was missing out on, like traveling and fishing, and such. I complained that he was always angry! He shot back, "NO I'M NOT!" But, then he went back to work. It could not have been a better choice for a job: working for a rodeo and trail ride outfit.
Steve
I mostly read "The Longevity Project." Initiated by a psychologist almost 100 years ago, it was wholeheartedly about attitude. I couldn't get myself to do more than skim the sections on suicide and war experience. Avoidance is an attitude? Yeah, I guess that's what I was doing
. I also left the "public health" final part, unread. The frustrations I feel right now about that are sky high.Anyway, Dad was moved into "rehab" this week and immediately complained that they got him there with no one now to help him go on walks over the weekend. They shouldn't have told him that their attitude was TGIF, yesterday but ... he's probably already awake and would have been complaining that no one is helping him cruise the hallway with his walker at 5am.
Anyway, 35 YEARS ago ... he couldn't just retire and enjoy the activities that he claimed then that he was missing out on, like traveling and fishing, and such. I complained that he was always angry! He shot back, "NO I'M NOT!" But, then he went back to work. It could not have been a better choice for a job: working for a rodeo and trail ride outfit.
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Wow Steve your dad worked for a rodeo, he must have some great stories.
digitS'
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You brought tears to my eyes, NyBoy.
The business was just a little local affair and Dad worked on their corals and such. The trail rides were especially fun for him. He had one horse "all geared up" for his retirement (by inflicting it's care on me for much of its life). Then, he bought another. I kinda thought a llama was next ...
Dad can still be transplanted back in an earlier time. When I saw him last weekend, I asked him if he remembered where he lived in his early childhood. "Do you still remember, Tuskahoma?" "Oh, yeah."
I'd asked him that just to get him started down that road. "Katimma ish ia?" He started just a little and answered promptly, "I'm staying here just a few days and then going home." Home may just be a nursing home but he was so quick to answer!
I'd asked him in Choctaw, "Where are you going?" Dad's family isn't supposed to be Choctaw. Tuskahoma is the capital of the Choctaw Nation and the neighbors were Choctaw.
Dad never was much given to talking about the past. I wonder what those longevity researchers could have said about that ... living in the past. He just wasn't/isn't that kind of person. Something that they do say and that many of us have probably noticed is that the very old tend to be happy people - as long as they are not encumbered by illness and pain. Then, those researchers hasten to point out that, contrary to much of what we read, it doesn't necessarily mean that they were happy people throughout their lives. No. Perhaps, they realize that they are still around at near the century mark and they are pleased with that, I.don't.know.
It is not that depression and emotional trauma adds to health. That would be wrong, it doesn't. After following these people through over 90 years, they found that people who were conscientious about themselves and others had a much better chance at long life. They "cared and were careful" and that means they cared about themselves, as well as other people. Some of us know that it's important for other reasons than enjoying good health. Some of us .... I'm a little reluctant to include them in the "us," despite whatever crap a few of them might be peddling at any moment .., some of us could care less ... and, for good or bad ... they tend to go quickly.
Steve
The business was just a little local affair and Dad worked on their corals and such. The trail rides were especially fun for him. He had one horse "all geared up" for his retirement (by inflicting it's care on me for much of its life
). Then, he bought another. I kinda thought a llama was next ...Dad can still be transplanted back in an earlier time. When I saw him last weekend, I asked him if he remembered where he lived in his early childhood. "Do you still remember, Tuskahoma?" "Oh, yeah."
I'd asked him that just to get him started down that road. "Katimma ish ia?" He started just a little and answered promptly, "I'm staying here just a few days and then going home." Home may just be a nursing home but he was so quick to answer
!I'd asked him in Choctaw, "Where are you going?" Dad's family isn't supposed to be Choctaw. Tuskahoma is the capital of the Choctaw Nation and the neighbors were Choctaw.
Dad never was much given to talking about the past. I wonder what those longevity researchers could have said about that ... living in the past. He just wasn't/isn't that kind of person. Something that they do say and that many of us have probably noticed is that the very old tend to be happy people - as long as they are not encumbered by illness and pain. Then, those researchers hasten to point out that, contrary to much of what we read, it doesn't necessarily mean that they were happy people throughout their lives. No. Perhaps, they realize that they are still around at near the century mark and they are pleased with that, I.don't.know.
It is not that depression and emotional trauma adds to health. That would be wrong, it doesn't. After following these people through over 90 years, they found that people who were conscientious about themselves and others had a much better chance at long life. They "cared and were careful" and that means they cared about themselves, as well as other people. Some of us know that it's important for other reasons than enjoying good health. Some of us .... I'm a little reluctant to include them in the "us," despite whatever crap a few of them might be peddling at any moment .., some of us could care less ... and, for good or bad ... they tend to go quickly.
Steve
