At age 80, what are your expectations?
My 78 Th birthday is quickly approaching so I checked the actuarial tables at social security as I do before every birthday. I want to see how much longer the charts say I have.
a 78 year old woman statistically has about 11 years of life left.
80 looks very close to me right now. I’m not one to hurry time; I’m pretty philosophical.
But there’s something about 80 that has had an effect on me.
As for expectations -I really don’t “future trip” either. I quit having expectations when I was in an auto accident in 1994 that completely changed my life. I had a lot of hopes, plans and expectations when I was younger but the accident, combined with my husbands death in 2004 angled me away from expectations.
I live a day at a time now. I suspect I’ll continue to live a day at a time in the future.
I live with chronic pain and never know from day to day how I’m going to feel.
Guess I really didn’t answer your question did I?
