Nearing 80 years of age.

 

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.

 

 

 

Actuarial Life Table

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?

Sri Lanka, pictures

 

Tea country SL

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/470274386090667621/

The Tamil bell in New Zealand

 

A bell with inscriptions in Tamil

 http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_84_1975/Volume_84,_No._4/The_story_of_the_Tamil_bell,_by_Brett_Hilder,_p_476-484/p1

 

Old Ceylon,

Ellen Wood saved to Ivory and jade carvings

Portrait of the Sinhalese King Sri Vikrama Raja Sinha (r. 1798–1815) Period:Kandyan period (1480–1815) Date:early 19th century Culture:Sri Lanka (Kandy district) Medium:Ivory with engraved and painted designThis portrait of the last Kandyan king displays his regalia of office: the six-pointed crown, a long shirt (kamisiya), a tunic (bo-hettya), and a cape (mante), over which hangs a floral pendant. He wears patterned trousers and is barefooted

 

A decorated 'lime box'  with spoon.

A chew of betel has a half  'Bulath kola', arecanut shavings, a small amount of lime and a few more spices. Chewing betel produces a sense of euphoria. The lime box is carried in one's person.

The spreading r5oots of a tree.

Women knitting lace on a 'beeralu' machine

A gypsy carrying a monkey

A young novice carrying a bowl to get  alms

A Devil dancer

A patient being exorcised

 

South Asian activities, from pinterest.

Milking a cow with the calf standing by

Grand-mother bathing the infant

Learning to ride a bicycle

Cloth sling carrying an infant

Selection of saris worn by Indira Ghandhi

'Kangani' with his daughter and wife

How to wear a sari.

Bathing the sacred 'Lingam'