Showing posts with label thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thoughts. Show all posts

Saturday, February 20, 2021

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?