Aging Matter - Goals, Life Long Learning, Responsibilities Towards Family

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Work Goals
“Don’t Retire, Repurpose Your Life” age makes no difference, beautiful lines
expresses in the book called ‘THE CHANGE ‘expressed that there is no end of anything
whatever your age could be. Keep learning what you love to do, keep doing what to love to
do. Life is such a wonderful blessing. There are those who have really tough challenges to
deal with and you could help them. You could read in the library to small children. You
might love art, so volunteer to talk about your favourite artist. If you enjoy visiting, go sit
with a Vet, a person who has to be cared for, or makes it hard for the spouse or care giver to
go out an hour alone. You can read to them, just visit, or really make yourself of help to
others by just being there. As I love to work and increase knowledge, so after my age of 65 I
still want to learn new theories and will work. (Paul, 2014)
I try to rejuvenate myself but I know I can’t do as I was doing during my adulthood.
There are many factors that influenced me to achieve my goals. These factors are:
Health: My body is not that energetic what I feel from inside. I need to take regular intakes in
order to maintain my energy level. I digestion capacity reduced day by day, eating junk food
will not help me either.
Medicines: I used to take medicines only when I am not well at my young age, even I refused
to do so n recover automatically but now I need to take medicines on regular interval to keep
myself ready to live routine life.
Mind: Now my mind is mature and practical enough to understand every little thing, so as
during my young age I never back step to accept challenges but now I am little bit afraid just
because of my age factor. Another key to stay healthy and keep the heart healthy is by being
happy always and keeping the stress away from me.

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Chronic diseases: It depends upon the heredity or the living conditions of the person, some
have one chronic disease while others have many. It could be followed after a test taken by
the doctor which can show us the report as how can we keep ourself healthy and fit.
Digestive system: Person is suffering from many digestive disorders about 40% of the time,
they are like inability to eat proper diet, problem in swallowing, bleeding, constipation etc
Eyesight: There is reduction in the ability of the person to read or locate objects. After 50
most of the people is suffering from presbiopia while after 80 by the cataract.
Heart: Heart becomes less efficient comparatively which results in loss of stamina and can
result into serious problems in future. However, to prevent this at first it is necessary to be
aware with our health.
I am trying to bring some much needed changes in my life and settling into a new life
style. I sleep properly, exercise in the proper amount and I eat only healthy food. I eat
healthy. I take orange for fibre, vitamin C, low fat cheddar cheese and avocado slices for
lunch with a low fat yogurt parfait with blueberries, strawberries and bananas for dessert. I
forgot about the nuts for snacking, nuts are nutritious and supposed to contain the good kind
of fat. I forgot about the two cups of veggie crunch sticks each afternoon – maybe I need to
cut those veggie crunch sticks out. I’ll eat more high fibre and other foods that are supposed
to help lower LDL. I am excited about the changes I’ve made. Its good time to revisit my
goals which I have already set during my adulthood. As I was very busy in work and earning
money, running in race of settling myself I left few things which I love to do. So I have
already planned to do all these things after my retirement. Involving in activities like yoga
and meditation will surely help in improving my mental health. I love to do yoga. Yoga is
one of the best ways to focus ones mind and remove stress. When I am unable to visit my
Yoga classes I practice at my home and meditate.