Dear people over 80...

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1. I'm 80, next year. (Yeah, 79 now.) But 80 is hard coming on my mind.

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Its funny. Things have never been better for me in my life. Mortgage is paid off. I can pay the monthly bills with $ left over at the end of the month.

I don't have to set the alarm for anything except to make hikes with my club.

Health? On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best, I am a 9.363 -- a few aches and pains, Omacron with no symptoms and now, negative.



So, what's wrong? There are three dark clouds in back of me: Sooner or later, something will happen with my health. And, of course, the big cloud. The third one is the loss, sooner or later of loved ones and friends. The world will be lonelier.

But I come from good genes. I probably will live to 100+ but what will be the quality of life?

Yup. I recall the Gail Sheehy books. There are emotional stages of our lives. They come with good feelings and always with feelings of anxiety. Its good to know that most of us share all of these good feelings and anxieties.