KEEPING BOREDOM AT BAY IN THE TWILIGHT YEARS

THE article Hail Our Seniors (GA 18/10) by Gerard Mansour highlighted that often seniors aren’t recognised enough for their contributions.

As a 70-year ‘young’ person, it has often been said to me that we are ‘transparent’ in today’s world.

Personally, I haven’t experienced much of that.

I always loved my parents, aunties, uncles and grandparents, knowing I’d get there one day.

The workforce can and should be different each day. The same variations should be experienced in our retirement.

Whether it be the ‘voluntary work’ which I look forward to each week, satisfaction offering support is like the ‘wow factor’.

Meditation class, church friends, the many books to devour, my everchanging garden and surrounds, music collection and theatre visits, seniors’ day trips with the ‘Grey Outdoors’, the walks, shopping and coffee breaks at 7 Origins with Bahaa and Wassini.

It can be ‘never-ending’ to keep me active and involved. But there again ‘age’ can be a ‘watershed’ if we seniors embrace and show care and interest in those younger. So it can be reciprocal.

I taught apprentices for 21 years and loved it. Worked in hairdressing for 50 years.

I’ve never experienced boredom and never will, as it’s like a bad case of flu — it’s catching – no way. Peter R. Webb, Bell Park