Stay safe at old age

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* How to stay "safe" at old age*

*1. Do not retire*.
If you're over-aged, retire and get all the benefits but find another income-generating job tat will keep you active physically and mentally. Travel and bond with true friends, play a sport, learn a new hobby and volunteer in your community or parish. Don't loaf around.  Solve crossword puzzles, play Scrabble, and above all, read ...this will keep you alert and keep Alzheimer's at bay.

*2. Live in your own place to enjoy independence,* privacy and a solo life. If you move in with your children, your rank or degree of importance is reduced to that of a bed spacer who has no place of honor. Maybe, you have to 'kowtow' to conform to their own rules tat are not kind, considerate or mindful of you.

*3. Hold on to your nest egg, bank deposits and assets.*
If you want to help your children, do give, but not to the extent that you wipe out your life's earnings.  Staying solvent and in the black is a good hedge against bad times.

*4. Don't believe your children's promise to care for you when you grow old priorities change.*
Many children are not guilt- ridden or filled with a sense of moral obligation when the wife and offspring take top billing in their lives.

*5. Expand your circle of friends to include young ones who will definitely outlive your old BFFs.* Keep up with new inventions, trends, music and lifestyle. Rmbr tat when you mix with the young, you also open a fresh avenue to channel your thoughts, experiences and values.

*6. Be well groomed and smelling.*
There's nothing more depressing than seeing people exhale when you walk by because you reek of baul or lupa. Old age or bust, don't look and smell like a corpse when you're not one yet.

*7. Do not meddle in the life of your children.*
If they ask for your counsel, give it, but be ready to accept that they may not take it. Their situations in life cannot be compared to the situations that you experienced in your life. The playing field has changed.

*8. Do not use old age as your shield and justification for turning grumpy.*
There's nothing more annoying than an arrogant, old fool. Welcome each day as another chance to be kind and forgiving, to yourself and to others.

*9. Listen to what others may say*. Do not throw your weight around just because you are a septuagenarian or a nonagenarian. You are not a depository of knowledge.

*10. Focus on your life*.
You will definitely leave everything behind, a final journey detached from burden and care. Be more accepting tat, sooner, not later, you will croak. Prepare your swan song with a humble and contrite heart.

*Money* - Your last power at old age!
If you are broke at old age, nobody, not even your children will come close to you. You are a parasite.
Yes, *Money buys you power* when you needed it most at old age.
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