Growing Older

What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?

Having the privilege and the blessing of growing older independently brings responsibilities below.

Six mornings a week, I drink breakfast tea hot without sugar or cream with a bagel smeared with cream cheese. Lunch is peanut butter protein and jelly fruit on whole grain bread with a red delicious apple. “A apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Dinners are usually Lean Cuisine or Healthy Choice. While at work, I cold brew green tea and drink it chilled out of my pink Stanley. My fun day includes my horrible McDonalds breakfast and Chick-Fil-A for lunch/dinner. Tea has many benefits including appetite suppressant.

Movement is crucial plus Alzheimer’s runs in my family so I do yoga stretching bringing blood to my brain because a couple of years ago, I found myself forgetting things. Walking and riding my bike are my favorites. The small city that I’m moving back to, I used to walk and ride my bike to get away from my family plus the joy of being on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Brain activity is important. Currently, working helps it plus writing and watching British vintage crime dramas from Agatha Christie books turned into television and movies that draws the viewer in to become the sleuth too. Most British mysteries are part of the Christie library or are influenced by her. Truthfully, I appreciate Miss Marple and Piorot are both well over the age of forty and both use their wisdom and insight to solve crimes. Actress Angela Lansbury worked with Christie starring in one of her films thus inspiring, “Murder, She Wrote.” Reading an actual book not online best for brain stimulation.

Finally, sleep is critical at any age to maintain a healthy life at any age. Eight hours for adults and more for toddlers and for newborns to avoid health related problems including illness, weight gain and brain development or function. On the weekends, I love taking an afternoon nap with my felines, Bella and Luna, as a group activity that bonds us together.

Obviously, all the above of eating healthy, movement and sleep should have started when one is born and throughout our lives. One has periods of growth like independence when one’s night life will negatively affect rest and diet which, hopefully, might only be college years.

Eat, sleep and movement.

Leslie Elizabeth David.