Getting Old: Stoic About It or Endless Whinger?

[jippytum]

The difference about aging in Thailand are  the opportunitys you have to enjoy your advancing years. 

The weather is good to enjoy exercise walking or swimming everyday. Affordable golf. You also have the option to have female company if you wish. 

Private healhcare is expensive and the wait to see a doctor at a government hospital may take hours. However in the UK it would take weeks. 

Accomadation and food is reasonably priced. 

All in all lots to enjoy for us old timers residing in Thailand. 

[WDSmart]

I'll be 79 in January. Physically, I'm okay, but I have experienced a change in my awareness level over the past two months. Often, I feel like I'm half-asleep and groggy, and that affects my balance a little. I can think well, but often, it seems like I'm in a dream world. I've gone to several different doctors multiple times and received some medications, but none of them seem to help much. I'm due to go back again in mid-December. I live in northeastern Thailand in the mountains near a relatively small city, so the doctors I have access to are probably not the best for treating symptoms like mine. If I don't see an improvement by the first of the year, I'm thinking about going to Bangkok to a hospital that specializes in treating symptoms like mine for a complete checkup, diagnosis, and treatment.

[leverito]

After 75 it’s hard to be stoic,when you see your body parts are destroying one after another.

And to be a whinger will make you more and more older and sick.And nobody will like you,even friends and relatives.

The only way as I understand is to fight and fight against the age and 1000 age related issues,to fight and slowly retreat …

 

[newbee2022]

23 hours ago, Hummin said:

I see no good reasons for continue to hit the bars when I get older, and getting stuck in Thailand is my worst naightmare, as well stay home in Norway with no other options than shopping at the local store, and save money for paying the electric bill. 

 

Getting older for me is pretty much going to be doing the same I have done all my life, move my body, working a bit, and continue look for a sustainable life, and still have resources left if deleted happenend. 

 

have enough is resources is essential for a happiness when aging, even some claim money isnt everything,

 

 

Coming from Norway with it's fresh clean air, healthy fresh fish, good restaurants, perfect streets, huge amount of electric cars, cheap electric power, open minded people, (your language), no heat waves, proper seasons, wonderful springtime, pleasant summer and amazing autumn.......Thailand shall appear like a nightmare to you😳. 

[Hummin]

30 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

Coming from Norway with it's fresh clean air, healthy fresh fish, good restaurants, perfect streets, huge amount of electric cars, cheap electric power, open minded people, (your language), no heat waves, proper seasons, wonderful springtime, pleasant summer and amazing autumn.......Thailand shall appear like a nightmare to you😳. 

Not a nightmare when I was younger, and enjoyed the beaches and beach life with everything involved, also more resistant to the heat, which seems to be worse the older I get. Anyway, Thailand has many advantages, and my money went far when our nok was more than double than it is now. Life was more simple before the smartphones and all the additives they added to the food, as well I did not feel or knew about the pollution as we do now. Just knowing the Pm 2,5 can make the whole difference psychological. 

 

Noise is another thing you need to cope with, even far away from nearest neighbours. 

 

Anyway, I did not cut away from my origin country Norway, and still have my foot in both places. I could have emigrated to the Philippines too, but No direct flights, same as Brasil. In Brasil the air is clean, but safety is close to zero, where you can only walk certain places after dark in the cities.

Edited 8 hours ago by Hummin

[Chwooly]

22 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Some of my favorites quotes about getting older. 

 

Older people are perceived as cynics and misanthropes. But, they are simply people who have at last heard the still, sad music of humanity, played by a mediocre rock band howling for fame. 

 

Do not go gently into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

 

30s is too soon. Dying in your 30's is tragic. As is the 40s

Sympathy dissapates from there. 50s is such a shame 

60s is too soon 

70s a good run 

80s a life well lived

90s - a fricking hell of a ride

 

While I want to live past where I am now, So according your chart If I die tomorrow it would be too soon, I have already had a fun filled life. If i died tomorrow, I can honestly say I have no regrets, This need to live long or leave a legacy is mind boggling to me. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Chwooly

[sikishrory]

Sort out the hair. Problem solved.

[khunPer]

On 11/23/2024 at 5:06 PM, JK-Trilly said:

For those who’ve spent more than 20 years here, it’s worth asking: Was aging in Thailand part of the plan? Or did time simply pass faster than expected, leaving you as a senior citizen in Thailand? For some, staying here into old age feels like a natural extension of the life they’ve built. For others, the question of whether they’d be better off returning to their home country looms large.

 

The truth is, everyone approaches aging differently. Some lean into the physical realities of getting older but refuse to let them define their lives. Others see those same realities as walls that block the way forward.

 

Where do you stand? Are you still pushing forward with life, doing the same things you did in your younger years? Or have the physical aspects of aging shifted your focus, making you feel more limited than liberated?

 

Stoic or whinger—what’s your approach?

I've only been here permanently for 19 years so far – into my 20th right now – but if I'm countring the priods during the couple of years while still travelling between my home countrhy and here to prepare the move, I considers myself elligible to a comment in the category "spent more than 20 years here"...😉

I seems to be standing at "still pushing forward with life" with relative long term planning. I'm counting on staying here till the end. It should hopefully not be within the next 25 years that I'm moving on, and during my reming stay here I'm expecting to be quite active. OMG, I'm only 75; so, I still have quite some years ahead. I still head out preferably two-three times a week to a nightclub for some dancing...😎 –and a number of the girls also still looks fairly attractive...😍

 

To cut it short: Of course health can be an issue, but life is more fun if you enjoys it, instead of a row of endless complains. As it says on one of my favirite signs in the area where I stay in Land-of-Smiles: "The purpose of life is to be happy"...👍