Expand social contacts:
Be open to making new friends and acquaintances.
Make it a point to enlarge your circle to include more than your generation.
Don't be afraid to get to know people with differing views from you; they can be as interested in your views as you can be in theirs.
Experts comment on the benefits of seniors getting out of their rut and making their social contacts more intergenerational.
It enables all of us to have a younger outlook and not be so self-obsessed with aches and pains that members of our generation are prone to talk about, especially if they have nothing else that interests them.
I really like the comment made by the 87-year old college student (imagine her social contacts!):
You have to laugh and find humor every day.
You've got to have a dream.
When you lose your dreams, you die.
We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it.
After a year and a half of retirement, the focus on what is important and what is not, is becoming much clearer as time passes by. At this point in time they are, keeping healthy, both in mind and body and being wise in our investments, so we can get a return and hopefully be able a little more comfortable in our later life.
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