I have just read bloggers ten anniversary comments and realised that it does a great thing for seniors.
LONELINESS.
As a senior, I feel we experience more loneliness than most; as life cease to be so active and everyone else is busy, the elderly are often in a world that has been bypassed. After all, they think different, and many can't cross the great divide to the young.
Blogging gives expression to thoughts and whether it is read or not, it leaves a legacy when the senior goes across the river to the great hunting ground. My personal emotional needs have been met just by publishing on this blog. Of course I am not as entertaining as the one who know all the bells and whistles, pictures and all; yet it meets an emotional need - to be heard. And I promise you, my reader, that it will get better as I learn more. You should have seen my first attempt - the ugliest theme in the world - I was happy though. To anybody who would listen it was, "Come look, I can blog," I was as excited as a little child.
Any senior wants to join me?
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Hey hey. I'm looking, I'm reading and I really enjoy talking to you each time I learn something new about the thing contained within my skull. Keep writing and yes as Churchill said, "NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, QUIT!". I quoted this from another one of your post.
ReplyDeleteMay I join in your battle cry "Never too old" from Sydney and hope many more seniors will do the same.
ReplyDeleteI was a "Johnny comes lately" most of my life. I became a father at the age of 45,went back to school at 58 and completed with a degree at 60.Inspired by the American philosopher Robert Pirsig's dictum that "no reasonably intelligent human being should be intimidated by technology" that I attempted to blog since February with the help of my young son.
Cheers.
Hey guys, Uncle Phil sure can cook singaporean and malaysian stuff. UNBELIEVABLE!!
ReplyDeleteVisit his blog for recipes and amazing pictures.