Recently, I read in the Health section of my paper that they are finding that regrets are yet another cause of dementia. I willfully wonder if dementia primarily isn't today's ghost rider for Big Pharma.
There is a TV program, I think "Sixty Minutes," that is doing a long-term study (showing maybe once a year) on residents in an elder-care home in California. One segment told of a male who had been previously featured...in his 90s, happy and active...who since had passed away.
His autopsy revealed his brain had Alzheimer's-causing plagues, but he had evidenced little, maybe no, dementia.
That is the news we all need to hear...or I believe it is the news that all of us "elderly" folk need to hear anyway. It has ever been the case that as we age, our hair gets gray or thins or balds-out completely. Memory has its own like tendencies.
Which is why the autopsy that showed the brain with Alzheimer's-causing plagues of a man who showed not a lot of memory loss is important. Most important to me is that he was in his 90s happy and active.
I choose to believe, because for me it follows, that the man believed in a Higher Power, a Power for good, which opened him to live in grace and gratitude. Happy and active are the clues.
More and more, there are many who are living to be 80, 90, 100...I have not yet heard one of them say, when interviewed, that they were miserable, wish that they had died 20-30 years ago, and the world sucks. I doubt not there are some, but who wants to hear them if we choose to be happy our own self?
God loves us...believe it...trust it...get happy...know it and show it. Why not?
If we live to be 100, die and find there is no God, never was, and nobody is there to greet us, we will have lived happy. And if there is nothing, and we know nothing...what's to fear?
Go ahead...get happy...know it and show it.
Thank you.
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