live to 100

grandfather McG passed away at 96 in a cold and lonely country kitchen with a burnt out pipe and his nightly bottle of stout empty beside him, and granduncle McP got as far as 93, a reluctant resident of a nursing home, a nagon of whiskey smuggled into him on the rare occasions someone visted. My father Pat died last Christams eve of lung cancer and alcoholism when he was supposed to be in Australia celebrating my wedding, visiting Botany Bay which he’d dreamed about as a young man; he was only 62; he missed out on one half on the family genes and drew 2 short straws. Dad dieing has spurned me to change, to live as long as I can and experience life completely. He was some use after all.
“Farewell to your bricks and mortar,
Farewell to your dirty lies.
Farewell to your gangways and your gang planks,
And to hell with your overtime.
For the good ship Ragamuffin is lying at the Quay,
For to take poor Pat with a shovel on his back
To the shores of Botany Bay.”

it takes too long

Well I’m pretty lucky in terms of genetics, so I figure that if I make healthy choices I should be able to achieve this. Already people are living to 100 and beyond, by the time I’m near that age, hopefully the advances in technology will mean it’s not too difficult!

I am reading a book called Chasing Life. The author reckons he has immortality sussed and has many chapters on how to achieve this. Cool! So, so far, the thought of reducing the amount I eat does not appeal and supposedly can cause depression. So forget that! The other things which are exercise including upper body resistance and of course eating lots of fruit and veg are common sense. So, nothing new so far, but will finish the book and see what else he has to say….

I have decided that a more realistic goal is to live to 100 or maybe a wee bit more!

Well, I will read this book and then consider how realistic this goal is…..

I would like to live my life as healthfully as possible.

I would like to live my life as healthfully as possible.

For all of us who want to live to 100 (I want the royal telegram and letter from the Pm) I can recommend a website. It’s an article on thirdage.com and it talks about ways to live to 100. I do about half of them already, so I guess 50’s looking good!