Terminally depressed or happily aged??

[ChrisE]

Did you see the research that shows:

1. Optimists live longer than pessimists
2. Some people alive today could live to 150.

As one of lifes perennially cheerful souls, at 53 I'm looking forward to the next 97 years. Might have paid off the mortgage by then, as well, there I said that I was an optimist.

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[jimi]

U can sail an oppie but not a pessie!

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[ShipsWoofy]

I don't believe it, it can't happen.

See you on the other side!

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[Ships_Cat]

I am pessimistic about my chances of ever being optimistic enuff to live to 150.

But there again I have nine lives, or so they say.

John

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[snowleopard]

I think you're right there, ask Pessimist how much sailing he got this year!!

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[ccscott49]

We're all doomed, DOOOOOOOMED!!!!!


Pessimist? Me, never

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[bedouin]

I think whether the possibility of living to 100 (let alone 150) is a source of joy or depression depends to a large extent on the state of your pension.

The current Government is busy doing all it can to ensure that everyone of my generation has an impoverished old age. The idea of living 85 years on a state pension is profoundly depressing

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[pessimist]

But who'd want to? Any optimist would learn the error of his ways in that space of time.

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[tcm]

ooh, this sounds good. However, even more optimistically (or pessimistically?) there no need to tidy up or fix things around the house too much cos it'll fall down relatively soon.

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[Clive_Rigden]

What'll I do for the two years after you've gone ?

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[ChrisE]

My house is now just coming into its adolecence, it's 182, this year.

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[Clive_Rigden]

I trust you didn't have to buy your own furniture . . .
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[RocquaineBay]

Can it possible to be both at the same time? Happy?....... when the time is getting shorter????, terminally depressed?....... when there is no point in fretting about getting old? UUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHH I am no volunteer, I didna' ask to be born, I have seen such beauty and known such ugliness, such pain, such pain, damn the question, I want to be young again with skin not wrinkled, eyes that focus, knees which do not give way, teeth that stick, etc, etc, etc,
Mike,

P.S. For the point of this question I think I have to accept, I am terminal!

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[tcm]

Re: another thought

what about the grandchildren eh? And the great granchildren and the great great etc blimmin grandchilden. I t would be a v good idea to have big familt feud asap, else you will have to sell the house by the time you a are mere 130 to pay for xmas pressies. Also, even all the great granchildren will be old gits, all being painful to the great great great great grandchildren, multiple birthdays every single day, billions of cards cluttering up the place, hundred of phone calls to make every day and a zillin people ring you to say oh 120 that;s a ripe old age yak yak. . Oops pessimism. The good side of it is that your house will burn down sometime after 100 ish with all flippin candles, so you can spend the money on a boat. Oops, best keep quiet about the boat.

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[Peppermint]

Re: Genes

You either is or ain't happy. From my observations people who appear happy go lucky are ridden with angst beneath the surface. Really happy people often appear boring as hell. But they don't care what you think and that could be the secret.

It's amazing how often they interview some old guy who's 100 or more and he's never been anywhere, never married and never took a drink. Oh dear I'm seeing link here.

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[jhr]

Problems with the family

For answers to these, and many other philosophical questions, read John Wydham's <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140019863,00.html>Trouble with Lichen</A>. One of my favourite sci-fi authors, but rather neglected nowadays.

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[Sans Bateau]

Re: Problems with the family

Getting old is inevitable, growing up is optional

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