[xeno]Julios wrote:...and have friends in their 80's who have minds just as sharp as anyone i know.
do you only have friends in their 80s just so that you can say you have stimulating conversations with people fifty years older than you? be honest
hanging out with an 80 year old would fucking suck
i help out at a retirement home near my house, and was introduced to a guy in his late eighties. Dude spends all of his time reading and responding to emails - debates on mailing lists etc. Really fascinating guy - he's been completely deaf since the age of 29. He introduced me to his sister and brother in law (also in their 80's), who live in a condo not far away - i go over for drinks every so often - we have some pretty mind blowing discussions - the husband is auditing a course at the same uni i'm at, with a prof who taught my philosophy of science course. I consider them friends, since they're not the people I help feed, or just go out of a sense of duty.
All three of these people (deaf guy, his sister, and her hubby) keep their minds sharp by always being intellectually engaged - reading books, discussing - the brother in law got six peer review publications this year - some of them on the issue of the sciences of complexity as applied to healthcare.
[xeno]Julios wrote:...and have friends in their 80's who have minds just as sharp as anyone i know.
do you only have friends in their 80s just so that you can say you have stimulating conversations with people fifty years older than you? be honest
hanging out with an 80 year old would fucking suck
i help out at a retirement home near my house, and was introduced to a guy in his late eighties. Dude spends all of his time reading and responding to emails - debates on mailing lists etc. Really fascinating guy - he's been completely deaf since the age of 29. He introduced me to his sister and brother in law (also in their 80's), who live in a condo not far away - i go over for drinks every so often - we have some pretty mind blowing discussions - the husband is auditing a course at the same uni i'm at, with a prof who taught my philosophy of science course. I consider them friends, since they're not the people I help feed, or just go out of a sense of duty.
All three of these people (deaf guy, his sister, and her hubby) keep their minds sharp by always being intellectually engaged - reading books, discussing - the brother in law got six peer review publications this year - some of them on the issue of the sciences of complexity as applied to healthcare.
I bet you're a major pain in the ass in real life.