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10-04-2009, 05:44 PM
"Do you remember Tsar Nikolai's era? When the Red Army came and when Vladimir Lenin died? Well I do. So take a guess how old I am.". Meet Sohan Dosova - the newly found treasure of Kazakhstan. She is 130 years old, at least she is according to her documents. The Soviet passport issued in the early 1980s states that Sohan Dosova was born in the Karaganda region on 27 March 1879.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7979599.stm
Physically living long seems preferable to many, but is the 'length' of life important? Or the 'quality' of life and what has been learnt, important? To me, the later. I know some people in their 50s who act more like they're 15 year olds at timess, and don't appear to have learnt very much from life by their manner and actions. Just repeating the same old patterns again and again like those patterns still work, yet moaning about the end results.
If she has learnt a lot, then please share it. Write it down. The observations of elderly people are often very valuable, as they look back at what they have done/seen and can advise on what was a waste of time, and what the most essential things are. I once worked in a nursing home as a handyman.
I got to know several of the old women who came there to die. Along the way I met ones who were totally broken, and ones who were wise and could look back at life and now know what really was important in life. I'll never forget one saying to me that she wished she'd danced a lot more, kissed more people, and been far less serious uptight and formal. She could point out many things she felt was not worth a moment of anyone's attention.
It was always the little things she cherished the most, as I do myself today.
Anyway....130 years old.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7979599.stm
Physically living long seems preferable to many, but is the 'length' of life important? Or the 'quality' of life and what has been learnt, important? To me, the later. I know some people in their 50s who act more like they're 15 year olds at timess, and don't appear to have learnt very much from life by their manner and actions. Just repeating the same old patterns again and again like those patterns still work, yet moaning about the end results.
If she has learnt a lot, then please share it. Write it down. The observations of elderly people are often very valuable, as they look back at what they have done/seen and can advise on what was a waste of time, and what the most essential things are. I once worked in a nursing home as a handyman.
I got to know several of the old women who came there to die. Along the way I met ones who were totally broken, and ones who were wise and could look back at life and now know what really was important in life. I'll never forget one saying to me that she wished she'd danced a lot more, kissed more people, and been far less serious uptight and formal. She could point out many things she felt was not worth a moment of anyone's attention.
It was always the little things she cherished the most, as I do myself today.
Anyway....130 years old.