I’ve made it a daily routine recently to check out Aol’s home page for the latest bizarre or insignificant news bits straight off the morning press. You see, Aol accidentally became my home page when I began using Aim some months back, and since I’m too lazy to change it, I read that news worthy woo-ha until my brain becomes full of worthless knowledge, and then I can tell friends and neighbors, “hey you wanna know the worst way to eat a banana?” or my personal favorite, “what bean to eat to raise your sex drive.” Sure, all of this is random [and at times unaccredited information], but it passes away the time away, where otherwise my brain would sit idle.
Anyway, while on my “lunch break” I checked out Aol’s home page to find out that the world’s oldest blogger has passed away: http://news.aol.com/story/_a/worlds-oldest-blogger-dies-at-108/20080714095509990001.
Apparently she was like 108, which in my books is pretty old. First off that’s pretty awesome that someone of that age could even use a computer well enough to blog. Amen to that! Now if only I could get my [soon to be] 52-year-old father to follow suit!
Outside of her blogging skills though, just living that long is amazing. I’m not one to ponder on death too often, but when I think into the future as far as being elderly, my mind really doesn’t leave the 60’s. I guess in my life time none of my immediate family members have surpassed their late 70’s yet. I don’t know too many 80, 90 or 100-year-olds.
But wouldn’t it be cool to live to be that old and be semi-healthy? Think of all the news coverage you’d get every time you had another birthday? Think about how much wiser than everybody you’d be [or should be]. If I were that old I say’d some of the most random off the wall crap and no one would do anything about it because they’d say, “oh she’s just really old, just let it go.” I’d probably be down right mean to some people, all at the expense of my own humor.
Then again being that old does has it’s downfalls I suppose [weakened health & immune system, loss of one’s entire family/friends etc.] A lot can happen with in a lifetime, much less a century. Think back to 100 years from now….why, cars were just being ivented! Women didn’t even have the right to vote yet! It would be amazing [and at times scary] to watch the world change so much!
Being 100+ or even making it to 90-something would be a big accomplishment, that’s for sure.
This one’s dedicated to the world’s oldest blogger. May she rest in peace.
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