Tulipes
suite comme
je le disais
hier
Lu sur
cette histoire
Cahuzac en France
qui pourrait
bien
faire tomber
le gouvernement
de François Hollande
et sur un autre sujet
des citations d'un article
d'un gérontologiste de l'institut Cornell
Karl Pillemer
et ses recherches
" the Legacy Project "
sur l'âge
en voici quelques bribes:
À la question “What are the most important lessons you have learned over your life?”
Voici des réponses:
Life is short.
A 99-year-old woman said, “I don’t know what happened, but the next thing you know you are 100.”
Though many survey participants had lived through hard economic times, instead of urging younger people to get steady, well-paying jobs, they consistently said, “Do something you enjoy.”
And life was much too short to spend doing something you don’t like, even for a few years.”
“I wish I had not spent so much time worrying.”
“The idea behind that again related to shortness of life. … The argument they make is that the mindless and ruminative worry over things one can’t control so effectively poisons life that it’s a waste of a precious lifetime.”
Another standout lesson from the survey involved the notion of being responsible for one’s own happiness.
“Treat your body like you are going to need it for 100 years.”
“What the oldest Americans know is that in your dreams you are going to drop dead,” The elderly, understand that modern medical technology means people with unhealthy lifestyles are “sentencing themselves to 20 or 30 or 40 years of chronic illness.”
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