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Healthy tips for 60+
WHO SAYS life ends after retirement from service? Rather it begins then. Afresh, with renewed vigour and energy if one takes a positive view of the long years ahead.
All the scriptures talk of man leading a full life of `purnayush'. If Rigveda says a man can live happily for hundred winters full of energy, Atharva Veda says it is 100 autumns, Isha Upanishad enjoins man to keep working and live for hundred years.
And a man retires from service when he or she is only 60 years or even less. What will one do for the rest of the life? Quite many, says Kambhampati S. Sastry, a happily retired person after holding several distinguished posts in India and abroad.
No more grinding routine, deadlines to meet. You are your own master at last with all the time and free to pursue or indulge in all those passions or interests that had been pushed back. No more hassles either with children grown up and on their own, he told the senior citizens. Giving a talk on Graceful Ageing at the Association of Senior Citizens and Probus Day Care Centre for Elders, he continued: "Post retirement life can be enjoyable, provided one plans his savings, takes good care of his or her health all through, develops a spiritual outlook and keeps oneself fully occupied in any activity or service.''
Mr. Sastry, who is into research of various subjects of his choice, concedes that the State is not doing much to make life easier for senior citizens. "So it is for us to think and act rather than wait for help that is not sure of coming''.
``Your second life begins on the day of retirement. So, plan for it.'' His route map for a happy post retirement life is good habits, clean and fresh food, regular exercise\walk, financial planning, hobby\activity planning and emotional well-being.
Keep the mind active with constructive thoughts and your body would be fine, he avers. Never hesitate to wear a hearing aid if required or use a walking stick once a person is 70-year old. "Why suffer a fall and a fracture.'' Take the advantage of modern science and medicare. Know your body and mitigate health problems through preventive care. Get the information you please through Internet and seek to operate it. Your grandchild would be too glad to help you. Bond with senior citizens elsewhere, share your concerns, ideas. Your rich experience is a valuable resource to community. Use it for improving quality of life, he says.
Mr. Sastry offered some pragmatic advice too. "Never construct big houses as you may well be living there alone with children settled elsewhere.'' Make a bequest planning, give whatever you can to children apart from good education and make it clear the rest is yours. Let there not be any expectations. It avoids wrangling in the family and ensures harmony. Community living may become necessary. So have an open mind to it rather than leading an inconvenient life.
To a life of fun, peace and dignity then!
By Melly Maitreyi M.L.
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