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Jumping Jack Flash

Jumping Jack Flash

Back in the nineteen sixties when the rock and roll was rightful getting started, there was this little old rock and roll band out of England that got some attention. You may have heard of them. They were called the Rolling Stones. And this little old band had a lulu good hit with the kids called Jumping Jack Flash.

It was a jumping little tune that was probably more popular because it was such good rock and roll than for its message. But if you listen to the words, the singer sings about bad things that happened to him as a child and a youth. The individuality of the difficulties this youngster went through are pretty graphic. But at the end of each lyric he declares that it’s all right and that its fine and using the hipster language of the day, it’s a gas.

In a way, that song title became a call to arms to the awkward age that are any more moving into their senior citizen oldness to embrace life, see difficulty as opportunity and not let hard times get you down. This mantra can be a tremendous outlook on life for us as we sort out what it means to be a senior citizen.

To be sure, looking ahead to your senior years has some real issues that you will have to face. For many it bequeath be the loss of a spouse. There is retirement which is hard if you love to work. There may come a time when you have to action from the home you raised your kids in and there almost certainly be physical decline again eventually the oracle of this part of our lives is our eternal reward.

Many senior citizens face these daunting challenges and despair. They see that the resources to overcome some of these problems are simply not there. There are impending diseases that can put real dread into your heart. If you give into that despair, your senior senility will be bleak to say the least. It’s a arcane formula but despite the situation ahead, if we can learn to not be intimidated by old age, the chances we will cope with it and live a happier senior go are much bigger than if we let depression and depression begin to take over.

But we don’t want to just cope with life do we? This generation that is beguiling up residence in the senior citizen ranks have never been ones to just cope. We are a generation of winners. We refuse to just cope! We insist that we can WIN. But how do you win against the onset of old age that is unforgiving and unrelenting as able-bodied?

You win by not letting it steal your spirit. Ace is another option besides giving in to desire, losing promised land and eventually letting that dark angel come along too soon. Instead, you can tell that dark angel to glance your big toe ( or something else ). You are not bustle to go foreign gracefully, and you are going to live life to hilt to the very end!

There is another option than denying that you are a senior citizen and burdensome to live congeneric a man or woman 30 years your senior. That is nothing more than a midlife crisis except it is happening in old age. Its self - denial and, as your grandkids might say, “It’s fair-minded creepy. ”

The alternative is you are going to hold life and embrace the stage of life you are in. Yes, you are going to celebrate old age, look it in the eye with an impish grin and not rent it take away a bit of the spirit and the gusto that you have lived your life from adolescence until now.

That is the spirit of Jumping Jack Flash and that isn’t just a song, it’s a description of this generation of senior citizens. You bequeath be the ones who skip all over old age and make it a party. And despite the other problems, it’s not going to be “just ok” to grow old. It’s all right. You might even gab its fine. And we don’t mind borrowing a phrase from ourselves 40 years ago to say - It’s a gas.