SENIOR
SPOTLIGHT
Spotlight
On Seniors
By
Cary Magness, Founder
I am continually asked the question..."Just how old do you have to be, to be a "Senior Citizen?" Well, I guess it depends on who you ask. AARP invites membership at age
fifty...as do we at Lubbock Senior Source. Some say fifty-five; certain restaurants and the movies offer discounts at sixty-five. I believe that age is a state of mind and "old" is someone that is fifteen years older than me. "Webster" says "one who is older; one who is retired." Older than what? I don't think anyone retires anymore...just changes the time we get up and the spots where we hang out.
My "Senior Consulting Team" (over coffee recently) tell me that you will know that you are truly a "Senior Citizen" if.....
You graduated from high school without ever having seen or used a television, a VCR, a hand-held electronic calculator, a cell-phone, a credit card, a fax, a copy machine, a microwave, an answering machine, a ball-point pen, an e-mail, a web site, a car that cost more than $2500 nor spend more than a $1 for a movie and a hamburger (including a date.)
And if......You didn't know anyone whose parents were divorced; you thought pot was something you cooked in; you drank milk from the "ice-box" out of a glass bottle after shaking up the cream; you didn't have a car to drive to school; and your mother would never have taken you; you had friends that didn't have telephones; and some that didn't have electricity.
And if......The very WORST thing you could do was to climb the water- tower and steal watermelons..and you got caught doing both! And nobody dared schedule an event on Wednesday night because of prayer-meeting...And most of your friends had two first names such as Larry Jim, Mary Ruth or Cary Joe!
And if.... the girls took home-ec and cooked uneatable cookies and the boys took ag and wore boots with jeans tucked in; and your folks got the election results off a blackboard in front of the drug store; and if everyone went to town on Saturday afternoon.
Well, maybe you don't have to score a 100 to qualify for Seniorhood...But if you can identify with most of these (maybe some are only small-town West Texas!)... we will be glad to include you in the group. E-mail me at
cary@lubbockseniorsource.com
with your other "qualifiers".
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