canyonwalker | (Reply)

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Agreeing so strongly with your "stay engaged" advice. I participate in at least two hobbies1 where I am well below the average age, and I've been very happy to know a great number of extremely awesome 60-70-80 year olds. It's a little bit confirmation bias (the ones who are not physically well enough to come out drop out of sight) but it really does seem like having hobbies and things to do helps keep you spry.

~Sor

1: Scottish Country Dancing (my dearest love?) where at age 32 I *think* I'm the youngest fully certificated teacher of the two dozen in the Boston branch². Meanwhile I attended a zoom birthday party for a change ringer turning 80, even though we've only met a handful of times, he remembered me and was able to enthusiastically talk with me about ringing things I've been doing recently.

2: ...which spans from Maine to Albany through all of Massachusetts, but not CT (covered by the New Haven branch)