Hi Dennis,
I too a 74 male I am Scottish-English....Stiff upper lip culture. I am physically active and ran my own company for 50 years, until age 72. As you are probably experiencing our bodies and our hormone output changes. From time to time I get surges of emotion from a stimulus that triggers a sentiment memory both sadness and happiness. But interestingly. more from happiness than sadness. These started to be noticeable around age 70 and have been increasing in frequency. My education is engineering and have been accused of doing excessive research. Probably accurate.... So as my friends and family expect... I have been doing my homework and talking to my male, age contemporizes. We are all experiencing this to different degrees. We all have our theories...It seems it is part of the aging process...Since we are the first generation with a significant percentage that is living well beyond the biblical expiration date of 3 score and 10...We can help the succeeding generations understand what to expect by sharing the transition we are experiencing. Anyone around age 70 or older may want to comment. Also a contributing factor may be we are sensing our mortality and an increasing sense of being more vulnerable and less relevant. I have always been a fan of Gene Hackman, who recently died at age 95. I read where recently he became interested in Buddhism. This piqued my interest and research gene and I found he was feeling less relevant and found an answer with the Buddhist philosophy that change is constant and inevitable and we need to learn to accept this...It has helped me
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Hi Dennis, I too a 74 male I am Scottish-English....Stiff upper lip culture. I am physically active and ran my own company for 50 years, until age 72. As you are probably experiencing our bodies and our hormone output changes. From time to time I get surges of emotion from a stimulus that triggers a sentiment memory both sadness and happiness. But interestingly. more from happiness than sadness. These started to be noticeable around age 70 and have been increasing in frequency. My education is engineering and have been accused of doing excessive research. Probably accurate.... So as my friends and family expect... I have been doing my homework and talking to my male, age contemporizes. We are all experiencing this to different degrees. We all have our theories...It seems it is part of the aging process...Since we are the first generation with a significant percentage that is living well beyond the biblical expiration date of 3 score and 10...We can help the succeeding generations understand what to expect by sharing the transition we are experiencing. Anyone around age 70 or older may want to comment. Also a contributing factor may be we are sensing our mortality and an increasing sense of being more vulnerable and less relevant. I have always been a fan of Gene Hackman, who recently died at age 95. I read where recently he became interested in Buddhism. This piqued my interest and research gene and I found he was feeling less relevant and found an answer with the Buddhist philosophy that change is constant and inevitable and we need to learn to accept this...It has helped me
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