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It’s been a few years, but at my old job, there was this woman who came to do a training for us at our job. When all was said and done, I went to thank her personally for coming to do the training for us.
Can’t remember how, but we found out that she was 92 years old!! Not lying, she looked early 60’s at most! Me and the few people who stuck around were shocked and amazed and asked her questions.
She told us that she was currently retired but she still loved the field so she would do trainings for a little pay here and there. She told us that she was a nurse in World War II. She didn’t go into too much detail but that was really awesome to meet someone in person who could say that. Not every day you meet someone from that time period or directly experienced the war, especially as an adult, no less.
I asked her her “secret” to getting to her incredible age. She said she hadn’t had an alcoholic drink since she was 22 years old.
I’ll never forget that woman. I always think of her when I see alcohol and contemplate my life, to be truthful.
Really our normalization of drinking needs to be re-examined.
I remember thinking all the anti smoking stuff wouldn't change anything. I was wrong. We really can change.
I agree. I have a drink here and there on the weekends sometimes, but the normalization of getting hammered, blackout drunk is unhealthy. I’ve always thought it was “funny”, for lack of a better term, when online dating and seeing people who have a problem with people who do drugs, even marijuana or smoking cigarettes but their own profile is filled of pics of them with booze and their profile is jokes about getting drunk and alcohol being their personality.
A little examination on this would benefit society.
for me it was my realization that some of my drinking was a mental illness (I was never an alcoholic but I was self medicating with alcohol)
I feel so much better now I have one or two beers every few weeks
That's amazing. I once had a patient who was 93 and very angry to be admitted to hospital because he still had a part time janitorial job he didn't want to miss. The Dutch are very long lived. Your lady must have been Dutch.
I wish I would have asked! We’re in the United States but she didn’t have a noticeable accent.
Crazy how people at that age still want to work!