Why Is age just a number for you?
The number of years I have lived years, there is neither a thought nor an image associated with which I could personally. I am old, yes. I have a lot of life experience, yes. But I already had it when I was 20. The entire cosmos of my childhood was already inside me back then. But I wasn't that young able to get to grips with what I had experienced. Understanding and required a tremendous effort on my part and 'ate up' a few years of my life. years of my life. But then I was still young, even though I had undergone a I had undergone a profound transformation, a maturing process. Maturation continues and is never complete as long as I remain awake and alert throughout the day. through the day.
In society, old age is associated with many superficial clichés that try to categorize us. us into a category. Give it up. A human life cannot be squeezed into into a statistic, every life is unique. Today, as a senior citizen, I am simply still the person who has been looking out of my eyes into the world and through my body, my senses and my thinking and through my body, my senses and my thoughts, I absorb, feel, experience, process and decide to do this or that.
What do you like most/least about aging?
I felt resistance from the the fact that a state mechanism determines that I will retire at a certain that I would retire at a certain point in my life. The supposed relief of finally being able to stop working does not apply to me, and and putting myself into an involuntary retirement is simply not a concept that fits into my CV. a concept that fits in with my life and how I feel. I like working still enjoy working.
What I like best is the freedom I have today to organize each day and that the pressure to earn money to earn money has eased.
What would you like to pass on to the younger generation?
Happiness lies in the fact that you are connected to your innermost being in what you do on the outside. Therefore my tip: connect with your inner self and follow what you find there, if you feel unhappy, empty or disoriented.
Why do you want to continue to pursue a meaningful activity?
Being active means being alive. I don't like the division of society into age categories. I would would rather see public life as one big market of supply and demand in which I can participate, which means giving and taking - and thus be integrated until the end.
If you had one wish, what would it be?
I somehow have a longing for rural life, even though, like most Swiss people, I'm used to urban life life and hard work. I wish there were farms, a modern form of agricultural enterprise on a cooperative basis, where everyone basis, where anyone could live temporarily or part-time, volunteer and work, regardless of and work there, regardless of social affiliation, age and origin. and origin.
What do you want to tell the seniors@work team?
I would like to thank the seniors@work team for this platform and the opportunity to network in this way. Is there perhaps a specific need for seniors....?
