Posted: 08:04, September 3, 2022 | Updated: 08:28, September 3, 2022
People in their 90s share the things they spend their time thinking about – including YouTube videos, robots and the meaning of life. The conversation was sparked when Quora user GJ Coop posted a touching story about living with his 97-year-old father, Doug, during the pandemic. He explained that his father, from New Zealand, spent his days catching up on current affairs, sunbathing, listening to David Attenborough audiobooks and sharing stories from his time in the army. Seniors shared their deepest thoughts online after a Quora user asked what people over 90 think. stock image The son said it made him realize that, despite his sick body, his father’s thoughts were just like those of a young person, noting that he was “23 in his head.” He invited other people in their nineties to share the things they do and think on a daily basis, wondering if they were similar to his father. One gentleman, who said he was 96, said much of his day involves scrolling through YouTube. He wrote: “When it’s time to sleep, I keep my Mp3 player on all night listening to podcast conferences, discussions and debates all night and a lot during the day.”
An elderly man has revealed that his thoughts are not too dissimilar to those of a younger person When he has time to think, he admitted that he wonders about the “why” of life and whether we have a specific purpose on Earth. Another woman called Mary, whose mum is 93, said she tends to think about what to make for dinner, when to finish her tax return and what to wear to church, which is a “lifelong dilemma” for she. She added that her mother is also writing a book about her brother and her parents during World War II, which also occupies many of her thoughts.
An elderly US woman has revealed her mother became fearful later in life and dementia took away many of her memories A woman called Sonja, whose parents are both in their 90s, said they are both still quite polite for their age. She wrote: “My father is very intellectual and still very active, he reads 2-3 newspapers every day, participates in political discussions, never misses the news on TV and takes care of my mother.” A woman named Colleen wrote about her grandmother, who recently died at the age of 98 – and she was obsessed with technology. Colleen wrote: “He often thought about technology and we would talk for hours about what he thought would be there if he got to 110. “He wanted a robot in the house, he loved Alexa/Siri, he was interested in my nuclear engineering research.”
