Worst World's Record?
Sep. 1st, 2005 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechThere are some world's records that people work their whole lives for...but this has to top them all: World's Oldest Living Person. I saw this obituary about a Dutch woman who (according to the article) held the record for being the world's oldest living person; she held that record for fifteen months.
This has to be the worst record to hold: First, you don't get this record because of hard work-- you really inherit it because someone else died! Worse-- it totally sucks to "give up" this record! Besides-- when you're that old I imagine such things don't mean a heckuvalot to you: either your so wise that you've long-since realized the superficial nature of such things...or you're so out of it that you barely recognize jello as food.
Still, from the article she seemed a feisty old biddy and she had her wits to the end. Imagine someone who was old enough to have seen and remember the coming of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries! Living through both world wars...seen the destruction and rebuilding (twice!) of Europe...watched the age of manufacturing change to the age of the computer chip. Amazing. I hope someone did extensive interviews with her!
And at least she was able to meet the queen and the star of the soccer team (which she'd followed for nearly a century! gad!)
Fine advice (especially that last bit):
Her personal advice on how to live a long life was to eat pickled herring, drink orange juice and "keep breathing."
This has to be the worst record to hold: First, you don't get this record because of hard work-- you really inherit it because someone else died! Worse-- it totally sucks to "give up" this record! Besides-- when you're that old I imagine such things don't mean a heckuvalot to you: either your so wise that you've long-since realized the superficial nature of such things...or you're so out of it that you barely recognize jello as food.
Still, from the article she seemed a feisty old biddy and she had her wits to the end. Imagine someone who was old enough to have seen and remember the coming of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries! Living through both world wars...seen the destruction and rebuilding (twice!) of Europe...watched the age of manufacturing change to the age of the computer chip. Amazing. I hope someone did extensive interviews with her!
And at least she was able to meet the queen and the star of the soccer team (which she'd followed for nearly a century! gad!)
Fine advice (especially that last bit):
Her personal advice on how to live a long life was to eat pickled herring, drink orange juice and "keep breathing."
