• faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    Meanwhile my great grandmother, in her 80s, was able to learn how to boot up Win95 to play some puzzle games.

    I personally think it’s because she was never really one for passive entertainment. If she watched television, it was stuff like Wheel of Fortune and she played along. She hit up the library every week for fresh books, and did a lot of crochet and crossword.

    It’s similar to how I think her curiosity for life and refusal to be afraid is why she wasn’t a bigot. We have several interracial marriages in my family, and she never had a problem with it, despite being born in 1912.

    She lived to be 100, and I hope I’m half as cool as she was.