Young at Heart.

I was so inspired when I watched the movie Young at Heart. I walked out of the class smiling that day, I was very happy that Sheila showed us that movie, and I think that everybody should have a chance to watch that movie. Those are the sort of things in life that keep me striving for more, seeing things like that makes me want to go out and do things and not just lay on the couch. Seeing all them elderly people out and about having a good time. Not sitting home being cranky and sad, there out and having a good time, enjoying what they have left. You would think they would be tired and exhausted and I am sure they are but yet they still keep on singing and traveling around.


I currently work at a nursing home right now and I love it. I love it because of the elderly people and not because of the people I work with. I look forward going to work and I have a smile on the whole time I am there. Whenever my shift is up and I walk out of that building I have learned something new, there is not one time that I have not learned something of them old ladies. They make my day no matter how bad of a mood I was in before I came to work. Just seeing them still smiling and trying to make the most out of life, even though they are stuck in a nursing home. Yes there are a few that are just plain cranky and don't want anything to do with you, and they can't wait to get out. With people like that I just walk up to them just simply smile and on the outside they show that there mad and just want you to leave them alone, but inside I know that they are truly happy to see us young people walking around smiling and enjoying our lives.


Elderly people are the same as us young people, they just look a little older, and know a heck of a lot more than us. Before I worked at the nursing home I use to be weird around old people, I just didn't know what to say or do around them, I didn't know how to act. If I would have never started working at the nursing home I probably would be the same way, working at the nursing home changed a lot for me. It made me realize that elderly people are just the same as us, just people trying to live there lives.