{"id":10651,"date":"2025-10-08T05:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/meaningful-histories-2-old-age\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T05:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:55:15","slug":"meaningful-histories-2-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/en\/meaningful-histories-2-old-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaningful stories 2: Old age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10273\" style=\"width: 734px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10273\" class=\"wp-image-10273 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FOTO-ABUELO-6-mini-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Braudilio L\u00f3pez\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-10273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Braudilio L\u00f3pez (85) is a civil engineer. He was born in Cuba and currently lives in Mexico. He is my grandfather, and we narrate this series through his words.  <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am grateful to life for allowing me to live more than eight and a half decades, during which I have accumulated experiences and adventures that satisfy me, as I have managed to realise my dreams and achieve goals that sometimes proved difficult.<\/p>\n<h2>I managed to achieve them thanks to my determination to improve, my effort and dedication.<\/h2>\n<p>I had a complex but pleasant childhood. I come from a very humble background, yet I was always driven by the wish to reach further, and I have achieved it. I got professional training, raised a united and capable family, and today, in my old age, I enjoy a quality of life.<br \/>\nIt is not fair to relegate someone just because they have left their youth or former energy behind. Those who reach this stage should not lose their self-esteem or values. If their mental and physical abilities allow it, they can still make decisions, share experiences and be heard. <\/p>\n<h3>An older person deserves recognition if their life has left a mark that has benefited their family, society or those close to them: friends, neighbours or work colleagues.<\/h3>\n<h2>We must not deny ourselves or become useless objects.<\/h2>\n<p>We must maintain our independence and engage in activities to continue being useful: writing stories, gardening, helping with chores, attending events, or helping younger children with their studies.<br \/>\nAll those tasks nourish our self-esteem and spare us from being disregarded.<br \/>It is exciting to get together with the family at Christmas, birthdays or graduations, to remember pleasant anecdotes and events: the birth or first birthday of a child or grandchild, a daughter&#8217;s 15th birthday party, a wedding. All of this makes us feel alive and <strong>turns old age into a stage where we continue to contribute knowledge, unity and family support<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>We will never grow old if we resolve to continue accumulating youth. Our experiences become unique, sentimental treasures that should be kept as family heirlooms. <\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">You cannot inherit the most valuable stories; you must protect them.<br \/>\nAt DYLSI, we help you take care of your present and that of your loved ones.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am grateful to life for allowing me to live more than eight and a half decades, during which I have accumulated experiences and adventures that satisfy me, as I have managed to realise my dreams and achieve goals that sometimes proved difficult. I managed to achieve them thanks to my determination to improve, my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10702,"href":"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions\/10702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylsi-seguros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}