“Order, tranquility, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets;” may these be a string of virtues that the Stoics strove to acquire in Classical Greece and Rome?
No, not fairly. They had been entries within the record of all of the issues which have contributed to Maria Branyas Morera’s lengthy lifetime of 117 years of age, together with “good reference to household and buddies, numerous positivity, and staying away from poisonous folks.”
The (how about this for a phrase) ondecagenarian was the oldest particular person alive till she handed away at her nursing residence in Catalonia, Spain on August nineteenth, having lived to fulfill 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
In contrast to many alive right now, Morera noticed the arrival of mass communication as a optimistic, as a result of it allowed her to be in contact with folks positioned throughout distances she way back misplaced the flexibility to cowl, and in addition share her data with the world.
With the assistance of her daughter, she was significantly keen on taking to Twitter, now X, to share her pearls of knowledge grown over a protracted and affluent life.
In lots of instances, these contain how she managed to stay so lengthy, which definitely by no means concerned not taking dangers or avoiding hazard. Born in San Francisco, USA to immigrants from Catalonia who came visiting on a ship, she was 8 years outdated when she returned along with her mom to her ancestral residence the place she lived ever after.
Her father died of tuberculosis contracted on the voyage to America, however his daughter survived the crossing in reverse by way of the Azores as a method to keep away from the weapons of the First World Warfare. She survived the Spanish Civil Warfare, the Spanish Flu, each World Wars, and briefly grew to become the world’s oldest COVID-19 survivor when she contracted the virus at 113 years outdated.
On the primary day of 2023, she tweeted: “Life isn’t everlasting for anybody… At my age, a brand new yr is a present, a humble celebration, a brand new journey, a ravishing journey, a second of happiness. Let’s get pleasure from life collectively.”
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Her opnions are usually not all sunshine and rainbows with a glass of wine, nonetheless. For instance, on July ninth, 2023, she warned that the rising charges of dementia in Western society isn’t only a problem to public well being, however to the very material of society.
“The nice heritage of the outdated is the world of reminiscence. We’re our reminiscences,” she tweeted. In an interview with the the Observer, she stated that the pandemic revealed that the aged are society’s outcast and forgotten.
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Morera additionally felt that right now the emphasis on cash and materials possessions was too nice, and it nervous her basically.
On August twentieth, her household tweeted that she had handed away in her sleep, including that she advised them shortly earlier than her dying: “I don’t know when, however very quickly this lengthy journey will come to an finish. Demise will discover me worn down from having lived a lot, however I would like it to search out me smiling, free, and happy.”
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