Why becoming a pensioner won't make any difference to me, says Christa Ackroyd

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Why becoming a pensioner won't make any difference to me, says Christa Ackroyd
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'So discount us, worse still ignore us at your peril. We make up a massive chunk of the population who are just as energised as we ever were, in some cases more so.'

I can finally be who I am supposed to be – strong willed, daring and more importantly non conforming. In fact today I can reveal the real reason for Sunday’s shrill alarm to your mobile phones. It was to warn you that the real me is on her way.The truth of the matter that reaching pensionable age will make not a jot of difference to how I live and how I think at all, but I am well aware it might make a difference to how others see me. Or rather how relevant others view me as.

Well I am here to tell you right here right now that reaching a great age, any age, makes me and others like me just as relevant as we have always been. So discount us, worse still ignore us at your peril. We make up a massive chunk of the population who are just as energised as we ever were, in some cases more so.

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