အပ်ဴိႀကီးမ်ား၀မ္းေၿမာက္ဖြယ္.....

အပ်ဴိႀကီးမ်ား၀မ္းေၿမာက္ဖြယ္.....

No sex is secret to long life, says 105-year-old Clara, Britain's oldest virginBy Luke Salkeld

ဒူဘုိင္းကဘေလာ ့ဂ္ဂါအပ်ဴိႀကီးမ်ားၿဖစ္ႀကကုန္ေသာ..လွ်ဴိ  ့၀ွက္ဆန္းႀကယ္ဒါရုိက္တာမမႀကီး 
ႏွင္ ့ဒူဘုိင္းဘေလာ့ဂ္ဂါမ်ားေတြ ့ဆံုပဲြမွာတားယူရေလာက္ေအာင္ကုိစကားေတြေဖာင္ေလာက္
ေအာင္ေၿပာတဲ ့ကႏ ၱာရမွမုိးသီးမုိးေပါက္မ်ားဘေလာ ့ဂ္ပုိင္ရွင္မမႀကီးတုိ ့ကုိရည္ညြန္းပါသည္...

အသက္ရာေက်ာ္...အပ်ဴိစင္ဘြားဘြား

Just too busy: Clara Meadmore says sex seemed a 'hassle' and she's glad she did without it

ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာအတြင္းအသက္ရာေက်ာ္ရွည္သူ မ်ားက၄င္းတုိ ့၏အသက္ရွည္ရၿခင္းရဲ  ့လွ်ဴိ  ့၀ွက္ခ်က္မ်ား

ကုိလက္ဆင္ ့ကမ္းေ၀ငွေပးခဲ ့ႀကသည္...

သူတုိ ့လုိက္နာခဲ ့ေရွာင္ႀကဥ္ခဲ ့ႀကတာေတြကေတာ ့ေဆးလိပ္မေသာက္ၿခင္း၊ေန ့စဥ္ကုိယ္လက္လွဳပ္ရွား

ေလ ့က်င္ ့ခန္းၿပဳလုပ္ၿခင္း၊၀ုိင္၊အရက္စသည္ကုိအသင္ ့အတင္ ့မွ်သာေသာက္သံုးၿခင္း၊အိမ္ေထာင္ၿပဳၿပီး

ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္စြာေနထုိင္ၿခင္း ( တစ္ခ်ဴိ  ့ဘုိးသက္ရွည္ဘြားသက္ရွည္တုိ ့ကေတာ ့အိမ္ေထာင္မၿပဳပါ...) စတာ

ေတြပဲေပါ ့....

ဒါေပမယ္ ့အသက္ ၁၀၅ ႏွစ္တုိင္ေအာင္သက္ရွည္က်န္းမာေနဆဲဘြားဘြား Clara Meadmore ရဲ ့အသက္

ရွည္ၿခင္းအေကာင္းဆံုးလွ်ဴိ  ့၀ွက္ခ်က္ကေတာ ့အိမ္ေထာင္မၿပဳ၊ေယာကၤ်ားသားမ်ားနဲ ့အတူမေနပဲအပ်ဴိစင္

ဘ၀နဲ ့ပဲေနထုိင္ၿခင္းပါတဲ ့....

ဘြားဘြား Meadmore က သူမဘ၀မွာလုပ္ငန္းေဆာင္တာေတြမ်ားၿပားလြန္းတာမုိ ့ခ်စ္သူရည္းစားမထား

နုိင္ခဲ ့ပါဘူးတဲ ့....ၿပီးေတာ ့သူမအေနနဲ ့ႏွစ္ကုိယ္တူခ်စ္ရည္လူးရတဲ ့ကိစၥဆုိတာအင္မတန္ဗ်ာမ်ားအလုပ္

ရွဳပ္ၿခင္းတစ္မ်ဴိးပဲလုိ ့ထင္မွတ္ထားပါတယ္တဲ ့....

ယခင္ကကုိယ္ေရးအတြင္းေရးမွဴးအၿဖစ္အလုပ္တာ၀န္ထမ္းေဆာင္ခဲ ့တဲ ့အသက္ရာေက်ာ္ဘြားဘြားက

သူမအေနနဲ ့ငယ္စဥ္ကလက္ထပ္ဖုိ ့ကမ္းလွမ္းခဲ ့တာေတြကုိၿငင္းပယ္ခဲ ့ၿပီးအပ်ဴိစင္အၿဖစ္နဲ ့ပဲရွိေနခဲ ့တာ

ကုိဘယ္ေတာ ့မွေနာင္တရမွာမဟုတ္ဘူးလုိ ့ဆုိပါတယ္...

” လူေတြကဘြားဘြားကုိေမးႀကတယ္...အဘြားကေယာက်ာၤးမယူေတာ ့အမ်ဴိးသမီးခ်င္းသာလိင္တူဆက္

ဆံတာလားတဲ ့...မဟုတ္ရပါဘူး...အဘြားအေနနဲ ့အဲဒီလုိပူေလာင္ၿပင္းၿပတဲ ့ရမၼက္ဆန္တဲ ့အခ်စ္မ်ဴိးကုိ

စိတ္လဲမ၀င္စားခဲ ့ဘူး၊စိတ္ကူးလဲမယဥ္ခဲ ့ပါဘူး....” လုိ ့ဘြားဘြား Meadmore ကရွင္းၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္..

” ခ်စ္သူရည္းစားထားတယ္ဆုိတာအင္မတန္ကုိကရိကထမ်ားသားမဟုတ္လား...အဘြားကလည္းတစ္

ၿခားအလုပ္ေတြနဲ ့ပဲအၿမဲအလုပ္ရွဳပ္ေနခဲ ့တာေလ...ရည္းစားလည္းတစ္ေယာက္မွမွရွိခဲ ့ဘူး...ထားဖုိ ့ကုိ

လည္းစိတ္ကူးထဲေတာင္မထည္ ့ခဲ ့ပါဘူး....”

”အဘြားတုိ ့ေခတ္တံုးကေတာ ့သမီးရည္းစားေတြဆုိတာလက္ထပ္ၿပီးအိိမ္ေထာင္ၿပဳၿပီးမွအတူေနႀက၊အိပ္

ႀကတာကုိး....အဘြားမွာရုိးရိုးသားသားခင္မင္တဲ ့အမ်ဴိးသားမိတ္ေဆြေတြရွိတာေပါ ့....ဒါေပမယ္ ့ရုိးရုိးက

ေနတစ္မ်ဴိးတုိးၿပီးခ်စ္ဖုိ ့၊လက္ထပ္ဖုိ ့တုိ ့ေတာ ့လုိတယ္လုိ ့ေတာင္မေတြးထင္ခဲ ့ပါဘူးကြယ္...”

”အခုေတာ ့ေခတ္ႀကီးကၿမန္လုိက္တာ...လူငယ္ေတြကုိေတာ ့လုိက္လုိ ့မမွီ...နားကုိမလည္နုိင္ေတာ ့ပါဘူး...

အရင္တံုးကနဲ ့လံုး၀ကုိကြာၿခားခဲ ့ၿပီေလ...အဘြားကအသက္ ၁၂ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ကတည္းကအိမ္ေထာင္မၿပဳ၊

ရည္းစားမထားေတာ ့ဘူးလုိ ့ဆံုးၿဖတ္ခဲ ့တာေလ....အဲဒီကတည္းကဒီဆံုးၿဖတ္ခ်က္ကုိဘယ္ေတာ ့မွေနာက္

ၿပန္မဆုတ္ခဲ ့ဘူး....”  လုိ ့ဘြားဘြားကရွင္းၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္....

ဘြားဘြား Meadmore ကုိ ၁၉၀၃ ခုႏွစ္မွာ Glasgow ၿမဳိ  ့မွာေမြးဖြားခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္... Victoria ဘုရင္မႀကီးကြယ္လြန္ၿပီးႏွစ္ႏွစ္အႀကာမွာေပါ ့.....အဘြားဟာ ၁၉၁၂ ခုႏွစ္မွာကမ ၻာေက်ာ္တုိင္တန္းနစ္

သေဘၤာႀကီးနစ္ၿမဳပ္ခဲ ့တာနဲ ့ပထမကမ ၻာစစ္ႀကီးစတင္ၿဖစ္ပြားခဲ ့တာေတြကိုလည္းသိခဲ ့မီွခဲ ့တာေပါ ့....

အဘြားအသက္ ခုႏွစ္ႏွစ္မွာသူမတုိ ့မိသားစုဟာပထမအီဂ်စ္နုိင္ငံ၊ အဲဒီေနာက္ကေနဒါ နုိင္ငံနဲ ့ေနာက္

ပုိင္းမွာနယူးဇီလန္ နုိင္ငံတုိ ့ကုိေရႊ ့ေၿပာင္းအေၿခခ်ေနထုိင္ခဲ ့ပါတယ္...အဘြားအသက္ ႏွစ္ဆယ္ေက်ာ္

မွာေတာ ့အဂၤလန္ကုိတစ္ေယာက္တည္းၿပန္လာခဲ ့ၿပီးကုိယ္ေရးအတြင္းေရးမွဴးနဲ ့အိမ္ေထာင္ထိန္းအလုပ္

ေတြကုိလုပ္ကုိင္ခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

” အဘြားတုိ ့ေခတ္ကတည္းကမိန္းကေလးေတြဟာအိမ္တြင္းပုန္းမေနပဲအၿပင္ထြက္ႀကတာမုိ ့အဘြားဟာ

ကုိယ္ ့ဘာသာကုိယ္၀င္ေငြရွာၿပီးကုိယ္ ့ကုိယ္ကုိထိန္းေက်ာင္းေနလာခဲ့တာပါ...အဲဒီတံုးကေယာက်ာၤးတစ္

ခ်ဴိ  ့ကမိန္းကေလးေတြဒီလုိအၿပင္ထြက္အလုပ္လုပ္တာကုိမႏွစ္ၿမဳိ ့ႀကဘူးေလ...ေနာက္ေတာ ့အဘြား

လည္းအိမ္ေထာင္ၿပဳသင္ ့တဲ ့အရြယ္ကုိလြန္ခဲ ့တာေပါ ့.... ”  လုိ ့ဘြားဘြား Meadmore ကေၿပာၿပပါတယ္..

ဘြားဘြား Meadmore ဟာရည္းစားထားမဲ ့အစားသူမရဲ ့အခ်ိန္ေတြကုိစာဖတ္ၿခင္း၊ဥယ်ာဥ္ပန္းမာန္စုိက္

ပ်ဴိးၿခင္း၊ခ်က္ၿပဳတ္ၿခင္းနဲ ့ေရဒီယုိနားေထာင္ၿခင္းေတြနဲ ့ကုန္လြန္ေစခဲ့တယ္လုိ ့ဆုိပါတယ္...

သူမရဲ ့အိမ္နီးခ်င္းမိတ္ေဆြအသက္ ၇၂ ႏွစ္ရွိ Josie Harvey က သူမဟာငယ္ငယ္ေလးကတည္းကသူမ

ရဲ ့မိခင္ကုိသူမအေနနဲ ့ဘယ္ေတာ ့မွေယာက်ာၤးေတြနဲ ့အတူေနၿပီးအိမ္ေထာင္ၿပဳမွာမဟုတ္ဘူးလုိ ့ေၿပာ

ခဲ ့တာပါ...သူမဟာတစ္ကယ္ ့ကုိလြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္နဲ ့အမွီအခုိကင္းကင္းေနထုိင္ခဲ ့တာပါပဲလုိ ့ေၿပာ

ၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ေယာက်ာၤးတစ္ေယာက္နဲ ့ဘယ္တံုးကနဲ ့မွနီးနီးကပ္ကပ္မပတ္သက္ခဲ ့လုိ ့ဒီေလာက္အသက္ရွည္ႏုပ်ဴိေန

တာၿဖစ္မွာပါ....သူမ၀ါသနာပါတာေတြလုပ္ေနနုိင္တယ္...သူမရဲ ့မိတ္ေဆြသူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြရွိတယ္...အဲဒါ

ေတြရွိယင္သူမဘ၀ၿပည္ ့စံုေနၿပီ...ဘာမွမလုိေတာ ့ဘူးလုိ ့ထင္ပါတယ္လုိ ့သူကဆက္ေၿပာၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

သူမဟာဘာမဆုိသူမစိတ္ႀကဳိက္လုပ္ေလ ့ရွိၿပီးအဲဒါကလည္းအသက္ရွည္တဲ ့အေႀကာင္းတစ္ခုၿဖစ္ပါလိမ္ ့

မယ္...ဘြားဘြား ဟာ ေရဒီယုိအသံလႊင္ ့အစီအစဥ္အမွတ္ ၄ ကုိအၿမဲနားေထာင္ေနေလ ့ရွိတာမုိ ့တစ္ခ်ဴိ ့

လူငယ္လူလတ္ပုိင္းေတြမသိတဲ ့ကမ ၻာ ့သတင္းေတြကိုေတာင္သိရွိေနတတ္ပါေသးတယ္...

ဘြားဘြား Meadmore ဟာအတြင္းေရးမွဴးအၿဖစ္သင္တန္းတက္ခဲ ့ၿပီးဒုတိယကမ ၻာစစ္ၿဖစ္ေတာ ့အီဂ်စ္နုိင္

ငံမွာအေၿခစိုက္တဲ ့ၿဗိတိသွ်စစ္တပ္ထဲမွာရံုးလုပ္ငန္းအုပ္ခ်ဴပ္မွဳတာ၀န္ေတြကုိထမ္းေဆာင္ခဲ ့ပါတယ္...သူမ

ဟာလူငယ္သဟာယအသင္းရဲ ့ပထမဦးဆံုးအဖြဲ ့၀င္တစ္ေယာက္ၿဖစ္ခဲ ့ၿပီးအမ်ဴိးသမီးသိပၸံအဖြဲ ့အစည္းရဲ ့

တက္ႀကြတဲ ့အဖဲြ ့၀င္တစ္ဦးလည္းၿဖစ္ခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

သူမရဲ ့သက္ရွိထင္ရွားရွိေနေသးတဲ ့အနီးစပ္ဆံုးေဆြမ်ဴိးဆုိလုိ ့နယူးဇီလန္မွာရွိတဲ ့တူမႏွစ္ေယာက္သာက်န္

ပါေတာ ့တယ္တဲ ့....သူတုိ ့နဲ ့ဘြားဘြားဟာအခုအထိေတာ ့စာအဆက္အသြယ္ရွိေနႀကပါတယ္...

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Over the years many a centenarian has delivered their secret for a long life.
Not smoking, daily exercise, moderate drinking, being married (and sometimes not being married) have all had their champions.

But, at the ripe old age of 105, Clara Meadmore could trump the lot: a life of celibacy.
Miss Meadmore says she has always been too busy for relationships and thought of physical intimacy as a 'hassle'.

The former secretary, who will celebrate her birthday tomorrow, said she had no regrets about remaining a virgin and had turned down several marriage proposals.

Miss Meadmore said: 'People have asked whether I am a homosexual and the answer is no. I have just never been interested in or fancied having sex.

'I imagine there is a lot of hassle involved and I have always been busy doing other things. I've never had a boyfriend - I've never been bothered about relationships.'

She added: 'When I was a girl you only had sex with your husband - and I never married.

'I've always had lots of platonic friendships with men but never felt the need to go further than that or marry.

'Everything seems so fast these days. I don't know a lot about young people or the way they do things. I'm sure it's very different. I made my mind up at the age of 12 never to marry and I've not gone back on that.'

Miss Meadmore was born in Glasgow in 1903, two years after the death of Queen Victoria. She remembers hearing about the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and the outbreak of the First World War. Her family emigrated when she was seven, first to Egypt, then Canada and later New Zealand. But Miss Meadmore returned to Britain alone in her twenties and worked as a secretary and housekeeper.

She said: 'I grew up in an era where little girls were to be seen and not heard so I had to learn to stand up for myself and earn my own living.

'Some men don't like that in a woman and before long I was too old to marry anyway.'

Instead of boyfriends, Miss Meadmore filled her time with reading, gardening, cooking and listening to the radio.

Yesterday her friend and former neighbour Josie Harvey, 72, said: 'When she was a little girl she told her mother that she would never marry and for Clara no marriage meant no sex. She is fiercely independent.

'Maybe never having a man to get under her feet has kept her young all these years. She has her hobbies and her friends and that is all she needs.

'She has always believed in doing things her own way and that has allowed her to live a long life. Clara listens to Radio 4 all day long and knows what is going on in the world better than most people in their 30s.'

Miss Meadmore trained as a secretary and served in the Army, undertaking administrative duties in Egypt during the Second World War. She was one of the first members of the Youth Hostel Association and a keen member of the Women's Institute.

Her only surviving family are two nieces in New Zealand who keep in touch by post.

Miss Meadmore will celebrate reaching 105 with a card from the Queen and a glass of wine with her friends at the Perran Bay nursing home in Perranporth, Cornwall.

But she is determined not to let things get out of hand. 'I'm hardly likely to get drunk and do something silly at my age,' she said.