The secret to living to be 103 revealed: 'I've never had a boyfriend... and I always eat my dinner'

ဘြားသက္ရွည္ရဲ ့အသက္ရွည္ေႀကာင္းလွ်ဴိ ့၀ွက္ခ်က္ကေတာ ့....

တစ္ခ်ဴိ ့ေသာသူေတြကေတာ ့အသက္ရွည္ရာအနာမဲ ့ေႀကာင္းနည္းလမ္းေကာင္းမ်ားအတြက္ ေနာက္ဆံုးေပၚ
သိပၸံနည္းပညာေတြ ့ရွိခ်က္ေတြကုိအားကုိးႀကမွာၿဖစ္သလို တစ္ခ်ဴိ ့ကေတာ ့အစားအေသာက္ခ်င္ ့ခ်ိန္ေရြး
ခ်ယ္စားေသာက္ၿခင္းကုိ နားလည္တတ္ကြ်မ္းသူေတြဆီက နည္းလမ္းေတာင္းခံကာအားကုိးတတ္ႀကပါလိမ္ ့
မယ္...
ဒါေပမယ္ ့အံ ့ႀသဖြယ္ရာ အသက္ ၁၀၃ ႏွစ္ၿပည္ ့ခဲ ့ၿပီၿဖစ္တဲ ့ဘြားသက္ရွည္ ဂလက္ဒီဂုိး ကေတာ ့သူမရဲ ့အ
သက္ရွည္ၿခင္း လွ်ဴိ ့၀ွက္ခ်က္ကုိ အေဖာ္မမွီး၊တစ္ကုိယ္တည္းေနၿခင္းဆုိတဲ ့အပ်ဴိႀကီးအၿဖစ္ကုိ ရည္ညႊန္းနည္း
ၿပ ေၿပာဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
Stoke-on-Trent အရပ္က သက္ရာေက်ာ္ဘြားဘြားက သူမဟာ အမ်ဴိးသားေတြကုိ စိတ္မရွည္၊ သီးမခံနုိင္
လို ့လက္ထပ္ၿပီး သားသမီးေမြးဖုိ ့မဆုိထားႏွင္ ့ရည္းစားေတာင္တစ္ခါမွမထားခဲ ့ပါဘူးလို ့ဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

" ဘြားဘြားအသက္ဘာေႀကာင္ ့ရွည္...အပ်ဴိႀကီးလုပ္လို ့ရွည္..."

ဥာဏ္ေကာင္းတယ္၊ ခင္မင္ႏွစ္လိုဖြယ္ရွိတယ္၊ ဟာသဥာဏ္ရွိတယ္...ဒါေပမယ္ ့အပူမရွာခ်င္လို ့

က်ား ဆုိ တစ္သက္လံုးေ၀းေ၀းကေရွာင္တယ္...

The key to longevity: Gladys Gough celebrates her 103rd Birthday at Selbourne Care home, Coventry. She has wit, charm and a sense of humour but has avoided relationships all her life

အဘြားဟာတစ္ေနရာထဲမွာ အၿမဲကုပ္ကပ္မေနပဲ သူမရဲ ့အစ္မၿဖစ္သူႏွင္ ့အတူတစ္ကမာၻလံုးအႏွံ ့ေ၀းလံသီ
ေခါင္၊ ထူးဆန္းအံ ့ႀသဖြယ္ေကာင္းကာ လူသူအေရာက္အေပါက္နည္းတဲ ့ေဒသေတြကုိေလွ်ာက္သြား၊လည္
ပါတ္ပါတယ္.... ၿပီးေတာ ့ညစာလည္းမၿဖစ္မေနစားပါတယ္...
အဘြားဂလက္ဒီ ေနထုိင္သည္ ့လူအုိရံုမွ ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားကလည္း အဘြားဟာ ခင္မင္ႏွစ္သက္ဖြယ္ေကာင္းပါ
တယ္လို ့ဆုိႀကပါတယ္...
တစ္သက္လံုးအပ်ဴိႀကီးအၿဖစ္ေနလာခဲ ့တဲ ့အဘြားကေတာ ့ ဆန္ ့က်င္ဘက္ပုရိသ၊ က်ားေတြနဲ ့ဟုိဟုိဒီဒီ မ
ပါတ္သက္ပဲ ေရွာင္ေနနုိင္တာသည္လွ်င္ သူမရဲ ့အသက္ရွည္က်န္းမာၿခင္းရဲ ့လွ်ဴိ ့၀ွက္ခ်က္ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္လို ့အ
ခုိင္အမာယံုႀကည္ေနဆဲပဲၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

" အဘြားက ညစာကုိအၿမဲစားၿဖစ္ေအာင္စားပါတယ္..အစားအစာကုိလည္းေကာင္းေကာင္းမြန္မြန္ၿဖစ္ေအာင္
ဂရုစုိက္စားပါတယ္...အဘြားမွာ ရည္းစားလည္းမရွိခဲ ့၊ အိမ္ေထာင္လည္းမၿပဳခဲ ့ပါဘူး...ဒါေႀကာင္ ့လည္းၿဖစ္
မွာပါ...ေယာက်ာၤးေတြကုိဆုိယင္ စိတ္ရွဳပ္ကုိမခံခ်င္တာပါပဲ..." လုိ ့သူမကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

အိမ္ေထာင္ၿပဳမယ္ ့အစားအဘြားဟာကြယ္လြန္သြားခဲ ့ၿပီၿဖစ္တဲ ့အစ္မ ၿဖစ္သူနဲ ့ကမာၻအႏွံ ေလွ်ာက္လည္

သြားလာရတာကုိပဲ ပိုမုိႏွစ္သက္ခဲ့ပါတယ္...

Singledom: Gladys and her late sister Edna opted for globetrotting over married life

သူမတုိ ့ညီအမဟာ ကြန္းေကာ ့ဒ္ ေလယာဥ္ႀကီးနဲ ့ေဟာင္ေကာင္၊ ဆြစ္ဇာလန္ စတဲ ့နုိင္ငံမ်ားဆီအပန္းေၿဖ
ခရီးသြားခဲ ့ႀကပါတယ္...
လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ေၿခာက္ႏွစ္ကစၿပီး ဘြားဘြားဂလက္ဒီဟာ စတုတ္ခ္ အရပ္ရွိ ဆဲလ္ဘြန္ကုတ္ ရိပ္သာမွပဲေနထုိင္ခဲ ့
ပါေတာ့တယ္...
ဘြားဘြားကုိ ၁၉၀၈ ခုႏွစ္မွာ နုိ ့စားႏြားလုပ္ငန္းပုိင္ရွင္ မိခင္ၿဖစ္သူ အဲလ္လစ္ႏွင္ ့ဖခင္ၿဖစ္သူ ဟယ္ရီတုိ ့မွ
စတုတ္ခ္အရပ္ ဘရုိက္တန္လမ္းေနအိမ္မွာေမြးဖြားခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
သူမငယ္ရြယ္စဥ္မွာ အစ္ကုိၿဖစ္သူေသဆံုးသြားခဲ့ၿပီး ၁၉၉၇ ခုႏွစ္ အသက္ ၈၅ ခုႏွစ္မွာကြယ္လြန္သြားခဲ ့တဲ ့
အဘြားလိုပဲ အိမ္ေထာင္မၿပဳပဲေနခဲ ့တဲ ့အစ္မၿဖစ္သူ အက္ဒနာ နဲ ့ပုိၿပီး သံေယာဇဥ္ႀကီးခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
အဘြားရဲ ့မိတ္ေဆြ အသက္ ၆၆ ႏွစ္ရွိ အန္းတယ္ေလး ကေတာ့အဘြားတုိ ့ေမာင္ႏွမေတြဟာ တစ္ဦးကုိတစ္
ဦး အလြန္သံေယာဇဥ္ႀကီးႀကပါတယ္လို ့ဆုိပါတယ္...

" ဂလက္ဒီနဲ ့အက္ဒနာ တုိ ့ဟာခဲြမရေအာင္တစ္ပူးတဲြတဲြနဲ ့ရွိေနႀကပါတယ္...သူတုိ ့ဟာညီအစ္မတင္မက
အခ်စ္ဆံုးသူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြဆုိလည္းဟုတ္ပါတယ္...သူတုိ ့ႏွစ္ဦးဟာအၿမဲမခဲြပဲအတူတူေနၿပီး ဘာမဆုိအတူတူ
လုပ္ကုိင္ႀကပါတယ္...အက္ဒနာဟာလည္းအိမ္ေထာင္မၿပဳခဲ ့ပါဘူး...သူတုိ ့ဟာအဲဒီလိုေနရတာကိုပဲသေဘာ
ႀကပံုရပါတယ္...
သူတုိ ့ႏွစ္ဦးရွိေနယင္က်န္တာဘာကိုမွမလိုအပ္ေတာ့သလိုပါပဲ...အခုအခ်ိန္ေတြမွာေတာ ့သူမဟာ အစ္မၿဖစ္
သူအက္ဒနာကုိ သတိရလြမ္းဆြတ္ေနမွာ ပါပဲလို ့ထင္ပါတယ္..." လို ့ေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
အဘြားရဲ ့ေနာက္ထပ္မိတ္ေဆြတစ္ဦးၿဖစ္သူ အသက္ ၈၄ ႏွစ္ရွိ ဂ်င္းခေရာ့စ္ ကလည္း " ဂလက္ဒီနဲ ့တစ္
သက္လံုးသိကြ်မ္းရင္းႏွီးလာခဲ ့တာပါ...ငယ္ငယ္ကေလးဘ၀တံုးကဆုိကုိယ္ ့ကုိသူက ကေလးတြန္းလွည္း
ေလးေပၚတင္ၿပီး လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ထြက္ေလ ့ရွိတာေပါ ့...
သူကေယာက်ာၤးမယူပဲ ကမာၻ ့နုိင္ငံေတြအႏွံ ့ေလွ်ာက္လည္ေနတာေလ...သူမေရာက္ဖူးတဲ ့တုိင္းၿပည္မရွိ
သေလာက္ပဲလုိ ့ကိုထင္ပါတယ္...
သူကခ်စ္စရာလည္းေကာင္းသလို ရယ္စရာလည္းေၿပာတတ္တယ္...ဥာဏ္လည္းအင္မတန္ေကာင္းတဲ ့အ
မ်ဴိးသမီးႀကီးပါ..." လို ့ေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
လူအုိရံုရိပ္သာအုပ္ခ်ဴပ္ေရးမွဴး ရွရြန္ရုိလ္ဆန္ကလည္း " အဘြားဂလက္ဒီဟာ တစ္သက္လံုးရည္းစားမထား၊
ေယာက်ာၤးမယူခဲ ့ေပမယ္ ့ ( တစ္ခ်ဴိ ့အပ်ဴိႀကီးေတြလို ရတာမလုိ၊ လိုတာမရလို ့ဇီဇာမေႀကာင္ပဲ ) ခင္မင္ႏွစ္
လိုဖြယ္ေကာင္းလွပါတယ္...သူမဒီမွာရွိေနတာကုိက ႀကည္ႏူး၀မ္းေၿမာက္စရာပါပဲ....သူမရဲ ့၁၀၃ ႏွစ္ေၿမာက္
ေမြးေန ့ကုိက်င္းပခြင္ ့ရတာကုိပဲ အထူး၀မ္းေၿမာက္လွပါတယ္..." လို ့ေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ယခင္ကလည္းရည္းစားမထားတဲ ့အသက္ရာေက်ာ္ရွည္အဘြားတစ္ေယာက္အေႀကာင္းသတင္းေဆာင္းပါး
တစ္ပုဒ္ေရးခဲ ့ဖူးပါေသးတယ္...
ဒီအဘြားပဲလားေတာ ့မသိဘူး၊ ဒါေပမယ္ ့ေရးခဲ ့တာမ်ားၿပီမုိ ့မမွတ္မိေတာ ့ပါဘူး...
တစ္ကုိယ္တည္း၊ အပ်ဴိႀကီးၿဖစ္ေနဆဲ မိတ္ေဆြ မမ မ်ားကုိရည္ညႊန္းၿပန္ဆုိပါတယ္...


Some might turn to the latest scientific findings or dietary advice to help them prolong their life expectancy.
But Gladys Gough, who has reached an incredible 103 years old, puts her longevity down to her single status.
The centenarian from Stoke-on-Trent says she couldn't be bothered with men and has never had a boyfriend, let alone married or had children.
Instead of settling down, she travelled the world with her sister, visiting far flung and exotic countries, and made sure she always ate her dinner.
Staff at the care home where Gladys lives describes her as a 'charmer'.
But the life-long singleton maintains its her avoidance of the opposite sex which could be the secret to her long and healthy life.
'I always eat my dinner. I've always made sure that I've eaten well,' she said.
'I never got married or had a boyfriend either. That probably had something to do with it. I just couldn't be bothered with men.'
The globetrotter travelled in luxury by Concorde, holidaying to destinations including Hong Kong and Switzerland.
For the last six years Gladys has been a resident at Selborne Court retirement home, Stoke.
She was born in Brighton Street, Stoke, in 1908 to mum Alice and dad Harry, a dairy owner and milkman.
Her brother died when he was young but Gladys was extremely close to her elder sister Edna, who also never married and died in 1997 aged 85.
Friend Anne Tilley, 66, says the siblings shared a special bond.
'Gladys and Edna were inseparable. They weren’t just sisters, they were best friends too.
'They lived together and did everything together. Edna never married either and I think they liked it that way.
They had each other, they didn’t need anybody else. I think she still misses Edna after all these years.'
Another friend Jean Cross, aged 84, of Stoke, said: 'Gladys has known me all my life and used to take me for walks in the pram when I was a baby.
'She never married but has been to so many countries, I can’t think of many places she hasn’t been to.
'She’s so lovely and has a great sense of humour. She is very witty woman.'
Care manager Sharon Rowlson said: 'Although Gladys never had a boyfriend or husband, she certainly is a charmer.
'She’s a joy to have here and we’re pleased to see her celebrate her 103rd birthday.'