This is my great grandfather, he's 100

in #life8 years ago

I do not have any living male ancestor but this guy.

My father and both of my grandfathers died, but my great grandfather doesn't plan to leave this life soon.
Yesterday, my little cousin had a first Communion. And my great grandfather was one of guests. We celebrated his hundredth birthday last year. But there is something strange with his age. The church files say that he was baptized in 1916. His father died in World War I, in 1918. But the great grandfather claims that he remembers his father. How could he remember his father if he had only two years when hi father died? There wasn't any legal documents about birth of my great grandfather, only church documents. That's why we believe that he was baptized when he already had two or three years. And that means that he is older than hundred now.

So, this is him. In our family we call him Papa Smurf!

He spent his youth working at the shipyard. When he was around forty years old, he suffered a heavy head injury on his work and spent few months in coma. So he got a large pension from the state and he didn't work again in his life. My grandma remembers how she was helping him to start to walk and talk after the accident.

This is him with his daughter, my grandma.

He has six living children, 17 grandchildren, 38 great grandchildren, of which I am the oldest one. He was driving a bicycle until two years ago, when his sight started to fail him. When they ask him how he managed to live so long, he would say that it's all in fried sardines and in two glasses of red vine every day.

Here is the photo of him with my mom and uncle.

If everything will be fine, for two months he will become a great great grandfather! A legendary selfie with me:

Stay well, great grandfather! Live another 100!

Thank you!

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He's so adorable! your grandfather remembers me to the grandfather of a friend, he used to be a very active man, never stopped studying, at the age of 80 he made a master degree and if he hast died we would be doing the second. He died with 2 careers, several specializations and masters, and not because to find a job, he studied because he loved learning.

Old age can't break some people

Wow, I can only imagine seeing witnessing 100 years of innovation and progress. Have you told him about Steemit?

Yes, but it seems that he stuck to TELETEXT

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thanks :)

Special family :D

Long live the grandfather! and i hope you live that long too!!

Amazing! Those are some good genes he has to live to that age. I bet you really like talking to him, there's so much wisdom that the elderly can give us.

Yes, and he speaks so clearly! He usually says wise quotes like: better to be old than drunk, or better to know than have

You're so lucky to still have him! I'm a firm believer in the medicinal value of a couple of glasses of red wine too. Which country are you guys from?

I am from Croatia, but the point is that the most of us have our own domestic wine :)

Cheers to you and your family! Have fun Steeming!

I would go insane if I had to deal with humans for 100 years

Well, he managed to deal with them very specifically. He hears and sees what he wants to hear and see

He sounds like my kind of guy

Say Hi to grandpa !! I am sure he is enjoying life with you and the family. :)

sure I will :)