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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/10/2009 12:59:29 AM | If you are going to chaperon outings for the elderly then I am afraid that these kind of things are going to happen.
hmmmmmmmmmm.... noooo. carry on... I'll stand here whilst you remove your boot/foot from your mouth...
But... dosen't that boot tread hurt ya tongue?
deep..sigh...... I reckon .. you are gunna smell like sheep dip.. by the end of the month...
I spoke to my bro this week.... hmmm. was telling him.. how I had suddenly noticed..I'm the last single person I know....
and how disenchanting it was.. to hear/see...most.. think online dating is the new way to meet...
considering ... my town has few single males....
sighs..
He lovingly..informs me ... 'Well you are considered past your used by date"
thanx bro.....
I said...fuk noooooooo.. I'm like the good fine china... kept high up on the shelf..... granted .......... covered in dust....
and Only ... ever used.. on special occassions..
sigh..
can't wait for the next occasion..
hope someone licks the pattern offa me...
after a fine meal.....
ps.. havent seen many men... admit to their aging changes.........???
we all know they go through them.. but we..... are too polite to mention them?
yep we are.. we love our boys......but we know....
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/10/2009 1:25:48 AM | Hilly has of course taken that comment entirely out of context. We were surrounded by ten year olds at the time.
If you are going to chaperon outings for the elderly then I am afraid that these kind of things are going to happen.
If I didn't have to go get ready (and it takes a while at my age) for my date this evening I'd take the time to hang around and crucify you. Still, these things are best done in cold blood...and the older we get the colder the blood... (OK I just made that up but it could be true)..now, where was I...at my age I lose track of which stage of the evil I am up to...oh yes...muahahahahaha.
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/10/2009 2:06:26 AM | ^^^Well obviously if you were the other forumite, and who would have guessed that, then there must be a more plausible alternate explanation. 
I am confident that if we went and had a look, which we will never do, we would find that high up on the wall behind the bar, exactly were you two were standing there are hanging two ancient and fascinating examples of ornithological taxidermy.
These young men who just happened to be there and were coincidently able to see these exhibits from were they were sitting, were without doubt members of a bird watching club for the hard of hearing and so when they drew each others attention to these examples of the taxidermists art they did by necessity did so loudly and you have simply misunderstood what they were referring to.
So obviously this unfortunate event could have had nothing to do with you; I for one am entirely persuaded.  | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/10/2009 5:47:37 AM | Well it does expand the list of pick-up lines in the pub Hilly. When I was meeting 30 somethings I can lead with "So who's looking after the kids?" and with the 40 somethings "So are you here to pick up the kids?" and then duck of course .......
Wait until they turn you away at the door telling you that "sorry but you're too old for our crowd." Happened to my mate recently and he looks in better condition that I do. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/10/2009 4:19:13 PM | I just keep telling myself everyday, that I am not old, that I am still an idiot, and that I still make stupid mistakes, like thinking that I am old.
It works for me. So does keeping active, meditating, and ignoring b*llshit shows that talk about getting old ...
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/10/2009 4:30:37 PM | Its funny the amount of guys you see that dye their hair, stay well shaved, getting facials, even a bit of surgery.......
its amazing what they'll do to get a r#$t
earn your stripes and be proud to wear them......... | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/10/2009 4:32:47 PM | | I for one am glad I'm getting older - it means that I've had experiences that I wouldn't have had if I was younger. Sure the body objects a little more to some of the things that I attempt to get it to do, my eyesight isn't as good as it once was and I'm a little more hirsutely disinclined/follicly disadvantaged - but each experience I have becomes just that little more memorable. That and the fact that I'm a little further along the path as to figuring out what I want to be when I grow up.... | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/11/2009 2:15:55 AM | getting old, mmm...had to think about that today at a birthday BBQ .
for 3 Octobians... me being one of them, the host a lady friend and her daughters BF... all born within days of eachother... a spread of starting dates though...
I don't feel 54.. my lady friend doesn't seem 50 to me, and the young bloke 25 ... looked like where we still think we're at,I suppose...
though the scene was interesting... a brand new baby girl, 3 smaller girls, a 17 yr girl, 2x 22 yr old girls, one a mother, 4 of their mothers ,one who is the new granny, though one of the other mums is a granny too, the young father, and an old mate who lives at the house as partner of the birthday girl... and me... centre stage, head of the table lapping it all up having a ball.... hugs and kisses from all the girls......old friends telling you what a great bloke you've been over the years and can't believe some lucky girl hasn't snapped you up.... yadda yadda.... 
It's been ages since I've been surrounded by so many women of all ages happy sitting around at a big veranda table all chatting across a table .... happy and laughing ...    ... a good day to be 54...
the cold, used, BBQ ignored at the far end of the veranda ....without the huddle of hubbys talking footy and cars around it..... smelling more of satay green prawns than steaks and snags.... ....
it was quite a treat to see 3 generations of women together... the baby was happy and hardly made a peep.. just got passed around all the ages of women and girls without a fret... and seeing the young women you have known since they were kids grown up and starting to have kids themselves.. or swearing never to....  ...
the world is old, we just get to walk around on it in a flash of time, really....  | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/11/2009 4:14:03 AM | | I feel....not very happy at all about it let me tell you what or something(I say in my most convincing Pakistani accent).It might not bother me so much if I were with a lifetime partner who had already come to love the man inside the failing body,but this is not so.So the older I get and the more it shows, the more invisible I feel .I still have faith in who I am,it's just that the possibility of being discovered seems to become more remote. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/11/2009 4:43:36 AM | I actually feel pretty good about getting older given the alternative, turning 50 does make one reflect on the past and marvel at ones good fortune at still being here. Being a motorcyclist for as long as I can recall I have carried my share of friends in coffins and having been raised, in an interesting suburb, I have known more than a few young people who didn’t make it through their youthful experiments with drugs.
To these can be added those young people whom I have known or heard of from others close to me, unexpectedly snatched from life and love and a seemingly rose coloured future, by tragic accident or pitiless disease, gone in a moment leaving behind bitter sweet memories and often the halves of precious hearts that might never again, be well acquainted. 
I imagine that anyone who is lucky enough to get this far will have much to be grateful for and I am sure but for a moments reflection would come to appreciate that truth, hidden from the eyes of youth, the life is short, joy is fleeting, love is rare and that friendship in all its forms lies at the very heart of everything that is of any real importance, everything that invests our lives with any sense of purpose and dignity.
The thing that I am most grateful for is the circle of women that have surrounded me since the moment I opened my eyes upon the world and how with each passing year we all come to look just a little more like Sean Connery but happily I seem to be the only one it’s really working for.   | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/11/2009 5:17:06 AM | | Ahh Scholar.You are right of course. There is so much in my world for which I am grateful and I wouldn't trade this experience for anything.But to answer the question posed,I felt it necessary to expose the feelings that lie in the darker recesses of my heart.For the most part...day to day ...these feelings remain hidden and have little impact on my cheery disposition..but,upon investigation I find that... they carry some weight. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/13/2009 1:33:40 AM | Its not thegetting older, its the assumptions of others, all of a sudden after years of successful career raising chilren, the mob beieves I cant think for myself, and boy when you get to 65 (a week ago) not even the guys are interested, I am a smart, youthful woman in my prime....well thats what I think....Its hard to accept when you don't feel the age, that you are chrologically, I feel 40ish...never mind, I continue to live my luife to my best and give them heaps if they treat my OLD...ITS WHATS IN YOUR HEART AND MIND THAT COUNTS | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/15/2009 9:43:44 PM | woohoo I now have a job....ish. Poncing about in Pig and wolf and fat costumes in front of school kids. It is so much fun. I am, bar one young lad, the youngest in the cast. two 80 year olds, another in mid 70's and whilst bits are not working...dicky hips, one has only one lung...damn they put me to shame both in fitness and joi de vie. The woman, like the above poster is above 60 and her feet show how nursing takes it toll yet even though she cannot move fluidly, during exercises you can so see how she used to fly around the room and in her minds eye she still does and because of this you genuinely do not notice how difficult it is for her....it's all in the acting darlink!!!!. Their humour is honest, relaxed, gently bawdy and generous for life's foibles and mistakes and I for one not only admire their eternal youth but sincerely hope I too will be the same. And agree the assumptions of others especially the young is ludicrous and the young miss out on valuable, informative and occasionally wise friends.
As for Sean Connery.......he is a complete and utter B.......how dare he just get sexier and sexier and sexier......sincerely think that there are a lot of women in this world who would even consider necrophilia during his funeral....ewwwww what an image. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/16/2009 1:33:01 AM | Hilly do you really worry about all those things?
I have to admit I don't. I have 3 children to tend to and one day I looked in the mirror and saw my first wrinkles around my eyes and thought "wow........I am getting older". But to be honest I'm ok with it because I was always the one who got asked for ID when I was 18 and 20. Spent years trying to prove my age.
Also I was one of those teenagers that had to endure oily skin which often was followed by pimples so now at the almost ripe age of 50 I can say I love the skin I'm in now!
I don't like the fact that my once perfect breasts don't sit where they once did but hey I still don't mind myself too much....................LOL. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/16/2009 4:04:15 PM |
Hilly do you really worry about all those things?
Umm...yes....But we have already ascertained many pages ago, that caring about how you look is directly proportional to your lack of personality...so moving right along.....
I have a theory thats not going to be popular but my care factor is low...so meh.
How hard ageing hits you is dependent on what you had going on in the first place. For example....
Menopause is coming. Apparently when women hit menopause they get hairy chins, stack on the weight, lose their waists and end up looking somewhat like an Esky on legs.
Now for women who have always had beards and been shaped like a Besser block this is probably of very little consequence to them. In contrast, a woman who has always had a slim, shapely figure and a hairless face is going to be pretty horrified by this occurance.
The same goes for ageing. If you were young and ugly, getting older and uglier is probably of very little concern to you....you know no better. Where-as if you were young and attractive and made your looks work in your favour, then the decline in them can come as a really hard blow.
I can only console myself by thinking that the really stunning women are doing it far harder then me!!  | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/16/2009 4:53:59 PM | ^^^Indeed beauty is a visa not a passport; it expires.
I expect that there are more than a few people who finding themselves single and looking for the first time in more than twenty years are surprised to find that their attentions are no longer received as if they were someone to whom the angels never said no. I suppose at least in this respect things have a tendency to balance out in the end, just like boobs, pert in the beginning and like a golf ball in a sock at the end.
I take some comfort in that often claimed idea that while men are predominantly enchanted through their eyes, women are predominantly enchanted through their ears.
Though, for some reason I always seem to find myself talking to women who must be hard of hearing. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/16/2009 6:24:25 PM |
The same goes for ageing. If you were young and ugly, getting older and uglier is probably of very little concern to you....you know no better. Where-as if you were young and attractive and made your looks work in your favour, then the decline in them can come as a really hard blow.
I can only console myself by thinking that the really stunning women are doing it far harder then me!!
My Grandpop used to use Elizabeth Taylor as an example of the same concept...he thought her the epitome of beauty in her youth, and always said it must be incredibly difficult for such a stand-out gorgeous woman to watch her looks fade and her body bloat up, and just become...another middle aged woman. And yes, if good looks have been a visa in your passport, you will inevitably miss them when it expires.
And I have noticed that middle aged people will often tell you how they used to look this way or that way, whether it's face, skin, hair, breasts, butt, muscle tone...whatever it is they feel has most declined. That's an indication there is some sense of loss being felt....just before they reaffirm that they don't feel any older than they once were. I don't think any of us feel older....it's just that we're all at the mercy of biology, and it says otherwise.
On the upside...I find my vision is deteriorating at an increasing rate now...so I assume that this will make it harder to see the wrinkles forming. Woohoo! | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/17/2009 6:11:55 PM | | Naamah it's not a sense of loss that my boobs have moved somewhat more a fact of nature..................I would never consider surgery to change them or anything. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/17/2009 7:39:18 PM | It's gonna happen!
I chose to milk the positives to the limit, such as the fact that nothing fazes me any more:-
In fact I actually get to embarrass my kids in retribution for all those times in public when they were little and I was the one with the red face ! 
My self confidence now allows me to be the first out on the dance floor stone cold sober and I can go clubbing in the same mode, drinking water all night...(this act accomplishes para one above admirably)
I get to feel good that my daughters borrow my clothes knowing that for myself at the same age, there was nothing in my Mother's wardrobe that I would have been seen dead in. | |
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