| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 12/30/2008 1:27:34 AM | Old age is like a plane flying through a storm.
Once you are onboard, there's nothing you can do.
YOu cant stop the plane, you can't stop the storm, you cant stop time.
So one might as accept it calmly and wisely.
(written by someone who died in 1978) | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 12/31/2008 4:12:30 AM | suicidal..............................................................
when i hit 40.. i figure.. cruise, drugs,****ails and hopefully ill forget that i just entered another decade. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/23/2009 10:21:58 PM | I hate driver license renewal birthdays: I have one coming up next week. Just something about being reminded that another 5 years have gone past when you get the expiry notice in the mail.
Issue for me isn't so much about feeling I'm getting old: I'm in better shape physically than I've been in years (though I admit I have traded in the Dove in favour of the expensive stuff that promises to "smooth and define").
It's more a feeling that time is speeding up just at the time I feel comfortable with life and want more time to savour the good stuff (Except on Mondays. Oh - and Friday afternoons! Oh - and time seems to last an eternity these days if I get a hangover or have to stay up past 2:00am! And I'm still really impatient at times!). I guess the older you get then relatively time does actually go faster (e.g. a year lasts 10 times longer for a 4 year old than a 40 year old).
Did just realise today though that in Qld you can renew on-line and don't have to update your photo (I look like a stunned mullett in the current one though, albeit a younger one). | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/24/2009 12:17:49 AM | Finally a topic that doesn't require intelligence or emotion depth, and here i am in a position of "perhaps" greater understanding. You see I turn the big FIVE-ZERO in the next few weeks (a half century always sounds so great against the poms at the SCG) ...stops to raise bat in the air and acknowledge the crowd...lol.
Back on topic I'm looking for a way to write my body off for a whole day without causing anymore long term side effects.
All suggestions will be great fully considered. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/24/2009 12:28:13 AM | | well good post well i must a mite i am not handling turning 30 this year it makes me feel so old because i have not done anything i mean i am kind of scared and sad as i have not had children yet something i really want to do and because i have been married and divorced i think i feel older | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/24/2009 12:43:36 AM |
I'm looking for a way to write my body off for a whole day without causing anymore long term side effects.
All suggestions will be great fully considered.
I reckon you could use some Ketamine hydrochloride...It's veterinary drug used to anaesthesize animals, a dissociative drug, I think it's used to anaesthesize animals bodies without rendering them unconscious.
It can make you feel like you're detached from reality, and allow you to have 'out-of-body experiences.
The only problem is, occasionally it may make you believe you're a pterodactyl and attempt to launch yourself off the roof of your house.
EDIT: Hmmm maybe b64babe's skydiving suggestion is a little better...but whatever you do, don't combine the two! | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/24/2009 12:45:38 AM |
Back on topic I'm looking for a way to write my body off for a whole day without causing anymore long term side effects.
Have a look at www.redballoondays.com.au
Lots of options there from sky-diving, through motor racing to day-spa's (day spa packages for men too). Didn't look at where you are but this site has stuff all over Oz. I received a day-spa gift from here to xmas and my son a run in a rally car.
I'm leaning towards a pampering for my day: did the mid-life reassessment not that long ago and the only long-term side effect was a tattoo (at least I have a spare heart now, incase the original gets broken  ). We've made it this far (though I'm only turning 45) so I don't think we have to prove our toughness at this point.
Whatever you do, hope you have a good day!!  | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/24/2009 4:08:33 AM |
I'm 75, work out in the gym with a trainer regularly, run 3 days a week, work, travel extensively, have sex, participate in intellectual pursuits and can do almost everything now I did when I was 30.
OMG I AM old, I am 35 and I am sure I only do one of the above mentioned activities
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/24/2009 5:01:48 AM |
I reckon you could use some Ketamine hydrochloride...It's veterinary drug used to anaesthesize animals, a dissociative drug, I think it's used to anaesthesize animals bodies without rendering them unconscious.
It can make you feel like you're detached from reality, and allow you to have 'out-of-body experiences.
Sounds very familiar to my psych nursing party days, does it make the colors appear to run out of the curtains and wine bottle labels till your literary preying for reality to return. 
Never trust a nurse.
Whatever you do, hope you have a good day!!
From one fellow Aquarian to another I hope you find the perfect solution with regards to indulging your every whim.
OMG I AM old, I am 35 and I am sure I only do one of the above mentioned activities
Question is which one of the fore mentioned things. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/24/2009 5:14:58 PM | Ahhh that would be the most boring one that most people do,,, which is work
Ohhh I am so exciting 
All though I do play netball and try to take my dog for a walk every second day, it is by no means running or doing a workout. As is probably the same thing for most people on a singles sight,, sex what is that???? Intellectual pursuits,,,,well I work in child care and I spend all day talking to 3 year olds. It gets a little embarrasing when I am out in the adult world and someone does something a little wrong and I say umah!! instead of something more adult like. As for travelling,,, that is still something I plan on doing. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/24/2009 7:35:14 PM | | I use lanolin. It works for me as I have partied too hard and it fills the cracks and crevises. Also, how do I feel about aging? You are only as old as the man you are feeling....I think that is what Mae West said. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/29/2009 9:50:21 AM | I have to admit there are times that I feel really sad that I have reached the age I am (56 years young) and want to wear clothes or dance to the music that the kids dance today. I feel when you get a certain age you have to act more age approiate. And I dont feel good going into the clubs with alot of the younger people and being the only older person there. I know this sounds all silly but if you think about it how many 56 years old should be still wearing a bikini, or short skirts, or hanging out at a club with the ages being mostly 40 and under. And my children are 37 and 34 years young and i dont think they would like to hear there mom out there hanging in pubs with younger people. I love the music of today very much so, and I love to dance, and I still like some of the clothes but I dont think its proper of me to dress in things that are not age approitate for me.
Have a gr8 day
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/29/2009 3:50:16 PM | I have many thoughts on this subject..
One of the best things they could teach to children even at primary school age is how to manage the stress in their lives.....how to chill. To me mindful of general health and well being and to embrace their inner child throughout their lives. My choice to relax comes with dancing to music and swimming in the surf because both impart a sense of elation and remove thoughts that might be worrying me..(bit like mediation or a buffer zone time)
I have had heaps to do with the elderly and you can see the difference in people who are interested and interesting ..the eyes of a vital 90 year old can still look like those of a youth.
If we ponder the reason" why we live at all".....rather than worrying about aging and dying...which is inevitable and the other is rather a mystery...the body is in balance with so many systems having to co-ordinate and so many factors affecting it...we are a remarkable work of art and we should care for the art work.
I worked for 4 months in a cosmetic physicians clinic....it was a real eye opening.
Botox injections have to be repeated around 3 monthly to be effective.....and the best results come from starting them earlier than the wrinkles have begun to form......however, in actual fact you are paralysing your face muscles and it has only been used for this reason for 15 years which is not a big time in medical history......I did not like handling the substance and was anxious re handling the face fillers which are just not a nice substance. Most who came through the doors needed in my humble opinion referals to psychologists moreso than the actual treatment....and an ethical doctor might have eased them in that direction. It was a pandoras box of bad practise...scary even!
So, it is MOVE it or lose it for me.
If you have botox you cant move your face in certain areas which must affect the blood supply to the area......???.......(in the end they look plasticated)
REDUCE stress............
Limit exposure to SUN......but get some.
We run on OXYGEN........so drop the cigs.
One cigarette halves the blood supply to the skin for a full hour afterwards..so I have been told.
Eat well......but not to excess.......cleanse your system sometimes.
Skin.......stop it from losing moisture......(this includes men )
the hemp range of skin care esp the facial one from the body shop is a good one...even to treat skin conditions....have recommened it a lot to those with problems. Point is not to lose your own skins natural oils etc.
I have found a rice based cleanser........ leaves my skin feeling the lightest .
Tip.......don't sleep on your face......I think it is obvious when someone does and the time they do it for......tends to leave a crushed looking face or deep creases. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/29/2009 5:12:46 PM | My name suggests that I may have some sort of resignation or acceptance of encroaching ossification leading to death. I have stopped colouring my hair because I cannot remember it's real colour and want to see it before I go totally white. I have found unlike my redheaded kids that I am light reddish brown and I like the white streaks going through it. If I put my hair up and put on glasses.....I look intelligent! I like that and has been fun at Uni where the kids think I am a Lecturer...my answer "no dear, it's just that I am old and look intelligent".
As for Wrinkles.....man I grow them very well. Smoking is definately the main cause and this year vanity has kicked in and have seriously tried to give up...the best so far 24 hours. I will keep going or is it stopping. The photo on POF is honest but over exposed....ha ha no wrinkles and very flattering. Mr Freckle has the same thing going there...have to say that he has a very nice face and nothing wrong with looking element tousled and lived in. Though he can claim sun damage from beach living....I can only claim lack of poncing with beauty products, smoking and many many late nights due to kids and my art and sadly much less partying.
The teeth thing is a bugger but I do believe the old porn joke about toothless women being amazing, might if I make it to 70, be something I will experiment with.
The only thing I really hate about getting older is that I avoided doing anything when the time was ripe and now not even I want to taste the fruits that I am finally attempting to grow. Anyone for a slice of poetry and slab of painting?
The best thing about getting older...is my kids are also getting older, blossoming into gorgeous adults and eventually THEY WILL LEAVE HOME....and afford to put me into a home when the time comes. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/29/2009 7:14:13 PM | Gee thanks for that ^^^^^...., not very muchly.
I prefer to 'it' being called 'marinated by the ocean' ! 
I really don't care too much about getting older..., what's the use ? Seriously there are much more important issues to pay attention to.
Better to concentrate on laughing and playing more....., and maybe the getting of wisdom.
But a wonder plant...., for skin care and internal use has gotta be 'Aloe Vera'. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/29/2009 10:37:00 PM | My apologies for not recognising your maritime marination. My bad.
Now if a lump of wood suddenly found itself on my porch I would verily say, tis not marination, I have wrinkly cateracts.  | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/29/2009 11:51:28 PM | I never used to worry or care or even think much about getting older, I mean everyone does get older, well most people do and the alternative to aging isn't the best one...
But a few years ago, and just recently because I re-watched the dvd of the concert, I heard the lyrics of a Fleetwood Mac song that Stevie Nicks was singing with Lindsay Buckingham in a reunion concert - something like this:
Well I've been afraid of changing because Ive built my life around you
But time gets colder
Children get older
Im getting older too
etc. And it made me feel really really sad. I think it was the reference to children and wondering what I would feel like (ie lonely and sad and missing him) when my son grows up and moves away.
It's a natural progression and normal, healthy part of life but it did make me feel very sentimental and tearful.
But then Go Your Own Way came on and I was okay again... | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/30/2009 12:31:53 AM |
Tip.......don't sleep on your face
Sitting is ok though???
If you cant sit on peoples faces and vice versa then really whats the point!
Apparently though if you sleep in a hyperbaric chamber it stops you getting wrinkles.....im saving up but I may be some time yet. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/30/2009 12:42:44 AM | | lol Hilly. Reminds me of Billy Conolly who laughing his head off said "pamela will kill me for this"....more hysterical laughter and lurching around the stage...."how can I say I love you when you're sitting on my face". | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/30/2009 1:12:18 AM |
Tip.......don't sleep on your face
Damn. I always sleep on my stomach. But I figure that for the time my face is scrumpled into a pillow at least I am not smoking, and therefore it cancels the other one out.
If you cant sit on peoples faces and vice versa ...
Nope, sorry, you lost me at "vice versa". | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/30/2009 1:22:02 AM |
Nope, sorry, you lost me at "vice versa".
I did actually think about editing that bit out as its never going to happen in my world.....but appearing to be a selfish lover is the last thing I need to enhance my chances on here.
Back to the hyperbaric chamber though, apparently the super oxygenation does wonderful things for your skin....almost worth getting the bends for maybe??? | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/30/2009 5:27:55 AM | I think I'm fairly comfortable about getting older actually . . but probably not totally. That's not to say there are lots of down-sides, but there really are plenty of up-sides, too.
Mainly I find reconciling the fact that the body ages but the mind seems to stay pretty much the same can be tricky.
I get the feeling that not everyone sees it like that, too. That's probably the only significant down-side and reading this thread with all the young people worrying about it seems to confirm the view . . bugger. This reminds me of a previous thread (which shall be nameless ) where the only real option for an old geeza was to admit a degree of hopelessness . . bleedin' unfair and totally disrespectful, if you ask me. But wait . . . that thread had the same OP, so I guess there's something in that, yeah? 
There are some surprising aspects, though. I think I've got nearly irrefutable proof that many whippersnappers seem to think I automatically deserve respect. It's taken me far to long to realise this. I should have been taking unfair advantage of these young 'uns years ago. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/30/2009 7:19:20 AM |
"how can I say I love you when you're sitting on my face".
Sigh...I think poor Billy didn't listen to the lyrics of the song properly;
Sit on my face and tell me that you love me
I'll sit on your face and tell you I love you too
I love to hear you oralise
When I'm between your thighs
You blow me away | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/30/2009 9:40:14 PM | nah the lyrics got garbled traversing the Hemisphere's.
Sit on my face and tell me that you love me,
I'll sit on your face and tell you I love you,
We'll be both fine as we do the 69
So sit on my face and tell me I love you.
Jeez who would know I had three rugby loving brothers. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/30/2009 10:26:59 PM | Think i remember that tread too Faux...bl00dy cheeky young wipper snapper she is.No respect for us teeny eeny bit old fella's.
Don't know if i've answered this before,too old and lazy to look back...quiet you.
The only thing i hate about getting old is...the fact that my poor ol bod's getting more fragile.Ok so midnight games of footy with my young mates might not help.Also what fool put a tree in the middle of a park,silly place to put one.
Always liked Jimmy Dean's line...live fast,die young,leave a good looking corpse.When i was young,i liked too live to that.Now however i think...live slow,die old,leave a fugly corpse is more me.
Getting old is what you make of it.
If i have answered this tread before...give me a break...i'm old and forgetfull.
Crap!!! i've forgotten to do me housework.Its all Naamah's fault,hanging around her too long.I'm starting to find excuses and reasons not too do it.
Double crap!! i've forgotten i've had washing in the machine...umpf...wonder if thats where my cleaning cloths are. | |
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