| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 1/31/2009 4:59:46 AM | Getting old is a wonderful gift. You should never fear later stages of your life. Look after your bodies, don't smoke, drink too much or take drugs, keep an active lifestyle and don't spend your life chasing fad diets and you should be alright..
..Ohh, and read as much as you can, watch a great deal of films and travel. Makes getting older alot of fun :) | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 2/1/2009 6:10:49 AM |
Getting old is a wonderful gift. You should never fear later stages of your life. Look after your bodies, don't smoke, drink too much or take drugs, keep an active lifestyle and don't spend your life chasing fad diets and you should be alright..
I know you have the best of intentions with the above statement, but where were you when i needed this advice 30yrs ago...oh yes that would be 1yr old.  | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 2/1/2009 6:48:52 AM |
Look after your bodies, don't smoke, drink too much or take drugs, keep an active lifestyle and don't spend your life chasing fad diets and you should be alright..
Ok, I'll start on Monday!  | |
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Naamah
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Joined: 11/1/2008
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 2/1/2009 4:09:46 PM |
Getting old is a wonderful gift.
The gift that keeps on giving? The gift of wrinkles, grey hair, balding, lessening vision, increased nostril hair, brittle bones, memory loss, cankles, and dodgey tickers. Yeah thanks for the gift, it's just what I always wanted...now where's the returns & refunds counter?  | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 2/1/2009 5:26:16 PM |
..now where's the returns & refunds counter?
I like that idea! Unfortunately, that probably means there's something with it... but, what the he!!..
Automated booths at major hospitals that work on a scaled refund principle. Or maybe it could be done on a points system, like opening a bank account?
FOR REFUND - INSERT WRINKLES
So that ONE X-Ray showing hardening of the arteries, or a bone density readout showing 70% of the mass has been lost would be good for several years regression, but a few wiry nostril hairs would only get the clock wound back a couple of days.
Still, if you could produce receipts for a years worth of 'Depend©', plus a big bunch of nostril hair, a cankle and two cataracts that would equal a hip replacement plus arthritis so you'd zip right back to your youth!
mmm... How would they counter the inevitable fraud? There'd need to be a verification system....
Aha!!!
FOR REFUND - INSERT DOCTOR
(lyingcheat rushes out to register business name and patent) | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 2/1/2009 7:14:43 PM | Lol....I'm 59 and feel great! Life is good, I'm happy, have a lot of fun just being me. When I look in the mirror I smile. I love the person on the other side.
Living in Florida does have its drawbacks as most of us are sun worshippers and bathe in it during the summers, but wisely. We wear sunscreen, eat a lot of broccoli, red peppers, fruit and wine.
I simply love life and drink it in. Its that joy of living and happiness that gives you the charisma that transcends whatever chronoligical clocks that may be ticking.
Roller coasters, the ocean, parties, Disney, Universal......now I sound like a travel brochure...sorry.
To honestly answer your question, NO, I love the skin I'm in and the mind to boot. Fish is good, vitamin E, great sex, love, great ale..... | |
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| Bring it on!!!!
Posted: 2/2/2009 2:24:51 AM | I am 40 this year....... and don't care as I am finding I am having more fun now than I did in my 20's and early 30's....
To celebrate I am going to Egypt for Christmas, my 40th and New Years rather than having a party. Should be the start of a great chapter.....
Scared of growing older..... Hell No!!!! Living and loving it.....BRING IT ON!!!! | |
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Posted: 2/2/2009 9:14:06 AM | One of the nicest things about getting old is having no interest in proving anything to anyone. In time you grow tired of ego and wonder why you ever bothered to have one.
You've made it emotionally with your kids and mates and various hangers' on, which puts you in your own, and their, 'inner'. You've taken life and shaken and moulded it to suit your own character and personality, apologized for your mistakes and always did better next time.
You no longer judge, or need to discipline or rule. You don't give a rats bottom about winning disputes or debates. You have come to understand yourself and to be tolerant of others, remembering that you were once there. You look back, not at what you have lost but what you have gained. You are secure perhaps in material things but value these far less than the knowledge and insights you have acquired. You treasure the small scrapings of wisdom.
You have become a great friend and confident having at last come to truly understand that 'It really is better to give than receive'. You fear little, least of all what the morrow will bring, knowing with confident ease and certainty that you will overcome. Best, the very bestest of all..... You have learnt how to cherish. You have learnt how to care. | |
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Posted: 2/2/2009 10:16:30 AM | | You can't change the fact that you are going to get old.So live long and prosper.Can't remember where i heard that.However the extra hairs that grow out of your ears is annoying. | |
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Posted: 2/2/2009 11:49:21 AM | | I meet the most amazing people day in and day out in Hospitality and they are the senior citizens - I hear the most wonderful stories of their lives, grieve with them when a loved one dies, help them if required but be their friend and LISTEN to them. It seems the younger generation are more for me and forget about those around us that may welcome your smile or a little chat to make their day - it doesn't take that much of an effort and remember we are all going to that OLD place eventually | |
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Posted: 2/2/2009 7:01:18 PM | Getting old?? Man, I can't wait.
Once you get old enough the world forgives you for things like peeing your pants, dribbling you drinks and farting in public.
I've been waiting since I was a toddler to be able to get away with this again!!  | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 2/3/2009 12:44:00 PM | I agree with you hilly1971 I am afraid I this aging process and there is nothing we can do about it. Not even just about the looks but just how we think and have to dress. The age approiate thing. I have to stop myself somtimes and say "Nah, you cann'tt wear that your to old. And being single as a older women is tougher because your availabitiy is limited. But we have to deal with it and its tough really tough at times.
Secret I have but its not really a big one, but Skin Care products are important and lots of sleep and less stress. And a good hairdresser.
Aging in Silenace
Justnuff | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 2/4/2009 10:26:57 PM | MINIMUS METATARSAL AND MORTALITY
Fifth form, half formed, malformed,
born curled, tucked under it's perfect neighbour.
Its hat, its shell, its growth of dead cells
painted blue or red over foul fungus yellow
is split in half from hockey and ballet and
too too tight tower heels.
The shoes were beautiful.
The toe always ugly.
Pretty shoes a triviality,
the toe still necessity.
So
bending over, twisting round and
cramping in post subtle arthritis
I kiss its salty plum thereness
before I cannot anymore. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 2/5/2009 12:15:26 AM | | MM old age yes such a dilema, well actually the effects are already hitting us as we speak. As for me i get out of bed after at least 8 hrs( which i need every minute of) walk around the house for a few minutes to loosen up the joints a bit. Then its the breakfast decisions ( what can i eat that wont upset my stomach?) But first ill have to stick my head in a bucket of cold water to really get me going. Ok that done and ive had my weaties with soy of course due to my lactose intolerance im ready for dressing. Got the shoes on ( woohoo the gout in the toes isnt to bad today, it will be a good day) pull on the pants squeezing up the expanding waistline ( might try for an extra hole in the belt today so i look better) Ok that done, time to get into the sedan, but first wheres my prescrition glasses, cant drive with out them, ok now im ready, slide in to the seat adjusting my back support pillow to ease the lower pain, there im done ready to go. Now if i can just turn my head enough to reverse without pulling a muscle. So this is old age....mm well not to bad i guess if this is as bad as it gets? | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 2/14/2009 2:38:26 AM | | Hilly i am 61 and mother of 6, all I can tell you is that to feel young is to be young. Genetics are also a big help but you can't control that. lol. I am always around younger people and refuse to dress like a nanna!. As long as I can fit size 10 I will continue to wear it, music is another thing that breaks the age barrier, I was with a man 11 yrs younger than me for over 30 years not sure what I would do with someone my own age, but would like to find out trouble is they all want 45 yr old women , dream on guys lol. Go with the flow Hilly and have fun that is where it shows, in your attitude and outlook no matter how many expensive creams you buy, good luck and stop stressing out, it gives you wrinkles, Avriljane | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 2/18/2009 7:45:46 AM | Here is what I say to getting older ...  ... it is only a number. One is only as old as they feel. I am 58 years of age and I can't wait to hit the 60 mark. (So that when people ask and I tell them, the expressions on their face is priceless). Everyday is a new adventure, a challenge, something to look forward too. Make everyday memorable.
Later,
Al. | |
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| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 2/18/2009 8:34:50 AM | I don't feel any older now than I did when I was 30. Sometimes I look in the mirror and notice a small line or two and I think, "where did that come from"? I never think of myself in terms of "age".
My mindset isn't geared toward a natural progression downward, more it is in the mindset of upward mobility as time passes. Each day passes and the changes, if there are any are infinitesimal. Maybe colletively they make a small appearance, but just a small one.
I've seen 20 and 30 somethings with bags, wrinkles, pot bellies, unkempt, scruffy hair, blotchy, acne scarred skin, bad teeth and I think "someone would prefer them to someone my age who looks so much better and is in such better shape than that??!!"
So, spending another day on Planet Earth, is just that. I live in the present moment and don't even think about tomorrow or next week. If at some point in my life I found myself in a walker, I would probably wonder, "how the heck did that happen??" | |
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atikin
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Joined: 12/29/2008
Msg: 150 | |
| How do you really feel about getting old?
Posted: 2/18/2009 9:59:09 PM | | I work in the nursing home and very well aware of the aging. The good thing is once you are there you certainly are not occupied with the thoughts that you are having now. The most important thing for them is to have someone to assist with ADL's. They are not obsessed in any way of being old There is a lady in the facility who is 105 y o and she enjoys every single day as everyone of us Of course in her own way So age gracefully and don't be fooled about any aging creams They won't stop the process of aging. I personally believe that the food we consume is the most important factor of keeping you healthier but also genetic factor has a big part on our look. Who knows someone of us can get dementia and forget all about the look. | |
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