| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 11/19/2007 3:42:50 PM | "I don't know any women who would do that........"
Wow! A statement that has almost left me speechless.
Women don't want to travel alone. Women don't take off with same sex friends to do things?
Oh yes, we do. The day I can't walk anymore, will be the day I stop, and get a wheelchair so I can keep on doing all the things I that I want to do whether I am alone or not.
If I had decided to wait for my next love to show up after my late husband died, I think there is a strong possiblity I would be dead by now...........dead in spirit anyway.
I never thought about about life would be like at 50 (or any other age) I just keep being excited about the present and the future. | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 11/19/2007 5:24:37 PM | I obviously phrased that wrong.........I meant that I don't KNOW any women that do that so I have no one to do that with............ All my friends are married and they do it with their husbands. If I knew some women that I could do that with, I would do it in a heartbeat! | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 11/20/2007 5:19:10 PM | I made it to 54 so far and in good health. I am blessed!! My mom passed at 46 and my dad at 54. I will be 55 next month, December. I never thought I would outlive my parents!!
Man when I was young, all the pot smoking and partying was great!! But getting older is bettter. More wisdom, better friends, and integrity are all plusses.
Keep going girl, and you will reep all the rewards.
Nancy | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 11/20/2007 5:31:29 PM | Years ago I imagined my life at year 2000, me being 46 years old. I imagined to be healthy, in great shape, in a wonderful relation and living in a most wonderful place with a great home.
Well, I was right about year 2000 for most part. I was a little short about the relation bit...but only by a few years.
I am now 53, having a ball. I am in a wonderful relationship sharing great activities and experiencing life to the max, tons of laughter and the best sex ever. Really. This is being in my 50's? I love it.
Oops...forgot about the money thing. LOL
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 11/20/2007 7:45:32 PM | ...Hmmm don't think so. I imagined myself still happily married to the perfect husband, with perfect children, and a perfect home....well 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 11/21/2007 11:57:24 AM |  ~~~~Hi, i am 55 years old now and i feel no different than when i was in my 40s~~~~ Most people think or guess my age in the mid 40s ~~~~ which i try to take care of myself and my looks as much as possible ~~~~ I have a physical type job and that helps me a lot to stay in decent shape ~~~~ Thanks for the opportunity to express myself about this topic ~~~~~Boo | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 11/21/2007 1:10:18 PM | I am 50...but still think and behave like 30. 20 years passed...but that did not affect me.
I keep in shape and eat right and still have my sense of humor....
I am not ready to go to the old folks home yet.....or hang out at the pier and just sit there all day fishing.
The had a party for me since I turned 50...they call it the BIG FIVE OHH.
Please..some 40 years look and act way older than me.  . The have big beer bellys..and if they tried to walk up a flight of stairs ...they would run out of breath. | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 8/20/2009 5:38:10 PM | Okay, so I am very ole school. I , after tHe age of 50, am finding myelf enjoying it. I never thought I would still be this active. Life is great and I intend to live it to the fullest. My hat is off to all the Boomers out there who are still taking It for all it is worth! | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 8/21/2009 12:41:13 AM | i fost/adopted three teens at 50. i had no time to think. last three years, who woulda thought. i tell my kids and i've said this before on pof: go to college, get a good job, raise your families and then you will have plenty of time to date and meet the right mate when you reach 60! they think i am hilarious. well, i tend to agree.
if you are having a hard time at fifty, don't sweat it. you have a good ten years to get into the swing of things!  
namaste. | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 8/21/2009 2:24:23 AM |
The day I can't walk anymore, will be the day I stop, and get a wheelchair so I can keep on doing all the things I that I want to do whether I am alone or not.
Hey, that's MY line!
And that's just what I do, too. | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 8/21/2009 3:00:55 AM | ^^^ 
I never imagined life at 50 because I never thought I'd live that long..lol..
No, it's not what I would have wished for myself, that's the truth.
Don't get me wrong: I'm happy and content with a great deal of it..my family, my work.
I just didn't imagine I would be single at this age. I guess none of us did. | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 8/21/2009 6:44:14 AM | If someone would have told me that at 56, my life would be like it is, I would probably have tried to have him or her commited to an asylum.
But "it is what it is", and we make the best of it! | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 8/26/2009 3:44:30 PM | I can remember thinking in the 1970s "Wow, I'm going to be 45 in the year 2000!" I remember thinking about how I would be nearly 50 in the year 2000. But I did not have any clear or specific expectations of what life would be like when I was 50....it seemed so far away in the future. However, I did have dreams, hopes, and many of those I have achieved. My life in my 50's has been and is the best time in my life--except for having lost two very dear loved ones with whom I wish I could share this current life. The only thing missing from my life at this point is someone with whom to share it. Otherwise, it is all I had hoped for, and, I think, probably more than I expected. I'm still kind of in awe that I have the life I have. | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 8/26/2009 4:22:22 PM | I did not expect to be this alone......but really, I am at fault.
Kind of sad. But I adjust to it.
Can't wait till I can retire though. And having no one else to support is a good thing. | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 8/26/2009 4:58:57 PM | don't think that I considered what my life would be like at 50 ... at 50 in reality, I was freshly divorced and having the time of my life ... new house ... great cars ... teen-aged kids ... lots of friends and dating ... mixed with dance recitals, swim meets and other kid-things ... I really had a lot of fun during my 50s !!!
by 60, tho ... when I was a kid, I thot that, by 60, I'd be happily living on a farm with a cow-milkin, egg-gatherin, tractor-drivin husband! I thot I'd bake all our bread, can our vegetables and fruits, make jams and jellies ... and the children and grandchildren would come for all the major holidays and sometimes just to say "hi" and grab cookies ...
in other words, I thot I'd have my grandparents' lives!
surprise! my life is NOTHING like that! but that's ok ... it's still fun ... and it would be even more fun with a man-type-person to share it with ...
so ... I haven't reached nirvana yet!
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 8/26/2009 5:03:43 PM | Never in a million years did I think being in my fifties would be like this. The good part...parenting is less, confidence is better, knowing what is important and what isn't, still having my parents and watching my first grandchild grow are all wonderful.
Being alone...yet feeling I have so much I want to give to my next relationship and have figured out what works and doesn't work for me in a relationship is the hardest part. I didn't think at this age it would be so difficult to meet a normal man for me. In many ways this could be the best part of life...freedom from parenting, tons of time to devote to the right guy to spoil and pamper, time to travel and just enjoy my partner in every way and yet I am, like so many others on here, a decent, loving woman who is alone. Oh well,,,so many in the same boat; can't figure out why there are so many people on here and yet so many alone people on here!! Weird! | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 8/26/2009 5:35:08 PM | blondegirl24
can't figure out why there are so many people on here and yet so many alone people on here!! Weird!
It's because almost everyone on this site went to their 30-40 class reunion and felt they looked better than everyone there ...They also think that they look 10 years younger than they really do . We say on POF we act a lot younger than we really are but usually that's just arrogance talking . I have been trying very hard to feel the way I did in my twenties where I had values in people and kindness . We can't take anything we have acquired to the grave with us . We dated we laughed we loved we played what happened ? It felt good thinking I could make the world a better place .That's where I thought I would be with my free SO spirit exploring life together..
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 8/27/2009 9:16:48 AM | When I was much younger, I thought all the best things in life would happen well before 50, and that by 50 I'd probably just be comfortable and perhaps a little dull.
Now that I'm 50-ish, I must say that my younger days were less happy, and more driven by superficial externalities. In the last several years, I'm much, much happier, in a far, far better relationship, have more and better sex, go more places, have more and closer friends, and have a lot more fun in just about every way I can imagine compared to my younger self. And yes, I'm more comfortable - with life, finances, and self - and probably less dull than I was years ago too! | |
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