| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/24/2007 8:49:54 PM | I don't like getting old, but since I haven't found the fountain of youth, I don't have much choice in the matter! 
My older sister passed away in Jan, and my younger sister is fighting cancer. It makes you realize that no matter what the age, we are blessed to have each day, regardless of our age.  | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/24/2007 9:23:49 PM | ...Today I feel every year of my age...it swear every bone in my body is aching, so I took a couple of tylenol and heading off to bed hoping to feel better in the morning. But thats part of the point I'm trying to make, tonight I'm feeling sorry for myself and even sorrier that I'm turning into an old bag...so goodnight and goodluck.
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/24/2007 11:52:45 PM | Friendly lady....you've said it for ALL of us, with the tact and compassion that seems to evade me on occasion  . I think it IS important to seek some higher value in the time left that we're allotted....we are definitely mortal, it's a shame most don't notice until it's too late.
Mae sweetie...the weather's changing, don't forget to keep an umbrella in the car  | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/25/2007 4:26:27 AM | Thanks Rusty Traveler, I always had to act as the mediator between pointing out my mother's feelings to my father and my father's feelings to my mother and seeing both points of view and that taught me tact and compassion. In high school, my guidance counselor told me that I would have a great career as a mediator but I liked computers more! As for tact and compassion evading you at times, I read the post I think you are talking about and it took guts to lay your feelings out honestly. A little overboard maybe but that's because I think you have a lot of love to give if a man with depth comes along............so hang in there! We all get fed up with the shallowness at times!
And Mae, you aren't an old bag by any stretch of the imagination...........you are a wonderful person. I can't imagine how you work as a branch manager and still find time for those kids............no wonder you are tired! a 30 year old would be tired with your responsibilities and yet you always add a smile to the posts here!
God bless both of you! | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/25/2007 3:04:55 PM | I LOVE being old. I've raised two sets of children. Worked full time while going to school nights and raising kids by myself with no child support. Volunteered in the community. Commuted through hair-raising traffic. Sat in cubicles until I thought my ankle was chained to my desk. For YEARS. I wouldn't go back to those hard years for anything.
I deserve every one of my gray hairs and all the respect that goes with them. The great thing is -- we (all of us) survived all this. I've come out on the other side, sliding down the ski-slope toward retirement. I know a few things (very few ), still love people, I'm healthy, happy, and now I have time for me and time for a relationship. Long live we old farts! Still breathing and celebrating each moment of life.   
Sweetie | |
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Posted: 10/25/2007 7:34:34 PM | I just want to know why the "H" couldn't my eyesight go first? Then I wouldn't have to "look" for the woman of my dreams I would have to "feel" for her.
No! I had to lose my hair and then get arthritis. OHHH the world is so cruel! | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/25/2007 7:56:53 PM | | I'm just fine until the 28-year old in me looks in the mirror and wonders what that old lady is doing there!!! | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/25/2007 7:58:16 PM | How do I feel about getting old?
Today I feel crappy about it.
I feel like there's hardly a reason to even keep on going.
I feel like what is there left ahead?
I feel alone. I feel old. I feel discarded.
Ah yes, I know, it's just a pity party.
That's what I get when I get hung up on "feel".
And yes, I know........ tomorrow will be another day. | |
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Posted: 10/25/2007 8:07:40 PM | I am 50 and I am not getting old. If you think you are old...you will be...if you think I should not do something because I am too old to do that...you are getting old even quicker...if something hurts I will stop doing it...we will have our pains from past injuries but if you ever sit in that chair and refuse to get out and move and stay limber....you will die in that chair. I refuse to think old to me old is when they throw the dirt over my face then I am old until then I am going to live and do. Maybe not as fast maybe not as good as I use to could have done something but I will not stop from trying. Yes we are not the hare in the race anymore but I remember the turtle won because he never gave up and just stopped.
I have wrinkles beside my eyes the native americans called them "Wisdom tracks" and that is what I call mine. The white hair on my head is like the mighty mountian that has stood the test of time and is still standing with its ice cap on top...it does not move very fast either but it still stands and anyone looking at it still sees that it is strong because of its age! | |
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Posted: 10/25/2007 8:22:18 PM | I would post a reply, but this man ^^^ posted what I would've. No point in repeating.
Outstanding totum_spirit and well said.
Getting older in life is like anything else you will come across; you get what you give and this stubborn Irish bull will give old age one hell of a run for its money. | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/25/2007 9:05:44 PM | | It's all about the attitude. It's only a number. I am having the best time of my life! Kids are grown, I answer to no one, & sex is the best! | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/26/2007 12:52:38 AM | Mac,
Glad you're enjoying your activities, but hope to God you didn't base a divorce on whether or not a spouse went clam digging, etc. A marriage should transcend those types of things. It's a committment and it's not all fun and pleasure. If that's how you feel (note the "if"), you had no business marrying *anyone* in the first place. | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/26/2007 2:25:37 AM | | Re: getting old....... hmm..... not much fun can't believe it's in progress in other ways, i don't care why fight the inevitable? kinda depressing, i guess | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/26/2007 6:59:55 AM | For me " getting old" is a state of mind. I never really think about it.
Age is just numbers and growing old a option I do not plan to take for many years to come. Just be who you are, enjoy life, and remember-- in my case anyway- LIFE began at 50 | |
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Joined: 7/1/2007
Msg: 240 | |
| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/26/2007 9:22:07 AM | I have no problem with it. What is the alternative?? I wouldn't want to be 20 again, just starting a career (no good jobs out there). THEY (20's) will have a long hard road ahead, just to stay ahead.
Age is in the mind, and I don't mind getting older | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/26/2007 10:18:28 PM | Growing older is better than the alternative (being dead)!
Age and time are perceptions born out of living somehwhere other than in the moment. Meanwhile the gift of the moment is lost - too bad!
I suggest live now and stop wasting time contemplating how old you are - you'll regret it when you're 90  | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/27/2007 11:43:37 AM | Older and Wiser . .
I'll be Much Younger . . once I find that Special Lady . . !!!
[ I dispise being Alone . . !! ] | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/27/2007 11:48:50 AM | | Relationships do make you feel younger. My friend was a widow and she met a guy and I hardly recognized her the next time I saw her..........she had been getting kind of dumpy and frumpy and boy, she met him and she lost weight and she glowed and giggled......I was so happy for her! | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/27/2007 11:40:22 PM | I'm more surprised than anything. Really I don't think about it much. Though I have to admit that when I look in the mirror and see a new wrinkle.....I say "oh yes, I guess I have to expect that, I'm 65". Reality sets in. I look my age but don't feel my age and guess I am luckier than a lot of people as I don't have the usual aches & pains that go along with ageing.
My mother is well over 85 and is the youngest person I know. She is always looking forward to new experiences and activities. So if I have another 20 years to look forward to, I figure I can pack a lot of life into them. Sharing those years with someone would be twice as sweet, though not essential.
As to getting old, everyone gets their turn. Deal with it!
I am enjoying the journey.
Skylit1
Oh well, everyone get their turn. In the meantime | |
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Joined: 5/11/2006
Msg: 246 | |
| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 10/28/2007 3:41:33 AM | I couldn't wait to turn 50 in Aug,, I just had this wonderfull feeling that this is the year . I always try to look my best, and the best thing you can wear is an outward smile and an inward glow.   | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 11/14/2007 10:00:28 AM | I agree with you.......I feel as though I have been sitting on a shelf just waiting to be opened, tasted. I have so much to offer, and so much more to learn, explore. With each day that I wake its a new beginning.............I love life even with its small hurdles from time to time.
There is a song with a phrase........".I wake in the morning and I step outside, I take a deep breathe and I get real high...........", thats me. | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 11/14/2007 10:59:45 AM | I was thinking of starting a new thread entitled, "What's wrong with being old?".
I love being in my 50's. I don't have to worry about kids. I don't have to worry about cleaning the house or cooking or doing the laundry on top of working all day........
I don't have to worry about making it in a career...........
I can take off if I want to and spend a day doing whatever I want.
I'm not sensitive anymore or easily hurt like I used to be when I was younger. I've learned to laugh and not take things too seriously.........life is too short not to enjoy it and have fun........
In a way, as a woman, even growing older and having guys think that women my age should be dating men who are 100, just makes me laugh and even FREES me........I don't really care what men think anymore. I'm secure in who I am.........I like who I am. If a guy loves me today, I know he really loves ME and not just sex or my body.
And that's a great feeling when it happens........ | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 11/14/2007 6:24:24 PM | | I just turned 64 Sunday and the only thing I worry about is not getting older.I play golf and I still hit it 300 plus so age really is just a number and besides the older the violin the sweeter the music. | |
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