| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/5/2007 6:44:39 PM | | I dont like knowing that there is probably many more years behind me (Im almost 50) than there are in front of me...it makes me sad. I have just in the last couple of years started to really LIVE, and common sense tells me I spent way too many years working my butt off...LOL | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/5/2007 7:00:40 PM | | I turned 58 this summer and I never really thought I was getting 'old' until I got a notice about my classes 40th reunion. My only thought was dang...well I guess I am getting 'up there' lol. Does it bother me? Heck no, aging is inevitable & gravity happens. I'm still young in my heart, have fun and keep happy. I actually got carded the other day so I could get my seniors discount at the restaurant...hehehe (The waitress was had pop-bottle glasses, but it made my day anyways, lol) No matter how old I get, I'd still much rather be over the hill than under it. | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/5/2007 7:44:34 PM | My hardest time was turning 50. I made sure that I planned my alone vacation at this time so the event came and went so quickly I hardly noticed. Now my 51st is fast approaching and it does not bother me. Being a man i think we all feel that our youth is slipping away and we are becoming less atractive to the opposit sex.
But over the past year my thoughts have changed. In todays society 50 is becoming the new 40's so I got off my ass and decided to do the things I always wanted to do when I was in my 20's. I got my motorcycle license and bought a bike "without my wifes permission" she would have said no anyway. This past year I decided I would like a chopper instead but could not find anything i liked so I built my own.
For the past 2 years the guys go on a road trip and we leave the wives behind and have a great time. Our wives love it cause it gets us out of there hair for awhile. I think that as we grow older we realize that it's not how much time we spend together but more of the quality. I have met a lot of great female freinds on our trips and it's great not to have the " you know sexual thing hanging over your head" you learn to enjoy the company your with and focus more intently on them which is great.
People - Enjoy getting older and for Gods sake live it to the fullest. If you lived this long already try taking more risks - what's the worst that can happen - the boney guy comes a little earlier but man what a ride that was! | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/5/2007 8:03:16 PM | | I was gonna say Hate It, but I really don't. I wouldn't trade my experiences just to be younger. What I really hate is when I think or act old....... | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/6/2007 6:02:28 AM | on 17th september I will have 40 years but inside of me I don't feel that I'm older...it's very strange...
shore the thing (fisicly) that I was doing wher I was 20 years old I can't do it with 40 but mentaly and with spirit I feel the same.... | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/6/2007 11:36:09 AM | Twelve years ago, the summer I bought this place, and began building my own house (no! not "contracting" -- actually building with my own shovel, string/stakes, hammer, nails, etc.), Helen Nearing, of "Living the Good Life" fame, aged 92, died in a car accident on her way to town. NPR interviewed her neighbors, and asked did they think if she'd gotten to 100, that she would have just stopped eating like Scott did? Her neighbor said: " I think Helen really would have hated it if she'd ever gotten old. . . ." I then, and now, hope that when I'm 92 *someone* will say the same of me. . . .
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Joined: 1/15/2007
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/6/2007 5:52:02 PM | The age thing is all in the mind, although physically we still feel that we can all do the same things that we did when we were younger, we can't. The mind harps back to the good times, in my case the 60's. I can't twist, drink as much, not as funny, I'm just perceived as a sad old git, albeit, now a very well educated one, as I have gone to University and got my degree, which I would never got when younger. There is quite a lot of positives to been older, but it might take a bit longer to get there | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/7/2007 8:07:16 PM | | My aunt is turning 100 in a few days and what I feel at present is I hope I am around when I turn 100 and still can think laugh and cheer people up and perhaps even flirt a bit | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/7/2007 10:39:46 PM | GETTING OLD SUCKS.........the big one.......I honestly believe that youth is wasted on the young.....
Growing old alone.........sucks worse
Enough Said..... | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/7/2007 11:14:36 PM | ...Accepting...most of the time. There are days when I feel a tad reminiscent, wish I could go back, but then again I suspect most people get like that every once in a while. The saddest thing about aging is the people you leave behind or lose. The greatest part of aging is appreciating the new ones that enter your life....
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/7/2007 11:33:33 PM | | Well, I've never really felt like I was getting old and that's probably one of the main reasons that I never married because I never really paid attention to the passing years. Now at 55 I am both smarter and stronger than when I was young. I don't have any aches and pains, still have most of my hair and it is far more pepper than salt ( a dash of salt in my sideburns does look a little distinguished). A bummer I have about my age is a woman I know who will not date me because I am too old. She wouldn't date a man who is fat or bald either, but I told her that if those were the case I could lose weight or get hair, but there is nothing I can do about my age. Oh well. | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/8/2007 8:33:05 AM | | You are looking at it probly in a negative way, stop doing that and start looking at it as a postive change in life. Plus age is just a number. You are what you want to be, if you feel and act young you will remain so longer. If you worry and fret you will grow old quicker. Now you decide which way you want to live. | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/8/2007 11:36:16 AM | I thought it would be great to share this with everyone.......it is not my words but yet it is!!
Old age, I decided, is a gift.
I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not my body! I sometime despair over my body ... the wrinkles, the baggy eyes, and the sagging boobs.
And often I am taken aback by that old person that lives in my
mirror, but I don't agonize over those things for long.
I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become more kind to myself, and less critical of myself(still working on this one). I've become my own friend. I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie(I just walk a little longer), or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante garde on my patio. I am entitled to overeat, to be messy, to be extravagant. I have seen too many dear friends/family members leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.
Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 a.m., and sleep until noon?
I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ... I will.
I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the bikini set.
(They, too, will get old.)
I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten . and I eventually remember the important things.
Sure, over the years my heart has been broken.
How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers or dies, or even when a beloved pet (gets mauled by a larger dog)? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair start to turn gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver. I can say "no", and mean it. I can say "yes", and mean it.
As you get older, it is easier to be positive.
You care less about what other people think.
I don't question myself anymore(well.......not too much anyway).
I've even earned the right to be wrong.
So, to answer your question, I like getting older.
It has set me free.
I like the person I have become.
I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here,
I will not waste time stressing about what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day if I so desire.
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I changed a few words to fit my own life, feelings and opinion on aging.
That pretty much sums it up for me...........
Thats just me............ Tee | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/8/2007 3:49:03 PM | | I guess the alternative would suck. My pathologist friend told me once, "Any day above ground is a good day." I love it. I'm less pretentious not that I was all that pretentious to being with. Don't really care if I go to the grocery store dressed any kind of way. Never felt the need to play games and now don't tolerate it from others. There is a certain freedom that comes with age. You're only old if you lose your child heart. Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional. | |
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Joined: 9/1/2007
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/9/2007 2:14:04 AM | | i'm in total agreement with the OP..... scared witless. gonna be alone, totally. it boggles my mind how i will ever cope....and the mere thought of what is actually going on right now, inside of me....yeah, my mind is forever young, the brain must do an automatic blockage synapse kinda like junk email protective thing with whatever it just doesn't want to be bothered with, but the ten trillion other cells in my body are rotting, decaying, mutating as we speak and it ain't a pretty thought or picture...... of course i could do plenty to keep the hounds at bay, but i didn't bother the first 50 years and i really am not inclined to prolong the agony that i saw my own parents go thru..... if i make it to 70 (which i doubt) i'm making sure i don't see 71. don't start in on me. please? when you have absolutely nothing to look forward to but pain and suffering, it just doesn't make sense to put yourself thru it. i'm still trying to figure out why i fought so hard to overcome cancer. dumb move. | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/9/2007 5:36:27 AM | There are couple of things I don't like. I used to be able to eat anything at night... and then fall asleep. Now, cheesecake after 7pm and I will be wired until 4am.
However, physically, I feel far better than I did when I was in my 20's. The 20's sucked. Everything was bad.
I do miss the cheesecake at night..... guess lunch will have to make up for it!!!
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/9/2007 8:08:09 AM | | There is only one way to prevent it, and I don't have that control. So I think I'll just go with the flow on this one. | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/9/2007 11:35:41 AM | ...When I was 12 I wanted to be 13, there was something about being a teenager that was so appealing. Then didn't we all want to be 18, the age of consent (in Canada) it was when we were deemed an adult, old enough to be on our own and make our own decisions....it carries on to the point where I now wish I could start again knowing what I know now haha. Joking...trying to hold on steady to the age I am, for at least a year.
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/9/2007 11:51:38 AM | I remember crying when I turned 10. I WAS A DOUBLE DIGIT. OMG. I guess now I don't worry about getting old. I worry about not getting old. Bottom line.
Enjoy it...Embrace it...You can't change it  | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/9/2007 2:26:35 PM | I refuse to grow old. I am going to fight it all the way. I even stopped having birthdays at 40. So this year i had my 14th anniversary of my 40th birthday. | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/14/2007 10:43:24 AM | | Aside from a few physical things-lowered hormone levels, etc-age is pretty much an attitude. In some ways I have been 40 since I was 4, and in other ways I will be 18 until I die...even if I live to 200. If your sex drive is entirely hormone driven, age will effect you more. If your sex drive is also mental, age will effect you less. Lifestyle plays a part. The more harmful things you do-smoking, drinking, drugs, coffee, cholesterol, etc-the more you will feel the effects of age. The less you do of harmful things, the less age will effect you. | |
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| how do you feel about getting old?
Posted: 9/20/2007 1:58:33 AM | I don't want to be "old". I do not wear "purple yet".
But I remind myself that my grand parents are past,both my mother and father are past, most of my aunts and uncles are past, some of my cousins are past, my little brother is past and some of my dear friends are past. 100 years is such a short time to live. There's just not enough time.
I don't want to be "old".
Until I am past, I will "live" and hopefully I will have know love and happiness again before I die.  | |
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