| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/14/2008 10:40:45 PM | | I spend quite a bit of time every day with a youthful individual. We have had our disagreements and misunderstandings, but we both agree we each have something to learn from the other. It does take some time, tact, diplomacy and understanding on the part of both parties to make the age difference disappear, but when it does, the meeting of the minds between two human beings who have such a great span of years between them is enlightening. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/14/2008 11:57:57 PM | | I think when the "you are old card" is played, I take the gloves off and play hardball. I guess this is because I am nice to the rude kiddies. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/15/2008 4:03:45 AM | I thank them for thier wonderful comment, because finally someone recognizes that I have had time in my life for dreams, for turning dreams into reality, and to have more dreams come true. I have also had enough time to look behind me and learn from my own past, at least time enough that what I see behind me is more than my dependence on someone to change my diapers or hold me by the hand to cross the street.
Wait looking back on that one the hold me by the hand to cross the street, I am old enough to realize that when the hand that is held as a companion instead of a parent can be a very touching thing. I remember my grandfather saying that his favorite times were when he was close enough to hold my grandmother's hand. He died when I was 6 years old and my last memory of him is holding my grandmother's hand and telling her that he was going to check out their mansion before she came home. He died the next day. It is almost 50 years later and I will never forget that wonderful old man that so briefly touched my life. He lived on earth to live eternally. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/15/2008 5:11:02 AM | The Poor Tailor and the French Restaurant
Old Abraham was a poor tailor whose shop was next door to a very upscale French
restaurant. Every day at lunch time, Abraham would go out the back of his shop and
eat his black bread and herring while smelling the wonderful odors coming from the
restaurant's kitchen.
One day, Abraham was surprised to receive an invoice from the restaurant for 'enjoyment
of food'. So he went to the restaurant to point out that he had not bought anything from
them. The manager said, "You're enjoying our food, so you should pay us for it."
Abraham refused to pay and the restaurant sued him. At the hearing, the judge asked
the restaurant to present their side of the case. The manager said, "Every day, this man
comes and sits outside our kitchen and smells our food while eating his. It is clear that we
are providing added value to his poor food and we deserve to be compensated for it."
The judge turns to Abraham and said, "What do you have to say to that?"
Abraham didn't say anything but stuck his hand in his pocket and rattled the few coins
he had inside.
The judge asked him, "What is the meaning of that?"
Abraham replied, "I'm paying for the smell of his food with the sound of my money." | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/15/2008 6:11:41 AM | A bloke I knew has recently said, I was too old for him - I am 45 and he is 42/43...
......can't be doing with nappies anymore or dummies | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/15/2008 6:24:54 AM | What a nerve of her! What was she trying to insinuate we should all be put out to pasture on an "oldie dating site" it is very discriminating for a start, by the center if she had said that to me at forty eight I would have really corked her bottle!! She is just immature and needs to realize she'll be over forty one day and it wont feel so clever when what goes round comes round. Life is wonderful here at two years off fifty, and when I've got the means and ends I am going to put a photo up of me on here, we got to stand together us forties and put the blessings of our maturity up there amongst the lights- some are only jealous because we got more "candles on the cake" than they!!  | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/15/2008 9:16:32 AM | I just hang around the "over 45" forum and feel very very young....... 
OT........If someone points out how old I am, I just start pointing out all their flaws as well, and let them know that I can not change mine, but they sure can change theirs......
Just my opinion........   | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/15/2008 9:56:01 AM |
I just hang around the "over 45" forum and feel very very young...
Me too.
In reality, I sometimes feel 700 years old and I say it... If age comes from experience, I have seen enough to last me few life-times...
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| Too soon old and too late wise...
Posted: 4/16/2008 8:34:46 AM | I deal with this at work all the time.
I tell them to enjoy the planet we've trashed for them.
I describe a time of peace and prosperity - when housing, food and entertainment were affordable, when you could go to school without fear of being shot, when one or two terrorists might fly to Cuba every few years.
I ask them if they know how old is too old to be drafted for front line combat operations.
Or I simply reminisce about what having sex before it could kill you was like.
If none of that gets their attention, then ya...I grab my cane and beat them senseless. | |
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| Too soon old and too late wise...
Posted: 4/16/2008 3:31:25 PM | | Smile and laugh. Remember back when you were young and all the fun you had and how naive you were. Life is way too short not to see the humour in stuff and especially with kids. This is their time at that age, let them have some fun with it. Sorry so many people are worried about or at least a little concerned with their age. Smile - way too nice a day today to do anything else!!! | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/17/2008 9:11:46 AM | When I hear the words 'your old' I think of my young son. He once said to me "Mummy your doing pretty good for an old person cause your not dead yet".....A few days later I took him to visit a 91 year old friend.....NOW call me 'old'son!
Of course people in their 20's and 30's are going to see you as old. They see you as 'old' because they cannot imagine themselves at your age. Geez I'm 50 in a few months and I think that's old! | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/17/2008 1:56:55 PM | What me Again? Read something today in the Globe that maybe relevant to why kids say the things they do ... From Daily Miscellany of Info by Micheal Kestrerton - taken from the Evening Press Scotland (must be good info) "Kids thinking differs from that of adults and people tend to view those differences as deficits that need to be overcome - the sooner the better. However David Bjorklund, author of Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young. Some aspects of kid's immature cognition are actually adaptive, both in terms of preparing them for adulthood and allowing them to florish in childhood. .... may promote later social competence..."
I am not suggesting for a minute that anyone posting here is not competent at all.
And the column finishes up with Thought du Jour "if you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts - a selective memory" Jim Biebig, author.
Hope you're having a great day that the sun is shining and that your smiling and laughing at and with life. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/17/2008 6:05:20 PM | | That's a person who's immature and has no experience in life. If they ask a question then it shouldn't matter who they are getting the answer from. What it was, was probably wanting someone to give here the answer she wanted. You probably gave her a mature responsible answer lol. We are not old thats for sure. If your spirit is young than you are also. Our bodies may not always feel it but my inner soul isn't gonna quit. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/17/2008 7:40:48 PM | | The only person who referred to me in that way made a comment that I was "older, smarter, and tougher" than someone else. I took it as a compliment! Now I brag about it. "I'm old, smart, and tough!" Nobody has "accused" me of being "old." If they did, I'd probably laugh at them for being so wet behind the ears. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/17/2008 8:27:01 PM | Okay....I was 18 yesterday....I'm 53 today and with any luck I'll be 90 tomorrow.
I'ts been a wonderful adventure to this point and I'll damned if I'm going to worry about the rest of the journey.
Correct me if this quote in inacurate..."Youth is wasted on the young" | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/17/2008 11:50:30 PM | If someone wants to call me old I just tell them, "You should live so long"
Now excuse me while I go grab a glass of Ovaltine and watch Matlock...
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/18/2008 12:13:34 AM | a few years ago my mother (who's still going great guns at 80) told me that she knew that she was really old when all her birthday cards that year were polite and flowery instead of the ' wow you're old' joking variety.
so let them call us old and take it as a compliment!
chrissy | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/18/2008 12:33:15 AM | LOL I tell them that age is in the mind and I have energy and zest for life then most 20's old. I tell that I'm at a place in life I don't worry about or fitting in, I have found me and that at 20 or 30 your still searching .. I tell them I live in bliss ... and that comes with age ... I may not have a the body that I had when I was 20 but I have more because I have lived through many many days to come to that place of peace.
Then I would smile walk away.....
Its all in the mind ....... Its a state of being...... | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 4/18/2008 9:47:34 AM | I don't know what this has to do with anything, but this thread reminds me of a story an uncle told me when I was a pup.
Two bulls, one young and one old, were munching grass on a hill one sunny spring morning.
The young bull suddenly gestured towards the herd down in the meadow below, snorted and said, "Let's run down there and hump us each a cow".
The old bull looked up. continued munching, and then, "Nah," he said, "let's walk down there and hump 'em all". | |
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