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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 4/21/2006 2:48:08 PM | Hi all,
Remember when you were in your teens?  twenties?  thirties?  etc?
I thought life would be a lot different by the time I reached 50. 
I don't feel 50 (except physically sometimes).
I feel like I'm still in my 30's full of life... ready for fun.
Did I miss the growing up gene?
I'm not sitting in a rocking chair with an afghan on my lap... I'm sitting at a computer, or chasing grandkids, or hanging with friends, or any of the other stuff I've always done... a little wizer I guess but not much difference.
Maybe life begins at 50 and all that stuff we were told in our youth was hogwash? I'm figuring out that it's all mind over matter. If you don't mind 50 then it don't matter. 
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 4/21/2006 2:51:31 PM | ok ... who thought they would make 50?
Even at 35 ... who even thinks of being 50 ...
except a mutual fund or insurance salesman
as far as feeling old.... well I probably felt old more often when I was 35 than I do now.
Life is full of surprises ... who thought they would be on a dating site at 50 + ?
best of luck to you all ... and think young to be young
hey ... if you live to 100 this is middle age.
if you live to 55 middle age was when you were 28.
its all just a numbers game ... and that's illegal ... lol | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 4/21/2006 2:52:50 PM | | I can remember thinking in the 1970s "Wow, I'm going to be 45 in the year 2000!" That seems really really old to me and I often wondered where and what I'd be doing. Well, I'm 50 now (51 Oct) and whodda thunk? I'm still raising kids (two young boys 9,10) because of a later 2nd (failed) marriage. No grandkids on the horizon and I think I've put my 19 yo daughter off having kids by blessing her with two younger brothers. Damn! | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 4/21/2006 3:14:10 PM | My daughters (12, 15 years old) refer to people at age 30 as old (argh!!). I remember thinking the same at that age - what goes around, comes around - damn!  .
After making changes in a post-divorce world, I am finally getting things on track so rather than deny approaching 50, I'm thinking of what kind of woman I will be with at that age. Women make being aged in the 40's and 50's look graceful and rather sensual. I'm not rushing to get there, but I certainly will enjoy it.
I figured I would have been celebrating my 28th anniversary at 50. | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 4/21/2006 3:37:15 PM | 50? 50 meant tight short curly hair with a blue rinse and dresses that just covered your rolled down stockings and orthopedic shoes and lips pursed at all that awful noise the kids called music. Or that's what 50 was to my grandma.
Now I'm facing 50 (and facing becoming a grandma the same week I turn 50), and I'm anything but any of those things! At my nephew's wedding I was voted oldest juvenile delinquent and most likely to spike the punch. Hey, I'll take both titles!
Personally, I plan on 50 being my middle-age! I've got ancestors that lived to 100, so it can happen! | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 4/21/2006 3:38:26 PM | | anni,sh ellsbells,i`m with you!! 51 and an eight yr old whirlwind,keeps me moving!!!now if he can just keep me moving for anotherthirty or fourty,i`ll have lived!!!!!! | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 4/21/2006 4:38:19 PM | We told our kids we didnt want any grandkids till we were 50. It worked. He now has 5 other grandies. I have 3 girls. 2 of my kids live in another state. One lives in London. I told them all when they each turned 21, there is a big world out there, go and explore it. When they left, I joined the space age, computers and a new faster car. And party plan. I hardly ever go to the same place to work. I do it an other peoples lounge rooms, and I enjoy life to the hilt.
I remember my parents at 50, tired, not talking to each other, tryi8ng to keep their marriage together for the kids sake, thats the difference with the genrations. you have to enjoy your life and get ajob that you like too. The older generations know and understand the changes they have seen are for the better. At leastthey have tv now that helps them see what is going on in the world.
My neighbours dont see me very often at weekends, as I am usually out working. I am an entertainer of sorts, the kinds on job I have . not everyone would do, but, I am meeting so many people from different age groups and walks of life and enjoying it too. I am on a learning curve as well. | |
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anni
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Joined: 3/10/2006
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 4/21/2006 6:15:15 PM | Since I've progressed beyond 50, it's hard to answer this question. I'm sure we've all experienced the feeling that a certain age was "old" until we got within reach of that age. Then it all fades off into the next decade. I loved my fifties, to be honest. They were great years. I was physically vital and happy...able for various reasons to take early retirement.
Then in the years between 58 and 61, everyone in my family died. I'd be less than honest if I didn't admit that those experiences knocked me for an emotional loop. I'm working on getting back to the point where I feel young again. But it's not easy. Many things, and friendships, still make me laugh and enjoy life. it's just not as easy as it used to be. I don't think it has anything to do with my age, just with the curves I've had thrown at me recently. Without those curves, I'd probably be loving my early sixties.
I'm healthier than I've been in thirty years, myself. What happened to everyone I loved? | |
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Posted: 4/21/2006 7:57:09 PM | Snort! I pulled the same "wait til I'm 50" on my son. I told him I had the courtesy to wait til my Dad was 50 to make him a granddad, so he should have the same courtesy for me. Well, as with everything The Kid does, he's cutting it close: the due date is 9/7. My 50th is 9/5. But, 9/5 was also my Granddad's birthday, so if the babe is born on my birthday...well The Kid makes it under the wire and gives me the ultimate present as well as making a nice little p.s. in the family tree notes.
I can remember when The Kid was six or so and I told him that when I was a grandma I wasn't going to spend all Sunday cooking for the brood like his grandmother did. No, I was going to order pizza and spend my time in the floor playing with the kids. He was horrified at the thought. Well....I'm willing to compromise....once a month I'll do the roast and taters thing...but only on the weeks My Steelers aren't televised! | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 4/21/2006 9:04:43 PM | Well I have always planned to lived to be 100 - so having that outlook - I still consider myself a teeny bopper - if only I could get my body to agree. | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 4/21/2006 10:02:57 PM | wow. i cant believe that i made it this far. lmao. most people didnt think that i would make it to 21 let a lone 54. lol. yes when i was very young i thought that my folks were old too. lol they were in there 30s. lol. its really strange now that i am older and look back at those thoughts and realize that i was so wrong in what i thought then. but as i get older i find that it is way easyer to justify a lot of them now. but its still getting harder to get out of bed every day. lmao. but a lot of things are way better now too. i have learned a lot over the years. most of it was good things.
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 4/21/2006 10:19:14 PM | Well.. That old Charlie Rich song comes to mind.. "Once I reached 30 I'd be dead... Goodtime Charlie's got the Blues"  Well, that was 23 years ago... lol... I feel fantastic Mentally, physically I'm a little slower to take off walking, and Don't run much..But I can if something is chasing me.. | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 4/22/2006 1:27:31 AM |
Maybe life begins at 50 and all that stuff we were told in our youth was hogwash?] /quote]
For me, that's true... I started diving at 50, and what a fantastic new world opened up to me! | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 4/23/2006 4:18:19 PM | | My mother was the one that told my kids they weren't allowed to make me a grandmother before I was 50 (no it wasn't because she didn't want to be a great grandmother she all ready was 4 times over). On my 48th birthday my kids got me this really big card and my oldest son signed it happy 50th. His way so telling me they were expecting. I thought at 50 I would still be married and celebrating my 31st wedding anniversary. But sometimes in life we get those curve balls. Now instead of that I have been divorced for 5 years, on a dating site and happier than I have ever been in my life . Do I feel old no way I never think of my age until someone brings is it. I still feel like I'm 18. LOL | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 5/5/2006 6:19:56 AM | Hell No, Baby ~ I figured I would've been so much more like my parents (bless their souls!) ~ conservative, two teenagers, etc ~ boy o boy was I wrong
Love my kids but really glad I had them early and they are grown and doing their own thing now...love hot air ballooning too (scared of heights ~ go figure)
I think that society is a lot less rigid than it was when we were younger....so much more is acceptable (to a degree) ~ and lets face it...we always learn from older generations how to improve ours! I just hope the younger generation can get it back together and realize that you don't need all the violence to be cool and accepted. I have a 9 1/2 year old grandson and am fearing the day that his mom & dad start to allow him a bit more freedom. They've done an amazing job raising him so far...but sooooooooo much peer pressure.
I don't think that I've ever been as comfortable (emotionally, mentally) in any stage of my life as I am now ~ keep on rockin'
Let Us Live So That When We Come To Die Even The Undertaker Will Be Sorry!
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 5/5/2006 6:58:51 AM | I'm with Thorb. I never saw myself past 30. Yet the years kept rolling by. Now I'm 51 with 2 teenage kids and I wonder how the hell I got here. My only regret was not having the kids sooner but I wasn't married then so I didn't have much choice.
Hell I'm still trying to figure out what I ant to be when I grow up!!!! | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 5/5/2006 10:24:55 AM | Go to your 10 year class reunion and you talk about your adventures.
Go to your 20 year class reunion and you talk about your children.
Go to your 30 year class reunion and say, " Everyones parents showed up, now where's the guys I went to school with ?" | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 5/5/2006 10:42:33 AM | Well that was a big 10 years ago for me but I didn't think it would be like this at 60. I had always considered 60 to be old - BOY WAS I WRONG  I'm enjoying this stage of my life but I never thought I would be alone as I've always had a partner to share with but so be it -thus my quest on POF  | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 5/5/2006 1:19:58 PM | Not only all the stuff you said, but when Im was growing up in the 60's I always like cars, especially thos high Hp muscle cars. I built models of them, I still do, only much better. I never get to own a muscle car. Those original muscle cars now can be worth over $400K. Looks like I still won't be getting one of them. But now I am shopping for a new one. I will be getting a 2006 Dodge Magnum R/T with a 340 Hp Hemi. So I will soon have a muscle car just like I always wanted. Better gas mileage than the originals too.
Another thing I like to do that's car related and people of all ages do is race R/C (radio control) cars. I didn't do that when I was a kid. It wasn't around then. But that's an adult hobby that is for the kid in us. That applies to all types of R/C models.
I was also into tropical aquariums, I still am. And I also still listen to the same rock music as it is now known as classic rock. | |
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| Did you think life would be like this at 50?
Posted: 7/7/2006 11:09:30 AM |
I can remember thinking in the 1970s "Wow, I'm going to be 45 in the year 2000!" That seems really really old to me.
Same here - in the 70s I calculated that I'd be 50 at the millenium, and figured I'd be too old to care.
Hello!!!???
I don't even have a rocking chair here.
And boy! Do I care about stuff now, especially wanting a significant other in my life . . . Whoda thunk it? | |
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