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Men reaching age 50 +
Posted: 6/24/2006 3:47:34 PM | Well its not like being 21 or 30 which is more looked at as growing up. However, I did find getting to be 30 was considered by many 21 year olds to be up there with 40's and 50's.
Now when I think back as to how I viewed people over 30 when I was 21, they did seem very old to me and 40 or 50 wow so far over the hill. I know that we have an expectation of how someone will look and act at a given age. I recall taking a neighbor's young son out walking. The farther was about 13 years younger than I was. We had to cross a railway track. When I heard a trail coming we put pennies on the line to see what would happen. When I took the young lad back home, he recounted the fun and showed his dad one of the pennies. His father not impressed said to me "you act like a young kid" and I replied yes. He repeated it several times and I said yes each time. He was actually trying to be derogatory. Ok so what am I saying? Well when I looked at those older people when I was young they seemed old and boring set in their ways locked in to a certain path. That is still how I see the majority 40 and 50 year old. However since then I have noticed that though that does happen to some extent as we get older to some it happens sooner than others. Their get up and go tends to have got up and gone too LOL. Fortunately, I think that is not true for everyone and perhaps more so than now than when out parents where in their 50’s.
I will be honest I am interested in looks and not ready yet to team up with someone who looked like my grandmother (no offence intended to my grandmother who I loved but she never got my juices going). However I am more interested in that child like quality of finding fun in new things and even old things, adventures even daring. Still finding fun in learning new things. I want us to grow old together but not die of boredom together. By the time, we do start to look like I remember my grandmother, I hope either we will have such strongly rose tinted glasses or with such poor sight, it will not matter.
Yes, I am one of those guys that hates to admit I am over fifty because I think I know how woman will view that. Note to prospective partners  I am still only 29 in my head LOL and most say I don’t look a day over 49 (I have a ten year old pic to prove it) and only a month or so ago I got an almost irresistible urge to put a penny on the track of an oncoming freight train. Prospective partners should also note that though I have child like qualities I am also a responsible adult.
Well almost and very infrequently get drunk on White Russians 
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