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We went to the movies last night. I actually heard my wife say: “Two seniors, please”. I couldn’t believe it. She said, “Well... might as well get the perks while we can.”
I don’t want to be old either. It seems to me just like yesterday that we were newly married living in an apartment with a dog and two cats, no children for another 7 years. I was bicycling to work--13 miles each way, and my wife was clearly DDG. It doesn’t seem like 50 years since I graduated high school, or 40 years since I finished graduate school, or 37 years since my daughter was born.
I don’t want to be old either. But it keeps happening. Now I am getting implants for my lower molars since humans really aren’t designed to have teeth that last 70 years.
But on the bright side, we just got a new 2 year old cat, and in January we are getting a new chocolate Labrador puppy. Need to find ways to stay young.
You have to look at things realistically. Whenever you feel bad for being "old" consider the millions of children who never get even get to have their first day at school, have a career, fall in love and a thousand other experiences.
So if there's anything on your list of things to do before you give up the ghost, go do it and stop worrying about how you're perceived. Time is a wasting!
You have to look at things realistically. Whenever you feel bad for being "old" consider the millions of children who never get even get to have their first day at school, have a career, fall in love and a thousand other experiences.
THAT DOESN’T REALLY DO A LOT FOR ME. Of course, millions of people fail to live as long as me. But that doesn’t do anything for struggling with the issues of living this long or longer.
My wife’s father listed to be 95, her mother 86, and would have been longer if she wasn’t clinically obese before she got sick. My father lived to 86 before he feel down on his head trying to pick up a large suitcase after driving for 10 hours back from North Carolina. My mother is still alive at 95.
I expect to live at least another 22-26 years, and during that time I will struggle with increasing difficulties in doing what I did all my life. Thinking about other people who didn’t get to experience all this pain and decrepitude is not really helpful to my current situation.
Age 73. This morning I phoned a local theatre box office to purchase a ticket. The lady said, "One senior?" I said, "How did you know I am a senior?" She said, "Oh, you just sounded like a senior".
I was stunned, but I recovered quickly and purchased my ticket for the live performance.
I really don't want to be an "old" person. This morning was the first time I've received objective confirmation from another disinterested party that I am an old person.
Perhaps I've been living in denial? My beard has been white for over a decade, but I remain clean-shaven so I can ignore that piece of evidence. I can still jog, although not for very long - maybe ten minutes before I have to slow to a brisk walk. Pathetic, but I guess I've been ignoring that piece of evidence too. I have no trouble driving at night, or in any circumstance of traffic conditions and/or unfamiliar surroundings. So I'm still O.K. in the driving department.
This really sucks big time. I'm still thinking it over. Perhaps I need to visit an ENT doc to see if anything fixable is wrong with my voice? Denial is a powerful force, and the effect is powerful when something irrefutable breaks forcefully through the denial.
I don't know, really, what I expect anyone to say in response to my post. Perhaps there will not be any responses, and that's O.K. Maybe I just needed to vent my grief. I am not the first person to simply vent. As far as I know, venting per se is not against the TOS.
You are so cute and blessed. 73 is old. It is all about how you feel. I am much younger than you are and I identify myself as a mature adult. I doubt I feel as good as you do.
Most people don't make it to 90. If life expectancy was 90, <30 could be young, 30-60 could middle aged, and >60 old age. That's presuming you equally distribute.
My lower back has hurt all day. Even my hip hurt when I got up from desk at work. I attribute that more to being more sedentary this week due to being on-call. I don't think I've ever ached like I have the last few days.
I went out with a college girl tonight. Good chemistry, but sometimes time catches up to us. Mentally, I don't feel 31. Generally, I don't physically feel it. I don't think I look it, but we all get slapped upside the head with the wet fish of time and aging.
I started aching in my 40's - and I was mad as hell that no one tells you that you start hurting well before you get "old". So I don't consider aches and pains "old" at all. Aging happens gradually - and I have no romanticism at ALL for it. Yeah, you hurt after you go to the gym and you hurt when you don't go...big deal.
I never even began to think of myself as middle-aged until I hit 40...no one I know did or does - didn't you hear years ago that 40 is the new 30? Start working out more and you'll feel better - get out of that rocker "old man"!
I started aching in my 40's - and I was mad as hell that no one tells you that you start hurting well before you get "old".
yeah... I look at it as a hurt that was always there. But as you mature the nerves do also, and thus you get a greater appreciation of what hurts and where.
But then you also get more things to hurt: I have fibromyalgia, GERD, sciatica, and a lot more.
It's all relative and I have no idea how anyone can tell that someone's a senior just by a short phone conversation.
When I turned 30, I thought it was the end. Forty was worse--imagine! Forty years old! By fifty I felt totally ancient.
In my 60s I started noticing people and how they looking at various points in the 60s bracket. When did they start looking and acting old? My conclusion was about age 70. Now I am 73 and yes, it was about 70 that I felt sort of old. It was about 70 that I started noticing some arthritis. It was age 73 that we moved away from the beach so that we could feel safer from the isolation and from the dangerous storms.
But now I don't think of 73 as old anymore. I think 90 is OLD. And 100 is positively ancient.
Age 73. This morning I phoned a local theatre box office to purchase a ticket. The lady said, "One senior?" I said, "How did you know I am a senior?" She said, "Oh, you just sounded like a senior".
I was stunned, but I recovered quickly and purchased my ticket for the live performance.
I really don't want to be an "old" person. This morning was the first time I've received objective confirmation from another disinterested party that I am an old person.
Perhaps I've been living in denial? My beard has been white for over a decade, but I remain clean-shaven so I can ignore that piece of evidence. I can still jog, although not for very long - maybe ten minutes before I have to slow to a brisk walk. Pathetic, but I guess I've been ignoring that piece of evidence too. I have no trouble driving at night, or in any circumstance of traffic conditions and/or unfamiliar surroundings. So I'm still O.K. in the driving department.
This really sucks big time. I'm still thinking it over. Perhaps I need to visit an ENT doc to see if anything fixable is wrong with my voice? Denial is a powerful force, and the effect is powerful when something irrefutable breaks forcefully through the denial.
I don't know, really, what I expect anyone to say in response to my post. Perhaps there will not be any responses, and that's O.K. Maybe I just needed to vent my grief. I am not the first person to simply vent. As far as I know, venting per se is not against the TOS.
Sometimes I can tell by the person’s voice that he or she is an older person. I guess physical changes eventually reveal age, but staying interested in life goes a long way towards sounding young!
Age 73. This morning I phoned a local theatre box office to purchase a ticket. The lady said, "One senior?" I said, "How did you know I am a senior?" She said, "Oh, you just sounded like a senior".
I was stunned, but I recovered quickly and purchased my ticket for the live performance.
I really don't want to be an "old" person. This morning was the first time I've received objective confirmation from another disinterested party that I am an old person.
Perhaps I've been living in denial? My beard has been white for over a decade, but I remain clean-shaven so I can ignore that piece of evidence. I can still jog, although not for very long - maybe ten minutes before I have to slow to a brisk walk. Pathetic, but I guess I've been ignoring that piece of evidence too. I have no trouble driving at night, or in any circumstance of traffic conditions and/or unfamiliar surroundings. So I'm still O.K. in the driving department.
This really sucks big time. I'm still thinking it over. Perhaps I need to visit an ENT doc to see if anything fixable is wrong with my voice? Denial is a powerful force, and the effect is powerful when something irrefutable breaks forcefully through the denial.
I don't know, really, what I expect anyone to say in response to my post. Perhaps there will not be any responses, and that's O.K. Maybe I just needed to vent my grief. I am not the first person to simply vent. As far as I know, venting per se is not against the TOS.
I know how you feel, I was always a boater and loved swimming. I got the sting of reality when I realized that it was no longer appropriate to wear a bikini, although fortunately even when I was young I liked one pieces so I don't mind that part. I'm still in good shape but I see women my age wearing a grandma bathing suit and I think ugh, am I supposed to wear that? It's a dilemma.
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