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I now think of "old" as something I'm going to get. Someday, I'm going to get old.
From 50something to about 65, I was, due to health and family issues, old. And then, I started feeling like myself again and my being old lifestyle started to bore me. I was angry and restless for a couple of years.
Last summer, I bought a house which caught fire two weeks later. I camped out for a couple of weeks (which was wonderful) and spent 2 monthes in a squalid motel with my two dogs before my house was finally repaired. I would not have guessed a year ago that I was capable of doing what I did.
I moved in and started living again. Now, I no longer think of myself as "old". I still have health problems, and I certainly look my age, but I haven't felt this good for 20 years.
I am wearing clothes I had quit wearing. It was easier to mindlessly throw on a black tee and shapeless knit pants. Now I am putting together outfits to wear to the senior citizens dance At home, I wear my old bohemian/hippie outfits and feel like myself again.
I would say that doctors who saw me 10 years ago would have had no trouble thinking of me as "old", so maybe that is what the "family medicine provider" meant. My physical and family issues made me emotionally "old".
I still can't do stairs, but I haven't been able to do them since my 30's without repercussions. I don't think forcing myself to do things that are unsafe is useful.
[quote=texan2yankee;47721280]My mother-in-law is 85 years old. She said she considered herself middle aged a couple of years ago! Who was I to correct her??
I roughly consider 50-64 young old, 65-79 old, and 80+ very old.[/QUOTE]
I consider myself "old" because I can get the Senior coffee at McDonalds for only $.65.
Call me "old", but keep serving me that discounted price coffee.
I just hit 62 years which means that I can draw social security if I so wish.
But I still don't have the reflex to look for or ask for senior discounts where available for the over 60s. That seems to me to be something that 'old' people get and I'm not one of them.
Here is the quoted idea: "I have noticed people tend to get old when they believe they are old. They then begin acting old and making old decisions, reinforcing their "old" belief."
This is total BS and requires no rebuttal. How did the observer notice what people believe? How did they determine that a belief in feeling old, made them feel old? This is an opinion and has nothing to do with facts or logic.
You offer no "facts or logic" to support your opinion, which is just an opinion as well. The kind of thing I am talking about can be gleaned from posts #22 (SOON2BNSURPRISE), #27 (in_newengland), and #31 (newcomputer). The important thing here is that attitudes and lifestyles help keep us young. I find your position strange in light of the frequent posts you make extolling the virtue of having some significant activities which are meaningful in retirement. Yes, that is a virtue, it is important, and it is part of an attitude and lifestyle which keep us young!
It's just been dawning on me lately that I must be "old." Turning 70 was a shock and I did develop some arthritis at that time. But I spent a good part of the day in a bathing suit, jumping in the waves at the beach. Now I'm 73.
I don't think it has anything to do with dancing or clubbing or skateboarding--(I never did much of that sort of thing anyway!) It's more to do with looking forward to learning and doing new things, having a zest for life, still caring about things, keeping yourself looking good. Attitude, not letting yourself go mentally or physically. Well, I can only speak for myself.
When you stop taking an interest or caring, that's "old."
Yea my clubbing days were done by 30 or so. But then I think I probably experienced a lot of things people my age didn't by that time.
You offer no "facts or logic" to support your opinion, which is just an opinion as well. The kind of thing I am talking about can be gleaned from posts #22 (SOON2BNSURPRISE), #27 (in_newengland), and #31 (newcomputer). The important thing here is that attitudes and lifestyles help keep us young. I find your position strange in light of the frequent posts you make extolling the virtue of having some significant activities which are meaningful in retirement. Yes, that is a virtue, it is important, and it is part of an attitude and lifestyle which keep us young!
Well one might think they are young, but people young in age might not think so.
What I don't like is when older people are portrayed as giddy little clowns. Can't find the right word.
I know that I will be old when I start perming my hair and look like a poodle.
I wonder if a good attitude can cure cancer or atherosclerosis or a torn meniscus or diverticulitis or Alzheimer's. The burden of proof rests with those who make such claims.
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wait until you get here.
At home, I wear my old bohemian/hippie outfits and feel like myself again.
