Aging

[Akita Suggagaki]

Is anyone else here in disbelief regarding their own age?

Next month I will be 66 and in a few more months my wife turns 70.

Maybe because we have been blessed with pretty good health so far we have been living in a fantasy world of 40's. I just cant believe we are this old.

 

[timothyu]

But it's a trip noticing the little changes

 

[mama2one]

.

 

[Tigger45]

I’ll be 60 next week

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

20 years went like a week.

 

[anna ~ grace]

I’m pushing 40. Mentally, I still feel young. But my body is beginning to break down. I can’t do a lot of things I used to anymore.

But it feels good to get older, too. Not physically, but emotionally. It feels better.

 

[JackRT]

I recall a WW2 vet in his 90s saying to me "Jack, I never, ever thought that I would get to get this freaking old. There were many times in Italy that I didn't think that I would live another 5 seconds." I was privileged to give his eulogy.

 

[MehGuy]

I turned 30 this year.. it was a little hard.. but not in disbelief. My maturity has always been a little slow compared to my peers.. while I still have some immature aspects that I'm proud of, in some ways I'm more mature than my peers including older folk. Although I do live in the US.. so that might not be saying much.. lol.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

I turned 30 this year.. it was a little hard.. but not in disbelief. My maturity has always been a little slow compared to my peers.. while I still have some immature aspects that I'm proud of, in some ways I'm more mature than my peers including older folk. Although I do live in the US.. so that might not be saying much.. lol.

I am still immature in some ways.

Anyone remember Aunt Blabby? Never say, "Eulogy" to an old person.

 

[bluegot]

There are times when I see an old class mate and think "Oh my do they look old".. then I look in the mirror and realize I do too!! YIKES

 

[Hazelelponi]

I think I'm opposite of you... I've been disabled since I was 30 which now that I'm 52 is really wearing on me.. I am sometimes in shock that I'm only 52, especially seeing my elderly mother in law is far older than I, and runs circles around me.. haha. I think I get jealous sometimes of those who kept their health, and frustrated other times because those far older than me sometimes have to help me, when it should be the other way around at my age - I should be helping them.

My husband still says that he totally respects me for all I do, because I have challenges others don't have and still manage, but I've not seen it in myself in a while. It used to be even disabled I could run circles around many healthy people - but not so much lately. 20+ years of disability takes its own toll.

 

[mama2one]

.

 

[timothyu]

20+ years of disability takes its own toll.

Been there doing that, but we adapt and find new things to do don't we. And the best part is when we run out of ideas to amuse ourselves, we start looking for ways to be productive for others.

 

[Crwth]

67 here. My mortality is becoming more and more real with each passing day and every increasing body ache.

 

[mama2one]

.

 

[timothyu]

67 here. My mortality is becoming more and more real with each passing day and every increasing body ache.

It's not the year, but the mileage.

 

[Vap841]

Drink and be merry for tomorrow we die!

 

[timothyu]

Drink and be merry for tomorrow we die!

Uh oh! Thought it was dine.

 

[Ceallaigh]

I don't know which I find more dismaying, my age or how old other people my age are. Yeah, little Timmy from the 4th grade, he's 60 now. Say what?!!

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

I don't know which I find more dismaying, my age or how old other people my age are. Yeah, little Timmy from the 4th grade, he's 60 now. Say what?!!

I was watching a movie with Diane Keaton. Looking good at 75.