At what age did you actually start feeling old?

[seancbk]

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

I am 75 ,and only started realising I was getting old in the last year,my body is getting old, but my mind and outlook are still young, I

could easily lift a bottle of gas or crate of water ,now not so easy,

I never in my wildest dreams thought I would ever reach 75, when

i was a young lad people over 65 years were looked on as ancient.

 

So wake up every morning ,wiggle my toes, Ah ! another day........ 

I still have things to do, places left on my to do list  Madagascar,Machu Picchu ,Easter Island, If I manage to do that I can rest in Peace.

I Have had a full life ,just about done everything I planned out for my life when I was 10 or 11 , I looked at maps , not comics , Wide World  was my favourite magazine,travel, treasures, strange peoples, 

 

Regards Worgeordie

 

 

Great answer!  Hope you make it to those places.

[Robin]

There comes a time when you realise that you cannot do the tings you used to.  What and when depends on you  Eventually it catches up with all of us, depending on how you live.

At 70 I found that trying to do what I used to do at 60, took its toll and I needed a day to recover. Now some years on , I would be happy to do what I did at 70.

The trouble is ,we do not appreciate at the time that we cannot go on for ever.

[EVENKEEL]

I'm 63 but I look 49, ahahhaahaa. You guys are funny.

[bunnydrops]

74 now and only last year. Seeing my younger brother die and a lot of my younger friends in the last couple of years didn't help much. I can still stand on one leg to take my shoes off. Still not a afraid to go up on the roof-- But I know if I fall I am not going to bounce

[thaibeachlovers]

2 minutes ago, bunnydrops said:

74 now and only last year. Seeing my younger brother die and a lot of my younger friends in the last couple of years didn't help much. I can still stand on one leg to take my shoes off. Still not a afraid to go up on the roof-- But I know if I fall I am not going to bounce

I just jumped off a ladder and my foot hurt for 3 months. Old age sucks.

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

 

When I moved to NYC in the 1980's, a rather beautiful woman I had befriended looked at me and said "when are you going to remove that horrendous thing from your face?" I said huh? She said do you plan on dating? I said yes of course, I am divorced and single again. She said do you plan on sleeping with these women you date? I said of course. She said it is not going to happen with that terrible thing on your face. Not here, not now. I shaved the next morning! 

The whole "beards are suddenly hip thing" is beyond bizarre. I get it if you are an Oregon lumberjack. But, otherwise? 

 

And especially here. I have never seen a culture more averse to facial hair than Thailand. Though I would love to grow some Elvis sideburns, just to get a rise out of the locals! Fun, fun! 

[seancbk]

2 hours ago, CharlieH said:

You'll start feeling it, when you feel it literally.

When your eyesight start fading, when your joints start to complain, when you can no longer eat certain things, when you gotta get up in the n8ght to pee,when all you can raise is a smile !

And yes all those things will come to most, the only thing that varies is WHEN ! but bet your ar** it will !

My eyesight isn't what it used to be, but I've worn glasses since I was about 14 and abused my eyes for many years wearing one day contacts for weeks without taking them out to clean.  My optometrist said I was lucky I didn't go blind.  Can't wear lenses now but have varifocal glasses. They were ok for a few years but now I have to take them off to look at my phone, and I look at my phone about once every 3 mins!  

I have always had to get up to pee in the night, so that's no biggie. 

I can still eat anything I want, which for me means spicy food almost all the time.  I don't use sugar or salt, I don't drink any sugary drinks, I quit alcohol 17 months ago ????, limit bread and pasta, don't eat fast food, stopped drinking milk.  

So far no aches of pains anywhere.

 

[holy cow cm]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

 

When I moved to NYC in the 1980's, a rather beautiful woman I had befriended looked at me and said "when are you going to remove that horrendous thing from your face?" I said huh? She said do you plan on dating? I said yes of course, I am divorced and single again. She said do you plan on sleeping with these women you date? I said of course. She said it is not going to happen with that terrible thing on your face. Not here, not now. I shaved the next morning! 

I hope you turned around to her and said I hope you shave it too. No fun looking at a bearded taco.

[AlexRich]

I hated clubbing at 18-21, so perhaps I’m old before my time. If a person keeps fit and active, and eats healthily they will grow older but not necessarily feel it. But DNA is a factor, some people inherit debilitating conditions, whether they do these things or not. So a bit of luck is also needed.

[bunnydrops]

4 minutes ago, seancbk said:

I don't use sugar or salt, I don't drink any sugary drinks, I quit alcohol 17 months ago ????, limit bread and pasta, don't eat fast food, stopped drinking milk.  

"Doc, I have given up sugar, beer, meat, and cheese." "Do you think you are going to live forever" "No, but it sure is going to feel that way!"

[seancbk]

41 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

I love my beard and wouldnt want to remove it form any reason, although Mrs P is not a fan, she just has to put up with an older mans prerogative. . 

 

 

I do not get beards and my father had one all my life so the only time I saw him without one was pictures of him in his 20's

I really don't get these hipster types who seem to want to look like a sodding old lumberjack when they are only in their 20's and 30's  

Why anyone would do anything that makes them look older is beyond me!

[holy cow cm]

For me was just when my baby girl graduated, turned 18 and now about to go to University. A segment of my family life hit the reality fan. Nearing 60 in a couple of years, but I still ride the skateboard in the driveway with the kids. Glad they are still my little big buddies.

[connda]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

 

I became old at age 63 (65 now) when I suddenly couldn't wee after a returning (BPH) flight from a beer and party holiday to Saigon and Phnom Penh. Until that time it was all beer/party/hookers combined with trail running and mountain biking.

 

Age 52-62 were the wildest and most adventurous party years of my life.

 

Like Charlie says, at some age you will hit chronic illness and the party is over.

64.  It's genetics.  You're body simply wears out no matter how you exercise it or feed it good food or give it supplements or care for it.
At some point the machinery wears and fails to function like it did before.
Then comes the mental perspective:  Is the decline of your body dragging your mind down with it.  It doesn't have to although at some point your mind and memory go too. 
So you develop compassion and acceptance.

If you have read both Britmantoo and my take on the future, neither of us plan to hold off the inevitable. I know people who want to live to be 120 in an aging body.  Why?
Fear of death?  Enjoy your present life too much to let go of a hunk of flesh that is falling apart slowly but surely. 
It's been a good run.  I'll take whatever comes next with as much grace and acceptance as possible. 

Birth, youth, ageing, sickness, and finally death.
Look around.  It's the way of it.  Nothing escapes. 
So live fully in the time you have left.  Enjoy the dance.

[Surelynot]

At 65 I still don't feel old or think I look old........I still go into bars thinking I look late 20's/early thirties......big mistake. Although the girls....god bless them.......... say I don't look a day over 45.

[RichardColeman]

'I' don't feel old - I just see my body aging.

 

My body is still in good knick, full head hair, I look quite young - just have rubbish teeth now - so getting old is just swings and roundabouts.

 

Besides - I am always told I am a sexy man walking down the sois - I love it, wife walking behind hates it.

[thaibeachlovers]

14 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

The whole "beards are suddenly hip thing" is beyond bizarre. I get it if you are an Oregon lumberjack. But, otherwise? 

 

And especially here. I have never seen a culture more averse to facial hair than Thailand. Though I would love to grow some Elvis sideburns, just to get a rise out of the locals! Fun, fun! 

Beards are great, and if other people don't like them, that's their problem.

[Ventenio]

looking young does NOT mean you feel young.   No way.   If you look young, you probably looked young all your life....

 

it's relative.

 

I can exercise for maybe even 10 hours.......I'm near 55.   i feel old.   

 

let me think......you FEEL old (or should feel old), when....

 

1.  you can't read things close to you

2.  you forget things

3.  you sleep a lot

4.  you think 10 p.m. is late

5.  you don't even think of going out at 11 p.m.

6.   you wake up at like 5 a.m. and say, "OK."
7.  you walk for 10-minutes and think, "why am I walking?"

8.  you keep telling yourself, "I feel young."
9.  you think about retirement

10. your friends die

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

 

When I moved to NYC in the 1980's, a rather beautiful woman I had befriended looked at me and said "when are you going to remove that horrendous thing from your face?" I said huh? She said do you plan on dating? I said yes of course, I am divorced and single again. She said do you plan on sleeping with these women you date? I said of course. She said it is not going to happen with that terrible thing on your face. Not here, not now. I shaved the next morning! 

So you allowed a woman to tell you what to do!

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[Kinnock]

Fascinating thread.

 

I'm 63 but don't feel old.  I keep my weight under control, run, cycle and surfskate regularly, and I'm just setting up a new on-line business so keep my mind active. 

 

But I'm a bit worried that I may wake up one day and feel 'old'.

 

If I couldn't do fun outdoor activities any more (or fun indoor activities!), I would not want to carry on.

 

Do we suddenly become old one day?  

 

[thaibeachlovers]

8 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

At 65 I still don't feel old or think I look old........I still go into bars thinking I look late 20's/early thirties......big mistake. Although the girls....god bless them.......... say I don't look a day over 45.

People think I'm years younger, which means they probably think I'm a dole bludger as I couldn't be old enough for a pension. They are always surprised when I tell them my age.

 

I put it down to not being married very long.

Edited June 10, 2021 by thaibeachlovers

[thaibeachlovers]

3 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

If I couldn't do fun outdoor activities any more (or fun indoor activities!), I would not want to carry on.

Unfortunately, unless one lives in an enlightened country, one doesn't get the option of a painless get out of Dodge.

[Kinnock]

6 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Beards are great, and if other people don't like them, that's their problem.

Yep.

 

You can get to an age where a beard helps you look younger - as it covers the sagging jowls ????

 

And as beards are fashionable for the youngsters now, it helps too.

[seancbk]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It's wonderful if we feel young but it's even better if other people see in us what we (want to) see.

Most people think I am younger than I am. I guess one reason is that I don't have any grey hair until now and enough hair on my head.

I don't feel "old" but realistically I have to admit:

- There was a time when I could drink a lot until 2am, wake up at 7am and work productive the whole day. Not anymore.

- There was a time when I had sex for hours, and then some more. That's was some time ago...

- When I was in school my mother lay down on the sofa for an hour after lunch. It seems that was something for old people. Now I like to lay down for an hour after lunch.

- The list goes on and on.

 

I still like sexy cute (legal) girls who could by now be my grand daughters. And they are nice enough to make me feel young. But I guess it's better that I don't ask them if they think I am old...

 

Love it!  

 

[thaibeachlovers]

Just now, Kinnock said:

Yep.

 

You can get to an age where a beard helps you look younger - as it covers the sagging jowls ????

 

And as beards are fashionable for the youngsters now, it helps too.

More of a problem for me was being in the military when men wore long hair. We really stood out back then.

I had a beard in my 30s, then I had to cut it off as I got dandruff in it.

Now I don't get dandruff, so all good.

 

BTW, the guy in that famous book about how to do sex was wearing a beard.

[seancbk]

4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

People think I'm years younger, which means they probably think I'm a dole bludger as I couldn't be old enough for a pension. They are always surprised when I tell them my age.

 

I put it down to not being married very long.

 

I've never been married and I've not had a GF for the last 5 years.  Thai women, apart from some looking nice, are just not my type, or more to the point I have no way to meet the type I'm looking for so I just don't bother.

[Heng]

Still feeling great but like any generation, hearing about "your" famous people dying while your kids have to Google who they are.    Who's Tom Petty, Fidel Castro, or Chuck Yeager?

 

Picking up (to be honest: pointing at their number tag) girls that were born in 2000 is an in your face reminder.   

[poskat]

at 60 I began to feel old, but it turned out I was just out of shape. Getting my weight back down, dropped 20 kg, and back into the gym, when they were open, turned me right around.

[thaibeachlovers]

1 minute ago, seancbk said:

I've never been married

Count yourself as having won the lottery of life then. If I were the ruler of the world I'd ban marriage as it is now.

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I started feeling old when I got divorced and no longer had a vision for the future. Just living day to day isn't enough for a happy life, and having too much time to think about my many ailments isn't helping to overcome them.

Just visualize yourself with your favorite gogo dancer. If that doesn't turn you on then your life is over.

[holy cow cm]

36 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

The whole "beards are suddenly hip thing" is beyond bizarre. I get it if you are an Oregon lumberjack. But, otherwise? 

 

And especially here. I have never seen a culture more averse to facial hair than Thailand. Though I would love to grow some Elvis sideburns, just to get a rise out of the locals! Fun, fun! 

I think this materialized from the military guys having beards in Muslim countries and then it rubbed off onto the " I want to have one just like them and everyone else" jump on the boaters. Personally its like the tattoo craze, and honestly I don't like either one of them.