Feeling my age

[kevvy]

Hi

I am getting close to 60 years in age . I have noticed I cannot do alot of things as my body does not allow it . Alot of it has to do with the disease MRSA I had which put me in hospital for nearly 6 months including ICU for 3 weeks .Apart from that I find that the aches and pains and joint pain just from old age is getting worst .I like sleeping longer now and still look forward to the day , but just haven't the extra step anymore. I have noticed that my body is slowing down .

Has anyone else feel this way or are you still the same at this age of 60.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/10634.php

[onthedarkside]

Take it from me, it only gets worse each year once you reach the big Six-oh. I speak from experience. I dread the big Seven-oh.

[harrry]

Take it from me, it only gets worse each year once you reach the big Six-oh. I speak from experience. I dread the big Seven-oh.

Don't worry...the nurses are much friendlier then and they do not run as fast

[kevvy]

Take it from me, it only gets worse each year once you reach the big Six-oh. I speak from experience. I dread the big Seven-oh.

please dont talk about 70, as 60 is bad enough

[kevvy]

Take it from me, it only gets worse each year once you reach the big Six-oh. I speak from experience. I dread the big Seven-oh.

Don't worry...the nurses are much friendlier then and they do not run as fast

Harry

well that is something to look forward too.

[Dr Robert]

I like Dylan Thomas's take on it when he reflected then wrote on his father dying:

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Edited October 13, 2013 by Dr Robert

[Old Croc]

You don't have to go completely to pot.

Gary Player is about 78 and happy to pose nude.

[David48]

Kev... don't sweat it ... entropy is everywhere.

Presuming you live an 'average life' ... you have 22.5 years to look forward to ...

[473geo]

Exercise is not an exclusive action for the young, get out and about, push yourself a little, and you will be rewarded

[kevvy]

Kev... don't sweat it ... entropy is everywhere.

Presuming you live an 'average life' ... you have 22.5 years to look forward to ...

Great , but when you get older 22.5 years seems like 10.5 years ... This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Even though getting older, these are the best years of my life and the better ones are coming . Life is good. Oh isn't that the LG saying ...

[robblok]

Exercise is not an exclusive action for the young, get out and about, push yourself a little, and you will be rewarded

We don't often agree.. but exercise is vital to keep in shape.. physical exercise and mental .. the brain needs to be exercised too.

Ever noticed how those who retire loose their sharpness their mind..... (for those that used it a lot before)

One needs to train body and mind.

[villagefarang]

I suppose it is just a number but I too contemplate the consequences of turning 60 on my next birthday. People love to point out some freak of nature who has mobility and mental acuity far into his or her nineties but that simply isn’t the norm.

I seem to be stuck in a lonely middle ground between the majority who struggle with their health and those we hold up as the ideal. I do notice recovery takes longer than before and I am less inclined to endure true hardship but I can still keep up with those years younger, for the most part. I choose to measure myself against those who I aspire to be like and not those I fear becoming so I am never satisfied I guess.

Still I see doors closing on dreams once held for great adventures. Health, fitness, time, inclination, responsibilities and money way heavy on what we can do as we get older. I am not yet ready to settle into a rocking chair waiting for my final sunset but I struggle to answer, at what point life is not worth living.

I am not a fan of longevity if one is not able to enjoy it, so I fear living too long and putting my wife through the agonizing pain of dealing with what I continue to encounter with my own parents, both 90 now.

You pose a question which different people deal with in different ways. I suppose it depends on our individual life experiences. I perhaps spend too much time thinking about what to do with the time I have left and measuring my ever shortening stride.

To keep it Chiang Rai related, Chiang Rai is a great place to try and stay healthy and keep that spring in your step as one gets older.

Edited October 13, 2013 by villagefarang

[onthedarkside]

This sort of topic should really be in the Health Forum as it is not really CR specific. I will hold off moving for a 2 days to let you locals have your say in your own forum before opening up to the general membership.

[sceadugenga]

I'm 65 and feel the need to plan the next ten years.

Mainly about places to see that I haven't been to yet, Burma, parts of China, Mongolia, Central Asia....

I need to do it while I can still do some serious walking, then there's no need for tour groups or bus tours, just walk around getting on and off public transport, use the trains, see the people.

[villagefarang]

I'm 65 and feel the need to plan the next ten years.

Mainly about places to see that I haven't been to yet, Burma, parts of China, Mongolia, Central Asia....

I need to do it while I can still do some serious walking, then there's no need for tour groups or bus tours, just walk around getting on and off public transport, use the trains, see the people.

It is never too early to start working on a bucket list.

[sceadugenga]

Or too late.

I backpacked in my early 50s and got a few strange looks from the gap year crowd.

Late 60s will blow them right away.

Edited October 13, 2013 by sceadugenga

[sceadugenga]

I like Dylan Thomas's take on it when he reflected then wrote on his father dying:

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning they

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,

Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I like the ending of Tennyson's Ulysses.

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

[pomchop]

I prefer old age to the alternative.
- - - - Maurice Chevalier

[Dr Robert]

or Philip Larkin who has a somewhat more pessimistic but brutally honest view of aging

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/poems-on-aging-not-for-sissies/?_r=0

[Dr Robert]

I prefer old age to the alternative.

- - - - Maurice Chevalier

wasnt he also thanking God for little girls?

[charlie1968]

I'm 45 and feel 90

[kevvy]

I should have put the heading "feeling my age in CR"

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[kevvy]

Dont they say you as young as the girl in your life charlie

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[sceadugenga]

or Philip Larkin who has a somewhat more pessimistic but brutally honest view of aging

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/poems-on-aging-not-for-sissies/?_r=0

Larkin never had a very high opinion of aging at all.

This Be The Verse

By Philip Larkin

They **** you up, your mum and dad.

They may not mean to, but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had

And add some extra, just for you.

But they were ****ed up in their turn

By fools in old-style hats and coats,

Who half the time were soppy-stern

And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.

It deepens like a coastal shelf.

Get out as early as you can,

And don’t have any kids yourself.

[Dancealot]

Great , but when you get older 22.5 years seems like 10.5 years ... This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Even though getting older, these are the best years of my life and the better ones are coming . Life is good. Oh isn't that the LG saying ...

I am roughly half your age and when I read that, it made me smile. , Thanks, kevvy.

[Dr Robert]

Dont they say you as young as the girl in your life charlie

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thats Groucho Marx-you are only as old as the woman you are feeling...lol

[charlie1968]

Feel better after your reply kevvy

Lol

[kevvy]

Great , but when you get older 22.5 years seems like 10.5 years ... This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Even though getting older, these are the best years of my life and the better ones are coming . Life is good. Oh isn't that the LG saying ...

I am roughly half your age and when I read that, it made me smile. , Thanks, kevvy.

thanks Dancealot.. it really makes my day to make someone happy

Making someone smile and brightening their day is one of the most happiest things you can do . It has a ripple effect that touches the whole forum. if you are nice to someone it is likely they will be nice to someone as well.

when you smile at someone or brighten their day you give something good of yourself . You are putting aside your own selfish needs and wants, for a moment to make someone else feel good.

[transam]

Take it from me, it only gets worse each year once you reach the big Six-oh. I speak from experience. I dread the big Seven-oh.

Hmmmmmmmmmm, I am well past that and go weight training .

Nobody is born perfect, in fact I believe we start dying soon after we get to our prime . What one is born with dictates our longevity coupled with what we did in our dying process.

Regards Dr.Trans...............

[kevvy]

Feel better after your reply kevvy

Lol

Charlie do you have a young woman, or did you just dream when i suggested this. As dreaming is a part in old age