At what age did you start feeling old?
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62 - Focal dystonia showed up playing a musical instrument and dry eye started soon afterward. As far physical stamina not much has changed, but the two age related conditions changed what I can and cannot do. I can't ride a bicycle century in 90 degree temperatures anymore and my band and orchestra days are unfortunately over. However, if I had been a professional musician my dystonia probably would have showed up 30 years ago. The dry eye is just age, but a real annoyance. Reading is tough now and I used to do a lot of that.
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Late 30's. I realized I was older than most professional athletes.
I'm in my mid 40's and still get asked for ID at stores. I guess I look better than I feel.
I'm in my mid 40's and still get asked for ID at stores. I guess I look better than I feel.
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mhc wrote:Late 30's. I realized I was older than most professional athletes.
I'm in my mid 40's and still get asked for ID at stores. I guess I look better than I feel.
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74+ and starting to think I may become a "grown up" pretty soon.
That said, the ravages of time are doing their thing. Someday I may give in to "feeling old", I just can't imagine when.
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That said, the ravages of time are doing their thing. Someday I may give in to "feeling old", I just can't imagine when.
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not yet,
but,
i think that if i ever need a 'little blue pill' to have a romantic night with the wife,
then i will feel old.
(ut-oh; just jinxed myself).
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but,
i think that if i ever need a 'little blue pill' to have a romantic night with the wife,
then i will feel old.
(ut-oh; just jinxed myself).
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One marker was the moment when I was aware of the existence of people I thought of as adults--not young adults, just adults--that were enough younger than I as to have a somewhat different perspective on technology, historic events, etc. I remember the specific moment. I was talking to a fellow grad student:
Colleague: "My major professor told me to borrow the capacitance meter from the electronics shop, but the technician says it's out for repairs. It needs a new 'magic eye tube,' whatever that is."
Me: "Oh, you know. One of those tubes that shows a green ring with a shadow."
Colleague: "Huh?"
Me: "You know. Like on radio tuning indicators."
Colleague: "Huh?"
Me: "Oh, you know. The shadow expands and contracts. Like the level indicators on cheap tape recorders that don't have VU meters."
Colleague: "Huh?"
And it gradually sinks in on me that this guy is just not going to get it because he has never seen a magic eye tube, not even one, not once in his entire life.
You know. Like one of these.
Then there was the time I began to notice that people didn't understand my joking references to "To the best of my recollection at this point in time," "Twisting slowly, slowly in the wind," "Sinister force," "Modified limited hang out," "That statement is no longer operative," etc.
Colleague: "My major professor told me to borrow the capacitance meter from the electronics shop, but the technician says it's out for repairs. It needs a new 'magic eye tube,' whatever that is."
Me: "Oh, you know. One of those tubes that shows a green ring with a shadow."
Colleague: "Huh?"
Me: "You know. Like on radio tuning indicators."
Colleague: "Huh?"
Me: "Oh, you know. The shadow expands and contracts. Like the level indicators on cheap tape recorders that don't have VU meters."
Colleague: "Huh?"
And it gradually sinks in on me that this guy is just not going to get it because he has never seen a magic eye tube, not even one, not once in his entire life.
You know. Like one of these.
Then there was the time I began to notice that people didn't understand my joking references to "To the best of my recollection at this point in time," "Twisting slowly, slowly in the wind," "Sinister force," "Modified limited hang out," "That statement is no longer operative," etc.
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Sometime in my early fifties I realized that I was becoming invisible. When you reach a certain age, people start to look through you or around you, but never at you. It's kind of liberating, really. As long as I don't look crazy, nobody's going to notice what I'm wearing or whether I need a haircut.
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Actually this is interesting. I have the opposite problem, well not really a problem. Young women seek me out in crowds. Really. Happens all the time.Patchy Groundfog wrote:Sometime in my early fifties I realized that I was becoming invisible. When you reach a certain age, people start to look through you or around you, but never at you. It's kind of liberating, really. As long as I don't look crazy, nobody's going to notice what I'm wearing or whether I need a haircut.
I am just standing there. They pick me out of the crowd walk over and say things like: "I'm lost. I don't know where the bus picks up. Can you tell me where to go?" If ever I was a young dashing, slightly rogue-ish and dangerous figure that attracted women that is long gone. Now I'm the completely safe but competent looking father figure. I was out in Boulder Co, early fall or late summer, warm afternoon with time to go for a run. I decide to run up Bear Mountain, a modest climb of about 3000 ft west of town. There was a map at the trail head and I stopped to make sure I knew where to go. I struck up a conversation about the map with three very healthy young women, maybe students from the University of CO. They had great looking gear for a jaunt in local hills. They noticed I did not have a water bottle and got very concerned about the kindly old guy and talked to me about being careful and not working too hard, etc. Very sweet of them to look after me with sincere concern. I told them I would be careful, but was tempted to tell them I have been doing this for far longer than they have been alive and I had a pretty good idea of what I was doing.
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I went to a restaurant with a co-worker who retired (in his 70s). He ordered a beer and waitress asked to show his ID. I asked why and she told me that was the policy. It turned out that few weeks before, the restaurant mistakenly sold beer to a teenager who look like an adult with gray hair.mhc wrote:Late 30's. I realized I was older than most professional athletes.
I'm in my mid 40's and still get asked for ID at stores. I guess I look better than I feel.
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The saying is 'forty ain't old if you're a tree', but that was 28 years ago. I don't feel old, but rigor mortis sets in if I stay still too long because my body thinks I died.
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When I was 63 and I hurt my back badly and could not recover physically. But here is my favorite quote about age from Satchel Page: "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?rec7 wrote:I would say for me it was in my 40's.
I think this is the way to live your life but with some small adjustments re. 100mi bike rides. I have met people in their 40's that act much older than those in their 80's.
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Which reminds me of jazz great Eubie Blake, who reached 96: "If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself."jaytheman wrote: . . . my favorite quote about age from Satchel Page: "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" . . .
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At age 64 when I came out of the field after working my Brittany.
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When I got diagnosed with cancer in 2000 at 53 was the first major blow.. Thankfully it all worked out OK but it sure was a shock.. That same year I also worked/skied a lot with some young guys who were 20-30. Some days they invited me to tag along ( ) with them after skiing. They would dance and live it up at the night clubs and bars until midnight or 1AM knowing that work/skiing started again at 8AM. Unfortunitely I would just run out of energy at 8-10PM. Then I really knew I was getting old.
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My mother just turned 100. She said she didn't feel old until in her 90s when we moved her from her home to live with us. She's now in asisted living.
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I look like I'm in middle school, but my knees hurt after an afternoon on the soccer field. Tough break.
Discussing age is unproductive
"Feeling old" or "feeling young" or "feeling one's age" is a useless concept. Discussing it is never productive. Jokes about age are usually dull, even if self-effacing.
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I would say just after age 50 I started feeling old, Motorcycle was a birthday present for myself and was sure I (was) ??am good at it as I used to ride while in College, had a simple fall, tibial fracture, then complicated healing, staph infections & multiple knee replacements, plastic surgery of the knee with bone, muscle & skin grafting. I was old by the time I got around to walking again. So yes, at around 50 due to the unfortunate accident and delayed healing.
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45-my hair went rapidly gray. That makes you look old, then people start asking about the grandkids. Whoops, kids are still teenagers.
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Old??? Are you kidding? I'm only 71. I'll let you know when it happens.
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So you're old, eh?VictoriaF wrote:"Feeling old" or "feeling young" or "feeling one's age" is a useless concept. Discussing it is never productive. Jokes about age are usually dull, even if self-effacing.
I focus on issues and try to fix them if I can. If I can't, I move on.
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Definitely the big THREE-OH.
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graveday wrote:So you're old, eh?VictoriaF wrote:"Feeling old" or "feeling young" or "feeling one's age" is a useless concept. Discussing it is never productive. Jokes about age are usually dull, even if self-effacing.
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Huh?nisiprius wrote:One marker was the moment when I was aware of the existence of people I thought of as adults--not young adults, just adults--that were enough younger than I as to have a somewhat different perspective on technology, historic events, etc. I remember the specific moment. I was talking to a fellow grad student:
Colleague: "My major professor told me to borrow the capacitance meter from the electronics shop, but the technician says it's out for repairs. It needs a new 'magic eye tube,' whatever that is."
Me: "Oh, you know. One of those tubes that shows a green ring with a shadow."
Colleague: "Huh?"
Me: "You know. Like on radio tuning indicators."
Colleague: "Huh?"
Me: "Oh, you know. The shadow expands and contracts. Like the level indicators on cheap tape recorders that don't have VU meters."
Colleague: "Huh?"
And it gradually sinks in on me that this guy is just not going to get it because he has never seen a magic eye tube, not even one, not once in his entire life.
You know. Like one of these.
Then there was the time I began to notice that people didn't understand my joking references to "To the best of my recollection at this point in time," "Twisting slowly, slowly in the wind," "Sinister force," "Modified limited hang out," "That statement is no longer operative," etc.
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But seriously folks... Kind of surprised no one else felt old for the first time at 27.
Four syllables, man.
Four syllables, man.
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Victoria F, try to lighten up a bit. Not everthing is serious.
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Actually, she has fully intact sense of humor, judging from many of her posts.BenBritt wrote:Victoria F, try to lighten up a bit. Not everthing is serious.
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I started feeling old in my 20's, but it was just because I was depressed and unhappy. Now I'm 62 and I don't feel old today, because I got a good nights sleep last night and it's pretty out and I feel happy.
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I still feel like I'm in my 30s, (I'm 55), but I sure have noticed how young all the star athletes and singers look now. They looked older years ago.
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I am still OK with 72, do not feel old, though hearing is not perfect. I just survived successfully walking through traffic across Manhattan to an appointment and back to the railroad station. But I really will feel great again when Spring starts and I can work in my yard and garden for hours. Perhaps we should have a poll about nominating the inventors of Lipitor and Vi***a for the Nobel price, those really improve life.
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I don't feel old yet. In fact, I feel younger than I have in long time because I just read Nisiprius's post and don't have the faintest idea what he's talking about.
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We played a coed indoor soccer game tonight. I skipped the bar in favor of a shower and a sandwich....my back is killing me. I'm 29 and today I feel old.
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Not old, exactly, but at some point (long ago, now) I had the unpleasant realization that all the cops and doctors were now younger than me--way younger-- instead of older like it had always been before. Now some of them are starting to look like they're about 12 years old. And I'm only 62.
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I'm always self deprecating, lighting up francis! :lol IIRC many big statured individuals have been self-depricating. RMNixon, GWBush, are the only 2 that come to mind at the moment. Sorry for straying OTOP :lolVictoriaF wrote:"Feeling old" or "feeling young" or "feeling one's age" is a useless concept. Discussing it is never productive. Jokes about age are usually dull, even if self-effacing.
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I'm going to hit 40 in a matter of weeks and no ways do I feel old. I still get bemused when people ask me if I have kids.
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42ish
My near vision is going, and I can feel my body start to deteriorate. Need to start exercising and such, 20s 30s does not matter so much, now.... Its the beginning of use it or lose it.
I need sleep now, before I could get by on 4 hours for a 2-3 days. etc. etc.
I did not feel old in my 30s, or when I turned 40.
Only thing happened when I turned 40 was a guy had a heart attack that was 42, and I was like FORTY TWO?!!?!?! Whereas, when I was 39, a 42 year old heart attack did not effect me, was not personal to me, because he was in his 40s, and I my 30s, just how the human mind works subconsciously, no way around it. Kinda interesting to catch myself at it.
Course all relative, if I make it to 60, this will be part of my youth : )
My near vision is going, and I can feel my body start to deteriorate. Need to start exercising and such, 20s 30s does not matter so much, now.... Its the beginning of use it or lose it.
I need sleep now, before I could get by on 4 hours for a 2-3 days. etc. etc.
I did not feel old in my 30s, or when I turned 40.
Only thing happened when I turned 40 was a guy had a heart attack that was 42, and I was like FORTY TWO?!!?!?! Whereas, when I was 39, a 42 year old heart attack did not effect me, was not personal to me, because he was in his 40s, and I my 30s, just how the human mind works subconsciously, no way around it. Kinda interesting to catch myself at it.
Course all relative, if I make it to 60, this will be part of my youth : )
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I did not so much as feel old at 28, but was for some reason really struck by my 28th birthday because it struck me that I probably would never climb as hard going forward as I was climbing then.DoWahDaddy wrote:But seriously folks... Kind of surprised no one else felt old for the first time at 27.
Four syllables, man.
Largely true as it turns out, partly because I started having less time and partly due to aging. But I found the slope very gentle and I did some of my best long distance running more than 10 years after that.
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Unfortunately, I have noticed a steady degradation in a number of variables starting around age 40.
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In my 40s. I never thought about age but somewhere in my early 40s I became very aware of my age. Part of this was having a 17 year old in the house with her friends. She has friends ranging from her age to 21 and they look like young adults and they way they treat me makes me feel old. I feel so out of touch when I talk to them.
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Sure wish there was a sarcasm font...graveday wrote:Actually, she has fully intact sense of humor, judging from many of her posts.BenBritt wrote:Victoria F, try to lighten up a bit. Not everthing is serious.
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Hard to say. To some degree its situational. I was 22 when most in my rifle squad were 19-20, so I was the old man. In my mid 40's I needed reading glasses and that was the first time I realized I was on a life path that will have an end - but still didn't feel old. I'm retired now, but on occasion in my last year of work, some days I wanted a nap after lunch, but this year I don't.
I don't think of myself as old, but older. I was talking to an insurance agent a few weeks ago and she asked me about myself. Knowing we would never meet in person, I said I was just like Cary Grant, "but without the charm or good looks." And yup...she asked me who Cary Grant was. So you never know.
I don't think of myself as old, but older. I was talking to an insurance agent a few weeks ago and she asked me about myself. Knowing we would never meet in person, I said I was just like Cary Grant, "but without the charm or good looks." And yup...she asked me who Cary Grant was. So you never know.
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26 or 27. Body's OK but I feel like my brain's about 30 years older than it actually is.
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50 years old now and would say I started feeling old around 46-48.
To me feeling old = the aches and pains that come on and just don't go away and make life a bit less enjoyable.
It's definately worse in the winter months, better in summer. Perhaps I need to do like the birds and move south for the winter.
Trev H
To me feeling old = the aches and pains that come on and just don't go away and make life a bit less enjoyable.
It's definately worse in the winter months, better in summer. Perhaps I need to do like the birds and move south for the winter.
Trev H
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I love it when people discuss me; it's my favorite subject. As for my initial comment, I would have liked to have a "contrarian" smiley.Midpack wrote:Sure wish there was a sarcasm font...graveday wrote:Actually, she has fully intact sense of humor, judging from many of her posts.BenBritt wrote:Victoria F, try to lighten up a bit. Not everthing is serious.
To restate my point, humans largely are what they say or think they are. When a person forces himself to smile this muscular effort cheers him up. When a person says, "I am stupid," he neurologically becomes more stupid. And by the same token, someone lamenting about his age ages.
In one experiment, some students had to solve puzzles that had words like retirement, Alzheimer's, arthritis, and alike. The control group of students were solving puzzles of similar difficulty and neutral meaning. After the puzzles were solved, the students had to walk along a long corridor. Those who have just worked on the retirement puzzles walked significantly slower than the control group. They were feeling old!
In another experiment, a group of older people was placed in an artificial environment of their youth. People were asked to dress in the fashion of that period, they were watching films and listening to the music of that epoch, their food, discussions and other aspects of life were replicating the times of their youth as closely as it was possible. After reliving their youth for several weeks, the participants' vital signs such as blood pressure have improved dramatically. They were almost literally young!
And so my point is that lamenting about one's age is not harmless; it provides no advantages and possibly causes harm.
Victoria
P.S. I did not bother looking for the references to the two experiments I mentioned. I think the first one was described in Dan Ariely's book.
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I thought I would have a hard time when I hit 40. I didn't. But when I hit 41! Now that's old. It was a little after this time that I really didn't "get" younger folks or their music, and I didn't care to.
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Anyone under the age of about 20 doesn't know why we hit this image to save our work:
Or why digital cameras all make this sound effect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlOtQj0htkM
Or why digital phone ringers sound like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAsXKpjsCDI#t=0m39s
For further consideration:
-kids born after 9/11 are old enough to have conversations about 9/11
-kids born after OJ was found not guilty are driving now
-kids born after the first Gulf War are drinking age now
-18yo kids getting ready to vote in November were born well after Clinton was first elected
and for my grand finale: the day the Berlin Wall fell was closer to the first moon landing than the present day. (20 years and change vs 22 years and change.)
Just sayin'
Or why digital cameras all make this sound effect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlOtQj0htkM
Or why digital phone ringers sound like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAsXKpjsCDI#t=0m39s
For further consideration:
-kids born after 9/11 are old enough to have conversations about 9/11
-kids born after OJ was found not guilty are driving now
-kids born after the first Gulf War are drinking age now
-18yo kids getting ready to vote in November were born well after Clinton was first elected
and for my grand finale: the day the Berlin Wall fell was closer to the first moon landing than the present day. (20 years and change vs 22 years and change.)
Just sayin'
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I met a guy who likes to say, 'Well, that's enough of me talking about me. What do you think about me?'VictoriaF wrote:Midpack wrote: I love it when people discuss me; it's my favorite subject.
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No matter my age, ten years older than me always seems old.
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Right about now. Almost 62.