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[greybeard]

Forget your physical age. How old do you feel inside your head?

I'm coming up 66 but despite a decrepit body, I still feel as though I'm still half that age. My brain just can't accept that I'm well into the downhill run.

Do you other oldies feel the same?

[nomis]

I feel about 9yrs. I'm so innocent and ignorant of this vast world and in all my 60 years I've learned zilch. If I didn't have the pressing contraints of society's expectations and ingrained inhibitions I'd flop on the floor and throw a tantrum. But the over-riding evidence is that I still expect to grow up one day...

[twisted_ophelia]

I dunno. Some days I feel my age, like an adult coming up on 29. Other days I feel 16 or 17, other days I feel like a kid, some days my early 20s, some days I feel way older than I am. It's weird.

[edlee]

Well,,, let's see,,,, I'm sitting here,, as I have for the last week or so,, trying to find that perfect position where I don't hurt so much. I've been avoiding going anywhere for some time now, for much the same reason.

I guess that is what it's like to be 100,,, but I'm only guessing, cause I've seen hundred year olds who looked like they got around better than me.

So,, I'd say I feel like I'm at least that old,,,, my mind knows better,, and resents it,,, but ,,, there ya go.

Life's a bitch and then,,,, well,, you know,,
ed

[Yasko]

twisted_ophelia, on Apr 10 2009, 09:54 AM, said:

I dunno. Some days I feel my age, like an adult coming up on 29. Other days I feel 16 or 17, other days I feel like a kid, some days my early 20s, some days I feel way older than I am. It's weird.

Same here Mimi! It depends on day or occasion. When I see my daughter (16 years old) I feel much older than I am, but then, when I play PS3 games with my nephews I fell like 8.

[twisted_ophelia]

edlee, on Apr 10 2009, 01:17 PM, said:

Well,,, let's see,,,, I'm sitting here,, as I have for the last week or so,, trying to find that perfect position where I don't hurt so much. I've been avoiding going anywhere for some time now, for much the same reason.

I guess that is what it's like to be 100,,, but I'm only guessing, cause I've seen hundred year olds who looked like they got around better than me.

So,, I'd say I feel like I'm at least that old,,,, my mind knows better,, and resents it,,, but ,,, there ya go.

Life's a bitch and then,,,, well,, you know,,
ed

Aww, Ed We're here to listen if you feel the need to talk about the hurt.

Yasko, on Apr 10 2009, 01:20 PM, said:

Same here Mimi! It depends on day or occasion. When I see my daughter (16 years old) I feel much older than I am, but then, when I play PS3 games with my nephews I fell like 8.

Totally! I play on my Wii with friends and we all get so into it, we're like little crazy kids freaking out. Same thing with my DS. And I've seen grown men like my ex husband and the boys at my shop go nuts on the PS3. It's hilarious what video games can do.

[JustJayde]

Like everyone else it really depends on the day...

Some days I feel like I am in my 20's and am happy and care free.. Other days when I am sick and tired of being sick and tired and in this body I feel much older and unhappier.

Luckily MOST of the time it is the 20's and care free because I have a way of just being happy but when I am miserable it is ugly.

[Hikkakaru]

definitely not as young as I should feel, that's for sure.

[tumadre]

twisted_ophelia, on Apr 10 2009, 04:54 PM, said:

I dunno. Some days I feel my age, like an adult coming up on 29. Other days I feel 16 or 17, other days I feel like a kid, some days my early 20s, some days I feel way older than I am. It's weird.

seems you feel same as me I'm currently 13 but genereally I feel of 8 but at times I feel like 25 though

[E-DOG]

Funny you should ask old man.

I feel just old enough to know that I'm barely, sorta, kinda beginning to understand how this whole thing works.

Now if I had another fifty or so years to practice the few rudimentary skills I've somehow managed to acquire, I might be ready to

begin living life the way I think it should be lived.

I believe that as a fine, up-standing (let's put the fun back in pun) tax paying American citizen I should have the right to ask for, and receive

a second chance. Maybe see if I can get it right this time.

All those in favor? Say ay.
All those not? Go take an aerial copulation through a rotating pastry.

E-dog (imagine emoticon of choice here)

[greybeard]

AY!!!

Edited by greybeard, 10 April 2009 - 08:34 PM.

[Yasko]

Ay, my brother from another mother!

[longhaul]

All my life I have resisted being stereo typed, how is one to know how to "act " at any particular age unless you watch an older person and act like them, no thanks. I pay no attention to birthdays and don't celebrate them. I was born and will die so it's one continuous line, I am one and will always be one. I try to improve myself everyday and not repeat mistakes. I don't hold grudges and don't get angry and laugh often. I look at life through "Bazaro/Zippy the Pinhead" glasses and try to stay in the here and now.

[greybeard]

longhaul, on Apr 11 2009, 06:05 AM, said:

All my life I have resisted being stereo typed, how is one to know how to "act " at any particular age unless you watch an older person and act like them, no thanks. I pay no attention to birthdays and don't celebrate them. I was born and will die so it's one continuous line, I am one and will always be one. I try to improve myself everyday and not repeat mistakes. I don't hold grudges and don't get angry and laugh often. I look at life through "Bazaro/Zippy the Pinhead" glasses and try to stay in the here and now.

OK. So - how old do you feel?

Isn't it likely that by going your own way, you will sometimes have failed to learn from the mistakes of those who have gone before you?

I ignore my own birthdays too, but others sometimes expect you to acknowledge theirs and, sometimes, even your own. It seems only polite to do so.

Edited by greybeard, 11 April 2009 - 08:55 AM.

[Geezer34]

I feel 35 but still act like a kid

It's a Definate AY from me E-dog, but saying that i've never believed in reincarnation even when i was a frog...

[Scribbler]

Although I'm pushing nearer 70, in my mind I still think I'm young, I think this also applies to AB people.

Some days I feel 150 but most of the time I feel around 30.

Having young, attractive PA's taking care of me keeps me young at heart.

I often feel like a 30 year old, but they stay well out of my reach....

[wheelywendy]

i definately act, look and feel younger than i am, but then theres a saying that getting older is inevitable, growing up is optional hey thats me forever 20ish

Edited by wheelywendy, 11 April 2009 - 03:08 PM.

[greybeard]

Scribbler, on Apr 11 2009, 01:02 PM, said:

Having young, attractive PA's taking care of me keeps me young at heart.
I often feel like a 30 year old, but they stay well out of my reach....

Can you blame them, you randy old goat?
I know, I know. They're like daughters to you. Yeah right!

[StillFingers]

Seems to me that age is but a random imagining attached to the time we've been. Would that be this, past or future, years, days, seconds or some other measure of how I am? If this bit of diatribe sounds like nonsensical dribble from an older entity, in point of fact, it is, I'm just filling space on a page, using the few firing brain cells I feel I have.

At the moment I feel very much alive

Hope that's enough GB, I really have no clue, everything seems to change in the blink of...and it's often wonderful.

Edited by StillFingers, 11 April 2009 - 06:33 PM.

[Trinity]

I really don't feel my age and am in complete denial about my next birthday!

[E-DOG]

trinity, on Apr 11 2009, 11:30 AM, said:

I really don't feel my age and am in complete denial about my next birthday!

Hey,
You don't feel your age, I don't feel my legs.
Maybe if I could feel your legs, you could feel my age.

Odd. I think I just heard a puppy bark.

E

[Illinois Boy]

I feel like I'm as old as Satan.......

Hell, I am Satan......

[longhaul]

A man from the city was visiting a small farm, and during this visit he saw a farmer feeding pigs in a most extraordinary manner.


The farmer would lift a pig up to a nearby apple tree, and the pig would eat the apples off the tree. The farmer would move the pig from one apple to another until the pig was full, then he would start again with another pig.


The man watched this activity for some time with great astonishment. Finally, out of frustration he said to the farmer, "This is the most inefficient method of feeding pigs that I can imagine. Just think of the time that would be saved if you simply shook the apples off the tree and let the pigs eat them from the ground!"


The farmer looked puzzled and replied, "What's time to a pig?"



I guess I'm the pig because I don't have a clue what time is, I wake up in the morning do a bunch of stuff go to sleep and then do it over again and again until I don't someday. I look at life as a continuous journey not segments of 1, 2, 3, 4, years it's like a count down to the end which is morbid if you think about it. I want to be like a mouse eating cheese and WHAM the trap goes off end of story. I really can't tell you how old in years I feel. Learning something from someone has no age limit, I have learned important things from children as well as from old people.

[edlee]

You strike me as too intelligent to let something as elemental as time, go by unnoticed. I do, however appreciate your effort to appear to ignore it.



Some pigs live well,,, some mice, too.
ed

[longhaul]

edlee, on Apr 11 2009, 08:27 PM, said:

You strike me as too intelligent to let something as elemental as time, go by unnoticed. I do, however appreciate your effort to appear to ignore it.



Some pigs live well,,, some mice, too.
ed

I'm not trying to ignore it I just don't understand it. I don't see defined breaks in life like birthdays because they're arbitrary but the rhythm goes on uninterrupted. If it about getting wiser as opposed to getting older I could grasp that. I will die regardless of whether I count the birthdays or not I just see no reason to count down to my demise.

[edlee]

Unless you,,, or someone you know,, has already decided on the when,, I don't really see it as a count DOWN. Nobody or at least very few know when they are gonna go.

Whether or not you choose to keep track of your stats, is pretty much up to you. I never kept my own handicap when I played golf,, but somebody did, while I was in a league,, so somebody wanted to know,, even if I didn't care very much.

My post wasn't that you ignored it, only that you chose to appear to.

Sorry about the flogging of the deceased pony,,, I was bored.
ed

[greybeard]

edlee, on Apr 13 2009, 12:41 AM, said:

Sorry about the flogging of the deceased pony,,, I was bored.
ed

Ha ha! Well, it was a pretty boring topic to start with, sorry for bring it up guys.

[E-DOG]

[/quote]
I will die regardless of whether I count the birthdays or not I just see no reason to count down to my demise.
[/quote]

Ha! I'm countin' the friggin' seconds!

E

[twisted_ophelia]

longhaul, on Apr 12 2009, 04:04 AM, said:

I'm not trying to ignore it I just don't understand it. I don't see defined breaks in life like birthdays because they're arbitrary but the rhythm goes on uninterrupted. If it about getting wiser as opposed to getting older I could grasp that. I will die regardless of whether I count the birthdays or not I just see no reason to count down to my demise.

I was talking to someone about ages/birthdays, etc., today and we both agreed that once we turned 21, we stopped caring about birthdays. By 21 you can legally do everything so that's really the only birthday that matters.

[longhaul]

[/quote]
Ha! I'm countin' the friggin' seconds!

E


That's a full time job man. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3..............................Happy Birthday

Edited by longhaul, 13 April 2009 - 03:49 AM.