My mother used to read the obits every morning to “make sure she wasn’t in there”. I do not read them every morning, but I do look at them every couple of months to see who among my peers might have died. I am at the age where it is not unexpected to see the names of my contemporaries in the obits.
Old is when your body can’t cash the cheques your ambition writes.
If you want to feel young again, lower your ambitions.
Renésays
The first time I felt ‘old’ — as in ‘adult’ — was the first time someone adressed me as ‘U’, the polite form of 2nd person singular.
The first time I understood I had become an old geezer, was when the cashier asked if I liked to buy ‘zegeltjes’ (stamps to collect for saving some money).
Pierce R. Butlersays
René at # 5 -- Please explain, how does one “geeze”? Asking for a friend…
billseymoursays
I once had a techie job in the media lab at a high school in the St. Louis area. I looked around one day and noticed that all the kids my age were teachers.
That was about fifty years ago. 😎
xohjoh2nsays
Old is when you say “that music is too loud”. John Peel never got old.
John Moralessays
Ain’t that hard.
I know I’m in my dotage; the body is slowly getting less resilient, the mind is now what it was.
(And, it ain’t gonna get any better)
Ah well. So it goes.
John Moralessays
(heh)
Not what it was.
John Moralessays
… and more to the point, the issues with getting old are the same regardless, but if one furthermore denies the reality to oneself, it can only be detrimental.
publicolasays
You know your old: when you get up in the morning and you’re stiff in all the wrong places.
The Pursuit of Happiness released “I’m An Adult Now” in 1988. Now I really do feel old. To quote the last verse:
Sometimes my head hurts and sometimes my stomach hurts
And I guess it won’t be long
For I’m sitting in a room with a bunch of people
Whose necks and backs are aching
Whose sight and hearing’s fading
Who just can’t seem to get it up
Speaking of hearing, I can’t take too much loud music
I mean I like to play it, but I sure don’t like the racket
Noise, but I can’t hear anything
Just guitars screaming, screaming, screaming
Some guy screaming in a leather jacket
machintelligencesays
Old: someone who is at least ten years older than you are.
“How do I know my youth is all spent?
My get up and go has done got up and went.”
Ross Stephenssays
Machineintelligence,
To continue your ditty
“But I don’t care no more,
when I think of the places my get up and go
has got up and gone before”
Ross
jrkrideausays
You have to worry when an article in History Today reads like current affairs.
John Moralessays
It’s all good, but.
Back in the day, when someone older bothered me and I was powerless about it, I consoled myself by thinking “well, I’m young and I have my life ahead of me, and I’ll be around when they’re dead”.
These days, if it’s someone younger (more and more the case) it’s more like “well, I’ve had a pretty decent and longer life so far, so I’ve made it to a point they might not even reach”.
My mother used to read the obits every morning to “make sure she wasn’t in there”. I do not read them every morning, but I do look at them every couple of months to see who among my peers might have died. I am at the age where it is not unexpected to see the names of my contemporaries in the obits.
My sister-in-law complained that my brother now drives like an old man. I looked him over and said, it’s because he is one.
It is the age where dying is sad, but not tragic.
Old is when your body can’t cash the cheques your ambition writes.
If you want to feel young again, lower your ambitions.
The first time I felt ‘old’ — as in ‘adult’ — was the first time someone adressed me as ‘U’, the polite form of 2nd person singular.
The first time I understood I had become an old geezer, was when the cashier asked if I liked to buy ‘zegeltjes’ (stamps to collect for saving some money).
René at # 5 -- Please explain, how does one “geeze”? Asking for a friend…
I once had a techie job in the media lab at a high school in the St. Louis area. I looked around one day and noticed that all the kids my age were teachers.
That was about fifty years ago. 😎
Old is when you say “that music is too loud”. John Peel never got old.
Ain’t that hard.
I know I’m in my dotage; the body is slowly getting less resilient, the mind is now what it was.
(And, it ain’t gonna get any better)
Ah well. So it goes.
(heh)
Not what it was.
… and more to the point, the issues with getting old are the same regardless, but if one furthermore denies the reality to oneself, it can only be detrimental.
You know your old: when you get up in the morning and you’re stiff in all the wrong places.
xohjoh2n (#8) --
The Pursuit of Happiness released “I’m An Adult Now” in 1988. Now I really do feel old. To quote the last verse:
Old: someone who is at least ten years older than you are.
“How do I know my youth is all spent?
My get up and go has done got up and went.”
Machineintelligence,
To continue your ditty
“But I don’t care no more,
when I think of the places my get up and go
has got up and gone before”
Ross
You have to worry when an article in History Today reads like current affairs.
It’s all good, but.
Back in the day, when someone older bothered me and I was powerless about it, I consoled myself by thinking “well, I’m young and I have my life ahead of me, and I’ll be around when they’re dead”.
These days, if it’s someone younger (more and more the case) it’s more like “well, I’ve had a pretty decent and longer life so far, so I’ve made it to a point they might not even reach”.
(Attitude helps)