When do you become 'old'?

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  • I would say 11 is too old for skateboarding!  Maybe you can go and play Pacman on his Amiga afterwards......image
  • I think its a state of mind.  The first time you say "I am getting too old" and suddenly you realise that you mean it.

    That's the moment...

  • MG...never having met you I can't know for sure but are you winking in your avatar or do you have one eye smaller than the other?

    RB (Not old...in serious denial)

  • When the Viagra spam starts to pique your interest.

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  • Ratbag..I must have one eye smaller than the other?

    Coops!!!!!! imageimage

  • MG...that's OK then...I hope I didn't come across as eye-ist...image
  • When you  tell someone your age, and this time they don't say 'you don't look it'......... 
  • Our RE teacher once asked us to form groups and see if we could define what age you became elderly. I expect she wanted us to discuss how it wasn't possible because some people some people are still active in old age and others aren't; however I didn't want to take part in the discussion so I just said sixty, which I think is fair enough because elderly is not a synonym for frail. I would say you are no longer young when you're over thirty. I'm not sure about when you're middle-aged. I would say between thirty-five and fifty-five, so there are two five-year grey areas.

    I have to say though, that I am full of admiration for some of the older members of my running group, who accomplish awesome feats of endurance when they are in their late sixties and seventies. We have an elderly lady member who ran the Comrades double marathon in South Africa a couple of years ago, while in her late sixties. The same member attempted to run the entire eighty-seven mile length of the Ridgeway, although she had to abandon at thirty miles after getting lost and running up against the time-limit. We have another sixty-seven year old who can still run half-marathons in under ninety minutes. Several seventy year olds who run marathons and long distance trail races. A couple of months ago, a seventy-one year old ran fifteen miles up to the top of Dunkery Beacon and back; a race that took me a week for my legs to recover. Inspirational!

  • I want to die young at a ripe old age.  image

  • SezzSezz ✭✭✭

    I felt old on New Year's Eve but back to my usual 'forever 28" now.

    Muffin Girl, you are never too old to skateboard.  I still look at the hill where I used to live and would love to get on a skateboard down it again.

  • i do a handstand every day... just because i can.  used to do gymnastics, so not a big deal.

    i frequently climb trees and always go on the slide and swings in a playground, whether there's children there or not image

    i would encourage anyone to have a go at a handstand, even against a wall - it's very liberating!

  • You become old when you decide, according to some pre-ordained subconscious life-script, that you're going to be old.

    I know people in their thirties who are already winding down into old age and the infirmity that they see as part of it.

    I know lots of women in their early forties who think they're menopausal every time their period is a day late. And other women in their fifties who can't get their heads round the idea of being old enough to be menopausal and are still doing pregnancy tests three years after their last period. 

    My mother, who sees herself as "young at heart", is horrified that "at my age" (43) I still do sports, haven't gone all cushion-shaped, and wear clothes that my daughters want to borrow. 

    I shall be old when ... oh, I don't know. Maybe never. Haven't got a script for it. 

  • i would encourage anyone to have a go at a handstand, even against a wall - it's very liberating!

    I couldn't agree more Siance. I'm 45 and still doing em. Allbeit against the wall now.

  • I felt depressingly old when I turned 20 a month ago and was no longer a teenager.

    Then my friend on New Years Eve welcomed me to the "half-way to 40 club"...that sounds so bad!

  • TWENTY???!

    Don't take the p1$$, son.

    "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams" (John Barrymore)

    It's just a state of mind. And in any case, I think your biological age is so much more important than your chronological age.

  • LOL @ feeling old at 20.

    I think I went through that winding down to old age in my mid twenties.  Seriously - I used to sit at home knitting rather than getting out and enjoying myself.

    I had a new lease of life in my thirties and life's better than ever in my forties.

    One thing though - whereas in my youth I loved the thrilling rides at the fair and nothing was too scary for me - not only do I feel less invincible now but my head cannot cope with those rides.  I went on a merry-go-round over Christmas and it made me feel quite ill.  image  I don't think that was a state of mind but I just can't stomach being spun around any more (even on a tame ride).

  • The more you worry about getting old the quicker you will become old...... image

  • I actually also remember being quite depressed when I turned 20. I am now 49 and several years ago had an argument with a colleague about when middle age took place. He said it was 35, I said that was rubbish and it was 50+. I am now moving the goalposts and consider it nearer 60.

    Seriously, though, I agree it is largely a matter of lifestyle and mindset. If you keep fit and active then you will stay younger in mind and body and the boundaries of middle and old  age will be pushed further into the distance.

    I still harbour thoughts of PBs but being realistic the PBs will actually be post 40 PBs or maybeeven post 50. Never mind, I can still give colleagues young enough to be my children a run for their money - that'sif they were brave enough to take me on.

  • I laugh more than anyone in my team at work.

    All younger than me bar 1 or 2.

    I am either deranged or they are miserable gits. 

  • Feeling old involves going into TopShop and recoiling in horror at some of the clothes which are almost identical to the stuff you wore in the eighties and have laughed at ever since.
  • You are old when the girls you date are more than half your age (and you are over 36, obviously).
  • You mean "less", don't you?
  • I'm nearly 35, and i feel old. But i don't worry about it, because i've got nothing to live for anyway.
  • I'm older than most of you, and apart from having more aches and pains than I used to have, I don't consider myself "old" and won't until/unless I can no longer do all the things I still do and enjoy. My OH will be 60 on 22nd January and is still outswimming everyone in our group at tri club. I'm doing my very first Ultra on 3 Feb, Tring2Town, and looking for more challenges.

    We live and love in Germany, and there's a saying here that's very apt - "he who rests, rusts". How true.

  • SlugstaSlugsta ✭✭✭

    I think I was born middle-aged. I was a 'sensible' child and a 'responsible' teenager image. I never went to pubs/clubs or parties and was saving for a deposit for a house/flat.

    Lets be honest - I still hate 'pop' music (early classical or a bit of jazz fo me) but I do seem to have 'grown into' my age. I'm 50 this year and feel more able to laugh and act the fool than I ever did when I was officially 'young'.image

  • I shall be 54 on Sat. I weigh 16 and a half stone having given it max over the Xmas New Year period.  I got Led Zep, Eric Clapton and Van the Man CDs as presents, I do not own flares or kipper ties as my wife burned them.  I like good English ale and pies.  I went to the gym for session with my work mates today and will ache like a bastard tomorrow.  I have entered the Reading Half so have about two months to get to 15 stone and 2 hrs 10 mins.  What chance do I have???

    Beep beep!

  • Old is when....you are invited to more funerals than weddings!
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