Society & Culture Growing Old / Old People

[perthblue]

Using your table, why not just show 21-35 as "Young", whats this 6 year "still young" rubbish.
Then this relatively young sunset of younger years twaddle. Thats Middle Age period.
Love how middle age runs to 55, then 24 hours after your 55th birthday BANG! Officially Old.

What rubbish

Off to yell at some kids on my lawn now

Don’t break a hip there, fella!

I put the “still” and “relatively” qualifiers in there because while 21 and 37 are both, in my opinion, young ages, they are not young in the same way.

Old/Young really comes down to feelings and so is all relative anyway. When you’re 18, 30 seems ancient. When you’re 60, 40 seems young. Etc

 

[ioppolo]

I felt 'older' at 23 than I do now at almost 28. It's all, or a huge majority of, mindset. At 22/23 it dawned on me that I was becoming proper adult age, mid 20s approaching, that the days of just being a teen/young adult without responsibility were ending. I couldn't drink and party like I could a few years earlier (I had a shocking episode inside a taxi for my bday that year) I felt old with all that looming over me.

Fast forward and I realise it's all mindset. I am almost 28 and the thought of 30 doesn't scare me in the slightest. I feel younger than I did five years ago. In reality I am still young at heart and young physically. I don't want to be one of those "when you get to my age..." types. That's just people using their age as an excuse to give up.
Yes the body doesn't work the same, but I know 60-65 year olds who reach retirement and give up, and they are far far worse off than other people I know in their 80s who still kayak, garden, do handy stuff, actually do a bit of labouring work etc.

Once I start giving in to 'how old I am', it will all go down hill from there.

 

[Andre]

I felt 'older' at 23 than I do now at almost 28. It's all, or a huge majority of, mindset. At 22/23 it dawned on me that I was becoming proper adult age, mid 20s approaching, that the days of just being a teen/young adult without responsibility were ending. I couldn't drink and party like I could a few years earlier (I had a shocking episode inside a taxi for my bday that year) I felt old with all that looming over me.

Fast forward and I realise it's all mindset. I am almost 28 and the thought of 30 doesn't scare me in the slightest. I feel younger than I did five years ago. In reality I am still young at heart and young physically. I don't want to be one of those "when you get to my age..." types. That's just people using their age as an excuse to give up.
Yes the body doesn't work the same, but I know 60-65 year olds who reach retirement and give up, and they are far far worse off than other people I know in their 80s who still kayak, garden, do handy stuff, actually do a bit of labouring work etc.

Once I start giving in to 'how old I am', it will all go down hill from there.

For us guys peak Testosterone is around 25, up until there you can drink and eat s**t, stay up late, start early the next day (all within some loose limits), without going too far towards looking / feeling soft (physically and mentally). Once you reach that point though it's into 'use or lose it' territory. Unless you're one of the (now minority) with a physically active job you need to be doing some sort of exercise regularly. Food and drink, you can still enjoy, but you need to eat / drink healthily most of the time and keep the crazy stuff to not all the time.

The plus for us guys, is we can start getting in shape at any age and still end up looking reasonable from the shoulders down (genetics and how hard we've lived our lives dictates the head, unless you're forking out for plastic surgery). Keeping fit all their lives or not and women are stuck with cellulite and sagging parts as they age without surgical help. The bonus is so few guys 30+ do stay/get in shape, you can stand out, 40% of women aren't overweight, but only 25% of men.

 

[Farmer2Goggin]

Huge homophobia too.

Can’t watch a Collingwood game with an old person without hearing a snide comment about the Daicos boys.

For a bit of a laugh tell an old person you suspect a close family friend might be gay and watch them flip out about it.

To be fair, this works both ways. As an older person myself I wouldn't socialise with a young person even if you paid me.

Wow - put you two in a room together for a fun time

Age is chronological but outlook is based on experience , passion and mindset.
I was born in the 50's and absolutely enjoy life - respect my elders ( not many left ) , love interacting with my kids and their friends and try to be a better person each and every day.
Also don't associate with negative people , too old for that s**t !

 

[Ace Rimmer]

A thread is old when people start apologising for posting in it.

Sorry for resurrecting this old topic, but the older I get, the happier I get! You stop worrying about all the unimportant things, you become a lot less self-conscious, you can wear what you like and say what you like and nobody cares - it's great! As Maurice Chevalier sang, "I'm glaaaaad I'm not youuuung anymooooore..."






Words to live by, ladies and gentlemen.

 

[raskolnikov]

under 20: kid
21 - 29: young
30 - 35: "still" young
36 - 40: "relatively" young
40 - 45: sunset of younger years
45 - 55: middle age
55+: officially old
70+: hope your coin purse is big enough to carry your grocery budget

I think it's relative to each person. If you've been drinking and smoking all your life then 55 is possibly old but for most people 55 is not old. I would say for most people in relatively good health old starts at 70 or even 80.

 

[DickieKnee]

I think it's relative to each person. If you've been drinking and smoking all your life then 55 is possibly old but for most people 55 is not old. I would say for most people in relatively good health old starts at 70 or even 80.

Yep, it's about how active you keep. That includes mentally too. And it's never too old to start. At any age if you take up healthy habits you'll see an improvement and feel a whole lot better whatever your age.

 

[Gough]

Yep, it's about how active you keep. That includes mentally too. And it's never too old to start. At any age if you take up healthy habits you'll see an improvement and feel a whole lot better whatever your age.

I could tell my grans were both on the way out when they could barely start the crossword. Which was in their 90s to be fair, my maternal nan was a proper f** ash Lil too, we joked about putting ciggies in her coffin.

 

[DickieKnee]

I could tell my grans were both on the way out when they could barely start the crossword. Which was in their 90s to be fair, my maternal nan was a proper f** ash Lil too, we joked about putting ciggies in her coffin.

My nan was a chain smoker (40 a day). She gave up in her mid 70s and lived til 88 years old.

 

[Gough]

My nan was a chain smoker (40 a day). She gave up in her mid 70s and lived til 88 years old.

Mine belted through forty a day until she died. She thought we all smoked at her rate too, you'd just put one out and look to come up for air and she'd have her pack out offering you another. Nice old dear, terrible taste in men though.