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DEFINE OLD:WHEN &HOW DOES IT HAPPEN (pillow talk: larry and jonathan)
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Michele
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Nov 17, 2010 06:48AM
alright, so here I am at 62. am I "old"? I prefer experienced because to me "old" means when one starts l.iving in the past, not the now. when everything is defined as "yours": your music,your books, your times. all your contacts are your age and you have no connection to the generations after you. since I don't have grandchildren to connect me to the now, I depend,like blanche dubois, "..on the kindness of strangers" and of course on terminalcoffee
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This is a great question. I want to think on it a bit. I'm glad you asked.
It will be interesting to see what the younger people have to say on this, because as I have gotten older my idea of old has gotten older also.
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unless your 40, then it is 60. when your 50, it is 70 and so on....
::takes the fire extinguisher after Sally - again::
Let me simplify things:
It's all downhill after 25.
It's all downhill after 25.
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**hoots!***
**runs away**
reflecting, I suppose there is a difference between aging and being old. my sister said I am younger now than I was at 15...I do not usually define myself as old...I do not consider advanced age to be old. old is when you stop relating to anything that happened before you reached lets say 50. remembering is great but it's not a place you want to live. I have some great stories to tell so don't others over 50. also, yes, when you stop listending to today's music you start to calcify and putrify..you stop living in the now.
My stepfather is just a couple of years older than my mother, but he comes across as old and she does not. He enjoys referring to himself as geriatric. He's a kind and funny man whom I think has embraced the idea that he is old - perhaps a little early. Part of it is also cultural - he grew up in a country that didn't have TV til the 70s, and he never developed a taste for most TV, pop music of any sort, movies (but likes films).
It's cool when "old" people are just like...young. Like, they are...hmmm they're not trying to be hip and with it, you know? My dad is always saying, "Am I wearing it like the kids nowadays wear it?" You know, jokingly. and I'm like, "Dad...you don't want to wear what the kids nowadays are wearing, and you aren't a kid nowadays."
when a waitress asks you if you want coffee after dinner and then one day it occurs to you that yes, you would like a cup of coffee after dinner^^^ old
OH!My friends call me old ALL OF THE FUCKING TIME, and it's like, sometimes I embrace it, and then sometimes I'm like, "WHAT THE HELL? JUST BECAUSE I AM TELLING YOU KEEP IT IN YOUR FUCKING DRAWERS DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN CALL ME GRANDMA."
Everyone says that I'm older than my friends. A) I look older than them because I'm huge and I have a mustache B) I just don't do stupid shit. C) I'm bossy as hell D) I'd rather stay in and eat and take naps and watch movies rather than going out. And it's just........my manner, I guess you'd have to see me interact, but yes, my friends think I am hella old. Even the oldest person I am friends with, he calls me a 40 year old trapped in a teenage body.
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Three thoughts:1) I wonder if the fear of being called "old" is connected to the fear of death.
2) I dislike when people patronize old people, like "aren't you cute, old person!" If anyone does that to me when I'm really old I'm going to whack them with my cane.
3) I think the word "old" is sometimes synonymous with "lacking vitality". I know some old people with serious vitality, and some young people without it.
nothing barb. i love coffee after dinner too. to me, it was just a sign of getting old as i remember not too many years ago thinking "who the heck would want a cup of coffee after dinner?"
If I drink coffee after noon I will still be awake at 3 am. Sigh. I love coffee, but it doesn't like me.
so does anyone else see many young people casually drinking coffee after dinner in a restaurant?
I've started drinking coffee later in the day, around 4:30 or 5, because I'm trying to avoid the whole "go to sleep at 8 and get up at 4" thing this winter. I'm also working out after work instead of at 5AM.
yeah, we also have less energy and that is why we do it also
I talked to a 25-year-old, and he was having coffee at like, 11PM, so I guess it's not an old person thing?
Having dinner at 4:30 is an old person thing.
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I am going to fuck your shit up
I can drink coffee, and then go to bed, it doesn't keep me awake.
i define old as being past the point where you accept things that you could change, but due to comfort or laziness you simply don't. you simply give up and shut down.
i haven't started drinking coffee yet, so i'm still a kid. and i love hard candy.
I don't consider myself old in my mind because I am still growing as a person. I still enjoy new experiences (well,maybe not the ones associated w/aging like bursitis,osteoporosis etc) but I still enjoy talking to new people about what is going on in their lives and what do they think about life in general...as long as you are still growing that way then you are not old just aging. Britt, if anyone asked me what age would you like to be again, I would say 30. My 30's were really great because all of a sudden I was not a "youngster" and people took me seriously and actually listened to me. The reason I was "old" at 15 was because I wasn't open to other people's ideas and beliefs. I was certain I was right all the time. I was a prude and very shy and bookish. One of my high school friends named her daughter after me because I always carried a volume of the encyclopedia brittanica w/me in case I had some spare time to read in study hall or at lunch. I had a truly life altering event at 29 that brought about an epiphany. The event was terrible but the results were great. As I told my son, no, I would not change my life because I liked the person I had become.
To Clark: did you know that acutally, your aging process begins at 35. That is when your body stops replicating cells on a 1 to 1 basis and you literally begin the aging process.So,it's all downhill after 35.
Michele wrote: "To Clark: did you know that acutally, your aging process begins at 35. That is when your body stops replicating cells on a 1 to 1 basis and you literally begin the aging process.So,it's all downhil..."Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Michele wrote: "To Clark: did you know that acutally, your aging process begins at 35. That is when your body stops replicating cells on a 1 to 1 basis and you literally begin the aging process.So,it's all downhil..."
I'm 53 and lose either way.
I'm 53 and lose either way.
janine wrote: "i haven't started drinking coffee yet, so i'm still a kid. and i love hard candy."TWSS
i think that's the first time someone used a TWSS against me.
okay, I'm a newbie...what is a TWSS? i'm remembering my dad telling me there were no stupid questions, just people to stupid to ask about something they do not know.
PS: is there a book out there about computerese? If so, what is the title so I can go get it?
Just don't use it too often, or risk the wrath of Sallers.
Old is a 3 letter word. I just live my life. (I'm 68)
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Me too. I will sometimes ask for decaf if I'm at a restaurant, but I've heard waitstaff confess that when they ran out of decaf they gave people regular, so now I'm afraid to ask for decaf.
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Hard candy is definitely an old person trait.
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I think a good definition of old is when you rush to the restaurant to take advantage of the Early Bird special.
