Worst thing about getting old?

[TheLonelySquire]

Haha! Good topic!

For me it's after I play sports. I am not a weekend warrior and play racquetball 4-5 days a week with basketball outdoors in the summer aded to my rb schedule. However, I cannot believe how achy I get after a 2 1/2 - 3 hour workout. I am usually the quickest guy on the court, certainly in my age group (46). Sometimes I really can't walk down the stairs my feet hurt so bad!

Oh, and I also can't stand most new pop music. It's BRUTAL.

 

[Brian]

Grey body hairs sprouting, on the chest and... elsewhere.

 

[trekkiedane]

Grey body hairs sprouting, on the chest and... elsewhere.

Oh come on, that's just sexy -unless you're a woman of course!

 

[WillsBabe]

For me it's when I get ill I don't get well as quickly as I used to.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Hair appears where you don't want it and disappears were you do.

And the most frustrating is there's no cure for getting old besides death.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Getting closer to the end; I don't want to go.

Aside from that, aging has affected only my vanity thus far and I'm grateful for that. There's nothing that I could do ten or twenty years ago that I can't do now, physically, and if I'm losing a step mentally I'm not yet aware of it nor has anyone else pointed it out. My general physical health is excellent - my cholesterol levels are a little high and I take a pill for that - and I'm more fit than I was at 35.

The face, the grey hair...those are the only things I notice and yes they bother me. Vanity, as I said.

I really like Lady Gaga.

 

[snakespeare]

^Oh that's true about the gray facial hair. Twice now I've shaved it off because I look like my brother, who is old. But then I can see the wrinkles...

 

[KimMH]

I'll take old age and treachery over young and skilled any day!

 

[Brian]

Hair appears where you don't want it and disappears were you do.

Ah yes, that's another one. The eyebrows start growing unnaturally fast, and new hairs (white, of course) sprout up in the oddest places. On my earlobe? Seriously?!

 

[propita]

But on a personal note: I HATE needing glasses to read the small print!

Funny, I've always been way near-sighted, so I have to take my glasses OFF to read the fine print. But even with that, I can read smaller writing than most people much younger than me. Must be them crazy eyes--!

For me, the worst part is the physical problems that are so interrelated the doctor doesn't know if she's going after a cause or a symptom. F'instance, I'm told I'm hypothyroid. That affects my ability to think, exercise, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, vitamin D level, etc, etc etc. Vitamin D level affects weight and energy levels to exercise. Which affects weight. Weight affect blood pressure. High blood pressure affects my abilty to think, which affects my blood pressure. High cholesterol affects my blood pressure. Blah, blah, blah. I swear, I'm tired of this and someimes just want to go off all the meds, regardless of the consequences.

 

[JonathonWally]

Hair appears where you don't want it and disappears were you do.

Ah yes, that's another one. The eyebrows start growing unnaturally fast, and new hairs (white, of course) sprout up in the oddest places. On my earlobe? Seriously?!

I'm with you on that, Where the fuck did they come from all of a sudden?

I'm 28 and I get all that, ear hair, crazy eyebrows, tons of gray hair, grey in my beard.... I spend more time in front of mirror with a pair of tweezers that half the girls I know.

 

[trekkiedane]

^Welcome to the age of choice: Spend more time and money to look 'ok' -or- stop caring!

- seeing the general population seeming to get younger on average

I wonder where you are living! -Isn't one of the biggest problems in the 'western hemisphere' that there are not enough young people to support the lifestyle, that people have to stay on the job market longer than their parents did?

But, of course, "seeming" being the operative word in that sentence, I too find that very few things are actually made for people older than, say, 25.
To name one thing: the only film I watched in a theatre over the past ten years was Star Trek -and that was definitely not made for people my age!

And my phone is at least 5 years old -people (slightly) younger than me seem to change phones more often than hairstyles -what's up with that?

 

[JonathonWally]

And my phone is at least 5 years old -people (slightly) younger than me seem to change phones more often than hairstyles -what's up with that?

I chalk that up to cellphone tech advancing by leaps and bounds all the time.

 

[trekkiedane]

And my phone is at least 5 years old -people (slightly) younger than me seem to change phones more often than hairstyles -what's up with that?

I chalk that up to cellphone tech advancing by leaps and bounds all the time.

But it doesn't really! -it's a phone; it texts and lets you go on-line and it's been like that for years!

 

[RoJoHen]

Well, many cellphone plans give you a free upgrade after a certain amount of time. Whether you need it or not, sometimes it's fun to upgrade.

Also, I know a lot of people who break/lose their phones on a regular basis, so they have to replace them. One of my friends has to get a new phone every couple months because her two-year old finds them and breaks them.

 

[trekkiedane]

Well, many cellphone plans give you a free upgrade after a certain amount of time. Whether you need it or not, sometimes it's fun to upgrade.

I know, but have opted for a different (much cheaper) 'plan' where I only pay for what I use the phone for, not the fact that my carrier needs to have me pay for the hardware they 'gave' me.

Also, I know a lot of people who break/lose their phones on a regular basis, so they have to replace them. One of my friends has to get a new phone every couple months because her two-year old finds them and breaks them.

Sure there are a few people around that actually need new phones every now and then, but I wonder why that is; have phones become the ultimate planned obsolescence products because they simply won't stand for the use people put them to for very long?

 

[RoJoHen]

I think the number who break/lose their phones would shock you. It usually happens when the "young people" have been drinking.

 

[trekkiedane]

I think the number who break/lose their phones would shock you. It usually happens when the "young people" have been drinking.

It used to be that I could use my phone as a bottle opener. That's how sturdy they were built!

Not any more though!

 

[gh4chiefs]

In about 6 weeks I'll be 49 and with each passing year, I feel it. Every day there's a new pain or ache in a place that I didn't know I had a place.

But easily the worst thing about getting older is that the people that you've grown up with and were constants in your childhood are passing on at an alarming rate. Not just family and friends, but also icons of my youth are gone.

 

[Maestro]

I'm two months away from being 33. I have noticed only a few things that annoy me:

1.) My eyes. Part of this is because I teach Band for a living and need to peer down at tiny printed scores that are too far from my face. My work has caused my eyes to have problems, which leads to other side effects of eye strain.

2.) A bit of family arthritis creeping into my hands and knee.

3.) Although I am much fatter (and thus better insulated) than I was 10 years ago, the cold is starting to become noticeable and annoying. 10 years ago I could be out in subzero (F) weather in a light jacket, no gloves, no hat, and be fine. Now, I bundle up like everyone else and I feel the chill.