What is it like getting older?

[RandyS]

53 and It sucks! You wear glasses,You don't have your balance. You can't run. And i can't even throw a baseball good now. Everytime i throw it bounces to the ground.

I'm 44 and have all that too. Of course in my case, it's due to cerebral palsy more than age, but still, I know how you feel.

As for aging, I've always looked older than I am, or so I've been told. I still remember how back in 1986, in the ninth grade, another kid my own age asked me "What is a 30 year old man like you doing in one of my classes?".

 

[Melakon]

53 and It sucks! You wear glasses,You don't have your balance. You can't run.

I've been wearing glasses since 10. Can't run well since breaking a knee at 39.

Part of age will always be mindset.

Yes. I think I'm in perpetual adolescence, because I was in a marriage that fell apart after 6 years, never owned my own home, and never had kids. I feel like I never crossed the threshold into adulthood.

 

[KimMH]

I am 56 years old and even though I have bad arthritis, I don't feel old. I developed arthritis in my 30s so I don't see it as an old people's disease.

Whenever I get dismayed that I might only two or three decades left (or even less) I think of friends that died much younger and tell myself I should be content that I got so many more years than they did. For example, my friend Susan died when we were eleven, I have already had 45 years more than her so why should I complain.

That's a good way to think about that. Positive thinking and all that. . .

I'm closer to 50 than 40 and I still don't know much. Sometimes things happen that make you start all over and wonder what you want to do when you grow up. I'll let you know when I know.

This. I'm more laid-back than I used to be as with all that life's thrown at me I've learned to toss expectations out the window, be flexible and accept that some things are beyond my control and I simply have to make the best of the situation. This attitude has helped me to cope better.

I imagine you unflappable as Mary Poppins with a enough mischief left in your soul to kind of enjoy challenges!

 

[steveda19]

53 and It sucks! You wear glasses,You don't have your balance. You can't run. And i can't even throw a baseball good now. Everytime i throw it bounces to the ground.

I'm 44 and have all that too. Of course in my case, it's due to cerebral palsy more than age, but still, I know how you feel.

As for aging, I've always looked older than I am, or so I've been told. I still remember how back in 1986, in the ninth grade, another kid my own age asked me "What is a 30 year old man like you doing in one of my classes?".

 

[Australis]

I'm 56 and I run. Maybe not as often or aas far as I should, but I do it.

 

[urbandefault]

Mid 50s, and my knees are giving out. Stairs are not fun. Otherwise, I can't complain much. I know a lot of people my age in worse shape.

 

[Mary Ann]

I imagine you unflappable as Mary Poppins with a enough mischief left in your soul to kind of enjoy challenges!

The citalopram helps.

 

[Velocity]

I'm 61. You start noticing your body beginning that downhill slide in your 40s. You might need bifocals, you need to go to sleep earlier. The funny thing is, you don't feel mentally old, even in your sixties. The clothes you wore in your youth are coming back into fashion, which is funny. Life is good. I'm retired and I have a granddaughter. I am very content. Getting older is much better than the alternative. And it is good, because you don't worry about all the crap you had to (or felt you had to) in your youth. You just have to work harder at staying healthy.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ I hope bellbottoms come back. I love bellbottoms.

^ There's even more bullshit than there used to be.

Well, I thought so. Thanks for corroborating.

I'm 64 now and actually feel younger than I did when I wrote this at 62. The rest is all still true.

That's great. I'm glad to hear that.

Everybody has their immature and childlike side, but some are just not comfortable showing it off to most other people.

I think the thing is that there's a difference between between childlike and childish.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I think the thing is that there's a difference between between childlike and childish.

Real children don't care.

 

[RJDiogenes]

True. Or know, for that matter.

 

[Mary Ann]

I think the thing is that there's a difference between between childlike and childish.

Real children don't care.

+1

 

[The Johnson]

I am also 31.

The other day I was sorting out some game storage on the xbox (games at 31 LOL) and putting stuff onto usb sticks to free up space on the hard drive. I was kneeling in front of it relaxing my buttocks on the heel of my foot so not exactly in a strenuous position.

My knees just sort of locked up.

Had to topple over like a turtle to get back up.

It was then that I realised I really was getting on a bit.

Had to stop playing football (soccer) because of the knees a few years ago but that's the first 'normal' thing they've given out on.

Can only imagine more stuff giving up as time goes by.

 

[steveda19]

Problem when you get old is dealing with pain. Im sure some of you folks older then 50 wake up in morning get charley horses in your legs when waking up. I never had charley horses when i was young.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

^ I did. And then for years I almost never had one. And now I do again, but this time it's for a specific reason, not particularly age related.

 

[cooleddie74]

I get Charlie Horses and other leg cramps now. Part of it is no doubt related to my frequently awkward sleeping positions but I've been getting them every now and then for years.

 

[Melakon]

I've had the leg cramps, but the one that surprised me the other morning was some sort of foot cramp that was just as painful. I've walked nearly everywhere for the last 19 years though, since there's no car, so maybe it's related to that.

 

[wulfio]

I'm 31. As I get older I don't feel like I'm getting older. And I don't feel inclined to act "old". I just pay more bills than I did 10 years ago. I don't know why getting older means you have to stop enjoying life. I'm a big kid and I don't see that changing. Life is an adventure. The best is yet to come.

 

[SPCTRE]

I've had the leg cramps, but the one that surprised me the other morning was some sort of foot cramp that was just as painful. I've walked nearly everywhere for the last 19 years though, since there's no car, so maybe it's related to that.

Very rarely, if I'm looking down at a certain angle while yawning, I get a really mean cramp on the underside of the lower jaw. A lot of people I've told about it didn't even know you could get cramps there.

 

[RoJoHen]

Very rarely, if I'm looking down at a certain angle while yawning, I get a really mean cramp on the underside of the lower jaw. A lot of people I've told about it didn't even know you could get cramps there.

This happens to me too! It's one of the most painful cramps I've ever experienced.