Do you look forward to growing old? In college I dated a girl who thought she would be a great old lady. She?

Question

wanted to dress in purple. I suppose to express her rebellious side. I always envisoned her as a taller version of Ruth Gordon as she entered her golden years. Old but young at heart.

Answer 1

I was raised by my gradnma and she was just so amazing and cool, that I have always looked foward to growing old to be just like her! She always wore her hair in a bun, high heels and dressed all in black. She always looked like a grand old lady! When I asked her why she wore so much black she told me that at her age everybody around her was dropping dead like flies, so it was easier to just wear black all the time!! lol...she said the most outrageous things knowing that they were outrageous. She also used to tell me that people of her age are expected to act senile, so it just gave her the chance to get away with anything she wanted to say or do!
Have you ever seen that movie "Somwhere in time"? With Christopher Reeve! There is an old lady in that moview that looks just like her!

Answer 2

I just turned fifty, and I'm not exactly thrilled. I now have to take blood pressure and cholesterol pills, and Mr. Happy needs a Viagra boost. I am invisible to yummy firm young women, and get little, if any respect from the young punks. We were the generation that worked hard to end an unjust war in Vietnam, we were the guinea pigs that determined that recreational drugs were not really good for you, we raised rock and roll to a high art form, and for the most part, we survived the sixties and seventies.

Growing old would be a lot easier to take if we got some credit for the foundations we laid, but we're just aging hippies, an object of derision. Just keep the Viagra coming, and if one of the Olsen twins were to show me a little affection, I would die happy.

Answer 3

Well that's all lovely thought.

And an interesting viewpoint.

I think we should all look forward to growing old.
After all what is the laternative? Hating our lives and bodies as we age? Is it preferable we should die before we start to see the process begin in our selves? Of course not. Life is good and to be desired, even if we have to pay with the fading of youth.

Certainly there's a lot of fear of aging in our society, and associated with this we seem to treat older people rather badly. One place where we see this is in the musical arts: unlike some cultures, we refuse to value the experience of older artists, wanting our musicians younger, refusing to believe that older musicians may have learned their music more deeply, we think that music belongs only to the young. The result of this is that older musicians are rarely allowed to continue with their work, right at the time that their work may be developing to its highest point.

I am speaking here of pop music. Of course in jazz and classical music we see great performers revered in these wonderful years.

To me the culture of 'youth only' has a dark side. Oddly, it denies the future.

I like your friend and her attitude.

Personally I'm delighted to be on the threshhold of my sixties. Of course it helps that I am healthy and have love in my life. But then, a person could be without health and love at any age...

Answer 4

Hell yeah I can't wait for the day when I get to be the cranky old " hey you damn kids get off my lawn" in order sum it listen to old man on the back porch by The Presidents of the United States of America.........this is a joke I will never be older than 24

Answer 5

I look forward to each stage in life as a new adventure, a new experience. However, I enjoy each moment to it's fullest, at least, I try to.

Answer 6

Totally, I would make an awsum crazy cat lady =oP

Answer 7

I don't look forward to it, but I guess it beats the alternative.