Is 50 the 35??

Question

So I'm heading for the big 5O. But I don't feel it, well most days, and people tell me I certainly don't look it.
So is fifty really the new thirty five?
I look at what my parents and grandparents had accomplished by 50 and I am no where close to what they had done by this point in thier lives...

Answer 1

~Age is what you make of it. As for the lack of accomplishment, perhaps your parents and grandparents had a little more ambition and did something more constructive than spending time on Yahoo Answers.

Answer 2

if 50 is the new 35....whats 35?! The new teens? I'm 24...does that make me the new tweens. By the way..I don't feel 24...I feel much much older. I feel like an OLD LADY most of the time. I have a husband, a kid, a mortgage, stocks, IRA's....I'm set in my ways. I even get mail from AARP. Lord knows why, must be a mix up in their computer. Dog Gone! Being older isn't so bad..it seems like a lot of fun. Empty Nest...Grandkids...

Answer 3

With the advances in medicine and people living longer, it may just be! Well at least that is what I am hoping cause I will be hitting that mark in just a few years.
No I think it is a cause for celebration! Do not compare yourself with your ancestors...you are the only you you have and you can accomplish so much more in your life cause you got a whole lotta life left ahead of ya!
Make a list of the things you wanna do and go for it!
Congrats on making it this far!

Answer 4

I've got a couple years on ya, and I still feel and think the same way as I did when I was much younger. OK, I'm immature! But I know when to turn it off. Maybe I'll go get a MySpace account! Well, maybe no, that would be mortifying to my 19 year old daughter.

Anyway, Congratulations!

Answer 5

i am a 50 something young woman and let me tell you, i don't look it or feel it, (much). anyway, i think there are different goals for us today than for our parents at the same age. keep in mind, they also looked older. archie and edith bunker were supposed to be 50 something, and look how old they looked! i know that was just a tv show, but it was depicted as such. maybe we are not supposed to accomplish what our parents did. we may have totally different focal points and what was important to them may have a different standard of importance to us in 2006.

Answer 6

I hope so, I'm 33 and looking forward to being "middle aged" for a long time before being classified as "old".

I like the fact that Corporate America is seeing it too. The retirement services commercials make retirement seem like daring adventures.

Hopefully it will stay that way.

Answer 7

Attitudes are different,but the body will catch up with itself.Keep the attitude,though.I am working on 50,but just recently have started feeling it.Slow down is my only clue.

Answer 8

Maybe... without you noticing it much... but you had said the right kind thing or did the right kind thing at the right moment, at the right place, and to the right person... and now a hundred years later world peace... What more importance do you need... hun?

Answer 9

it's very good that you don't feel it, then you are so much alive, young from inside and outside. so cheer up and be happy of this. usually people that feel themselves old they are tired of life and lack satisfaction. and for about what you haven't done yet in your life, well, they say " it's never too late" and you have the whole life waiting for you.

Answer 10

Odds are that you will "feel" 35 for many years. That is unbelievably common nowadays. (Except when you get mail from AARP.)