When did you feel you were growing old?

Question

And how old were you by then?

Answer 1

when I went back to college and was older than most of the students and many of the professors - when I was old enough for senior discounts - when I realized the music on the radio was terrible - when the neighborhood children were asking me help with history and I actually remembered the events - when my parents were both gone and my brother and sister and I all realized that now we were the " older generation of our
family. "

about 50 or so

Answer 2

Probably just when I turned 60. I'm 61 now but in relatively good health. Sure, you get some aches and pains but if you're active, they work themselves out of the system. But if you're fortunate, the mind does not age only the body...the "container for the soul". I am not a senior citizen, I'm a "Seasoned Citizen". My parents both lived into their mid-70s so my time is getting short and believe me, the longer you live the faster time seems to slip by. The old axiom of "Life is short" really has no meaning until you reach my age and say to yourself, "Wow, I'm 61 years old! How did that happen so fast?" Then you ask, what can I do that is meaningful in the time I have left? That's when you feel you are not necessarily growing old but growing up.

Answer 3

At twenty-five, I felt my youth was over. It was time to buckle down and get serious. Problem- I had always been serious. I am 55 now. I have not felt old since then (25) and probably never will. I am Wiccan and will celebrate my croning this summer. A crone is not an old hag, but I wise woman. I embrace my age, my intellect and my joi de vivre. Years ago when I first saw the poem, "When I am an old Woman I Shall Wear Purple" I embraced it. As a grandmother to be, Endora from "Bewitched" was my ideal. The big difference between then and now is that I recognize my mortality and know I may not have time to do all I would, BUT - I have a strong inner child that I let loose often. Enjoy, learn, sense, experience, find a soul mate, grow old along with him/her. Then get ready to do it all again. Blessed Be.

Answer 4

1. When I found out that I could no longer mow the front and back lawns in the same day. I ended up paying for lawn service. I really liked mowing the lawn!

2. When I couldn't shop/walk at the Mall for 2 hours or more. Now only do about 1 hour.

3. When I couldn't just go in and buy a pair of any-style shoes like I use to. Real bummer.

4. When policemen and firemen look like high schoolers when they are really 25 or 30.

Answer 5

I'm 52; so far, I don't feel I'm growing old. My body has a few more aches and pains than it once did, but that's just a shell for ME. I hope that the person that I am will never feel old - just older with each year :-)

Answer 6

my mother would look at me and tell me that I was old but I didn't feel it and now that she has passed on I know that she was right but I still don't feel it. The pension rules are changing so that it will be easier to claim some funds. I was really happy at last money for jam then my brother pointed out I am not old enough and still have about 4 years to go....forever !!!maybe then I will feel it ?

Answer 7

45. Seriously. 30, 40 -- I felt fine with, but I physically and mentally felt old starting at 45. I'm sure it's different for different people. Some people will tell you 50 is the new 60 (or some such thing) -- mostly people over 50 will tell you that.

Answer 8

I went through 2 weeks of terrible angst when I was 25, when it suddenly dawned on me that I was A QUARTER OF A CENTURY OLD!! I was inconsolable for that first week. I felt like the world was ending.

It was at the end of those two weeks that I realized that I could go through that same depression regularly if I was going to judge it against milestones. And I figured that it wasn't worth it.

So I kicked myself in the @ss about allowing myself to be even mildly upset about something that is inevitable, and vowed I would never let myself go through that again.

I have now passed a whole lot of milestones in my life, and not one of them has even got me thinking about getting older, let alone worrying.

Like I said....it is inevitable.

Answer 9

Tongue in cheek poetry, I studied psychological issues and affliction quite appreciably, in my dementia state, I shall never advance previous, i'm surely growing to be youthful daily, no dentures yet in simple terms the tooth be organic.. i might write you a poem even though it would fall wanting being pants, and could be categorized as warm pants, it fell so short. So suffice it to declare, growing to be previous is in simple terms a physique of ideas over count.

Answer 10

I'm 62 now. The worse I ever felt was when I turned 30 !!!!! It was like I was entering a strange land. The best years were my forties. The 40's are still pretty healthy years, higher income. Kids are home and still little. I hated 30.