i was wondering is life over when you turn 50. what do people that are 50+ do.
2007-06-21 12:39:39 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No way. I'm not 50 but there are a few members of my gym that are. I'm in solid shape but there are a few that could run circles around me. A couple have truck loads of cash, boats and have parties on them on the weekends. They may be on to something!!!
2007-06-21 12:51:08 · answer #1 · answered by Gromac 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Assume that it is. That should make life before 50 an interesting project, aimed at 'what good thing(s) can be done in so short a time as fifty years.' Right?
If it turns out, on reaching that milestone, that you don't feel like dropping dead, you might try an encore. A new ten year project doesn't seem out of line; a little timid, but not unreasonable. And the project should distract you from the nagging conundrum that 'life is over, but I don't feel like dropping dead just yet.'
Repeat until you actually find yourself dead.
This simple program is often the answer to 'what do people who are 50+ do?': they're workin' their current project(s), whatever those be, or howsoever farsighted. Those without projects can be sad cases, but they usually find something to fill the time. Those that don't are gone surprisingly quickly.
Some will attempt to assure themselves that the project serves some 'higher purpose.' Shrug and keep whittling; in 9 1/2 years, you'll know how many clothespins you whittled in ten years of high-priority whittling. Pinning clothes up to dry is higher purpose your work serves--voila, a higher purpose is served!--and the task leaves your mind free for gossip sessions, or recipe-swapping, or criticism of Wittgenstein, or whatever.
2007-06-24 16:35:26 · answer #2 · answered by skumpfsklub 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am over 75 years "young" and I do just about everything I did at 49 except maybe sexual interests. I enjoy life! I don't think I have enjoyed life this much before because now, at last, "it is all coming together". I hope to live to be as old as my aunts and uncles who lived till they were (and are) in their 90's.
If you stay mentally interested in life, with the same curiosity about life you had at 3 years old, life can not help but stay interesting. I learn something new and astonishing every day. What I have to do to keep my body fit is less than what I had to do when younger so I can spend more time learning. The only thing you have any chance of taking with you, if there is "life after life", is your knowledge. Remember that!.
Good luck in your philosophical musings, good health, peace and love!
2007-06-22 02:59:22 · answer #3 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life at 50 is over all ages 49 and younger, and under all ages 51 and older.
This is best seen in an equation:
0-49<50<51-000
Age is just a number.
2007-06-21 20:18:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am over 50, I love riding motorcycles, reading, hiking, canoeing, camping, driving, blah blah blah....Every decade I look back and I have to say in all honesty, I would not want to go back to any of them, teens especially. Life actually gets better as you get older. Sure, you may have a few more aches and pains to deal with, but if you take care of yourself when you're younger it will make a difference on the other end of life.
As you get older you appreciate a whole lot of things you took for granted in your younger years. Don't look forward to getting older with dread, look for new adventures. Like a good book, every chapter gets better.
2007-06-25 13:16:52 · answer #5 · answered by Domino 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course it's not over. After you turn 50, just continue to do the same things you did when you were 49. Exercise and diet are the keys to living longer (also feeling better).
2007-06-21 19:49:12 · answer #6 · answered by Jen 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you make your life end when you're 50, then life ends when you're 50. I mean, a 50 year old probably can't do all the things they could do when they were 20, but that doesn't mean they can't do anything.
2007-06-21 20:44:51 · answer #7 · answered by Caitlin 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If they've got money and/or good looks and either a good partner or are single and outgoing, they have a lot of fun. You just can't imagine.
If they're all angry and crusty or bogged down in a bad marriage or partnership, or poor and ugly, or unhealthy or addicts, alcoholics, etc., their lives are still not really over until they give up or stop breathing, but people don't find you as cute as you were so they don't usually help you out as easily if you're down or out.
2007-06-21 19:49:28 · answer #8 · answered by topink 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure, because there's always the possibility that I only THINK I'm still here, but as far as I can tell I'm typing a response to this query, drinking tea, listening to a Grey's Anatomy re-run, working on a storyline and consciously trying to ignore the need to vacuum the floors.
2007-06-21 22:46:00 · answer #9 · answered by gldnsilnc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I imagine they live deliberately knowing that time is skipping by and the body is not what it was once.
Don't know yet!
I hope at 50 I can do the things I WANT to do instead of doing what I HAVE to do.
cheers
2007-06-21 19:48:28 · answer #10 · answered by flip 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋