By what yardstick do you measure age?

Question

What do you consider to be middle age? What do you consider to be a senior citizen?

I suspect, depending on your current age, we'll see varied answers!

Answer 1

When I was 45 I said to myself hmmm you must be middle aged--after all how many people do you know that are 90? I am a sr. now and I do have a brain fade now and then but for the most part it is still sharp. I am 62 and quit working last fall--it was boring for a bit but now I like it. Go and do as I wish and have lots of fun and laughs with friends. If I decide to go and visit friends I don't drive anymore if it is a long distance--I ride the bus, they even have a tilt cab now so it is easy to get in and out of the bus and the drivers are nice and considerate. Besides it's sorta fun to watch some of the people on the bus--I got a good laugh last fall, a totally off the wall lady almost my age--she had tats all over and so many piercings in her face and ears she looked like a lightening rod--she had on knee high motorcycle boots and jeans and a hemp belt. She kept talking about her two daughters meeting her at the bus in WA and said they were going to be amazed over her new piercings--after listening to this for an hour--I said, do you know what I would do if I were your daughters--she said NO--I said I would be standing there and turn to my sis and say---Look Suzie mom didn't get off the bus and walk away. Drat, she missed it!!

Answer 2

Enthusiasm. It's invigorating , life affirming and totally cool. It's also very sexy in a woman. It will keep young.

I'd rather be with an enthusiastic person 20 years older than me than be with a bore 20 years younger than me.

Other than that I'm bad with age, from 20 to 90 you're an adult in my mind. I try to stay away from yardsticks and measuring the small increments of time.

I feel like I'm 22, my wife says I'm over 50, I ignore what AARP says, I've been told that I read on a 48 year old's level and I once allowed to pay the student's rate (16 and under) because the cashier was flirting with me -or maybe because I was acting really juvenile (I can't remember now).

Answer 3

Middle age, middle age...Oh, that's right, I forgot I am supposed to be middle aged ! (I'm 47)
Don't think I ever will be. My Mom forgot, too. She not only forgot to be middle aged, she forgot to be a Senior Citizen as well. She's 80 and still goes out dancing 3 times a week!! (Hope I'm just like her when I grow up, lolol !!!)
Age is merely a number, and if you have your health, you have it all. It depends on the person and their outlook on life, too...
Middle age isn't what it used to be, and neither is a Senior Citizen. People are healthier and living longer!
So I guess you could say that a Senior Citizen is someone who gets discounts because of their age.
;-)

Answer 4

Actually, I use my mom as my yardstick. We are 22 years apart. So I still think I am young!

To me a senior citizen would be between 65-70 + years of age. Middle age senior is somewhere between 50 and 60 years of age.

Answer 5

I am only as old as I feel on any given day...

Inside my personality maintains a constant 25 to 30 year age. When I was old enough to be mature and have good judgement, but still young enough to enjoy myself.

However, as I have aged my body has not done so gracefully. I have arthritis in many places that can be bad or good depending on how much I have abused my body the previous day, and what the current weather is doing.

Then I have systemic problems that are constant. For instance I have been suffering from early onset osteoporosis for about 9 years now. Due to peculiarities with my physiology I am not able to take mineral supplements. (They make me very ill.) As a consequence I have to be very careful of my feet, and live with at least one bone broken at all times.

I am not imparting this information for sympathy, or to bring the tone of these answers down. I merely want to provide you with the proper background to answer the rest of your question.

When my body is being "good" to me on any particular day I get out into my garden and do all those jobs that keep on piling up and never seem to get quite done, and I feel like a strong and healthy 40 year old. (I still can't run, any day, so that brings the age estimate up.)

When my body is being particularly "bad" to me I manage to hobble around a bit, and do not much of anything, and I feel like the most ancient 95 year old on the planet.

So I measure age by inner feeling. If you are a healthy adult who gets around easily without much help, and are young in your heart, then you are only nominally a senior after you pass the age of 65 and start collecting your old age pension.

Anybody middle aged is someone who is no longer willing to take stupid chances with their life and limb. It is different for each individual, but I would think that some can be middle aged at as young as 30, while others don't qualify for the title at all.

I call all old people who need help to care for themselves and have stopped living each day and only spend them waiting for their own deaths "elderlies". These people are the real ones who need as much help from the rest of us as we can give...if only a hand to hold and a smiling face to look at across a table.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

they say " life begins at 40. " so presume this is the beginning of middle age ideas for some.

personally think middle age is between 45 and 50.

a senior citizen is one who is over 60. actually old enough to know better but to young to resist.

Answer 8

Middle Age keeps getting later and later for me.

Answer 9

Around 50. But I see 20 somethings riding carts in walmart while old farts 70 and even 80 walk, go figure.

Answer 10

I measure age by the relative prevalence of enthusiasm.