At what age do you think a person goes from being young to "old"? Does your answer depend on how old you are right now?
2007-12-07 03:42:03 · 45 answers · asked by grace07 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Five years older than whatever age I currently am.
2007-12-07 03:44:48 · answer #1 · answered by buffytou 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think dead. Dead would be old to me. If I knew that I was old, I'd die! So just don't say I'm old already. I still feel the same as when I was 25, except now I really do know everything!! And I'm not afraid to use it! Any how, I bet you are young. So my question for you. How young is young? and how long does a person stay young? I am 48 and darn glad, because I don't have to be young and I found every age has a good side.
2007-12-07 03:52:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the older you become you start realizing certain things. For example, your not getting asked for ID to prove your age. Everyone seems to be younger than you even the professional people. When you start addressing people younger that yourself as "kids". When you like the styles of what younger people are wearing but know darn right well you'd look foolish if you wore it. When the music you listened to when you were a teenager is sometimes not even classified as "old school".
I think it really starts to set in that not so much your "old" but older.........around your late 40's.
But if you stay young at heart you'll stay young in your mind.
And yeah my answer comes from the fact that I've been there and done that.
2007-12-07 04:12:15 · answer #3 · answered by MLJ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's whenever you start seeing yourself as old. It's all in the mind. Have you met a young-minded elderly person before? There is no magical age where one becomes "old".
It can someimes matter the age of the person.
Ex: When I was 8 years old I thought that 20 was so old because it was so far off!
2007-12-07 04:21:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the standardised mortality rate uses ages between 16-65 and 65+ to try and gather the number of deaths in the world into statistics, so officially i believe that 'old' is older than 65.
unofficially, i believe old is when it starts getting difficult to walk down the street.
2007-12-07 03:48:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that old is a number I think it is a feeling. When you start to feel old then you in your own mind are old. A person of 35 could feel old as where a person of 75 might still feel young.
2007-12-07 03:46:10 · answer #6 · answered by Lee S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it depends on the age, mainly because I sometimes used to play tennis for fun with older people (not "Old" people).
I am 19, and I consider "Old" to be around the 60s. The people I have seen in their 40s and 50s are usually fun-lovin' people, and they aren't really old, in my opinion..
2007-12-07 03:46:55 · answer #7 · answered by Miguel A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
*LOL* Depends who you are. I'm 25 and I feel like 80-90 is old. When I was 12 I thought my dad was old at 30. I guess most of it depends on your age.
2007-12-07 03:45:36 · answer #8 · answered by Kelly s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think old is 50 and yes it depends on how old you are. I used to think old was 10 when I was a kid.
2007-12-07 03:46:03 · answer #9 · answered by DramaBug23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think of a person as being "old" until they hit 60. I'm 18, so I guess my age has nothing to do with it.
2007-12-07 03:45:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can be 21 and feel old, you can be 31 and feel young. It totally depends on the individual.
2007-12-07 03:45:38 · answer #11 · answered by R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋