How young were you when you decided you were old?

[Joe Fields]

[cwydro]

1. Haven't got there yet

B-)

[Joe Fields]

3. isn't it time to make a decision and quit sitting on the fence?

[cwydro]

48. I like the fence.

It's comfortable here.:hi:

[wildhorses]

2. all i know is that-- i am too old to die young

i think i was born old:shrug:

[Joe Fields]

7. I've always had an old soul

[wildhorses]

11. ---

:hug:

[Joe Fields]

16. Thank you. Unfortunately now my body is catching up!

[wildhorses]

17. yep ---

old souls need love, too

[hfojvt]

12. I guess that used to happen

way back when.

[u4ic]

24. I was, too

however, I seem to be de-aging...:crazy:

[MedleyMisty]

4. Four

My mother says I'd go around saying that I wished I could be three again.

[crim son]

5. About twenty-seven

after my first pregnancy. What an idiot I was.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Well....I'm 63 now...

And I'm sure as hell not old yet!

:wtf:

[Joe Fields]

8. You make me want to get up and dance the Watusi...

[DainBramaged]

9. 49

that's when my body started needing upgrades

[boilerbabe]

27. I hear ya! n/t

[chieftain]

10. I'm 60 and not old yet, but I seem to be doing a better imitation

of it every day. This thread reminds me of the line from an Irish song; "remember the longer you've lived,the sooner you bloody well die."

[Xipe Totec]

13. Eighteen

When my father died and I realized everything was up to me from there on out.

I've been growing younger every day since then.

[Joe Fields]

39. That's a tough age to have to cope with something so tragic.

My father passed away when I was 43 and it was really tough. He was my Rock of Gibraltar.

[hfojvt]

14. 30

that's old.

[wildhorses]

18. never trust anybody over thirty

somebody said that:P

[boilerbabe]

28. The people who said that are like over 60 now...

So never trust people over 120 should make it safe...

[Orsino]

15. I'll know I'm old when I stop joking about my being old.

[Nicole]

19. 40 n/t

[JohnnyLib2]

20. I'm not old, but that # 65 this month sure as hell is!

and the standard pleasantry is, "you sure don't LOOK that old."

LOL, the libs will rise again!

[Rhythm]

21. i'll let you know when i get there...

i'm at 40 now, but feel like i'm 22, with 18 yrs experience!

[mopinko]

22. my daughter turns 20 tomorrow. she thinks she is old.

i was 42 when i decided i was toooo old. that was 10 years ago. i don't know why i am still here.

[Chan790]

23. 11

and again at 19, 22, 26, 27.

Part of being depressed. Also, Every time I have an illness which isn't immediately explainable...my mind goes directly to cancer and dwells there. I tell you...it drives my gen. prac. insane.

[Joe Fields]

42. I remember when I was eleven, 20 seemed ancient. Now, I have shirts

that are eleven years old.

[Hardrada]

25. I got a clue when someone asked me if I was going to see

my grandchildren at Xmas. (don't have any though). Yeah, I'm maybe in Act 3 now.

[boilerbabe]

26. It changes with the situation

But the first time I felt old was at a spring break in Palm Springs where I was almost 30 and had to buy the beer for everyone!

I am now almost 46 and I feel old when chasing those 30-something men around!!

But I'm not sure if I have actually DECIDED I'm old, more like not acting my age??

[MazeRat7]

29. When I started referring to under 30-somethings as "punks"....

and children as a plague on society....

As for when this transformation took place... it's been over the past 10 years.... I'll be 50 in Dec.

MZr7

[Joe Fields]

40. When I look at rock stars who are my contemporaries, and I

think to myself, "Damn, he sure looks old," and then I realize they are my age, it gets a little depressing.

[Random_Australian]

30. Nineteen.

I do believe I've left things too late. Oh dear....

[TZ]

44. are you trying to tick us "older folk" off kid?

Really? Now I really feel old. Thanks a lot!:spank: :rofl:

[MrSlayer]

31. I doubt I ever will.

Fuck Dick Clark.

[patricia92243]

32. 60. I'm not sure how long "middle age" lasts, but it is sure not 60 - unless you think you'll liv

live til 120.

[Joe Fields]

43. lol. Coming in loud and clear.

[RebelOne]

33. I thought I was ancient when I turned 25.

I was half a century old. Now I am way over the half-century mark and I do not feel old.

[carly denise pt deux]

34. I have acutally went thru this twice

the first time was when I was about 30...then I got over it once I decided 30 was not old at all
the 2nd time when I was 42, and I am having a little harder time rebounding, hopefully I will have a 3rd time around about age 60.

[Joe Fields]

46. Turning 30 bothered me more than when I turned 40. But, when I

turned 50 I got really depressed. Why? Because my body was showing signs of wear and slowing down.

[BarenakedLady]

35. 38

It has hit me this year. I think because I remember so vividly my parents at my age. :scared: And they seemed so ooooold to me then.

[taterguy]

36. About 25 at a Flaming Lips show

There were strobe lights and the volume was ear splitting.

I had absolutely no desire to move close to the stage and realized that at that moment I was too damn old.

[mcscajun]

37. 55. As I don't expect to live to 110, I passed the midpoint some time back.

Norman Thayer said it best in "On Golden Pond": "Middle age means the middle, Ethel. Middle of life. People don't live to be a hundred and fifty."

Hell, I don't expect to live past 78, so I'm on the downhill slide now. I don't want to live forever, as some of my cohort do, so that's okay. :shrug:

It's too late for me to die young and leave a good-looking corpse. Gravity and menopause are beginning to show on me, and I started wearing reading glasses in just the past year or two. I don't hear so good out of one ear, and that ear has a vicious case of tinnitus (and has for the last several years -- Will somebody answer that phone, please?!?)

I take three different pills a day (none of which are vitamins), and getting up in the morning is about Getting Vertical.

I noticed some time back on a newscast that all the Senior Analysts and Senior Economists and Senior whatevers (the talking heads of the story) were young enough to be my children, if I'd had any. That was a "Senior" moment for me.

In just seven short years, I'll start collecting Social Security; as I said, I don't figure to make it to 78, so I'm going to collect on the early-start plan.

BTW, I refuse to join AARP, and as I don't look my age just yet, nobody's offered me any senior discounts, either. I doubt it will shock me much when it happens, finally. Hell, unless my face changes radically soon, I'll have to demand them when I am entitled to do so.

I'm not sitting in a rocking chair waiting for death, either. Age is just a number; I never deny mine, as I'm proud of every year. I get out and about as much as I ever did (perhaps more) and I'm heading out for a day trip to Albany today to see Patti Griffin at The Egg this evening.

Old just means you can still do the things you used to do (so long as you keep doing them; stop, and your body decides it's time to apply the brakes) but it just takes a bit longer to recover the next day. :)

[Burma Jones]

38. Old is 20 years older than me

I'll never catch up.....

[TZ]

41. At my current age of 37, I feel old

because my health is going haywire.

[InvisibleTouch]

45. I had a discussion with a friend once when we were both 19 or 20...

...and we both agreed we felt old. Maybe it was because we had both been through so much crap, or because we were aware, as I put it at the time, that we were "no longer the up and coming generation." Over the next few years, the sense of being "old" or "young" became kind-of irrelevant in my life; I just "was." Now I don't feel "old," exactly, but I do feel very acutely that my time is running out - that there are things I wanted to do with my life that will require a certain window of time, which is rapidly closing. I am in my late 30's. (And no, I don't mean in a biological clock/motherhood sense, nor in a "gotta catch a man" sense; I never had any intention of having children, and I don't need the hassle of a serious relationship. I mean projects for which you have to have some amount of youth and health and energy in order to bring them about.)

[reyd reid reed]

47. I'll let you know when I get there...

I'm 46 now and no where *near* old, though my kids might disagree.

:crazy: