who here worries about getting older?

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  • mruntidy
    mruntidy Posts: 1,015 Member
    I don't worry about getting older, I worry about everyone else being younger than me and the point where I will have to hang up my Playstation pads cause I get beat

    Also I am 30 this year, 25 in five months pah!
  • rammsteinsoldier
    rammsteinsoldier Posts: 1,552 Member
    I am 45 and age is all in your head. Everyone tells me I don't look 45 and I certainly don't act 45. I still have big dreams and lots of future ahead of me. Sure getting old sucks, but you can't let it bother you. You just have to keep growing and learning and embracing what life gives you and keep looking to the future!
  • RILEYRED
    RILEYRED Posts: 647 Member
    I am 59 and would love to say it didn't bother me, but,in reality, it does make me sad. My mom died at 67, I lost7 brothers all before they were 65, a sister at 52,so those ages are coming up quick to me and I do have heart disease. Not being here for the big events that my grandkids will go thru bothers me the most. My youngest grandchild will graduate in 18 years, I would be 77,who knows, God may have a plan for me to be here,time will tell. On the other hand, I have been blessed.
  • FauxNinja
    FauxNinja Posts: 77
    What's the alternative?

    Death
  • bmxpop
    bmxpop Posts: 353 Member
    Growing older is mandatory.....but Growing up is optional.

    Do I wish I could go back and try it again? Sure, sometimes. I think that is only natural.
    I am 50 years old and just last year started racing BMX bikes after 15 years of being the fat track announcer.

    You don't stop playing when you get older, but you sure start getting older when you stop playing!!
  • sillygoose1977
    sillygoose1977 Posts: 2,151 Member
    I'll be 35 in a week and while the number bugs me, I look young, feel young and I'm stronger (mentally and physically) than I've ever been in life. I will always have a childish streak and it will keep me forever young.

    It also helps that I am lucky enough to have great skin and no wrinkles yet. Wear your sun hats and sunscreen!
  • Spinelli2288
    Spinelli2288 Posts: 188 Member
    Terrified. I don't want to look like my mother. My mother is full Lakota Indian and I am a spitting image of her. She is 43 years old...... you know those old black and white photo's of the Chiefs with the wrinkly skin and feathers? Take away the feathers and you have my mother. When I was 16 I refused to tan like her, started up on the wrinkle creams and moisturizers, and prayed. I don't want to look like my mother until I am 70 to 80 years old. Some may see this as harsh, but you have never looked at my mother and guessed her age. The first time my boyfriend met my mother he thought it was my grandmother who met him at the door.
  • rob_v
    rob_v Posts: 270 Member
    I don't know what your talking about - like my wife says - I'm a 41 year old child ;) (and damn proud of it)
  • OfficialPR
    OfficialPR Posts: 1,578 Member
    Right here..
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    Pretty sure I had the mid-20s crisis to, and the 30 crisis which was worse! I loved turning 40, and every year's got better after that :drinker:

    I still don't know what I want to do with my life and have never been in a job long enough to contribute to a pension. In my late 30s I changed careers entirely from IT to journalism, effectively halving my income for something I love!

    Nothing is ever final, and if you stay flexible and young in attitude, you don't ever need to grow up :happy:
  • summertime_girl
    summertime_girl Posts: 3,945 Member
    25 was the worst to turn. It's a quarter century!! I'm now on my 7th anniversary of my 29th birthday.

    But in all seriousness, I take really good care of my skin. I don't smoke, I drink just socially, I get regular facials and treatments. I can pass for a lot younger than I am.
  • Begood03
    Begood03 Posts: 1,259 Member
    You have two choices in this life;

    1. Get older.

    2. Die.

    I'll take door number 1!
  • HorrorChix89
    HorrorChix89 Posts: 1,229 Member
    I refuse to age pass 25. Therefore I have 2 more years to find an anti-aging potion. THE SEARCH IS ON!
  • snowflowr82
    snowflowr82 Posts: 141 Member
    I turn 30 in September of this year... not looking forward to it. I too see differences in my skin which i'm not happy about my husband says i dont have wrinkles but i'm pretty sure i see them especially around the eyes and mouth blahh no fun!!! But we all have to do it i play on celebrating 30 and have fun with it :)
  • dollienj
    dollienj Posts: 49
    "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. "- Abraham Lincoln

    Age is just a number. If we spend our time worrying about our future, we waste our present. You can do anything at any age - your limits may change, your goals may change, but never feel that your life stops at a certain age. It took me a while to learn this, but the older I get, the truer it rings.

    I have doubts and regrets, of course, like everyone else. Paths I had wanted to taken and didn't, choices I shouldn't have made but did, etc. But if those things hadn't happened like they did, I would be a completely different person than who I am now - and who knows, that person may have turned out not to be so fabulous? :wink:
  • scubaruby
    scubaruby Posts: 36 Member
    "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. "- Abraham Lincoln

    Age is just a number. If we spend our time worrying about our future, we waste our present. You can do anything at any age - your limits may change, your goals may change, but never feel that your life stops at a certain age. It took me a while to learn this, but the older I get, the truer it rings.

    I have doubts and regrets, of course, like everyone else. Paths I had wanted to taken and didn't, choices I shouldn't have made but did, etc. But if those things hadn't happened like they did, I would be a completely different person than who I am now - and who knows, that person may have turned out not to be so fabulous? :wink:

    What she said. This thread is making me kind of sad..all you young people worrying so much. From the vantage point of my 55 years, I'd say just figure out, eventually, what makes you happy, whether it's a job, family, hobbies, pets. It won't all be perfect, but it will, eventually, be pretty darned satisfying.
  • 1996gtstang
    1996gtstang Posts: 279 Member
    im getting grey beard hairs. horrible
  • bluevwgurl
    bluevwgurl Posts: 220 Member
    Don't resent growing old....many are denied the chance.
  • trooper605
    trooper605 Posts: 31 Member
    Getting older….It’s not that bad. Sure, I would love to be 25 again…but I can’t go backwards. This is only a technicality….LOL. What I have found so far is that you have to live your life as if each day is your last. (Yes…I know, those are also song lyrics) If you don’t like the direction your life is going….then change direction. If you spend each day worrying about a wrinkle no one else notices…then you’re missing out on the things other things that are truly important….

    We all get older….and eventually we all die…..It’s how you live that defines you. If you sit there worrying about tomorrow….then you’re not living today. Hopefully you will learn this before tomorrow passes you by………:wink:
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