growing old

Don't be sad,
Don't be blue,
You can always find someone
Who's older than you.

All things being equal, you still have 20 good years ahead of you, enjoy.

its the worldthat changes  not me but hey i need to be able to live in this world not the past .... i find that hard.. but im still young ironiocalluy

The mind will always feel 18. The body sadly is another issue.

body is doing ok its everything around me that is changing ..................

when i was 16 , 60 seemed old and 60 year olds looked and acted old

now 16 year olds look young and act young

stay the same the dragon, let others change

Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now

Love the song and the lyrics ring true.

If one has qualms or doubts about growing old -it's salutary to think of the alternative !

am I a little bit over the hill ?hmmm
maybe.
but I am not old yet, definatedly not although I am a little bit nervious.
aging a bit with the passage of time, but that doesn't matter, it's natural.

Vubiant

"when i was 16 , 60 seemed old and 60 year olds looked and acted old

now 16 year olds look young and act young

stay the same the dragon, let others change"

Did you mean "now 60 year olds"........

I recall that, when I was young,people looked ancient when they were fifty!

Dower, grey and miserable!

The thing is that there was sod all in the way of entertainment. Pubs, shops and cinemas were all closed on a Sunday.

Most didn't have a car so, at least, they could have taken trips to wherever but, when they got there on a Sunday, everything would be closed!

Few, if any, had TV or a phone (except for David Cromack's dad, who was "a thousand a year man, you know"!

Growing Old Sucks.

When I was young and in my prime, I used to have it all the time.

But now I'm old and getting grey, I only have it twice a day.

Fxckin Hell Lady FV!! When were you young? 1905?

Very few older people look after themselves that's the trouble.
How many older people are slim?
They either eat themselves to death or drink themselves to death.

Yet people who are overweight don't look too bad because their podgy faces seem to have fewer wrinkles.
While old timers who are slim tend to have faces like corduroy caps.

What Lady Faye is describing wasn't all that long ago.
I remember the first car (a Ford Popular) and the first TV (9 inch Radio Rentals) to arrive in our road. Nobody had a phone but there was a public phone-box about 200 yards away.

Oct 29, 2017 -- 7:58AM, acey deucy wrote:

Growing Old Sucks.

For sure and the older I get the less safe I feel.

sadly lady faye, i meant it as i wrote it

but you are correct as lots of 60 year olds act young and look young

I thought you stopped growing as you got older.

Look young?
Are you serious?

Foinavon you might not have noticed but a half a century has passed since the Ford Popular!


I was born around that time but have never known anywhere to not have phones and tv.

Apart from rural areas obviously.

Yes, that's true. It was one of those black coach shaped ones that you see in "Eliot Ness".

People started renting those early black and white TV's to watch the Coronation.

we didnt have a phone 50 years ago, nor a tv, i remember going to a neighbours to watch
churchill's  funeral.

we got first phone in 1969, our tv ( rented) had arrived around christmas 68, and we bought a tv mid 70s

Just to qualify and, at the risk of giving too much information, I'm talking about back in the 50s, when we were still struggling with
austerity after the war.

My parents got their phone around that time, Donny. I had left home by then and was working in London. I had access to a communal phone in the hallway of the house where I rented a room.

So just as I thought Lady FV is really old. Not that there's anything wrong with that. One day in the distant future I may be old myself.

when i was young and in my prime you could hang a donkey jacket with a lump hammer in each pocketon it  and it would hold it up  no problem ,now sadly in my 60s and it would have trouble holding up a paper hankie !

Well FOYLESWAR, I'd guess that's a paper hankie more then a many men in their 60s can manage if the sales of Viagra are anything to go by.

Dr Crippen    29 Oct 17 13:18 
Very few older people look after themselves that's the trouble.
How many older people are slim?
They either eat themselves to death or drink themselves to death.

Yet people who are overweight don't look too bad because their podgy faces seem to have fewer wrinkles.
While old timers who are slim tend to have faces like corduroy caps.

I think I am lucky to be an old WOMAN rather than a man.

I still get spoilt and chatted up by men, although I don't take much notice as men will chat up anything

I used to say hi etc  to a male carer who visited someone in our block as you do when you pass them going in and out often. He is about 30/40 and very attractive, tall dark and handsome.  Just my type when I was younger!  However, one day I made a flippant remark that I would hope he would be my carer when I get decrepit and he asked why.  I would have thought it was obvious However, I laughed and looked him up and down and said it would be nice to look at the scenery.  Something I would never have done when I was younger.

However, a couple of days later he was waiting on the steps in our main hallway and we got chatting and he propositioned me!!!!  He said he would come and 'have a cup of tea' anytime! I was gobsmacked.  A man like that would have his pick.  I made an excuse and fled

He was still waiting for me a couple of days later and gently laughed at me for running away.  I apologised for giving him the wrong impression and said I was a good girl, unfortunately. 

Men will chat up anything

annie - we're an insecure bunch. All peeps need love, need to feel special, wanted & needed. Men are no exception.

Growing older is an opportunity. In the past we died not long after retirement. These days a second life opens up with new challenges and possibilities. Years ahead of you Dragon sir.

I would just like to say that although good looks are nice in a man, that has almost never been the deciding factor in my partners.  I go by what they say when they start talking. 

As chit chatters may remember I had a thirty five year old boyfriend a few years ago  and he was gorgeous - until he started talking   It wasn't all his fault, he just talked about music and stuff I had never heard of.  I gave him up for a man about twenty five years older than him and not good looking, but he made me laugh and we had loads in common.

Men are so lucky, women rate a sense of humour and other things above attractiveness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpJLtQmIv4o

Sometimes I wallow in the misery of getting too old... + Red wine =

Lester Piggott on getting older: "“I can’t believe it either. What can you do ?  It’s a fact, isn’t it ? A lot of people know I’m going to turn 82 this weekend – but I wish they didn’t.”

He lives near Geneva now, and he'll be 82 on Sun.5th Nov.



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What a lovely picture of lester, TELLDEL

To the best of my recollection he rarely smiled, although from anecdotes he does have a sense of humour.

yes ithink redwine seems to go with getting older for some bizzare reason

I switched from drinking white wine to red and now I only drink a half bottle of wine and feel better for it.  And some say red wine is good for you, yeh right

the apostle paul told timothy to drink wine for his stomacchs sake, jesus turned water inrto wiune ...so plenty of biblical justification for the lovely drink!!!!!

Lester Piggott, the absolute all time maestro of flat racing.