Feeling Sad Sometimes About Aging, I Think It's Very Natural...Do You?

[Victor]

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these:
it might have been"

from Maud Muller by Whittier

 

[C'est Moi]

...
How about you? Do you sometimes have bittersweet emotions when thinking of your younger years, and feel a bit sad that you're in your twilight years?

Yes, I think it's quite common to have those emotions. I try not to dwell but I find that I sometimes think of things in relation to "time I have left." Ugh.

 

[Olivia]

Yes, I think it's quite common to have those emotions. I try not to dwell but I find that I sometimes think of things in relation to "time I have left." Ugh.

Oh, wow, is that ever true!

 

[AliceNWonderland]

I cry at midnight every New Years Eve for all the losses of the year and years gone by. I think about how I am not getting any younger and also see all the people on tv and in music aging. I try to think of it as a part of life. The younger generation will take over when we all are gone and it will be their time then. It is still our time, though, and to use wisely with the precious time left.

 

[Olivia]

It doesn't bother me to see celebrities age. What I don't like is when I know an actress or actor is my age or older and they look so young. It bothers me when it makes you think that's what you're supposed to look like. Of course, I know they have stuff done and they need to look good for their careers.

As for the younger generation, I try to tell myself that just like me at a younger age, they don't think they'll ever get old. But you know if they'll lucky, they will, just like we did. It makes me feel a little better.

 

[IKE]

Do you sometimes have bittersweet emotions when thinking of your younger years, and feel a bit sad that you're in your twilight years ?


I miss being in my 20's, 30's and 40's.......68 is just a few days away for me and when I think about what lies just around the corner I don't like what I see.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I get a little sad and nostalgic when I realize that I'm spending more and more time looking in the rear view mirror than I am at the road ahead.

Calvin was mighty lucky to have his faithful companion Hobbes by his side!

 

[Warrigal]

Love the Calvin and Hobbs take on this topic.

I have just reread this topic from the beginning and note that it is about 2 years old. In an earlier post I was cheering my new artificial hip (2015). Since then I have had a knee replacement (2016) and two shoulder replacements (2017). I consider the time in which we now live to be a time of miracles and have absolutely no desire to return to my past.

Yes, Hubby and I are aging but we have been all of our lives. Yesterday I visited my GP to gets some scripts renewed and also to get a medical report to verify that I am still fit to hold a drivers licence. I was pleased to get a good report and to be able to inform him that I no longer need daily pain killer medication. I am so much better off today than my mother was at the same age a generation ago.

From time to time I remember the dear people who are no longer living but it is with a sense of deep joy and gratitude that they were once part of my life and it comforts me to know that when I am gone there will be people who will remember me with affection too.

When my version of Hobbs comes to lead me to the Final Frontier I will be ready and willing, having lived a long life that is not given to every child born into this world.

 

[C'est Moi]

I'm sometimes surprised by the people whose deaths really bother me; it tends to be unpredictable. Oddly, they are not usually the most famous celebrities but people I liked. Warren Zevon and Levon Helm were a couple of those.

...

I'm the same way; really felt the loss. (I'm still a huge Warren Zevon fan; my phone ringtone is "Werewolves of London." :zombierolleye