Senior Poll - Do You Feel Your Age?

Overall, How Do You Feel For Your Present Age?

  • I feel just about right for my age.

    Votes: 16 18.0%

  • I feel younger than I am.

    Votes: 47 52.8%

  • I feel older than my present age.

    Votes: 17 19.1%

  • Not sure.

    Votes: 9 10.1%
  • Total voters
    89
My body feels older but my mind is still very active, as it was when I was working. It craves ideas to discuss, hence my life on fora, and my imagination is as active as when I was a child. But I FEEL older when I move around, so I sit a lot now.
 

I think we are all still about 25 in our minds....trouble is, our bones don't agree with this. I had a nasty fall two weeks ago and am still suffering. We don't heal as quickly as we did when we were young.
 

I would like to say I feel younger than my age; however, between working full-time, taking care of two apartments and looking after my mother, I'm exhausted.
 
I voted for "I feel older" but it really depends on how I am doing physically as to how I feel. So I would maybe say it is somewhere between "about my own age, and a bit older"
 
I feel older, much older some days. I've always physically been hyperactive and flexible. But even after a lifetime of exercise I still wake up like the tin man quite often...oil can, oil can...The most embarrassing is standing up in a quiet place like the library and your arms and legs audibly crack. Then again if I had been a couch potato all those years it might be far worse.
 
The persistent achy back/hip are with me more often than not and I'm not as limber as I once was. That said, I think my brain still works well and I can get around just fine. The hearing and vision are all good. I feel my 61 years, but my dear wife says I look MUCH younger. :D
 
Not sure because I don't know what my age is supposed to feel like. I still enjoy hiking & can carry a backpack that weighs about 20 lbs. and hike the trail to see Delicate Arch. No health issues & don't need ******. Looking forward to my 77th birthday and maybe a trip to Costa Rica to try out that Hi Line ride over the jungle there.
 
Depends on the day. Before I had my hips fixed I felt about 102. Now I feel a lot younger, and even my new doc was surprised to figure out how old I am. I guess that's a good sign. I do more and get around better than most folks I know who are my age.
 
I have never been 83 before, I am not sure how I should feel.

I was taught to respect my elders, but I am running out of elders.
 
No I don't feel my age but even more so in my head than physically. Most of the time the body works pretty well, but sometimes I get a little stiff or may tire more easily. I'm still going to the gym and people tell me I don't look nearly my age. I don't think I act it either, though I'm not trying to act like a young "chippy".
 
It depends what I'm doing.
I generally feel younger than my age. I've always looked younger than my age. Well, always use to. My hair is salt-n-pepper and my beards is mostly gray.
Riding motorcycle, I feel even younger. Unless a kid on a loud and modified and (supposedly) fast bike pulls up next to me; then I feel my age.
Shoveling deep, heavy snow or getting on and off the roof of my house; I feel older. If I can't make room in my garage for a snow blower soon, I'm going to have to hire a local kid for big snows.
 
All I do is look around at those much younger than me and I realize I am extremely lucky to do the things I do at my age.

I was at the casino sitting for a ride. This is what I observed.

One guy comes in limping with a cane. The next person was a women with a walker. The next person came in riding one of those electric scooters. And the next guy to come in was lugging oxygen tanks.

And the washroom has disposals for needles for those with diabetes.
 
I guess I'm doing ok for my age, but I noticed I have more Doctor's numbers in my phone book then old friends. I now call the Golden Years the Rusty Years !
 
I always felt and acted younger than my age until about two years ago. I have really slowed down, can't walk very well, have trouble getting up and have pain in my knee, one of which was replaced a year ago last October.
I guess old age has caught up with me, darn it.
 
COPD and osteoarthritis has knocked the hell out of me the last couple years. Getting hard to get anything done, like normal jobs around the house. I still feel young at heart and I like to clown around a lot, but easy things are getting harder to come by.
 
Overall I feel pretty good but I can certainly tell that I'm going downhill because of age.

Mama was really mad that I didn't hire someone but like I always have I preped and painted the exterior of the house by myself this summer and it took me two weeks and after being on my feet and standing on a ladder for eight to ten hours each day, in the late July heat, I felt totally drained
by the end of the day......when I painted the house ten years ago at age 57 I was done in one week and I didn't feel quite as exhausted at the end of the day.

Ten years from now when I'm 77 and the house needs painting again I may not argue as much about hiring someone to do the painting......we'll see. :)
 
I feel fine but like others have said I have to pick my battles.

I do experience a little sadness when I realize that I will never do certain things again but I have plenty of good memories.

I'm still finding new ways to get into all the trouble I'm able to handle, LOL!!!
 

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