Sometimes you just feel old

Great question, Hols! I feel old when I realize I graduated from high school 50 years ago. :oops:

I felt particularly old when we had our first extended family vacation last November without the "kids" and the 6 of us just sat around the table and talked about how we are aging. My SIL went through breast cancer treatment a couple of years ago at 56 and developed debilitating arthritis as a result. I was present for her wedding and the birth of each of her children. The oldest one is now 28.

I think not having my own kids sometimes gives me a false sense of where I am in life, but I often get jolted out of it with a wake-up call!
 
The term "Grandma" still jolts me. It's still rather new; the oldest grandchildren, twins, are about 18 months. I'm loving being a grandmother, but sometimes I feel like "Wait—wasn't I just 21, wearing miniskirts and going out to bars to dance all night?!?" :ROFLMAO:
 
LoveTulips said:
Every time I hear a pop song or a rock song used for a commercial I feel old.
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see I don't. :D It's funny because I can listen to the music of my teen years and altho' it takes me back it doesn't make me think I'm old.. because it's strange how the music has followed us as we've aged, instead of it staying behind... here in the uk the radio stations play 60's & 70's music a lot !...so much so, a few months ago I heard loud music coming from my road. I looked out and there was a bunch of young teens (broad daylight).. walking along the road carrying an old fashioned Boombox, and they were singing loudly to.... ""sweet caroline'' lol
 
Another thing that can show you how old you've gotten is to go back and read your SF introductions thread. When you didn't yet know all the people you now know some of whom have passed away.
 
The City of Sun Valley hired a private firefighting crew w a dozer to do some line building in the open spaces around our homes. I had to go up and give the boys some encouragement! They prob thought "oh dear, here comes the educated idiot to complain."

Me being the old firefighter I regaled them with tales of Yellowstone "back in '88 before the turn of the century." Gawd I'm old AF!!!

I wished them a safe and profitable fire season!!! Oh to be young again.....



just posted this in another thread
 
Nathan said:
Coming up on 74 years of wear & tear, but also how I'm treated in public by the younger gens.
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well I'm not far behind you Nathan at 71... and honestly the young here act like I'm invisible .. and when they HAVE to deal with me, in a customer service role, it's like they're dealing with an alien...lol.. if I try and make conversation with them, the look of horror on their faces.. because they don't know how to converse unless it's using a keyboard on a phone....so I just get a blank stare :ROFLMAO:
 
OldFeller said:
Another thing that can show you how old you've gotten is to go back and read your SF introductions thread. When you didn't yet know all the people you now know some of whom have passed away.
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well I've been here over 12 years, I was 58 when I joined this forum ... and there's been many who have passed since then.... the forum was only a year old at that time, and within about 4 years we lost quite a few...
 
hollydolly said:
well I've been here over 12 years, I was 58 when I joined this forum ... and there's been many who have passed since then.... the forum was only a year old at that time, and within about 4 years we lost quite a few...
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I just reread my Introduction thread. When I joined, my avatar was a picture of Tom Selleck and that attracted a lot of attention.

It made for some fun exchanges. It was interesting to see what people had to say
 
what makes me think I should feel old is that two of my kids are in their early sixties. While I know I am old number wise, in my mind I still feel 40-50ish. I have several great grands that are over 10yrs old.
 
There was quite an age gap between some of the members here when I first joined. I was in my 50's..as were several more people.. and some members were in their 80's.. so altho' technically we were all all seniors, there was a 30 year age gap of differing views about almost everything

Since then many have died, many have succumbed or are battling serious illness, and that makes me feel old sometimes too in that it makes me face my own mortality
 
When I think about what my grandmothers were like at my age.......they were OLD. Then I realize what *I'M* like at my age. I'm old. Not as old as them, but definitely old.

Used to be, when I talked to my relatives and friends, it was always, "Hey, what are you doing this weekend? We're going to Disney and ride that new roller coaster that just opened!" "Sounds like fun. We're going to ride our new bikes for 50 miles on the trail." "Yeah, gonna get the canoe out this weekend and head down the river."

Now it's, "Threw the back out yesterday. My knee's better, but I have something growing on my big toe. How about you?" "Went to the doctor yesterday, he said I'm going to need a new shoulder soon." "You remember Joe Smith, that guy who lived next to us? Well, he died."

What really makes you feel old is looking in your Little Black Book and realizing that all the names in there end in M.D., DDS, DMD, D.O., P.A. and N.P.
 
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