What do you miss the most about not being young anymore?

Warped memories of youth nothing. Youth was great. I am enjoying my senior years like crazy and just hope my health and good times can continue until I'm 120. Although I really don't expect to live past 110. Life really is a stage of seasons. When I was young I acted like a youngster. Now that I'm old I haven't changed much except I don't do nearly as much. Old age is really not bad as long as one has their health.
 
Well, when you think about it youth and old age are pretty much the same - at both stages of life we wear diapers, drool, are barely self-aware and need others to feed us. The only difference is that we usually don't give ****** to babies. :playful:
 

Funny, but at what age do you think we will be in diapers, drool and are barely self-aware. My mother is 84 and has none of those problems. I live in South Florida and we have many seniors over 100 without those problems. I don't think the natural order of things is for people to degenerate into drooling, diaper wearing incompetents.
 
teamrose said:
Funny, but at what age do you think we will be in diapers, drool and are barely self-aware.
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Speaking only for myself? 54.

My mother is 84 and has none of those problems. I live in South Florida and we have many seniors over 100 without those problems. I don't think the natural order of things is for people to degenerate into drooling, diaper wearing incompetents.
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Bless your mother's soul.

I live in northeast PA and have taught for years in nursing homes and hospices, so perhaps my perspective is a little skewed. But looking at the number of "regular citizens" on the streets - overweight, under-stretched, shoving junk food into their gaping maws while using canes and oxygen tanks - I fear for the future.

That's where I get my ideas of diapers and drool. South Florida is also more climate-friendly for seniors - up here, every winter, there are multiple stories of seniors dying from the cold - so the climate plays a role also. Air quality ... we're in the coal belt ... you're next to the ocean.

Days of sunshine in Florida - approx. 325. Days of sunshine in PA - approx. 5. :(

The "natural order" is, I fear, slowly changing into something UN-natural.
 
Wow, your dreadful PA stats are exactly why I left Chicago. I feel like i'm on a permanent vacation living in South Florida. But even here you are right about our health. It is amazing how big we are getting. Sometimes one wonder how our skin can possibly stretch as far as it does.
 
So now you've moved to a milder climate. Are you happier? Do you think you could be still happier if perhaps you moved all the way down to South Florida? We would welcome the horses.:D
 
My first exposure to the infamous "Love bugs" was in Orlando - I almost passed a pickle when the pair of them came humming up and ran into my face!

As for humidity, if you can locate near the coast I think you get the benefit of the constant breeze, but inland might be a bit different. Still, I can't imagine it being worse than the eastern PA summers lately and I don't really remember being inconveninced by it all that much the time I spent down there.
 
BurgerBoy said:
I miss Wild Women and being a Chick Magnet.
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Heck, at this point I'd settle for Mild Women and being a Hen Magnet! :p

I miss my childhood innocence. I remember playing all day and not having a care in the world, other than getting the sandbox sand out of my G.I. Joe's joints. The poor guy developed periarthritis before he was 2 years old!

I gave him a soldier's funeral, though - I taped an M-80 to his chest and lit it.
 
I do not miss anything. Maybe because it would make no difference if I did. Would you really want all that angst and uncertainty of youth again !!!!


On a lighter note...

 
When I have visitors I ask them to leave their signatures in the dust so I wont forget them. (Kind of like an autograph book).:thumbsup:


 
mermaid said:
When I have visitors I ask them to leave their signatures in the dust so I wont forget them. (Kind of like an autograph book).:thumbsup:
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So funny mermaid, I can definitely relate!

SifuPhil said:
Now you've got me humming "Dust in the Wind" ... with my own lyrics, of course ...

"All they are are friends that signed-in..."
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Clever Sifu, I'm singing it in my head! :topsy_turvy:
 
Housework is a doddle if you tackle it with the right attitude :D

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I miss being able to party half the night and still get up with energy to go to work. The one thing I'm making a resolution to get back is my energy level. I'm sick and tired of being tired all the time. I miss the energy.
 
I am 65 years old and still officiate high school basketball. I try to stay in pretty good physical condition, but no matter what I do, I still suffer from morning stiffness in my joints and muscles.

Anyway, on several occasions when I go into high schools to officiate a basketball game, I think to myself things like; "I wish that I could go back in time and have one more crack at my teen years in high school. I would do so many things so differently."

I never fully utilized my intelligence by putting my best foot forward or did I take advantage of the resources that were available even back then. I just never strived to be the best that I could be. I was too busy having fun and doing what I had to do just to get by. Basically, I wasted a lot of time doing nothing, but running around with my friends and just having fun. Knowing what I know now and what I could have achieved if I had been more serious about my education, I certainly regret not taking full advantage of what was being offered to me back in the 60's.
 
Having fun is not so bad Oldman, sounds like you had a pretty good youth, even though you weren't seriously focused on the future, not many of us were. Good that you're still in charge of basketball activities, that'll keep you young! :) Like you, I miss being more limber in my old age.
 
Youth is for the young. With your aching joints no way could you have had the fun you did with your current body. There is a season for everything. You would have regretted had you spent your youth studying and watching others have fun. Reduce the amount of dairy, meat and processed foods in your diet which will certainly make you less stiff. Savor the great things only age and experience can bring.
 
See we may have the best stories to tell, but today's generation have cell phones. When they tell their tales, they will have movies of the events. Of course that means they will not be able to tell about catching the 50 pound catfish with any believability. We are free to stretch the truth because polaroids were not able to capture every single thing we did, good or bad.
 
What do I miss ? Wild nights, great parties, good sex, working 18 hours, making good money, wearing a size 6 and lying in the sun on the beach all day, and Tres Generations Tequila.
 
I said before and I will say it again ...................

The thing I miss the most about not being young anymore is.... YOUTH !!!!

That should cover almost everything !!!
 

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