how old is 'old'?

My grandma says she's old as an excuse when she doesn't want to do something. She's 80.

My sister refuses to admit she's old though - even when it could get her out of doing tasks etc. She's in her mid 30's.

They're both old, the only difference is that one of them will admit to it.
 
to be honest, while life expectancy is increasing past a certain point we're not extending 100% completely healthy lives, we're dealing and extending life while not at its peak if you see what i mean?


My grandma is, really can't remember the age, approaching 80 anyway. She's had quite bad diabetes thats ever worsening, broken a hip all the classics basically. 50 years ago she wouldn't be alive in the same situation. She could well live to 90-95 which would be over average life expectancy, but she's in pain a lot with lots of ailments and so on. The age at which her body started to not function perfectly was probably a very similar age on average to what happened 50 years ago.

We're living longer with illnesses at the end of our lives, as opposed to living longer fully healthy before getting sick is what I'm getting at. Due to that the "age" at which we kind of look at people as "old" hasn't changed as its the kind of time things like joint pains, chronic illness's and so on start to kick in and to a certain degree thats when mobility decreases, ability to run around like a younger person is gone, needing help doing things and needing medical help. That age hasn't really changed.

Theres really only so long a body can keep patching itself up back to normal and we haven't changed that yet despite longer life expectancy. I can see life expectancy growing further still but that will still mostly be extending the amount of time we can survive with various illness's and not increasing our healthy lifespan.

Anyway, thats why old is seen as quite a specific period of time. Incidentally my gran was diagnosed with diabetes a couple years before retiring at 65 I think, and fell and broke her hip about 68.

I always thought in a just being a kid and looking at people further on in their lives that 30 was a pretty big milestone. One where a lot of people would be married off and have 1 or 2 kids and a secure job, I'm not there yet, but its not "too" far off and not seeming like I'll get married anytime in the near future and no kids(that i Know of) to mention yet so I'm starting to feel a tad old myself.
 
when i was < 18 i thought if you're > 18 thats old..

when i was 18 i thought if you're > 21 thats old...

im 21 now and i feel old :( and i guess now i think people > 30 are OLD!!
 
so no one is going to admit to being 'old' then - i love how in lots of cases 'old' is always a good few years away from where you are now ;)

when my mum is 90, i'll be much the same age she is now (celebrating her mums 90th) - maybe i have a particularly old family, but i find it wierd how people who are older than me, can have grandparents who are considerably younger than mine

i think as society progresses, with more women having kids young, and women in their 30s being 'grandmas' - is 'old' going to get younger, even though we're living longer?
 
Its really weird. When I was 20, I thought that 40 was 'old' but now im rapidly approaching 30, I feel better than I did when I was 20.

I say to my friends that when I get to my 80th birthday, I will finally admit to being old and then take up skydiving :D
 
0-1 nothing
1-3 minimalism
3-5 fantasy
5-10 the beginning of copying
10-15 art becomes grown up
15-20 a need to change the world
20-25 beginnings of a political awareness
25-30 maturity
30-40 hell bent on success
40-45 repeating success
45-50 trying to keep up with the 25 year olds
50 the watershed
50-60 reinventing yourself
60-75 a gentle decline into senility
75-85 youth regained
85-100 inhibitons lost, don't give a damn. me, me, me

(taken from a book ive got :) )
 
I want to be old. Sometimes I wish I was old so I could court a lady I like.
One day I will get my wish and I will be old. But for now, I get to eat co co pops and play with micromachines and my favorite game is equastriad because it makes me laugh. I also like playing with dolls house, but I hate the games where you have to shoot other players. I can put myself into their shoes and I feel the pain they could feel, mummy says thats good and we shouldnt play shooting games, those that do are silly billies.

If you would like to write to me I live down by the alleyway where all the silly boys with addidas trousers come walking through.
 
leenayman said:
I want to be old. Sometimes I wish I was old so I could court a lady I like.
One day I will get my wish and I will be old. But for now, I get to eat co co pops and play with micromachines and my favorite game is equastriad because it makes me laugh. I also like playing with dolls house, but I hate the games where you have to shoot other players. I can put myself into their shoes and I feel the pain they could feel, mummy says thats good and we shouldnt play shooting games, those that do are silly billies.

If you would like to write to me I live down by the alleyway where all the silly boys with addidas trousers come walking through.
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Can you stop trolling.
 
24 is old to me. I'm 20 and feel like an old man, speak like an old man, act like an old man and even look like I'm at least 24. Sigh, roll on the good times.
No re-living is possible: once it's gone it's really gone.
Wasted youth and wasted adolescence is a brilliant step along the way to age 25 suicide. Hurray.
At least there's one thing which can be returned to and indeed be constant throughout your life: religion.
the rest is :(


sorry, didn't mean to wee on the BBQ.
 
When I was 10 I thought 20 was old. When I was 20 I thought 30 was old. Now I'm 45 and I don't think I'm old.
 
I wasnt trolling. Can you please stop descriminating against mentally handicapped people. If I seem different to you thats a good thing, we cant all be the same else that would be boring. So take your "trolling" labels and leave me alone.

My name is lee nayman. I replied to this post because I wanted to become old.
 
Age is just a number in my eyes - you gain wisdom through different challenges that face you along your path of life. I know 50 year olds who still act like there teenagers - and teenagers who act much more mature.

Anyway, you should not feel depressed with your age - just forget it, live life to the full and do what you want when you want and don't let anyone drag you down!
 
leenayman said:
I wasnt trolling. Can you please stop descriminating against mentally handicapped people. If I seem different to you thats a good thing, we cant all be the same else that would be boring. So take your "trolling" labels and leave me alone.

My name is lee nayman. I replied to this post because I wanted to become old.
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Hello Lee Nayman, may I ask your age?
 
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My names Lee Nayman. Go away Cerberous, I know you dont understand a thing about me, you are always trying to get me thrown off, but you are just making youself look bad.
 
Cerberous said:
Lee Naaaayman, stfu you hairy SOB and respect the forum rules. If you were mentally handicapped you wouldn't of got this far. Grow up, grow some pubes and don't let the door hit you on the way out!
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:D:D

leenayman said:
My names Lee Nayman. Go away Cerberous, I know you dont understand a thing about me, you are always trying to get me thrown off, but you are just making youself look bad.
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