What Age Is Old (You Sound Old Related)
Rockadelic
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My Dad still gives me shit about the time I said I hoped I didn't live past 25 and become an "old man".
In my 20's I thought 40 was old.
At 53 I'm thinking more like 75.
So at what age does the average strutter think you become "old"?
In my 20's I thought 40 was old.
At 53 I'm thinking more like 75.
So at what age does the average strutter think you become "old"?
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For me, I will probably begin to feel old when I can't do things I used to due to physical limitations because of the passage of time.
I have a few friends in their 20s, younger than me, and we were all out a few nights ago and I am watching them thinking, the crap these guys eat and the way they drink and smoke, I've got like 15 years on them! (unless I get hit by a truck, of course)
I find it more and more difficult to recognize people's age within the 18 - 68 range.
Even if not a parent, it's important to remember.
But generally, I've always felt once you hit 70, you're old. A lot of people are still quite active in their late 60s, not to mention 90s. I've got a relative who is 94 who still plays 18 holes of golf a few times during the summer.
You have accused me of having greys, mister! ;)
wouldn't you be happier spewing your tired political bullshit at some other website like the huffington post?
I mean as far as looks, look at Raquel Welch. She's in her late 60's and she is RE-DIC-U-LOUS!! As far as feeling old, it varies from person to person. I'm only 35 and I feel "kind of" old. Music also can make you feel old or at least out of touch which leads to feeling old.
I can't say I feel that different than from when I was 25, it's basically plateau'ed for me since then.
I feel old every time I play basketball against 20-somethings at the gym. I look at their quickness and athleticism and think, man, I used to have that level of quickness, leaping ability, and stamina. Plus, when I was their ages, I didn't feel the after-effects of playing ball for days later (e.g., sore knees and back) like I do now.
Another manifestation of my getting old is my dwindling alcohol tolerance and recovery from it. Man, in my 20s, I could knock 'em back like a champ, puff 2 or 3 blunts, and not feel a thing the next day. Now, a major bender can incapacitate me for an entire day, or at minimum, I'll suffer a headache through the whole work day. Also, I can't eat like I used to, as if I eat some spicy shit (or beef) too late, I'll have nighttime heartburn like a motherfucker. I had to cut that shit out as I got sick of popping Pepcid ACs.
Finally, after years of being so up on popular music, I don't have a fucking clue as to what the hot songs are or who the hot artists are. I'm totally disconnected from the current music scene, something I could never envisioning as happening to me. So, I'd say in my late 30s and early 40s, I realized I was that getting old. On the upside, the quality of fucking improves astronomically from the 20s to the 40s. As an old dude, I have some tricks up my sleeves that you young pups haven't learned yet. ;-P
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
I stopped running full court at 40 and haven't played serious half court since I was 45......I go out and play with some younger guys during lunch break but I can feel the age catching up with me.....still, I'll take any mofo on in a game of 21 or HORSE and usually win. I love spicy food but I need the Prilosec from time to time...and I rarely drink hard liquor anymore....just a beer snob these days. My kids keep me up on the new music front just well enough to know that most of it sucks. I know that I'm definitely younger than some people younger than me and older than some folks older than me...it's all attitude.......and it helps to just laugh when some strutter throws the "you sound old" card at me because I'm just old enough to know that being old beats the hell out of the alternative.
I've seen a lot of friends get old soon after moving to the suburbs, maybe getting married, taking a desk job they hate -- and realizing they're old a few years later when they emerge from the 'burbs to find that their old friends haven't spent those years sitting around waiting for a GBV reunion or new De La Soul album.
"oldness" as it relates to "coolness" is much more debatable. sometimes the old guy at the club or concert is super hip, and sometimes he is super sketchy. i would argue that there is a line in which if the desire to be cool outweighs your desire to be responsible then you have hit that "sketchy oldness" factor.
so now i feel old.
also, the fact that i am finally leaving school after 23 years in, i am feeling i dunno, more like an adult. i guess i don't feel old, i just feel more like an adult now.
so to answer the question, 50 is old. some people age quicker, but once you hit the triumvirate of bad back, bad sight and bad memory, you're old.
No. Wouldn't you be happier if you just put me on ignore so you wouldn't feel compelled to soil yourself every time I post something you don't like?
I would say im totally disconnected but my eagerness to remain on top of shit in this flooded and fractered era of the music game has vanished. But "Upper echelon" POP music has been suspect to me for a long minute, even before the internet totally eclipsed the industry. U cant tell me Katy Perry is what is what's really good. Or dude talmbout Justin Timberlake's album is like Off The Wall. Pause.
My healing factor slowing up has woke my ass up to age. A cut will take longer to heal, or a sore muscle needs longer rest.
As long as the Third Muscle still works im good.
I think white_tea's post is a great example of how living out new definitions of family - hence responsibility and maturity level - while engaging in one's own interests and maintaining one's identity means that age is becoming more and more just a number.
In the past, it was family and occupation that marked these things, but since that's all gone haywire, the lines are blurred. Really, it seems physical limits can be the only true demarcation. But science is dealing with that, too...
He thought about it a minute and said he couldn't do it....I told him not to worry, the tape recorder was easy to operate and he replied "It's not that, they're are just too many things I've done in my life that I'm ashamed of and wouldn't want people to know about".....I told him to just leave those parts out to which he replied "Well, then there won't be anything to talk about".
He died at 98 and I really do regret not getting him to do that....he had dropped out of school at 10 to pick tobacco and went blind in his 30's from drinking bad moonshine...I really wish I got to hear those stories he was ashamed of.
I don't think "old people" are respected today they same way they were 50 years ago.
Now I'm almost 40 and my perception hasn't changed. I see people all the time that I think are old but I have to check my self because they are probably 10 years younger than me.
Age is just a number anyway. I hope to be active into my elderly years if I make it.
Sometimes I ask my friends if they still skateboard. They might say, I'm too old for that stuff. My body cant take it. They are 30 smh. I didn't even learn kickflips till I turned 30.
c'mon. maybe 10-15 years ago, but be surrious.
Depends on what you're looking at, I guess. There are a whole lot more options for getting "old people" out and about these days, and from a lot of accounts I've heard conditions are much better in "nursing homes" than they used to be.
If you want to go back before the New Deal, poverty among "old people" was the rule rather than the exception.
I suppose the immense political power "old people" have now pays off in real ways.
I was going to pop in this read because I feel like I'm 27 going on 72 since I don't even have a cell phone or Facebook. I didn't expect to see Roy Haynes in this thread. I spoke to him briefly after he signed my Horo LP at Catalina Jazz Club a couple of years ago. He's a real nice man. Anyhow, I feel like such a undesirable dipshit whenever someone my age, especially one who can't get his shit together and doesn't do jack with his life, says that he is going to get married or is going to have a kid. Meanwhile, I have been a dateless wonder for four years. I'm in the sexual prime of my life and I feel like it's all going to waste.