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Do ads bother you any more or less than they used to when you were younger?

The Horse @TheHorse (238306) • Walnut Creek, California 5 Jul 21

I'm sure I've written about this before, but I feel compelled to write about it again. One of things I like about being "older" is that my "give a sh*t" has declined. I don't care as much about how people perceive me. I'm no...

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How much can this old body take?

The Horse @TheHorse (238306) • Walnut Creek, California 6 Oct 18

I'm glad to have no music gigs this weekend. Last weekend, my middle-aged rock buddies and I played two gigs, back to back, at the Clayton Club, a cowboy bar in Clayton CA. Both gigs went on until 1 AM, and on the second night, we...

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Is it true that Women has better memories than Men?

Mary Ann @therealmaryyy (3162) • Philippines 18 Nov 16

i am aware and i admit that i really have a bad memory. i rarely remember my own dreams. but according to this article... officially WOMEN in middle age, at least DO have better memories than men. what do you...

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Fantasy Short Story Review: "The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club" by Nike Sulway

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 29 Oct 16

This impressionistic story opens with lines from The Rhinoceros Sutra, something, frankly I’d never heard of: Two bright bangles on an arm clang, [i]a single bangle is silence, wander alone like a...

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Trying to age with grace

Kelli M @spiderdust (14756) • San Jose, California 6 Oct 16

I'm turning 45 soon. How on earth could that much time have gone by already? I still feel like I'm in my early 30s (although my body and mirror tell me otherwise). I have a lot more grey in my hair than I did a year ago. I don't...

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Missing in Action Tonight

Four Walls @FourWalls (86703) • United States 29 Sep 16

I'm sorry I've been out of the loop today. I had physical therapy today on my foot, and since it's the same leg that's affected by that sciatic nerve it likes to calm down for a few minutes...then go berserk. I've resorted to...

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Old Folks' Boogie

Four Walls @FourWalls (86703) • United States 21 Sep 16

And you know that you're over the hill When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill (Little Feat, "Old Folks' Boogie") Or the Rolling Stones put it a little more succinctly: "What a drag it is getting...

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How Would You Describe Middle Age?

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 3 Feb 16

I read something in a Reader’s Digest one time and have never forgotten it. It said that middle age is “a time when action creaks louder than words.” I thought that was an interesting way to describe what we start to experience...

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Lessons in Anatomy

Four Walls @FourWalls (86703) • United States 2 Dec 15

One thing about getting older: I'm getting free lessons in anatomy. Ha, and the doctors giving me those lessons had to pay big bucks to learn what I'm learning for nothing! Yesterday I was diagnosed...

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Music Can Make You Feel Old

Four Walls @FourWalls (86703) • United States 30 Sep 15

There's nothing that can make you feel better than music. The beauty of a melody, the way lyrics can penetrate your heart, and the voice or the instruments can move you in a million different ways. But, music can also...

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Middle age - defined by my shoes?

41Combedale @41CombedaleRoad (5966) • Greece 27 Nov 12

We are living longer lives these days, very active ones too and getting old is not something we think about until we begin to feel the changes of age making themselves felt in our bodies. I did not consider myself middle aged...

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Middle Age

kongno @kongno (431) • Philippines 11 Sep 12

i'm at what they say middle age, and most of the time i feel like i'm not interested in almost anything that i used to be when i was still young, i can't understand why i feel like i don't have any purpose anymore...

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Is it right to quit a job at middle age?

susanzhl @susanzhl (10) • China 22 Aug 12

this question has haunted my friend for a long time. She has ever dreamed to study abroad,but she gave up for economic reason.Even though the economic problem still here,she said she can't wait anymore. And the job she has now...

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Middle age?

GreenMoo @GreenMoo (11833) 28 Mar 12

Looking at life expectancy statistics this morning, it would appear that I'm approaching the mid point of my life. Yet I don't consider myself to be middle aged. I'm more likely to think of someone the age of my parents as being...

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Best part of life???

sudheer1110 @sudheer1110 (44) • India 7 Sep 11

What do you think is the best part of life? is it infant,small child,grownup child, teenage,young age,middle age,old age? why do you think so?

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Just watching Lord of the rings!fellowship of rings

mansha @mansha (6298) • India 10 Jun 11

I am watching LOTR and its pathetic not even close to the book. I have read the book many times and the way its been written I guess its hard to capture all that in a movie but at least they could have followed the sequence of...

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Malaysia Magazines (?)

creyos @creyos (275) • Indonesia 31 Jan 11

For women with the age range from 20 to 35 years old (and Magazine readers), which Magazine that well known and well published? Both local and imported one. I knew a few names like Nona and Wanita. Are they the most well known...

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Is half of life is 40 years of age?

lightking @lightking (15) • Turkey 7 Dec 10

our life in childhood,adolescence,the period of youth,middle age period includes the period of old age.I think the age of 40 is equivalent to middle age.Sowing always somethink people up to age 40.Ages 40 and then collect...

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wizdom, tradition or superstition ?

Valentin @wmraul (2552) • Bucharest, Romania 13 Jul 10

Is well known different people have different habbits, customs, traditions, superstitions. Yet I spoted few are very commune. For example the expresion "knocking on wood"... A black cat crossing your way ... numbr 13...

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which age is you like?

kiran9 @kiran9 (255) • India 9 May 10

Hi my lot friends, I was very enjoy in child when no-one has scold me whatever I did,after cross the childish to enter young age that time also enjoy it.after cross the young age I could not enjoy as childish? which is age you...

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