I'm Old and I'm disgraceful

I have a friend (he and his partner were actually visiting this weekend) who celebrated the same significant birthday this year and he insists he is going to be 49 again and again and again! lol The way he is going I will catch up to him in 11 years! I think I would like to grow old disgracefully - nothing wrong with being older and still flirting is there? I can see me at 70 (if I ever get that far) on a barstool drunk as a skunk and chatting up all the men while my other half is at home cooking the dinner! lol xxx

Well, I think you already know my opinion on this subject. I'm going to grab ahold of either side of the doorway and they are going to have a h@ll of a time getting me to go through it. I'm going kicking and screaming, no graceful about it. I don't just want to put the clock back a few years, I want to stomp into pieces. LOL.

The confidence I have now makes me glad I am older. At one time I tried to be all things to all people and often didn't even know the real me. On the day I turned 40 I decided I was going to be me, act as I wanted and say what I was thinking. When I was younger I used to worry that people wouldn't like the real me but now I just think if people don't like me it's their loss. I tend to be tactless and sarcastic at times but also open and honest. I find many people like me as I am and I'm not really fussed about those who don't. Becoming older has given me so much more freedom to be who I am and not who others want me to be. It's great, I just wish I'd learned the lesson earlier.

P1ke, you are definitely not old, not in any sense of the word. And although sometimes I feel so creaky, I'm not old either. I intend to embrace each year that I'm given and run with it. Growing old gracefully is what I want to do,and I think, is what I'm doing. I use all the stuff that's made for anti-aging, facial stuff, and intend to keep on doing so, and I only use level 3 hair color, when I do color my hair, which isn't very often at all, and it's the kind that washes out after 30 shampoos and doesn't even cover the gray, so that's not much of an issue for me. I don't have a lot of gray anyway and the gray hair I've got, I've earned, by god. I think that our faces develop character, and the lines we get are badges of courage for sticking it out thus far. I've had so much fun in my life,and consider it to have been a life well lived to this point. And, I know that there's just so much more out there to live and experience and enjoy and love and lust after. I'm gonna do it! Bring 'em on!

So how many times have you been told age is a state of mind? Huh? You are as old as you feel and it's disgraceful that you would feel old at the significant age of of whatever age you are now! Besides, it's all moot anyway. When I get to Jolly Old, I'll show you Jolly OLD! LOL

Although I would love to be able to put the clock back a few years that is never going to happen and so I guess I will have to stick with growing old disgracefully! I can be quite uptight, never used to be I think it is having children that has done that to me, trying to set a good example and that. I would like to find me again once they are all grown, I lost me somewhere over the years!

You're not old, by any meaning of the word! Besides, you're as young as you feel, and you've lived long enough to be entitled to take things a little more slowly, and make them last longer. My goodness, as you say, you have at least thirty more years in you yet, so whatever suits you, do it and enjoy it, I say! That goes for whatever age one is! Life is for living! Brightest Blessings, my friend.

I don't think I'm doing too bad, I'd like to lose 100 lbs, I wish I had discovered my food allergies younger than 22 and the fibro long before I did

No way would I want to put the clock back I am very happy to be the age I am. The best thing about my last birthday was the council gave me a bus pass. I am no longer responsible for my children the tables are turned and they are becoming responsible for me and I am going to enjoy life to the full for whatever remains.

I have a birthday coming up in less than a month. I will only be 35 but I feel older. I have been through a lot in my life and I just feel old sometimes. Is 35 a milestone...oh yeah- let the countdown to 40 begin! Hey, at least I still look really young!!

You are only as old as you feel my dear. Whereas you could pass for a man in his early 30's with your stamina and naughty thoughts I am getting ready to start collecting social security. I was born 60 and ready for retirement in kindergarten.

Awww well, you sound like you have a fun personality and that will definitely keep you young no matter what age you turn!

I am 44 and i have a terrible mental affliction. my mind thinks i am 24 but the body acts like it is 64. if i have a good hellrising night out, it takes 3 days to recover. i think my cloathes are trendy and i am sexy. the young girls walk by me and smile, before throwing 10p for a cup of coffee at me. i need a realism pill. anybody got one?

Blimey Piky..i wouldnt turn the clocks back for all the tea in China!!..I now have a certain peacefulness about me...like I practise yoga...lol..without practising it...Or shall we say a certain Karma.. If i want to eat Mars bars I eat mars bars...the impressing people bit...its time they impressed me now!!...no my middle years are much more productive and much kinder years...Maybe not so financially ..but I can live with that..I have very very modest tastes...Hubby and I are still dramatically `in love`...and long may it reign....Ive health..which i thank God for...ive stamina..which i reserve for my delicious hubby....I look at the younger ones and think wee i had a very good time wheni was their age..but ive no desire to turn the clock back... Ive had good careers...but i dont aspire anymore...to sum it up in a nutshell ...im just chuffed to little mintballs that im att he stage where I am now!!!Hallelujah!!!!!

I know just what you are saying but i'll tell you, I am 51 and I still don't feel really old. And to me, you are still just a baby. Happy Birthday!

Happy Belated Birthday. You are only as old as you feel. Believe me I get carded everywhere I go. I say thank you now. Ainge

As you can tell from your many responses you are not alone in feeling life can be as good or better as you get older. I think you have found your priorities in life and are making the most of them. I would never want to turn back the clock. I think I have not yet reached the best time of my life and I have much to look forward to. I feel sorry for people who dread getting old. It's not something to fear. If you try to stay fit and healthy you can go on enjoying life at any age.

It's not up to you,Everybody have to be old oneday.don't care how old you are,just be happy or make other happy. I found time is going faster than before after the age of 25.But it's not something dreadful, It happens when it should happen. If you're frustrated now. Learn to be satisfied.We should do something just to make ourselves content. Do what you want regardless of your age.

I will be 57 in a few days time, and on the whole I couldn't be happier. I see the angst my 18 year old daughter goes through and the misery she inflicts on her bold young suitors. I would not have that for a pension (will be needing one of those soon enough). The way they 'live' their lives these days via MSN, FaceBook and MySpace certainly would not suit. We have been happily married for 34 years and can't ait for her to move out. We intend to gro old disgracefully and have started to find places to do it. We went to a posh restaurant the other night and had a great meal. On retiring to the bar after the meal for a brandy we found a very rowdy party going on and there wasn't a face there under 40, I can tell you. We found after the owners of the joint are regarded as 'swingers' locally, and we can't ait for our next dinner there!

I see your idea of life is about being there enjoying what comes your way and how it comes your way.I feel that you're absolutely right and that is what life is all about.I will love to grow old gracefully once I have accomplished all the goals I have set for myself and standards I have set for other people in my life too.I will turn 22 this year and I still feel that each day and each year bring a new set of things for me which I haven't known and I enjoy experiencing them everyday.Though there are times when I feel like going back to my childhood days where the only worry was to do the homework and trying hard not to get grounded.I will love to grow old because that too too hold a charm for me.