Old Age May Stink But....

This is part of a poem I wrote and posted on this site a while ago: Old age comes on fairy feet Tiptoes round you while you sleep, When you wake, what? more grey hair! How the heck did that get there? Painful limbs and hearing gone What else is there to go wrong? Wrinkled skin and aching eyes, That danged mirror must tell lies. Yes, it seems that youth has fled, Teeth by bed, not in your head, What you eat goes on your hips And your body sags and dips.

60 seemed to be when my body started to groan and moan. My knees are shot and I got one of those hurrycanes for Christmas. As much as I hated to have to rely on a cane it does help. I had envisioned myself being one of those spry oldsters still able to do the hokey pokey

My metabolism is shot but that happened prior to 60. I do not look my age, I am told. I am too plump to wrinkle at this time. My knees have their moments but do better when I take them walking.

I am 65, my knees ache since I have no cartilage but other than thinning hair, I have no complaints. My mom is 100 so I think I have long term genes!!

You're lucky that your body held out that long, my organs started to go on me in my late 40's. It isn't a picnic, but it is what it is and I grin and bear it each and every single day. Wrinkles and grey hair are the very least of my worries and I'm only in my early 50's.

funny.I do not mind old age.I have the time of my life.Getting old is things that you have not done when you were a younger.I am 85.Thid does not bother me at all.As long as I can keep moving and do not have to depend on other. No I do not mindl.I loved it.

I am finding it increasing difficult to remember what youth was actually like. I wonder if I was born old and simply dreamt about being young at some time.

Tell me about getting old the skin sags, everything goes wrong with your insides, your hair is gray or white, hands look like a skelton. Let's see what else you need to wear glasses and dentures, hard of hearing, cataracts, and how about adult diabetes and all kinds of things like that.

I can't complain that much but I do have eye problems .... or rather had, cataract surgery helped clear some of that up.

my mother said it was 75 onwards when she really 'felt old' but she's still up and about

I am over 60 but I do not feel too bad. I am lucky, I have no wrinkles and I feel pretty healthy for the moment.

I am 68 and I don't feel that bad, sure things are different, but that's they way it goes.

I am having trouble bending over enough to cut my toe-nails. And sometimes when I walk I get a pain in my foot. Usually it goes again after a while. That's enough moaning for one response!

I have a couple more years to go to get to 60. My husband turns 60 later this month.

I join the Sunday walk organized by the committee in my housing estate. There are a few senior citizens who are very active. They wake up at 5 am, have their breakfast, and by 6 am, they are practicing Tai Chi. Our Sunday walk starts at 7 am. Guess what, they are still energetic, and they can even run. They are far older than you. Most are already in their 80s, and some are in their 70s. I wish that I have their health when I reach their age.

I am not far off 60 and most if my get up and go has already got up and left. I am not sure I'm going to make it! :(

@HazySue,I understand.It's old age.There are many sexagenerians in my locality and I know how they feel.

The only good thing that I can see about ageing right now is all the wisdom that I have acquired along those years. But it is a wisdom that has cost me a lot.

Funnily enough my grand parents look ancient when they were sixty but I see people in their 80's these days who are still quite youthful. I hope your aches and pains clear up! As for your bits that are going south you could always start walking on your hands that way although they may go south it would all look proportionate and you would look perfect!

I was still working for a rancher at 55 @HazySue but I think that just helped speed up the spinal injuries that my husband created. Now at 64, it's tougher to do anything. I can't even stand up totally vertical. I went from 5'11" to 5'8".