How old is old to you?
By 41Combedale
@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
Greece
September 17, 2021 8:55am CST
I suppose it is all in the mind providing the body is working well enough not to interfere with us living the kind of life we enjoy.
Personally I went from young, to adult, skipped middle age altogether, picked up a pension, got older and left it at that.
My body works well enough not to complain but I did eventually replace a couple of hips that were not satisfactory and their replacements gave me a new burst of youth that was well worth the time taken waiting for them to settle down.
My grandmother became elderly and could hardly walk. I can only remember her as an elderly lady.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
17 Sep 21
I don't think I've reached "old" yet... But I'm only 116 now, too... Some day I'm sure I'll get there... as long as @vandana7 doesn't kill me first. 
(Have you met vanny? She's a terrible woman!
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I was somewhere around eight or ten years old the last time I saw my maternal grandmother. She was a tiny lady who only came up to my shoulder. My maternal grandfather was, to my eyes at the time, a hugely tall elderly man... They both lived to be over 100 years old.
(Have you met vanny? She's a terrible woman!)
I was somewhere around eight or ten years old the last time I saw my maternal grandmother. She was a tiny lady who only came up to my shoulder. My maternal grandfather was, to my eyes at the time, a hugely tall elderly man... They both lived to be over 100 years old.4 people like this
@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
17 Sep 21
You have settled what old is. It is to reach 100 years as your grandparents did. You wtill have along way to go...
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@FourWalls (61936)
• United States
17 Sep 21
Old is 20 years older than I am. My body won’t necessarily agree, but my mind is running the show. 
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
17 Sep 21
Il .like that idea. I could settle for that too. Perhaps you dog is helping you keep so positive?
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@FourWalls (61936)
• United States
17 Sep 21
@41CombedaleRoad — she passed away 19 years ago. I just refuse to get old (or more specifically, to grow up. 
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
17 Sep 21
@FourWalls There is much to enjoy about being childlike, as long as no-one calls you childish. I was told once that I would never grow up. It was a man's response to me throwing a snowball at him. Perhaps he thought that was childish, at least it was not meant as a compliment....
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
17 Sep 21
For me old is a person who refuses or lost the ability to learn new things and are not open to new ideas and technology. In my personal observation learners usually have a body younger than their age ( just a personal view)
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
17 Sep 21
I have someone I love very much, born the same year as I was who announced 'we are now middle aged' when he had not yet reached 40! He had an old fashioned idea of things. I hope he has moved on since he made that announcement.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
17 Sep 21
We have to keep our minds working as much as we can. I have started doing crossword puzzles. It somehow revises on words that we don't use very often and are prone to forget. It's a little addictive though.
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@Marilynda1225 (79571)
• United States
17 Sep 21
I remember both my grandmothers being younger than I am now and thinking they were ancient. I don't consider myself old but some days my body says otherwise
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@vandana7 (98718)
• India
18 Sep 21
@DaddyEvil Since my knee and stomach started talking to me.
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Since when?
@m_audrey6788 (58485)
• Germany
17 Sep 21
For me, you are old when your body starts to get weak but as long as you still enjoy the walking and moving around in a normal way. Then you are still young 
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
17 Sep 21
Normal life then keeps us young and we are only really old when we cannot enjoy the walking etc. that we normally enjoy doing. Perhaps the secret of postponing getting old is to be independant for as long as possible.
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@vandana7 (98718)
• India
17 Sep 21
@41CombedaleRoad You hit the nail on its head.
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@luisadannointed (4171)
• Philippines
17 Sep 21
Stay safe, strong and fit. Well as we grow older we feel differently physically, but that's part of life, let us maximize the time and our remaining youth in us. Smile always, ask god to fill our hearts with joy, see good things on little things that surrounds us... there is so much to life, until we still breathing and able to walk - regardless on how fast we can still move, the important thing is we can still do things and change things for the better. God bless.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
18 Sep 21
I never really think about old, I guess these days 90 is old.
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@vandana7 (98718)
• India
18 Sep 21
If you are old, I am older than you...what must I be? LOL
Being constantly focused on age can make us feel old. God almighty did not make that calendar. Everybody does not become responsible by calendar age 18. Nor everybody gets leg pains by 60. And even then, there is possibility of reverse it...if there is will to be young.
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@JimBo452020 (42629)
• United Kingdom
17 Sep 21
How old is old to me?
At the moment I feel old.
Falling over today has aged me , it really has.
My body works OK.
All still original, even teeth.
If I get frail and need a lot of care I might think I am old then
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@vandana7 (98718)
• India
18 Sep 21
@41CombedaleRoad Shakespeare did not know of stem cells. Wonder what he would have thought them to be. The best I can think of...may be the stem of a tree with fat trunk cut open to make room for prison inmate. Australia sure has some interesting trees for such facility.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
17 Sep 21
That's when we reach full circle and become the object that Shakespeare described - without eyes,without teeth, without everything.
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@JimBo452020 (42629)
• United Kingdom
17 Sep 21
@41CombedaleRoad
Aye.
But now we can replace nearly.everything lol
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@zeongi (158)
• Ujung Pandang, Indonesia
19 Sep 21
I'm about to turn 28 now. It feels like I'm really old. I should feel young not old. ahhahaha...
@ThatDisha (4010)
• India
17 Sep 21
I am 18 but my body feels like 80+ always cramping
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@ThatDisha (4010)
• India
18 Sep 21
@vandana7 thank you so much for advice
Will take them
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