How do you feel about aging?

Jane - posted on 08/06/2011

My biggest problem with aging is simply the number of things that start to hurt that never hurt before. It gets in the way of living my life!

Emma - posted on 08/06/2011

Im 32 and i love my birthday and i dont see that changing anytime soon.
I actually think im getting better with age.

Mari - posted on 07/14/2011

Ageing ... what is that? You are as young as you feel and besides it is just a number. I agree with Kacie - Women are like wine, they just get better as they age!!! It is all good!

Kacie - posted on 06/23/2011

I have NO IDEA what the hangup is about aging!! I look forward to getting older!! I'll be looking forward to my 30s, 40s, and most of all 50's!! (i'll be 26 this year btw) Women are like wine, they get better as they age!! =)

Stifler's - posted on 06/16/2011

i have an apron at the moment. like a flap of skin that folds over on my belly. so gross. damn you pregnancy.

Leslie - posted on 06/16/2011

Aging only really bothered me one year, and as stupid as it sounds it was my 25th birthday! I cried the entire weekend, but it my defense- I had just gotten divorced, was a single mom, and had to put my college plans on hold- so, I felt like a complete failure! Since then, I have met a wonderful man, have a wonderful little family, and spend every second of my birthday surrounded by them and that makes it worth it! I guess I have learned to embrace the fact that we all get older (it beats the alternative!), because I have 2 great-grandmother's still living (one of whom turned 100 this year), so I am in for the long haul!

*Fluffy Bunnies - posted on 06/16/2011

Damn you, gravity! lol

Georgia - posted on 06/16/2011

Oh I'd love to have some work done too! Boob reduction and lift... And a tummy tuck. It's like the front of my body is sliding off!

Shannon - posted on 06/16/2011

i dont think theres anything wrong with ageing then again after i give birth to my third child im getting some work done lol

Georgia - posted on 06/14/2011

Emma, thank you! So I may not be mistaken for one of those Uni grannies? lol

Shannintipton - posted on 06/14/2011

@ Meagon
You can use this information to help you. You know what to watch out for. Don't waste this information. My husbands dad died the same way John Ritter did so it was herititary (sp?). My husband had his heart checked out at 46 and he had the condition. He went through heart surgery that saved his life. If it had not been for his dad, he would have never thought about it until I may have been too late. Keep doing all the right things like your doing. You will be fine.

Stifler's - posted on 06/14/2011

You look fantastic at 41 Donna!

Cynthia - posted on 06/14/2011

I just turned 40 last week and I feel exactly like I felt when I was 25....Alot of people can not believe my age...when I say I have A 16 yr old people think I was like 12 when I had him....I love life...getting older means I get to see my beautiful kids grow up have kids of their own...my hubby n I already have plans on how were goin 2 spoil our grandchildren.....If that means aging then age away.....

Cynthia - posted on 06/14/2011

I just turned 40 last week and I feel exactly like I felt when I was 25....Alot of people can not believe my age...when I say I have A 16 yr old people think I was like 12 when I had him....I love life...getting older means I get to see my beautiful kids grow up have kids of their own...my hubby n I already have plans on how were goin 2 spoil our grandchildren.....If that means aging then age away.....

Georgia - posted on 06/14/2011

That's true. My mum was 51, bald and three parts dead from leukemia in the last photo taken of her (about 2 months before she died). She looks haggard, but only about 40... and that was because she was end of the road cancer. I'm hoping to age half as well as she did.

Those are about the only good genes I inherited!

Charlie - posted on 06/14/2011

Japanese women age AMAZINGLY !

Georgia - posted on 06/14/2011

Well thanks! I'm actually 41 1/2. lol It's my mother's Japanese genes. I've only got about ten grey hairs that I pull out with tweezers and not many wrinkles. I was 35 when Dale and I were dating. When I met his family and a few family friends, they all thought I was the same age as his sister (26) and commented that it was nice he found a girl his age... He was 24 at the time.

Maybe I've never really been fussed about aging because I age relatively well. Never thought of that before.

Charlie - posted on 06/14/2011

Wow Donna you do not look 41 !

Georgia - posted on 06/14/2011

Elizabeth, I'm 41 (42 the end of the year) and married to someone 11 years my junior as well! Thankfully, calculating my age is easy. The last number in the year is the last number of my age, and then I just have to remember gow many decades it is. 2011 = 41 Being born in December has finally had an advantage! lol

I do think associating with younger people keeps you younger too. You're only as old as the man you're feeling, as they say!

Elizabeth - posted on 06/13/2011

I am now 40. Once I had hit the magic age of 21, birthdays stopped being about getting older and started being about myself, family and friends saying so many years ago Elizabeth was born and we are so glad she was. Let's celebrate. My 21 year old grandma celebrates the anniversary of her 21st birthday. She was born 88 years ago.

As to my white hairs which are growing in number daily, I wear them proudly. I earned every d*** one of them :)

I don't even think about my age and often times when I'm asked, I have to actually think for a few minutes "okay the year is 2011 and I was born in 70 it's before August so that would make me 40" I don't feel a certain age. I just feel like me. Sometimes me feels pretty old physically though.

I do hang associate mostly with younger people (my hubby is 11 years younger than I am.) It doesn't bother me when they try to harass me about my age or complain about how they are getting old. I use the difference to my advantage. "You need to respect your elders." Or "Listen to the wisdom of the old." My favorite is when there aren't enough chairs for everyone and I make someone give up their chair to their elder.

Meagan - posted on 06/13/2011

I don't want to age because I'm afraid of what waits for me. My mom has major medical problems, a lot of which are hereditary, and although I am doing a lot to prevent them, my mom got really sick early in her 40's and had a major heart attack that nearly killed her at 42. My grandmother died early in her 50's. So, aging scares. It seems that the medical problems start in the late 30's, early 40's, and although thats a distant future, every year it gets closer. I'm not afraid of dying. I am afraid of suffering before I do.

Like I said, I do a ton of preventative stuff and visit doctors regularly for check ups because of my paranoia, but that is why I don't like aging.

Alecia - posted on 06/13/2011

well ill only be 24 in Sept...but when i think about being "old"(like upwards of 65) i do get nervous...not that i dnt want to make it that far, but how do i age? i dnt want to wear old lady clothes and all that. idk...i guess ill just deal with it as it comes :p

Georgia - posted on 06/13/2011

Ahhh, I understand that Emma. It's annoying to have gone halfway toward a career. I've heard vampires... I mean phlebotomists can make decent money.

Georgia - posted on 06/13/2011

Sherri, I get ya. I did my ankles as a kid (went through a period of breaking alternating ankles every other year for a total of 4 broken ankles, starting from age 8).

Oh my, you're so right about dressing different as you get older. I've seen the "mutton disguised as lamb" look and it's just horrifying. Since I'm a jeans and t-shirt type, I hadn't thought of that either.

I saw another example of aging the other day. There comes a time when a woman shouldn't wear a teeny tiny bikini, even if she is thin. There was this woman who is probably a grandma (maybe 60s) wearing a bikini at the beach. Her saggy leather bag looking skin looked awful and the triangle top wasn't helping lift her sagging boobs. She's obviously been a beach bunny all her life, but I think she needs to find a more appropriate swimsuit. She could still wear a bikini, just not those little triangle ones.

Stifler's - posted on 06/13/2011

I just want to finish my nursing it so I feel like I've done something with my life and don't owe the government money for a degree I don't have. I have my cert 3 in aged care so it's not worth it to go back to aged care and pay more for daycare than I'd made. I've been thinking about doing drug testing or something or phlebotomy just to do something interesting a few days a week rather than housework and being driven mad by kids all day.

Bevely - posted on 06/13/2011

I don't have a problem with getting older. I was pretty much born 30, so my body is just catching up with my brain.

Amanda - posted on 06/13/2011

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Loureen ... I like splits too... especially BANANNA Splits! and they are soooooooo much safer than the other ones! hee hee

Sherri - posted on 06/13/2011

Just certainly things that are appropriate for teens and early 20's to do, wear etc. that just isn't okay anymore for a 30 yr old something, mother, wife etc.

Plus after a severe injury to my ankle that will never be the same the rest of my life. I will never be able to play volleyball, kick ball, baseball any sort of running on uneven surfaces. It has a lot to do with my body not going to able to repair itself as well because I am older vs. if the injury happened at a much younger age.

Georgia - posted on 06/13/2011

Jodi, why do I find that hard to believe? lol If it's any consolation, I'm going to be doing my second semester at the age of 42 (end of this year). I think we're just keeping ourselves young! :-)

Emma, you don't have to finish uni to start working you know. I didn't end up finishing in my early 20s because it was too expensive (in the US). I had taken a year off to make some money and ended up not going back until a decade later. The job I started to pay for uni ended up being a 9 year career and I was making a six figure salary by the time I was 24... without a degree. If I can do it, anyone can!

The degree should be for you. Making money can be done with or without a degree.

Jodi - posted on 06/13/2011

I have no plans to stir the pot in class :P

Stifler's - posted on 06/13/2011

Nothing wrong with being a mature aged student hahaha I just want to get uni over with before I turn 30 and make my own money instead of just staying home wishing I'd finished before the kids. Just some of these were really annoying especially the fighting with the lecturer and other students about anything and everything.

Jodi - posted on 06/13/2011

LOL, I'm re-enrolling to finish my Grad Dip next year at the ripe old age of 42.....:\

Never too old to learn, LOL.

Stifler's - posted on 06/13/2011

We had a lady who was 57 in our class and she abused someone from Rockhampton in the ISL theatre lecture about how they had all the good lecturers. She was so funny and we used to always ask her if she had Myspace ( no one had Facebook then).

Georgia - posted on 06/13/2011

Thanks Emma! I know I'm old. :-P Remember, I enroled into uni a few weeks ago... and I'm 41. Having said that, I remember when I was in uni at age 19 and one of my classmates was a 67 year old granny. She rocked!

Loureen, I couldn't do the splits when I was 9!

Sara, with my second pregnancy, I stood in one spot too long and passed out, cracked a rib from coughing too hard and strained my back picking up my then toddler the "wrong way". Pregnancy does weird things to a body!

Stifler's - posted on 06/13/2011

I'm probably already classified as a mature aged student lol I started uni after going to TAFE for a year and all the mature age students used to constantly ask annoying questions and have fights with each other over grades it was hilarious.

Jodi - posted on 06/13/2011

Oh, Emma, you made me laugh. I did Uni as a mature age student, and I graduated from that 12 years ago, LMAO!!! You make me feel positively ancient!!!

Stifler's - posted on 06/12/2011

I'm 23 BAHAHA. I don't really celebrate my birthday anyway, never have been that excited about getting older.

Stifler's - posted on 06/12/2011

I feel depressed that the years go on and I am getting closer and closer to being a mature aged student when I go back to uni.

Shannintipton - posted on 06/12/2011

I can get out of my chair unassisted.

Charlie - posted on 06/12/2011

I can still do the splits haha

*Fluffy Bunnies - posted on 06/12/2011

I think pregnancy is a preview into getting older. I pulled a muscle in my chest today just by bending over and dusting something (and apparently standing up too fast). I could hardly breathe for quite some time. I'm sore and slow and can't get around very easily. Maybe I won't like this aging thing...lol.

Georgia - posted on 06/12/2011

Sherri, what kind of things can't you do now that you could when you were younger? I can't think of anything I can't do now that I couldn't do then off the top of my head. Well, I can't put my foot behind my head any more, but that's about it. Hmm, I'll have to think about this.

Jodi - posted on 06/12/2011

Well, I can understand hating the grey hair. I don't have that yet :) I still get to tease my hubby because of his grey starting to show through, LOL.

Sherri - posted on 06/12/2011

It completely SUCKS!!! Totally I don't mind my birthday just the getting old part

I hate gray hair, aches and pains, wanting to do things I am just not able to anymore because I am getting older. I am only 39 and I just want to stay young and vibrant forever.

Georgia - posted on 06/12/2011

Age never bothered me and still doesn't, but when I turned 35 I had a little freak out. That lasted a couple days and then it was back to normal. Then, I turned 40. About a month before my 40th birthday I was upset and for a couple weeks after my birthday I mourned "being old". Then I got over it. I don't know why I had these episodes and they just seemed to come out of the blue. I suppose it has to do with the realization of my own mortality.

Overall, I'm now 41 and it doesn't matter. It never mattered, except for those few weeks. Our age shouldn't matter as long as we are taking care of ourselves and having fun with our kids. I believe in making the most out of the time I do have, not worrying about when that time is going to end.

Shannintipton - posted on 06/12/2011

:)

Cindy - posted on 06/12/2011

@Shannin, Yes you may use it...Anyone can....

Constance - posted on 06/12/2011

I got it an I just sent one back.

Shannintipton - posted on 06/12/2011

I pm'd you :) but maybe another time would be better. :(

Constance - posted on 06/12/2011

Alright. I have had a wicked migraine for the passed week. My nephews nailed blankets over my bedroom windows to make my room as dark as possiable. My mom even went grocery shoping for me. I have been just trying to sleep it off, but it isn't working very well. kids are good though. I won't know if my nephews will be promoted but everyone else has been. How are you doing?