What the heck to I know

[hoops]

So I'm more than half way to 43, that doesn't make me old, not by a long shot. 3 years ago I was spinning in the air and climbing walls and jumping from rooftops without a sound. When did i miss my slowly crawling eyesight getting away from me? when did i have to start keeping track of where the closest restroom is? when did comfortable outweigh stylish? When did the nap become a daily goal? And when the HECK did prunes become tasty? it's funny really, i don't FEEL older, I don't look older, i don't think older, tho sometimes quite a bit crazier and other times not crazy enough. I'd still like to jump out of an airplane and bobsled and take a long trip on my motorcyle in the springtime. maybe it's not an age thing but a time thing. maybe i just have less time in each day, because i wake up with a list of things to do and when the day is done, i still have a list. maybe the days are growing shorter, maybe I'm wasting time. I don't know. maybe I'll look at that when i stop looking at everything else for a moment.
peace
hoops

[Elliott]

I think once you hit 40, we all become the same age for the most part. Remember when 70 was old? Now some of my best friends are in their 70's. Seems like yesterday they were in their 50's.

[hoops]

seems like yesterday i was in my 50's
peace
leon

[Cardiffgal]

What I noticed at 40 was that once I got over that hill I could see what was on the other side, even if it was way down the road. Of course having a first child at 39 put time and age into a whole new perspective. I am now 54, 55 next month and when my 15 year old gets to be my age I will be . . . well lucky if I am still around.

[saxman]

Hoops and everyone ;
i turned 60 a couple months ago and i feel the pains of aging but i also feel that im just starting to grow up and learn what life is all about . ive started new projects in my life that 40 years ago i would of never thought i could or would enjoy doing. the years go by faster as time goes on but im still 17 at heart but in a 60 year old body. its never to late to do something you have always wanted to do . like take up playing an instrument or singing or writing, dancing anything that makes you feel good . try it !

[KarenSews2]

Remember when 70 was old?

SEVENTY?!?!?! Hell, I remember the day I heard that Tina Turner had turned FORTY!!! I could not believe that someone that OLD had legs like that!

And when I was going through all the crap with my first husband, I was all of 25, but I was drained, and I felt so old. I would tell people, "I feel like I'm about 35..." LMAO! 35!!! I didn't understand why older people would give me a strange look!

[hoops]

Karen, i think once you pass 25 you understand that at 25 you have no idea what you are talking about
peace
hoops

[lucille]

Was it Mark Twain who said "roughly"

When I was in my teens I thought my parents were stupid, but by the time I got to my twenties I was surprised at how much they had learned.

[Elliott]

The only thing I've given up on is going to medical school. It's too late baby, now it's too late. That's something I regret; but, about the only thing I do.

[dreamchaser728]

I think once you hit 40, we all become the same age for the most part. Remember when 70 was old? Now some of my best friends are in their 70's. Seems like yesterday they were in their 50's.

Alright!!! I'll be the same age as everyone in 6 1/2 years!!! :D

[Elliott]

Wait a minute.... I was under the impression this was an over 40 forum. We have to start checking IDs. Except, of course, for the baby twins.... we just have to add the total years together and they qualify (in my world, anyway). Enjoy your 30's. They will be over in a minute.... :)

[Eva]

I am 41 and it has started with me too. All of a sudden things are different. I would never have thought that it would make such a difference... :(


Karen, i think once you pass 25 you understand that at 25 you have no idea what you are talking about
peace
hoops
Hahaha! Indeed Hoopy :D

Eva

[Beth]

I do think that the busier a person is, the faster the pace of their life, the faster it goes. Childhood summers were forever. A busy month for an adult feels like no time at all. Maybe, like Truth, there is no absolute Time, only our experience of it, our relationship with it. Thoughts?

[Sara]

From people far wiser than I.

About time:

"Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving." ~Martin Amis, Money


About age:

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. ~Mark Twain


And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. ~Abraham Lincoln


Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis

[hoops]

Beth, it's the theory of relativity, time is related to how much of it you take and how much of it you give and it is only lost when it is wasted worrying about where it is going instead of where it is now. As Joni once said, "I am not old, But I am not young and nothing can be done." I must say, in my limited years i have no regrets, all things seem to have come when they should and gone when they should. And i have not wasted time.
peace
hoops
edit by hoops-I'm not sure yet whether I regret having that second surgery. I think I'll find out soon