What has made you feel especially young/old lately?

I am approaching 40. 18 year old women regularly hit on me, so most of the time I feel like I am in this magical twilight between 30–50 were you are the same age forever.

Then the light caught my ear the other day in the rear view mirror. I realized that men grow hair on their ears after 35 and they need to trim it.

I still have the balls to try anything. Life is so much fun. I could end it but I don’t want to.

My kids for both.

I can’t take the steps two at a time any more. It’s a waste of time being so slow!

Seventeen years! Piece o’ cake. I just wrapped up 50 of ‘em and retired this month. Do I feel old? Not a bit of it… just free.

Being barely past the age of an undergraduate, yet being in a PhD program and teaching undergraduates, makes me feel young-old constantly.

I’m far older than my years, but I’m still the youngest person in the room when I’m hanging out with academics. People in my program have husbands and wives, and children.

Finding out that most of my students last semester were 8 years old when September 11th happened… Blew my mind. (They don’t know what the Patriot Act is… or that Saddam Hussein didn’t have weapons of mass destruction… But I digress :-| ) Also, one of my students was completely incredulous when he found out that I love grunge music… Because, ya know, that’s what all the cool 19 year old kids listen to these days (?!)

I’ve had diabetes longer than most of my students have been alive.

@Imadethisupwithnoforethought I love it! Women get whiskers and men get ear hair. Tweezers and depilatories. Hair products will never go out of business.

I miss my two youngest grandsons during the week, and I have a lot of fun with them every weekend. I was thinking last week, maybe they will choose to come and live with me when they are teens like two of my other grandsons did.

When I was working for Foster Families, I always got the teens, because it turns out I’m good with teens.

Then I realized I’ll be 80 years old by the time they enter their teens. Will they still want to be with me? Will I still be able to handle them? My Mother-In-Law is 88 and she can only handle the grandkids and great-grandkids for a few hours at a time.

I expect to have great-grandkids in a few years.

@Sunny2 I am glad you are enjoying our discomfort. It is horrifying when you see it for the first time.

^^ We women are discomforted too by our chin whiskers as you are about ear hair. I was just musing about similar hirsute problems we both have, not enjoying your discomfort. Peace, brother.

I am wondering what the young chicks find attractive about ear hair?

On December 8th 2012 I suddenly went from being a very strong and physically fit 61 year old man who was in training fro the Boston Marathon to being a very weak crippled old man. In the morning I could run a 20 mile workout and feel good about to it. That afternoon I went to my knees in the bathroom because brushing my teeth was too much exertion. What happened to cause this change in my health? What caused of my heart’s harmonious function was suddenly interrupted with constant atrial fibrillation. Good questions in which the doctors have not presented answers to me. But I think that I know the cause. All I have to do is look into the mirror. Hey I’m old. Old people and things break down. Life happen. And “life isn’t fare, get use to it”. – Bill Gates

@RandomGirl By the way the exact opposite thing that you experienced at work happened to me. I started working at my company in ‘96 and an new 18 year mature for his age man was recently hired. He was one month old when I was hired. HA! I guess it is time for me to retire and make room for the young workers.

@gondwanalon: It’s kind of funny – The same people have worked there for the last 15–20 years, with different high school kids rotating in and out in the position I now hold. It’s especially weird because of two things: 1) My mom has known all of these people for all 20+ years and 2) I have very random, almost creepy connections with just about every girl that’s done this job in the last ten years… Completely unrelated to each other or to the job. It’s like we were all picked as infants or something. 0.o

Yeah. I have worked for a year in a professional environment that I studied to learn and I dress in the same white lab coat as everyone else and try to be as knowledgeable and helpful as possible to everybody I deal with.

Not a day passes that I don’t get called “honey”, “sweetie”, “baby” or “doll” by people I’m assisting.

Unless it’s a person over 75 or a personal friend, I resent this. It feels demeaning, disrespectful and like I’m being put in a childish position.

I’m not the youngest person in my department, but nobody else has this happen. Maybe it’s petty of me to dislike being treated like a youngster, and perhaps I’ll appreciate it when I’m 50, but right now I find it irksome. particularly when it comes from somebody my own age.

When I used to watch The Simpsons back in the nineties, they’d have some episodes which centered around Marge and Homer’s past, back when they were teens, and young adults. They were then portrayed as stereotypical images of what young people were like in the seventies.

I watch The Simpsons NOW, and ’‘past episodes’’ still occur…featuring Homer Simpson as a young grunge back in the nineties, for example.

Gawds…

Young- going to work events. Some of our vendors have been in the industry longer than I’ve been alive, and have kids who are older than me. Most of the time, everyone in the room is 10+ years older.

Old- strangely, visiting my grandmother. She seems to still think of me as a little kid, and she’s always surprised that I can do stuff like drive a car or lift her into bed.

My wife and I are known for our elaborate holidays. We love to cook and entertain, so for the past seventeen years, we’ve hosted 10–30 people for almost every holiday.

Two to three days preparation and cleanup is usually required at 10 to 15 hours/day. Historically, we were exhausted for about a day afterward and then, were fine.

This past (2012) holiday season… It took us a week to recover from Thanksgiving and we barely made it through Christmas.

So we decided two things: We are getting old, and we need to rethink holidays.

To that end, we are going out for brunch for Easter this year.

@Blueroses Try to enjoy the “honey”, “sweetie”, “baby” or “doll” while it lasts. You will miss those when you age. When I was young my older sister called me “Lonnieboy” even though she knew that I hated that. Now that I’m an old guy she hardly ever calls me Lonnieboy because she knows that I now like it. Every once in a while she slips up and calls me Lonnieboy and it’s like music to my ears I suppose because it make me feel young.

Yesterday, I felt pretty old when I did my taxes by myself for the first time.

I live on a third floor apartment for the first time, and surprisingly still could move stuff up the stairs with ease. I’m underestimating my strength and endurance at 27 haha.

@gondwanalon I’ve had atrial fib for, maybe, 10years. Last year my doctor told me I didn’t have it anymore and cut my medications in half. If I still don’t have it in June, I will be declared cured. The medications are working. I had no idea that was even possible. So don’t give up! And pace makers work too.

My teacher told me to get a job :O

My knees and hips popping when I get out of bed in the morning makes me feel old.

Being told I look younger, than I am. I’m 55 (almost)