When does someone become old?

For me it was about 2 hours ago!!!

When they feel old.

It’s all relative. Teenagers think 40 is old. I think 85 is starting to get old.

I feel old whenever I see a celebrity who is about my age or older and think “Damn! S/he is old.”

I also feel old when I hear music that was “new” to me on oldies stations. It is even worse when they make musak out of it.

Whenever they start yelling at kids to get off their lawn.

If they’re older than me, they’re old.

If they’re younger than me, they’re young.

But then, I don’t really use either as a derogatory term. Yet.

Anyone who feels from inside he is young is young and the person the person who feels he is old is definitely Old. what i believe how old are you depends just on your inner instinct. SO feel always young. NO matter what’s your age.

When I was around 4 years old, I strongly believed that 50 was the turning point where are person became old. Now, as my parents are within months of the milestone, I’m considering moving it a couple of decades ahead. Except that would do little to fight the perception that old=bad. So 50 it is, and when I am that age I hope I can say I’m old and proud!

For all of their young lives, i have made this statement to my children: “you are as young as you feel”. they have never forgotten this quote and remind me routinely. i think they do this in order to keep their dad a young person.

Your mind controls your body. this is very important. i may be 66, but i have the mind of a person in their 40s. i refuse to relinquish my body to father time.

This is how it’s always been done.

Eh, I think it’s more of an attitude then a specific age line.

I’m 42, some days I feel 82, some days I feel 22. It’s all in the mind for me…................plus depends how I’ve slept, and if Ican find my Zimmer….............

When you start sounding exactly like your parents, you are old.

ok, becoming old must be one of the most personal discoveries, just like becoming an adult. it’s something that i would think creeps up on you more than it becoming a state of mind. it feels like people around you will notice before the actual person aging does. i think a good example is seeing relatives, and that one year you’re like, “goodness look how old uncle _____ is getting.” and then your mom is there saying, “well honey he is 59 after all.” and it shocks me, cause all i can remember are the endless piggy back rides i was given, and trips to the play ground..

I would imagine for men when they need half a dozen viagra & 2 / 3 hours to achieve a hard on. I dread the day. Long way off yet. Still wake with good old morning glory.

In twenty years. Ask me then and I’ll give you the same answer again.

When I saw the people at my class reunion .. I thought, “Wow, they’re really getting old!” Then I realized I must be too!!! I just don’t feel a lot older though!!!

@gretchenpadams Is Sting old? (He’s 57).

It’s their attitude towards life that makes someone old.I know a 91 year old woman that has a zest for life that some 20 year olds don’t have.She’s just beautiful :)

I remember my mother telling me when I was a teenager that when she looked in the mirror she thought she looked old, but inside, she felt like a kid. I didn’t know what she meant then, but oh boy, I do now!

When they start saying and doing the same things their parents said and did! That’s OLD!!

I am not old. Nowhere close to being old. But I sure felt it when I heard Karma Police done over as Muzak while out shopping a couple of years ago!

Sting is middle-aged. And still hot. It’s all that tantra, I’ll bet!

loll..good question! Remember it like yesterday, went to work for State Farm Ins Co and got cussed out by the boss the first day…damn, will I ever get out of this alive…25 years later, I’m retired! Went by way too fast!

@pdworkin haha he’ll never age in my eyes! come on, we all know Sting is of an entirely different genetic make up than us all!

Sting is definitely getting up there.

When you feel that way, regardless of chronological considerations. I’m just a dinosaur looking for a tar-pit.

I knew I was old when I went to a Michael Moore speaking event on a college campus. REM happened to be in town on tour, and they introduced Michael Moore. The conservative protesters probably would have yelled at anyone, but the fact that they said things like “who the hell are you?” and that even many of the hard core lefties in the crowd were looking around like they were wondering the same thing made me feel very old. When I was their age, everyone on a college campus knew who Michael Stipe was, and most of them would have changed their political beliefs immediately on learning what side he was on.

My research mentor always used to say that old was ten years older than him. :-)

When you start giving directions to everyone all the time – that’s a sure fire sign of old age!!

@scotsbloke, especially when the directions include roads that no longer exist. Good answer.

@scotsbloke or always stopping to get directions…loll

good answer!

@scotsbloke How about when you ask directions all the time, including how to get to your own home?

When they have more hair in their ears than on their head.

@Arisztid musak LOL. Yes all my favorite tunes can now be heard in elevators.

Someone called me old and out of touch with today’s youth for suggesting that teenagers can have good, clean fun while in high school.

I graduated high school only 4 years ago, and all the things I suggested were things I did back then.

Sigh.

LOL @ParaParaYukiko. I loved that answer.

@Arisztid – when that happens I’ll probably not care whether I’m old or not, just if I’m getting Ice cream and Jello for my dinner! lol

It occurs by degrees. Here are some of the milestones I’ve noticed:

When your body starts to fall apart sometime in your forties
When you realize your memory is letting you down in ways it never used to
When your doctor is much younger than you
When your hair turns white and/or falls out
When you look old even to yourself
When you have grandchildren
When people you think are young have grandchildren
When you realize that youngsters have never heard of people and events that defined your generation
When actors and singers who were the stars of your youth die of old age
When you turn 90

My mother had a favorite joke that she used to tell until her dying day. This seems like a good place for it.

The Four Stages of Aging
1. You forget names.
2. You forget faces.
3. You forget to zip up afterward.
4. You forget to unzip before.

When they start bitching that the music is too loud.

@CyanoticWasp #s 3 and 4 are a bot scar… errr… what was I saying?

You know, @Symbeline, I think you might have it in one line.

Your kids are becoming you…and you don’t like them…but your grandchildren are perfect!
Going out is good. Coming home is better!
When people say you look “Great”... they add “for your age!”
When you needed the discount you paid full price. Now you get discounts on everything… movies, hotels, flights.
You forget names… but it’s OK because other people forgot they even knew you!!!
The 5 pounds you wanted to lose is now 15 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 15 pounds.
You realize you’re never going to be really good at anything… especially golf.
Your husband is counting on you to remember things you don’t remember.
The things you cared to do, you don’t care to do, but you care that you don’t care to do them anymore.
Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair with the TV blaring than he does in bed. It’s called his “pre-sleep”.
Remember when your mother said “Wear clean underwear in case you GET in an accident”? Now you bring clean underwear in case you HAVE an accident!
You used to say, “I hope my kids GET married… Now, “I hope they STAY married!”
You miss the days when everything worked with just an “ON” and “OFF” switch.
When GOOGLE, ipod, email, modem… were unheard of and a mouse was something that made you climb on a table.
You use more 4 letter words… “what?”...“when?” ???

This is mainly british…... but when you remember more than half of these – you are old!
how much do you remember?