I think you're worked up over nothin'
I'm well over 50 and admit that I'm "old", at least to everyone under 40.
The 70/80 year old folks think I'm a kid.
It'd all relative. Since the old gal is not YOUR relative, tell her to take a hike.
Doc
My apologies to everyone on this board (please read).
by Joliette 62 Replies latest jw friends
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Ding
No problem.
I'm a member of the Pepsi generation.
That overlaps with the 1914 generation...
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gone for good
Jeliette - i I have sad7funny story about this very phenomenon.
In 1964, a fellow died in a single car crash, at tremendous speed, late one summer night. Our parents watched from their bedroom as the car missed the curve and the headliights flipped over and over, into the valley beside the curve.
Two days later, the mans sister showed up at our farm, as my parents had actually witnessed the crash. The car was a 1956 Chrysler with a huge hemi engine, it literaly screamed past our farm, at full throttle. The mans sister was inconsolable, surely there must have been another car to force her brother off a good paved road, were they sure he wasn't being pursued to be diving so fast, could there have been livestock on the road, a blown tire maybe, the weather?
Mom and dad could only explain what she just could not accept - there were no brake lights her dear brother had either fallen asleep, or was looking at the radio as he rocketed into the first curve in nine miles of straight road.
That evening as my brother and I rounded up the cows for milking, we were discussing the sisters visit.
At the wise old age of 11 and 12 years , we concluded the sister was way too concerned and emotional as her brother was already old enough to have 'one foot already in the grave' anyway. The man ,as it turned out, was the ripe old age of 36 years .
I thought about that man all my life, as I reached his age and well beyond. When my son dies in his 30s and I at 55 cried every day for 9 months.
Perspectives change.
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nuthouse escapee
lol gone for good. I was thinking something similar. Before my teens people in their thirties were "old". Then when my thirties came along, people in their fifties were "getting up there". Now that I'm 2 1/2 yrs away from the Big 6-0, when I read an obituary where the person died around age 72 or so I think, gee they weren't that old. It's all perspective. Don't sweat the small stuff. Leslie
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tiki
oh good grief - to someone young 50 can seem old........get a grip people.....no need to feel offended and joliette - you are a sweetheart to put up apologies to the thin-skinned ones.........and old can be wonderful, by the way! just cause you lose your beauty, vigor, health, eyesight, hearing and memory doesn't mean it's all a downward trip. your insight into stupidity rises exponentially....makes up for a lot.
hugs to all the oldies and wanna-be oldies!!!
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whathappened
Age is relative, to you, 50 may be old. It is all good.
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mrsjones5
No one was offended.
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flipper
Now lissen here, you young whippersnapper..........damn, what did I do with my teeth......oh, yeah, I still have my own teeth.
No offense, Joliette. You are always considerate and kind.
Heck, if your gonna make it to old age, why not have some fun with it?
If you watch tv, check out a show called Off Their Rockers. Mrs. F
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ambersun
Joliette you are, indeed, a sweetheart .
I waved goodbye to my 50s a couple of years ago, and although I don't FEEL particularly old, I am under no illusions that I have well and truly joined the ranks of Old Fart whether I like it or not .
Even in my 50s I would have no problem with young people thinking I was ancient, because there was a time when I also used to think anyone over 50 was really old. That's life!!
I am sure we are all touched by your concern, but please don't worry about it.
Take care, love and hugs,
Amber the Ancient
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Found Sheep
my 1st husbandJW was only 5 years older then me but AN OLD man thru and thru my upgraded husband NON JW is almost 15 years older then me but young. A relative thing