I sometimes wonder the same thing.
Im 40 now and some times i will be talking to someone who looks "old" only to find out they are just about my age.....
Altho i like to think im ageing well, i still get carded for beer.
I feel fortunate as I will turn 60 this month. I have aches and pain in my back but I work thru it daily with aleeve and back medication when its really bad. Doc says I have arthritis in my back and in my hands. Good thing is i dont have it in my knees (yet). I play and walk at least 54 holes of golf weekly and I use a teeter to hang from trying to stay loose.
I tell my wife and kids that life is broken down into 3 stages, 1st stage (birth to mid 20's) is growing up and having your parents and teachers tell you what to do and when to do it. 2nd stage (mid 20's to mid fifties) is raising your kids and that takes all of your time and money as well as sets up your social functions in life, and finally the 3rd stage is for you to do as you damn well please because its your time and you have earned it!!
Im in that 3rd stage and I do pretty much as I want and when I want it. I try not to take to much away from the others in my family but I want them to understand at this age we only have so many good years left I want to make the most of them as I have given everything I could during that 2nd stage.
I look in the mirror and I dont see an old man yet. Hoping that never happens!
Rod
Or let an erection go to waste.You know your old when you cannot trust a fart!
i've worked at the same place for 35 yrs this nov. when i started, there were a lot of old guys that soon started retiring. now, all the people around the same age as me are starting to retire. and i remember, all those old guys looked old. they looked just like people in old pictures from 20 or 50 years before then, just different clothes. but to me, and the others my age, we don't look like we still picture old(er) people looking . the only people that look like that are the guys that left 10 or 20 years ago that come by to say hi. and i look around sometimes and wonder if anyone knows there's a bunch of juveniles (and i mean that in the worst sense of the word ) running the place.
so i don't know when you officially become old, but i do know that if you sit your *** down and don't do anything, you get there a lot faster
Just got home from the ZZ/Cheap trick show. That was pretty Good! Cheap Trick kinda over drove the audio and the licks were drowned a bit but still performed well and the 5 neck hit the stage on the last song! ZZ fully took the roof off though! Those three guys are absolutely amazing!!
Last month the little woman and I saw the Doobie Brothers and Santana at the Sprint center in Kansas City. The Doobie's were great but Santana was unreal, 72 years old and still rock'n. The man played Woodstock, how cool is that!Just got home from the ZZ/Cheap trick show. That was pretty Good! Cheap Trick kinda over drove the audio and the licks were drowned a bit but still performed well and the 5 neck hit the stage on the last song! ZZ fully took the roof off though! Those three guys are absolutely amazing!!
I would have liked to have gone.
Vet Tix was giving away tickets to that concert to veterans but we had too much going on to take advantage of them!
Thats why I find organization and a label maker are my best friends...I've reached a point where when I buy a tool for a project and trying to out smart my self, put it in the most logical location. Well that's not working so great, half the time the tool is not in that special place or any other for that matter. So, dam it I spend 30 minutes trying to find it and of course I have placed it somewhere totally obscure. Still looking for my multi-meter that I logically placed 3 months ago.
I've reached a point where when I buy a tool for a project and trying to out smart my self, put it in the most logical location. Well that's not working so great, half the time the tool is not in that special place or any other for that matter. So, dam it I spend 30 minutes trying to find it and of course I have placed it somewhere totally obscure. Still looking for my multi-meter that I logically placed 3 months ago.