Getting Old
Dec 8, 2015 07:54:34 #
Im glad that I have finally gotten old (approaching 72). I like seeing advances and discoveries in technology, science, and astronomy. But I also noticed something else.
When I was a teenager watching TV and movies, I would see various actors who were children, young, middle aged, and old. Thats just the way it was. As time went on, Id see someone in a movie who looked familiar. Then I realized it was a former young actor - now in his 70's. Wow! What happened? Child actors became adults, and mature actors aged and died. When I was younger, everyone seemed to remain at about the same age. Now I see beautiful young people almost unrecognizable as senior citizens. Its only by living long enough that we are able to see other people aging along with us.
Just passing along some random observations.
When I was a teenager watching TV and movies, I would see various actors who were children, young, middle aged, and old. Thats just the way it was. As time went on, Id see someone in a movie who looked familiar. Then I realized it was a former young actor - now in his 70's. Wow! What happened? Child actors became adults, and mature actors aged and died. When I was younger, everyone seemed to remain at about the same age. Now I see beautiful young people almost unrecognizable as senior citizens. Its only by living long enough that we are able to see other people aging along with us.
Just passing along some random observations.
Dec 8, 2015 07:59:02 #
Dec 8, 2015 08:21:02 #
What amazes me is the Technology! In 1976 I was on a detail when President Jimmy Carter came to Baltimore. There was a S.S agent with him who carried a very large suitcase. I asked the agent I was with, what it contained. He told me that the suitcase contained a "phone" that the President could use to contact almost anyone around the world. I now have a cell phone, that fits in my shirt pocket. It can tell me directions to anywhere, the temperature of a specific location, enable me to use the Interweb, make phone calls and captures images with great clarity.
Dec 8, 2015 08:35:12 #
Over the years I have seen college students get younger and younger every year. My doctor retired and the new one looks like she's about 8. The commuters driving by my house in the morning look like they're about 5.
Get used to it.
Get used to it.
Dec 8, 2015 08:40:19 #
Blue Spark wrote:
I can barely recognize the ugly old man in the mirror!
I know what you mean. He seems to be creeping around the house, and I catch a glimpse of him in mirrors occasionally.
One of the funniest things that happened to me occurred when I had my picture taken for a Costco card. When the woman gave me the card, I looked at the picture and was shocked to see the spitting image of my father!
Dec 8, 2015 09:23:12 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
Over the years I have seen college students get younger and younger every year. My doctor retired and the new one looks like she's about 8. The commuters driving by my house in the morning look like they're about 5.
Get used to it.
Get used to it.
I agree! Some of the network news anchors look like they are just old enough to be high school student council president.
Dec 8, 2015 12:15:49 #
Its The magnified shaving mirrors that scare me..there's more hairs growing out of my ears and nose than my head!!!
Dec 8, 2015 12:56:33 #
Doddy wrote:
Its The magnified shaving mirrors that scare me..there's more hairs growing out of my ears and nose than my head!!!
I never use one.
Dec 8, 2015 12:57:27 #
Frank47 wrote:
I agree! Some of the network news anchors look like they are just old enough to be high school student council president.
That goes for police, medical personnel - almost everyone I see is younger than I am. :cry:
Dec 8, 2015 13:08:53 #
jerryc41 wrote:
That goes for police, medical personnel - almost everyone I see is younger than I am. :cry:
As someone said on another thread, "old" is always 10 years beyond your current age.
Then there are those who try to defy old age; I heard that when Arnold Schwarzenegger turned 50 he said something along the line of, "It's amazing to wake up and realize 1/3 of your life is over!"
When quality of life gets below a certain threshold it may be time to go. The tough part is deciding that threshold, or having someone else make that decision without knowing how you yourself may feel at that point. Tough, sad, but reality.
Dec 9, 2015 06:41:21 #
Dec 9, 2015 06:42:57 #
Dec 9, 2015 07:20:46 #
See the same things myself.
Must mean that as I will be 72 next year our thought processes must be the same.
All the best for wishes Christmas.
Must mean that as I will be 72 next year our thought processes must be the same.
All the best for wishes Christmas.
Dec 9, 2015 07:31:20 #
I got taken to the cleaners too,...and have a few of those non-functioning mirrors too,.....they worked fine 30 or 40 years ago'
they just don't make things like they use to.
You'd think something like a mirror,... with no moving parts would work forever.
pheewww
they just don't make things like they use to.
You'd think something like a mirror,... with no moving parts would work forever.
pheewww
Dec 9, 2015 07:32:01 #
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