Yesterday, I was discussing some things with one of my young (male) teaching assistant.
During the discussion, he referred to me as an elderly person using a very polite Japanese term "nenpai no kata" (lit. an honorable person advanced in years). I think he meant no insult, but I was taken aback.
When I was younger, I used to think that 40-years old was old.
When I reached 30, 50-years old was old.
I will be 50-years old this year. My body is beginning to show signs of aging, but in my mind I am still twenty years old. Old always seems to be 20 years beyond where I am right now.
So, how old is old to you?
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Old is a condition of the mind, says Dad.
Just like you, when I was 16, I told myself that when I would be 35 y.old I would be old but would not believe it.
I do not feel old but realize that my body is aging faster than I want it to be. We can keep a young mind but will not help our image when we look in the mirror. Dad says that he is advanced middle age. He is now closer to 80 than to 70. I think that it is old but he does not think so.
Jeshua says you are old when you are in the 60's. So according to him (12 years old)we are not old yet. I say one is old when the mind starts to forget things more frequently than it can remember things.....so according to me....I certainly am old. If dad says that he is "ADVANCED middle age"...then that makes us "middle aged" for sure. "Middle age" is not "old age"....so according to dad...we are not old yet.
We're all old geezers now...just admit it!
Since I am not loosing my hair or letting people see my hair going gray ( since I can dye it), it will keep saying that I am young.
Most days I am older than previous days. Usually I am older the day after I was younger. Oh well, old or young, life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and proclaiming, "Wow, what a ride!"
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