The beauty of growing older.

Nothingbetter2d

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

Your funny.

ok :rolleyes:

BUBBLE WRAP

syndeyfife wrote: »

Now I really dont want to sound rude here, but you did bring death into a thread about growing old? I dont think it was mentioned before that, and then you posted a poem about your dead grandfather?

Oh no, your not sounding rude at all.

Well Im hardly going to say my grandfaters sitting beside me when he has passed away since 2000.

I was just saying how my grandfather lived his life, Different gereration so I thought it would be interesting for other members. APPARENTLY NOT!

I just added the peom to remember him by. The point is he lived his life and he told me his retirement years where his best years of his life. But to live life while you can also. I also just thought it was a nice post. But if your not aware, everynes going to die....

celticcrash

Appreciation of family and just enjoying their company.
Yes theres an appreciation of health and the simplier things.
As a young person I enjoyed sceanic walks, now I love them.
Not having to prove oneself, older people are more relaxed
and can enjoy the moment without putting 20 points of lager or a substance through their bodys.
When I was younger I did not socialise without a drink being involved.
That whole (stand up and be counted) pressure has disappared.
I could go on but its past my bed zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

mauzo

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

Oh no, your not sounding rude at all.

Well Im hardly going to say my grandfaters sitting beside me when he has passed away since 2000.

I was just saying how my grandfather lived his life, Different gereration so I thought it would be interesting for other members. APPARENTLY NOT!

I just added the peom to remember him by. The point is he lived his life and he told me his retirement years where his best years of his life. But to live life while you can also. I also just thought it was a nice post. But if your not aware, everynes going to die....

Ok, just felt it was a bit morbid for a thread about embracing getting older!

Lovely poem though..

Wattle

I've definitely reached a mellow stage in my early 40's. However I expect to become a full on Victor Meldrew in my 60's/70's.

KKkitty

I'm 31 on Sunday and from my point of view the older I get the less I'm falling over myself in order to be overly friendly to people. In my early 20's I wanted to be everyones friend but now I know who I want to know and I leave it at that.

aaronjumper

Also it seems when you get older it's like a free license to be rude. The things my nan used to say and not get called on was astounding!

I cannot wait to be so rude and bluntly honest with everyone.
That said I am enjoying being young also, so I'm not in any rush.

validusername1

Fizzlesque wrote: »

for those of you who are still very young, what positives do you imagine await you, in your less-than-very-young lives?

I imagine that when I get older (I'm 18 now), I'll get happier and stop being so insecure. I don't necessarily think my insecurities are because of my age but I just think that as I get older I may learn to accept them a bit more & stop caring as much. At least I hope that happens.. The sooner the better. I can't see much other positivities awaiting me really.. I don't wanna grow up, I like being young and free a bit too much I think. Although maybe that happiness and comfortableness that people seem to find in themselves as they age will be worth losing that young&freeness..

Fizzlesque

opinion guy wrote: »

OP the reason you were unhappy was because in your twenties you still believed all the crap the you were programmed to believe about what was important by society, your friends your parents etc etc etc.
You're not happier now, just less deluded

The reasons for my unhappiness in my twenties run a lot deeper than that, Opinion Guy, a lot deeper.

Perhaps you don't want to believe me, when I say I'm much happier now, perhaps you tried to shoehorn my description of the enormous and fantastic changes the passing years have brought to my life and my world view into a neat little box marked "she's just less deluded now" to satisfy some need within yourself, but you're very far from the truth with your conclusion.

Not to worry, your oversimplified synopsis makes no odds to my insider knowledge and awareness of why life is better for me now.

Thanks for reading my opening post, though, I'm sure I lost a few along the way.....being the beast of blather that it is

PandyAndy

FloatingVoter wrote: »

I'm 37, I've wasted my lonely life in a haze of drink and the future is even bleaker than the past. Live it up kids, it keeps getting worse.

ps. its raining
pps. the worst Irish side in living memory just left the Euro's.

Is it along those lines that you wanted, OP ?

Genuinely laughed at that. Seeing your kermit the frog avatar made it funnier somehow

Fizzlesque

syndeyfife wrote: »

Is this thread a joke?

Is it that hard to believe that people might enjoy their lives just as much in their 20s as you do in your 40s?

Not a joke Syndey, I just wanted to hear other people's happy takes on the beauty of getting older. Just wanted to engage in some dialogue, that's all.

Of course people can enjoy their lives in their 20s, I wasn't trying to claim the only time life can be enjoyed is when one is older, if that was the case, someone who is in their 60s could just as easily tap me on the shoulder and say "you'll have to wait until you're in your 60s to really enjoy your life", but our society does tend to demonise getting older, and my experience has been the total opposite to what I'd been lead to believe are negative inevitabilities about getting older.

All stages of life have their merits, it just so happens that I'm currently in my 40s and have for the last long while been really feeling energised and empowered by the changes growing older has been bringing to my outlook and my feelings about my life, so that's the age I chose to write about.

It's all good

BeerSteakBirds

Baldness, increased back, nose and ear hair, backpain, erectile dysfunction, general fugliness and weakness, loss of muscle tone, incontinence, adult diapers, arthritis, aches and pains, loss of vision and need for glasses ending up in glaucoma or cataracts, deafness, alzheimers, senility, dementia, loss of mobility, 24 hour care , living alone while consumed with worry about pikeys calling to your door, decreasing old age pensions. A retirement age moving gradually to infinity (unless you are a TD when you can become elected at 18 and retire on an inflation busting multiple of the average wage at 26). Death of a spouse. Fear of mortality. Heart disease, pointless expensive life extending treatments which enable you to live longer but with zero quality of life. The (un)''Fair Deal'' scheme started by Harney as another way to rob and privatize your life's best financial achievement of paying off a house after 30 years of a millstone mortgage. Watching Cocoon and knowing it's all bullshyte. Jesus this list could go on and on but yeah. And it gets even better OP. Cool story bro.

Fizzlesque

Ah, Beersteak, you make me want to give you a big hug and then take you out dancing....:p

BeerSteakBirds

Fizzlesque wrote: »

Ah, Beersteak, you make me want to give you a big hug and then take you out dancing....:p

Bah! Becoming a grumpy old man is the only thing many of us have to look forward to. You represent Hell as designed by Ned Flanders.

opinion guy

Fizzlesque wrote: »

The reasons for my unhappiness in my twenties run a lot deeper than that, Opinion Guy, a lot deeper.

Perhaps you don't want to believe me, when I say I'm much happier now, perhaps you tried to shoehorn my description of the enormous and fantastic changes the passing years have brought to my life and my world view into a neat little box marked "she's just less deluded now" to satisfy some need within yourself, but you're very far from the truth with your conclusion.

Not to worry, your oversimplified synopsis makes no odds to my insider knowledge and awareness of why life is better for me now.

Thanks for reading my opening post, though, I'm sure I lost a few along the way.....being the beast of blather that it is

Oh don't worry Fizzlesque, I don't doubt that these things are what you believe. Maybe in 20 years time you will see what I mean

Sleepy

The older I get, the more I realise what a ****ing numpty I was when I was young...

Fizzlesque

opinion guy wrote: »

Oh don't worry Fizzlesque, I don't doubt that these things are what you believe. Maybe in 20 years time you will see what I mean

Gold star for you for arrogance and ignorance (ignorance of my situation), Opinion Guy.

pickarooney

Aww, Opinion Guy broke Fizzlesque's happy

Bad Opinion Guy!

Oranage2

I can't wait till im old so i can get away with hitting people that are in my way with a cane and sitting next to hot women on the bus and rubbing their legs inappropriately.

Fizzlesque

pickarooney wrote: »

Aww, Opinion Guy broke Fizzlesque's happy

Bad Opinion Guy!

Nah, it would take more than Opinion Guy's opinion to break my happy.

I love a good hearty discussion, so all's still well in Fizzlesque's happy world...