About getting old...

[Sweet Willy]

I’ve read many of you write about how you’re getting old. Well, let ME tell you about getting old. You know you’re getting old when you turn on PBS to watch an Elton John concert. You crank up the Bose Surround Sound system. After a few minutes you and your wife agree that it all sounds great but you can’t understand a single word Elton is singing. So you “TURN ON THE CLOSED CAPTIONING” on your TV so you can read the words. As if that isn’t bad enough, the sound is cranked up high enough that it causes you to have a Meniere’s attack and you have to take an anti-vertigo pill so you don’t fall off your rocker. THAT’S how you know you’re getting old.
P. S. That’s another reason to watch sports on TV because you don’t need the sound to be on real loud to enjoy what you’re watching. LOL

[phrog]

I knew I was getting old when I had to ask someone who Elton John is. (Found out he's some young singer from England)
PS Nice looking dog.

[annunaki]

Once you get over the hill, it's all downhill and you pick up speed.

Life is like dining at one of the finest restaurants, having a seven course meal, with the best champagne, and at the end, they bring you a cheap desert like Jello.

[annunaki]

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -Hunter S. Thompson

[toolguy1000]

i'm not sure i'd personally take any life advice from someone who committed suicide. from my experience, it's the ultimate cowardly act.

age is only a number, and mine's not listed.

[annunaki]

It's all about separating Literary Expression from the author's personal life choices. Case in point: Edgar Allan Poe

[leehljp]

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -Hunter S. Thompson

I have seen this before and just something about it I can't totally agree with. It sure sounds good, but the end result is all about self.

I do look younger than my years, but my bones have been abused and broken, but not for my own sake, well, except my knee torn up was while having fun in a softball game, but the rest was in giving my all doing my work, helping others, instructing others. I still have a fairly well preserved body, but I have the knowledge that I have helped people better themselves and become less selfish on different continents; I have a daughter and encouraged her in her persuit of a physics (and math) degree and she has not had a problem going to the school of her and her husbands choice to teach (currently teaching in Rio), a daughter who loves working with underprivileged and is a supervisor training others to do the same; a third daughter with 5 kids teaching and loving it with a masters in gifted and talented, and a second masters in Special Ed.

My body isn't used up, but man have I lived! Friends around the world! People who will never know me or LOML will benefit from some of the things that we were able to do! NOTHING better than that. THAT is giving your all! What a ride!

The sad part is when I meet people who don't live up to their potential and have no desire to!

[woodturner]

My body isn't used up, but man have I lived! Friends around the world! People who will never know me or LOML will benefit from some of the things that we were able to do! NOTHING better than that. THAT is giving your all! What a ride!

Definitely agree with that! Leaving a lasting legacy of helping others must be the best legacy.

The sad part is when I meet people who don't live up to their potential and have no desire to!

Yes, agree with that, too. Some people are just lazy, others have been "beaten down" and don't really know how to get out. Wish we could find better ways to help the latter folks.

[Bruce Cohen]

As my wife likes to continually remind me, "After 60, your mind is the second body part that stops functioning."

And who was the moron who came up with the term "Golden Years." It's more like tarnished years.

But just remember all those who were still creative and functioning in their old age, Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Georgia O'Keeffe, George Nakashima and Tage Frid.
So remember, we're never too old to be great!!!

Bruce