In just a few days I will be turning fifty. Fifty YEARS old. One half CENTURY old. Jeez, can you tell I'm having a bit of a hard time with this? I've already had one "mid-life" crises when I was about thirty, I don't know if I can survive another. For whatever reason, I've always seen fifty as "old." So that means I'M OLD! I know, some of you that maybe have been able to reach seventy plus may say, "ahh ya little whipper snapper, your just getting started, your not OLD!" That's basically the same thing I would tell a thirty year old that thought THEY were getting OLD. So, I guess it's all relative. I've heard you're only as old as you feel, so, being nintey five, I think I can speak authoratativly when I say OLD AGE SUCKS! I have pain in things were I previously didn't know I had things. There's an old saying, "if I'd have known I was going to live this long I would've taken better care of myself." SO TRUE! There's another that says, "youth is wasted on the young".....again true!
You get to a certain age, you start to say, I'm never gonna do this, I'm never gonna do that, blah blah blah. I don't know, I've just been thinking all day about it. I'm NOT HAPPY about turning fifty! But.....I am grateful I suppose, it DOES beat the alternative. Mine was a "wild" youth. I could have died in so many differnt ways. I've driven drunk when I could barely walk to the car.(not proud of that) Taken enough drugs to kill a healthy horse.....been shot at, knife fights, beat down etc etc. I AM happy I survived all that....but....I'm not seeing so many good things coming down the pike this side of heaven either. My Dad died of liver cancer, my grandpa of lung cancer....I smoke like a chimney, of course there is the bright spot, my Mom is Seventy three. Of course she is practically crippled with ellers danlo's ( or something like that)....Oey vey. Oh well, I'll be alright I suppose. If you have words of wisdom for me please comment. I'll probably delete this post anyway so hurry...
One more "old saying", then I'll close. "They say life begins at forty", again this is true.....what "they" don't tell you is it begins to FALL APART!
Just my opinion
Bill
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Life begins at forty, Not with yourself, but with your children as you educate and make them grow into fine young men and women. Old age is something im sensitive about. The greatest fear ive ever had yet its inevitable. is dying of old age. At the age of 18 its quite a disturbing thing to think about. But for me the only thing i could ever wish for. Was to die next to my Wife and not in some random hospital sitting on a bed where the heart rate machine goes "BEEEEEEEEP" thats such a silly noise for when you die. I much rather die in bed next to the one i love.
As for being fifty. Well. Fifty is the age when you practically have experienced everything and mostly take things as they come at you. In my opinion the age of fifty is when most problems occur. Diabetes, High blood pressure if your not eating well or excercising. Loss of teeth perhaps. Semi pains in your bones or when your sitting or standing up. Small problems like "boils" appear. your skin begins to drop like a cart wheel etc. Not pleasant. We all have endured and survived through hardships. Take old age as one and live on.
-Adeem
Oh thanks pal....I feel so much better now....ugh..
I just turned 52 today and I'm still wondering how I got here! I think the thing about hitting 50 is that it's just too darn close to 60. Seriously though, the older I get the more I understand the old saw "youth is wasted on the young". I wish I had the body of 18 and the knowledge and wisdom I've gained at this age. Boggles the mind to think what I might be able to accomplish!