You know you're gettin

[MattInVegas]

You KNOW you're gettin Older, when "OUR" song is Dark Side of The Moon.
I have someone like that.

[AutumnAuburn]

LOL Yep... Me and my guy don't have an "our song", but we both like "classic rock". You know you're getting old when the music you listened to as a teenager, is now on the "classic rock" station... LOL

[angelgodiva]

I knew I was getting old when I started making those groaning noises, accompanied by the sound of popping knee joints, when I stand up.
I would love one of those chairs that help stand you up--you know, the kind I laughed at when my dad got one not so long ago.

[MattInVegas]

When you hold the newspaper at arms length. OR you have a Magnifying glass on your desk and it doesn't have dust on it.

[earthfog]

when you concider how you will feel tomorow, while you are working today

[~Sam~]

I used to think that I was getting old when I was 38. At 47 I thought I knew it all and thought I was a true elder. I'll be 59 in March, and with the passing years, I find myself feeling younger and stronger... more likely to ignore a whole lot. And now, more than ever, I truly understand that I don't know squat.

[homebudz]

To be totally honest,I never thought I'd live past 21.Then I never ever thought I'd get past 35.So the way I see it,now that I'm 53,It's all cake and geritol from here(LOL).

[Charlotte]

I'm 57 and, like others, I don't feel like I'm getting older, either, I feel like I'm getting younger. Or, at least, like I'm getting healthier. The good reason for that being that I *am* getting healthier. I feel much better now, more energy, able to leap tall steps with only a few bounds, than I did 10 years ago. But what I don't feel like is like I'm getting any closer to dieing, though I suppose I must be. Both my grandmothers longed for death for years once they were past 80. It seems like old people often do get to that winding down period. But I don't feel like I'm getting any closer to that, even though I must be.

It's not like I'm afraid to die -- in fact, I rather look forward to it as an interesting, exciting new kind of trip, if a little scary at first, like taking acid, maybe -- it's just that I don't feel like I'm getting any closer to the time when I should start feeling like someday I will die, and I feel like I ought to at least start to feel like that now that I'm almost 60.

I don't know if that makes any sense. I don't want to die but I want to want to die so that when it's time to die I will want to. If you know what I mean :-).

[LaurelBayTree]

me and thomas's song is "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"...LOL What does that mean for us? :)

[showmet]

On a crowded train recently I had to walk through a corridor between carriages to meet a friend in the next compartment. My path was being blocked by a boy of about ten. He saw me coming and moved out of the way. Without thinking about it, I said "thankyou young man" as I walked past.

"Young man"? I think I'm getting old.

[shameless_heifer]

you know you getting old when your grand daughters can fit into your clothes and reach the second shelf in the cupboard where the goodies are hiding.

[MattInVegas]

Getting old, is looking for your 5th Dimension 45's. I have one around here somewhere...? LOL!

[AutumnAuburn]

Getting old, is looking for your 5th Dimension 45's. I have one around here somewhere...? LOL!
The first music I owned was a 45... Who was it...? Ah yes, Chicago, If You Leave Me Now.... I don't remember what was on the other side... Let's see, I think that was back in about, mmm, 1978, or so? LOL

[soulrebel51]

To be totally honest,I never thought I'd live past 21.Then I never ever thought I'd get past 35.So the way I see it,now that I'm 53,It's all cake and geritol from here(LOL).
haha, thats awesome :D

[angelgodiva]

The first 45 I owned was Patti Page's How Much Is That Doggie In The Window when I was about three--after that, I went right on to doo wop, then Elvis, and finally settled on The Beatles at age 11.
The newest music in my collection is Guns and Roses; I started listening to them when my kids were teenagers. They're almost thirty now.
As long as I am not in the process of getting up or sitting down, I don't feel old, though. In fact, I am astonished when I pass a mirror and don't see the thinner, younger me I used to be, because inside I am still the same.
I thought you might enjoy seeing this photo of me and three of my best friends taken last weekend at a park in Manchester, CT--that's me on the right, sitting on the bench.

[unionpacificrailroad]

PEace Angel,

that gal sitting down in teh dark shirt looks like my mom! hmm. is my mom one of your friends? :) she is nice. but work always wears her down. as me working on my car taking off a darn stubborn bolt that dont want to come off. i am grinding it off.

later

the tired flower child