is it a downer to be old?

But you didn't say "how"...or in what sense...

 

So do you have precognition...a disease...or a plan?
I thought I would surely die before I reached 25...but I'm still here

 

Ha! You're just like the rest of us - like Blackdogg says...you'll see.
It is all about your perception of how you think someone that old will be, look or feel...and in a way you are right - your soul and spirit will never be old, so it would be impossible to imagine. But year by year happens day by day, and imperceptibly, if you can add up - all of a sudden you are there. But it still feels like a joke!

 

Maybe you are not aware of the full extent of your purpose - perhaps it does unfold one day at a time? And maybe there are things you need to experience, to learn and to teach that you don't even have an inkling of yet?

 

See the beauty in everything - see the courage in everyone - teach yourself how to hope for a better life and devote yourself to making a better world...the world does need all the good people it can get.

 

I want to live until my little heart gives out.
I'm going to live good and long, man.

 

Yay Nathan!

 

First, whats old? Middle age is whatever age falls between mine and probable death, lol, so I will never be middle aged. I'm figgering it to be around 66 these days. So if I'm never really middle aged, hard to be old too. Beats the hell outta puberty too~! hehe

 

Is it a downer to be old?

When I was 15 .. 21 was old .. When I was 21 .. 40 was old ..
Then suddenly age became just another way mankind tries to capture time
Now Life just seems to be so full of itself .. it has become timeless
So I guess whenever I become old I will get back to you .. OK?
Meanwhile .. Live .. Laugh .. & Love !!!!!

 

that was great, thanks!!

 

Nope it is really an upper as I require less sleep and have more energy.

 

Gimme some..please?

 

Softstarlight, that is so true... I'd never heard it expressed like that before...I love it! Thanks for the insight!

 

Getting older, to me at least, means being more comfortable with myself. Seeing my mortality more acutely, I am more focused on relationships, peaceful compromise, and experiencing things I have always wanted to do.


Status has really gone out the door in the last 7 years or so for me. I would rather be happy then be perceived as successful. In otherwords I have exchanged a lot of my higher stress situations for much lower stress situations. It means less money, but more peace of mind.

I still have goals I am striving to accomplish, but they are goals that have a deep personal meaning to me.

While I don't like being ostracized by some of my contemporaries, I have found that it has no effect on my decisions. I have closed one door in my life, to open a beautiful door where I have new aquaintances, that I would have never come in contact in my former life.

 

When I was 14 I left the most peaceful spot I had ever been in in my life. I truely thought I had lost something...
I had left a commune where I was in love with a man 13 years older than me, who had taught me about life, love, my soul, and what it meant to love unselfishly...

I went on to live with someone else for alot of years, have 2 kids..and think about my lost love every single day...he who was on my mind, who I knew was meant to be together, it was always measured against what we had all those years ago, every person I lived with or had anything with.....

Every day I missed him, and as time went on and I got older and older I wondered why I felt so lost without him...it seemed that it was a true splitting of the soul...

27 years later I found him again...we both dropped everything and came together again. I was 40 he was 53....
Long ago when we parted I was 14 he was 27..
the day we came together again the years fell away and i was right back in 1972 with him, just as much in love.
So growing older has held its rewards for me.
I have learned to pick my battles, what holds dear, and to appreciate lifes lessons and blessings...

 

PEace,

you guys have such great answers! i cant wait to be old and see what has changed scence my teen years! but 1 thing will still stay the same i hope! My 57 still crusing and burning rubber like usual! if we arent driving hover autos by then!

later

the tired flower child

 

My two cents worth. Getting older is not a bad thing. I used to think I would never get old. Now that I passed the big five O, I realize that it's pretty cool. The pretty girls still smile at me, I have great pot, plenty of money, live on the beach, blah, blah.
The downside is wondering how much longer I have in my own little piece of paradise...
I used to have a saying, back in my wilder years,"Play hard, die young, no regrets".
Well that ain't gonna happen. The dyin' young part that is...
Roooooooooooooolllll another one, just like the other one

 

Oh Teepi - what a beautiful love story!
And SpiceGuy - sounds like a great life...I wish I had my own piece of paradise. I always wanted to live on the beach. Sounds heavenly...

 

I agree Goddess Om ... Teepi's story like a dream come true ....

And SpiceGuy .. I too have always dreamed of my own place by the sea

Both these stories stand out proclaming loudly and inspiring us all to never give up hope ...... we can never tell what bliss awaits us