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post #16 of 27
1/22/11 at 9:53pm
The last one is really heartbreaking. I think so at least.
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post #17 of 27
1/22/11 at 10:09pm
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I'm sure you've heard this before, but once you hit around 25 time speeds up (or at least the way you perceive it). Every year goes by faster and faster - it's unreal how things accelerate. Enjoy the moment.
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post #18 of 27
1/22/11 at 10:14pm
No one I know conceptualizes themselves at their current age. No one interesting at any rate. I certainly never have. Being an age, looking an age, acting an age and feeling an age are all very different things.
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post #19 of 27
1/22/11 at 11:45pm
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Originally Posted by Mark from Plano View Post
No one I know conceptualizes themselves at their current age. No one interesting at any rate. I certainly never have. Being an age, looking an age, acting an age and feeling an age are all very different things.

Well im just weird as balls but I do. Or at least I think I do. I dont know.
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post #20 of 27
1/24/11 at 1:38pm
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Originally Posted by Mark from Plano View Post
No one I know conceptualizes themselves at their current age. No one interesting at any rate. I certainly never have. Being an age, looking an age, acting an age and feeling an age are all very different things.

I have never really considered that. I generally don't think of my age until Mrs. T calls me her 'old man' or I have to check one of the age-class boxes at a race. I got the reminder card for the half next week and it reminded me of my age as well as the fact that I have a race next week. ah well.
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post #21 of 27
1/24/11 at 1:52pm
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Originally Posted by Mark from Plano View Post
No one I know conceptualizes themselves at their current age. No one interesting at any rate. I certainly never have. Being an age, looking an age, acting an age and feeling an age are all very different things.

This is one of the things I found most profound. Look at the woman 2nd from left in 2006, and she has the smirk of a teen or young 20 year old (admittedly a male) giving a cocky smirk to the camera.

I appreciated the subtle changes in which they were dressed, in the expressions on their faces, and in which they held each other - it may be a linear passage of time, but it wasn't an uneventful straight passage.
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post #22 of 27
1/24/11 at 9:42pm
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These women are probably contemporaries of mine. This is an amazing series of photos illustrating something most of us don't every fully grasp: our own gradual but continuing aging.

When I think of myself, it is as a young man, full of hope, promise and the future; not as a late middle-aged man, who's skin is wrinkling and sagging. Even when I look at myself in the mirror I don't recognize what age has wrought. I am going to dig out old photos of myself and see the changes.

Thanks for the link, willpower.

I would make a similar statement to the above. This past Christmas my mother said to me "you look just like your father". My father passed away in 2004 at age 81 and all my memories of him are of a guy that was 30 pounds overweight and bald. I remember myself as someone who weighed 105 pounds at high school graduation, with hair down to the middle of my back (1970).

PS. I find the ladies in the later year photographs still attractive.
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post #23 of 27
1/24/11 at 11:27pm
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Originally Posted by willpower View Post
I'm sure you've heard this before, but once you hit around 25 time speeds up (or at least the way you perceive it). Every year goes by faster and faster - it's unreal how things accelerate. Enjoy the moment.

I may only be 29, but I fully agree with this.
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post #24 of 27
1/25/11 at 1:18pm
Sort of related to this, I was trying on a suit in December and was looking at myself in the full-length mirror. It might have been a trick of the overhead lighting, or the style of the suit, or maybe the way my hair was that day, but I the light brought out all the grey in my hair, and highlighted the lines on my face, and I swear I looked about 10 years older (I'm 36).

I was immediately reminded of photos of my grandfather from the late 50s-early 60s. It actually made me pause for a few seconds.
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post #25 of 27
1/26/11 at 10:28pm
Time, if anything, is persistent...

great link.
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post #26 of 27
1/26/11 at 11:04pm
great link! i'm on the other side from most of you guys. but i remember talking to my dad when he was in his mid 60s and him telling me "i still feel the way i did when i was 35, and i look in the mirror and wonder 'who is that old man'." He's in his 80s now and no longer feeling 35, but as I cruise through my mid 50s, i know exactly what he's talking about. and guys, i'm aging like a champ. the rest of you are really going to be in teh sh*ts.
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post #27 of 27
1/27/11 at 2:52am
Time has no mercy? I'd tap Helen Mirren today.
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