What do you fear most about growing older?

[bomber]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

Wow, I'll be 40 in three years. Bungee jumping is really not that big a deal, I don't see why a fit 70 year old couldn't do it. I mean, for my 40th, I am kicking around doing the RAAM (Ride Across America on your bike), or if I don't have the time for that, a double century ride the day of. And I am carrying an extra 25lbs around the middle but could do a century any given Saturday and go drinking that night. At 50 I plan to move to Europe for at least a year and see where that takes us. There's no doubt some choices start to make less sense as you get older (and more importantly, have more committments), but really, life does not stop. I think I do more social things now than I did 10 years ago, as I have loads more money and no school to worry about.

I think there is a real difference between youth and middle adulthood: your view of age and what's "old" changes.

+1. My dad just went snowboarding for the first time last year at 57. It is amazing how many people in his age group (or even 15 years younger) seem to think that is completely nuts. I have also got him to go to Whistler mountain bike park, bungee jumping, and with any luck surfing this summer.

So with that said I guess what worries me is that I might end up as a 40 year old who thinks bungee jumping is out of the realm of possibilities.

 

[Coho]

Ha ha. That worries me too.

Originally Posted by bomber

So with that said I guess what worries me is that I might end up as a 40 year old who thinks bungee jumping is out of the realm of possibilities.

 

[globetrotter]

Originally Posted by bomber

+1. My dad just went snowboarding for the first time last year at 57. It is amazing how many people in his age group (or even 15 years younger) seem to think that is completely nuts. I have also got him to go to Whistler mountain bike park, bungee jumping, and with any luck surfing this summer.

So with that said I guess what worries me is that I might end up as a 40 year old who thinks bungee jumping is out of the realm of possibilities.

I'm 41, I wouldn't go bungee jumping at this point in my life. last summer I went on a few roller coasters, and I did not enjoy them. for what ever reason, my sense of balance has developed in a way that I just don't enjoy those type of things like I did when I was younger.

I never understood, when I was younger, how you feel as you age. I am not old, by any means, but I have recently started to feel effects. probrobly my biggest complaint now is my hands - on sundays I spend an hour or so whacking a heavy bag, and for the rest of the week my hands are very sore. did't happen a few years ago.

 

[FatMod]

prostrate check ups with the doctor

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by FatMod

prostrate check ups with the doctor

So what does he check when he has you prostrate?

 

[Lel]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

Wow, I'll be 40 in three years. Bungee jumping is really not that big a deal, I don't see why a fit 70 year old couldn't do it. I mean, for my 40th, I am kicking around doing the RAAM (Ride Across America on your bike), or if I don't have the time for that, a double century ride the day of. And I am carrying an extra 25lbs around the middle but could do a century any given Saturday and go drinking that night. At 50 I plan to move to Europe for at least a year and see where that takes us. There's no doubt some choices start to make less sense as you get older (and more importantly, have more committments), but really, life does not stop. I think I do more social things now than I did 10 years ago, as I have loads more money and no school to worry about.

I think there is a real difference between youth and middle adulthood: your view of age and what's "old" changes.

Wow what kind of job do you have that allows you to have such an adventurous and flexible lifestyle?

To be honest my retirement plan is to have a boat and spend my years sailing the world. But it's in the works, considering I can't even swim =/

 

[Coho]

I have the same dream. However, I've heard that owning a boat is really a pain if you don't use it that much so I'll probably never own one. Rental service is good enough.

Originally Posted by Lel

To be honest my retirement plan is to have a boat and spend my years sailing the world. =/

 

[c3cubed]

Originally Posted by FatMod

prostrate check ups with the doctor

Originally Posted by Piobaire

So what does he check when he has you prostrate?

I was waiting for someone to catch that....

(to see if suffering from grief maybe?)

 

[a tailor]

my teeth are gone and most of my hair. cataracts are getting worse but the sinuses are better this year. the heart is somewhat damaged but the triple bypass is working well so is the stent. the lumbars are holding up all three of them. the arthritis is only starting but the carpal tunnel can be mean at times. there are a few more things but i think that for an eighty year old i am doing fine. im not afraid of kicking the bucket. but i am terribly afraid of alzheimers. i just dont want to go that way.

 

[Coho]

The wavefront of biomedical science is reaching new frontiers every day. In the next few years, it won't be too expensive through genomic screening to ascertain whether an individual will or will not develop Alzheimer's. This is both good and bad for my generation. I didn't know you're that old as I assume most internet users are below 60. Kudos to you tailor!

Originally Posted by a tailor

my teeth are gone and most of my hair. cataracts are getting worse but the sinuses are better this year. the heart is somewhat damaged but the triple bypass is working well so is the stent. the lumbars are holding up all three of them. the arthritis is only starting but the carpal tunnel can be mean at times. there are a few more things but i think that for an eighty year old i am doing fine. im not afraid of kicking the bucket. but i am terribly afraid of alzheimers. i just dont want to go that way.

 

[13baby]

incontinence

 

[Fade to Black]

Originally Posted by jv17

well my main fear is death..this is my fear since when I was a kid..

really...that's one of the things i'm looking forward to most. other people's deaths i might be afraid of, but as for my own...**** i kinda can't wait

 

[balder]

Originally Posted by Mr T

I meant that if Hemingway had been gay he would have found a better partner than Fitzgerald. Earlier in the thread the possibility that he and Fitzgerald were an item had been raised.

In retrospect my comment was neither relevant or funny. Is that another sign of old age?

I did not mean that Hemingway and Fitzgerald were an item but that Zelda Fitzgerald thought that Hemingway had the hots for Fitzgerald.As I said in my previous post the title of the chapter in"A Movable Feast" is telling!

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by FatMod

prostrate check ups with the doctor

Originally Posted by Piobaire

So what does he check when he has you prostrate?

I recall an Archie Bunker line ... Let Angels' prostate fall.
The original would have been ... Let Angels prostrate fall.

I assume when it comes to heaven and the prostate ... it is a collective or shared gland?

As for the check-ups ... even substituting prostate ... you'll live.

 

[brlfvr]

Being the youngest by a good deal in my family and not planning on having kids. My biggest fear is being alone in some sort of depressing nusrsing home. I have recently been through the experience of placing my partners mom in a similar place. Going to see these potential destinations where people are just lying in their beds or in their wheelchairs with their heads drooping in the hallway is really scarrry. And these weren't the really cheap places either.