Off Topic--Getting Old

Options
wolfen
wolfen Member Posts: 1,324 Member
in Colorectal Cancer #1
Today I discovered just how old I am and how far back in the dust I've been left.LOL

I was sitting in the surgery waiting area of the hospital today reading my book and waiting for my husband to have minor surgery. I looked to my left and saw a teenage girl playing a video game on her laptop, while listenting to the ipod?? plugged into her ear, and texting on her cellphone. That was way too much for me. I got lost at Pac-Man.

Oh, to be young again. Well, maybe not.LOL

Luv,

Wolfen
«1

Comments

  • Annabelle41415
    Annabelle41415 Member Posts: 6,742 Member
    #2
    Options
    Old
    Just looking at my face and skin after chemo has made me look old. Never have wrinkles on eyes, but my face looks so frail. I'm not the person that was before. But still like pacman we have a game in our gaming room for that. It is reality that we change and not always change to what we want.

    Hugs! Kim
  • Buzzard
    Buzzard Member Posts: 3,043 Member
    #3
    Options
    Annabelle41415 said:

    Old
    Just looking at my face and skin after chemo has made me look old. Never have wrinkles on eyes, but my face looks so frail. I'm not the person that was before. But still like pacman we have a game in our gaming room for that. It is reality that we change and not always change to what we want.

    Hugs! Kim

    Im not getting older..........
    Im gettin better.......:)............buzz
  • Sundanceh
    Sundanceh Member Posts: 4,392 Member
    #4
    Options
    Buzzard said:

    Im not getting older..........
    Im gettin better.......:)............buzz

    Buzz....
    Hey, Buzz

    That's the "rumor", right?

    LOL:)

    -Craig
  • AncientTiger
    AncientTiger Member Posts: 130
    #5
    Options
    Didn't hit me until
    the day I was driving into work and the radio DJ pipes up with, "And now back to the CLASSIC eighties lunchbox".

    Classic? CLASSIC?!!?!?!? C'mon...

    And I've got Pac-Man on my Playstation3... and can STILL rock on the fruits and pound the ghosties ;)
  • Lovekitties
    Lovekitties Member Posts: 3,364 Member
    #6
    Options
    Dear Wolfen
    I don't feel old when I look in the mirror...I still color my hair and in the mirror see the young woman my mind tells me I am.

    The only time I do feel old is around the grandkids! Like the young lady you saw, their electonically equipped with just about every device for communication there is.

    Oh well, I can live with those moments of 'old', as long as I can eventually get back to MY OWN REALITY...lol.

    Hugs,

    Marie who loves kitties
  • tootsie1
    tootsie1 Member Posts: 5,044 Member
    #7
    Options
    Ugh
    I feel very young at heart, but when I look in the mirror, I want to tell that older woman to step aside so I can see myself.

    *hugs*
    Gail
  • sharpy102
    sharpy102 Member Posts: 368 Member
    #8
    Options
    tootsie1 said:

    Ugh
    I feel very young at heart, but when I look in the mirror, I want to tell that older woman to step aside so I can see myself.

    *hugs*
    Gail

    I'm on the opposite side...
    I'm on the opposite side...what is pacman? Anyway, although I'm younger than most here, and I really do not know what pacman is, but don't you all worry, I'm poor as the church's mouse and don't have a cell phone, and no laptop (yet) either. But I decided that when I'll turn 18 (or perhaps 21) I will buy my cell phone, and my laptop (hoping here that I'll actually will have money falling from the sky into my hands). :) When I was little my dad used to play Nintendo and we would sit and stare at how he plays. He used to be really good at it. Mom never played..I don't know why.
  • herdizziness
    herdizziness Member Posts: 3,624 Member
    #9
    Options
    Old
    On the way to the cemetary we got a little lost (my niece and me)so I stopped at a gas station and my niece who has lyphodema (sp) asked if I was going to run in, and I said yes, I hopped out of the car and as I made my way into the gas station store, I found myself muttering "run in? he!! I can barely limp in". Getting old.
    Winter Marie
  • Nana b
    Nana b Member Posts: 3,030 Member
    #10
    Options
    herdizziness said:

    Old
    On the way to the cemetary we got a little lost (my niece and me)so I stopped at a gas station and my niece who has lyphodema (sp) asked if I was going to run in, and I said yes, I hopped out of the car and as I made my way into the gas station store, I found myself muttering "run in? he!! I can barely limp in". Getting old.
    Winter Marie

    Lol
    Luckily she didn't also have a kid at her heels begging for attention Or begging for the lap top. Lol.
  • wolfen
    wolfen Member Posts: 1,324 Member
    #11
    Options
    tootsie1 said:

    Ugh
    I feel very young at heart, but when I look in the mirror, I want to tell that older woman to step aside so I can see myself.

    *hugs*
    Gail

    Gail
    Love your statement about telling the older woman to step aside. Besides, even if we look a little worse for wear, we'll always be young at heart on the inside.

    Nana B.,
    How very true about the "kids having kids". Been there, done that. I was 17 when JBG was born. In my case, I don't regret a minute of it. But way too many kids now that "leap before they look".

    Luv,

    Wolfen
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    #12
    Options
    Nana b said:

    Lol
    Luckily she didn't also have a kid at her heels begging for attention Or begging for the lap top. Lol.

    This comment has been removed by the Moderator
  • SisterSledge
    SisterSledge Member Posts: 332 Member
    #13
    Options
    no mirrors before noon
    As long as I don't look at myself in the mirror in the morning, I don't feel old.

    Honestly, I think keeping up with technology helps keep me young...I'm not left behind. I have a laptop, know how to build a website, have accounts with all of the main social networks and can play any of the new games (though I have no interest in them and don't play). My cellphone is "smart" and I use it more for the internet or texting than I do for calls. I can program my VCR/DVD player too :)

    Although I'm "hip" to new technology, in many ways I'm a pretty old-fashioned girl at heart...so I enjoy keeping house, raising my kids and growing a garden...I cook from scratch too.

    When I look back to my Mom and aunts when they were 50, like me...I see them as old...majorly overweight, overworked and underpaid, suffering multiple health issues, alienated from the lifestyle of their kids...well, they just seem "older" than we do now at that same age...
  • AncientTiger
    AncientTiger Member Posts: 130
    #14
    Options
    unknown said:

    This comment has been removed by the Moderator

    Nope, wasn't ME
    Gracie, but we're nearby each other... Central Missouri here :D

    I think a person stays young in their mind, the body is a side effect that is sorta like brakes on a car. We have the WANNA to go fast and hard, but sometimes we have to slow down when our body crosses it's arms, pats it's foot, shakes it's head and says "UH-UHH...AIN'T DOING!".

    This life is a lesson in humility that prepares us for eternity ;)
  • PGLGreg
    PGLGreg Member Posts: 731
    #15
    Options
    Yes, it is hard to keep up.
    Yes, it is hard to keep up. I got lost after Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (which I beat). But even if we older folks can't be as plugged in as the kids, we can console (pun!) ourselves that we often have better written language skills. Like knowing intuitively when to use capital letters, for instance.

    --Greg
  • mukamom
    mukamom Member Posts: 402
    #16
    Options
    PGLGreg said:

    Yes, it is hard to keep up.
    Yes, it is hard to keep up. I got lost after Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (which I beat). But even if we older folks can't be as plugged in as the kids, we can console (pun!) ourselves that we often have better written language skills. Like knowing intuitively when to use capital letters, for instance.

    --Greg

    Was talking
    to the car salesman today ("helping" my son finance his first "good" vehicle), and he was a few years older than me. He talked about the "old" days when things were so much simpler, and kids were kicked out of the house on weekends, and told not to come back until the streetlights came on, when a trip to Dairy Queen was such a huge treat..my son was clueless. Sitting there texting. *sigh* I don't think I would like to be young in this day and age.

    Angela
  • sharpy102
    sharpy102 Member Posts: 368 Member
    #17
    Options
    mukamom said:

    Was talking
    to the car salesman today ("helping" my son finance his first "good" vehicle), and he was a few years older than me. He talked about the "old" days when things were so much simpler, and kids were kicked out of the house on weekends, and told not to come back until the streetlights came on, when a trip to Dairy Queen was such a huge treat..my son was clueless. Sitting there texting. *sigh* I don't think I would like to be young in this day and age.

    Angela

    grrr
    Hey you! Careful! Words can hurt, you know??? ;) Anyway, just as a revenge: I don't think I want to be old in this day. :) Well, yeah, although we do not know the appreciation of Dairy Queen treats, but...hey, you are a lucky one here that I'm responding to you as I'm one of those youngies who would give the world for a piece of chocolate chip cookie, or a nice warm dinner (which I didn't have today...not like I had lunch either...grounded...can only have breakfast until Sunday as I didn't behave and was goofing around the dinner table on Tuesday...). Well, I'll be an angel from now on at the table as I'm hungry! >.< I asked one of my friend to steal a piece of bread tomorrow at lunch time, so hopefully I can secretly eat something...but shhhh...:)
    Bye bye Mukamom (Angela)~
    - Sophie
  • mukamom
    mukamom Member Posts: 402
    #18
    Options
    sharpy102 said:

    grrr
    Hey you! Careful! Words can hurt, you know??? ;) Anyway, just as a revenge: I don't think I want to be old in this day. :) Well, yeah, although we do not know the appreciation of Dairy Queen treats, but...hey, you are a lucky one here that I'm responding to you as I'm one of those youngies who would give the world for a piece of chocolate chip cookie, or a nice warm dinner (which I didn't have today...not like I had lunch either...grounded...can only have breakfast until Sunday as I didn't behave and was goofing around the dinner table on Tuesday...). Well, I'll be an angel from now on at the table as I'm hungry! >.< I asked one of my friend to steal a piece of bread tomorrow at lunch time, so hopefully I can secretly eat something...but shhhh...:)
    Bye bye Mukamom (Angela)~
    - Sophie

    Sophie, I am sorry if
    I offended you or anyone else. Not my intention at all. The world IS so very different from when most of us grew up..somethings good, somethings not so.

    Again, I am really sorry

    Angela
  • sharpy102
    sharpy102 Member Posts: 368 Member
    #19
    Options
    mukamom said:

    Sophie, I am sorry if
    I offended you or anyone else. Not my intention at all. The world IS so very different from when most of us grew up..somethings good, somethings not so.

    Again, I am really sorry

    Angela

    I was just kidding
    Angela: I was just kidding!! That's why I inserted smileys...I wasn't offended or anything. Really. I don't care! Really. If you are happy you're not young today, that's fine. That is how you think. It is all fine! I was just kidding. That's why I wrote you a "revenge". :) Seriously! I was just joking!! No problems! :)
    Cheers,
    Sophie
  • SisterSledge
    SisterSledge Member Posts: 332 Member
    #20
    Options
    sharpy102 said:

    I was just kidding
    Angela: I was just kidding!! That's why I inserted smileys...I wasn't offended or anything. Really. I don't care! Really. If you are happy you're not young today, that's fine. That is how you think. It is all fine! I was just kidding. That's why I wrote you a "revenge". :) Seriously! I was just joking!! No problems! :)
    Cheers,
    Sophie

    emotions
    Sometimes, I think emotions are the hardest things to express without confusion online...tis why they made emoticons ツ
  • herdizziness
    herdizziness Member Posts: 3,624 Member
    #21
    Options
    SisterSledge said:

    emotions
    Sometimes, I think emotions are the hardest things to express without confusion online...tis why they made emoticons ツ

    Expressing through emoticons
    That's sooooo sad, yep guess I'm old, I think expressing through words your emotions are soo much better then emoticons. But I guess if you don't know how to express your thoughts then I suppose emoticons are the next best thing. I know I must me showing my age when I write "you're" instead of "ur", and "you" instead of "u".
    Winter Marie

Discussion Boards