Thread: What is middle age?

Wow, I survived the 30's till now and I am only a young man. Getting old is only a state of mind. Forget about middle age and getting old--just get on with life.

Originally Posted by El Gibbon

Considering the age of the posters on this thread????? this is too appropriate.

TO ALL THE KIDS

WHO SURVIVED the
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.


Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.


We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and

NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING !


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day.

And we were O.K.



We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, .. no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.....

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or usually just sang out their name and if we could see them we walked on in.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them.CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good .

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!



Sent to me by my sister who is also "middle aged" lol


E. G.

Wow! Brings back some great memories.

Stuck in the Middle with Youse.

Originally Posted by William

^with the amount of "damage" I have done to my body, the only way I'll live to see 102 is if I look like Darth Vader

mate, i've been on the piss with you, you already do look like him!

^who need enemies when you have friends like KW

Me - I'm 65 now and still feeling fit as a fiddle. I must now be termed as an 'old git' but if there was a middle age I've missed it

Originally Posted by Propagator

Me - I'm 65 now

Amazing. I would have guessed 15 years or more younger than that....

I'm 43 but really don't consider myself middle-aged.

So I suppose I'll say 50 is middle-aged.

Until I'm 49, anyway...

How many people do you know who live to be 100?

Originally Posted by Anonymous Coward

Originally Posted by Propagator Me - I'm 65 now

Jo said you were proper old Propogator.

Originally Posted by humphrey

How many people do you know who live to be 100?

Obviously sod all.

And I really haven't given it much thought.

But maybe it's like a plateau...through youth and younger adulthood you are growing and deveoping (in all ways). In middle age you reach a relatively stable period (the plateau). In old age you are in decline.

So middle age is the middle of three stages (growth/maturity/decline) rather than the middle of a time period.

Just happens that the decline phase is much shorter than the growth phase...as often happens in nature.

As I still think I'm still growing and developing, I suppose I'm not in middle age...yet. But granted, it can't be far off!