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Post by stampinbetsy on Apr 12, 2016 3:29:43 GMT
Interesting. I thought it was funny that one guy said something like "Well, 30 is the new 20, so 40 is old." Nice logic in that one.  I do think age is partly a state of mind, partly physical condition. I work for a company that moves seniors, and I have met some people who seem really old at 70, and some people who don't seem remotely old at 90. If you can physically do things (and haven't spent your life sitting on the couch), then you seem younger. The definition of old all depends on the person. I do think some of those people probably do have younger grandparents, but not necessarily. I am the oldest in my family (and DH is the youngest in his). We are both in our mid-40s. Our parents range in age from 68 (my mom) to 75 (his dad). Our kids are 19 and 17 (they're the youngest grandkids on dh's side and the oldest on my side - the oldest of all the cousins in our families is early 30s, youngest is 4). I'm not sure our kids would consider their grandparents old, but now I'm going to have to ask! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2016 4:48:27 GMT
I agree - the beginning of that video had me wanting to shake my 44-year-old fist and yell, "You kids get off my lawn!"
I was lucky to work in an assisted living for a few months back in 2004 or so. The catty, petty, childish BS some of those women pulled on each other - I was DELIGHTED. I realized, Ha! It really is just a number. I can be a dork for as long as I want to be! And I hope I can be flexible and strong for much longer than I planned at 25.
I've said it here before, but I was an *idiot* as a young adult. I would have said this exact same shit. It's just the nature of the world and inexperience. Ain't it grand?
With that, it's 10pm, and Grandma is going to bed.
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Post by llinin on Apr 12, 2016 9:53:16 GMT
Kind of sad to watch parts of that. Where do they find these folks?
I don't know when being old became an insult or something to dread. I don't want to be infirm, or decrepit. I want to be 80 and doing what I want with my old self! But watching my 46 year old sister, 63 year old mom and 69 year old dad die, I want to grow old and will gladly wear that badge!
I also hate the 40 is the new 30 bs. 40 is 40. Embrace it.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 12, 2016 13:35:04 GMT
Interesting. I thought it was funny that one guy said something like "Well, 30 is the new 20, so 40 is old." Nice logic in that one.
I do think age is partly a state of mind, partly physical condition. I work for a company that moves seniors, and I have met some people who seem really old at 70, and some people who don't seem remotely old at 90. If you can physically do things (and haven't spent your life sitting on the couch), then you seem younger. The definition of old all depends on the person.I do think some of those people probably do have younger grandparents, but not necessarily. I am the oldest in my family (and DH is the youngest in his). We are both in our mid-40s. Our parents range in age from 68 (my mom) to 75 (his dad). Our kids are 19 and 17 (they're the youngest grandkids on dh's side and the oldest on my side - the oldest of all the cousins in our families is early 30s, youngest is 4). I'm not sure our kids would consider their grandparents old, but now I'm going to have to ask! I agree with this. Physical ability has a lot to do with it. My MIL was almost 14 years younger than my mom but she had a lot more medical issues so if you were to look at them side by side you wouldn't ever guess in a million years that my mom was older by that wide of a margin. Toward the end of her life things caught up with my mom once she couldn't really be very active anymore and that's when she started seeming old, but by then she was in her late 70's-early 80's. |
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Post by raindancer on Apr 12, 2016 13:37:53 GMT
Do these children not have grandparents? Do they not have any interaction w people older than themselves? To me, that's far more sad than the fact that young people think I'm old. I thought my grandparents were very, very old when I was in my 20's. Now that I'm almost 40, I don't view my parents as very, very old, even though they are nearing the same ages. My grandparents lived into their 90s. I never realized how young 80 was! I think every person in their 20's views age through a different lens. I remember in high school we had to write a letter to ourselves predicting where we would be in 10 years. We talked and talked about that project for days at lunch, dreaming up all the money we would have by then, the fabulous cars and homes we would own. Because when you are 17 or 18, the only ten years you can compare it too is where you were in your past, which was what? 3rd grade? I don't think it is unreasonable to think that in 10 years you will be rich, and amazing and powerful in your job when you are 18 years old. Even though we know looking back that at 28 that is highly unlikely to happen, and that's ok. And I think the same about how we view age. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 12, 2016 13:53:13 GMT
I always considered my grandparents, especially on my dad's side, to be old. I have a photo of my nanna with my aunties and my dad. Dad would have been about 3, so my nanna would have been in her late 30's. OMG, the woman looks like she is about 70!! I was shocked when I first saw the photo. Was it common for women back in the 1940's to look much older than they were (compared to women today)? Is it because of the hard life they led (enduring the war, everything having to be done by hand etc)? My paternal grandparents were not particularly active people. My dad at 72 is much more active than his parents would have been at 40 or 50. I don't consider him to be elderly, although I would have considered my grandparents to be elderly at the same age. I don't think it has anything to do with me being closer to that age myself now. It's more about how active someone is. I've noticed this too. I have pics of my grandma in what had to have been the late 1920's holding my mom and her twin sister as babies and even then she looked old (they were #'s 6 & 7 out of 13 kids, so no wonder)! I have no memories of my grandma seeming young. She died at almost 90 when I was a young teenager, and by then she was the stereotypical "old"--hunched over, osteoporosis, very thin and frail with advanced dementia. It would have been cool to know her when she was younger. |
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Post by melanell on Apr 12, 2016 14:36:31 GMT
If their grandparents are very young, then that increases the chances that they have or had great-grandparents or even great-great grandparents alive during their lifetime, so I would still think that at least some of them were bound to know people a few generations older than they are. My grandmothers were 49 and 65 and my one living grandfather was 55 when I was born, and yet I still had 2 great-grandmothers who I knew long enough to remember well when I was the age of the people in this video. (My great-grandmothers were 75 & 76 when I was born.) But relatives aside, my kids see people everyday who are older than I am (and they know that I am in my 40s)---teachers, librarians, cashiers, postal clerks, doctors, etc., etc. so they certainly are aware that people aren't automatically reaching for their walkers the moment they turn 40.  |
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Post by anonrefugee on Apr 12, 2016 15:33:48 GMT
Thanks for sharing. It makes me want to improve my fitness and flexibility!
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