How do you know you're getting old?

Shadowscape said:
Yep. Did something to my blood that scared the doctor and was taken off of it right then and there. Not sure what that was all about, but the doctor was most insistent I do not ever again take Allopurinol.
I tried a different med for it after that, but getting an attack of gout and having it for three or four days before the med kicked in enough to make a difference just didn't seem practical. That is the problem. You have to dissolve the acid crystals. Takes time.
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I don't have gout but take an allopurinol every day. My original cardiologist was genius, if it happened yesterday in the world, he knew about it today. He ran across a rather obscure study from Europe that recommended it for heart patients, supposed to protect heart tissues during a cardiac event. Must work since I have had no "events".
 
On a happier note, had a flash of memory as my wife was marvelling and enjoying the flower pattern on our new couch cover (leather couch, they get issues) - last time I'd seen that was when I was a kid watching my grandmother admire her chosen flower patterned couch cover! An appreciation I didn't share as a kid. But now ...
 
Don't know. Oh well. Here's one for DIY mechanics. Saw video of peeling apart a Golf GTI intake. Simultaneously my brain hurt, my eyes squinted I felt my back tighten up and said Oh God I don't want any of that! Please please please don't make me have to do it..... How do they cram so much stuff so intricately? 3,000 psi fuel pump? What could possibly go wrong with monkeying around with that...

Used to be up for the challenge.
 
I feel your old or getting old when you say your old and complain.
I hate hearing people complaining that their "old", or say, "don't get old".

Me, I feel like I'm only getting near my half life. That's how I look at it, I'm at half life.
I don't keep track of my age and often times don't know how old I am cause I don't care about the number.
I'm told I'm 49, almost 50, btw, so I do know what it is at the moment.
 
I felt a little more zippy a decade ago too. Time adjusts your viewpoint :)

But disliked the 35 year old out of shape whiners.

(All) grey hair is a bit of a downer to the non-age-conscious philosophy.

At your age I had exactly your philosophy, honest, word for word. Uncanny. Still try to have it best I can.
 
theXman said:
I feel your old or getting old when you say your old and complain.
I hate hearing people complaining that their "old", or say, "don't get old".

Me, I feel like I'm only getting near my half life. That's how I look at it, I'm at half life.
I don't keep track of my age and often times don't know how old I am cause I don't care about the number.
I'm told I'm 49, almost 50, btw, so I do know what it is at the moment.
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Wait until you really are old, then go back and read what you wrote here. 50 is like owning a two year old car. Just broken in and comfortable.
When I was 50 I thought I would never be an old person who talks about his ailments. Then one day you are meeting some friends for coffee in the morning and your body is not cooperating. You get there late and have to explain why you are late, and you find yourself telling your friends about how such and such didn't work this morning. And another person chimes in that they had the same thing yesterday. Soon the table is talking about their ailments, aches and pains. And you are the old person saying you are old and hurting. It's coming, even if you don't want it to.
 
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