........how old???

[sunflower68]

What constitutes middle age?  Is it a number or just a feeling?

[Twincle]

Well some people are born middle aged!

[yucca lover]

well I hope to live to be 100 so does that make 50 middle I only feel 16 but I am near the 50

[lindapinda]

When I was younger,I assumed 50 was the starting point.Now that I'm too near that,reckon you have to be at least 58/59! It's definetely how you feel!

[shaneystar]

Hey you lindapinda...I am 57 .not so much of the middle aged!!!
Actually 57 is middle aged .I don't feel middle aged not in my mind.The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak in my case .
It is just a number .. but also when I begin to sound like my Mum I know I am middle aged !
Then again I can remember my mother in her eighties referring to the "Poor old lady"" next door who was only in her sixties.My brother who is 71 refers to people as" poor old things" when they are much younger than him.I say the same to him and then he says"Well I am 71 you know"!! You are as old as feel you in mind or body!!

[lindapinda]

Shaneystar,i bow my head in shame! You are quite right...I am already quoting my parents and being horrified that I am! It is a state of mind,my mother,75,refuses to buy that magazine called" yours"cos it is for old people!

[shaneystar]

Oh linda you don't have to bow your head in shame.It happens to us all....this funny middle aged moment..I was unlucky enough to be struck down with ill health just as I reached 50.Very sobering.Nothing life threatening but curtails things I want to do .
It's funny but we live round the corner from a sixth form college..and opposite is a park where I walk my dog.All summer it's been lovely ..nice and quiet and clean and tidy.I went up there on Friday with the hound and it was knee deep in rubbish.Obviously the students are back at their studies and in their spare time they strew their coke bottles and takeaway wrappers all over the place.I was really annoyed and found myself muttering to myself about the state of the park.I came home and moaned to Mr.S about it. He said I am turning into Victoria Meldrew !!!

[lindapinda]

Yes! That is me all the time now! I give in, and admit that the victor meldrew in me,that i try to ignore, exists! However,that is the first time that I have heard it referred to as Victoria! There is a name for our ailment,even though we have a right to our complaints! Full marks to mr.s.!

[shaneystar]

Plus..it's the said brothers Golden wedding in December and I was a bridesmaid.....Jesus wept.!! Then I have to contend with more brothers who are 74 and 68 and treat me as if I am child.
so... things are not too bad really for old gal like me!!

[lindapinda]

God you are so young in comparison,dont know how you can feel old at all shaneystar!

[dilligaf]

At 20 I thought 40 was middle age.
At 40 I thought 50 was middle age.
At 50 I thought 60 was mildde age.
Now at 60 I wonder if I shall ever reach old age?

[cat woman]

Hi sunflower 68, When i was 20 my mum was 46 and i thought, cor thats old, when i got to 46 i didn't feel old, I'm now 50 and i still dont feel any different.  My mum is 76  now and although she isn't as mobile as well as would like to be she is very young at heart, so i say that middle age in my opinion is state of mind.    :-)