Some days I feel terribly old (despite only just tipping scale into 40-ish), and others I feel like the twentysomething person that still lives in my head - the former being a bit more frequent than the latter these days. But most days my head says I'm still twentysomething and I get an awful shock when I look in the mirror, or have trouble getting up off the floor or doing something that was easy twenty years ago but isn't now - like I would never go roller skating or ice skating or attempt to climb a tree these days.
But I digress. I also think old isn't what you are but what you do. I know plenty of young people who think and act old ("when I was your age" sort of thing), and plenty of people who by all rights are old by the numbers, but who are still ultra young at heart.
So old is definitely a state of mind, IMO.
As has been attributed to at least two people (Bob Monkhouse, Chilli Davis) in recent history, "Growing up is mandatory, growing old is optional".
I'm going to be twentysomething in my head until the day I die ;)
I'm going to be twentysomething in my head until the day I die ;) My great-grandmother, who lived to be 99, used to always say, "In my head, I'm still 16 years old. Sometimes I look in the mirror and get quite a shock!"
Some days I feel terribly old (despite only just tipping scale into 40-ish), and others I feel like the twentysomething person that still lives in my head - the former being a bit more frequent than the latter these days. But most days my head says I'm still twentysomething and I get an awful shock when I look in the mirror, or have trouble getting up off the floor or doing something that was easy twenty years ago but isn't now - like I would never go roller skating or ice skating or attempt to climb a tree these days.
But I digress. I also think old isn't what you are but what you do. I know plenty of young people who think and act old ("when I was your age" sort of thing), and plenty of people who by all rights are old by the numbers, but who are still ultra young at heart.
So old is definitely a state of mind, IMO.
As has been attributed to at least two people (Bob Monkhouse, Chilli Davis) in recent history, "Growing up is mandatory, growing old is optional".
I'm going to be twentysomething in my head until the day I die ;)
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My great-grandmother, who lived to be 99, used to always say, "In my head, I'm still 16 years old. Sometimes I look in the mirror and get quite a shock!"
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