How do you adjust to being older?

[Tara24]

I'm 50 in a few months and for the first time I feel old.

I feel a bit out of sorts about it.

In my head I'm still 22, but feel I should somehow be different. More grown up.

I feel like I need to think about my behaviour a bit more. I went to see Blur recently and spent the night dancing like I was 25. It was only when I saw th photos that thought WTF am I doing ?!?

I'm wearing jeans and T-shirt and looked at myself and thought I should be more 'together'.

We still have a significant mortgage. I'm wondering if we should sell up and move to get rid of it.

I don't know what I'm trying to say really. My dad died 3 months ago, so it's odd to think it's just mum, and then I:m the oldest relative in our family.

I'm also almost done with the menopause. Suddenly having huge gaps between periods. It's all just a bit overwhelming.

I want to press pause and have more time.

I want to go back to my youth and do all those things I didn't. The times I missed out because I was too damn shy to say yes.

The only good thing about being old is that I'm no longer afraid to say yes.

Age is just a number. I feel no more or less responsible now as an aging adult as I did as a teen.

I'm older than you I have friends that at DJs. I still do to see them play. I dance I don't care what anyone else thinks I have fun

I'm overweight after being super skinny all my life so I look frumpy in anything. I don't really care. I'm growing into myself

I’m in my 40s and feel similar to you. Still trying to work out what I want to be when I grow up.
I’ve recently taken up skateboarding; sometimes I look at all the young kids doing it and wish I was that age again. Other times I think, hell yeah, I’m a cool 40 something year old. It’s all in the mind!

Thanks! Although it's quite a common name for a hotel so we might not be thinking of the same one!