To think 60 is old aged

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And 35 Middle aged?

The older you become, the further away old age is.

When you are 30 you think 60 is old. When you are 60, you are not old because you don't feel old and you have the same friends that you had when you were 20 so nothing's changed. When you are 70 nothing's changed except that one or two have fallen from the tree.

When I'm 80, I know that I'll feel the same. I've been 30, 40, 50 and 60 so I know what it's like. If you have not been 40, 50 or older you have no conception of what being any age is.

Gosh. Is the OP new by any chance?

Imo 55-60 is probably around middle age. 'Old' would be around 75-80. That said, I don't think there can be an absolute because there are other ways of calculating age. For example, my father died in his 60s and was very old in body and health but my oldest friend is mid-90s and she behaves like a teenager! She is wonderful!

I find this thread quite upsetting... My aunt died at 38... She was young! She wasn't bloody middle aged! She left behind two devestated daughters, the youngest one was ten. The people I know in their 60s aren't what I would call "old" yet either.

A few years ago we had heavy snow. I went to check on my 85-year-old neighbour. She was fine, but "worried about all the old people in this weather"

You see I'd rather acknowledge that old age isn't that far off and that time is beginning to run out - not in a morbid way but because I'm only going to get one life and quite frankly I've wasted enough time as it is.

And now if you'll excuse me I need to get a move on

I said it was a stupid thread, and more

"old" is such a lazy non-descript word anyway.

How can anyone be considered old at 60?
You can't (normally) even retire then!

Over 45 past middle age MyArks! Crikey! That is the prime of life!

You see I'd rather acknowledge that old age isn't that far off and that time is beginning to run out - not in a morbid way but because I'm only going to get one life and quite frankly I've wasted enough time as it is.

Thats exactly what I do but at 57 I still don't feel anywhere near middle aged or old. I prefer to look at it as having lived more of my life than I have left so Im going to really enjoy it.

Yes, your mum was terribly young Doors. Am so sorry .

My mother only really seemed to become old at about 80 ish. My dad never become old or infirm or incapable of doing anything. He died at 81 from lung cancer.

0-40 young to adult
40-70 Middle aged
70 plus - elderly

I'm definitely Middle aged at mid 40s, people of 30 are a lot younger than me now.

I expect to live til 75-80 so Im in the middle of that

Im sitting here looking at my housekeeper who was 40 a few days ago and who now has terminal secondary cancer. It was originally breast cancer and its now in her bones and lungs.

She's still a young woman and will still be a young woman when she passes away before her next birthday.

Old age is about 85+ depending on health.
I ran a half marathon aged 62 yrs so that is not old age!

If middle age means the stage where your self esteem is not dependent on what other people think of your looks, your clothes and your politics - I'm there.

If middle aged means half way through your life span then based on my grandparents age at death - I'm there.

If middle aged means buying things from the Sunday supplements, giving up sex and disapproving of "common" plants in your neighbour's garden - fuck no.

I'm 50 next birthday.

I think your thirties or forties are far too young to die, but they're not young ages per se. I am 37 and I certainly don't think I'm young. I'm fit and healthy and grateful for that, but I'm no 20 year old in all sorts of ways - and I mean no value judgement in that. I wouldn't want to be 20 again.

However my mum is 60 and I don't see her as being old either.

I think once you get to 70 or so, true old age depends on how well you are. I know 80 year olds who really are frail, and others who are still well and strong.

Apple... See if you still have that same motion when you are 51?
Society still views *you as young.

It is easy for you to feel that way now.

I would hope to live till my 80s (when I would indeed be "old") so so middle-age will begin early 40s.
I don't think anybody can be "old" until they at least can draw their pension.

*notion

Middle aged is not an insult. Nor is old. If people see is as a negative terrible thing and an insult to suggest it, who is ageist?

But if the people who are being called those terms object to them, then who are you to say that they shouldn't? When my 94 year old granny objected to being called 'elderly', I respected her right to do so, I didn't insist that she was being ageist because she felt the term de-valued her as a person. She called herself 'significantly experienced'...

up to 55 middle youth

55-70 mature

70+ fascinatingly experienced

hope this helps

Oh god I'll be 37 when I give birth. I'm a middle aged mum apparently!

interesting cross post there

I'm 51. Afaik, middle aged is 10 years older than one's current age and elderly is 20 years older. Having said that, i think elderly starts at 80. I'm 29 in my head... You have to remember that inside every old person is a young person screaming "shit, what happened?".

Apple may be young but she's also right. Apart from the bit about stupid baby boomers

I really am going now. I'm 58 and unlike some of you lot, I haven't got all day

If someone isn't ageist and doesn't hold views that being older is a bad thing, why would they be offended? Surely they'd say yeah, I'm getting older, it's bloody fab. I feel confident, I feel secure, I feel I've had a world of experience.

If I'm 41 and I'm jumping up and down yelling arrggg how dare you say my age is middle aged, I'm young. Young I tell you, I'm not old, how dare you... then I need to take a good long look at what I think about age and how I view ageing.

There is nothing at all wrong with getting older or being older. So why anger about it? Why angst? Why denial? That's all I'm asking.