Thoughts on turning 60

[Kathy30]

Today is my birthday. I am 60 years old. Where did all those years go? What was I doing when my life was slipping by day by day? Why didn't I ever really think this day would come?

It is almost all over now. The grim reaper is looking closely at me, a big smile on his face. My mother died at 65, only five years older than I am now. People that I have known in my life are already gone, or got the bad news that the end is approaching. We are old.

As I peruse the wreckage of the ship I piloted into the reef, I know it was all my own damn fault. I never made a decent decision in my life. Not one. Darn it, it's too late to change things now. It's time to muddle through until the end. It won't be all that long now.

[MSGT]

There's only one decision that matters in the end.


er.....Happy..Birthday?

[DoctorDoom]

Happy b'day, dear lady! The fact didn't show up in the birthday list on the main index page, else it would have been cited.

As for growing old, I prefer to think of it as enhancing my maturity. IAC, I'm proud of being old, cuz it takes a long time and a lot of experience to achieve it. It's not over till it's over, and when it IS, that's just the beginning.

I celebrated my last one with a Beatles gem.

When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out 'till quarter to three, would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

Hmm------mmm---mmmh.
You'll be older, too. Aaah, and if you say the word, I could stay with you.

I could be handy, mending a fuse, when your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside, sunday mornings, go for a ride.
Doing the garden, digging the weeds, who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty four?

Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight if it's not to dear.
We shall scrimp and save.
Ah, grandchildren on your knee, Vera, Chuck, and Dave.

Send me a postcard, drop me a line stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say, yours sincerely wasting away.
Give me your answer, fill in a form, mine forever more.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty four?

by John Lennon/Paul McCartney

[Gonzo67]

Well, if'n you're gonna play songs for your B-Day, you can't forget Paul Simon's little gem:

Yesterday it was my birthday
I hung one more year on the line
I should be depressed
My life’s a mess
But I’m having a good time

Oo, I’ve been loving and loving and loving
I’m exhausted from loving so well
I should go to bed
But a voice in my head
Says "ah, what the hell"

Have a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time

Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland
But I think it’s all overdone
Exaggerating this and exaggerating that
They don’t have no fun

I don’t believe what I read in the papers
They’re just out to capture my dime
I ain’t worrying
And I ain’t scurrying;
I’m having a good time

Have a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time

Maybe I’m laughing my way to disaster
Maybe my race has been run
Maybe I’m blind to the fate of mankind
But what can be done?
So God bless the goods we was given
And God bless the u. s. of a.
And God bless our standard of livin’
Let’s keep it that way
And we’ll all have a good time

Have a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time

And if nothing else, heed the quote in my Sig:

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body but rather to skid in, on fire and sideways... the body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'HELL YEAH, what a ride!' "

Happy Birthday, enjoy it, it's yours after all. ;)

[Wolfcounsel]

Happy Birthday, Kathy!:bdaycake:

[Timberwolf]

My thoughts on turning 60? You'll have to hang around about 14 more years...then I'll let ya know. :biggrin:

Preliminary assessment(s):
1) It's only a number.
2) If all yer friends are gone, move to the Midwest...we live forever
3) Getting older is mandatory...growing up is optional
4) So, be a kid at heart and enjoy the heck out of life.
That's my take on it. I'm 46 at the end of the year and our daughter is 6 (da-a-a-a-a-ad...Six and a HALF!!! :biggrin: )...she'll be 7 one month after my birthday. She's the apple of my eye. She and my wife are my life...the rest of it can take a major league dump, but as long as the 3 of us are together, all is right in the world. What more could a guy want? My wife loves me, my daughter adores me...and I'm sittin' here thinking, "I'm the luckiest son of a gun on the face of the planet."

It could all be gone tomorrow, but I'm happy as a clam TODAY.

[Wyatt_Junker]

My mom will be 60 on Dec. 1st of this year. Yesterday she ran another 26 mile marathon. She would have won for her age bracket(she usually does), but she decided to help some of the girls who were having trouble finishing who were 15 years her junior.

Its a mentality.

Feeling like shit? Work through the pain. Don't complain. Work through the aches. Sometimes you have to pretend, but then after awhile it actually starts to take.

I knew a lady from church who died last year. She was 86. Her and I were good friends. Her back was messed up pretty bad. She had to use a walker her last 20 years. This idea of 'weakness' crept up in her mind. She began to accept it. This acceptance lead to an increasing sedentary life.

Here's an interesting story though. Her back would always ache. However, one day, all alone, she couldn't get onto her bed. Usually she would just flop onto it from an odd angle, after having had scooched over to the edge. She couldn't get to her walker, so she had to crawl. She later told me she got to the edge of the bed, raised herself up and then tried 'flopping' down onto it from the side. It wasn't enough. She slid down and fell to the ground. She tried again and again. She said she tried maybe 15 times of this flopping.

Finally, on the 16th go, sweating pretty good, she made it. Her back felt really good though. No pain. AND she slept great.

I told her it was the exercise. 15 reps when you're not used to doing anything is a lot of action. Gets the blood flowing.

There were those Russian tree pruners in the Guiness Book of WR who were 116 yr.s old. When the grainy picture was taken they were still in the tree cutting down limbs.

The moral?

Whatever you're feeling, you have to just go through it mechanically. Blow through it. Don't feel like getting up? Get the F. up. Feel like crap? Who cares. God is not so much your comforter as He is your drill sargeant. Not many people want to hear that. They want a cozy god. They want a kind god. But God wants every last second of your day. He never gives up. You wake up in the morning and He's there in a grey hoodie and a silver whistle around his neck.

[Beowulf]

Quch'QOH!!! (Klingon Happy Birthday)

60 isn't old.....if you're a tree!:evilgrin:

[Lubbock]

Life is what happens to you while you're waiting for your dreams to come true.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

I agree with Timber and Wyatt!

Happy Birthday, Kathy. May the Lord truly bless your days, that you may live them long upon this earth in a manner befitting His creation.

[The_Fireman]

You may be your own worst enemy and accomplished more than you give yourself credit for.Arent you a lawyer by profession?That means you went to college and were able to complet a very diffecult course of study,one that many try and fail at.I would say that is a successful thing that you have done.

[Kathy30]

Almost right. I was a lawyer. I gave it up. Almost two years ago I packed it in, resigned, closed up the office, gave everyone a permanent unpaid day off and went back to school to be a dog groomer. I've been giving dogs haircuts and baths ever since. Was it a good decision? Hmmm. Only if one enjoys being very poor.

And, thank for the advice but I do go to the gym close to every day. I have no aches, pains, syndromes or conditions. I don't take any medications. I can lift a 175 pound rottweiler and put him in the bathtub. And, lift him out and carry that sucker to the dryer.

[Jim Sentry]

I'll be 60 on 12/16. Look at the Bright Side, only 6 more years to full SS benefits.

Happy Birthday

[DesertFox]

I'll be 60 in two years. I'm not in great shape, ain't nothin' special to look at and got no particular talents. I'm just having fun doing what I do, teaching school and taking high school kids camping and doing stuff with them. I always thought I hated teenagers, and by accident I discovered I enjoy the heck out of them.

[BEST45CAL]

wyatt's right: it's all in the mind and the body will reflect that. 60 is middle aged. the human body is supposed to live to be 120. that's MY mentality. 60 ain't a death sentence! it means that you've got 60 more years to enjoy life!

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