rumguy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:07 PM
Original message |
When are you officially 'middle-aged'? |
|
I'd say like about 42...
But I have no idea....
|
Mizmoon
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:09 PM
Response to Original message |
|
we all love the delusion that we'll live to be 100.
|
Momgonepostal
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:10 PM
Response to Original message |
2. This is an excellent question |
|
I'd love to hear what other people think.
It seems to me middle age should be about the mid-point. So if life expectancy is 80, is middle aged about 40? Yikes.
|
Lefta Dissenter
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:10 PM
Response to Original message |
|
since I just turned 47, it's definitely not 42! Maybe more like 55!
|
kick-ass-bob
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:11 PM
Response to Original message |
|
And in 10 years, I will say 55.
:P
|
Glenda
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:13 PM
Response to Original message |
5. Never. It's always other people who are middle aged |
|
And the older you get, the higher that middle-aged number becomes. :)
G
|
Blue-Jay
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:14 PM
Response to Original message |
6. When your pubic hair starts getting gray. |
kick-ass-bob
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:16 PM
Response to Reply #6 |
BootinUp
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:17 PM
Response to Reply #9 |
10. I might have to buy grecian formula lol. |
clover
(445 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:19 PM
Response to Reply #9 |
12. & lose their curlyness, too! (nt) |
XNASA
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:16 PM
Response to Original message |
7. I'd say it has more to do with what phase of life that you're in..... |
|
Rather than your chronological age.
For example, I've been married 20 years, have two teenaged sons and though I'm not quite 50, I'd say that I'm entering middle age.
However, I know people who are 50, who act like they're 25......
They're not middle aged by any stretch.
|
methinks2
(894 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:16 PM
Response to Original message |
8. when all of your pants are "comfortable" |
|
and so are your shoes. When you don't bother to lose weight or put on makeup or color your hair.
Basically it's when you stop trying to look good.
|
Squeech
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:20 PM
Response to Reply #8 |
13. Happy creative people always look good |
|
Every picture I've ever seen of 80 year olds doing what they love has been a delight.
Especially jazz musicians!
You're middle aged when you no longer have any aspirations to live out the life you originally wanted.
(I'm close, but I'm not quite there.)
|
clover
(445 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:23 PM
Response to Reply #13 |
14. true!! and middle-age is a media construction (nt) |
tigereye
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:26 PM
Response to Reply #13 |
16. no I think it means that you are in the middle part |
|
of your life with many struggles such as education, home-buying, career choices already made, or kids to raise ( or already raised) and that you are now looking for new challenges and realizing that you can have round 2!
I prefer the term mid-life, myself. :)
|
clover
(445 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:18 PM
Response to Original message |
11. you are officially middle-aged |
|
the very day you first ask the question "when are you officially middle-aged?" for me that was 15, b/c i never expected to live past 30, the age when i would no longer trust myself. but i've been happily middle-aged now for 33 years.
|
soothsayer
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:24 PM
Response to Original message |
15. F you! I'm 42, and as i'm supposed to live to 120 (according to two diff |
|
psychics), I'm not NEARLY middle aged yet!
|
dr.strangelove
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:33 PM
Response to Original message |
17. Once you hit 41 years, 246 days, 3 hours, 4 minutes and 2.139734 seconds |
|
.000001 seconds later, you are already considered "old."
|
Senior citizen
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:39 PM
Response to Original message |
18. I was never middle-aged. |
|
I went straight from immaturity to seniority without ever being an official grown-up.
This sure is one weird society.
|
Z_I_Peevey
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:49 PM
Response to Original message |
19. When you wake up in the morning |
|
with no aches or pains, and notice this unusual occurrence.
|
medeak
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 01:59 PM
Response to Original message |
20. 90 yr old Dad who looks and acts 50 |
|
says it's all a state of mind.
numbers aren't important
|
AlabamaYankee
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 02:12 PM
Response to Original message |
|
No matter how old you are.
|
regularguy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 02:19 PM
Response to Original message |
22. Seems to me that your 40s and 50s are your middle age. |
|
Luckily my humor is still in the 8th grade.
|
tilsammans
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 02:41 PM
Response to Original message |
23. Well, if indeed . . . |
|
. . . fifty is the "New Thirty," then I'd say seventy is middle-aged.
Seriously, I've heard that actuaries consider 55 to be middle age.
|
the Princess
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 02:51 PM
Response to Original message |
|
Edited on Tue Oct-12-04 02:52 PM by Mrs.COLiberal
Middle age sounds too depressing to me
|
CO Liberal
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Oct-12-04 02:54 PM
Response to Original message |
25. When Your Kids Start Getting Grey Hair |
|
My daughter started going grey when she was 18 (just like her mother), so I reached middle age at 42. (I was 24 when she was born).
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Sun May 12th 2024, 12:16 AM
Response to Original message |