When does MIDDLE AGE start?

[yvr girl]

Thoughts.

[SeattleGirl]

1. I'm not sure. I'm 50 and I don't feel middle aged.

Maybe it's more a state of mind than an absolute.

[u4ic]

17. SeattleGirl, you look great for 50!

:loveya:

[Radio_Lady]

18. You can only figure that out when you know your age at death.

Then, divide by 2.

Simple.

Next problem...

In jest,

Radio_Lady

[SeattleGirl]

35. Radio_Lady!!!!

How was your vacation???? Haven't talked to you since you got back.


And speaking of age, from your picture of the kiddie show you used to work, I figure you're no more a spring chicken than I am, but dang it, woman, you are sure a fine looking woman!

[Radio_Lady]

78. Thanky, thanky, thanky for the complimentos! I'm 66 years old and proud!

Here we are, Gramps and me, sitting tall in the saddle in the Arizona desert. We went to Las Vegas and it was sunny every day and pretty warm, too. Stayed out of the casinos, mostly because they are so smoky! We played and lost $5.00 at machine poker. Did a lot of walking and hotel hopping, especially at the Aladdin. We got free tickets to see "V" the variety show. It was a wonderful evening, with an emcee named Jeff who was channeling Lee Liberace (you're probably too young to remember him) with funny patter and illusions. Jeff told us later that he doesn't play piano, but he's a very good showman nevertheless.

Phoenix and Tucson were quite interesting, but very, very dry! We made the trip up to Flagstaff, then took the Oak Creek Canyon drive down to Sedona. While we were there, Flagstaff broke a record for a dry spell that has gone on for more than 100 days -- it last rained sometime in October, 2005! Even the prickly pear cactus looked gaunt and sagging in some places. We visited the Saguaro Forest (which doesn't look like a forest at all to us), the church at St. Xavier del Bac (one of the cathedral towers was completely staged and wrapped with some kind of metallic fabric while it was being worked on), the Biosphere 2 site, as well as Tubac, Bisbee, and Nogales, AZ. We walked over to Mexico for a couple of hours and had some very spicy guacamole and a couple of Dos XXXs beers. A couple of guys were handcuffed and arrested outside; they didn't seem to resist at all, so the police took them away while we dipped our chips. Walking back through the line to the US, we had a nice discussion with some Arizonans (?) who go down to Mexico for their dental work and for prescriptions. I had just heard on the radio that there's a state representative who is trying to get a statewide health bill through which would guarantee AZ residents adequate medical care. Now, there's an idea...

We had a fun trip and just got back a week ago. Appreciate your sweet comments! Are you doing anything fun this weekend?

[SeattleGirl]

32. Thank you, darlin'!!!

Perhaps it's due to my state of mind????

[Wetzelbill]

23. you're 50?

No freakin' way! You look fantastic. :)

[SeattleGirl]

33. Indeed I am!

Just goes to show ya, middle age is definitely a state of mind, NOT a state of body!

[wain]

27. It's a moving target

Depends on your age, and how young or old you feel.

Some of us never grow up! And thus avoid reaching middle age!

[SeattleGirl]

34. My mom always said:

"You're not old until your 103 and feel it!"

Rock on, mom! :yourock:

[wain]

66. In 2050

There's a Stanford prof that suggests that by 2050 103 will not be unusual; and he says that we'll be retiring at 85, not 65. What will we do with all the extra time? I know, space travel at speeds to monkey with time some more.

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

86. You don't look it either, you heartbreaker!

[LaraMN]

2. Well, the average lifespan in the US is currently 77.6 years,

so I guess right splat in the middle would be 38.8.
I've got a whole decade left! I guess it's all downhill from there...
:rofl:

[JVS]

3. 36

[cynatnite]

4. You mean I missed it?

I can't believe I missed middle age. Let me think...what was I doing at 36?

Oh, yeah, I got drunk, got a tattoo and had a two day hangover. :rofl:

[JVS]

5. It lasts for quite a while

[Scout1071]

15. Don't talk to me for 10 minutes. nt

[grace0418]

67. Oh GREAT. I'm going to be 36 in less than two months.

Thanks for ruining my day.

[JVS]

72. You're welcome

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I don't know.....I prefer not to think about it!

Doris Day said this about it:

"The really frightening thing about middle age is knowing you'll outgrow it." :scared:

Smart, smart lady, IMHO!

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

19. I think middle age began for me about about 40. That's when my

MIDDLE began to spread.

[MrScorpio]

7. For me, it was when I bought that convertible

I haven't started going after college cheerleaders yet, however!

[u4ic]

8. 50

Cuz I'm almost right there if I say 40 x(

[yvr girl]

9. Good answer

If I remember correctly, we are very close in age.

[u4ic]

10. I think so

Hitting the decade before middle age in August. :hi:

[billyskank]

29. !!!

That is impossible!!! :o

I'd have said the decade before the decade before... :blush:

[u4ic]

92. All that bathing in virgins blood is really paying off n/t

[KitchenWitch]

68. I will second 50

Because I do not want to believe I am already there... x(

[WCGreen]

11. I' 48...

Feel like 70....

Act like 14....

So I guess....

All things ocnsidered...

I'm in the middle of that....

[Withywindle]

12. 5 years older than me.

Always.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. i want to skip that ...i want to go straight from now

to old age...

[Radio_Lady]

20. That could be arranged -- maybe in Las Vegas or Sicily.

Oh, you said old age.

I thought you said, "-- straight from now to death."

Sorry, wrong contract.

In jest,

Radio_Lady

[UncleSepp]

14. Depends on how long you feel you will live

For me, it's starting already. I've never thought I'd make it past sixty-five.

[HEyHEY]

16. When you can get financed for a sports car

[IChing]

21. My father is 90 and had 3 holes in one between the 7 years in that time.

Depends on you genetics and consciousness on time, living, health and what age is,

being blessed with wisdom can happened at an early age
then it may be a curse.

Middle age,
describes

a retaliative expression in our own existence
which never and can be how we communicate with each other

when does Knowledge happen
when does wisdom happen
when does consciousness happen?

[Lorien]

22. At half the average lifespan of your forefathers (and mothers)

In my case that will be around 45.

[mykpart]

24. According to my mother,

"middle" refers to the middle of your ADULT life, not the middle of your whole life. Therefore, middle age would be somewhere between 21 and death!

[Nicole]

25. 35 n/t

[leftofthedial]

26. I'm 50 and I'm still not middle aged

my ex is 50 and she's been middle aged since 1985.

:shrug:

[Crazy Dave]

28. When you talk about things like this:

Wills for your pets
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4795213

[Burma Jones]

30. When you have to trim your ear hair

and it ends when you don't bother to trim it anymore.....

[billyskank]

31. I really wanna know what is it I am going to meet later in life

that I will need hairy earoles to be prepared for?

[SeattleGirl]

36. Maybe me?

Um......



sorry.....



it's late/early here, and I'm operating on 2 hours sleep, so forgive me, billy.


:hide:

[billyskank]

37. You are crazy

:loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

38. Ya think?

Well, maybe a little crazy 'bout you, but definitely crazy. Especially after just 2 hours of sleep.

:loveya:

[billyskank]

39. That's sleep deprivation

You're hallucinating. :P

[SeattleGirl]

41. Hallucination? Or dreaming?

:evilgrin:

[El Fuego]

40. When you have KIDS.

I don't have kids, but I observe this all the time.

[Deep13]

44. What? Baby goats?

:evilgrin:
So if I never have any rug rats, curtain climbers, yard monkeys, ankle biters or crumb snatchers, I will go from being young directly to being old? Sounds good unless the "old" come early.

[Deep13]

42. If you live to be 90...

...then middle age is 30 to 60.

[Dead_Parrot]

43. About 500 AD...

Oh, middle AGE, not AGES. My bad.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

96. Smartass

You stole my line.:o I gotta jump into these threads quicker.

[Gormy Cuss]

45. When your arms are suddenly too short for reading.

The curse of presbyopia. :shrug:

[leftyladyfrommo]

46. I'm 57 and don't feel middleaged.

I feel better now than I have in my whole life.

[SeattleGirl]

47. A woman after my own heart!

I'm the same. I think age is a state of mind, far more than it is the age of the body.

[leftyladyfrommo]

48. Really, that is true.

I have more men interested in me now than I ever have. I think its because I finally figured out how to just be me no matter what. And men like that.

[SeattleGirl]

49. Absolutely!

Well, men who know how to be themselves, anyway. Good for you! I'm a much better, more grounded person now than I was 20 years ago!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

50. I guess whenever you want it to.

State of mind and all that.....

But I'm only 14, so what I say ought to be taken with a dose of salt when it comes to this..... :D :D :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

51. 10 years later than any age I happen to be at any given time.

So, right now, it's 45 that middle age begins. And those of you who said 35/36 are now on my ignore list. :P

[WritingIsMyReligion]

52. LOL!

:rofl:

:hi:, MrsG!

[ScreamingMeemie]

73. Hi WIMR! We were just talking about you and wondering where

you were. :hi: :hug:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

80. Talking about ME? You're making my ears turn red.

:D :D :blush:

I've been at my grandmother's house since late Sunday--I only got back noon today. She only has 56K internet access---:scared:. Needless to say, that makes posting on DU a pain and a half in the ass.

But now I've got my cable internet back---*hugs computer* Thank Pan!

:D :D

:hi:

:hug:

[JVS]

53. 70 years from now as you lie in bed barely able to move...

you manage to croak out the words "I'm 105 years old.... and I think I might be close to being....middle aged"

Is this really how you want to accept middle age?

[ScreamingMeemie]

74. Damned straight!

;) :hi:

[zanne]

55. Joan Rivers once said...

"It takes ten years to get used to how old you are."

[ScreamingMeemie]

75. Pretty much agree with her. Although 30 frightened me more than I

thought it would, 40 doesn't seem as daunting as I thought it would.

[zanne]

81. 40 is nothing. You're just a kid. nt

[no name no slogan]

69. Absolutely

It cannot be 36 or even 37. Because that would make me middle-aged. And even though I've got some gray hair, I'm WAAAAAAY too young to be that old.

[ScreamingMeemie]

76. We're just babies yet!

:hi:

[wildhorses]

54. halfway between birth and death

:silly:

[Squeech]

56. Good question

In my own case, it just kinda snuck up on me. Now I need reading glasses, my knees object to climbing stairs, and popular music sounds like crap, and I can't remember when it all happened (except the music part, but that's been a problem for decades).

There's an old cliche to the effect that middle age is where the narrow waist and the broad mind change places, and there's something to that. Middle age is the point where you become bourgeois: you assume that your various perks are not only well deserved but somehow written into the fabric of a just society, and you lose the ability to empathize with anybody from a less fortunate social stratum. I hope it isn't happening to me, but I'm not real confident-- I believe I can see it happening to Mrs. Squeech, and she's supposed to me more lefty than I am, never having gone through my adolescent Ayn Rand phase.

[RetroLounge]

57. I think it just before the Rennaisance

:shrug:

RL

[In_The_Wind]

58. When you forget how to be young.

:shrug:

[SeattleGirl]

60. You are so right, Joani

And thank The Maker, I have NOT forgotten!

[In_The_Wind]

61. I'm glad to hear that my friend! Attitude is very important to happiness.

We both know how wonderful it feels to be really alive, to look forward to the sunrise.





:loveya::loveya::loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

62. We sure do!

:loveya:

[Left Is Write]

59. I'm almost 40. I guess that's middle aged.

[SeattleGirl]

64. Only if you think it is, dudette!

I'm 50, and I most definitely do NOT think of myself as middle-aged!

[Left Is Write]

65. The thing is...

I don't think there's anything WRONG with "middle age" - no reason to let anyone else define it for us.

People tell me I don't look my age. I say, "This is what my age looks like!"

[JVS]

84. Way to be able to deal with reality!

:yourock:

:hide:

[Left Is Write]

91. Well...

I just don't understand what's so bad about "middle age." I'm obviously not a kid anymore, nor would I want to be.

Middle age doesn't have to mean frumpy, dowdy, too-old-to-have-fun-anymore. If age really is just a number, does it matter if middle age is 35 or 40 or 52?

I'm having mixed emotions about turning 40, but that's more the reflection of another milestone than anything to do with "middle age."

[Orangepeel]

63. Young-Middle: 30 - 40; Middle-Middle: 40 - 50; Older-Middle: 50 - 60

The average adult is expected to live to be about 80. So, I would classify decades as:

0 - 10: Younger Childhood
10 - 20: Older Childhood
20 - 30: Young Adulthood
30 - 40: Young Middle Age
40 - 50: Middle Middle Age
50 - 60: Older Middle Age
60 - 70: Young Elderly (yeah, I know it's an oxymoron)
70 - 80: Elderly

[Blue_In_AK]

82. Hey, I'm going to be 60 in September,

and I will NOT then call myself "young elderly." Bleccchhh.... I look and feel better than people I know who are 20 years younger than me. I say you're as young as you feel, and I feel younger now than I did when I was 40, so I choose to remain "young middle age."

[Orangepeel]

93. I'm about to be 40, myself

I'm not going to refer to myself as "middle middle age" :D

So, present company excepted in regard to my classification. It only refers to OTHER people.

[Lorien]

87. "The forties are the old age of youth, the fifties are the youth of old

age". Can't remember the author, but the quote always stuck with me.

[Left Is Write]

89. Lorien - I was just thinking of you the other day and wondering

how you're doing.

[Heidi]

70. Later. (nt)

[greendog]

71. September 4, 476 AD...

...with the abdication of Romulus Augustus. That was the official end of the Western Roman Empire, and thus, the beginning of (the)middle age(s).

Glad I missed it.

[SteppingRazor]

77. My first thought when reading the question was "40"

Eek... little more than a decade, and I'm there :yoiks:

[applegrove]

79. When the baby boomers say it does - usually ahead of them.

[Benfea]

83. 25. ;) -nt

[mdmc]

85. at 14 if you are in inner city black man

since most inner city black men don't make it to 30.

I think that middle age is frame of mind. I would say between 30 and 55.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

88. The age Nolan Ryan was when he retired.

so, about 47.

[Dem2theMax]

90. For me, when I say so, and I'm not near to saying it and I'll be 50

this year. I'm still 17 in my head and I can act like a five year old when encouraged to do so. (No temper tantrums, but I love a good somersault in the grass and I'll be happy to toilet paper your repuke neighbors house for you.) :evilgrin:

Age is in the brain, not on the birth certificate. It's all in the attitude.
And baby, I'm still YOUNG! :) :) :)

When AARP sends me an invitation to join their membership, they are going to get it back with some choice words printed on it. LOL. ;)

[kwassa]

94. often dated from A.D. 476 to 1453.

Middle Ages
pl.n.

The period in European history between antiquity and the Renaissance, often dated from A.D. 476 to 1453.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

[pink-o]

95. For me, last year....

I always said I wanted to live to be 100. I turned 51 in December, so I guess I'm sliding down the hill right now.

But like all good boomers, I feel very young. I'm athletic, bike, run, walk everywhere else. (I do drive to work, but that's it!) I haven't felt a dip in my energy at all, and my body parts aren't moving too far south. However, let's be real here--it takes a bit longer to recover from those sports injuries than it did 20 years ago, right fellow oldies? Colds and stuff as well--albeit, I don't get half as many as I used to, so there's compensation.

For me, turning 30 was a lot harder than turning 50. At 30, you still have all these unrealistic expectations of what your life should be; now I'm happy for my health and my freedom. Middle age is a chronological reality, but if one stays athletic and spontaneous, it's a lot less painful!