Absolutely. I'm sure some people on here know where I live, but I don't need everyone knowing that.
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I have just re-read this thread - in its entirety, and was struck by this post.
Anyway, in my experience, I think that it will be nice; this is because some of us are just born feeling "middle-aged" or 'old'.
Some have written that they are still feeling 'around 25" irrespective of their real age.
I'm one of those who felt 40 (mentally, psychologically), even as a teenager, let alone when I was in my twenties, and actually felt - when my real age coincided with my mental age, in other words, when I became 40 in real life - that I was now comfortable - actually, pretty comfortable - in my own skin, and that I (had) have finally come into my own.
Actually, I love middle age, - I was useless at being young, - as my body and mind are now in comfortable accord.
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No, I was always 40 in my head.
Fantastic post, and one that I meant to respond to earlier.
This is exactly the reason that I loved teaching, that "lightbulb" moment that you sometimes saw light up in a student's eyes.
This was made everything else completely worthwhile, and was something you treasured (and cherished, when it happened, revisiting the memory); an absolutely wonderful experience.
Re the wider subject, of learning from, or teaching people, (and which may be better) I have always loved both, even as a child.
I'm probably the youngest person on this place. There are also members in Turkish forums who are 7 years old. There are too many of them.
Actually, - and it is nice to see teenagers and adolescents here - I very much doubt it.
I think that people as young as 13 are allowed to join this forum (must confirm this by checking the rules), and I am willing to wager that you will find some of them in the more tech oriented sections of the site, especially if this is where their interests and passions lie, in other words, if they have an aptitude for, and interest in, tech.
What is relatively unusual is to find adolescents choosing to spend time in the 'social' (or community) sections of the forum, but - to me - that is a good thing.
Actually, the worst part about this place is that in a few years it will be the diary of dead people. 🙁
Sometimes I get bored and come here to relax.
In a few years??? We're not *that* old, kiddo. 😉
I was born in 1968, my mind thinks I’m 12 and my body thinks I’ve died and gone to Hades.
I am somewhere between birth and death. How far along that path I am currently, I won't know until the end.
Unlike many here who are saying "I'm forever 25" or "I was born a middle aged man", I have (so far) lived each year in what I believe to be a fully age appropriate way. I love variety in life, and the thought of always being the same, or always acting/feeling a set age, doesn't appeal. Subconsciously, I'm probably ensuring that doesn't happen.
Unlike many here who are saying "I'm forever 25" or "I was born a middle aged man", I have (so far) lived each year in what I believe to be a fully age appropriate way. I love variety in life, and the thought of always being the same, or always acting/feeling a set age, doesn't appeal. Subconsciously, I'm probably ensuring that doesn't happen.
Lost for words, reading this.
Shakes head.
Brilliant.
The best possible response.
Part of the most ignored Generation here.
I'm working on a solution for that, now that I have more free time available.
Apparently, I'm older than 81% of MacRumors members - if you consider 158 votes to be a representative sample of over a million members... which I don't. 🤣 If I really want to feel old, I can go to Facebook and see posts from my former students that I remember as college freshmen, who now have grandchildren!
I never said that "I was born a middle aged man"; I said that I have always felt that I was born middle-aged.
And I love middle age, for you develop a sense of having grown into yourself, of confidence in yourself, along with having become comfortable in your own skin.
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Actually, speaking (writing?) about age, time, generations (real, imagined, assigned or putative), I have just noticed that someone (and yes, @AhmetRyzen, I'm looking at you), seems to have resurrected what had been a thoroughly dead thread, a classic necro thread, and one moreover, where the OP is no longer with us on the forum.
Well, I am as guilty as anyone else here in succumbing to the siren lure of something that I am more than old enough to know better not to have been tempted by.
Well, I am as guilty as anyone else here in succumbing to the siren lure of something that I am more than old enough to know better not to have been tempted by.
Out of 10 pages of posts, I wasn't quoting your musings directly but was summarising the sentiment made across various posts that fitted the point I wanted to make
Fair enough.Out of 10 pages of posts, I wasn't quoting your musings directly but was summarising the sentiment made across various posts that fitted the point I wanted to make
Same here. 50 was the worst, everything seemed to fail at 50: knees, blood pressure etc
I'd just like to see a post from another planet. Who cares about posting from the afterlife?
Glad you have more free time.
The trick is to put no effort into fitness or health in your 20s, and only start once you hit 40 so you can say "Wow, I've never felt fitter!" and annoy people.
Is that a bad thing?
I don't think it's bad if someone resurrects a dead thread, with two exceptions:
- The thread has been LONG dead - like over 5 or so years
- A reply to the thread is futile - it's a "permanently ignored" thread
I did not mean that. We will all die when our time comes. I hope we all live for many years, but decades from now this will be the diary of those of us who have died. So for me, the word "a few" does not mean a number between 5-10 as you would understand. I apologize if I was misunderstood, which I was.