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I will hunt down anyone who replies "Yeah, but it's better than the alternative."

That can't be Kathleen Turner.

Nevermind - I just noticed it says Lauren Bacall. Please don't put up a recent pic of Kathleen Turner; I'd like to remember her from her 80's movies.

Most of us come into this world with no hair and no teeth and we pretty much check out the same way.

As natural as a sunrise, why do you find it weird?

time for some Bruce Jenner pics?

That would be the "Late" Bruce Jenner, Arps.

Look up Gary Richrath. In 1978 as the lead guitarist of REO Speedwagon he could have any girl in the crowd he wanted to meet him back stage.
Before his death last year he looked like he could have played the role of an overweight ogre and not need makeup.
I'm sure that many of the late 70's groupies probably couldn't scrub them selves in a shower long enough, in hot enough water, if they saw a photo from 2015, to make themselves feel okay today.
Yikes. He did not age well.

Getting Old and not taking care of your appearance are separate issues.

Getting old is what we all do naturally if we survive long enough. It really isn't Getting Old, it is more of a matter of Earning Old.

I have known far too many people who never got the chance to earn Old.

Now I'm scarred for life. Thanks for that.

Certainly. Though long jevity can also be a cruel game. In hospice we say, "You don't beat the grim reaper by living long. You beat him by living well."

I just turned 29. I feel old.

In my world we say, "You don't beat the grim reaper."

Then you have Jennifer Aniston, who's still as sexy as she was years and years ago.

I think she'll always be my "crush" lol.

She is still crazy hot!

I think there’s two parts to the “weird” part of becoming elderly.

1. In retrospect it happens very, very quickly. (as you’re looking back on your life)
2. Virtually every elderly person feels like they’re younger self is still inside.

Time is a very strange dimension. What we perceive as “a long time” could easily be perceived as the wink of an eye to some sort of long-lived alien.

To us, a fruit fly only lives a few days. But to the fruit fly… Wait, I can’t speak for fruit flies.

Maybe fruit flies think: “A seven day lifespan?” “That sucks!”

Honestly, I haven’t touched the oxycodone.

Toto?...Toto…?.

Which is why I think the ideal for most people is to be active and then one day at some ripe old age just drop over... rather than have a long protracted debilitating condition...

It feels odd, indeed. I turned 26 last January, and I think of everyone else my age. Most are in some sort of a relationship, married, having kids, etc.

Me? I'm way out in the boondocks. I get to travel at my leisure in the summer, teach some great kids 9 months out of the year, and not tied down to anyone. Sometimes I wonder if I have it the "wrong way", but I'm happy doing what I do.

You have to do what YOU have to do. No harm in that.

Agreed.

Hey, that reminds me Jay Fishman died a few days ago.

Fishman was the CEO of Traveler's Insurance. He was only 63 years old and on top of the world.



He was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) about two years ago and resigned just recently.

I would bet anything that he had a very hush hush "Doctor Assisted" suicide.

He spoke during the PGA Traveler's Championship like 3 weeks ago.

I'll bet anything, he and his closest confidantes planned his death.

ALS is 100% fatal and every day becomes worse.

Fishman was a very driven, ambitious man. I don't think he'd let ALS have the last word.

I'll bet anything.

It would be easier than those people jumping out of the Twin Towers.

Getting old is one instance that being black has an enviable advantage. Now I'm not saying all black people age gracefully and slow, but as a whole they do it much better than white people.

I went from being a young attractive guy to getting dad bod then to starting to fall apart... next thing I know I'll be a prune and then pushing daisies.

But the only weird thing is that I still feel like that young attractive kid inside.

quote above by oldcold:

"But the only weird thing is that I still feel like that young attractive kid inside."

On this board you still are. (well, the kid part anyway)

When I get old I fully intend to dress like an old black man, gray hair, top hat and cane, burgundy suit, black/white wing tips.. yep, I'm going all in.

lose the top hat.
get a fedora.

Definitely

Life is 100% fatal, too.
In fact, it is the #1 cause of Death.

I will probably never die because I don't know how and have never practiced for it.

I once read about a tombstone with the following inscription:

As you are now, so was I once.
As I am now, so shall you be.

The message? Its the human condition; get over it. Stop obsessing about it. Go get a bacon cheeseburger and a beer. Everything's fine, until it isn't.

Really you feel old.i had been running construction jobs for 6 yrs. And I continued until 2005 when I had to retire for disability. But when I was 29 I married the love of my life and today we have been married 35 yrs.

I'm 64. I tell people all the time, inside I still feel like that dumb-ass teenager.

and we still see you as a dumb ass teenager ZING

"Yeah, but it's better than the alternative."

This is what Dick Clark looked like from 1929 through 2012

quote by GM above:

"Yeah, but it's better than the alternative."

I warned you. Prepare to meet your maker.

David Lee Roth, then and now:



This is pretty good too:

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/files/201...mp;a=t&q=89

Me 1965


Me 2016


I have not changed a bit.

Yup, that's the guy I remember from the tailgates.

Some of us have that....hard to explain...

To be serious....aging is a part of the process. With luck we all get there.


The hard part is until we lose our mind, we don't think any differently. We evolve, but from a thinking state, we probably don't change much once we are mid 30's to 40ish....we are grown up at that point.

To me it is like a football game with 20 year quarters. The first quarter is growing up and getting prepared. The 2nd qtr is finding your station in life. The 3rd qtr is grinding it out....from experience, that is the hard one. You are getting older but expected to play like a youndster. The 4th qtr is waiting for the call. Hopefully you get a little time and have a little money to enjoy a few things you may have had to skip earlier in life.