How old do people think you are?

[Tjerk12]

I have no idea what others think about my age. I don’t asked them and I don’t care anyway. For me the two major questions are: how old do I feel myself and can I accept that?

Nature has a strange rhythm. First it does a hell of a job to create a beautiful person and when it is perfect it starts to destroy everything. “For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return” is the Christian description of this phenomenon.
When I was young there was so much physical beauty (I was not bad looking), that it’s value seemed low. Now I am old (65) it has become past and practically out of reach.

Economically you would expect that the value of physical beauty would rise in that case. For some people that is true. They spent a lot of money to look younger.

I wouldn’t spend a dime for such things. I accept my physical body, at least for its looks. I do everything possible to keep it fit, so I can do as much things as possible.

When you get older your mind gets more and more important. That is the only part of your body which you can keep young. A mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is opened. I talk a lot with youngsters. It is so refreshing to see what keeps them busy. I admire their energy and perseverance, and of course their looks. Surrounded by so much beauty it seems of no importance that mine vanished.

Cogito ergo sum, I think, so I exist ( Descartes).

 

[SimplyJakeAndAlex]

I have no idea what others think about my age. I don’t asked them and I don’t care anyway. For me the two major questions are: how old do I feel myself and can I accept that?

Nature has a strange rhythm. First it does a hell of a job to create a beautiful person and when it is perfect it starts to destroy everything. “For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return” is the Christian description of this phenomenon.
When I was young there was so much physical beauty (I was not bad looking), that it’s value seemed low. Now I am old (65) it has become past and practically out of reach.

Economically you would expect that the value of physical beauty would rise in that case. For some people that is true. They spent a lot of money to look younger.

I wouldn’t spend a dime for such things. I accept my physical body, at least for its looks. I do everything possible to keep it fit, so I can do as much things as possible.

When you get older your mind gets more and more important. That is the only part of your body which you can keep young. A mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is opened. I talk a lot with youngsters. It is so refreshing to see what keeps them busy. I admire their energy and perseverance, and of course their looks. Surrounded by so much beauty it seems of no importance that mine vanished.

Cogito ergo sum, I think, so I exist ( Descartes).

And having this philosophy makes you the most beautiful of them all... I am also surrounded by beauty including a bit of myself :blushing: but we sure don't fucking spend all day watching each other in the mirror saying how beautiful we look... we normally find one another beautiful just before sex, during it's scary and after sex who cares, we're wet, we stink, we need a shower and we're for the most of time ready to go sleep :rofl: It's going to be the same routine for a while so why bother?

And you know I believe that one cannot put an age on wisdom... I've seen dude age 30 with very good grasp of reality, while I've seen men age 50 that so wanted to be accepted by younger man that they almost started wearing saggy pants just to fit (yeah I saw that ) ) You my friend have the right attitude... and beside you're a dad... your children and grand children will keep you young for a very long time to come. In my case I may become grand dad at 40 years old who knows... my daughter is 16 years old after all. And I turned my parents grand mommy and daddy quite young too, my mom was 40 years old.

 

[tonka]

I'm in my late 50s and am perceived as a decade younger. Many of my contemporaries seem a generation older.
Fitness and stress reduction make a huge differance. I don't do it to look young, but to keep my mind and body chugging along.

 

[vic_nic80]

22

 

[Rebel7]

I have no idea what others think about my age. I don’t asked them and I don’t care anyway. For me the two major questions are: how old do I feel myself and can I accept that?

Nature has a strange rhythm. First it does a hell of a job to create a beautiful person and when it is perfect it starts to destroy everything. “For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return” is the Christian description of this phenomenon.
When I was young there was so much physical beauty (I was not bad looking), that it’s value seemed low. Now I am old (65) it has become past and practically out of reach.

Economically you would expect that the value of physical beauty would rise in that case. For some people that is true. They spent a lot of money to look younger.

I wouldn’t spend a dime for such things. I accept my physical body, at least for its looks. I do everything possible to keep it fit, so I can do as much things as possible.

When you get older your mind gets more and more important. That is the only part of your body which you can keep young. A mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is opened. I talk a lot with youngsters. It is so refreshing to see what keeps them busy. I admire their energy and perseverance, and of course their looks. Surrounded by so much beauty it seems of no importance that mine vanished.

Cogito ergo sum, I think, so I exist ( Descartes).

Exactly! Youngsters tend to have this preconceived idea that hanging around older people is kinda boring..the generation gap thingy and we won't be understood. I've met people who're confortable with who they're in their 50's and upon conversing with'em turn out that some are very young at heart and enjoy the life they have.

 

[hawtsean]

Exactly! Youngsters tend to have this preconceived idea that hanging around older people is kinda boring..the generation gap thingy and we won't be understood. I've met people who're confortable with who they're in their 50's and upon conversing with'em turn out that some are very young at heart and enjoy the life they have.

HERE HERE!! I work with mostly 19-25 yr olds (both genders). They are constantly amazed and gratified that I both understand the issues that are hot for them, and accept that they have a POV that deserves to be heard and appreciated. The only communication gap of which I was ever aware, was the one between the ears. That gap has no age boundaries.

 

[hawtsean]

You can put on a jacket or dress coat and know instintively that it fits you, looks good in the mirror, gives you a certain confidence, and the material feels good to your hand. Stay away from most items with big gaudy designer labels as most of that stuff is badly made overpriced crap. Plus you don't want to ever be a walking advertisement of someone else.
Stay far away from gimmicks and burn't out fashion . When it shows up in Sears/Walmart, its time to toss it. An example is excessive cargo pockets, they were leading edge 15 years ago, not now.

Oh yeah, get a contemporary haircut.

WOW! What erudtion! First an expert on national Canadian cuisine, now a fashion mogul. Can we tackle your expertise on nuclear fission next?

 

[SimplyJakeAndAlex]

WOW! What erudtion! First an expert on national Canadian cuisine, now a fashion mogul. Can we tackle your expertise on nuclear fission next?

Oh god I'd be scared of that one :rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[smallsleepyrascalcat]

When I was 25 someone thought I'd be 35.

Now I'm 33 and people usually thing I'm around 30.

To be honest, the pic in my profile is from when I was 25 and I didn't change a lot... hair is a bit longer and I lost some weight.

 

[Behrluvr]

WOW! What erudtion! First an expert on national Canadian cuisine, now a fashion mogul. Can we tackle your expertise on nuclear fission next?

If you wish, the nuclear reactions aren't of particular interest to me. I'd rather talk quantum mechanics or astrophysics, or even more high energy particle physics. I'm afraid neither fission nor fusion lights my fire. But feel free to open any topic, I'm expert on just about all topics. BTW, what aspect of my discussion on fashion were you unclear on?

 

[bunnykd]

People assume I'm around 28 because of my early grays I'm actually only 22.

 

[Armpit Licker]

a lot older than i am, specially since i'm tall for my age, and my face makes me look like i'm old (but girls say my face is beautiful, other guys say so too)

 

[billinmd]

They never guess my real age, I look 10 yrs younger!

 

[Waltfore]

I'm 29, but when people look at me and I tell them I'm 29 they are surprised. Thanks to my height and how young I look people think I'm 16-18 yrs old. I still have to show ID when I play the lottery or buy video games lol.

 

[salamander7]

im 25 and people usually think im 19-21

 

[xXAsylumArmyXx]

I'm 19 but get mistaken for anything between a 14 year old and a 17 year old because I have an incredibly young look face and I'm relatively small and petite. That in and of itself wouldn't be quite as bad if people didn't mistake me for female.

 

[Bartimeaus]

I have the same problem as SenorZues; I'm 23 and always get asked for ID when buying drinks etc. as one of my friends so nicely put it, I look like a 15 year old Zac Efron/Justin Bieber clone -.-"

 

[blast27]

If you look younger when you are young (as I did, annoying though it can be sometimes) you will be grateful when you are older because you will still look younger than you really are (as I do).

 

[giu]

People think I am 18 but in fact I am.... more than 18! LOL.

 

[dummaque]

It depends on how recently I've shaved. I've been mistaken for a high school kid when I'm freshly shaven, and some people have thought I was in my 30s when I had an overgrown beard.