Comments on: When does that time of oldness step in? http://crepusculum60.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/when-does-that-time-of-oldness-step-in/ Questioning the human twilight and beyond. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:29:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Frank http://crepusculum60.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/when-does-that-time-of-oldness-step-in/#comment-307 Frank Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:13:24 +0000 http://crepusculum60.wordpress.com/?p=739#comment-307 Oh my god, we should have been siblings!!! Are you really that part of me that has always been there and now we know each other? I will race you to that ride and we will scream and holler just like we were kids. I now can think of anything but a roller coaster!! Oh my god, we should have been siblings!!! Are you really that part of me that has always been there and now we know each other? I will race you to that ride and we will scream and holler just like we were kids. I now can think of anything but a roller coaster!!

]]> By: shadowlands1501 http://crepusculum60.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/when-does-that-time-of-oldness-step-in/#comment-306 shadowlands1501 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:26:48 +0000 http://crepusculum60.wordpress.com/?p=739#comment-306 Frank, Froget the grandsons, I'll go ride...they are afraid of rides...I ridden everything from the rides at the state fair to all of them at King's Island and I would go tomorrow if we could..We would have a blast! Frank,
Froget the grandsons, I’ll go ride…they are afraid of rides…I ridden everything from the rides at the state fair to all of them at King’s Island and I would go tomorrow if we could..We would have a blast!

]]> By: Frank http://crepusculum60.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/when-does-that-time-of-oldness-step-in/#comment-305 Frank Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:58:38 +0000 http://crepusculum60.wordpress.com/?p=739#comment-305 It is by far a very strange attitude to have. I used to think "when am I going to grow up" and then I would watch my Mother having the time of her life at 75-80-82 and I thought, hey wait a minute, Momma is all grown and yet she enjoys fun like a child and prompts other people to feel free to be with her. Some just couldn't while others had the time of their life. She never suffered by it, everyone loved her, and so I stopped wondering and saw my "when am I going to grow up" worry go away real fast. I tell you what you romp with the grandkids in the yard and then they can go on the roller coaster with me--Okay? Thanks shadowlands, Frank It is by far a very strange attitude to have. I used to think “when am I going to grow up” and then I would watch my Mother having the time of her life at 75-80-82 and I thought, hey wait a minute, Momma is all grown and yet she enjoys fun like a child and prompts other people to feel free to be with her. Some just couldn’t while others had the time of their life. She never suffered by it, everyone loved her, and so I stopped wondering and saw my “when am I going to grow up” worry go away real fast. I tell you what you romp with the grandkids in the yard and then they can go on the roller coaster with me–Okay?
Thanks shadowlands,
Frank

]]> By: shadowlands1501 http://crepusculum60.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/when-does-that-time-of-oldness-step-in/#comment-303 shadowlands1501 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:13:33 +0000 http://crepusculum60.wordpress.com/?p=739#comment-303 Frank, What a wonderful post. I think there are "old souls". I have met those who were "old"even when they were children... I didn't understand the concept of old because my parents were always doing the things that they always did. Even at 72, I didn't consider my mother old. She was sick and she had cancer, but she never was old to my way of thinking. I think that society wants to label everything. I remember in our generation, we said to never trust anyone over 30. Today, I think that society doesn't want to consider that they to will be over 30 and many are sowing seeds of a harvest that they will reap. I don't think anyone is any different as they grow more mature. Yes, we have lived long enough to gain more wisdom and yes, we have seen cycles in life come and go, but we are never different as the years pile on. The best thing that I believe has come with my middle 50's is that I don't have to prove myself to anyone. Heaven help the one who thinks that I do...I am old enough to tell them to put it where the sun doesn't shine...and I don't feel a moments regret if I do. I am more like you. I intellectually know that I have more years behind me than before me, but I want to live my life as much now as I did when I was a teenager. I have things that I want to know about and places to see. I am a grandmother, but I run and jump and play with them just as I did with my cousins...In fact, it is more fun to be around them than it is around adults. Maybe, that is why I love to work with kids and think of myself as a pediatric nurse. Thanks for this post. I love it... Frank,
What a wonderful post. I think there are “old souls”. I have met those who were “old”even when they were children…

I didn’t understand the concept of old because my parents were always doing the things that they always did. Even at 72, I didn’t consider my mother old. She was sick and she had cancer, but she never was old to my way of thinking.

I think that society wants to label everything. I remember in our generation, we said to never trust anyone over 30. Today, I think that society doesn’t want to consider that they to will be over 30 and many are sowing seeds of a harvest that they will reap.

I don’t think anyone is any different as they grow more mature. Yes, we have lived long enough to gain more wisdom and yes, we have seen cycles in life come and go, but we are never different as the years pile on. The best thing that I believe has come with my middle 50’s is that I don’t have to prove myself to anyone. Heaven help the one who thinks that I do…I am old enough to tell them to put it where the sun doesn’t shine…and I don’t feel a moments regret if I do.

I am more like you. I intellectually know that I have more years behind me than before me, but I want to live my life as much now as I did when I was a teenager.

I have things that I want to know about and places to see. I am a grandmother, but I run and jump and play with them just as I did with my cousins…In fact, it is more fun to be around them than it is around adults.

Maybe, that is why I love to work with kids and think of myself as a pediatric nurse.

Thanks for this post. I love it…

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