Thread: Rant! 'Getting Old'

Yeah what we could do all day once, now it takes us all day to do it.

You know what I hate about getting old?

Umm, wait a minute....


No hang on - I know this!

Err... - darn, never mind

Im hoping when I hit the later years growth hormone will be much cheaper to obtain. It may kill ya but the way I see it, I could live for 20 more years where all I'm doing is existing or live for 10 years and get every minute out of every day.

Originally Posted by Spooky

You know what I hate about getting old?

Umm, wait a minute....


No hang on - I know this!

Err... - darn, never mind

half past seven

I've seen blokes who are old at 40 and others who are young at 80

Maybe I'm wrong but as I see it, if you stay as active as possible you can live to a ripe old age and be fit & well & mentally alert.

I'm pushing 65 but I'll still go fell a tree if I need to use it for timber or firewood etc.

I hate it when you get an SMS from your apprentice and there are numbers and letters all jumbled around and it take five minutes to work out that said apprentice is bringing a new recipe book to work for my appraisal.


For gods sake why cant they just call........

It's all a matter of your attitude. Getting old can't be avoided but thinking old is destructive. Echidnas comment is nice but unfortunately some people are not physically able to go out and cut down that tree - lucky for you Bob.

As for myself I consider myself a very lucky man, Yes I do have arthritis - severe at that; I have a new hip and a solid steel arm with the prospect of the other hip and arm needing to be "fixed" in the forseeable future. add to that my dismal financial state and you may think that I'm at the bottom of life: NO! don't let these things suppress the spirit, in the past year I have helped so many other people Ithat I don't know how I have had time for myself, but I certainly have. With a wife and family that are second to none, we have achieved much. Amidst pain and far too often hospitalisation I still look after a half acre garden, do my wood projects and in the past year had a birthday present from my daughters of a full on aerobatic flight and recently went for a holiday with my eldest daughter (marine biologist) daughter swimming with whalesharks and manta rays.

Don't let age (should I say ageing?) get you down. ageing is not easy but niether is growing out of childhood - it is called life.

Denn

Denns right on the mark, its all about attitude to life.
And being active within your own capabilities,
swimming with sharks, that's not for a feeble man.

I might be able to fell a tree and cut it up,
but I can't split a barrow load of firewood with an axe.
I can't even push a lawn mower.
Yet I can dig holes, always detested digging holes.

Should this not have been posted into the Woodworkers With Disabilities

All these things we cant do means we are not able = disable.

I know I should talk my younger years
1st pic me on the right not only did I drive but I maintained the vehicles body n soul.
2nd pic about 10 yrs on

I was disabled then too but not in the whels I am now there is a long long story attached to why.

They say the second sign of growing old is losing your memory, I don't remember what the first sign is.

Why not just concentrate on what you can do, yet don't forget the things you used to do - they all helped to build your life.

Denn

Originally Posted by batcat

God I hate getting old......

I do not think you would appreciate the alternative very much )

I always thought that getting old gave you the rights to buy horse power to replace man power. ie MORE TOOLS.......

Originally Posted by batcat

I hate it that I am 'slowing down' even if I am in my mid-fifties!
This morning I filled a 6 cubic mtr skip in 4hours.
I am now soooooo paying for it with an ache here and here and here etc etc etc
I remember when I could do that, then dig another ditch in the same afternoon and then go to the pub for a night out with the boys grumble grumble grumble
Of course being a typical male, I am now whinging to the SOH
God I hate getting old......

I understand your sentiment (young man),
but how long since you've worked that intensely.

For big hard tasks were supposed to work up to it.

Take heart your probably as fit as most and fitter than some - just out of training.

You may as well enjoy life while your getting old cos there's no way back