Do you feel your age?

[Lord Jim]

The two above are examples of the shit-bombs I routinely ignore. And do here as well.

Rube, if there's one thing you have consistently demonstrated here, it is an atrocious knowledge of history....factually, demonstrably atrocious, as has been proven numerous times...

So when I read you describing yourself as "someone who has always read a lot of history"...

Hilarity immediately ensued...

(The immediate question that springs to mind upon seeing such a bizarre claim, is "If he isn't lying, what on earth has he been reading that would lead him to make some of the appallingly inaccurate historical claims he has made? Whatever it is, it should be avoided like the plague by anyone who would like to have even a minimally accurate understanding of the past.")

And since the obvious humor of you making such a claim was apparently not caused by a deliberate effort on your part to be funny, then the logical conclusion is that it sprang from your world class cluelessness about yourself, making it "unintentional humor"...

A skill, which as I have pointed out before, you excel at with a singular talent, and which is the number one thing that makes your posts worth reading.

[Crackpot]

Jim reading does not equal understanding

[Lord Jim]

Jim reading does not equal understanding

That occurred to me as one possibility, CP....

Another possibility that occurred to me was that reading also does not equal "retaining"....

A third possibility is that perhaps he wasn't talking about the sort of general historical facts that he has demonstrated such a profound lack of knowledge about. Maybe when he says he's "read a lot of history" he's referring to the history of things that are more arcane; Maybe he's read a lot about the history of polyester, or aluminum siding, or duckpin bowling....

[Econoline]

I don't know if I "feel my age", since I've never been 66 before* and thus don't know how I'm supposed to feel...

Do I feel different (differently?) from when I was younger? Sure. In some ways that's good, in some ways not so good.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
--William Lyon Phelps

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
--Leon Trotsky

*...and neither has anyone else here.

[alice]

The most annoying thing for me about my age is that my eyes are starting to fail, and I have glasses for reading and close-up work.
I used to have excellent eyesight, and find it really annoying to have to be looking for my glasses just so that I can read the fine print on a food package
It killed my enjoyment of sewing (can't thread my sewing machine without a lot of cursing, and can't focus properly on handsewing - the glasses annoy me and I feel like I'm always still a little bit 'out' in my vision)
It also killed my emjoyment of jigsaw puzzles. I haven't got the acuteness of vision that I used to have, even with the glassesn on, so I have to plod slowly along on the puzzles, whereas prevoously I used to be able to see some very minute 'something' in a puzzle piece that helped me to place it very quickly - even with endless blue sky I could find the very very slight colour difference that meant I knew which part of the sky i was looking at. The last couple I did ended up being more a 'job to finish' rather than the enjoyable hoppy they'd always been. Same with my sewing - it became more a frustration that a peaceful relaxation.
So that very much makes me feel my age, I think - I envy my children their still-perfect eyesight.

Apart from that - hmmmmm .... I don't have the health I used to have, and I don't have the enthusiastically positive outlook to life I had when I was younger. Both of those are as a result of life choices that, with the wisdom of now, I probably wouldn't have made if I had my time again.
Also I used to be a bit of a hippy naured person, and now I guess I'm more sedate and structured. Sometimes and some ways that's good, sometimes and some ways not so good.

But - although I definitelyknow and feel that i'm getting iolder - I don't feel any particular age, and am often surprised at how old I actually am.

[Sean]

I have the body of an 18 year old!

I really ought to bury it though, it's getting a bit ripe...

[Gob]

I feel like an 18 year old. No chance of me getting one though...

[oldr_n_wsr]

[Beer Sponge]

I've bested my personal record for days lived today!

Here's hoping tomorrow breaks it!!!

[Miles]

63 going on I am not certain but I remember being 20, 30, 40 , well you get the point. Not concerned with whats next. Just more interested in whats every day brings.

[Gob]

Good attitude Miles.

[The Hen]

I feel some where between my mid twenties and mid thirties.

I am growing old disgracefully and I am doing everything in my power to be considered amongst the more excentric of our brethern.

But then I am only turning "9" next birthday.

I turn "9" as I have started my retirement count down.

Nine years after I turn 50 I will accrue my pension and I can retire.

When I reach my sixieth year on this planet, I will turn "1".

I will be holding a CRACKING "21st" party when I enter my eighty-first year on this planet.

Whomever is still here is invited to come.

Hell, I'll even look towards subbing you.

[dgs49]

I quit going to reunions because I was depressed that I might look as bad as the other old bastards in my HS graduating class.

Candidly speaking, as a group they (we) look awful.

One thought that sprang up as I read some of these posts is that it is sad that I lacked the resources to do a lot of things I wanted to do when I was younger (exciting travel and vacations), and now that I have the resources those adventures would be too strenuous or dangerous for me to try them.

[Miles]

As I have said many times there are usually two types of old people who sit on the porch watching life go by. One is smiling the other is not. The one who is smiling is most likely remembering all the things they did in life. The other is thinking of all the things they wanted to do but were either too timid or afraid to do.

I will be the one smiling.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Me too.

[Gob]

Ditto, but I don't want to sit next to rubato, thanks.

[Econoline]

[rubato]

Never gone to a HS reunion. Always looked forward rather than back.

More fun that way.

yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

Never gone to a HS reunion. I've never been invited or welcome.

Fixed

[rubato]

More shit-bombs from the morons.

that's your best?

yrs,
rubato