What makes you feel old?

feeling old when seeing my grandchildren reach 30+, my children 2 of which are now in their fifties and my oldest great granddaughter is 17.

Walking past a building site to total silence!!

I don't feel old at all (I'm 64) but I've pulled a muscle in my calf and I'm hobbling around very slowly. It doesn't make me feel old but probably makes me look old. Normally I run, even in the house, or walk quite fast. I've always found people who amble along intensely irritating, especially if I can't get past them. They are often much younger than I am. (Of course, I'm excluding anyone with a stick/crutches/carer/tight white perm etc. They're entitled to be slow whatever their chronological age!) If I were behind myself later today in the airport, I'd be fuming. I'm going to be slow. Sadly, it was running that did the damage. I already had some discomfort from overuse at a residential fitness week ? but it was resolving. I forgot to be careful, ran down the passageway to fetch something and bang! something popped ? That was on Sunday morning and I'm still not walking properly. No offence intended btw. Sorry to sound horribly complacent. I'm lucky to be (usually) fit and well.

Photographs are a different matter! ? I try not to look...

Several things make me feel old ,involuntary groaning when I try to get out of a chair , falling asleep after the GC have been , not being able to decorate all day (or even for a couple of hours) like I used to , preferring to stay in and watch a good programme to going out to the pub . I look better than I feel because I always wear make up and do my hair but inside I feel ancient some times .

Realising that I don't have the enthusiasm for doing things and going places that I used to have, despite being fairly fit for my age (68). Also comparing how I worry about everything now. In the middle of a house move, and I'm terrified, wish we'd stayed put. It might not have been the most sensible option, but definitely easier.

Like Pollyperkins ....when I go to town, I keep seeing this old woman following me whenever I look at a reflection in shop windows ....she seems to be in every dressing room I go in, and even seems to try the same clothes on !! I wish she would go away ...when I turn on my new fangled phone and accidentally take a 'selfie' ,,,,have no idea who this wrinkled, white haired old lady is ? .....I am almost at the stage of covering every mirror in the house ....

Lisalou, that made me laugh so much! Thanks?. AND it made me forget my aching back that tells me I'm not as able for stacking logs as I used to be

When my GD said "how did you do that in the olden days grandma? "

Going to the opticians and being told that I have a cataract coming! Eek!
Not being able to get out of a bath tub without doing a beached whale impersonation.
No longer enjoying spending the day shopping. Half an hour and I've had enough

Three years ago, the optometrist made me feel young by telling me that I was unique in my age group in having not a sign of cataracts. A year later he made me feel old again by informing me that I had, in the interim, acquired a cataract. Sod's law!

No longer being able to have a soak in the bath in case I can't get out again... I wouldn't mind if I had the sort of body that would appeal to a dishy fireman, but sadly I don't anymore!

Eeeek! Finding out that Robert Redford is 80 today! 80!!!!!

One good thing about being old, I love when polite people, ask if they can help me with my luggage on and off trains,I eagerly accept. I am in good health and thankful to be old, many people havent made it here.
Accept what comes with age, the good and the bad!

I had to visit a man yesterday as part of my job. I found out today that he had described me (couldn't remember my name) as being blonde and in my 20's. I had a good laugh at this as he is 40 years out with my age and my hair is now heading towards being white!! He definitely needs to go to "Specsavers"!!

My 10yr old GS calling me from his smart phone.

That should have said smart WATCH.

Couple of years back I was walking into town when the pavements were a little slippery - a youngish man say 'go careful luv'.

That did it I knew I was old - early 60's

Getting the renewal notice for my driving licence. I'm healthy fit and still in my 20's at heart.

Mobility - the lack of it - is the big problem. I'm 63 but move round very, very slowly and painfully due to arthritis (mainly in the knees but also the toes and the back!) and it makes me feel ancient. I daren't sit on a low seat and can't stand unless I "push up" on something. Haven't been able to kneel down or sit on the floor for years.

The grey hair, dodgy heart and hairy chin don't bother me too much. Nor do remarks by my youngest grandchildren along the lines of, "Nana's very old and will die soon, won't she?" The older grandkids used to make similar remarks years ago, when I wasn't even 50...

If I can lose some weight and hopefully then have surgery on my knees, I think it will give me a new lease of life.

As for other things...Well, people like Bowie dying makes me realise that a lot of time has passed since the days of our youth. Modern technology also helps to reinforce the feeling of being a bit of an old fool.

Realising with a jolt that my lovely granddaughter will be 10 in October,and is rapidly catching up with me height-wise. It barely seems like 5 minutes that I was cuddling her as a newborn.

When in the doctor's surgery she was phoning the hospital to arrange my emergency admission, I heard her say "I've got a 71 year old lady here ........." and I looked round to see who she was talking about!

When you hear that this week is the 39th anniversary of Elvis's death !

I feel really old when I scroll down a menu to enter the year of my birth! It seem to take forever........And also when I need to tick a box to indicate which age bracket I come into ((

Watching that little 5 year old boy in Syria. I feel so helpless and old when I see such dear little souls, I want to sweep them up and rock away the hurt.