what is 64

I am 64 and afraid I can't answer your questions. I started feeling old in my 50s when my otherwise healthy body began to let me down and over the next decade developed high blood pressure, osteoarthritis, cataracts ( both eyes done), underactive thyroid, fatigue and diabetes 2! Believe it or not i feel fine, tablets for hbp and thyroid, cut out sugar and defeated the D2. I also began drinking loads of water and the fatigue melted away and no more joint pain, didn't know dehydration could cause the latter. We underestimate the benefits of water so now, apart from a morning cuppa, it is all i drink.
As to state of mind i have always felt too old thinking 10 years ahead and thinking it was too late to do this or that and now wish i had done things at 40 and 50 as i realise that wasn't old! But here is the dichotomy........everyone thinks i am in my 50s, i run around with grandkids, do not dress old and have not gone grey, more platinum. What is 64? I dunno, but next year i will be saying.... What is 65?

Ditch the aged mindset! I just turned 74 before a canal boat holiday last week. Some days we did 60+ locks a day with me windlassing or helming - the narrowboater will know that's quite a lot!

Next month I will be on my small motorbike to central France for a bike rally. Oh and yes I have been a parliamentary and local government election candidate since turning 70.

Come on folks - you can change the world and yourself!

I am 66. I feel ok. I had always work and love what I did despite hard work, lifting and filing. I wanted to carry on working part time when I retire as I was working in a hospital....I could do that. Unfortunately I had aches and pains.....shoulders, knees and backs. So I had to leave.. I am enjoying my life despite the pain which are there constantly on and off - just been told it's arthritis. Got some other medical issues but coping. I look after my grandsons 2 days a week....collecting from school, swimming or beavers if on those day . Cooking dinner for the family on those days, go for a walk when I can. I suppose I just get on.....it's not as exiting as some of you mentioned ....it's a quiet life for me.

64 seems to me to be very young; 16 years younger than me actually. You don't have to 'act your age' at any age. You can either dress up or dress down, and one of the better things about growing older is that what other people think about you becomes much less important.
On the down side, nobody told me when I was young that I would feel incredibly tired all the time when I was old, nor that bodily aches and pains are part of everyday life.
So embrace being 64, it's a lovely age. You have years ahead of you.

I don't remember being 64 I am 68 in September and just don't think of my age one bit.
At 50 we completly changes our lifestyle with a move abroad for nearly 10years something we had wanted to do for years and before it was too late we did it and enjoyed every minute so no thinking "what if" for us.
We enjoy our life and don't even think in numbers any more,

Well 64 for me is just the same as 63 61 62 etc. I am now 73 still feeling ok, few tweeks to diet, style fashion. Age is just a number.

"the Beatles song, 'When I'm 64, getting older, losing my hair' etc."

How ancient we thought 64 was, when we first heard that song.
It turns out to be nothing like that. Hooray!

Why should you act like an old fuddy duddy ? Eat, drink and be merry and dance on the tables until your legs won't let you lol.

Enjoy life to the full, because tomorrow isn't guaranteed

I’m 70, and apart from arthritis - which I’ve had since late 30s - I feel like a spring chicken.
When I was 64, life was very difficult for many reasons, including work, now I’m free of all those worries, so I’m going to enjoy every day left to me, watching my darling GC growing and thriving.

I will be 70 in the Autumn and am not too bothered about it as what’s the alternative?! I don’t dress old or act old but know I’m getting a bit stiff and have a few aches here and there, and do get tired. Worked full time till I was sixty plus bought up a big family. Don’t drive but have walked miles in my lifetime and in some ways I think this has helped my aging process. There seem to be so many older ladies who take on a certain persona, I got into conversation with one at the bus stop only yesterday and just wished I hadn’t said good morning and what a nice day it was, she didn’t stop complaining about no it wasn’t nice there was a chilly breeze. So no petunia just go with the flow and be yourself, right now I have a very young close family member with cancer but I still get up every morning and enjoy all the other things in life I have, a good OH, family members,friends and interests and hobbies to fill my time. After all age is just a number!

64 last week! Just another day, hot curry made by 11 year old grandson, family to share it and a pleasant day. Now, a week later, life as it was, normal. Visiting D, SIL & 4 GC on a weekly basis, seeing friends, Church, family visits, a few minor aches and pains, gardening, knitting, the usual.
(Can't work, I've had ME/CFS for the last 20 years.)
18mths to my pension and bus pass! Then I'll be travelling!
That's 64 for me!

Well as I am 64 today I can say I feel no different from yesterday except a little more excited. I’m wearing a blue maxi dress and shrug as it’s a little chillier than yesterday and am off soon to a picnic and afternoon out at the American museum with my husband and best friend. Yes I’m less mobile and my hair is white blonde (but I like it that way) but inside I feel the same love of life.

I'm 66 and I don't think you need worry.

There are days when I realize that some things take longer now or a more difficult than when I was 20, but on the whole there isn't all that much different..

The compensation is not HAVING to get up at 6 a.m. to go to work.

I really fancy the metallic silver hair! I will be 64 later this year and feel as though my hair needs a makeover - perhaps getting it cut very short and dying metallic silver is the way to go...

It's a lot younger than I am now!

I'm 67 next Tuesday, I feel a lot younger (but probably don't look it). A few aches occasionally, but I just get on with things like I've always done, if I have too!

I will be 70 later this month and apart from the odd ache and pain certainly don’t feel it, so to cheer myself up have just bought some metallic chrome amethyst (a nice shade of purple) hair colour which i hope will look as stunning on me as it does on the box (as if!). Also considered a tiny tattoo despite disliking them all my life, am whitening my old teeth and hope to shift a few pounds prior to the big day.
Petunia I can tell you that 70 seems a lot older than 69, but we are never as young as we are today so enjoy what’s on offer because however old we are in years we always feel 20 years or more younger in our heads.

I remember when the Beatles first sang "will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64"

Then I remember the shock of realising (I think about twelve years ago) that Paul McCartney was 64 and wondering "how did that happen?"

All sorts of things play a part in how we feel when older,
Health, money worries, family worries etc.
Then there is character, optimists tend to enjoy life more than pessimists.
In short, there is no one size fits all for being 64 or 74 or 84.
I try and enjoy the small things and don’t feel I have to rush around doing things non stop with a ‘bucket list’.

At 64 , I was lucky enough to retire and now I enjoy the good life ( don’t get my state pension until November though) I have moved to South Queensferry and I having the time of my life. In Scotland you get your bus pass at 60, so I have free travel around Scotland and the borders. I’m 9 miles from Edinburgh, so have all the galleries, museums and festivals on my doorstep. I walk for miles along beautiful beaches. Though we don’t have a lot of money for holidays etc, however, I feel I’m on holiday permanently.

Far be it from me to disagree with anyone Silverling
but turning 70 a couple of months ago felt absolutely no different to being 69.
I find I have truly reached the point where it is only a number.
But that’s my personal opinion about me.
On the other hand it mattered enormously to have Paw out of hospital for his 70th last September and despite scaling back the planned celebration to just the extended family for a tea party with bunting and balloons, it mattered so much to be able to celebrate with his loved ones around him.
All the more so as he slipped way just 6 weeks later.

silverlining apologies for missing off a few letters!

What is 64? Well 64 was 24 years ago! I still had a fabulous 70th birthday party ahead of me, a move to the seaside to come, a visit to Australia at 76.
Four more grandchildren to be born, and now a great grandchild To arrive later this year.
Sadly I’ve lost my DH, but life is some ups and some downs. Focus on what you enjoy, Petunia, and take each day as it comes. Sure there are aches and pains but there is always someone worse of than you and me.

For me too, age is just a number (albeit a big one!) but does not have to be a frame of mind. A second hip replacement beckons but - hey-ho - I want to be the best I can for as long as I can...

I can barely remember bein g 64. Ten years older & still going strong! Hope be fit at 84 too!!