what is 64

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!

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!

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.

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

"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!

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.

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,

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 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.

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 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?

And statins

That's creakily.. not creepily

Have been 65 for almost 6 months,doing same as 55 ..just slowly and creepily,not having been o holiday for 15 years- circumstantial- have decided to scrimp and scrape took the bull by the horns look out world we are a coming,downside been told stations are advisable, start today,and sugars on high side of normal ,so some changes to be made,OH 45 tomorrow keeps me youngish along with 19yr old GD,who has been with me since 4,several younger friends,and a new little GD ( my son)..due next week...wonder what 66 is like[

Totally agree with the idea of think young and you’ll act young.
A lot has to do with genetics and general family attitudes. I’m 66 and have a lot of friends in the 40 to 50 age range, as well as my age and beyond. Their views and opinions are diverse, which helps me keep a young outlook on life.
Genetically, my Great Grandmothers lived into their 90s, my Grandmothers only into their 80s, but they smoked!
My mother into her 80s and she also smoked. So I’m hoping to last! Of course there’s always the proverbial ‘hit by a bus’!

Can't remember!

Go and see " book club" went last night it'll make you feel 18 again! Never mind 64!

I’ll be 64 in July and I don’t suppose it will be much different from 63. Just keep doing what you want and can.
Some people are ‘old’ at much younger age and some young when much older in years.

It’s funny how some birthdays pass almost without notice, yet others have us pondering all sorts of things. This year I am still trying to come to terms with the fact that I feel life is slipping by and I’m not getting the best out of it. I am trying to address that, but it didn’t bother me at all on my previous birthday.

wow-great responses. i love it that all you lovely 60+ women are out there-doing things. i dont feel bad being 64 but as i said, it just seems so much older than 63.
as a matter of interest, do you think that technology is helping us all stay younger for longer? by that i mean information at your finger tips, forums to chat and discuss, images of glam older women such as helen mirren. i feel that technology can open the mind to possibilities older generations had no idea about. we just need to run with it

I was 64 in January I don't feel any different to this time last year. I haven't "sprung out of bed" for years sadly.
I have got to the stage when doing my make up of thinking "that'll do, who's going to look at you anyway" but I do still make the effort.
My head tells me I'm 34 but unfortunately my body dosen't agree.

I always think of the Beatles song, 'When I'm 64, getting older, losing my hair' etc.
It's just a number though, isn't it? I'll be 64 in January so I just hope that I'll still be here with good health, etc.

Don't dwell on something you can't change. My dear old mum used to say...if you think old, you will act old and you will get old. So true.
I too am 64, have a bit of arthritis and aching in the mornings sometimes. But you can only be as good as you let yourself be. 64 is young nowadays. I have lost quite a few friends who died young, mostly from cancer. Just enjoy your life, try and ignore those aches and pains. Young people can have arthritis, aches and pains, its not just an age thing so try not to focus on the not so good things, and focus on the good things in your life xx

Numbers are just numbers. I am 76, pretty fit, travel a lot, just written a book,ready to be sold. Grown up Grandchildren dont need to be looked after anymore.I can do what I want when I want, couldnt be better. At 64 you are YOUNG, enjoy the years ahead!

Since being 64 I’ve changed a lot. Now 68 I’ve had my eyebrows tattooed as they were so sparse. I was given a new look by a national newspaper which made me more youthful looking and have done more modelling for them. I had my teeth professionally whitened. I’ve been a couch potato all my life and hated exercise, but now I do kickboxing three times a week and take part in four hour hit squad sessions of mixed martial arts. Tomorrow, hopefully, I will have outlived my DM who dropped dead unexpectedly. Perhaps this has driven me on to enjoy my sixties. Embrace being 64. It’s a new beginning, not the beginning of the end.