How old do you feel

I feel exactly the age I am. And that's after feeling young for my age for years. I am convinced that real ageing kicks in after seventy.

Sorry.

Perhaps I should get that post deleted. Not exactly jolly is it.

Physically I feel I'm older than I actually am.
Mentally I feel 30ish. But when I get together with my friend 'J' I some times regress to my teens

I also feel the age I am. It isn't just about physical age. Mentally I have lived the number of years I've lived and gained in knowledge, in experience, and hopefully (cough) in wisdom appropriate to my years.

Why are people obsessed with feeling younger than they are? I am the age I am and this is how it feels. In ten years time, if I live that long, I will be ten years older. Get over it.

I'm with ninathenanna. Physically I am not in great nick and have problems associated with more years than I have accumulated. But I am full of ideas and beans of one sort or another and find it hard to believe that I am older. But, what the heck, we have to take what we get!

Trouble is, I don't know what being my age is supposed to feel like. Do any of us? Afterall, we've never been this old before, have we? Mentally, I think I've always been an old soul so there will be many here older than me with a younger outlook. Physically? It depends on the day...

My brain thinks I am still about 30; I look in the mirror and realise that I'm not. I am in good nick physically apart from a few minor irritating problems, so I suppose I now feel about 5 years younger than I am - 60 and holding

I agree with you mollie how am I supposed to feel? I feel physically younger than my age and I probably often don't act my age. Some of my friends are a lot younger than me. If I am with a certain friend of the same age I think either she is old for her age or I am young.

When it comes to people asking me for advice I think I am the right age but when I heard something on the radio yesterday about older people driving I couldn't believe that some would think I was too old.

I don't think I ever feel older than I am.

I'm with Mollie How old does 60 feel ? or 70 or 80. I feel however I feel each day. Just enjoy life as much as you can and don't worry about the numbers.

But ginny don't we revert to childhood in our 80s and start saying "I'm nearly ........" as if it is some great achievement?

Don't really know what a 64 year old feels like but I would say a lot of 80/90 year olds think and act a lot younger than me!

I'm 70 in December. Mentally I feel about 40 but physically:-
About ready to drop off my perch.

There is definitely a physical/mental divide isn't there? Physically I feel some years older than my actual age, but mentally I don't feel much different to say 45/50 [that means as I felt when that age, not everyone.]
There's a George Harrison song with the lines 'Some days I'm pretty sharp and somedays I feel half dead' which pretty much sums it up!

It varies from time to time, depending on circumstances, health and company. I have never been 64 before so no idea how I am supposed to feel.

I'm a babby of 53, but still find it weird that my oldest child is 33...the same age as some of the people I work with. And yet I feel I am on a par with them physically and mentally, which is why I can't get round this 'they are the same age as my son' thing .

This is an interesting post because we have never been this age [and nothing prepares us for it] so don't think it's helpful for a poster to say 'get over it'. We are not really complaining, but age does come as a bit of a shock really, not only the intimations of mortality, but the everyday surprise of not moving about as speedily as we used to [I can't run for example.]That stiffness when you have been watching tv or reading and then get up and wobble off to put the kettle on [!!!]Catching sight of yourself in the mirror, looking old and frowning like your Grandma.Bending over flowerpots in the garden and twinge-ing when you straighten up.Getting irritable.All sorts of things. And it's all new to us!

I feel absolutely wonderful and far too young to be this old

Still, we all seem to be grinning a lot [on here at any rate.]

nightowl I don't think people are obsessed with feeling younger - but it's just a fact, with me anyway, that many of us are surprised at how old we are!

I'm sure I look every bit my 59 years but for some reason if I had to place myself I'd say...... erm, 43.

Nothing personal grateful but the word 'babby' sets my teet on edge!

wasn't that an ironic 'babby'.

Teeth not teet!

Many years ago before she passed I remember my mother saying :
I can"t possibly have grandchildren
I can"t possibly have children of thirty
I am not old enough.
Credit to her though she did not act 75 , or really look it , she had a good sense of homour and liked a laugh , hopefully some of her genes have passed through to me , I would like to think so !!