Getting older

[Nick9]

Is it the gay 'gene' to start worrying about one's age once one reaches 25 (only 25????)

No, it's not

[EvenOlderButWiser]

50 in two months

Not much you can do to stop the march of time, we all get old eventually, some gracefully, some not :-p

I'm the fittest Ive been in 15 years, have my health and I do a job I love that lets me travel the world.

Ive had 3 partners in the last 24 years, and been with my current one for the last 8 years. We have our ups and downs like a lot of couples, but if getting older changes one thing, its not wanting to grow old alone. I'm lucky to be at the stage now where I can afford to live a little, but the thought of not being able to share that with someone is my biggest fear. I guess because of that I'm more forgiving of him when things are strained LoL

ObW
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[seeking]

I'm only 55, and they call that middle aged. Middle aged? Do you know anyone who's 110?

Agree...I always think middle age is around 30-40...
you know in my city they recently really call people around 30 middle aged. Many friends around me always say "oh i am too old now" though usually it is in a joking manner, we really feel aged when look back to our childhood - "so it's been already over 20 years, and I feel like a blink of an eye. so 20 more years later when I look back I'll feel the same."

Youth just burnt after stepped inside 20s, I always feel myself still a teenager at around 16-17

[Blue]

Well, getting older is going to happen, can't help that.

So far not too bad - can't tell if it's aspirin or the dog's allergy med without my glasses, I do groan getting into bed - and out of it too some days.

More aches and pains, but, I haven't hit the one I'm dreading YET - I can't say "It takes me all night to do what I used to do all night." honestly yet, that one I dread.

[ThatRobGuy]

At 28 years old, I still consider myself fairly young; however, it feels old to ME since I've never been there before. I often think, whatever age I am, about my life up to that point and all the things I've done or haven't done and about how, for example, in another 28 years I'll be 56 and wonder about what the next 28 years will bring, where I'll be when 56 years old comes, etc.

It is scary to deeply ponder age and existence and how fragile time and life truly are and how I want to do my best to make the most of it.

[seeking]

你幾歲?
asked my friend Fei, just earlier...
[SIZE=2]By Chinese standards, I'd be 54. By our standards I'm 53.

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Great to see using traditional chinese characters :biggrin:

[cardiganwearer]

你幾歲

That's a whole lot of pen strokes for "how old are you". How old are you by the time you've learned traditional Chinese characters? That must be half a lifetime of work.

[Nick9]

你幾歲

That's a whole lot of pen strokes for "how old are you". How old are you by the time you've learned traditional Chinese characters? That must be half a lifetime of work.

LOL Even Chinese people say that they don't know all the characters. Reading newspapers or scientific books is a challenge for many.
Surprisingly, learning how to write characters is not difficult. There are rules - which way to draw, what part to draw first - it's like learning to recite a poem.

[megumidesu]

何才ですか　is "how old are you ? " in japanese

[cardiganwearer]

I've just been looking it up, it seems an important part of the character is the way it is drawn. I suspect that is an additional way to remember them. Then there's the whole pronunciation thing and tones conveying radically different meanings. Languages are difficult, I know enough French and German to buy a railway ticket or order a meal but when French or German people have heard me they always start to talk in (nearly perfect) English. Probably decided I'd done enough damage to their language!

Anyone posting here for whom English isn't their first language has my admiration, and I'll never ever criticise.