When do you become old age wise.

Old is relative, but assuming you're really 61, you have 12.5 years before you reach the average male American mortality age, 5.5 years to go before you can draw full social security benefits, and some time before you can even draw minimum benefits. By those standards, I'd say you're gettin' up there but still have a ways to go before I'd consider you old. I have a neighbor who is over 87, still sharp mentally, and strong as an ox. How do you feel? How is your mind? Your health? Your outlook on life? Those are the important things.

 

Than you. Here in the UK I have to get to 67 before I can get my pension or retirement. My health is starting to let me down, which the government like the F#@king bastards, as they get their pension after 4 year of being an MP (Member of Parliament).

 

Hey Joe, [I bet you get that a lot, sorry] I have ten years on you and I am just this year starting to feel "old". Of course , like you my mind still thinks I'm 20 , however my body is now deciding not to cooperate !!
Don't think there is much to do about it except take better care of ourselves and watch young women ,with a wistful sigh , lol.

 

When you dont give a crap what your wearing as long as your comfertable.You should see me on a bike ride,look goofy as hell but feel great.

 

Some days I feel like I'm 125 ---others like 25! I'm still pretty young in mind tho.

 

Still 17 looking out of these eyes....

 

I think we become old as we learn the lessons we need to:
Empathy, respect for others including other-humans and fellow creatures, amend for our wrongs, wisdom that comes only from experience, humbleness, healthy deflation of ego, an appreciation for what we didn’t know then or now….a very long list!

 

Maybe wisdom is related to you having to take two advills before you even put your feet on the floor every morning....or is that wizdum?

 

When I was young I decided I’m not old until the Prime Minister is younger than me. That happened fifteen years ago, so I redefined it - I’m not old until I can’t jump a hundred times without a break. I admit it’s been a couple of years since I tested that.
In between those two, I reckon the defining “you are old when” indicator is when you get up from your chair and make a noise.

 

Hope you don't mean farting or I'm fucked.
Seriously though, I sometimes think age and experience make me wiser, sometimes I think I am never going to grow up.
None of it matters! Take each day as it comes and act according to how you feel mentally and/or physically on that particular day.

 

When you feel old..

 

When the RN young enough to be your granddaughter comes into your hospital room and greets you as "Pops".

 

Short people got no reason to live, which is one reason I decided at three years old that people are all full of crap. By five, I had established people can't even use a stupid dictionary, and my hair practically turned gray. I was born old, because i couldn't lie to myself worth a crap.

 

As someone in my early fifties,my mind still thinks i am 21 but unfortunately my body has other ideas

 

Age is just a number; a cliche but true, nonetheless.
Keep your mind active and open to new/others opinions and learning. Maintain your body in as good health as possible.
Cerebral age is different from body age, imv.

Some people are very old cerebrally - blinkered and closed. That makes them vulnerable to exploitation by others. That; regardless that they might be very fit gym bunnies.

 

Every little kid wants to be BIG!

Old age begins after puberty. In my case, puberty almost killed me from grand mal seizures. They feel like visiting Hell for 30 seconds, which is a lifetime, and waking up feeling like a mule kicked you in the head. After visiting Hell a couple of dozen times, I gained an unhealthy fascination with Amnesty Interational's work with political victims of torture.

 

This is close to what I was going to say - You're wise when you realize you don't need to buy any more clothes because you have enough to last your remaining lifetime, and they're better made cause they're already old clothes that they don't make like that anymore. And yes, you don't give a shit about what other people think about how you dress.

 

The original poster said that he was 61 and wondered when are we old.

A few years ago (around 8 - 10 years I think) I was in Tescos. At the back of the store is an opticians and there were two very young and small Chinese or Korean girls both in uniform talking to each other about the customers they see.

I overheard one of them say to the other, "There was this really really old guy here, you know, really really old" at that point the other one said "how old?" and the first one replied "Oh, about 60, you know really really old"

At that point I had to turn away and walk off, as I couldn't hold my laughter in any more. I think I was around 66 or more at the time, and to hear people younger than me being described by two young girls as "really really old" was just too much.