Gunman Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Tomorrow the 26 August it will be 46years since I walked through the doors on the first day of my apprenticeship . Some days it seems like only yesterday but on others it seems a distant memory . Problem is I found myself talking to a youngster about "when I was your age " and I suddenly thought "Oh my God I sound like my Granddad " then it dawned on me I am now old enough to have been his Granddad. Do we all get like this and if so is there a cure ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Bear Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Simply - yes and no Growing old is a fact of life - but growing up, now that's purely voluntary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet1747 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Tomorrow the 26 August it will be 46years since I walked through the doors on the first day of my apprenticeship . Some days it seems like only yesterday but on others it seems a distant memory . Problem is I found myself talking to a youngster about "when I was your age " and I suddenly thought "Oh my God I sound like my Granddad " then it dawned on me I am now old enough to have been his Granddad. Do we all get like this and if so is there a cure ? I'm 48 and work with a lad who's mother I went to school with , makes me feel old lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konnie Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 that's one long apprenticeship, the other week went to a lad who works at our place's 18 used to go out drinking with his father, but life is what you pack into it, I sometimes think 22 more seasons and I will be 65 will I still be capable of walking out to my favourite spots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Sweepy Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 I think we all have a aged in are heads that we kept at, even though are bodies carried on ageing, mine was 26 which is ok untill I remember I have a son of 21!!! xxxxxsuzy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin lad Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 wife keeps trying to pull a fast one over me, she keeps insisting i am 51 haha just one look and you can see i am barely 21 well that's how old i feel tee hee colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdsallpl Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 It is strange how when we get older time seems to go quicker, the seasons fly by. One theory is that we measure time by our own life span. Therefore the time between you being 10 years old and 15 years old is 5 years therefore 50% of your life span. Then when you are say 50 years old the time it takes for you to be 55 years of age is only 10% of your life span. Hence it I appears a lot less. Not sure of the fundamental premiss of this theory, but it's certainly got my vote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalahari Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Getting old may not be much fun, but it is better than the alternative! David. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunman Posted August 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 State of mind is all OK but I have to remember that sometimes it is a state of mind. In my mind I'm in my early thirties like I was when I moved a piano into the house unaided .30 years on I tried to move it out on my own "cos' I got it in" .Big mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armsid Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 same for me 46 years sept.1st my first day of my apprenticeship still got my tools and toolbox i made cant believe kids of 16 are unable to do this are we going backwards still try to do jobs that i did in my twenties big mistake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin lad Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 State of mind is all OK but I have to remember that sometimes it is a state of mind. In my mind I'm in my early thirties like I was when I moved a piano into the house unaided .30 years on I tried to move it out on my own "cos' I got it in" .Big mistake. lol i keep wanting to play one last game of rugby but i know what will happen if i do colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 (edited) No cure, I'm not as old but find myself thinking what the hell are they teaching them these days. There coming out their time not knowing any where near enough. By 18 we were on our own being supervised by tradesmen and asked if we didn't know. The rumblings of old **** twenty nine years since I started my apprenticeship. Figgy Edited August 25, 2014 by figgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Sweepy Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 When I first started in my job at sixteen The people I care for had lived though Two wars and where into the likes of Glen Miller and all the Big bands Am still in the same job but now it's anything from the 70s I even go into one care home, where you often hear the Sex Pistols playing down the corridors, That's when I know time is catching up with me ! xxxxSuzy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 (edited) It is strange how when we get older time seems to go quicker, the seasons fly by. One theory is that we measure time by our own life span. Therefore the time between you being 10 years old and 15 years old is 5 years therefore 50% of your life span. Then when you are say 50 years old the time it takes for you to be 55 years of age is only 10% of your life span. Hence it I appears a lot less. Not sure of the fundamental premiss of this theory, but it's certainly got my vote Ive been trying to find an optimistic angle to this but all i can come up with is that when some poor young lady is wiping your backside for you when you cant reach, the time will pass quick. NURSE xxxxSuzy you must be looking after a few of my generation playing the WHO (hope i die before i get old) now that would crack me up walking around the ward Edited August 25, 2014 by islandgun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Sweepy Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Its when you take some clients out, and you get mistaken as their daughter and not their Granddaughter anymore that hurts!!!! When I get mistaken for the wife, will be the day I shell hang up my high heels let the grey hair show, and mourn for my lost youth xxxSuzy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 wife keeps trying to pull me, she keeps insisting i am 5" ha ha just one look and you can see i am barely 2" colin Edited that for you based on what we witnessed at the Cotswold Bash Colin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFC Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 We had a family do a few weeks ago. In years gone by there would have been grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters and cousins there. This time there was only one uncle. Everyone else were cousins, brothers, sisters and lots of grandchildren, nephews and nieces. Apart from my uncle I was in the most senior echelon with all the other generations below me. Brought it home to me that I'm now elderly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 We had a family do a few weeks ago. In years gone by there would have been grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters and cousins there. This time there was only one uncle. Everyone else were cousins, brothers, sisters and lots of grandchildren, nephews and nieces. Apart from my uncle I was in the most senior echelon with all the other generations below me. Brought it home to me that I'm now elderly Strange that... my grand dad had a particular philosophy about growing old he used to say... "Mike you will also notice a symptom of getting old is the strange necessity to attend more and more funerals until you realise that the next one is going to be your own" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deershooter Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 The funny thing about this old age thing is that it doesn't last very long Don't ever turn some thing down that you want to do because one day you won't be able to do it . Trust me I have lost both legs although I still go shooting it's not like laying in the hedge bottom waiting for a fox with all the other wildlife that you see . Get out there and do it while you can Happy shooting Deershooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 Live for today as tomorrow may never come. But make allowances as most times it will. Enjoy what you do as when time stops you from doing it, you'll have your memories to look back on. You tend to only notice your age when you become the next generation, your children become you, you become your parents, they the grandparents and you realise they won't always be there. You then take stock and realisation hits, you are old to the younger ones. Figgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdsallpl Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 Live for today as tomorrow may never come. But make allowances as most times it will. Enjoy what you do as when time stops you from doing it, you'll have your memories to look back on. You tend to only notice your age when you become the next generation, your children become you, you become your parents, they the grandparents and you realise they won't always be there. You then take stock and realisation hits, you are old to the younger ones. Figgy I like that Figgy, kind of profound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 some years ago when I was in hospital someone a couple of beds down had a couple come to visit the man was in his seventies with what I thought was his young wife she had 3" high heels skin tight jeens a tight top with big boobies and blond hair up in a pony tail it was only when she got up to leave that I notised that she was a bit unsteady on her pins and she must have been in her late seventies I did not no weather to laugh or cry in fact I just felt very sad for her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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