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Post by readilygrey on Aug 10, 2012 22:29:00 GMT -5
Hey! I use 'immersive' a lot -- and I love 'placify', I'm filing that one. Um -- I'm scared this will change the way y'all relate to me (I'd hate that), but ... on Monday I'll be 60. Time flies, girls. No $&(^. It doesn't at all. I know two people that share your birthday (not the year though), oddly, one of them I'm trying to harass into posting here. She'd be a great fit ;D I used to think 30 was old but once I passed it I realized I'm not much different than when I was 15. Age is fairly superficial, but it's like weight in that people will judge you on sight for it anyway. I feel that in this group, our writing styles are the most similar so I will definitely not think of you as someone I can't relate to!
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Post by Freedom on Aug 10, 2012 23:00:37 GMT -5
Answer this question without thinking about it (got it from a greeting card):
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?
I'd have to go in the 10-14 bracket.
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Post by readilygrey on Aug 10, 2012 23:50:13 GMT -5
Answer this question without thinking about it (got it from a greeting card): How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?I'd have to go in the 10-14 bracket. 16-18, I don't think I've progressed much beyond that point
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Post by scribbliz on Aug 11, 2012 0:58:01 GMT -5
I actually feel like i'm in my twenties most of the time...convenient because i'm 28 (until december); I usually feel like the old one of the group, because all my friends were younger than me. Also, a lot of them are a lot more...social than I am. We would all hang out and they would be laughing and partying (without the drinking as we were 16 or so at the time) and I'd be sitting in a corner by myself, wishing I had a big fuzzy blanket, a good book, and isolation. I always felt old. I relate better to those who are NOT in my age group, usually. Those a fair bit older, or a fair bit younger. I've always been that way. So 60 or 30 or 46 or 18; I have no issues!
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Post by PaperGrace on Aug 11, 2012 4:49:32 GMT -5
Answer this question without thinking about it (got it from a greeting card): How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?I'd have to go in the 10-14 bracket. 63, definitely 63. Now on any given day I'm a born Grandmother, or a Dirty Old Man... I have young parents, Dad being the older one at 61. He is a 14 year old boy. Husband says all men stop maturing at 14 and learn to fake it until they die. My family is long lived, so I think of 60's as finally reaching a place where you become you again after raising a family (if that's what you do in your youth, and I am), and I expect to live at minimum to 85 in fair health with some mobility issues. Taking into account modern miracles of medicine it may be much longer. My worry is that some of the women in my family have succumbed to dementia, usually not until they get close to that 80's mark, but still--terrifying! I think older people have a chance to rediscover whimsy and playfulness without so much worry about conforming to social norms. I feel sad for those who don't take advantage of that. I also feel like punching young people who talk to the elderly like they are morons. No jerk, she has hearing loss because your mother screamed bloody murder in her ears as a baby, Grandma isn't stupid, you just can't speak clearly. Stop muttering, and put up that sing-song baby voice before I crack you one.
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Post by scribbliz on Aug 11, 2012 10:47:41 GMT -5
papergrace, yeah, bugs me too when teens start talking to the well aged like the are children! My grandmother is about a month shy of turning 93. She still lives on her own, still drives around town, still cleans her own place and makes her own meals. She is very independant and one of the wisest people I know. When I realize that she was born in 1919, lived through the second world war, the great depression, the loss of two stillborn children, and the survival of 6 more, marriage to an alcoholic, and then a dry alcoholic, the loss of that same husband whom she did love and who did love her, watching her children grow up, her grandchildren grow up, her great grandchildren being born, some of whom have grown up, and one who won't be born until march (not mine!). It just astounds me, and I have learnt and continue to learn so much from her! She is starting to get old, and starting to sleep a lot more, so I'm not sure how long she will be around and that scares me. I want my children to remember her; I want her to have the same impact on their lives and she has had on mine. They all love her to pieces. So yeah, I look at her, and hear people in the store baby talk her, or when my mom takes her to get perscriptions (when she doesn't feel like driving my mom drives her) and the pharmasist talks to my mom instead of my grandmother! URG! it makes me angry!!
My mom is younger than me, often. She will say or do something, and I feel myself smiling at her like an indulgent parent! LOL! But she is wise in her own way, and driven to complete what she wants (she paints and is learning portugese). My dad? Well, he's just my dad. He's working full time, so I don't think he has a lot of time to play.
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