life after 70

Each age group has a package that comes with it and if one knows how to use that package and not yearn for a package outside of this group there will be trouble round the corner. You seem to have known this and are doing pretty well. Congratulations.

old age is lyk hell bt can be made beautiful with a gud lyf before.

I know what you mean. Every decade comes with dire warnings from scaremongers and what happens? Nothing! We are still the same sixteen year olds that think we already know everything about life. Thirty, oh my God! Forty, where did that extra weight come from? Fifty, I used to be able to read that! 60. 70. Well I wish you the best and hope that 80 wont change you either!

If I live to be 70, I hope I have as good an attitude as you do. I just turned 41 last week, and to be very frank, it really depressed me. My son is nearly grown up, and it seems like time has just flown by, or slipped away, or something. Anyway, you have managed to cheer me up, and I thank you for that! Take care!

Good for you! I love hearing people like you and your positive thoughts. I think you are only as old as you want to be. I really started believing this when I met an 86 year old man and he was telling all the vacations he had been on and the ones he was planning for the future. He asked me how old I thought he was, and I honestly thought about mid sixties and that's what I said, and he told me he was 86 years old, and that people are only as old as they choose to be, and I have very much believed that since then! There is a very long life for the people who want to live.

That's fantastic. That's exactly how I want to reach my 70s, feeling young and alive.

That mirror is always shocking to me. Today it was a grey hair. Most of the time it's the wrinkles. But like you, I still see me. HERE'S TO YOU. You always knew you were great. Hope you make it to a GRAND.

According to my birth date, I´ll be 66 next June. But those numbers seem to change from day to day and sometimes from hour to hour. Sometimes I´m older than my mother, sometimes I´m younger than my daughters. True there are parts of my body that I would trade for newer ones. Joints are among them. Then there´s the loneliness of my gray cell left. It used to have a lot of company and people even told me I was intelligent. Now the first miracle when I watch myself at the mirror is that I still recognise myself and can say my name. Fortunatly names don´t change as phone numbers: I quit trying to memorise new ones a long time ago. I am a writer. Maybe I was a writer. In my native language, of course, and years ago. The title of one of the short stories book I wrote could be translated "Woman in front of the mirror". Aren´t we always looking at what we are, outside and inside? We don´t really need Snow White´s stepmother´s mirror: it´s just a matter of closing our eyes. There I find sometimes the old me (the 40 something woman as you say). Less often, when I listen to an old song, I find in that music a 16 year old girl. I look at her, but I would not want to go back. I like the road I´ve walked.

savypat, sounds like you are "mighty in spirit" and have gained great wisdom and inner, true beauty with age. I'm right there with you and as "young at heart".

Hi savypat I love your out look on life,I guess you are a very proud great grandma,and your children,grandchildren and the great grandchildren all love you just the way you are. Have a great day. jojo732

My sister used to say that she was still 14 in her mind. I like to think I am at least somewhere in my 30's. But my body enjoys reminding me that I will see 60 soon. I can still consider 70 a far off "someday" and hope that I will at least still have a healthy mind at that point, if not a healthy body (that ship has already sailed!) Sometimes, on a bad day, all I can think of is 'I'm so tired" and I don't mean physically. Other days I find it very hard to believe I am actually a senior citizen. Or, I guess I am, I get the discounts to prove it

life after 70 is different. So many aches already and you will become weak unless you go to gym and maintain your body strength :P

Yes there is life after 70 also. People can enjoy in that age also however they wish. They get ample time to wish the people and take care of the friends and relatives. One must become old but the mind did not become old.

Yes, there is life after 70. Playing with grand children one side, getting ample time for taking care of all the relatives and friends, other side. They can enjoy in that age also. There is age to men but not to the mind.

I just turned 60 about a month ago. Age had never mattered much to me much before, but getting to 60 felt as if I had suddenly reached a line, or a barrier. After reading this I know that I can live in peace for the next ten years or more, as you have said that there is life after 70! It is funny, but when I look at myself in the mirror, I see the same Sylvia as the one that went to school many years ago and later university. OK, a few wrinkles here and there and white hairs that only serve to remind me of my loving grandmother. Advantages of being 60 is that now I find I get a discount when I go on the bus, or go to the cinema! I should change my name to savysylvie, cause I know now!

I never bragged about my age until I attained the age of 75. Even now almost 3 years later I am hesitant to brag too loudly. Sure I'm healthy enough to be working every day in the summer. (I take all winter off and live in deep South Texas where its usually quite warm.)I never go near a Doctor because I enjoy being healthy, and I know the doc would not rest till he found a problem that he could prescribe for. The way I see it now, No matter whats wrong with me there's a good chance I'll die of natural causes because I'm now so close to the Starting Gate!

I was just thinking today how odd it is that I should be as old as I am. I don't feel that old most of the time and I don't think of myself as older. I just can't believe when I look in the mirror sometimes that that face is mine! Weird. Inside I feel as if I should still be 24 but instead I'm more than twice that old!

hi pat, i love to be able to reach that age. i love to be doing things slowly and people around me getting much more caring and loving. it would feel very nice to tell little great grandchildren stories about fairies and giants. has to be great grandchildren because my grandchildren now are aged 10 up. they prefer telling me stories about their crushes. hehehehe! have a very nice day. ann

I believe in life after 70. i have seen several people past this age that are more energetic and outging than anyone half their age. Age has no limitations., You are as young as you feel you are.

Don't worry friend , old age is where all of us are going, I once had an elderly professor who asked us " do you want to die?" obviously the answer was in the negative so he continues to tell us " then you will grow old", so that's still a point I still ponder on even until today. When I was twenty I did not like to be 30,then I was 30 I did not like to be 40 etc..., well I'm like you when looking at the mirror, only thing I see a 17 to 21 year old boy outside