When Do We Become Old Officially

That's a tough question to answer...probably when you feel that way. I think age is an attitude not a number....though as my number creeps up my body is sending me alerts that say....You my dear are getting old! LOL

You will be officially old when you stop feeling young and thinking youthful thoughts. I am going to be sixty next month and I still feel the youthful thoughts of another time. I don't have the energy but I recall memories of when I was young. I think once you stop thinking it it leaves you. I have very vivid memories of when I was young.

as long as you have your memories and can rerlive them you aint old!

I think it's when you give up on life. It's when you no longer have goals or make plans for the future; when you no longer get excited about coming events. Perhaps a person's imagination fades and stops working or perhaps we stop finding things to laugh about. I planted a veggie garden this year and this morning early as I watered my "crop" I noticed my first zucchini is ready to be picked. I laughed out loud in delight. I just turned 59 and I'm not very mobile and I have quite a few wrinkles which make my features unrecognisable to me but I'm certainly not yet ready to be old.

Till you remember those young age memories you are still young only.At your ninety's you can think about ur age seven or 12 you can recollect the memories and feel ur self in that age. Until u dont forget ur memories and ur past your still said to be young .Can go back to any age in ur lifetime.As the thoughts of such can make us or any travel to such past things in our life. There is nothing as officially old till u dont forget ur memorable moments of life.

I think we officially become old when we stop living and start thinking old. I remember all the years of my life, I sometimes wish I could go back and relive some of them and change some of them, but I do not feel or look old. I am still a child inside and I like it that way.

I don't like to think about age. I am 53 and sometimes I think I am really feeling my age. I am not sure about how to judge when I am officially old? Is it a physical thing, when moving around, bending down and lifting are difficult? Is it when I have trouble remembering names? Is it when my hair has gone completely white and now my eyebrows are too? My health is still excellent. I work fulltime, though do find that difficult at times. My memeories for my childhood are very good. I still have vivid memories of many events in my life, including travelling overseas, my teenage years, etc.

i think when the feeling of being young is gone, or you cannot do things yourself anymore, that is when you are officially old.

Hi 2wice lot: Even if I'm 23 I sometimes have felt old when I remembered the past memories and the things that simply won't go back in my life like school days. But for me, as people say, age is just a number and it all depends on your attitude on life. Taking care of your health can also help you a lot to make you feel young and being active. ALVARO

Age just is a number on paper. Trust me when I say it really does truthfully depend on the person. For instance, there are some seventy and eighty year olds that are still active and to some degree, put many of us young punks to a lot of shame. It astounds me and I really do have to bow down and respect those people and their abilities to keep an active lifestyle into an ancient, old age to say the very least. It is rather great. So yeah, I think that you're old when you are unable to no longer to do the things that you feel make life great. Or even remember ever doing them for that matter. Age is a funny thing as there is no uniform value of what would be considered old. I used to consider anything over thirty old when I was a child but obviously now, I know that is far from the case. So really age is what it is and that is what it is. It is merely a number.

We are all officially old as long as someone younger than us comes along. We can't live on past experience to determine being old, because there are certain situations where people younger has experienced while we don't have the chance to do so. Looks can't define the meaning of being old too, but our heart does. As long as we feel young, age is only numbers while experiences counts for nothing when knowledge can be of some help.

If you ask me, honestly I think if officially starts when we refuse to learn new things like if we are no longer open to new ideas, suggestions, or ways to learn new stuffs and gadgets, how to operate this or that, new interests, hobbies etc....then that's the onset!

Do you remember when your grandparents and elders told you about their memories of going through the same things you are? The way your memories are for you are the way those memories were for them---they 'remember it like it was yesterday' (that might've been what they actually said ) So you can see that you 'get old' when YOU pass your memories on like that (by having children, nieces and nephews whom you watch repeat your accomplishments/"mistakes"). I remember one winter while my mom, sister, brother, two nieces and me were stuck in traffic. My nieces and I were in the back-seat. Suddenly I saw my older niece (4 years old) trying to touch my younger niece's eyeball, and I screamed like a woman as I pulled her hand away from the eyes. I remembered that I had been fascinated by my younger siblings' eyeballs in my youth and -that I had thereby caused some not-too-heavy but still-irreversible damage to their eyes, and I hope I helped protect my youngest niece from that. That's what kids are for ... to re-live your own life without so-many mistakes!

I don't think there is a certain age to call one officially old. I believe you will be officially old when you feel like one. No matter what your age is, if you feel old only then you are old.

You know you are getting old when your body can no longer fulfill the youthful urges your mind comes up with.

I never paid any attention about getting old until someone told me when you turn 50 you are considered a senior citizen, and when I started getting those so-called senior moments forgetting little things every now and then. Mine hairline started to recede, hearing ain't what it use to be, need glasses to read. I think this is when you become officially old. ...

That is when you get concessions from the government such as discounted air tickets, seats reserved for you on public transport. I suppose this much will suffice for you to be officially declared old!

Officially ? Maybe when you reach the age to be a senator ? It was 25 at Rome during the Empire. It is today 29 in the USA, and 24 in France -- it was 30 a few years ago, but you become old younger nowadays --.

Old is a state of mind. I am only twenty one years old, and I have friends at my age who live like they're seventy! Then, I know people in their sixties, who are out doing what they love and not letting a moment slip away! My father harps on old age a lot, and I always remind him that you're only as old as you convince yourself that you are. If you feel young, then you're still young! You're never too old to do anything. I was in a bad relationship from the ages of 18-21, and everyone would stress to me about how I was losing my "prime" and missing out on dating men while I still can. I would say, "My prime?! I'll still be dating when I'm 50, 60, and 70 if I want to! I don't care if I'm 70 and going out on a date a week, if I'm up to it, I'm going to do it!" Age is a number, but being old is not a number, it is mindset, a feeling, and something you convince yourself you are.

hello 2wicelot, getting older is one of the side effects of being alive, it is an unavoidable consequence. every morning when you wake up you are are older than you when you went to sleep. and in the time you took to post this discussion you were older than when you started it. we cannot avoid getting older, and therefore it is better to see aging as an opportunity to learn and to attain wisdom than a sign that you will eventually deteriorate into a state of helpless senility. i think the real answer is to view getting older as a positive thing, not a negative thing. as old meens many things, it means having more understanding of life and experience, or it means being rigid in your thinking and physically incapable, and how we view it is probably how it will happen to us. best not to fear it. maybe you should see your having been to university and passed your driving test and all those other things, long ago, in a positive way, after all think of all the other things you can do now.