"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional"

yes we are growing old.. I can feel I'm growing old outside, but I can still feel young inside..

hi asnileb yes indeed I love pretty top;s in pretty colors and ice cream in about any flavor except for vanilla,.I love to laugh and play games too like a little kid but I have an IQ of 140 which is adult not kiddy. but there is a child in all of us waiting to break out at times. You sound like you love life and you love having fun.

lol. don't call your self so old. that is when you become like 80 years old. lol. until then, you are still young and healthy. be thankful. it's okay to have some childishness in you when you are grown up. i am grown up, but i still do baby things at home with my family. in fact, i am my husband's little baby house infant. lol. he literally babies me. i do that to him too. it's a very nurturing and good feeling. i think young at heart on the inside, means young on the outside.

Hi adnileb At near 40... Growing up and me I grew back to my kid days and am really having a blast. Until I was ill, I was quite active professionally and did almost everything which suited my job - Teachers are to be composed, mature and when I migrated to the Software Development, the corporate culture did play on me as I needed to go up. Amidst this, I missed what I loved to be. It was a mask that was forced onto me. But then, when I was bed-ridden and then started to recover, I realized that this is not what I wanted my life to be. I wanted to break free and get back to doing things I always loved - play the kid, be the child and do as much as I can to enjoy life. I love the rains, getting wet in them(actually bathing with soap and shampoo during the rains, play in the mud pools). I also love to be stubborn at times just like the kids with my mom, my loving wife, eat out junk food even though that doesnt go with my health... the list is long here I am feeling happy for you reading the way you live as I do firmly believe that as long as you can play that kid in you, you can and will always connect with innocence, peace and find yourself to be more happy than many others. At least that is how I feel when I am the kid

Look, I am older then you and I still think like I am 20. Growing up is a mindset. Look, we all have to become responsible, but that does not mean we have to stop liking everything we have always liked. I still act like a kid and enjoy it very much. People think I am crazy.

Well I for one am never getting old. I think old is a state of mind not years. I can't stop the numbers from getting bigger, and I don't know what it means to act my age. How are you suppose to act at any age, is there a book of instructions somewhere that tells us how we're suppose to act and feel at a certain age. Yes I do believe as adults we are to be responsible for ourselves and our children if we have any, but who says we have to get old. According to the calender I'm 58, just a number, looking forward to another 58, so much fun.

I love the comparison of Growing Old compared to Growing Up, and yes this does apply to me. I have always been an avid fan of cartoons and would much rather watch a good cartoon than the type of film that is intended for adults. There are several ways in which I am still a child. As I became older it was important to become responsible, but that does not necessarily mean that I should cease to be a child at heart.

Hello beli, hmmm sounds like you are born in December or January...wonder what is it... yeah, like you I am nearing my birthday again and it feels kinda sad cause we can't stop the increasing of age. Yeah, we grow older each and everyday but we can feel deep inside that there's part of us that still remains in us. I believe it's hard to change things when you are really used to it. But, they say, first steps are hard to take. it takes a lot of effort if you want to change something in you. Sure, there are people who still acts like young even if thery're not. But being responsible is what e really have to think of and act as well as we age. Even though there are things we can't avoid to do so, we have to be responsible as we age cause that's really a mandatory as well...

That's good adnileb. You have to avoid those acts that can really distinguish you as already grown up. Me, even if i am already old, i still do feel and act young. I still love going out with friends at night ( my HS batchmates ) drinking Tanduay Ice while having videoke session. I like watching teleseryes, specially Ina, Kapatid , Anak. I think in order that we should always feel young, we should always look happy and be with happy people too.

Being 'grown-up' has always been more about "position in life" to me---from 'sitting at the grown-up's table' to 'being the teacher/leader/baby-sitter.' It's more about 'leading/directing the little kids' than 'how mature you are.'

I love it the way you said. yes i agree growing up is optional. I am afraid of growing old hmm, don't know why, may i am afraid of the wrinkles and other problems associated with old age.

Beli I am seriously hurt!You should not disclose my childish behavior in public the way you have done. Okay, I agree that age is a common problem that hits any one but the only difference is you are hit a lill lesser so lesser childish, whereas I being far more bigger than you physically, mentally and age wise a little more childish. On a serious note, a child in you not only keeps fit,healthy, raring to go but makes you happier and helps enjoy your life in a far better way. Cheers and my best wishes for a healthy life. Happy B'day well in advance

dear adnileb ..i too talk like kid near my parents and friends. if i ask some thing and if they reject i start crying like kid laying on floor ( off course this is acting ) and they burst in laugh.

I refuse to grow up - I may have a gray hair or three, but I let my inner child run wild - Life is too short for worrying everyday, have a little fun. We are here only once, I do not want to get to my last day and think - I wish I had....

Well, that's certainly my cats' philosophy, and they seem to have things pretty well figured out. My spirit is young, but my body seems to want to age faster than it should.

I most certainly agree with you and that's how we keep aging at bay. I still want to kid around, I read kids' books, and I listen to today's music and love to dance to the beat of Oppan Gangnam Style. I do not know why I've always been in step with the time. I dress and act young--I choose to be this way. What do they think I should do? I wear what I want to wear and behave my own natural way.

The reality of life! Yes, it is hard to believe sometimes how much we have grown old. But I guess there are things that remained in me all through these years. I would say that I do not see myself as "old" even if there are signs of my age, coz maybe because I am spared of being around people who are working in offices who tends to be so serious in life. I just live a simple life. I may be strict with my kids at times, but they could definitely talk to me like their sister. You may know that parents of the older days could be having this WALL between them and their kids.

I too am very childish and my voice also is very childish. I am your age now and when I someone calls hubby and I pick the call, they ask if Papa is there .hhhaah they think that I am a kid. Hubby says that I am kid only.... well yeah i guess it is up to us. I think it is no problem cos I am that way. I have seen my cousins daughter who is like 19, she behaves like she is a mother in her 30s.. phhhhhhhhh..hahha Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.