tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960867419941354709.post4436661460884741526..comments2015-01-04T06:42:40.016-08:00Comments on Quotidian Musings: AgeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960867419941354709.post-53034582482767934582009-02-10T12:55:00.000-08:002009-02-10T12:55:00.000-08:00Thank you for this. I turn 47 on the 23rd, and hav...Thank you for this. I turn 47 on the 23rd, and have been feeling very blue about not being who/where I always expected to be by this point in my life. But I do hold on to refusing to "act my age," whatever the H-E-double-hockeysticks THAT means.<BR/><BR/>So, are you my long-lost twin or something? The one who manages to say what I'm thinking but am rarely able to say?<BR/><BR/>Whenever your birthday falls (is it today?), I hope it's a good one.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again. I love coming here to read. Wonderful food for thought...CP Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15536523200461430763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960867419941354709.post-43472292151160423052009-02-10T11:58:00.000-08:002009-02-10T11:58:00.000-08:00I am 50 and the happiest I have ever been. I do th...I am 50 and the happiest I have ever been. I do think I am now who I was meant to be. yet I do have regrets. I regret that I was so damaged that it took all I had to survive. No career, no success. yet I am also very very lucky. I have wonderful John, no money worries, my dogs, a good life. Many who had the same background as me didn't make it at all. I can't change the past but I do wonder what I could have been. A vet? A Doctor? Maybe I am what i was meant to be. Nothing I can do now but go froward and enjoy and grow some more.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14864658805462324550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960867419941354709.post-42913529087083445052009-02-09T12:15:00.000-08:002009-02-09T12:15:00.000-08:00For me the biggest issue is a body which refuses t...For me the biggest issue is a body which refuses to do what I want it to do. <BR/><BR/>Having grown up in a sports mad culture, I played a number of sports well into my 30s and continued to compete as an athlete until close to 50. <BR/><BR/>Chronic injuries eventually stopped me running and continue to plague me to the extent that I am sometimes unable to do the simplest of jobs like washing and polishing my car without struggling to move the next day.<BR/><BR/>I find this extremely frustrating, notwithstanding.The Pythonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10921790064787018951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960867419941354709.post-52900456645986842282009-02-09T11:44:00.000-08:002009-02-09T11:44:00.000-08:00I can relate. I'll be turning 28 for the tenth tim...I can relate. I'll be turning 28 for the tenth time this year (LOL - it's a joke I have with my friend, who is one year and two weeks older than I; when she decided she was going to stay 29, I said I wasn't going to get older than she was, so I'd have to stick at 28)...<BR/><BR/>Right. So I'm almost 37, and I've got a long list of things I haven't accomplished or experienced that I think I "should" have at my age, not least of which is my degree -- coincidentally, I've been looking into ways of finishing it in just the last few days. :-)<BR/><BR/>I'm trying not to let my sense of "failure" bother me, but it's a battle, I confess. Better to be fighting it than accepting it, at least! :-)yarnpiggyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13757646132631075487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960867419941354709.post-25747495200712891572009-02-09T11:34:00.000-08:002009-02-09T11:34:00.000-08:00A great blog, and sentiments to which I can relate...A great blog, and sentiments to which I can relate. As for the age "thing," I've always had more problems with the 9s than the 0s.<BR/> I can't recall who it was, but a poet once said that the 50s are when you become who you are meant to be. I'm holding her to that.<BR/> Happy Birthday.Idahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08428276019569879491noreply@blogger.com