Mesh
When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?

When I was a teen I used to wonder about that tunes message  . In 4 more years I guess I'm gonna find out 
 

TheMaartian
I turn 65 next year. I was laid off at 54. Looking forward to having Medicare (in addition to what I get from the VA for being a disabled vet). Just not looking forward to paying for it.
 
Lost my best friend 4 years ago, when he was 63. He was 6'4", 350 lbs. and getting bigger. Pancreatic cancer. Dead in a couple of months.
 
I had to change my lifestyle, or I was going to end up just like him. I drink far less. I eat far less. I moved up to 7,000 feet. With my dogs, I walk several miles every day up and down the hills here. Over a period of 2 years, I lost 44 lbs. I'm down to a nice, stable 139 from 183.
 
Oh, and I cut my own hair. It finally occurred to me that paying someone to put on a 6 or an 8 and take it all off wasn't worth $15. A quick trip to Wally World netted me the only Remington they had in stock, amidst a wall of POS Wahls.
 
Lots of peeps "Go For Gold."
 
Me?
 
I'm going for OLD.

You got a good attitude . It sounds like you took the bull by the horns and made the changes you needed to make to have a decent quality of life …
 
OT , when I made my journey from the East Coast to the West Coast I stopped for gas in your town . The lady working the gas station that night offered to show me around if I decided to catch a few hours of sleep ….
To this day I still wonder what would have happened if I had stayed and took her up on her offer ….
I know she is long gone since this was a long time ago , anyway , I sometimes still think about going back because I felt the place was magical ….
 

Mesh
I use a Braun and have also been cutting my own hair for the past 15 years.....that's a nice chunk of change I've been saving (considering every 2-3 weeks @ $15 a pop).
 
I need to lose about 15 lbs to be at my ideal weight, but then there's this one thing that gets in the way............BECAN!!!

Mesh, 
15 years ago I went for about a year where I did something like you are doing by trimming your own hair …
I lived in So Cal at the time . I had to stop because  it really wasn't my look & I damn near froze to death in the middle of the August triple digit temps …
 

BobF
I would cut my own hair to save $$, but an $8 haircut every 6 months isn't costing me much. 

Bob , 
6 months ? Why so frequent ? Them 8 bucks sure do add up 
I'm on the 2 to 3 year plan and it is the only way I can frequent the deals section of the forum  
 

bayoubill

Mesh
When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?

I can't believe I've lasted this long  and still have all my hair. My face may like like a prune but my hair 

Bill , if you still got it , I say let it fly in the wind ….
 

craigb
Getting old beats the current alternative. 

Amen 
 
 
Kenny
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

TheMaartian

Hi Bert , 
It's funny you should bring up the high school days and the reunions ….
I've been  sort of MIA from that whole thing . 
Just this week on a whim I decided to do a search on my old high school girl friend , sure enough I was able to find her online …
Aye Car rumba  , apparently she also suffered from a severe case of "what happened"  

This was one of the few "surprises" from my past that I'd actually been able to forget. Until now. Thanks for nothing.
 
...
 
I'm a (not too badly) disabled vet. I get most of my healthcare through the VA system. Many years ago, when I was still living in Chicago, I used the VA hospital in Madison, WI instead of the one in Chicago (it was as bad as the one in Phoenix is now). I'm missing some internal body parts, and the VA docs like to take the occasional look-see. So, I'm lying on my side, facing a wall, waiting for a nurse to insert the alien probe in me, when I hear the following:
 
"Hi, John!"
 
 
 
WTF?!?!? I look over my left shoulder back into the exam room and for the first time in my life, see a female shaped EXACTLY like a Bartlett pear. There must have been a look of surprise/shock/lack-of-recognition on my face. I tried looking at her badge to see who she was.
 
"Oh. I got married. I'm Sharon Dxxxx!"
 
"Oh. Hi."
 
OMG! Sharon Dxxxx! My high school senior class president. And a hot one, at that! Girl, WTF did you DO to yourself? How does a person get to look like THAT?
 
That's when I got the probe!
 
Hateful experience. 

 
 

Come to think of it, two of the three women I saw at the 40th reunion, that I had been out with  back in the day, had assumed pear shapes. There went my memories!

Every day in every way I'm getting better and better.
And older.

Mesh

 

I had a guy hit me once on Victory Blvd in the SFV while I was riding my bicycle on a warm Sunday afternoon during the summer. He never even saw me .When he hit me I flew over the guys hood bike and all   . 
The guy was driving a brand new Mustang and he gave me that look … He didn't even ask me if I was OK ….
After I got up I looked him dead in the eye walked back over to his car and slammed my elbow into the top of his hood and left a nice sized dent …Dude saw I was reaching for my cellphone to call the police and he drove off ….
 
Now I live in a State where if that $hit ever happens again and if I can get up I won't be reaching for a cellphone  
The Voice on Kenny's left shoulder …yeah man go for it ….The Voice on Kenny's right shoulder …dude let it go , is this what you really want ? , your Cakewalk friends are not bail you out of jail and give you cig money 
 
Aye Carrumba just talking about even after all this time has passed ruffles my feathers a little  
time to take some deep breaths, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 , 3, 2 , 1, ahhh now I feel better
 

jamesg1213

kennywtelejazz
 

 
 
 
 

Hey James ,
I'm glad you like the pic  I love that pic myself and it always brings a smile to my face after I stop laughing  
 

ohgrant
 Great to hear I'm not the only one feeling old. Just turned 50 a few months ago, lost a lot of friends and classmates last year to cancer, liver failure, and drugs. I still have the same waistline I had in my 20's but... . Head hair migrated south many years ago. My 20/20 vision has turned into, I probably shouldn't drive at night until I get glasses. I can now predict the weather better with my left leg and right elbow than our local meteorologist can with his fancy double Doppler.  The thing that bothers me the most about getting older is how fast time passes now. Seemed I was in my 40's for a few weeks :|  I admire you older cats that are still weathering the storm and able to joke about it and keep a positive outlook. I'm not doing so good with 50 :| I guess it was never in my plans to live this long.
  

@ohgrant ,
I'm starting to think that hitting 50 messed me up more than hitting 60 …
Looking back , once the shock factor wore off hitting 50 , I have to say that my 50's years were some of the most challenging and rewarding times of my life so far….Having survived some of them I can say a lot of positive growth took place in a few areas that had me stumped for a long while …
Now there's a few new one's I'm learning to deal with 
I feel free , I feel free , I feel free, Oh $hit man , I need to find a bathroom , I got to take a Pee 
 
Kenny
 

kennywtelejazz

Susan G
One of the times it hits me hardest is when I have to get down on my hands and knees (like last night, to read the teeny, tiny serial # upside down off the bottom of my malfunctioning cable box so I could give it to Comcast TS.) I told my friend, "If I'm not back in 15 minutes, come & get me."
 
Then there's the part where I couldn't quite read it with or without my glasses, so I kind of guessed...
 
-Susan

 
Hi Susan , 
 
My vision is normal for every day activities except for reading . 
Yes , I know how that feels when something like that happens . Even if I'm not on all fours , it gets a little frustrating to be wearing a set of reading glasses and having to decipher what it is I'm supposed to be reading .

 
Hi Kenny-
 
I was talking more about how much more difficult it is nowadays to get up from the floor (kneeling or sitting) to a standing position. The vision thing was more of an afterthought!
 
-Susan

I'm going to be 70 next birthday. Looking ahead at where you'll be in 10 years sure doesn't mean the same like when you were 30. Ten years takes on some major significance from now on.

Like everyone else it seems, I still look out at the world in the same way as I did back in the younger day.  I get reminders tho of where I am on the lifespan scale.  There are the hearing aid and retirement community ads in the mail, as well as reverse mortgage and cheap cremation pitches. Everyone calls me Sir. I get the senior discount without asking. And yeah, there's the nose and ear hair that needs trimming at every haircut.

Getting old means learning to live with all those decisions you've made over the years. Things could have been better (or worse) but there you are.

I think the booze ages you more than anything else (except maybe smoking and stress). My dad's in his 70's and looks a lot younger especially compared to many of his friends of the same age - the difference is he was never a heavy boozer but a lot of his friends were. I'm the same, frequently get mistaken for 10 years younger than I am (43) and I think it's primarily because I've never been a drinker. I'm still in touch with old pals from back home in the UK via Facebook, and when I see photos of some of them I can't believe I'm the same age. We all partied hard in our 20's, but some of us gave it a rest when we hit 30....I think that period between 30 and 40 is critical to how the rest of your life goes physically speaking. You really have to start looking after your body after 30 - less booze, less junk food, more exercise. The people I know who continued their 20's lifestyle through their 30's are now looking a lot worse for wear. I have a friend about the same age who just recently discovered he has dangerously high blood pressure and a damaged heart valve, it's been a huge wake up call for him and he's seriously cut back on the drink. 
 
Of course living healthily is no guarantee that you won't get sick, but it drastically decreases your chances and that's what's important. I may well keel over and die of a heart attack tomorrow but if I do, it certainly won't be lifestyle related, and I wouldn't regret giving myself the best possible chance. 

Getting old beats the current alternative. 

Hi,
 

 
Every time I see this I get shivers ... over the hills and far away, we will bury you, and forget you, like the plants ... the roses all look the same after all, and tomorrow another dog, will sniff at the spot, and a cow will step over it ... and then, of all things, tomorrow the snow comes, and we will be buried further still ... we can always imagine our next gig ... the words barely coming out of all the slobber ... but the notes were there ... were they in order? ... while the old song ... was heard ... over the hills and far away ... feeling like it was buried ... somewhere ... in the back of our soul ...

I feel like putting together a poem ... but goodness ... it would sound so damn scary and weird ... it must be Halloween! I'm surprised that Craig didn't dress you up!

He doesn't like to wear dresses in public Pedro.