I wish I was 60

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I really do. I wish I was old enough to retire but still healthy and independant. For the following reasons:-

-I don't like any of the things other young people like

-Social interaction is easier for older people than it is for young girls like me (the social expectations are lower for older people, meaning appearance aswell)

-If I had a good enough pension I wouldn't have to worry about finding jobs/being on the dole

-If I had no other commitments, I could get away with making my only worry being my bus-driver obsession without people cricitising ''getting a job should be more important than who's on the bus!''

-I would just be getting buses all day with my pensioner's buspass, and (like most old-aged pensioners) that would practically be my social life

-Being young now means I won't even get to retire by the time I'm 60, they're raising it higher now and even higher for my generation so I'd have to work 'til I drop (that is, if I ever get a job)

Anyone else hate being young and would rather be older?

Reasons you DON'T want to be 60

-arthritis in your hands that somedays hurts like hell

-various chronic ailments for which you have to take pills every day, and when you go on a vacation you have to count out how many you'll need to take along

-people coming up to you to panhandle, assuming you're old and must carry cash

-losing little bits of your memory, like the names of famous people you're trying to tell a story about

-loss of energy to do things and continue to get exercise because you're losing muscle

-inability to put up with people's stupidity, like walking around staring at their phone instead of watching the traffic they're walking through

-watching people you love and care about getting older and less able to care for themselves

-hearing about people you love and care about who now have fatal diseases and are struggling day to day

I have to agree wholeheartedly with this! I am not in my sixties yet, but my husband is getting close. We both have arthritic pain in various joints, and he is worried about possible back surgery. I have chronic health challenges that sometimes makes me have to spend the day in bed, which is no fun at all. A friend of my husbands just passed away due to cancer, and two friends of mine have been diagnosed with it too.

The only way I wouldn't mind being sixty is if I had the health that I enjoyed at age twenty. But having said that, I understand your frustration with people your own age. I never got along with or understood my peers either, and only now do I occasionally find someone close to my age interesting to talk to. But it is rare.

Sounds more like you're talking about 70. That's the age when you're officially an "old person" regardless of how you look.

Oy! To be young again. I saw quite a few concerts, met a few punks like me in college, traveled all over the U.S., even had a boyfriend or two. Not saying that my youth was all good. I was suicidal back then, too. The ailments I have now sucks but you can't turn back the hands of time. Still, I don't think it's too late for me to go out and enjoy myself. This AS bit hinders it somewhat but I know it can be overcome because others have done it.

I dont see any benefit at all in being old. The best age to be is 30 odd in my opinion. Thats when you are finally seen as "fully adult" in the eyes of the people who run the world, yet you are still young enough to have fun. I really dont like the thought of my body failing, and thats all old age is, your body becoming more and more decrepid due to oxidisation and exposure, until you finally cant do anything and die. But before that happens you kind of regress to the social level of a toddler in the eyes of society, with them treating you less and less like a person as the years go on.

Im fairly certain Ill die at a young(ish) age, but if I dont Ill be on the phone to dignitas as soon as I start having trouble wiping my own arse.

When your 60 your body cripples and you become old and ugly. Unless you get bizarre Sean Connery genes where you look better as you get older, I can't see the benefits. The only reason being 60 works out right now is because Baby Boomers are sucking up everything with entitlements. When we all turn 60 we're gonna be shot because there's no money to support us.

Besides, I've had to throw my life away for the benefits of drug addicts and pissy b*****s and other ne'er-do-wells who were not willing to take care of themselves when they could suck what little money and time I had from my job. Why would I want to go forward to when I'll probably be too crippled and poor to enjoy anything?

If anything I want to go back and start over with all the evil people wiped out of my life. Give me a new life, one that doesn't suck!

It's only fair, God. You raked me over the coals on this one.

Honestly, I like being old. As child or young man everybody was trying to tell me I should go out, have friends, have drugs, have sex, get into trouble ... I hated being young because all I want is living a withdrawn life without all that fuss.

However, I wouldn't want to miss the years in between.

As for the financial situation of older people, many in my and future generations are anything but wealthy. I like working (the work itself, not the people) and I gradually come to think about what I'm going to work after my retirement.

No major health problems, neither physically nor mentally. My grandmother died at 85, one of her sisters is 95 now and still lives independently, nobody in my family ever had dementia, so I'm looking forward to getting really old and remain mentally active.

-looking around and suddenly realizing that you are the oldest person at work, in church, and at family reunions

-looking all over for the pair of glasses that are sitting right on top of your head ... again

-looking into a mirror and wondering, "What the f*** happened?!"

-getting smiled at by a cute 20-something only because you've left your fly open ... again

-getting carded because you don't look old enough ... for an AARP discount

-your children are too occupied with their children to pay much attention to you

-trying to explain what CGA means to someone who owns an iPhone

-going to bed early with your spouse because you both want to get some sleep

-reading the back of the menu first

-live life in the fast lane? Heck, I can't even find the on-ramp any more

-a skateboard is no longer an option for transportation

-all of those things that you used to sneak out of your parents' house to do no longer hold your interest

-all the most popular names in your "Little Black Book" have the letters "M.D." after them

-caution is the one thing you exercise most

-driving more than 20 miles for a night out is too much effort

-each passing day makes you feel two days older

-getting lucky means you find your car in the parking lot

-happy hour means taking a 60-minute nap

-it doesn't matter if the glass is half-full or half-empty, because either way it only means that your teeth aren't soaking in it

-reality has finally triumphed over idealism

-the music of your youth is now featured in television commercials

-the only thing you want for your birthday is to not be reminded of it.

-the only time you ever "tie one on" is when you fasten your Medic-Alert bracelet

-the phrase "getting a little action" means that you don't need any fiber in your diet today

-the problem is not so much in resisting temptation as it is in temptation finding you

-the toys you once begged your parents for are now museum pieces.

-things you buy now won't wear out before you no longer need them.

-twenty-somethings start holding doors open for you

-walking down a flight of steps puts you out of breath

-when confronted with a choice between two or more temptations, you choose the one that will get you home earlier

-work is a lot less fun, and fun is a lot more work

-you actually enjoy watching PBS stations

-you are no longer concerned about where your spouse goes, as long as you don't have to go along

-you are sitting at home alone on a Saturday night when the telephone rings, and you hope that it isn't for you

-you are wise enough to watch your step, but you are too tired to step out anywhere

-you buy a GPS navigator so you won't get lost on your way to work

-you can do just as much partying as ever, but you would rather not if you don't have to

-you can flirt all you like since everyone thinks of you as both "cute" and "harmless"

-you choose your cereal for the fiber, not for the taste or the toy

-you come to realize that your worst enemy is gravity

-you discover that the volume knob also turns to the left

-you feel like the morning after when you haven't been anywhere the night before

-you go to the doctor and suddenly realize you now have to pay someone to look at you naked

-you have acquired a reputation for being patient, when you have actually stopped caring

-you have already met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else

-you have realized that dating someone half your age would no longer get you arrested

-you keep repeating yourself

-you keep repeating yourself

-you look forward to a dull evening

-you realize how closely serenity resembles being simply too tired to care

-you repeat yourself ... again

-you see a cute twenty-something with an older person, and you find the older person more attractive

-you still have a full deck; you just shuffle it a little slower now

-you still have all your marbles; you just don't remember where you left them

-you still repeat yourself, no matter how often you've been told to stop

-you turn down the dining-room lights for economic rather than romantic reasons

-your children start making sense

-your congressman starts paying attention to you

-your high-school classmates have all grown so bald, so flabby, so gray, and so wrinkled that they no longer recognize you

-your idea of a cool night out is sitting on the patio with the radio on

-your idea of lifting weights is standing up

-your joints are more accurate than the National Weather Service in predicting inclement weather

-your mind wanders, but your body is too worn out to follow

-your wild oats have all turned to shredded wheat

- the music you despised and ridiculed as a youngster now occupies the bulk of your collection.

Nope, I'm 55. All the things I wrote are real challenges that I have to through. I take herbal medicine for my arthritis and it works pretty good, but my hands look horrible.

I know of a lot of people in their early 60s these days who are in good health, still go away on holidays, and are quite content in living an easy life without having to be part of the rat race and not having to go on job-seekers and get s**t from them and having to worry about finding a job and so on.

Sorry, it's just the way I feel at the moment. I'm getting pretty tired of being young. What's a young, healthy bodyy if you haven't got enough social skills and/or confidence and money to do things with it? The way my life is going, I might aswell be 60.

It's hard to say when you are officially an old person. It isn't the age, it's more the mileage, as Jack Nicholson said in the movie "Chinatown." Until I was in my thirties I kept getting carded when I went out on the town. Even in my fifties, I am thought to be much younger. But my insides feel really old...

I know that some people in their 50s or 60s are considered "old people" if they look and feel like crap. But it seems like 70 is the age when you're an old person even if you still look/feel good. In other words, 70 is the "official" old man age in my opinion. lol

Wow, you seem pretty down right now, you can always chuck me a PM if you want to talk, your situation is actually pretty similar to mine to be honest.

Social skills can be developed. Try to be thankful for your age and health.