I hit 60 a couple of years ago, and I assume people who are under 40 or so look at me and think I'm old.
But I don't really feel old. I'm in good health, my brain still works pretty well, and there's nothing I want to do that I can't because of my age.
I think most people's definition of "old age" advances as they themselves get older. When you're ten, everyone over twenty is old. When you're twenty, people over forty look pretty old. And so on.
At the moment, I suppose I consider eighty old, but that may well change as I get nearer that milestone.
I heard recently that a third of the babies born in Britain this year will probably live to see a hundred candles on their birthday cake. That sort of change will also affect what people consider "old".
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I hit 60 a couple of years ago, and I assume people who are under 40 or so look at me and think I'm old.
But I don't really feel old. I'm in good health, my brain still works pretty well, and there's nothing I want to do that I can't because of my age.
I think most people's definition of "old age" advances as they themselves get older. When you're ten, everyone over twenty is old. When you're twenty, people over forty look pretty old. And so on.
At the moment, I suppose I consider eighty old, but that may well change as I get nearer that milestone.
I heard recently that a third of the babies born in Britain this year will probably live to see a hundred candles on their birthday cake. That sort of change will also affect what people consider "old".
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Well said.