It used to be that 50 was the age at which you were officially 'old', then it was changed to 60.
Now, I'm pleased to see that the W.H.O. (whose employees presumably have nothing better to do) have revised how we refer to our ages, and have issued the following (rather strange) new classifications.
0-17 Underage
18-65 Youth, or Young people
66-79 Middle aged
80-99 Elderly or Senior
100+ Long-lived Elderly
I've been feeling Middle aged for quite some while, and I'm pleased to see that my feelings were correct. For a while I'd worried that I was just plain 'decrepit'.
That is so funny, is that a joke? 18 to 65 youth? 66 to 79 middle aged? Ha ha! That puts me in the middle aged group.
ReplyDeleteApparently not. At first I thought it must be, but I'm very happy to be middle-aged.
DeleteWell, sixty has been the new forty for some time.
ReplyDeleteAs much as it pains me to trot out a platitude it's true that you are as old as you feel. I am five. No bull, Cro. I am still that little girl, wide eyed, full of awe at the wonders of the world and its inhabitants, enveloped in my long dead grandparents' love; trusting in the good of the world. Appearances as to the latter are very very very slow to filter through and generally rejected by me.
"Decrepit"? I love that word. It's so evocative and full of wrinkles.
See you on the other side, Cro, (ever the optimist, give it another thirty years or so),
U
Mentally I'm somewhere between 18 and 25, when everything was new and exciting. It's the age that I look back on the most often.
DeleteI always knew I was middle aged and I plan to stay that way for several more years.
ReplyDeleteElderly or Long-lived Elderly doesn't sound too good. Let's all stay Middle-aged.
DeleteA sixty four year old is youth or young? Well, I am not kidding myself.
ReplyDeleteThe W.H.O. obviously know something we don't!
DeleteI'm one of those middle aged matrons? Phooey.
ReplyDeleteCould have been worse though .... Lots of smiley faces 😅😅😅
I'm happy for them to call me whatever they want as long as it's not 'Long-lived Elderly'.
DeleteI'm not sure why we have to be put in a category. I'm just grateful I've reached 66-79, Middle aged !!! XXXX
ReplyDeleteMe too. On a totally different subject, we're just off to the funeral of a 3 year old boy. It hardly bears thinking about.
DeleteThe funeral of that three year old bought a jolt to a heart half a world away. How does a parent get past such heartbreak?
DeleteHeart-breaking for everyone concerned. I'm just grateful that nothing like that ever happened to us. One never knows what's around the corner.
DeleteSo I'm still young??? Try telling my joints that.
ReplyDeleteWe're all young.... keep telling ourselves.
DeleteWhat I hate most about getting older is the different way people treat you. Not all but most. They treat you as though you no longer have a brain and I would say my brain is sharper now than it was whey I was younger.
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I remember quite a while back (when I was still a 'Young Person'), a check-out girl at Waitrose folding my change into my hand in a rather strange way. Had I been 21, I might have thought she was after me, but at the age I was she must have seen me as 'elderly'.
DeleteI seemed to become strangely invisible to most people once I reached 60 so I don't suppose it matters much what I am called if I don't exist!
ReplyDeleteMaybe they really see you as rather exotic and 'exclusive'. They are probably just shy.
DeletePaul and I are still young then. It's a pity our bodies don't know that!
ReplyDeleteMy body is quite a mixture. My brain is about 25, my lower back about 95, my right knee around 77, and my liver is unclassifiable.
DeleteIf middle age goes to 79, that means some can expect to live to be 158. That certainly will be a boom to the wrinkle cream industry.
ReplyDeleteYour comment should be sent to the W.H.O. They probably hadn't thought about that!
DeleteI feel quite young except for my right knee which insists on feeling decrepit just to be annoying.
ReplyDeleteAh-ha.... another member of the right knee club.
DeleteI don't wish to think of myself as elderly but it looks as though I have to.
ReplyDeleteWe all know our own true age and capabilities; I'm certainly in the middle-aged bracket.
DeleteUseful delineation thanks to the W.H.O.. It was so kind of you to share this information which I shall now apply in everyday life.
ReplyDeleteGlad to be of help YP.
DeleteI used to feel 28
ReplyDeleteNow I feel 45
In the mornings I feel 'underage', in the evenings I feel 'elderly'.
DeleteNext step: no old age pension paid until 80.
ReplyDeleteIf you're lucky!!
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