Category: Safe Haven
Hi all,
just thought I'd post this out of curiosity, and find out how many older folk there are here? You don't have to be older to reply, I was just wondering how many other older folk there are in here. I'm 45, I'm sure it's in my text profile. I forgot to include it in my audio profile though. I really don't feel 45, I can't tell I'm any older than when I was 19. maybe I'm aging slowly, and if I make it to my 60's, then I'll be saying I can't tell I'm any older than when I was 45. There aren't many older people to talk to anyway, because the only other 2 or 3 who are older are so game oriented, they have all quicknotes off, and make it clear they don't wanted to be bothered. I'm not game obsessive, it's just a time passer for me, and I don't mind getting distracted, I really don't. As far as the anagram thing goes, I know I will never be on the top 5 leaders list, and I'm cool with it. it's just interesting to see how many I can come up with, but when I've thought of all I can, that's it, I give up, no big deal.
well those are my thoughts for right now, unless I can think of some more. In case I don't get back anymore tonight, take care all, and have a good night.
wonderwoman
I'm 49. Come on all you other people over 35 or so. Speak up!
Oh, I'm 39 and not holding. Hahahaha!
good to see you here Labyrinth. You seem so youthful and vivacious, I forget you're almost 40, lol. I noticed some of the profiles, some folks chose not to fill in a birth date.
I like being able to wish people happy birthday and check the birthday list for that day every day that I log in to see if I can wish someone I know a happy birthday. It has been arranged now that we can just put in the month and date of birth in our profiles and leave the year blank if we want. That is what I chose to do. I hope more people will at least put in the month and day now instead of just leaving the whole field blank.
well, I don't mind posting my age at all. I wished everybody posted the year, so it would be easier to find people in our age range.
wonderwoman
Well, no guarantee I will necessarily hang out in this board, but I figured I'd stand up and be counted. Oh, and thanks for the compliment. Despite greying hair that's slowly falling out, I don't feel old. Ninety's old, not fourty. Hahahaha!
That's why I posted a young zoners board, and I'm watching the older one. I can't wait 'til there's a profile searcher where you can search by birth year. THen I'll find people my age, and Wonderwoman, you can do the same. WOn't that be cool, I really hope they work that in! Maybe as a premium feature, even.
Caitlin
Hi Caitlin,
Well I'm not getting in to the premium features thing, but you'll probably have an easier time finding people your age than I will, because when some people get in my age range and older, they are reluctant to tell their age. I can't tell you why, I mean, we're getting older whether or not we choose to give out our age, and consider the alternative to aging. I've never thought about my age, and telling it doesn't bother me.
wonderwoman
I'm 43 now. But going to be 44 in May of 2005.
Lol I'm not ashamed of my age and I probably never will be! Caitlin
Yay Sue, wonderful to see you here. I'm 45, and I'll be 46 february the 8th, a little over a month after Christmas. I really don't feel my age, I can't tell I'm any older than when I was 19. That's good caitlin, that you won't mind telling your age, of course it would be strange if you minded now, since you're only 14, that's still really young.
Wonderwoman
Yah Wonderwomen. I'm glad to be on the board posting messages this is fun. I feel like you Wonderwomen I don't feel like my age either. I feel younger than my age. I guess we have that in common Wonderwomen. But that's great your having a birthday on February the 8th and your going to be 46 years younger and for Caitlin you don't have tell us your age. I understand how you feel !
*smile* Sweet Sue.
Yes Sue, If I have anything to say about it, I will remain forever young, even when I have so many wrinkles, that they're all on top of each other. Once when I was on citizens band radio, I was talking to a boy who was 3 years younger than me, and I told him that I was going to remain 18 years old forever, and he said, you'll be funny, when you're 80 years old, and have lots of wrinkles,and someone asks you how old you are, and you say, I'm 18, lol.
Wonderwoman
Hi all, I'm one of the older people here on the Zone. I'm 52 years old. I think age is nothing to be ashamed of. After all, it tells us how long the Lord has left us here. It's a blessing to grow older. Keep feeling young and keep on posting. Keeping in touch with others keeps you (and Me) young. djmom
Well, there are parts of me that never grew up, and I like myself that way. I'm 49 going on three. I am too! Am Too! Am Too!
Lou
44
I'm glad to see this topic brought back, I think it's been brought back, because some posts i've madesince then are way down deep under layers of pages. I think i'll go in to my profile and click on th elink that said read all the topics this user has posted in. anyway i'm glad a few more older ones have come on here, i was beginning to think i'd wind up being the only one in my age range here.
wonderwoman
hello wonderwoman, i'll be 38, in december, all though people say i look like i'm only 30, lol, i'll probley live to see 100, but my girlfriend says i act younger sometimes, lol,guess i am still a kid at heart, i still like my cartoons, when i can find any good ones on, *smiles
I am 26 will be 27 on the 29 of February. I don't feel like it, some times I feel younger. But I like older things like music and cant stand night clubs or things like that.
I am sixty-one and reluctantly counting.
When I signed up for the zone I thought really hard about hiding my age thinking that I would be rejected by the younger folks. However, that hasn't been the case at all. I find this to be a rough and tumbling community, but most folks have been extremely nice to me. I don't know whether or not folks don't know or care about my age, or they are being respectful to their elders. I would prefer the first choice, but either one is a plus for the zoners I have encountered.
One problem I have at times had, is in talking about things that happened in the past, most zoners are talking about things they've read or heard about (i.e. Kennedy's assasination or the war in Vietnam). am remembering those events. Oh well, generational gap problems.
Basically, my experiences here have been very possitive especially on the boards. I love to argue, and, apparently so does everyone else around here. You just have to keep a tough hide and don't take any prisoners. <grin>.
I wish that some of the younger folks would talk on this topic. How does relating to one of the elder statesmen effect you? Do you cut any slack for our advanced age <grin>?
Thanks for posting this topic, and whoever brought it back to the top, thanks too.
Bob
Hi all. I turned 44 on September 7th. An indian girl told me once, as i was amazed at her knowledge and amturity, that age is that of the body, which is right. I have seen very young people be extremely mature, and people my age act childishly, so it has no meaning other than the body getting older. Cheers. John
32 going on uh uh.
well, i think i'm still interested in some young topics, for instance, I still like some juvenile fiction books, mostly mysteries. Once in a while, I talk to someone 25 or so years younger than I, and once in a blue moon, the age thing really doesn't matter. I think I can talk to younger girls or women than i can most youngerboys. I can relate to th eposter who said some older people can be very immature while younger people can be very mature. I think i'm parly mature, maybe partly immature, can't be sure which. A woman on mirc once tolod me she was too old to be in to cliques, but having been around a lot of chat places, for the people, audio tips, accessible chat, paltalk, and fvip, I can say cliques come in all ages. I've seen people from their 20's on up in to their 60's be cliquish, so i've come to the conclusion that cliquishness has nothing to do with age at all. once i was in a room on for the people, and this 17 year old girl came in the room and the first thing she said was, I'm not coming to this site anymore, i don't mind talking to people in their 20's but when they're old like in their 30's and 40's, we don't have anything in common. I could understand her feelings, but i just didn't care for the way she said it, but all we can do when someone says something in that sort of way is to say something back, so I said, yeah, i have the same problem most of the time on accessiblechat, only they're mostly younger and too immature. She didn't seem to notice my comeback and kept talking to me the previous conversation hadn't taken place, so I didn't talk to her on accessible chat anymore when she came in a room.Anyway, the age difference was one of the reasons I thought about leaving the zone, but someone does post a topic sometimes that i can identify with, and voice chat isn't working out for me very much ritght now, so it's something to do on the comuter. I just don't stay on here as long as i use to. Oh, one other chat program i was on I forgot about, i was on freedom chat for a while, and there was noone my age on there at all.
wonderwoman
Hi Wonder Woman, I just read this topic. I'm 53 years old and am happy to admit it. I know most people don't like to tell their age but I feel if the Lord chose to leave me here another year it's something to be proud of. I like to play anagrams and check the boards once in a while. I know that most people here are much younger and ddon['t have much in common with me but it's still fun here. Its very confortable in a place where other blind or visually impaired people play games or talk.
I am 42 years old, and there are days when I feel every second of it. I'm finding myself saying things my parents used to say. Yikes! What's interesting is that I've had people tell me I don't sound as old as I am. Go figure that.
hi wonder woman,
i'm 41,but i feel like i'm yunger,and people say i sound yunger too,
i play anagrams til i run out of words,and i'm fine with it also.
take care
tony
hi all,
I'm so glad more older people have brought this topic back. and yes jmom, if we are ashamed to tell our age, the lord might think we don't particularly want to live anymore, and he may relieve us of our age, so don't wantthat. yeah frosted flake, just because we are older doesn't mean we have to feel it or act it. I still kind of wish there were enough older people to start a n older zoners board, but oh well. I'm 48 now, this topic is 3 years old, lol. When i first came on here, i brought up the subject of a board for older zoners, but not even the admins or cl's responded to it, so the topic didn't go over too well I guess, and there really wasn't enough older zoners to warrant it i suppose. But these 3 years have passed fairly quickly.
wonderwoman
Hello wonderwoman.
As you and I have spoken, you know my age.. LOL. 40 years old. But like some of the others I do not feel my age. How many of you guys sit there and wonder sometimes at how fast time goes by? Sometimes I find myself wondering what I am supposed to feel like and act like. I dont see myself as old, I dont feel old, I still laugh and giggle at silly things, I still play, I still dream and fantasize. So what is old?
I am shorter of patience.. I cant get into conversations that I see as completely assenine.. like the who would you like to bang stuff, that maybe as a younger person I might have.. Not sure I would have then. But other than having different views and opinions on some matters that I had as a young adult, I do not feel any different.
For most of the older people on here, i really didn't notice your age in your posts or in your qns so the only reason that i new was by your profiles, aspecially you bob.
BEN.
Hi Tanja Glass,
Sometimes I think I feel just as immature at some things as some younger people are, and at other times, I feel mature enough to be with the 80 and 90 year olds. As an example of some of my innter immature rea ctions, once when i was on a program called accessible chat, my friends and i were in a private room I created. The subject of a particular individual came on on chat, and the 12 year old whom I was talking to remarked that the individual in questiion was the back end oif a horse, to put it nicely. I didn't say anything, and was glad it was text chat instead of voice, because if i'd pressed down on the talk key then, he might have heard me giggling. The immature child like part of me wanted to burst out laughing, but I managed to keep the little child in me in tact, because you don't laugh at some of those kind of remarks little children say, at least not out loud. I expect if i were to talk to him very late inlife, he and I might reminisce about those days, then i could let my hair down and tell him hoiw funny it was. Befor anyone gets the idea that i'm a mean spirited person, let me just say I had a bad experience with hi and his crowd when they came in my public room and started trashing it. by that I mean, we were all just having a nice clean goood time, minding our own business, and they just came in there and started talking nasty. if he'd made the remark about someone i liked and had good chat experiences with, I would've thought it was mean, and maybe i would've said, now now, that's not nice. As it was, I couldn't even scold him, because at heart, i agreed with him, and if I'd lectured and scolded while at the same time nearly dying with laughter, I would've been and felt like a hypocrite. What can yiou really do when a child says something like that aboiut someone whom you don't lijke anyway and you think that person is someone who likes insulting people for the fun of itand you know you shouldn't feel that way or have that reaction, but something inside yiou wants to laugh it up with the child and have fun over it. But of course, as adults, we know we mustn't do that. I guess it's one of my immature and bad character traits. if you say something not too nice about someone I don't like, as long as its not nasty and vulgar, I think it's funny and have a hard time not to laugh about it, but if you say something not nice about someone i like and who has been nice to me, or I've gotten anice impression of, I'll think, what a jerk, and feel really sorry for the person who has had something not very nice said about him.
wonderwoman