Aging PFUI!!!!!!!

[WeaselMender]

Several of us have had a run-in with Father Time recently I have a heart attack, Alex gets a clot, Jock gets ambushed by a tree and so it goes.

I REFUSE to age gracefuly, but youth it seems to be wasted on the young!

What are we to do to stave off the ravages of a life well lived? Dye our greying hair and shave off our beard, peirce our nose and eyebrows, go Goth or Steampunk, buy a superbike instead of a Harley

The fact that age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill is small comfort!

Well now that I got that off my chest I will retire to my rocking chair by the fire like a good old curmudgeon (not)

Weasel :ootd:

[auld argonian]

Once again this year I will, at 57 years of age, strap on the skates and get myself back out on the ice (and, no...I don't play hockey...never enjoyed the game...sorry, Canadians...) and invariably somebody I know will say, "What do you think you're doing? You're going to be hurting in the morning...aren't you too old for this stuff?"

That's how you keep from acting like you're old, okay?

Age, as the immortal Satchel said, is a question of mind over matter...if you don't mind...it don't matter.

And, Satch...I still feel like I could play right field for the White Sox...

Best

AA

[Tartan Hiker]

I hear ya brother. I've been feeling my age a bit lately, but I'm certainly not going to give up without a fight.

[hallmarktex]

I'm right there with you! You work hard to take care of yourself, and your body gives out on you anyway...little by little.

One thing about getting older though, it sure beats the alternative.

[auld argonian]

My brother used to have a good line:

"There's no way that we're going to get out of this alive anyway, so why play a conservative game?"

Best

AA

[davedove]

Hey, I can do anything that I could do when I was younger.

I just can't do it as long, as often, or if something happens it takes longer to recover.

[Macman]

I beginning to understand this. You can fight it but you can't beat it.

[ForresterModern]

To stay young perpetually learn something new each and every year of your life. This is something I have done almost religiously since I was 35, and I am now preparing to celebrate my 35th birthday for the 17th time in two months. I learned to fly fish, took up canoeing, then flytying, then skiing, crosscountry skiing, snowshoeing, snowboarding, mountain biking, trail biking, long distance road cycling, bicycle mechanics and building, kilting, new adventurous areas in my job, advanced photography, computers, digital photography, on and on and on. New things keep you in that youthful thinking and learning mentality, instead of the sitting in a rocking chair knitting or reading or watching the paint peel. You are not dead until your brain dies, so keep that puppy active with some sort of mental treadmill, and changing things up helps keep things interesting.

[BEEDEE]

Age is a state of mind!

Brian

[Old Hippie]

I REFUSE to age gracefuly, but youth it seems to be wasted on the young!

George Bernard Shaw, I believe.

What are we to do to stave off the ravages of a life well lived? Dye our greying hair and shave off our beard, peirce our nose and eyebrows, go Goth or Steampunk, buy a superbike instead of a Harley

Hmmm... You may have a point. Lessee...shaved off the hair, kept the beard. Piercing, aye (just an ear...). Sparkpunk! (Building a Tesla coil...) Turning the Harley into a Brit-style cafe racer because I'm buying a new bike this spring:

http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/zero-ds/

The fact that age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill is small comfort!

Oh, no it's not. It's a huge comfort. I've finally hit that age where all the young dudes look at me, just like I looked at their grandfathers, and say, "Did you SEE what that old dude just did?" It's instructive to learn that the younger generation did not invent fast motorcycles, skateboards or things that go fast and explode. My hero is Sylvester Roper -- the guy who invented the motorcycle almost 150 years ago. I hope not to die at 70 speed-testing a new bike like he did, but for literally decades he was the oldest biker on the planet.

Yeah, sometimes we pay a little higher price for our antics. But we've learned the difference between ability and bravado, and the value of practice and the power of intention.

I'm spending my time by the fire, too -- plotting world domination and other mad scientist things once spring arrives and I can get back out making trouble.

:ootd: