OK. I turn 40 soon. I know i will never get the chance to play for the Dons or Scotland or what ever. It's all down hill now. I have gray hair and a body that's no as good as when I was 20 which feels like last week. Do you think about Death? And yes I know I still have hopefully at least 40 years to go. But I'm sure no the best years. But it's been since i have got in my late 30's that i have thought this way.

And cheers all that called me a old cunt.    Just wait.......  Cunts. 

That should be an old cunt.

That should be an old cunt.

 

Takes one to know one 

Takes one to know one 

 

Unfortunately it's not exclusive to old ones too.

So most on here are at least in their 40's. No wonder we are a miserable bunch of Cunts. 

 

Age has nothing to do with the misery or the level of Cuntage

Aye you would know ya miserable cunt. 

So most on here are at least in their 40's. No wonder we are a miserable bunch of Cunts. 

 

Fucking youngsters

So, we've recruited a right few new members in the past few weeks.

Strikes me that a number of them are ages with myself so thought I'd dig up this old thread and throw it out there........whats your thought on getting older ?

 

Good, bad, indifferent 

Turned 43 a few weeks ago and have to say getting old is shit.  I wouldn't recommend it and am often left wondering where the hell the years have went.

Fortieth birthday wife asked what sort of party I wanted ( shes now ex wife btw). I told her f@ck all, but behind my back she goes and organises one anyway. Now my birthday falls on Hogmanay. I just wanted a quiet day see the bells in and hit the pillow by 130/2am tops.

Anyway I got wind of things around 27th/28th. I stewed on things for 24 hours then told her on 29th I knew about the party and that while she was welcome to proceed with her plans, I would be checking into a hotel and would be back late evening on neerday. Poor cow spent next 6 hours on phone cancelling all guests.

Probably seem a right ungrateful c@nt but that was just how I was at the time. Grumpy bastard definately. Was it age related? Possibly, I just developed a talent for saying exactly what I thought rather than biting my tongue as I had done in situations in younger years.

JUst turned 54 and it's pissing me off no end, I'm more aware of my and everyone around me's mortality which scares me. My eyes which used to be great into my 40s are now pish, nead glasses to read everything. I make that euuugh noise when I get up after sitting for a while. I have an irregular heart beat (AF).......on the other hand I still sometimes think I'm 18 and run about like a feel, cue the AF starting up  All in all getting auld is a cunt imo. Wish I could be 21 again.

All in all getting auld is a cunt imo. Wish I could be 21 again.

 

Well said that man! I'd happily go back to being 21 again.

So would I but I'd also want it to be 1979 again to go with it.

 

Sod being 21 now.

So would I but I'd also want it to be 1979 again to go with it.

 

Sod being 21 now.

 

The year I turned 21 was the greatest year ever.

Would simply love to go back there 

The year I turned 21 was the greatest year ever.

Would simply love to go back there 

 

Same here 1983 

Same here 1983 

 

Indeed young man

Watching your kids get older is horrible, great from their point of view, but my youngest has started to drop my hand if he is walking along the streets and sees his pals, so not long now until taking my hand will stop altogether. It is nice seeing them grow up and become adults, but nothing ever beats them being young and innocent and relying on their mum and dads for everything.

I'm a 1962 vintage too. Getting older is excellent. I wouldn't want to go back one year let alone decades like some do.

 

Wisdom grows. Love deepens. Why would anyone want to go back?

 

If you're not loving living more and more each year, with ALL the ups and downs it brings, you're not thinking right or you are living wrong. And if you're living wrong, change.

 

We've had the best of it though. I don't think our kids have got as good prospects as we had.

83 Al?

 

 

I'm now 45 and can't say i'm over the moon about the ageing process.

 

My kids are 17 and 14 and i pretty much don't see them a great deal, never out their rooms.

 

I can't believe i'm at this age already to be honest and i just feel the years are racing past. I do wonder if having worked offshore for over 16 years has got a lot to do with that. 

Am just a kick in the erse away from 40 and yes growing old is a worry,

When i think back now i wish me and the wife had kids when we were a bit younger, and if i could stop time, now would be a great time to stop. The loons are a great age

 

Also looking back at my 18-30 stuff, did i enjoy it? Aye, would i like to go back? No.

Other thing is enjoy life to the max, we are here for a good time no a long time. Enjoy every day like its your last as you're never sure whats round that corner. 

I'm 48 next week and it's pissing me off just how quick the years are now passing. It seems time moves quicker the older you get. I think offshore or working abroad doesn't help. Time flies.

I rejected organised religion early doors. Never believed the church stuff. But I made a conscious decision to read the Bible, age 15 or 16. It was a good read actually. I thought it wise to see what the fuss was about before slamming the door shut for life. So I considered myself an atheist for 20 years, which I don't now. Still despise all "religions" but I guess when you close the door on the state-sponsored devices, it kind of forces you to create your own belief system (or religion).

 

For me, the objective of life is very simple; to die without regrets.

 

Seems that there's a lot of regret and reflecting on "the good old days" in here. That's sad.

83 Al?

 

Indeed it was MBT....the year I turned 21 not my fucking age

I rejected organised religion early doors. Never believed the church stuff. But I made a conscious decision to read the Bible, age 15 or 16. It was a good read actually. I thought it wise to see what the fuss was about before slamming the door shut for life. So I considered myself an atheist for 20 years, which I don't now. Still despise all "religions" but I guess when you close the door on the state-sponsored devices, it kind of forces you to create your own belief system (or religion).

 

For me, the objective of life is very simple; to die without regrets.

 

Seems that there's a lot of regret and reflecting on "the good old days" in here. That's sad.

 

Its natural for humans to think back to other times. That's not to say one isn't enjoying life now, but that your life in its present format, is a culmination of past events that have shaped and formed your present life. To think of those moments and by having them in the first place, is a blessing. I have fond memories of various events throughout my life, but i don't long for any of them back and I always 'live' in the present.

 

Life to me is one big lesson, you learn from something, you grow, you learn again and then you grow further.  I think that's why older people appear much wiser, because they have experienced life and learned from it. Its not wrong to regret something, but rather than wallow in it, learn from it.