Worst things about getting older.

[PaulB]

We all know that overall, getting older is a fantastic thing but there are one or two downsides. For instance, I used to have the eyesight of a hawk but not any more. I can still tell what colour shoelaces someone has on his boots on the top of a mountain 6 miles away but my close up vision deteriorates by the day and I now need glasses for reading books with small print. What are you finding the worst aspects of anno domini?

 

[rich p]

My failing hips

 

[Mr Pig]

We all know that overall, getting older is a fantastic thing

What?

 

[ChrisKH]

Failing physically. My right knee and left shoulder have had it.

Also since about five years ago I seem to have finished my generation's round of marriages and I only ever seem to go to funerals these days.

 

[ACS]

looking at my dad in the mirror every morning, good looking chap even if I do say so myself

 

[Greedo]

Only 36 but find the old knees creaking and groaning at times.

 

[beanzontoast]

I'd have to say younger people not valuing your ideas as much as their own, both in the work situation and socially. We all get to be on the receiving end of this eventually.

 

[Fnaar]

Eyesight first for me... I too had hawk-like abilities, but have had some damage to left eye through macular degeneration, which is a bit scary. Arthritic left knee and greying temples, general tendency towards grumpiness and raging against the dying of the light.

 

[tyred]

The rapidly disappearing hair on my head.

 

[goo_mason]

Nostril hair and ear hair - I have to trim it as often as I shave these days.

(Funnily enough, age has improved my eyesight. In my early 20s, I became slightly short-sighted, and thos worsened a little into my 30s. Earlier this year I had my eyes re-tested and my vision is now perfect again and I no longer need glasses !)

 

[Eat MY Dust]

I must be strange. I'm getting physically better with each year that goes past. I was even told by my optician that my eyesight should get a little better now that I'm approaching my mid 30's.

 

[Eat MY Dust]

"The Curious Case of Eat My Dust"

lol, I was thinking of that when I wrote that post!

 

[just jim]

"Remembering when I was young."

 

[LordoftheTeapot]

Memory loss

 

[postman]

Keep saying."not like this in my day".