Old Age Mendoza Line

[JayhawkCO]

40 is old.

It won't be when you turn 40.  I speak from experience.

I'm a bit beyond 40.  40 is old.  Anyone who says differently is fearing getting old.

I don't know.  I'm about to turn 39 and I still climb mountains.  To each their own.

Chris

Who says you have to stop climbing mountains just because you're old?

I guess no one, but I just don't feel physically different than when I was 25 or so.  No extra aches and pains here.

Chris

I'm actually in better shape now than I was then.  My distance run time has fallen over a minute per mile, can life more and I sleep way better than I did at 25.  Everyone told me back then I would be having joint problems and be in a general decline.

God knows I drink less now.

Chris

[Rothman]

40 is old.

It won't be when you turn 40.  I speak from experience.

I'm a bit beyond 40.  40 is old.  Anyone who says differently is fearing getting old.

40 is far from old.  As I said, I'm 65, and I am not old.

65 is older than dirt.

[Dirt Roads]

I'm 46, and that doesn't seem old.  Even when I was young, I would put old starting at 50.  Now, I would consider old at around 70.

My aunt mentioned the other day that when she was growing up in the backwoods of West Virginia that age 48 was really, really old.  She added that now there are some folks older than her (in her mid-80s) that don't seem that old at all.  I know a bunch of 70-somethings that seem younger than they did 20 years ago.

[kphoger]

Older than my parents?  No matter what age they are?

[kphoger]

65 is older than dirt.

New dirt is being made every day.  So someone who is 65 years old is quite literally older than dirt.

[webny99]

I am standing by my previous take:

To me, the 30's are on one side of middle-aged, and the 40's are on the other. Anything younger than 30 is young, and anything older than 50 is, well, old.

Of course, it also depends on what old means to you:

If old, to you, means not young, then 40 is an acceptable answer.
If old, to you, means at the end of one's expected life, then 70 is an acceptable answer.

[1995hoo]

Certainly it's more or less beyond dispute that reaching your late 40s changes your perspective on this issue!

[kphoger]

Certainly it's more or less beyond dispute that reaching your late 40s changes your perspective on this issue!

A few years ago, my sister got married at over 40.  Her husband is older than our father (my sister was born in 1974, her husband in 1948).  And they're absolutely perfect for each other.  Yeah, I'd say one's perspective changes with age.