How do you really feel about your age? (Poll)

Aging reminds myself of regretful actions that can not be undone.

Only if you expected perfection on earth. But no one promised us that when we were born. As to those regrets, those are futile feelings because you forget that, thanks to those 'mistakes' you think you made, you are here today as the wonderful being you are. And that's all that maters. Not what happened in the past, because there's nothing happening back there except inside your head!

Aging is empathetic and unfortunate. Furthermore, aging limits everyone in some way.

Not at all. It all depends on how we use that process, which is entirely in line with everything in Nature. How can man be any different?

Thanks for sharing your feelings.

They say that your as young as you feel. So is that why some women have bfs half there age?

Exactly! :o)

In England the saying is that we are as young as the men/women we feel!!

If you have to ask if I am single, you obviously haven't read the very clear description that goes with my column photo above!! Not terribly observant, are you, sir? :o(

Anyway, if you haven't got a picture yourself, you cannot ask if I'm single. I don't associate with headless people! :o)

Don't fight what you can't change. Save the battles for something really important.

Excellent advice in that we shouldn't 'fight' life at all. That's futile. The best way to live, is to accept life while continually looking for ways to enhance the experience! It can be magical sometimes.

Lets force the issue. We need at least 25% of boards to have women. :)

Too low! At least 50%, then if that is not achieved, it would be much more than 25% percent! Think BIG!!

I feel that if women get on the boards the corporations over time will become more responsible if they are not family members.

Many boards are stacked with people who wheel and deal away the profits and income of other stakeholders.

I agree. A survey I did some years ago, suggested that men focused on different elements of business compared to women leaders. For example, the top priority for men were resources, while for women it was personnel. Not surprising at all. It backs up the logic (male) and emotions (female) analogy.

A good sentiment, Confer. Well said.

Thank you too, glad you find it of benefit.

I am so thrilled that you are having those extra years, Megidolaon, and I am sure it's your playful positive attitude helping that to happen. I hope you get tons more.

Exactly. It is our fears around it that makes us think we have to behave in a certain way.

Good for you, Sparrow! :o)

Great reminder, Mighty Mouth!

When we are young, destructive, indulgent, self-centered behavour is allowed, or dismissed as tolerable.

I wouldn't quite describe youth like that, Geezer. Why the young appear that way, which many people don't understand, is that youth is an EXPERIMENTAL stage. It is deliberately designed like that by Nature to help the young and inexperienced person to make sense of their world, to come to terms with it gradually, and to take fearful risks they are not emotionally equipped for. Hence why youth feels invincible at times, as if they can move mountains, which is bound to make them self absorbed. When youth becomes overwhelmed by their life, it can be tragic. In 2002, the highest suicide casualty in Britain was among 24 year olds who felt they just couldn't face life!

Yet, the problem is not so much with the youth, per se, but with the fully experienced adults who then treat youngsters as though they already have the experience of adults, and who seek to deny them that stage of experimentation before full adulthood!!

The wasted potiental

Believe me there is no waste of youth. That is exactly how it is meant to be to prepare them for the more gruelling times ahead. It's just that some of them take longer than others to adjust to adulthood. Youth is simply a preparation for life, and every individual does it their own way. It is adults who burden that time with their own fears and anxieties in their desire to speed it up, instantly forgetting THEIR own youthful period.

Hopefully, having lived through our own youth, we can provide some positive guidance to help the younger ones today.

Indeed, except that many parents don't realise that for their children to live responsible lives they have to make their own mistakes, to be exposed to life, not shielded from it. Otherwise they cannot cope when they are required to do so.

Geezer, as a former education manager, and an emotional health guru, I believe many parents don't realise that the way they bring their children up is the main factor that decides their future, one of either 'responsibility' or 'wastefulness'. The wasteful ones are those whose parents unwittingly robbed them of their confidence by protecting them too much from reality in order to make life 'easier' for them and protect them from perceived harm. Of course, as they have little self confidence in themselves to make their own decisions, having been too controlled, or spoilt, by their parents. They become drifters in life, confused, bewildered and often arrogant to hide that bewilderment.

Hence why we can never lump youth together in one mass. For each individual, it really is down to childhood experience.

LOL..:o)

If I mourned the passing years I would have lost the experiences I lived.

Amen to that, AND you would not have been the person you are now because those years were the foundation of your own growth and development. You couldn't have done without them.

I am not one of those who believe age is just a number. I have found that the people most ready to say that are usually men, who desire to be accepted by younger women, but who have missed the supreme irony that if it were just a number, they wouldn't care about the age of their partner!! So it is obviously just a number for them, no one else.

I believe our age is an physical marker of where we are in our lives, and the experiences we have had, but our emotional age is entirely up to us! :o)

I have always tried to 'Do Right' in life, personally and professionally, so I have few 'if any' regrets, I do not rethink the past or wish I could do it over ... I enjoy memories but Today and tomorrow consume my time much more then yesterday....

Brilliant comment, which echoes my belief, thank you! :o)

each day is a gift as you say, Its up to you to live it or wish it away ... You sound the same !!!

Yes, I think I am, and thank you for sharing that!

The thing that I like most about getting old is the knowledge that I have gained. The world seems more interesting now.

Indeed, well said.

When I was young, like many young people I guess, I was very focused on ME. I was thin and cute but always worried about what others thought or said. Had to keep up with the latest styles.

Yes, because youth is about experimenting and gravitating towards peers in order to feel accepted and valued. Until that is explored or established, youth cannot really advance confidently into adulthood.

Hetep and Respect, Aunk. :o)

I have to say that you sure are looking great for whatever age you are! Keep it up. Feel free to use the quiz, as long as it is credited to the site.

Thanks for your comment, keep_it_cool. Very enlightening.

Your appreciation is also cool! :o)

Honestly, my biggest beef about me getting older is the other people that are getting older too. I hate to see my parents and grandparents getting older. That bothers me the most.

It shouldn't bother you if you accept the process of life: birth, growth, death, rebirth - an inevitable cycle.