I can remember when I was younger and used to dream about getting older, now that I 'm older man, how wrong was I to think that getting older was cool, nowdays, the shoulder, the elbow, the back, the neck, the darned knee, man one hurts one day, the next day is another, sometimes two or three at a time, bad vision, never been the keenest of my senses but now it 's ridiculous, need glasses to see and can 't see with glasses, baldness; was walking  to the back patio and heard this annoying squeaking, danged shoes I thought and ....... nope, it weren 't the shoes what was squeaking, it was my heels. Sometimes I can 't trust blowing a fart.

Gettin ' old  sux !

sux when your energy level goes out the window and it sux when you get aches and pains that just show up one day, and it sux when you can't eat the stuff you use too, other than that its alright

Amen, brother, Amen

As my mother got older she used to say,"getting old is not for sissies". Man was she ever right.

Old for me started at 30. I'm now 40 with arthritis in my knees, just had surgery on my left shoulder, got a couple scews in my right ankle and my eyesight gets worse everyday. I should own stock in ibuprophen. Don't need the little blue pill yet. I cant wait for 50

My uncle used to say..."when a man turns 50, they should hit him over the head and put him out of his misery". Another old adage is " if it don't hurt, it don't work". I am having both knees replaced in the next month or so.

Ronnie

Wait until you hit 71. I now can only fish 4 days a week. The others are 2 1/2 days are for rest & a 1/2 day at the doctors office. Heck he goes on vacation for a week out of 6 weeks on just from my visits ;D

I felt a turn for the worse once I got past 50..nothing was the same as it was when I was 49. Can't eat allot of the stuff I like, haven't been able to play golf, or surf for the last 7 or 8 yrs..(bad back) I get regular refills on Ibuprofen 800mgs just to feel o.k...energy is much lower. But thank goodnes 90% of my hair is still on the ole noggin..LOL

62, still doing construction work...when it's available.. 8-)

Being dead is worse , cheer up , you still can complain about being old.

Physically, everything was fine with me (other than eyesight) until I turned sixty, then I started to slowly fall apart.  At this point I have now been diagnosed with Essential Tremors (my hands shake) and recently, with blockage in the Femoral arteries.  I can't walk more than a hundred feet or so without severe cramps in my calves.  I'm not going to talk about what is happening with my teeth.  Add the above to the fact that a lifetime of knocks and bangs has resulted in not a day that goes by without waking up with pain in some part of my extremities, and you end up with the proverbial Old Fart.  That said, I am in much better health than many others my age and younger.  I count my blessings.

I welcome the stiffness and pain in the morning. It is a very good sign I am alive. Now what the hell were we talking about?

It seems like it wasn't so long ago that weddings and births were a central theme.  Now it's more about retirements, hospital visits, and funerals.  Not to mention the aches and pains.  "Sux" ain't a strong enough word.  Nevertheless, it could be a lot worse.  With any luck, someday I'll be able to garden in my undewear without getting arrested.

I agree, getting old sux! > I turn 49 this year and I feel like I'm seventy. I have a herniated disk in my neck and one in my back :'( It's ridiculous sometimes trying to stand up from a bent over position. I'm 6'5 and that can be a long way to go when everything hurts. I also have type 2 diabetes and a condition called Meneries disease. Constant ringing in the ears and sometimes vertigo attacks that will knock me down but other than that life is good ;D My wife say's it's a good thing I'm not a dog or they would have put me down years ago :D

This explains getting old better than most.   

http://www.caregiverstress.com/2010/07/a-reminder-that-laughter-is-the-best-medicine/

Yep it sucks. Wait until you've been through fourteen surgeries (6 on the neck), three pins in r. hip. I'm up now due to pain in my neck, r. shoulder, and r. arm.

Seems i plan my week around doctor visits.

I can still stand all day in a bass boat though.

I do sympathize with the men and women whose bodies prematurely age or develop diseases early in life, much of that is genetics and beyond one's control.  Many in their 40's or 50's are not qualified to talk about old age, you're still young.

At 65 I have some of the same problems mentioned, I try not to let anything get in the way of what I love to do, that's fishing for hard fighting fish, I do it every single day.  I recently discovered I was a diabetic type 2.  Medication and proper diet has restored my energy level and strength, I feel 40 again.  Exercise doesn't hurt.

I'm 45 going on 65.

My partner here in the office is 50. He has something he tells customers who call almost everyday when they ask how he is.

"I woke up this morning, no dirt in my eyes"