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Over 50 - What you expected?
Doc
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If you are over 50, are you where you thought you would be when you were young? Are you working at the job you envisioned? Do you live where you thought you'd be? Did your life turn out as you expected?
If I had seen a snapshot of my current life when I was 25 I wouldn't have believed it. Most of the differences from what I expected are good... some are not so good. But it is all so very different. I hardly recognize myself from 30 years ago.
If I had seen a snapshot of my current life when I was 25 I wouldn't have believed it. Most of the differences from what I expected are good... some are not so good. But it is all so very different. I hardly recognize myself from 30 years ago.
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Too old to live...too young to die...
Too old to live...too young to die...
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If you are over 50, are you where you thought you would be when you were young? Are you working at the job you envisioned? Do you live where you thought you'd be? Did your life turn out as you expected?
If I had seen a snapshot of my current life when I was 25 I wouldn't have believed it. Most of the differences from what I expected are good... some are not so good. But it is all so very different. I hardly recognize myself from 30 years ago.
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Never in my wildest dreams at 25 would I have thought I would be living in fla. and working for a mouse. It could have turned out worse. I could be living in NY and shoveling snow.
If you are over 50, are you where you thought you would be when you were young? Are you working at the job you envisioned? Do you live where you thought you'd be? Did your life turn out as you expected?
If I had seen a snapshot of my current life when I was 25 I wouldn't have believed it. Most of the differences from what I expected are good... some are not so good. But it is all so very different. I hardly recognize myself from 30 years ago.
at 46 i'm close, life is good, at 25 i didnt have the vision to think that far ahead, 50 appeared very old at the time
i feel wiser and more patient in some areas, forgetful in others
Clouder..
I am 62, and very content.
Live where I swore I never would. Nothing turned out as expected.
But thats ok. It is pretty darn good where things have wound up.
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Never in my wildest dreams at 25 would I have thought I would be living in fla. and working for a mouse. It could have turned out worse. I could be living in NY and shoveling snow.
Hey, I resemble that remark.
On topic.....No. This is not where I pictured myself.
concerns, there's not much I can complain about....except that I'm
still in Illinois.
I believe most 25 year old men never gave a thought to being 50. Now, after 50, I can not remember 25. Don
On this one, I can't tell if you're kidding.
I remember 25 like it was yesterday. In fact, I wake up every morning knowing I'm 25. Then my feet hit the floor, and I know I'm not.
I walk past a mirror and think "who is that old fart?" Then I realize who it is.
I remember 25 because in my head, I still am 25.
I suspect 75 is going to feel just like 50, which feels just like 25.
(until I try to stand up too quickly)
At 20, I figured I would be retiring from the military at 50.
At 25, I figured I would be sitting around watchuing football with my three sons and their my grandkids at 50.
At 40, I figured Sandy and I would be planning a happy retirement by age 50.
At 50, I was looking back on a life wishing I could change some of my decisions I had made before 50.
At 60, I was wishing I were 50 again.
Today, 50 is so far in the past that it just doesn't matter anymore.
50 was/is just a number to me.
quote:Originally posted by dcon12
I believe most 25 year old men never gave a thought to being 50. Now, after 50, I can not remember 25. Don
On this one, I can't tell if you're kidding.
I remember 25 like it was yesterday. In fact, I wake up every morning knowing I'm 25. Then my feet hit the floor, and I know I'm not.
I walk past a mirror and think "who is that old fart?" Then I realize who it is.
I remember 25 because in my head, I still am 25.
I suspect 75 is going to feel just like 50, which feels just like 25.
(until I try to stand up too quickly)
You are correct that I still feel 25 and see myself as a young man. I once told my Mom that every morning I get up, brush my teeth and comb my hair. She told me I was wasting my time. Don
I once told my Mom that every morning I get up, brush my teeth and comb my hair. She told me I was wasting my time. Don
As you get older, you take your teeth out of the bowl and polish the top of your head![}:)]
30 years later,ex wife has house,440 acres still no neighbors.
I retired,more than 30 years,remarried moved to Atlanta where my neighbors are 50 feet away.
Now I live in Charleston where my neighbors are 25 feet away,HOA,Mamby Pamby Bullsnit.And my after retirement job consists of traveling 7 southeast states,home mostly weekends.Have the pleasure of the airport,and the air force jets taking off and landing.
NOT,even close to what I was thinking at 25.But Iam married to my first love,my best friend,women of my dreams and the maker of my nightmares[:o)]Not what I figured,but really happy.[:)]
If you are over 50, are you where you thought you would be when you were young?I am way way way better off than I ever imagined!
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Life is weird, but it's good.
Now that I've found out about my health issues, have addressed them by taking much better care of myself, for the first time I feel I have a chance to hit 80.
Oddly enough, my friend Cheryl, died at the age of 62.[:(]
quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo
At 53 I'm nothing like I thought I'd be.
You're a lawyer.
Something must have gone terribly wrong in your life. [:X]
Lots of things have gone terribly wrong in my life. So far I have have been able to get back up after each one...
At 36 I was surprised at myself for success in makeing aircraft parts for govt. contractors and retiring from it. I still to this day don't know how I got thru it.
At 50's I look back and know now how it happened. Success is not given to you , one has to work and achieve it. It has been a long road and I have been like a turtle slowing achieving more goals as I go.