Do you dread getting old?

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I am going to be fifty next Monday and I am kind of proud of it.
I am still in fairly good health other than being overweight.
I do worry a little about being a helpless old person, but I dont think I would want to live forever. Especially not without my wife.

I'm going to be 56 in six days.

Yes...I'm beginning to dread it. This is my first birthday which I don't feel unequivocally positive about.

I don't want to die very soon. I have too much to do yet!

No, I have fought a long and hard fight to swim to this shore through a thick and complicated tide and various stretches of pollution, shipwrecks and smogs, I can now focus on years perhaps, rather than discarding the notion of time and ageing as something I was merely 'outside' of for many years which was necessary to help me concentrate on melding a decade's worth of soil together to make sense of in my exile and get back to some kind of track and rejoin my own physical actuality whatever that means lol. Getting older is something I have earned the right to appreciate, I'd rather get older than get younger and ofc I know I could die at any moment so I intend on experiencing an improved life, getting older is the consequence of remaining alive and cognizant, it is scary physically and you will also gather more hurt the longer you live but you can also gain wisdom and shades and know how to handle things better which hit deeper the younger and more sheltered you are.

i don't dread growing old exactly, but i do fear dying before i get a chance to do all that i have wanted to do, and before finding closure with all those whom i have wronged, or who have wronged me.

basically, if i am to die, i'd like to know beforehand.

i dread that so much of my life has been wasted, like you can try to fix things but even if you succeed you can't get the years back. I worry about never getting to a level where I am happy, that even if I am able to take care of my issues that it will be too late and for naught.

Yes and no. I don't like slowly loosing my looks even though I don't do anything to try and look my best. One day no one will find me attractive anymore. I'm glad I'm this old now in the way that I'm closer to my life being over. I hope I don't get to be very old. Last year I secretly hoped I would get cancer, and then I wouldn't tell anyone untill it was too
late to survive it.

I hope I die suddenly, and are not aware of it in advance.

"The best thing about getting old is you're not responsible for remembering things anymore."

George Carlin - On Being Old

It makes me sad. I feel like the years go too fast. I can't believe I will turn 37 this year.

hot damn. my last full year spent as a teenager is history. i turn 20 this june.

i stand poised to greet my third decade of life and i can remember my 14 year old self, smelling her dry, rough pink hair as if it had happened a minute ago.

a decade full of paths i wish i had chosen differently soon will be concluded faster than anyone can know.



....happy birthday kraftie!!