Getting wrinkled
How did you faced the fact that you were growing up and getting old? i mean, when you saw yourself walking on a close-to-sepia color road compared to younger generations. This took me by surprise today at 12:56am. Is this a natural inner stressful calling? or even worse, is it a sociallly inflicted conflict we don't realize we have? 
because it beats, and hard.
would like to hear opinions from people over 30.
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am 39 almost 40 and quite frankly looking in the mirror has never starteled me. it is thos quiet moments of solitude when one can hear the footsteps of time as it undertakes its relentless march that scares the hell outta me.
Hmmm, having a deja-vu here.
I'm 47 now, I remember having your kind of moment somewhere around 30.
I don't know, getting older is a bit of a mixed bag.
You lose something, you gain something.
I find one of the benefits of it is a better understanding and more patience.
Whether in your personal life or the world around you, you understand more of why people are who they are and do what they do. And why things happen in a certain way (and not in another way).
When you're young you tend to see these things more in black and white, as you get older you're starting to see all the shades of grey.
By the way, you also get to understand why you don't need to change the world. 
But I think by far the best thing about it is that you somehow get to feel more comfortable with yourself.
Fact is that getting older is inevitable, you have to accept it.
If you can't accept it, that's when the trouble starts....
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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others" ~ Groucho Marx
I have no problem getting older,its just one of those things that happen.I am 42 now.
Of course. First thing to do is to accept it, but you know is not that easy. I refer to that "not that easy" period 
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Well..first of all..realize that we don't get a life span of 70 or 80 years and then only get 9 or 10 good years...
I mean..before 18 or 21 we get discounted for many things as being too young...
and .....so...what..?
we're old after 30?
You're just starting to get that fleeting glimpse of the inevitability that time waits for no one.
Yeah.it happens to us all..
the years keep piling on as long as we live and breathe.
But as everyone says..you do learn to accept it..even relish it..
and you do learn to somewhat ignore how the media sometimes focuses in on some fleeting age such as 18..
as if nothing else matters.
That's not to say that some people don't do some of the stages as if it were grief..
you know..
denial..depression.. anger.. and acceptance..
But no need to grieve really...just enjoy each stage as much as you can.
And at 27..you have a lot of those stages left..
the best, really.
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I'm 22 - I haven't got this problem yet but I aren't looking forward to my eyelids becoming wrinkly!
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I wasn't meant to walk this world without you - Kelly Clarkson - Maybe.
Not only your eyelids will become wrinkly....
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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others" ~ Groucho Marx
I have wrinkles & grey hair .... I am getting old ... scarey .... and i do look in the mirror sumdays and think damn!!! then i think well considering life u aint done that bad
Oh and i am 38 
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Hmmm, having a deja-vu here.
I'm 47 now, I remember having your kind of moment somewhere around 30.
I'm 47 now, I remember having your kind of moment somewhere around 30.
I don't know, getting older is a bit of a mixed bag.
You lose something, you gain something.
I find one of the benefits of it is a better understanding and more patience.
Whether in your personal life or the world around you, you understand more of why people are who they are and do what they do. And why things happen in a certain way (and not in another way).
When you're young you tend to see these things more in black and white, as you get older you're starting to see all the shades of grey.
By the way, you also get to understand why you don't need to change the world.
But I think by far the best thing about it is that you somehow get to feel more comfortable with yourself.
Fact is that getting older is inevitable, you have to accept it.
If you can't accept it, that's when the trouble starts....
I agree with everything that has been said here.
For many males, the first reality check comes at age 40 we typically have a mid-life crisis.
You know, the realization that half of your life is gone, your hair is thinning or turning gray, you notice you have a few extra pounds, the girls at the store start calling you "sir", you start thinking about paying your mortgage off (if you have one), the your kids are starting high school or college , you feel the urge to have an affair to prove you can still be attractive to younger girls...etc.
It may take as many as 10 years to really feel comfortable with the way you are changing and realize there is NO turning back. You decide to stop dying your hair and start dressing for comfort rather than style. You start to feel a confidence about yourself.
As was already said, I think one typically becomes more understanding and/or tolerant of people, in other words, i.e. less judgmental because you realize that you really haven't walked in that other person's shoes.
The interesting thing about aging..... is that as a kid and teenager, anything above 25-30 was old. And anything above 50 was ancient. Well, now that I have reached 57, I am here to tell you that, I certainly don't FEEL ancient (well, of course I am still healthy and that goes a long way to how one feels) and I don't think I LOOK ancient - well, I know that I look older, since MOST of my hair is gray and I am mostly bald, but apart from the obvious, I still carry on like someone 10-15 years younger.
It is very hard for a younger person to really understand what I am saying in this paragraph, because they probably think ALL older people say that as if to say "I am aging gracefully".
Anyways, so feeling like a 42 year old and having a knowledge level of a 57 year old, puts me into a rather favorable (if not envious) position I think. Meaning, I am still young enough to enjoy most of the things I did when I was PHYSICALLY younger but now wise enough to handle other more confrontational situations in a kind and professional manner because I have more confidence in myself and who I am.
But has already been said, the key to aging is accepting it. Fprget the plastic surgery. Aging is part if living just like dying is part of the living process 
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Hmmm, having a deja-vu here.
I'm 47 now, I remember having your kind of moment somewhere around 30.
I'm 47 now, I remember having your kind of moment somewhere around 30.
I don't know, getting older is a bit of a mixed bag.
You lose something, you gain something.
I find one of the benefits of it is a better understanding and more patience.
Whether in your personal life or the world around you, you understand more of why people are who they are and do what they do. And why things happen in a certain way (and not in another way).
When you're young you tend to see these things more in black and white, as you get older you're starting to see all the shades of grey.
By the way, you also get to understand why you don't need to change the world.
But I think by far the best thing about it is that you somehow get to feel more comfortable with yourself.
Fact is that getting older is inevitable, you have to accept it.
If you can't accept it, that's when the trouble starts....
I agree with everything that has been said here.
For many males, the first reality check comes at age 40 we typically have a mid-life crisis.
You know, the realization that half of your life is gone, your hair is thinning or turning gray, you notice you have a few extra pounds, the girls at the store start calling you "sir", you start thinking about paying your mortgage off (if you have one), the your kids are starting high school or college , you feel the urge to have an affair to prove you can still be attractive to younger girls...etc.
It may take as many as 10 years to really feel comfortable with the way you are changing and realize there is NO turning back. You decide to stop dying your hair and start dressing for comfort rather than style. You start to feel a confidence about yourself.
As was already said, I think one typically becomes more understanding and/or tolerant of people, in other words, i.e. less judgmental because you realize that you really haven't walked in that other person's shoes.
The interesting thing about aging..... is that as a kid and teenager, anything above 25-30 was old. And anything above 50 was ancient. Well, now that I have reached 57, I am here to tell you that, I certainly don't FEEL ancient (well, of course I am still healthy and that goes a long way to how one feels) and I don't think I LOOK ancient - well, I know that I look older, since MOST of my hair is gray and I am mostly bald, but apart from the obvious, I still carry on like someone 10-15 years younger.
It is very hard for a younger person to really understand what I am saying in this paragraph, because they probably think ALL older people say that as if to say "I am aging gracefully".
Anyways, so feeling like a 42 year old and having a knowledge level of a 57 year old, puts me into a rather favorable (if not envious) position I think. Meaning, I am still young enough to enjoy most of the things I did when I was PHYSICALLY younger but now wise enough to handle other more confrontational situations in a kind and professional manner because I have more confidence in myself and who I am.
But has already been said, the key to aging is accepting it. Fprget the plastic surgery. Aging is part if living just like dying is part of the living process
Now that's cool
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Shadowcoom, that wraps it up very well. I am 52 but what does 52 feel like? because I don't feel any different on the inside(I guess that it takes time to catch up to what is happening on the outside
). I think that the most obvious thing I notice is the ability to do the things I once did, now if I do them I worry if I am going to break something! I was very involved in gymnastics when I was younger and I am still pretty flexible now, but some moves, I won't even go there. I really think it is our bodies even if healthy, are realistically breaking down. Arthritis, I thought only old people got that! Why do I have it? I just want to grow old gracefully, don't want to be the 60 year old stuck in a time warp trying to act like I am 20, to me that is so so so 
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Fits better here, I think.
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