Getting towards my mid-fifties and I felt it today when I tried to climb onto a 1.25-metre high worktop in the kitchen to reach a light bulb.
First, my leg had difficulty pivoting to that height. And then I struggled to lift my frame onto it.
Ended up just lying on the worktop and laughing for a minute. I suppose you have to see the funny side of getting old.
One thing I was looking forward to while getting older is losing the ability to hear higher frequency sounds. I'm not that far from 60 and can still hear them, yet other older adults in the same room don't and wonder why I sometimes can't hear them well.
A quotation from Ursula K. Le Guin
It’s like all the time I was working keeping house and raising the kids and making love and earning our keep I thought there was going to come a time or there would be some place where all of it came together. Like it was words I was saying, all my life, all the kinds of work, just a word here and a word there, but finally all the words would make a sentence, and I could read the sentence. I would have made my soul and know what it was for. But I have made my soul and I don’t know what to do with it. Who wants it?
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
Story (1995-11), “Ether, OR,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 19
More about this quote: wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/8061…
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Had an eye check up today. Good news: minimal change in my glasses prescription. Doc said it was okay if I kept using my current glasses.
Not great news: I have something called narrow angle disorder. It's a type of glaucoma, but not the most common kind (phew). Terrible things *can* happen with it (acute angle closure), but mine is very early and treatment is easy peasy. They basically drill a hole in yer iris, lol.
I'm now getting a dejavu feeling about this. It's very much possible that this happened last time as well. 😆
Like Shakira, my hips don’t lie.
They do complain a lot, tho.
I just had to explain to a young person what the cigarette lighter socket in a car came from. I don't really think this is a #GettingOld moment, since it's from a by-gone era, i.e. a time where most people smoked. It's a time which is good that is behind us.
Fuck I'm old. I remember actually using this to pay my bills....
#gettingold #banking #retro
Tried out new shoes this morning because my toe hasn't wanted to not freeze solid. It worked mostly, but I'm saddened I can't wear five fingers for everything anymore. #running #morningmagic #gettingold
A quotation from Seymour Hicks
You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.
Seymour Hicks (1871-1949) British actor, playwright, producer
(Attributed)
More about this quote: wist.info/hicks-seymour/80429/
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I pushed myself around the sofa awkwardly yesterday and now my shoulder hurts.
Was tidying some old stuff in the basement with oldest spawn on the weekend. They found a projection clock radio.
Them "What's this little black wire hanging out for? Is it broken?"
Me "That's the antenna"
Them "Like for radio and stuff?"
@niqdanger I had the double whammy of cataract surgery and getting progressives. Been able to read a book my whole life without my glasses until the surgery where I got lenses in my eyes tuned for distance. Amazing that I can drive without glasses now, but big adjustment to need glasses/magnification to read. But then got the progressives so also adjusting to “top for driving, middle for computer, bottom for reading” Was very awkward at DMV for eye test when renewing license. #gettingold
I’ve been an advocate for Dark Themes for about 20 yesrs (a bit more than my current work experience as a software developer) but these days I’ve begun to think the light color themes are easier on my eyes. I’m not sure how truth is that but I’m slowly (maybe not so slowly) moving away from my dark themed settings.
CABALLO VIEJO - Lisandro Meza
"Hey, you dropped something!" the hero teased the dark lord, seasoning his swing.
The tyrant looked down and stooped to grab the Dice of Fortune.
"OOHWOAAH!" he tried and failed to straighten, falling flat on his chin instead. "Curse my back!"
The hero stood over him awkwardly. "Well now I just feel bad about it." One did not rule with an iron fist for years and years without getting older. Heroes being young and plucky seemed almost unfair. He glanced down at the dice.
Snake eyes.
Yep, that would do it, too.
#TootFic #SmallStories #MicroFiction #hero #GettingOld #CriticalFail
In a surprising turn of events, it would appear that I am starting to dress like my father-in-law! 😳
My wife and sister-in-law were highly amused by the sight of us sat next to each other on this bench during our recent holiday in Mallorca 🇪🇸
Maybe I have reached the point in my life where I choose comfort over style. Or perhaps I just dress like an octogenarian! 👴🏻
#gettingold #comfort #neurodivergent #adhd #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD
A quotation from Robert Heinlein
Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Podkayne of Mars, ch. 5, Worlds of IF magazine (1962-11)
More info about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/79…
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another job application is out way ahead of the deadline: what's happening to me???
