Gransnet?

Yes Faye. Something like marrying and moving away from home would make you grow up quickly. Especially if it was marrying someone who had to go to war.

totally

[head spinning]

Faye I don't really understand what you're saying. Do you mean that people say that they feel a certain age regardless of their actual years because that was the age at which they felt they had achieved adulthood and that you feel as if you are still 17 in your own mind? That seems different from those in their sixties and seventies who claim to feel a decade or two younger than they are but who must have achieved adulthood a bit earlier than their "imaginary age". Neither seems to me a very healthy or truthful way of seeing oneself and both seem to demonstrate a striking disregard for all the experiences that have happened over the years.

The posts have moved on but I will add this, when people say they feel they are still a certain age, what they mean is that is the age they feel they came into their own. In other words became an adult. They are certainly not locked in their past.

I always had the feeling in my head that I was 17, I felt I became an adult at that age. I had a fiancé who had been drafted into the army and he faced going to war, he had no choice in the matter. Life was not simple and easy for me, I married at 18 and moved a long way from my home to be with my husband. We were young but had to grow up quite quickly. I am certainly happy in my own skin and would not want to be 17 again. I quite like being retired and doing as I please.

always the same

GlassNo Silly Billy she is 73 (keep up dahhhhhhling)

You are 75 though !

76

ana is 74 is she

Ana

74

Dunno, but you can't jingl! Your post was 72 - mine is 73!

73 (does just a grin count?)

They have a habit of doing that don't theyMarelli ?

71

The 65 was to say how many posts there had been - I nattered on so much about how I didn't care, that another 5 sneaked up on me!

65 now. I'm 63 shortly and never really think about how old I am - in fact sometimes I forget, because it really doesn't matter! My hair is white and I have wrinkles - and that doesn't matter either. I'd look very odd at 63 if I didn't have wrinkles (and a few whiskers )! When I look at women my age who pay a fortune for different cosmetics etc, I don't think they look any better or worse than me. I
I don't feel I'm young at heart - I'm just me!

I'm wondering why OP was attracted by the name Gransnet in the first place.

Yes it is nice. Sorry for the little strop there. #dontignoreme!

Jings Thanks for the link.

It's a nice song, isn't it, jings?

Oh that Dido song j07 ?

Thanks

64 !

Can't believe there are 63 posts about the name of Gransnet.

12.02.46.

I said before those blue links don't show up!

Where??? j07 Must have missed it.

So if the media or others want to address the specific interests of older persons who are internet savvy how would you like that Demographic group to be described?

I LINKED TO THE EFFING SONG !!!!!!!!!

I've kept extensive detailed diaries for the last 50 years.

Sometimes I go back and read stuff from early days and I can't believe how young I sound and some of the things I did, but which i have since forgotten about until being reminded by the diary, well I don't know whether to laugh or cringe.

But that's just me.

Not sure what song you are talking about Bags ?

The sad thing is I wasn't young when I was young (if you get what I mean). At 18 , when my friends were going out to clubs and parties I was working my socks off and a single parent.

I have more freedom now than I did then

I still have no freedom what with parents, grandma, grandchildren..... oh dear.