Growing old gracefully or disgracefully

Come on Spangler, show us the Harley photo!

Well, guess which version I'm going with?!

Me, taking my motorcycle round Thruxton race track last year,

Hi to Oopsadaisy, a sister on wheels. ?

Just turned 70 & have no I tention of anything changing. I will continue to wear very high heels. shorts every day in summer, jeans in winter & never ever be seen in public without full makeup. My DH is 12 years younger than I am & dresses like an old man. Drives me mad.

I'm impressed by some of the things you are all doing!

I must be growing old gracefully - can't bear the idea of getting drunk or stoned, love a good night's sleep, let my hair go grey, don't wear heels any more, but happy to do zooming with the kids and grandkids, hate chickflics, and no wish to return to 21, and eat very sensibly and gave up the fags 20 years ago. But I do love heavy metal.

I'll be like my Mum. When we all celebrated her 100th birthday and she asked whose birthday it was,, she told us all that she couldn't possibly be that age. When asked what age she thought she was we were tod definitely no more than 55. I'm almost 80 but I'll just continue to be whatever age I like in my own head.

I don’t mind being mutton dressed up as lamb after all the alternative is mutton dressed up as mutton - yikes!

My mother always said, "Huh! Red hat, no draws!" (I'd never heard 'fur coat, no knickers' before I came to the North East.)

I travel the globe, am very active, love fashion, can still stand on my head upon request at family parties ? .... so I suppose disgraceful behaviour is open to interpretation ! I don’t want people to look at me and say what a sweet (middle aged) lady, I want them to say, oh dear what is she doing now !
Of course there’s lots of things that I wouldn’t do now, however, and like most of us, I’ve learned from my mistakes along the way and just live life to the full ??‍♀️??‍♀️✈️?

My children say I am growing old disgracefully, no I haven't done anything bad. I left UK in my 60's and moved to egypt, married a toyboy, it didn't last but after 13 years there I returned to UK. I dye my hair various colours, it's pink right now, I have tattoos, 7 of them and I have ears and nose piercings. but I am not hurting anyone, I'm now 78, I have been on the TV programme Tattoo disasters where they re did a tatt for me.

I have a really nice purple jacket that I bought in Gap many years ago. I used to have a red hat but my dog ate it. I do wear a terrible shirt! I found it during a sort out. It's definitely man sized but neither of my sons recognised it. I call it my ugly shirt and wear it round the house if it turns chilly. The photo makes it look a lot better than it really is. It's not that blue. I've never had people to dinner! I've never been one for 'must do'.

A lot of lovely comments here, we're just all individuals, doing our own thing.
As somebody, who has never conformed to anything conceived as normal or fitting, I'm not going to change now. Like I would never have taken any job that required any kind of dress code or came with 'well groomed' label.
Went to school in Germany, so never wore uniform. I really was shocked, when coming to England, about 1970, seeing girls at a bus stop, heading for a night out, all wearing the same hot pants and platform shoes. Uniform mentality?
Spangler. I love the idea of a Harley Davidson, sadly never able to afford one.

I am 70 and still ride a large motorcycle and I do get some very strange looks when I get ready to get on the bike but I shall keep going as long as I can and I have had great comments from people all over Europe.

I'm all in favour of Terry Pratchett's Granny Weatherwax, who just put a sign on her chest saying "I aten't dead yet". I don't know how I ever found time to go to work - music, readug, study, craft, gentle exercise groups, creative writing, etc.

That’s not disgraceful, Theoddbird, it’s admirable.

If "growing old gracefully" involves cocoa and slippers, no thanks!
I am 72 do exactly what i want, walk barefoor, wear the colours and clothes I feel like. I have to add that I have always been pretty eccentric and do very odd things. My DC say "Way to go, Mum" and encourage me...
My opinion is that the "gracefully" mentioned is to be in a state of grace - so I do try to be nice, polite, kind, volunteer, help those less able etc.
Again, if the "disgracefully" includes spitting and eating 3lb of sausages, etc., you can keep it.

Disgracefully... I have become the hippy that was always in my soul. I bought a narrow boat to live on three years ago when I was 66. My clothes are rather bohemian. I live very simply and eat very simply.

I suppose my behaviour would be considered as disgraceful by some. I'm 71. I wear what I like, full makeup when I go out, false, luxurious hair due to alopecia. I go out to our local pub with DH a couple of times a week. My life has been quite difficult so I'm making the most of what I've got left. No cocoa and slippers yet!

"I don't want to be 70...." Surely being 70 is better than the alternative? (I wish that my dear friend A could have reached 70 & beyond. Sadly she died at 62.) I'm simply glad to be here! One thing I find about being older is that I spend time with people who's company I like. No more putting up with "toxic" characters.

I'm not that old yet (64) but I like to think that I don't act old (yet!) Seeming old isn't so much in your actions as in your attitudes. I like heavy metal music, I play games on my Playstation, I spend half the day on my smart phone. I laugh and mess about with my family and can be as daft as a teenager.

www.redhatsociety.com/page/red_hat_revolution

and

www.redhatsmanitoba.com/do-i-have-to-wear-red-and-purple/

Warning – When I am an Old Woman
When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick the flowers in other people's gardens
and learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
and eat three pounds of sausages at a go
or only bread and pickles for a week
and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
and pay our rent and not swear in the street
and set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
~Jenny Joseph

Growing old disgracefully is very conformist, I think.
I shall grow old however it happens.
It's not looking good for anything "disgraceful" so far.

Pink hair and purple hair is in my future. I haven't got to 70 yet but colouring my hair brightly will soon.
I look at a photo of my grandmother five years younger than I in it. She looked so old. I have my Disney t-shirts and my fun. Going to bed late. Waking up late ....giggling with my husband over silly silly things.
I love I am growing old and enjoying it (for the most part )

Growing old disgracefully keeps you young I think!

I would be disgraceful but my body won't let me. I'm just sauntering into the sunset and admiring the view with shandi. (Although apparently becoming more opinionated. They don't realise I always have been - but kept quiet.)