Do you still feel young

Think I do dress my age but very well. I’m into linen trousers longline tops chunky silver jewellery nothing changes my style!

I feel young! But I do not look young and do not attempt to - I am old in years, but not in how I feel.

I did feel young’ish until my arthritis took a turn for the worse. I currently feel very old and crabby!

I'll be 79 next month. This year, I'm apprehensive about driving our (well, my now) camper van to Scotland to visit DD and family. Its nearly 500 miles and I do an over-night stop.
I was okay with it last year. So yes, I do feel old. There's no point in pretending I have the same resilience and energy as before. So I put on my glasses, put in my hearing aids and denture, and off I go.
"Well done Granny", I tell myself.

I'm 83 and dress fashionably (what are granny clothes?) I have never owned a pair of denim jeans I hate them for me denim jeans are for cowboys. I have always had pride in my appearance, age - it is a frame of mind.

I still feel young but I'm tired and have spinal compression fractures that give me a lot of pain. I don't dress like a granny cos I ain't one!

I'm 77 and often mistaken for younger because I'm very active in my local community and mix with people of all ages. Recently I've been having a fabulous time with a man 15 years younger than me which took me completely by surprise. He became obsessed with finding out my age and this became a bit of a game. It seems that now he's worked it out and he obviously can't cope with it. I'm not ashamed of my age but this has left me feeling a bit foolish Maybe No fool like an old fool is right after all.

I do all the regular things hair, nails, clothes but I',m a realist. I'm 71 so no longer young biologically and that influences me emotionally if I'm honest. There are many things now I don't feel I could do e.g. dancing to modern music as I used to love to do. I'm very aware of looking undignified and therefore there are clothes I wouldn't wear e.g. off the shoulder tops, glitzy tops, tattoos definitely not. Health issues worry me especially things like teeth and the need to be paying for everything health related soon. So in that sense no I don't still feel young or even young at heart.

My knees, though replaced, don't feel particularly young. Apart from that I feel the same as always, I'm a happy person 99.9% of the time.

I’ve often wondered just how fashionable I would be if I was in my teens, twenties or thirties now.
There’s so much about today’s fashion that I hate, and it’s not my age, I know even then I would have thought ripped jeans ridiculous, leggings incredibly unflattering, and the obsession with trainers for virtually every occasion, astonishing.

I live in jeans and tops many years old but comfortable. Grey hair is cut regularly and I’m never without mascara and blusher .
But the body is really telling me that I’m 74 plus . Parts replaced and others need replacing . Definitely don’t have the endless supply of energy anymore. I can’t wear pretty strappy sandals as I would fall over and sleeveless dresses are definitely a no in public!

Thank you skate. I have a hair system.

Good question. I think i have (due to circumstances) lost a lot of optimism for our future. Rather than look forward with hope and anticipation, i look with trepidation. Therefore i would say my 'youthful' optimism has deserted me and that saddens me.

However, i/we do try our best to enjoy the moment, mix with different age groups, explore new ideas and yes, i do visit the hairdresser regularly, occasionally splurge on clothes other than stuff for dog walking and over this weekend got mistaken for my eldest GS's Mum!!

So in general terms, whilst i still feel 'young', my knee's, my hands and other things i cannot control conspire to slap me around the chops and remind me that i am no longer 27 x

I wear what I want and don't bother about fashion as I no longer go out to work.

Do I feel young? That depends on what you mean and in which context you ask.

I have been forced to realise in the last 10 years or so, since the age of 60 that I no longer have the physical strenght I had when I was twenty, thirty, forty or fifty. Some jobs are now beyond my physical strength, others I can do, but they take longer and are more tiring than they once were.

I doubt that "the young" whoever they are would think of me as anything but ancient, but to me 72 is not ancient, but I will admit to old and experienced.

To Kate 1949
I recommend a good wig, you can get some really natural looking ones from a company called Simply Wigs - they are online and have a huge selection with very helpful staff who you can consult before ordering if you wish. You can send for anything and returns are not a problem. And no, I don't work for them! I have very thin fine hair and just know that wearing a wig, which I do most of the time, does wonders for your appearance and hence your confidence. Those who talk blithely about getting a good haircut have no idea how awful it is to have no hair to speak of. Give the wig a whirl, you won't regret it!

Everybody is doing their best I suppose. Some people have the odds stacked against them, bereavement, poor health, low mood.
Perhaps they gain weight, they can't afford dental work, hair dressers, well fitting clothes.

I have aged a great deal since 3 family members died.

I do feel a lot younger than I am, 68, me and my pup have just got back from a festival in our little camper and we're going away again on Friday to another campsite, 2 more festivals booked, I wear what I like, no crop tops or the like mind you, I enjoy going out with my dog on long walks and meet up regularly with my various camping groups. I'll do it for as long as I'm able to. My hair is grown out to its natural silver and I don't dye it anymore....loving life at the minute

Everyone has only mentioned clothes. No one has mentioned their brain and attitude towards the world and the young.

I’m very often surprised when reading posts from people to realise how young they are when a lot of their posting has made me think they’re a lot older.

Look at the amount of posters who still say ooh, I can’t do this that on their devices. These aren’t old people but relatively young.

It’s your brain that gives your age away.

I feel like myself, don’t care what others think about me 😂

I am 69, my brain thinks that I am 20, my body thinks I am 120. i have never been a follower of fashion and I tend to live in bright coloured kaftans and leggings.
I dont cut my hair so right now it is down to my butt and a beautiful silver grey.
I listen to heavy metal and anything my grandson sends me on YouTube. So do I feel young? I guess so most of the time.

I try to look good with clothes and a bit of make up. But my body is slowly, bit by bit, telling me that I am falling apart.

I still feel young in many ways and try to keep pretty active.I have my hair styled every six weeks and wear light makeup and take care of my skin .I like to dress reasonably smart,and if you wait long enough older clothes come back into fashion.My husband (73) has recently had a bad motorcycle accident-a broken tibia and fibula and has had a metal pin inserted into his leg.He has never grown up, but is giving biking up now for good.He decidedhe wanted to see his grandchildren grow up - he can concentrate on his guitars instead.

Well good for you Tiley keeping your hair looking good. I'd be interested to know how you would cope if you had alopecia (total hair loss) like me. It's not that easy for everyone. You have no idea what reasons some women (or men) have for, as you put it 'letting themselves go.'

I feel young in my head, am interested in how I dress. I have been told I look younger than my years but know at nearly 76 I can’t kid myself any more.
Its hard to take in just how fast the years have raced by. Even as I type 76 I don’t recognise that it’s me that I am talking about, and not someone else who is 76 , and definitely old.
But still here

Urmstongran

^People dress as they get older the same way they dressed when they were younger^

I’m trying hard right now MOnica to do up the buttons on my romper suit.

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