Do you sometimes forget how old you are?

I do - forget how old you are!

Looking through our The Official OFC members selfie thread always reminds me how old you all are… but when we’re talking on the forum, you all come across as younger, so I forget!

Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing! :lol:

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I surprise myself sometimes as to how young i am, should i even be a member of this forum (i mean, over 50’ club) :children_crossing: :

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I am about 14 years young (in my head!) :rofl:
I often forget I will be 70 next birthday. :smiling_face_with_tear::crazy_face:

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Sometimes, when tutoring A level students, it crosses my mind…. Ah, if only I were 10 years younger, I’d still be more than thrice your age. :cry:

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Er, yes. :grimacing::grimacing:

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Do I sometimes forget what age I am?..Aye…I do…But Now You’ve just reminded Me I should really change the age on My Profile :smiling_face_with_tear:

Nah…I’m just gonna leave it as it is…so there :laughing:

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The actual years I’ve lived, it seems I’ve experienced so much, no I don’t forget…
Then, I am amazed that these years have held me up so well…
except for those darn somersaults… :upside_down_face:

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Never.That’s why I’m trying to cram in so much before the inevitable. :grinning:

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All the time

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I never forget how old I am cos my wifeling never lets me. But I often wonder how I’m still able to do some of the things I do.

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Every time I look in the mirror I am reminded.

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Fortunately, there are moments when that is the case and I love them, especially those when I can still do something that I wouldn’t have done much differently when I was considerably younger like cycling. I can still take my bike and cycle down town or to the supermarket as I did, say, 50 years ago, which fascinates me. And I’m not the only one. A few years ago, while visiting my hometown, I spotted a guy on a bike who, because of his peculiar position on it, immediately reminded me of an old friend of mine whom I had lost contact with. What shall I say, it was him. He, too, hadn’t changed in this respect and was still enjoying himself as we did decades ago. Thanks for making me cherish these precious moments even more, Azz.

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You need to buy an older mirror. :wink:

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Glad to hear it Dachs… and maybe this thread (and your experience) could be our own little counterclockwise study :003:

The Counterclockwise Study

For her experiment, Langer accompanied a group of eight elderly men in their 70s to a residential retreat that was set up to recreate the social-physical environment of 1959.

Her question was: If we turn the clock back psychologically, can we also do it physically?

As Langer explained in her Happiness and Its Causes presentation, the experiment started somewhat inadvertently the moment the group arrived at the retreat. The elderly men had brought heavy suitcases for the week-long stay, and with only Langer there to assist them, they had no choice but to carry their bulky luggage on their own.

What seemed like an oversight at first—not having younger, stronger people present to help unload things—actually set a precedent for the entire retreat. The elderly men couldn’t take a defeatist attitude, or else their suitcases would have been left in the van.

Despite their advanced age, the group successfully hauled the luggage into a residence that was actually more like a time machine. They spent the week sequestered there, in 1959, speaking in the present tense about the past while truly living, believing and behaving as though the clock had turned back two decades. They didn’t simply remember what life was like in 1959—they lived it.

They listened to Perry Como and Jack Benny songs on a 1950s radio. They watched Ed Sullivan on a black-and-white television. They discussed current events, watched movies, flipped through magazines, and even dressed like it was two decades prior. There weren’t any mirrors in the house to disrupt the illusion, either; the only reminders the men had about their appearance were portraits they’d brought of their younger selves.

Outside that residence, it was still 1979.

But inside it, the eight elderly men involved in Langer’s experiment became young again. And by the end of the week, their physical health reflected that psychological reversal of time: they showed substantial improvements in flexibility, dexterity, memory, hearing, posture, cognitive ability and general wellbeing. They even looked younger to outside observers who were shown photos of them before and after the experiment.

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I always forget how old I am. But, I can remember when I was born, so I can work it out! :laughing: :rofl:

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I have a wife who constantly reminds me of how old I am, especially when it comes to birthdays.

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If you look at my medical thread, it can be seen that I’m being reminded of it right now.

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Someone once tried to remind me of just how old I was, but I thought that that can’t be right since I’m sure I was at a Pizza Hut with my children at the time.

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I really have no complaints … as long as my mind ages at the same rate as my body.

Perhaps. on second thoughts, :thinking: … it might be best if my mind outlasts my body.

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We are all the same age, just at different times, @Azz.

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