How do you honestly feel about younger people complaining about being old?

[Joods]

When you're the old one reading them complaining about being old, when they're much younger than you, what is your first honest response?

That they're immature brats and they need to grow the hell up.

[chimp3]

One of my coworkers was complaining of back pain. She is in her late twenties. Healthy and lithe. I am close to 60 and have advanced cervical and thoracic osteoarthritis. So I said to her "You're too young to be complaining about back pain". She said "I was in a car accident. I was in the hospital for 8 months. I have had multiple back surgeries and my spine is held together with rods and screws". I don't complain of my back pain around her.

[Minimalist]

I snicker because I know what they have coming!

[Shell B]

Some people feel like shit earlier than others. They can feel old whenever they want.

Let me tell you, I've been feeling older than I feel I should. Been having major knee problems, making me walk slower than I normally do.

I’m sorry to hear that.

[Astreja]

I think back to when I was in my 20s and 30s and smile quietly. Things look so different from here in my 60s, but I doubt that I would believe myself if I jumped in a time machine and went back there to straighten myself out.

[Foxaèr]

Let me tell you, I've been feeling older than I feel I should. Been having major knee problems, making me walk slower than I normally do.

I’m sorry to hear that.

I love to jog, which is making it harder on me. I hate just sitting around waiting for my knee to get better.

[Joods]

Actually, I keep a chain saw handy so when my kids start complaining that an arm or a leg hurts, I can offer them the option of a swift, albeit messy amputation to get rid of the bothersome limb.

[Fireball]

I’m sorry to hear that.

I love to jog, which is making it harder on me.  I hate just sitting around waiting for my knee to get better.

I've had multiple injuries to my hands, feet, back and neck. I've had surgeries on both hands and both feet. The neck and back surgeries are under consideration. I also have problems with my knees, so I'm thinking of doing my walking in a pool where there is less weight on my feet but the resistance is such that I can still get an aerobic workout. Maybe try that? I'm not interested in swimming (though I can), because I don't want to inadvertently swallow any water that is left in a swimming pool, chlorine or no.

[Shell B]

I’m sorry to hear that.

I love to jog, which is making it harder on me. I hate just sitting around waiting for my knee to get better.

I’ve been there. I hate taking it easy.

[Edwardo Piet]

It's all relative. Who cares what the older people think I'm 30 this year and I've done next to NOTHING with my life... at least those older fuckers have lived their life (at this rate I'll have done nothing when I'm their age...... I went to school for 1 year from age 5-6, I've never had any friends outside the internet, I've never had a paid job, I have no formal education or qualifiactions or degrees, I haven't finished one college or uni course (so neither pass nor fail) and I had one relationship in RL that involved being financially exploited by a sociopathic bitch... so............ what have I been doing with my life since age 12? Well, the internet. That's it. Games, YouTube... chatting with people online... since I was 12 and I'm 30 this year... that is my life. Aside from that I've been in and out of mental hospitals, having mental breakdowns , been mistreated and condescended by my family before escaping and living alone (after living with my bitch ex who moved a new boyfriend she had only known 2 weeks into our home and fucked him in our bedroom just after me and her had split up).... living on disability, no paid or earned life (no plans, goals or ambitions, no future)... and it's taken 29 years to learn I have autism)


.... so I feel old as hell and would miss out on nothing if I didn't wake up tomorrow (although I do enjoy life moment to moment and I am not even 1% suicidal).... so yeah... I mean. It's all relative. You can be old and feel young and you can be young...ish. And feel old. It's the feeling that counts. It's all subjective and relative.