Middle Age Replace Your Demons with Angels
by My experiences of the middle aged mind and some tips on being positive.
Middle age do I look forward or backwards?
I am 45 years old at the moment I will be 46 this year. According to my research middle age begins at 45 and finishes at 65 when your age category becomes elderly. Don’t shoot the messenger if you disagree its what my research has uncovered.
Everyone I have ever met or spoken to at length has an inner self or an inner monologue. Hopefully we don’t talk to ourselves out loud but I have been known to in extreme circumstances! Following that point of an inner self we all have a mental age that we perceive ourselves to be? I imagine myself to be 28 years old, now its not wishful thinking on my part. Mentally 28 is how old I feel.
Lately I have been attending hospital and my doctors surgery at length. In hospital you are constantly being asked your date of birth to confirm who you are. When I see the figure 45 written down in the age box on a form it seems like just a number. 45 to me seems like someone older than me? Please don’t think I am being vein, its just the way my inner monologue perceives me.
Even before my recent ill health I felt my body slowing down, it takes me a little longer to get out of bed and face the world than before. My back aches when I lean over the sink to shave in the morning. At night I have trouble staying up to the wee small hours of the morning.
In my early thirties I often had two jobs, sometimes three jobs. I could keep on working and get by with two to three hours sleep, eventually tiredness caught me and I would sleep for ten hours straight. The thought of doing this now seems like madness.
Middle age is meant to be the years when you take stock of what you have learned at the halfway point in your life? However at 45 most of us are over halfway through our allotted time on the planet. I do find myself looking back at the most strange experiences in my life at any time of the day. An old friend’s face will suddenly pop into my conscious mind and I will wonder where they are now and what they are doing?
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Post Commentpapaleng
On June 2, 2010 at 6:57 am
very interesting post LB.. I agree with most of your views.. I’m 52 but I feel like I’m 28 only on my mind..LOl Like you my physical health is on the downhill course..
Michael Eboh
On June 2, 2010 at 7:05 am
Thanks for that lovely read. Ride on!
cardy
On June 2, 2010 at 7:27 am
What an interesting read good work from you thanks for the share. I wish my age was all in the mind I would be 16 again lol.
alfabeta
On June 2, 2010 at 8:28 am
Nice read! I think bit of positive thinking can get you a long way…
Snooky
On June 2, 2010 at 1:54 pm
My dear Mr. Banks this is a home run article. I am 64 years old & officially one of the so called elderly. I go to work and do more in one shift than most younger folks do all week. I aquire an admiring audience when I hit any dance floor. I have six small but beautiful gardens. I live alone and do my own minor house repairs & auto maintenance. I enjoy 80% of my elderly life. The 20% percent is medical. I’d say that I fell about 45. Most folks that I encounter say they think Im about 35 or fourty.
I love the memories age has bleesed me with , the ggod the bad and the ugly, Makes more all that more proud of me.
Snooky
On June 2, 2010 at 1:56 pm
guess I need to get a new pair of glasses so I can see what I am writing. lol
sara20
On June 7, 2010 at 7:21 am
Excellent manner and very well-written sentence is doing, with useful information includes a good things you have in your article.
Thanks and cheers.
Thomas Hewgill
On June 9, 2010 at 11:50 am
Thoughtful article …does not matter how old you are being in positive frame of mind, aint a bad thing, problem is that is sometimes difficult to achieve (so i find) . There do appear to be some lucky individuals who appear to always look on the sunnyside of life (was that a song?)