Is 40 really the new 30?

[3dGameMan]

Is 40 really the new 30?: ~source (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8145439/)

LONDON - Everyone is getting older but in many ways people today act younger than their parents did at the same age.

Scientists have defined a new age concept and believe it could explain why populations are aging, but at the same time seem to be getting younger.

Instead of measuring aging by how long people have lived so far, the scientists have factored in how many more years people can still look forward to.

“Using that measure, the average person can get younger in the sense that he or she can have even more years to live as time goes on,” said Warren Sanderson, of the University of New York in Stony Brook.

He and Sergei Scherbov, of the Vienna Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, have used their method to estimate how the proportion of elderly people in Germany, Japan and the United States will change in the future.

The average German was 39.9 years old in 2000 and could plan to live for another 39.2 years, according to research reported in the science journal Nature on Wednesday....

[egarrard]

It's like they say, when you hit 40, everything starts to fall apart. :(

[CyberGuy]

Don't I know it. :(

[3dGameMan]

I thought you get your 2nd wind at 40 ;)

[wazman]

I thought you get your 2nd wind at 40 ;)

I know from living with my parents that you get wind at 40, but I don't know if it's really that desirable... :)

I'll let you guys know in eight years.

[CyberGuy]

For most around 40 is usually when midlife crisis sets in. It is the age that the term 'old fart' really starts to sink in and you try desperately to ward it off. I guess you can think of that as a 'second wind'.

For me it was giving up a lifelong smoking habit, getting back into martial arts and developing diabetes & osteoarthritis. Man talk about falling to pieces - took about 5 years of m/a before it sunk in that I couldn't keep up the pace I did in my 20s (breaking myself more often than boards). Now I am staring 50 in the face this year, overweight and hoping I don't end up blind with pieces of me dropping off altogether (both very real dangers with diabetes) :noway

[3dGameMan]

For most around 40 is usually when midlife crisis sets in. It is the age that the term 'old fart' really starts to sink in and you try desperately to ward it off. I guess you can think of that as a 'second wind'.

For me it was giving up a lifelong smoking habit, getting back into martial arts and developing diabetes & osteoarthritis. Man talk about falling to pieces - took about 5 years of m/a before it sunk in that I couldn't keep up the pace I did in my 20s (breaking myself more often than boards). Now I am staring 50 in the face this year, overweight and hoping I don't end up blind with pieces of me dropping off altogether (both very real dangers with diabetes) :noway

I was looking forward to turning gray ;), but now I'm not so sure :shifty Would be nice to turn back the clock.

BTW: Take care of yourself. Stopping smoking is huge :luxhello

[wazman]

I was looking forward to turning gray ;), but now I'm not so sure :shifty Would be nice to turn back the clock.

Depends how much gray hair you've got... When I first started going gray, I panicked. I pulled those puppies out, I obsessed over them...

Now I have so many (at 31!!!) I just say the heck with it. Let 'em come.

I have now moved onto the "I've earned every one of them" stage of my life. :)

I'm going to be gray in the temples before I'm 35 at this rate...

Just wait until you find gray hair in other places... Like the beard, or the arms, or the eyebrows... That's a mindtrip right there.

(You know, when I was typing my post above, I actually had to stop and think about how old I am. I need help.)

[eire1274]

Depends how much gray hair you've got... When I first started going gray, I panicked. I pulled those puppies out, I obsessed over them...

Now I have so many (at 31!!!) I just say the heck with it. Let 'em come.
No kidding... I'm a year younger than you, and I have grey patches all over... it's my kids' fault, though.

[3dGameMan]

Depends how much gray hair you've got... When I first started going gray, I panicked. I pulled those puppies out, I obsessed over them...

Now I have so many (at 31!!!) I just say the heck with it. Let 'em come.

I have now moved onto the "I've earned every one of them" stage of my life. :)

I'm going to be gray in the temples before I'm 35 at this rate...

Just wait until you find gray hair in other places... Like the beard, or the arms, or the eyebrows... That's a mindtrip right there.

(You know, when I was typing my post above, I actually had to stop and think about how old I am. I need help.)

I have a few as well ;)

[bejohnson]

It's nifty to be fifty. :shifty :Nope

[egarrard]

I thought you get your 2nd wind at 40 ;)No...you just get the winds. :lmao

[Anduril]

Ahhhhh... its wonderful to be 19. Better enjoy it while I can.

[CyberGuy]

I have a few as well ;)

Heh, young pups :lmao

I've got grey hairs growing in places I never thought I had hair :Holy Crap They didn't start showing up til I was over 40 too. :rofl2 Thankfully I still have a little of my original hair color left

[3dGameMan]

This thread is getting depressing ;) Let's spin a more positive light on it. Older means wiser, doesn't it? :shifty

[wazman]

This thread is getting depressing ;) Let's spin a more positive light on it.

Well, you were the one that started it... :)

Older means wiser, doesn't it? :shifty

Couldn't tell you... I forget. :)

[getit29]

hehehehe :lmao gray hair is supposed to make a guy look distinguished but I think
it makes most guys feel old and disgruntled instead of feeling distinguished. :tantrum :grumble :noway

[egarrard]

If the little hair I have left wants to turn gray, so be it. :lmao

[CyberGuy]

This thread is getting depressing ;) Let's spin a more positive light on it. Older means wiser, doesn't it? :shifty

Well let's see. I am getting old, and people do call me a wiseguy (and a whole bunch of other unutterable things) so I guess it does! :lmao

[Mirage445]

My parents are in their 50's...they go to bars probably at least once a month...

My guess is that they don't have to worry about any of their children anymore...

BTW, 100th post!! yay! :banana :thumb :luxhello :luxhello :thumb :banana

[Maro]

I'm 31 this year.

I don't mind going grey - I'm fair haired so it makes me look distinguished!

:lmao