My sister had a hard time with thirty. I was a bit confused as she was married with three kids so I wasn’t sure why that bothered her. I have never cared about mu age even though I have never been married or had kids.
My mother cried all day when she turned 30. I thought I would too but 30 didn’t bother me. 40 did. I was depressed all day when I turned 40. The year before I turned 50 I had a friend who was 9 months older than me say how great it was to be a half century old. So I decided to take the same attitude. With 60 I was “meh. Whatever!” In a few weeks I turn 64 and I keep hearing the Beatles song lol!
We see change as we age and accept it, because we can delay it and enjoy it more by staying fit, but the end is unavoidable. Enjoy every day for its’ own beautiful moments, and know that you are tough enough to handle any difficulty. When my time comes, my only regret is that there will still be so many wonderful things I still haven’t experienced. Death isn’t something to fear, but I still intend to fight it off until I’m in my 90’s at least. It ‘s still fun in my upper 70’s, and I hope to be a contender for a new world record.
It’s because we men don’t have a deluge of magazines and ads telling us we need to fix everything about ourselves. Anybody would end up messed up living surrounded by that kind of thing.
I am not in denial. Most men are just happy to make it to the next year. I know where I am in my life. John is right – it doesn’t faze us. We don’t get in uproar over age and weight like women do. It’s called being in the moment.
@Last Rose Of Summer- Well, think about this. Look at all these rappers, especially Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls that were killed in their prime and didn’t even live to see 30! Tupac was 25 and Biggie was 24. Something to think about. But Tupac more than once predicted his own demise by saying that he wasn’t going to live to be an old man.
My husband was deeply traumatized on his 30th birthday. I had to tell everyone we knew not to send him anything. After that he was fine. I passed 30, 40, 50, 55…I hit 58 and still haven’t hit my traumatic birthday yet, and I’m kind of looking forward to 60.
I wasn’t bothered by getting into my 40s. Some of it is that my career has long been hampered by looking younger than I am; finally looking closer to my age means people have stopped thinking I’m a newbie and started thinking I might know what I"m talking about, and that’s nice. ;-) I feel like I’ve earned my gray hairs, even if they don’t reach very far down my braid yet.
In the service – didn’t expect to live past 40 – if I made it that long – that was 32 years ago when I celebrated my 40th and quit thinking about remaining time – enjoy each day as a new beginning and don’t get hung up on time – nobody gets out and when the clock stops, we’re not going to be able to complain about it…
Men have the capacity to look in a mirror and shave without seeing all the defects, age spots and other signs of our impending doom. If we do notice anything we tell ourselves there is not a dang thing we can do about it and move on. Women on the other hand try to plaster enough colored mud on their faces to try and hide the fact that they are getting older. To me my wife looks far better when she is not wearing all that makeup because I get to see her and not an anime cartoon.
To be fair, I have seen the early comic strips and Elly really does not look the same. However, aging affected her as a cartoon character in a different way that it does regular humans. Her nose changed, her jawline changed, and her eyes are no longer dots.
This reminds me of a co-worker who acted so forlorn and depressed for weeks. I was new there and didn’t want to cause further upset. I finally asked the least affected co-worker what was wrong with him. He was dreading his 30th birthday! What a buffoon!!
If only there is a way to revert all women to how they looked at 20 and keep them there, whoever invents that will be a multitrillionaire. Women will want it and men will want it for their women.
NO. Our tastes in women evolve. We can always appreciate a young attractive woman. However,as we age, so does our tastes in women.There are so many beautiful women in every age group. Many men even appreciate the older women more because of their maturity and experience. So if your husband pays you a compliment and says that you are beautiful, accept it and let him know that he has good taste and maybe even tastes good, as a kisser….
Men aren’t conditioned to worry about signs of aging, like women are. To me my 71 year old wife is as beautiful as she was at 18. I see her heart and soul, as well as her face.
Oldsters still occasionally call me “young man”, but teenagers know better. I got my senior (55+) discount at the grocery store yesterday, no questions asked.
Templo S.U.D. over 1 year ago
it’s not easy getting any younger
Argythree over 1 year ago
Consider the alternative…
GeorgeInAZ over 1 year ago
Well, denial, maybe. Or perhaps acceptance and nonchalance.
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member over 1 year ago
Wait til you hit 85, talk about denial! Wasn’t a day to celebrate, I’ll tell you.
Enter.Name.Here over 1 year ago
It was in my late 50’s when I looked i the mirror and saw an old man looking back instead of a middle aged one. When did THAT guy sneak in here?
Nobody_Important over 1 year ago
My sister had a hard time with thirty. I was a bit confused as she was married with three kids so I wasn’t sure why that bothered her. I have never cared about mu age even though I have never been married or had kids.
Johnnyrico over 1 year ago
Only a man can look into the mirror, see recessive baldness, a beer gut, and still think he’s the sexiest thing on the planet..
MichaelAxelFleming over 1 year ago
Oh, I am NOT in denial!
M2MM over 1 year ago
Men have a mental case of “rose-coloured glasses” – they only see what they want to see.
jjoddfellow over 1 year ago
You are not old until you die. I am 66 years.
Macushlalondra over 1 year ago
My mother cried all day when she turned 30. I thought I would too but 30 didn’t bother me. 40 did. I was depressed all day when I turned 40. The year before I turned 50 I had a friend who was 9 months older than me say how great it was to be a half century old. So I decided to take the same attitude. With 60 I was “meh. Whatever!” In a few weeks I turn 64 and I keep hearing the Beatles song lol!
fuzzbucket Premium Member over 1 year ago
We see change as we age and accept it, because we can delay it and enjoy it more by staying fit, but the end is unavoidable. Enjoy every day for its’ own beautiful moments, and know that you are tough enough to handle any difficulty. When my time comes, my only regret is that there will still be so many wonderful things I still haven’t experienced. Death isn’t something to fear, but I still intend to fight it off until I’m in my 90’s at least. It ‘s still fun in my upper 70’s, and I hope to be a contender for a new world record.
Katsuro Premium Member over 1 year ago
It’s because we men don’t have a deluge of magazines and ads telling us we need to fix everything about ourselves. Anybody would end up messed up living surrounded by that kind of thing.
dlkrueger33 over 1 year ago
I will be 66 soon. My son just turned 40. I’d kill to be 40…or 45 again. Heck, I’ll take 50!
richbriggs over 1 year ago
I am not in denial. Most men are just happy to make it to the next year. I know where I am in my life. John is right – it doesn’t faze us. We don’t get in uproar over age and weight like women do. It’s called being in the moment.
dcdete. over 1 year ago
As a man I shouldn’t tell you our secret but here goes anyway. Men have a fantastic anti-aging moisturizing skin cleanser that REALLY works wonders!
bryce.gear over 1 year ago
It isn’t a stronger sense of denial, it’s a stronger sense of reality.
flagmichael over 1 year ago
There is a lot of freedom in not having much to lose in the “looks” department, and total freedom in not caring. Freedom beats beauty any day.
e.groves over 1 year ago
Men aren’t raised to believe that their looks are everything. However, that doesn’t stop us from looking at younger women and thinking ,“If only”.
JosephShriver over 1 year ago
Some of us don’t care about looks, we care about what we used to be able to do that we cannot do now.
Doug K over 1 year ago
So she looked in the mirror and couldn’t even kind of …
… recognize her own mother?
mgl179 over 1 year ago
What do men have that women don’t?
A sense of self-worth that is far less wrapped up in how they look and based far more on what they can do, what they accomplish.
djtenltd over 1 year ago
@Last Rose Of Summer- Well, think about this. Look at all these rappers, especially Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls that were killed in their prime and didn’t even live to see 30! Tupac was 25 and Biggie was 24. Something to think about. But Tupac more than once predicted his own demise by saying that he wasn’t going to live to be an old man.
trainnut1956 over 1 year ago
Less narcissism?
Darrell Patton over 1 year ago
Getting old beats the alternative.
Wren Fahel over 1 year ago
My husband was deeply traumatized on his 30th birthday. I had to tell everyone we knew not to send him anything. After that he was fine. I passed 30, 40, 50, 55…I hit 58 and still haven’t hit my traumatic birthday yet, and I’m kind of looking forward to 60.
calliarcale over 1 year ago
I wasn’t bothered by getting into my 40s. Some of it is that my career has long been hampered by looking younger than I am; finally looking closer to my age means people have stopped thinking I’m a newbie and started thinking I might know what I"m talking about, and that’s nice. ;-) I feel like I’ve earned my gray hairs, even if they don’t reach very far down my braid yet.
VegaAlopex over 1 year ago
perhaps a stronger sense of acceptance
Teto85 Premium Member over 1 year ago
A girlfriend on the side.
raptor over 1 year ago
In the service – didn’t expect to live past 40 – if I made it that long – that was 32 years ago when I celebrated my 40th and quit thinking about remaining time – enjoy each day as a new beginning and don’t get hung up on time – nobody gets out and when the clock stops, we’re not going to be able to complain about it…
amayesin over 1 year ago
Men have the capacity to look in a mirror and shave without seeing all the defects, age spots and other signs of our impending doom. If we do notice anything we tell ourselves there is not a dang thing we can do about it and move on. Women on the other hand try to plaster enough colored mud on their faces to try and hide the fact that they are getting older. To me my wife looks far better when she is not wearing all that makeup because I get to see her and not an anime cartoon.
rmercer Premium Member over 1 year ago
I paid good money for my immortality! If it doesn’t work, someone will have Hell to pay…
Lynnjav over 1 year ago
Men also don’t have the societal “rules” that tell women they must always look young
mourdac Premium Member over 1 year ago
A sense of mortality crept in when I turned 35.
ladykat over 1 year ago
As I get older, I have fewer reasons to celebrate.
wolfgang73 over 1 year ago
Men age like wine. Women age like milk.
wolfgang73 over 1 year ago
The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
The Great_Black President over 1 year ago
Time sure does fly. Seemed like only yesterday Elly took her first stagecoach ride out of town to visit relatives.
christelisbetty over 1 year ago
GRAVITY…is the enemy !
paranormal over 1 year ago
When you see people on a regular basis you don’t notice the aging. When you haven’t seen a celebrity in a long time, they can look really old…
Bruce1253 over 1 year ago
I’m proud of the grey in my beard. I earned everyone of those grey hairs, some of them the hard way.
howtheduck over 1 year ago
To be fair, I have seen the early comic strips and Elly really does not look the same. However, aging affected her as a cartoon character in a different way that it does regular humans. Her nose changed, her jawline changed, and her eyes are no longer dots.
hooglah over 1 year ago
You do the best you can with what you have and go on with life. Make the best out of it.
198.23.5.11 over 1 year ago
Older men always think they are attractive to young women(Why?)
Older women think they are no longer attractive to young men.
It’s a long,long time from May to September….
And the days grow short until you reach December
And the days dwindle down to a precious few…..
198.23.5.11 over 1 year ago
How does she breathe with that tight belt?
drycurt over 1 year ago
This reminds me of a co-worker who acted so forlorn and depressed for weeks. I was new there and didn’t want to cause further upset. I finally asked the least affected co-worker what was wrong with him. He was dreading his 30th birthday! What a buffoon!!
kamoolah over 1 year ago
If only there is a way to revert all women to how they looked at 20 and keep them there, whoever invents that will be a multitrillionaire. Women will want it and men will want it for their women.
diegot over 1 year ago
Tomorrow is my 76th, I’m looking forward to my 77th.
kathleenhicks62 over 1 year ago
It’s all down hill after 75!
The Great_Black President over 1 year ago
Statistically, the character who has the shortest life expectancy is Lawrence.
rob over 1 year ago
I’m almost 63, just a week and a day, and as long as I don’t scare little kids when I’m walking down the grocery aisle I’m not to worried.
BlitzMcD over 1 year ago
Denial is a powerful weapon.
raybarb44 over 1 year ago
NO. Our tastes in women evolve. We can always appreciate a young attractive woman. However,as we age, so does our tastes in women.There are so many beautiful women in every age group. Many men even appreciate the older women more because of their maturity and experience. So if your husband pays you a compliment and says that you are beautiful, accept it and let him know that he has good taste and maybe even tastes good, as a kisser….
purceae over 1 year ago
Beets the heck out of birthdays stopping at 13 or 45!
Ukko wilko over 1 year ago
Men aren’t conditioned to worry about signs of aging, like women are. To me my 71 year old wife is as beautiful as she was at 18. I see her heart and soul, as well as her face.
Seed_drill over 1 year ago
Oldsters still occasionally call me “young man”, but teenagers know better. I got my senior (55+) discount at the grocery store yesterday, no questions asked.
Sigh.
lindz.coop Premium Member over 1 year ago
Cultural approval.
baraktorvan over 1 year ago
Nah, most of us just don’t care about age until it hits us physically. Sure we see the reflection in the mirror, but never let that affect us.
kamoolah over 1 year ago
If this strip was realistic, the ones who would die early would have been Phil, Anne, Steve, and Lawrence.