<p>Thanks, jym!</p>
<p>Happy Birthday, VH!</p>
<p>You ladies make me feel so young :D</p>
<p>^ But I’m waaaay younger than VH! ;)</p>
<p>Uh oh… you might be younger than I am :(</p>
<p>Turning 60 (14 months ago) was a big deal for me because it put me into a MUCH more favorable age group for running. The 55 year olds were killing me! In my longer distance races, the number of competitors really drops off in the 60s (half marathon and longer). It has served me well. Runners don’t mind birthdays in the 5 year marks.</p>
<p>Jym, since a lady never tells her age and I’m not going to post on the “where were you when JFK died” thread… perhaps. ;)</p>
<p>edit: just checked that thread and I’m sorry to report…:)</p>
<p>Respect your elders 
I mentioned upthread that I had a wonderful 60th celebration earlier this year. Don’t look (from what I’ve been told) or feel 60, but the memory stinks… :(</p>
<p>JYM- ahhh but this is what 60 looks like!</p>
<p>Happy Birthday to morris, Very Happy and all who are having a birthday.</p>
<p>Although these “milestones” seem like a big deal, I really don’t think that they are. Living each day is what counts. I don’t want to be just marking time.</p>
<p>A few years back, a woman I know started a blog - a year to 50. She had all these ideas about what she would do to celebrate - a trip to europe with her H was one of them. Along the way, her H had what should have been a fairly routine medical procedure, had a complication, and went to the hospital, stayed for months, and finally died a few weeks before she turned 50. A real roller coaster ride for her with a completely unexpected terrible finale. I kept thinking what an irony, and how very sad. Although the year was not what she expected, she made a whole new life for herself in the years since then. It was a rough start for sure.</p>
<p>No one knows what is in store for them, so enjoy all that you have, and reach for what you want.</p>
<p>My age has never really bothered me. I feel pretty young. I am 56. I suppose I may sing a different tune when I enter the next decade. I think it’s just the “sound” of “6” being the start of the numeral (same feeling when turning 30, 40, and 50, though the feeling lasted very briefly). But it is just a number. </p>
<p>Yesterday, in the checkout line at the supermarket, the lady behind me started chatting me up. She said she lived at the senior center. At one point, the length of my marriage came up (36 years) and my age (56), to which she replied, “you look 36!!” 
I truly don’t but it did make my day. She said she was 66 and I didn’t want to say anything, but I would have guessed she was 76.</p>
<p>60 was easy. Wait to you start getting all the crap in the mail for your Medicare milestone…</p>
<p>Wait until you’re 70.5 and are having to take RMDs, required minimum distributions from IRA and retirement accounts, while wondering I’d it will last.</p>
<p>I hope you had a happy birthday, morrismm, and I hope you’re finding that 60 isn’t so bad. :)</p>
<p>Happy birthday to all of you! I am in my early 50’s, but DD is rapidly approaching 30, and Ds is heading for 25.I am more shocked by how rapidly my kids age, than by how rapidly hubby and I age. I look at my kids and think, “When I was your age, I was married.” and, “when I was your age, I had one child and another on the way, working, and going to grad school.” (Not that I want them to follow this timeline). I just remember thinking how much an adult I felt at that age… and now, from this age, I think how young That is.</p>
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<p>On Veteran’s Day, the oldest living WWII vet was honored. He was 107 and sounded perfectly lucid. He credited his longevity to having a whiskey and a cigar every day. I assume he’s got good genes!</p>