You've earned them!

I'm somewhat similarly situated, that is, over 60 and still alive. (70, with none of the trials and tribulations you describe.)

2 LITTLE grandsons, granddaughter on the way, so STILL moving along!

This study shows that starting at 58, people feel more content.

The most stressful age? Mid-thirties!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/17/happiest-age_n_6003248.html



Cher

BAD stress during 60s, but 'ditched' (partly) the cause, so now things looking pretty good.

and another
and another
and another
and another
and another and many many more!

Without help. They are my heroes. Yes, I know how it is to be 60, I am amaze I have lived this long but every day when I get up I thing this is going to be the best day of my life, I smile and get on the road. Congratulations.

Just remember:

And boy, let me tell you, I'M VERY GLAD YOU'RE STILL ALIVE!

I've had several very close DU friends die recently, and I don't think I could handle another one.



So, keep on getting out of bed and doing stuff! It's a wonderful place to be...

I'd much rather laugh than cry.

To absent friends.

Happy birthday

I've been a member for three and half years.

I'm not so sure that I'm happy about this coming birthday...

Hope this is the start of a great decade for you!

takes courage!

I think you have it...Happy Birthday!

I tell them, "its good to be seen."

Congratulations on being seen today!!!

Having been in my 60s for almost nine years now, I've been kind of surprised at how much fun I'm having. The freebies, in particular, are great. Free fishing license, senior property tax exemption...we'll never have to register our truck again. Cheap movies. Really, getting old is great.

Ten years older than I. I am really digging my AARP card

although I was never very good with them. I have astigmatism, so baseballs, frisbees, etc., are never exactly where I think they are. I was always picked last for team sports in school.

Much the same problem. But I was great at dodgeball,

-- Mal

67 here...

I'll be 60 next year, when I was younger I did'nt expect to make to thirty. But I did do a lot of damage to the old body along the way

Here's to many more!

Sure beats Indiana Ditchweed, I can tell ya...

Google it if you haven't seen it.

Oh my.

and you know we are always rooting for you

YES INDEED.

YOU KNOW I'D DO THAT FOR YOU MY SWEET

to have my ass kicked so much before

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I WILL MAKE YOU RE-AWAKENED_IN_2015; yes INDEED

I hope you are here to regale us with tales along the way!

So thank you one and all.

Sign up for each and every senior discount you're entitled to.

All those things that you were scared they might happen? Guess what? They already did happen. You're still here! Congratulations!

Women are nicer to you, because they no longer see you as a threat.

There's just something liberating about getting here. Make the best of it!

you can survive anything!

Happy Birthday!...

Like you, I've put my body through a lot, not medical, but accidents and muggings. Numerous broken bones, punctured lung, smashed nose up in my head, you get the picture, and I'm still around to tell the tale with over a decade on you.

Keep up the good work. Stay alive and enjoy every second. It sure beats all the other options.

The 70's are another thing altogether.

I hit 63 earlier this year. Mother Nature had me slated to check out on or about April 29, 2004, and it's not nice to fool Mother Nature (or so the ads used to say). But I hit her Snooze button, and am still around to tell the tale.

I might be around for another 30 years or maybe another 30 minutes. NO idea. But it isn't worth 30 seconds of the time I have left to worry about it.

Like you said, get out of bed, and go enjoy what's out there while you can.

Like Warren Zevon once sang, "I'll sleep when I'm dead," which, come to think of it, he now is.

of black humor I've seen in a year!

Just being vertical and above room temperature is a great achievement these days.

Hope you have many more.

I've got four more years to achieve your goal of hitting 60, where I no longer have to pay 10% penalties on taking out money from my 401k and IRA funds like I did last year, and will have to do this coming year.

And hopefully, I can fight through sleep apnea that I had some preliminary diagnosis of having a week ago today, that a few days later took the life of one of our good DUers here this last week too. Hoping that my dropping a second job I did last night will help me through that, and hopefully I'll have enough energy to go to more election action group meetings and also additional work that I spent yesterday on for Bernie Sanders.

Your fight through your challenges is giving me a four year goal to fight through mine, and hopefully in that time we'll have a changed government that will help all of us do so too, and I can be a part of that change!

And a good happy birthday to my young friend as well, who probably doesn't frequent this board, but who I want to see have a good lifetime ahead of her to not find it tainted by what appears to be so much problems ahead of us that we need to get rid of now.

I'm glad.

Many years to come hopefully.

I'm 60 too, and it's been one of the hardest years of my life. Three deaths of people I love, one cardiac bypass for Mr. Bear, and as soon as I decided to finally take the leap and close my therapy practice for a couple of years and devote myself to my writing career my body started going bonkers, arthritis and sciatica making sitting at the computer for lengths of time very hard.

But dammit, I'm still here too! And it's hard but not impossible. Here's to finding a way to live, and live well.

Here's to all us human beings, fragile and wonderful things that we are. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

as a sexagenarian!


rocktivity

I never thought I would see 60.
None of my friends did either.


"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting 'Holy shit…what a ride!".---Hunter S Thompson

Never thought I'd make it to thirty.

Glad you made it dude.

Keep up the good work.