Age may refer to:
The length of time that an organism has lived:
- aging, for the social, cultural, and economic factors of age and aging.
- senescence, for the biology and science of aging.
A period of history:
Other:
- Age, Mie, a district in Japan
- Agé, a god from the mythology of the Fon people; the son of Mawu-Lisa;
- One of the D'ni Ages, the fictional universe in the Myst series of games.
- Agenore Incrocci, an Italian screenwriter.
- Age (Model theory), the class of all finitely generated structures which are embeddable in a structure A in mathematics.
- âge Japanese company
- The Age is a daily newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia.
AGE is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:
- Advanced Genealogical Exploration Services, an internet genealogy family tree service
- Advanced glycation endproduct, a class of spontaneously modified molecules whose modification begins with an initial glycation
- A. G. Edwards, a brokerage firm
- Agarose gel electrophoresis, a method used in molecular biology
- American Aging Association (abbreviated AGE, although not an acronym)
- Applied general equilibrium
- Arterial gas embolism
- Agricultural & General Engineers, a group of companies
- Assemblée générale des Étudiants des FUNDP, a Belgian student association
I had no idea AGE had so many meanings!
I don't feel my age. I don't think I ever have! It's only a number to me.
What makes some people young at heart, and others, not?
I don't know, but I want to be young at heart; I don't worry about the others who aren't!
When are you really old?
Past 100! Or when YOU think you're really old. :-(
Where is it written that you are supposed to act in such-and-such way at any given age?
Nowhere to my knowledge. Maybe in child-rearing advice books?
To my mind, when you're an adult and other adults may be disdainful of your youthful ways, I think that they're probably too locked in their thinking and acceptance of societal expectations. And perhaps too afraid to be themselves. ;-)
Why do people--especially those younger than me, talk like they're old farts when they're not?
Who knows! They've already aged themselves! And since they think they're old, they'll start acting old, and people will treat them as such.
How do you age gracefully?
Laugh a lot and hang around those who make you laugh. ;-D And try to do the common sense stuff like eating healthy and exercising.
There you have it: my Q & A pearls of wisdom! :-)
A dear friend emailed me this piece from comedian George Carlin recently and I'd like to share it here.
George Carlin's Views on Aging
Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is
when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about
aging that you think in fractions.
'How old are you?' *'*I'm four *and a half!' *You're never thirty-six and a
half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key
You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next
number, or even a few ahead.
'How old are you?' 'I'm *gonna be *16!' You could be 13, but hey, you're
gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life! You *become* 21. Even
the words sound like a ceremony. *YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!! *
But then you* turn *30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like
bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're
Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?
You *BECOME *21, you *TURN *30, then you're *PUSHING* 40. Whoa! Put on the
brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you *REACH* 50 and your
dreams are gone.*
But wait!!! *You *MAKE it *to 60. You didn't think you would!
So you *BECOME* 21, *TURN* 30, *PUSH *40, *REACH *50 and *MAKE it *to 60.
You've built up so much speed that you *HIT* 70! After that it's a
day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
You *get into *your 80's and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch;
you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s,
you start going backwards; 'I *Was JUST *92.'
Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little
kid again. 'I'm 100 and a half!'
May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!! *
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Back to me...
There's more, but I'll save it for another time!
I told someone once that I was OLD. That was not the right thing to say, since I knew in my heart it wasn't true! At the very least, I could have said I was oldER.
It's only a number, it's only a number...age! I'm not getting older. I'm getting BETTER! That's what my birthday card from my dearest friend said, this year. :-)
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Indian Summer
| | In youth, it was a way I had To do my best to please, And change, with every passing lad, To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know, And do the things I do; And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you! |
--Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
