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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI can't explain how it happened
but I have made it to 72 years old, officially, as of this evening.
I lived through drugs, way too many, demonstrations, a variety, relationships, won't talk about those, and general life crap.
Who knows how many times I have just missed dying to get to this point. Some days it feels like parts of me are trying to move on to the other side without the rest of me, or the permission of the brain.
But here I sit/stand, anyway, a pile of animated rubble.
Woohoo...I think.
Glorfindel
(9,729 posts)I'm a couple of years older than you, but I know what you mean. Enjoy your birthday!
randr
(12,412 posts)Time for you to consider if you want to be older or elder.
Maraya1969
(22,479 posts)Srkdqltr
(6,274 posts)Getting older isn't for sissies. Way to go.
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)I hope to be there too one day. BTW Downriver is in SE Michigan.
Srkdqltr
(6,274 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)You're still standing - that's still an accomplishment to be proud of!
Alliepoo
(2,216 posts)Wishing you the happiest of birthdays!! And many more!!!
Sienna86
(2,149 posts)A definite woohoo!
handmade34
(22,756 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,589 posts)NJCher
(35,660 posts)recently a 73 year old friend of mine bought too many bags of concrete at the lumberyard. He stuck the remaining ones in my station wagon so they wouldn't get wet. I took just one of them back to the store and had a miserable time transporting it. Sixty lbs, I think. Wow. And to think he moved eight of them from the store to the site, all by himself with no help whatsoever.
Happy birthday; go move eight 60-lb bags of concrete and make yourself feel good!
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Growing up during the Cold War, I never thought I'd make it to 30. Now I'm 64, who knew?
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)I could not resist.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)I remember back then thinking how hella old 64 was. Now I'm almost 71! LOL
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)I definitely know what song I will be playing all day. Lol!
barbtries
(28,789 posts)i'm not far behind you if i get that far...
gab13by13
(21,320 posts)72 here also. There was a time when I doubted I would make 40. Burning the candle on both ends wears one out.
steventh
(2,143 posts)Congratulations!
Happy Birthday!
And many more.
Sounds a lot like my life, yet here we are lol
Crabby Appleton
(5,231 posts)I'm not too far behind you
a kennedy
(29,655 posts)vishnura
(247 posts).....70.5 hoping to be as lucky as you.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)onwards and upwards to 73!
tavernier
(12,382 posts)Ive never been in my right mind which has helped a lot over the years.
My only regret is that I have no one special person to share life with. Hubby passed and kids arent the same thing, great as they are. But my job and my hobbies and many friends help to fill that gap.
Happy Birthday and have one on me!!!
pandr32
(11,581 posts)Sounds like you have spent some of your life with a foot on a banana peel, but hey--so have I. I am younger than you some, but have also made it through some iffy situations. I can count the same things you mentioned and throw in a couple of serious health scares, too. Highs and lows throughout the years test one's mettle.
I am sure though you are well-seasoned you are still brimming with life and wit in spite of feeling like rubble. Your post showed it!
I will woo-hoo you back! Well earned happy birthday!
Niagara
(7,605 posts)I hope that your birthday is extraordinary.
calimary
(81,220 posts)🎂🎁
orangecrush
(19,546 posts)I will turn 63 this year, and feel exactly the same way!
packman
(16,296 posts)Well, we all know nature is done with you at a certain point and is now waging war with you and your body. You also know you're aging when the parts that were private at one time is now, more or less, public to every EMT, doctor, or nurse.
underpants
(182,788 posts)LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)StarryNite
(9,444 posts)murielm99
(30,736 posts)I am right behind you, only by a yer.
I don't know how it happened either. I didn't expect it!
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)in2herbs
(2,945 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)Mine was in November and as you said, we're walking miracles. I've had my share of near-misses including dozens of "almost" car wrecks and one almost drowning, electrical shocks, falls and encounters with snakes (human and animal). My worst was near-death with alcoholism, and thank goodness that ended in 1990.
Thanks for sharing and a big birthday woohoo to you!...... ...... ...... ..... .....
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)I got here a month ago. Still cant believe it!
efhmc
(14,725 posts)Keep on keeping on.
lastlib
(23,222 posts)Hang in there!
nocoincidences
(2,218 posts)Every year it gets harder to make it to the next, with all my parts working and all the synapses sparking.
But DU certainly plays a big part in keeping the brain chugging along and revving up the amygdala to kill kill kill! But only metaphorically, and only those nasty people with big Rs on their forehead.
And it's the people on the board who make this place my forever home on the Web!
Hugs all around!
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)I hope you are doing something properly celebratory.
72 is something to brag about.
luvallpeeps
(935 posts)to most of you.....I think.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)You have 15 years on me.
Woohoo, no doubt about it.
densan
(61 posts)I'll be there soon myself
Karadeniz
(22,513 posts)Dem_in_Nebr.
(301 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)It's not 'the golden years', it's the rust years.
MasonDreams
(756 posts)72 is an incredible number. Twice 36 three 24's four18's six12's eight9's and nine8's, twelve 6's
Can't figure out what else, wife just put some duct tape on my nose.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(1,967 posts)What the hell were we thinking?
nocoincidences
(2,218 posts)Now, you have to know who somebody voted for to know if you can trust them.
Way more complicated!!
Joinfortmill
(14,417 posts)rickford66
(5,523 posts)RestoreAmerica2020
(3,435 posts)world wide wally
(21,741 posts)There is only one alternative and that kinda sucks.
ZZenith
(4,121 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)🎂 🧁 🍾 🎁
Aristus
(66,327 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)the great Mae West.
orleans
(34,051 posts)hope you had a nice birthday
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)I, too, turned 72 on Dec. 18th - and also, like you, have no idea how I made it this far. Not sure how much longer I want to hang on.
Here's wishing you many more - or not - depending on how you feel about it!
sigpooie
(106 posts). Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
Phentex
(16,334 posts)It's the general life crap that is most impressive to navigate. Happy Birthday yesterday!