Getting Old

[3rdEyeVision]

so how many people wanna get old ( i mean like retirement age) and settledown with a wifey and watch the birds outside and do yardwork and stuff??? I sure as hell no I dont. I cant stand the thought of not being able to skateboard and snowboard and everything exciting, there is no way in my mind that im gonna live till then....... Im totally ready to die young in a way :D , I just wanted to know how many people feel the same way and how many people apprecciate like the little things.

[imagoober]

fuck that! the older your get the closer you are to dying! not to mention you body hurts and you have all sorts of health problems! life should be the other way around! when you old you find a way to make yourself useful, and enjoy life when your young and can!

[kingkong.bomb]

The most dangerous thing I do is rock climb, which I could do when I was older. I'd like that retirement age, because I could just chill and die in my rocking chair smoking a blunt. I don't like skateboaring a snowboarding or anything, so I guess that's just me.

[phareye]

when i was 16, i couldn't imagine getting old and settling down. now, 15 years later, i'm looking forward to my wedding in october and starting a family. i'm in school for massage therapy and am ready to make a go at a new career that will allow me to buy a home for my family and provide for them.
don't get me wrong, i'm still gonna backpack, hang w/ my peeps, blaze, and travel. it just seems that as you get older, you come to appreciate the things you rebelled against as a kid.
hell, the surviving members of the sex pistols are signing a multi-million dollar corporate deal soon. if you told johnny rotten twenty years ago that he'd be filing his taxes and investing his money, he'd of spit in your face.
there's a reason people are crazy when they're kids and less so as they age.

[del...]

mick jagger once went on about "what a drag it is getting old" and not much older than you guys at the time...i'm sure he sings a different tune now!

the older you get the more the world opens up and getting physical doesn't have to end at middle age or older...many old guys are running around doing more than most here! ya just gotta be lucky enough to get through youth without getting too fucked up...

[3rdEyeVision]

ya I dunno it might change but right now there is no way in hell im gonna live long, I've always bein like that but I dunno

[phareye]

mick jagger once went on about "what a drag it is getting old" and not much older than you guys at the time...i'm sure he sings a different tune now!

the older you get the more the world opens up and getting physical doesn't have to end at middle age or older...many old guys are running around doing more than most here! ya just gotta be lucky enough to get through youth without getting too fucked up...

amen to that.
can you imagine what 1970's mick jagger woulda thought of 2006 mick jagger?
he'd of FREAKED!!!

[Breukelen advocaat]

so how many people wanna get old ( i mean like retirement age) and settledown with a wifey and watch the birds outside and do yardwork and stuff??? I sure as hell no I dont. I cant stand the thought of not being able to skateboard and snowboard and everything exciting, there is no way in my mind that im gonna live till then....... Im totally ready to die young in a way :D , I just wanted to know how many people feel the same way and how many people apprecciate like the little things.


OK, find a nice girl, live together, and utilize the new lifestyle of THINKER: Two Healthy Incomes No Kids Early Retirement.


Other recommendations: save your money, make smart investments, and don't buy a house or live too extravagantly. Eat right, and get exercise, also.

If you play your cards right, you could retire in your 50's and have the exact life that you have now. 60 is the new 30. 80 is becoming the new 40 and, eventually, 160 will be the new 80!

[3rdEyeVision]

ya ecxept my body is already 50 and im only 16 lol, I just dont want to live old at all, its not like im sad about it or anything I just wanna die young

[phareye]

ya ecxept my body is already 50 and im only 16 lol, I just dont want to live old at all, its not like im sad about it or anything I just wanna die young

i hate to say it, but it doesn't sound like you're living right.
and trust me, unless you're a total meth addict, you're not in the body of a 50 year old.
unless of course you have that crazy aging disease...
i wouldn't believe it when i was your age, but i'll say it anyway: life gets better the older you get.

[phareye]

OK, find a nice girl, live together, and utilize the new lifestyle of THINKER: Two Healthy Incomes No Kids Early Retirement.

and i know i said this to you months ago BA, but i hate the thought of deciding not to have children based on how it would affect my finances/portfolio/retirement age.
i know it's just a difference of opinion, and i respect your view.
i never planned on having children, but the time came that i realized i did, and i think as long as it's something you want to do because you feel it in your guts (as opposed to it being "what you're supposed to do"), then it can be way more rewarding than retireing at 45 or 50 could ever hope to be.
that's just my two cents.

[benagain]

OK, find a nice girl, live together, and utilize the new lifestyle of THINKER: Two Healthy Incomes No Kids Early Retirement.


Other recommendations: save your money, make smart investments, and don't buy a house or live too extravagantly. Eat right, and get exercise, also.

If you play your cards right, you could retire in your 50's and have the exact life that you have now. 60 is the new 30. 80 is becoming the new 40 and, eventually, 160 will be the new 80!

How is not buying a house going to be a good investment? I'm not asking to be an asshole, I just want to know. It's my understanding that buying a house is much smarter than renting or leasing. You can rent for years and have nothing to show for it, but at least with buying you have some equity.

Ohh and I'm not looking forward to being old, but getting to retire would be nice. I'd love to golf and fish all day long and not worry about work. Sounds fun to me. I've allready settled down, now if I can figure out how to get away with not working....:cool:

[benagain]

and i know i said this to you months ago BA, but i hate the thought of deciding not to have children based on how it would affect my finances/portfolio/retirement age.
i know it's just a difference of opinion, and i respect your view.
i never planned on having children, but the time came that i realized i did, and i think as long as it's something you want to do because you feel it in your guts (as opposed to it being "what you're supposed to do"), then it can be way more rewarding than retireing at 45 or 50 could ever hope to be.
that's just my two cents.

Yep, I'd love to have kids. I can give up a few of my pleasures to have a little one running around no problem. I'm not saying i think it'd be easy, but I do think it would be the most rewarding thing I could ever do.

[phareye]

Yep, I'd love to have kids. I can give up a few of my pleasures to have a little one running around no problem. I'm not saying i think it'd be easy, but I do think it would be the most rewarding thing I could ever do.

yeah, it's gonna be tough as hell, but then again, nothing worth having is easy. and they may end up being meth smoking chicken fucking hooligans, but i'll deal with that if that's what happens.

[benagain]

yeah, it's gonna be tough as hell, but then again, nothing worth having is easy. and they may end up being meth smoking chicken fucking hooligans, but i'll deal with that if that's what happens.

Yea I'm planning on it being the hardest thing I ever did, but like you said, nothing worth doing is easy. And to quote Chris Rock "Once you're a daddy, your only goal is to keep your daughter off of the pole. If you're daughter became a stripper....you fucked up" :p

[Breukelen advocaat]

How is not buying a house going to be a good investment? I'm not asking to be an asshole, I just want to know. It's my understanding that buying a house is much smarter than renting or leasing. You can rent for years and have nothing to show for it, but at least with buying you have some equity.

Ohh and I'm not looking forward to being old, but getting to retire would be nice. I'd love to golf and fish all day long and not worry about work. Sounds fun to me. I've allready settled down, now if I can figure out how to get away with not working....:cool:

You have to put a FORTUNE into maintenance, or DIY - which takes a lot of time and effort. You also have to pay property taxes, and if the housing market goes bad, you're stuck with it. When you want to sell, you'll have to upgrade the roof, new plumbing, heating, etc. No, I'd rather pay rent and let the landlord do all of that. The mortgage payments alone on a small house would have cost much more than the rent we pay. We don't pay for heat, hot water, maintenance, or any of that.

My wife and I were thinking of buying a house in the 1990's. Not doing that was the smartest thing we ever did. You can live in an apartment and if there is a problem, you just knock on the super's door.

If you live in New York City, in an apartment, you're as good as the owner of the building. Where does Trump live? In Trump Tower! All the rich live in apartments. If I won the lottery, I'd live in a luxury hotel. That's what luxury is - not having work to do and be a slave to your home.

One more thing - we could have easily afforded a house, so it's not "sour grapes".

[benagain]

You have to put a FORTUNE into maintenance, or DIY - which takes a lot of time and effort. You also have to pay property taxes, and if the housing market goes bad, you're stuck with it. When you want to sell, you'll have to upgrade the roof, new plumbing, heating, etc. No, I'd rather pay rent and let the landlord do all of that. The mortgage payments alone on a small house would have cost much more than the rent we pay. We don't pay for heat, hot water, maintenance, or any of that.

My wife and I were thinking of buying a house in the 1990's. Not doing that was the smartest thing we ever did. You can live in an apartment and if there is a problem, you just knock on the super's door.

If you live in New York City, in an apartment, you're as good as the owner of the building. Where does Trump live? In Trump Tower! All the rich live in apartments. If I won the lottery, I'd live in a luxury hotel. That's what luxury is - not having work to do and be a slave to your home.

One more thing - we could have easily afforded a house, so it's not "sour grapes".

No I figured you had a good reason for not wanting to buy. It must all depend on the market you're in. I'm sure that in cities it's much cheaper to rent, but when it comes to living in the burbs, then buying seems to be the best bet I've found. If you can get a decent interest rate, then mortgage payments on a house is much less than renting. I've been looking around and to rent a house is anywhere from $1000 a month to $3000. Same house that rents for 3000 can be bought and have payments of less than a thousand. Taxes are a bitch, but if you're smart you can find an area with cheap taxes. Considering we have a dog and smoke, my best bet is to buy. The plan is to purchase a house, live there a while building equity...sell it for more (unless you're on a sinkhole property only goes up and up in FL) and move back home to NC to get a bigger house with more land with lower taxes and cheaper payments. This will all work out great as long as I can keep my job. I can move back home where cost of living is cheaper and still get the same paycheck I'm getting now.

[Breukelen advocaat]

Hey, at least you have a good plan and know what you're doing. :thumbsup:

We're not ruling out buying a house, eventually, but I'd like to be able to afford to pay others to maintain it, lol - which may not happen. A co-op in an adults-only community might be the ticket - which isn't much different from renting

I honestly don't know what we're going to do in a few years - but so far, not having a house has worked for us. We've traveled, but always lived in the City. Maybe I'll go for a change of scenery one day. I'd love to have a "country" place, in PA, or upstate New York.

We're thinking of checking out Virginia for retirement.

[benagain]

Hey, at least you have a good plan and know what you're doing. :thumbsup:

We're not ruling out buying a house, eventually, but I'd like to be able to afford to pay others to maintain it, lol - which may not happen. A co-op in an adults-only community might be the ticket - which isn't much different from renting

I honestly don't know what we're going to do in a few years - but so far, not having a house has worked for us. We've traveled, but always lived in the City. Maybe I'll go for a change of scenery one day. I'd love to have a "country" place, in PA, or upstate New York.

We're thinking of checking out Virginia for retirement.

Hey, being flexible is never a bad thing. Having a plan isn't bad, but you can't put everything on it. It just makes it that much harder whem the plan falls apart :D

[benagain]

trigger happy double post...

[MaryJaneintheCloset]

ya ecxept my body is already 50 and im only 16 lol, I just dont want to live old at all, its not like im sad about it or anything I just wanna die young

You're going to break your parents' hearts. :(

[MaryJaneintheCloset]

House = Equity = More $$ in your pocket in the long run.

[AmericanTerrorist]

All I can say is stay as health as you can, im sure youll look back and thank yourself

[CrAzYpOtHeAd]

Fuck that. Live hard, die young. I plan on dying in my 30's early 40's. Either of alcohol poising, drug over dose, or sucide. If sucide i'll proberly throw myself off a building and try and hit someone on my way down. Take em with me

[AmericanTerrorist]

You cant predetermine your death unless your planning on commiting suicide, which is utterly retarded. I doubt you will feel the same way by then.....

[CrAzYpOtHeAd]

I control my life, i control my death. As soon as i get sick of this place its a good bye. But i do plan on taking someone else with me.

[Esmada]

If you asked me five years ago wether or not i would grow old, I would hav said no! I had it all planned. My exit from this world. But suddenly I grew up and changed my mind. I do want to grow old. I want to see my son grow up and be a fine young man. I want grandchildren so that I can be the cooles grandparent in the neigbourhood. I want to be able to say at the end that my life has been hard,but good. I won't fear death when that time comes because I have lived life and I'm full.

[CrAzYpOtHeAd]

I'm not going to have children because i would make a bad father.

[Esmada]

You don't know that. You must not belive so.You must know so. For all you know mabye fatherhood is what you need.

[MaryJaneintheCloset]

No offense Crazy, but I thought I had it all figured out at 16 too... your way of thinking will change as you get older. Trust me.

[SensiRide]

Fuck that. Live hard, die young. I plan on dying in my 30's early 40's. Either of alcohol poising, drug over dose, or sucide. If sucide i'll proberly throw myself off a building and try and hit someone on my way down. Take em with me

You are strange boy.

[Bong30]

so how many people wanna get old ( i mean like retirement age) and settledown with a wifey and watch the birds outside and do yardwork and stuff??? I sure as hell no I dont. I cant stand the thought of not being able to skateboard and snowboard and everything exciting, there is no way in my mind that im gonna live till then....... Im totally ready to die young in a way :D , I just wanted to know how many people feel the same way and how many people apprecciate like the little things.

3rd,
I am 35 and have been skating and snowboarding basicly my whole life. I even started working at a skate shop in 85, and i went to manage of a huge store and a buyer with over a million dollar budget (think of buying a million dollars worth of snowboard stuff HOW FUN). Now im a sales rep working from my house.....DREAM JOB..... I agree with you 100%
But, you will realize there is this thing called LAW OF DEMINISHING RETURNS. say you like Ice cream....you like your first ice cream cone, but if you have 100 ice cream cones you tend to like each one less.
Not to mention your body cannot handle decades of street skating.

I still like to skate, and i sell snowboards for a living, but i am finding that i am looking forward to teaching my son how to snowboard more than i want to go my self.

Keep your mind open, and try new stuff, i.e. how do you think fly fishing, and golf have been so popular among snowboards and skaters latley.

Be safe

[Bong30]

I'm not going to have children because i would make a bad father.
read above post^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

you will change


from what ive read you would make a great father:thumbsup:

[CrAzYpOtHeAd]

You are strange boy.

Someone forgot to put an "a". Ha. I rather die young and healthy then old while loosing my mind and forgetting everything. Think about it. Your just looking at things from YOUR perspective, try thinking about it in OTHER people's perspective's. Hell, mybe i think your a strange girl?

[benagain]

Someone forgot to put an "a". Ha. I rather die young and healthy then old while loosing my mind and forgetting everything. Think about it. Your just looking at things from YOUR perspective, try thinking about it in OTHER people's perspective's. Hell, mybe i think your a strange girl?

nope, you're strange. Don't know a lot of sane people that want to die early. Maybe you just think life isn't fun when you get old. But it is :dance:
That is unless you do a bunch of stupid shit life huffing gas or something now when you're young.

Look ah Hugh Heffner. The dude's like a hundred and still gets more hot ass in one that that me and you will get in our entire life :thumbsup:

[CrAzYpOtHeAd]

nope, you're strange. Don't know a lot of sane people that want to die early. Maybe you just think life isn't fun when you get old. But it is :dance:
That is unless you do a bunch of stupid shit life huffing gas or something now when you're young.

Look ah Hugh Heffner. The dude's like a hundred and still gets more hot ass in one that that me and you will get in our entire life :thumbsup:

lol, huffing gas, rofl, and yeah. Hugh Heffner, an old pervert with a huge manson and hundreds of hot ass in this manson. But care to name anymore old men like this? lol, thats one old man, ONE. I don't plan to be an old pervert either. Now THATS what i call strange, and sick too. Also selfish. I may be "strange" but at least i have fucking morals

[Psycho4Bud]

From birth to 18 is basically play time....18 to 62 maybe 67 is takin' care of buisiness....62 up is playtime again.....if you got your health. I know this one dude, him and his wife visit one foreign country a year now. He was just on safari in Africa. :thumbsup:

[benagain]

lol, huffing gas, rofl, and yeah. Hugh Heffner, an old pervert with a huge manson and hundreds of hot ass in this manson. But care to name anymore old men like this? lol, thats one old man, ONE. I don't plan to be an old pervert either. Now THATS what i call strange, and sick too. Also selfish. I may be "strange" but at least i have fucking morals

and killing someone along side yourelf because you don't have a life isn't selfish? Hey, you're welcome to your own opinion, but don't fall on me because you're a looser. Do I serriously have to go find old guys that have good lives for ya? I could find plenty of old dudes with money and hot action going on. I can also find guys with little to no money and no women who still have a blast every day. If you think that stuff isn't fun anymore because you have some grey hair, then you're sadly mistaken. Do what you want, but don't be a jackass and ruin the fun other people are having :p

[CrAzYpOtHeAd]

and killing someone along side yourelf because you don't have a life isn't selfish?

Obvoiusly you can't take a joke.

btw, you did'nt spell LOSER right. Haha.

[benagain]

Obvoiusly you can't take a joke.

nah not really. I really am an asshole most of the time :D
don't take anything I say to heart, I'm just fucking around half the time anyway. I really don't want to change anyones mind about anything anyway. That's for the right-wing christians :thumbsup:

[benagain]

ohh yea I didn't spell it right did I. Oh well, I rally can't spell at that well anymore anyway. Spell check has made me lazy :/

^^^see. I didn't even catch it till I posted it. Proof reading is made for work not play.

[CrAzYpOtHeAd]

and killing someone along side yourelf because you don't have a life isn't selfish? Hey, you're welcome to your own opinion, but don't fall on me because you're a looser. Do I serriously have to go find old guys that have good lives for ya? I could find plenty of old dudes with money and hot action going on. I can also find guys with little to no money and no women who still have a blast every day. If you think that stuff isn't fun anymore because you have some grey hair, then you're sadly mistaken. Do what you want, but don't be a jackass and ruin the fun other people are having :p

Also, you are a HUGE hypocrite. Your telling me not to be a jackass and ruin the fun for other people? hmmm, last time i checked YOU were the one who called ME strange for the way i choose to live MY life. Don't be a fucking hypocrite, asshole. Mybe if you saw past all the bullshit you'd see what your saying and why you only think of number 1?

[benagain]

it's ok....breathe..you don't have to do anything anyone says to ya. your choice anyway. I really don't mind either way....except falling on me. Don't fall on me please.

[CrAzYpOtHeAd]

it's ok....breathe..you don't have to do anything anyone says to ya. your choice anyway. I really don't mind either way....except falling on me. Don't fall on me please.

Well mybe you should'nt call me strange. Mybe i don't want to die an old man? mybe i don't want to have children? and some will say i will go to hell for killing myself. But if there was a God that would do that to someone, would i REALLY want to be in heaven? or mybe hell is like south park and only people who are gay go to hell and satan is a big puff???? either way, what ever happens to me. There's no point in sticking around and being on old man in front of the couch watching soaps and repeating everything i say every 10 mins. Mybe i don't want to have to have back problems, mybe i don't want to loose my vision? mybe i don't want to grow gray hair and become and waste of space. This world is OVERPOPULATED. If i'm going to grow to an old man, withering away in my house, then i'm just being selfish and a waste of space. I don't want to be like that. Mybe if you saw thing's in my eye's you would'nt think so simple? mybe you would look at things diffrently. But you live the way you want too, just don't judge me for how i choose to live and die. Your just as bad as those people who say im pathetic for smoking weed, once again. Those type of people are judging me for how i choose to live, and die. So mybe next time you should STFU and not judge me? NO human has a right to judge.

[friendowl]

i used to feel like you.
i wanted to die young
now-a-days i wanna survive,
this life i lead is trying to break me
but im hangin.i feel very old and im only 29
the good thing is that by me suffering
i can easily recognize and sincerly help
others who suffer.when you die thats it game over
i wanna play this game still cuz it changes as you age.
the rules are better for us adults.

[MrGuy]

LOL! You guys r funny....

MY philosophy is to let the yonge live while they're yonge, as life will catch up with them and make them older.

I still snowboard. I might rave once in a while. I still like the unemotional fist fight in a ring, even if I'm on the loosing side.

Being old could be worse. It could be better, but it could be worse....

[benagain]

Well mybe you should'nt call me strange. Mybe i don't want to die an old man? mybe i don't want to have children? and some will say i will go to hell for killing myself. But if there was a God that would do that to someone, would i REALLY want to be in heaven? or mybe hell is like south park and only people who are gay go to hell and satan is a big puff???? either way, what ever happens to me. There's no point in sticking around and being on old man in front of the couch watching soaps and repeating everything i say every 10 mins. Mybe i don't want to have to have back problems, mybe i don't want to loose my vision? mybe i don't want to grow gray hair and become and waste of space. This world is OVERPOPULATED. If i'm going to grow to an old man, withering away in my house, then i'm just being selfish and a waste of space. I don't want to be like that. Mybe if you saw thing's in my eye's you would'nt think so simple? mybe you would look at things diffrently. But you live the way you want too, just don't judge me for how i choose to live and die. Your just as bad as those people who say im pathetic for smoking weed, once again. Those type of people are judging me for how i choose to live, and die. So mybe next time you should STFU and not judge me? NO human has a right to judge.

:D I don't judge. I still think you're not quite right, but that's ok. You can think whatever you want of me in exchange. I disagree with your opinion, but that's also ok. Like I said, do what you want. I'm not gonna stop you and no one can. Live your life like you want. Just don't hurt anyone else in the process and you're still cool with me :thumbsup: