What will you be like?

[Nightshade]

I was rereading the how old will you be in 2006 thread and noticed somthing pensy said about what she would be like at 70.
And it got me rembering that poem "A warning" by Jenny Joseph. About wearing purple and a red hat that doesnt match.
this isnt all of it but its copyrighted still so I cant find a copy online.

WARNING
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens

Anyway so I was thinking what do you think you will be like or what would you like to try and get away witth when you are really old.
( and before any of you say it if you are younger than 60 you dont even count as old yet!)

[Virgil]

I was rereading the how old will you be in 2006 thread and noticed somthing pensy said about what she would be like at 70.
And it got me rembering that poem "A warning" by Jenny Joseph. About wearing purple and a red hat that doesnt match.
this isnt all of it but its copyrighted still so I cant find a copy online.

Anyway so I was thinking what do you think you will be like or what would you like to try and get away witth when you are really old.
( and before any of you say it if you are younger than 60 you dont even count as old yet!)

I am already very old!!!

[Nightshade]

OI virg note the and before any of you say it if you are younger than 60 you dont even count as old yet!)
which I put in especially with you in mind

[Virgil]

OI virg note the and before any of you say it if you are younger than 60 you dont even count as old yet!)
which I put in especially with you in mind

I'm only kidding. I'm 44 and I have a long way to go before 70. I have no idea what I will be like when I'm seventy. I can tell you I didn't forsee 25 years ago what i would be like today. I can see similarities and I can see differences.

[Pensive]

Hehehe, nice topic!

Imagine a 70 year old Pensive sitting on an arm chair, looking at the weather outside through window, missing her golden days of childhood, muttering softly:

It is autumn; not without
But within me is the cold
Youth and Spring are all about;
It is I that have grown old

Then the children of neighbours will come and say "Grannie, grannie; give us some candies!"

This will let her gloominess away and Pensive will order them to sit in a circle around her and then she will ask the eldest, oh no, the youngest one to bring her bag of candies and so she will hand those candies to them.

Then Pensive will be asked to tell them the tale. Pensive will merrily nod and tell them the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Harry Potter and Little Red Riding Hood. Children will laugh, cheer, ask her more and more tales. Then the time of poetry and songs will come, everyone will sing and dance; Pensive will become happy in the happiness of children and so in this Pensive will find a way to spend her days... Wouldn't it be lovely?

[Shannanigan]

Let's see...seventy...my God that's half a century away right now!

Yes, yes, I know I'm so very young and need to enjoy my youth and make smart choices and blah blah blah... (I say that in the kindest way sarcasm can sound)

At seventy I hope to be ten years retired from 38 wonderful years of teaching. I'll sit and wait for my retirement paycheck so that I can cash it and play video lottery down the road from the house I built from the ground up...and when I win big money I'll dish it out into secret savings accounts for my grandchildren that I won't tell them or their parents about until AFTER they've found a way to pay for college mwahahaha...

I'll sit on the balcony of my home and look down on Magen's Bay, one of the top ten most beautiful beaches in the world. I'll get phone calls from past students who are keeping in touch even while they travel the world. I'll get postcards and handwritten letters in the mail and my e-mail inbox will always be overflowing with messages from friends, family, and people I've met in my life. I'll write collections of short stories that may never be published, and read them to the youngest of my grandchildren who are either home for the summer or too young to be in school yet...

And I'll eat chocolate every single day.

[Idril]

I have no doubt that my boys will still be living at home, asking me to pour them a coke with 4 ice cubes in it and wanting to know what we're having for supper.

[AimusSage]

At seventy, I'd be one of those very active old grandfather like people. Always flirting with the young ladies that work in my retirement home, cracking dirty jokes all the time and always getting away with it because I'm just SO adorable.
And the TV will always be on the Football channel, watching it all the time, except for when I get to go out in my wheelchair and flirt with other young ladies in the street.
Of course those young ladies I think are in their early twenties are all in their forties and above, but I never wear my glasses, so I don't even notice.

[mono]

Well, I only have 47 years before turning 70; and if I seem like this at 23 . . . *sigh.
I will likely appear as one of those silly old men who lives in a large apartment building alone (because he detests the concept of financial credit), who tells jokes that no one understands, feeds birds in the park, remains quiet and shy (though he still finds it one of his worst qualities not worth overcoming), and hopefully continues writing and remaining progressive in old age.
In terms of appearance: bald, hopefully still able to exercise, wearing reading glasses the size of binoculars, and shrunken even shorter (even now, I only stand 5'6'').
Out of all things, I hope mostly to retain my mind; among things I fear appear things I have seen, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disorders.

[kathycf]

How will I be at 70? Pretty much the way I am now. Lets see...

Hopefully my 85 cats will not chew the furniture too badly and not fight with the 15 dogs. Luckily, I can just let them outside to play on my huge, secluded private lawn. My arthritis from decades of banging away on a computer keyboard will have been cured by my 55 th birthday, so no worries there. Some devilishly attractive young man in his 50's will be my paramour and all my friends and loved ones will live close enough so I can see them all the time, and far enough away so that I can send them home when they get on my nerves.

[thevintagepiper]

In 55 years I hope to be married, with several grown children. I will play with my grandchildren and write and read and listen to music and make music and talk to my husband, and we will still be very much in love.
I will talk to my dad and learn to be good friends with my mom.
I will eat chocolate, go to Starbucks every day, and I will find popular music that is thoroughly fantastic, because when you weed it out it is always there. I won't laugh at my grandchildren's weirdness, and if they aren't weird enough I will teach them to be. I will help my granddaughters to be feminine and proud to be women, encouraging their parents to train them to be godly wives and mothers.
I will write poems for them all on their birthdays. I will tell them all the crazy things I did when I was little, and not act like I regret them.
And my kids will call me blessed, because I will have fulfilled my highest calling--as a mother.

[miss tenderness]

"I will likely appear as one of those silly old men who lives in a large apartment building alone (because he detests the concept of financial credit), who tells jokes that no one understands, feeds birds in the park, remains quiet and shy (though he still finds it one of his worst qualities not worth overcoming), and hopefully continues writing and remaining progressive in old "
Seems like Willy in the Death of a Salesman Mono!

Mmm, let me see…an old me will be a respectable old lady, full of morals, hence a pretty much boring lol. I'll be retired from long decade of teaching and free to spend more time in my own company not to run the business, because I already have a good deal of workers who understand my business and work together to make the best of what we can do, but to supervise! Sitting on my chair in my office drinking coffee or capatcianoo reading a book and a couple of old aged friends pass by to chit-chat. At home, my last daughter, who is not yet a graduate from university, will receive me warmly and tell me that my married boy and girl will have dinner with us!! forgot to tell you that I and my loving husband have silly problems because he is also retired and we spend a lot of time facing each other and have nothing else to do!

I remembered a poem titled When You are Old by Yeats ,the poet gives a good description of his lover when old ,regretting the old days when she did not value his love, very interesting . You'll enjoy it.
When You are Old
by W. B. Yeats


When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

[Virgil]

You all will be wonderful old people, and I hope we will all still be connected via lit net, joking, fighting, playing games, and talking about our youth.

Reminds me of some lyrics from the Rolling Stones, "Waiting On A Friend:"

Making love and breaking hearts
It is a game for youth
But I'm not waiting on a lady
I'm just waiting on a friend

[Petrarch's Love]

You all will be wonderful old people, and I hope we will all still be connected via lit net, joking, fighting, playing games, and talking about our youth.

By then technology will have advanced to the point where we'll all be able to manifest ourselves as holograms in on another's living rooms and sit down for a proper visit.

When I'm 70, God willing, I intend to be as active as health will allow. I'll be married to the love of my life and have kids and grandkids whom I'll take to fairs and theme parks and other interesting places (beaches and parks and museums etc.) on a regular basis, and of course "Grandma" will have to join in the games and rides and cotton candy and such.

I'll be one of those profs who keeps teaching the occasional lecture course even after I'm retired, and entertain my students by riding my bike to class and reciting scenes from Shakespearean drama, taking on all the different characters simultaneously myself. I'll be working to get the next novel in my historical fiction series into my editor on time while slowly pegging away at the verse translation of Orlando Furioso I've been working at for the last ten years and helping with the editing of a new online version of The Spenser Encyclopedia.

Every now and again my husband and I will rent a Villa in Tuscany for a month and invite the kids and grandkids to come over for a few weeks. I'll travel whenever I can, and when I come home, I'll come home to a place by the sea. I'll keep going to Opera and concerts and I'll have improved my piano skills and taught myself violin so I'll play in a faculty chamber group at my university. When I'm not doing that I'll be on the stage in whatever old lady role they need to fill at the local community theater.

[Nightshade]

Oh wow... got to second virgil here Andf I hope we are all still conected.
When I am really old what I really hope is Ill still be able to seeto read and ILl hobble along to the library and ask them for 20 books they recomend a week then Ill bor them out of their minds with tales of how things were done in MY day. and give them a box of choclates at christmas and in july when everyone runs out.

and ILl spend all day baking cakes for bake sales.( well when IM not reading that is)