[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I find that old people get really cranky when they turn old. The stereotype of the ornery octogenarian is dead on. I don’t get it. Why do people who were reasonable for 70 years suddenly become ornery and difficult when they approach or pass 70 years old? I don’t get it. I will probably be the worst one.

[goodnesswins]

Because they don’t FEEL good???

[Sequoyah101]

Mostly fear I think. A foreboding sense of having made it past their due date and knowing they are on borrowed time. Every day can become their last. I have begun to feel it. Not in a morose way but a realization of the facts of life and death. There is so much left you want to do and so much you are not able to do. Knowing it is likely that an oak you plant will be for someone else to sit in its shade. Bittersweet. Also knowing how quickly you and your planting it will be forgotten as you have seen happen to so many others.

You should be able to understand this intellectually if not emotionally.

[TomGuy]

I find that old people get really cranky when they turn old. The stereotype of the ornery octogenarian is dead on. I don’t get it. Why do people who were reasonable for 70 years suddenly become ornery and difficult when they approach or pass 70 years old?

Years ago I noticed that in most pix of senior citizens they had a scowl face. After thinking about it for a while and getting well into my 60s and heading for the 70s, I concluded that they are probably in pain a lot of the time.

I know I frequently have a 'new' pain. Sometimes it sticks around for several days or weeks and other times it goes away by the next day.

Meds don't always work.