Posted on 02/18/2026 6:13:58 AM PST by fruser1
Sitting down to put your socks on, seeing previous clothes come back into fashion and asking 'who?' when watching the Brit Awards are all signs you are getting on.
The study was by American Pistachio Growers, which has partnered with actor John Thomson, 56, to urge mid-life adults to age positively.
1. Talking about aches and pains with friends
2. Groaning when bending down
3. Preferring quiet venues to noisy ones
4. Preferring a quiet drink over a night out
5. Enjoying an early night
6. Not caring about the latest fashion trends
7. Thinking that new music isn't as good as it used to be
8. A recurring ache that doesn't disappear
9. Using phrases like 'back in my day' or 'remember when*?'
10. Sitting down to put socks on
11. Caring less about how you look
12. Taking shoes off as soon as you get inside - slippers have become a necessity!
13. Noticing something you wore in your youth is now back in fashion
14. Starting conversations with 'Do you remember when*?'
15. Reading menus at arm's length
16. Talking to yourself
17. Moaning about politics
18. Feeling more confident/self-assured
19. Getting up at 6am naturally
20. First 'Who?' when watching the Brit Awards
21. Looking forward to gardening
22. Feeling confounded by AI
23. Listening to the radio or podcasts instead of club music
24. Getting excited about new home appliances
25. Checking the weather forecast hourly
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There is another very pertinent quote....
“Don’t let the old man in” Clint Eastwood
Variety truly is the spice of life.
“Why would you stand to put on socks?”
Lots of reasons, but the one that worked for me was fear from the wife if you messed up the bedspread.
BEARS REPEATING!
In songs of the past males were often drifters, moving on, just passing through your (female) life, hard to hold onto, averse to stopping or settling down.
I doubt that would apply to enough current young males for such songs to make sense anymore.
How about: “How many times have I slipped betwixt a cup and a lip?”
Hahahaha!
You do it by hopping comically and dangrously to and fro on one foot in total darkness, cussing up a blue streak in total panic, knocking over lamps and nearly killing yourself before your butt fortunately descends nearly by accident in a semi-controlled fall onto a bed...where sweating, you continue putting the sock on, grateful to have avoided an ambulance ride to the closest hospital and having to answer the embarrassing question: "Sir, what were you doing when you fractured your skull and broke your arm?" with the lame answer: "I was putting on my socks..."
I think that very much of this list is illness-related, as well as age-related.
Tinnitus, if you are unfortunate enough to have it, is constant. You mostly overcome it by increasing the volume. I think it may cause the loss of directional location through sound, also.
You sit to put on socks when you used to stand - because you can no longer feel your feet, reach them or trust your balance.
I watched my father’s failing health and eventual death and the mark that it left on me was the desire to age as gracefully as possible. Age is more sudden than we would like to accept, but the correct acceptance of new limitations is, I think, the key to graceful aging.
Fart.
Everyone in Japan, young and old, does that.
50 ain’t old. If you are a tree.
I agree, 100% with your post… That is my goal, to find a way to suffer the indignities of aging with humor (where possible) and Grace. I am on a journey to find Christ, and it is my hope that will assist me in reaching my goal as I expect it will… :-)
A former high school student told me he will be retiring in three years.
I was 22 when I started, but still..
“ I am on a journey to find Christ,”
That’s awesome!
:)
umm is there some other way to put on your socks? I have always sat down to put them on.
I keep a decibel meter app on my phone. When we sit down in restaurants and it seems loud, I put it on the table and open it up. My wife is mortified and I make sure to show it to the waitress also.
Nothing is louder than a group of 4 or 5 women out for lunch. They fall somewhere between a vacuum cleaner and a jet engine at 100 feet.
Conversely, you’d be amazed how hard it is to find somewhere truly silent. And if you do, the ringing in your ears gets extra loud.
I retired coming off of the midnight shift. I still go to bed around midnight but still wake up about 5 AM, then toss and turn till 6 AM, then back to sleep till 8AM. I then wake up reminding myself I used to be on the job two hours earlier.
First of all, I check into FR for the news.
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