Do you look your age ?

You're only as old as the woman you feel….

Was bringing my mother to a hospital appointment a couple of years ago. When she was called in from the waiting room the nurse asked her if she wanted to bring her husband in with her.

Once, when collecting my son from school one of his classmates asked me "are you Johnny's grandad?".

Yeah, I look older.

nail on the head. I've deffo slowed the last 18 months. Now 46, I can only manage one game of soccer per week. Used to be playing 2 or 3 games a week - but the knees and legs are going.

The no kids thing definitely plays a huge part. My mates with kids all look ancient.

It's also the lack of sleep and stress. Crazy how much those two things can age you.

I was chatting to a woman recently, hadn't met her before, friend of a friend. I said something like 'I presume you're around late 50s like myself?'. She stared open-mouthed and said 'I'm FORTY TWO'.

A man who lifts weights, eats reasonably well, stays slim and has most of his hair should look younger than his age; Fat bald heads and fat bellies age men badly - however when you are 70 or 80, having a fat face may make you look younger due to smoothing out wrinkles.

There's also this.

https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/the-best-reason-to-have-sex-20121001

So aim for 700 w*nks per year.

ONLY 700 tommy tanks a year?fecks sake,i better cut down! sure tis no wonder im so dapper,dashing and debonaire at 65!

I’m early 50’s, but I feel young. Look maybe my age or a bit younger as I keep very fit and am careful to keep weight off. I have my head clean shaven so my baldness is somewhat hidden. However I’ve grown a beard for the winter and it’s completely white - that makes me look old!

I was watching an episode of Last of the Summer Wine yesterday from the late 70’s, I was shocked to see that the old codgers in the episode were the same age I am now, but they looked much older. I think people in general look younger for longer now when compared to the 70’s / 80’s. Same watching Top of the Pops from 1981 this evening, and the audience even though they’re probably teenagers looked like they were in their 30’s.

Near my mid-30s and look younger than my parents did at the same age. I'm not exactly healthy, drink as much as they did and my diet is way worse. Only difference that I know of is that they smoked most of their life. Although my brother smokes and looks good for his age so I can't make sense of it. My grandparents aged better again. Anyone else have a similar experience of poor aging for those born late 1950s?

Regularly get told I'm looking great, 10 years + younger, not aging at all or "it's younger you're getting".

Even by people that don't know me that well.

Everytime I go away thinking are these people going blind or what.

I'm 52 and when I look in the mirror the etchings on my face from the sands of time are blatantly obvious to me.

It baffles me.

It happened just a few days ago even.

Went into a shop that I rarely go to and the person behind the counter was someone I hadn't seen in about 6/7 years.

She said "You look great" and we had a few words before I asked for what I needed.

They didn't have it and she said 'I'm so sorry you had a wasted journey for nothing.

I replied it wasn't wasted at all as I got to bump into to her again.

She said aw that's so lovely of you to say that.

She did look great btw.

The killing bit is trying to pay back a compliment that sounds sincere but the person is looking shook as fook 😬