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What’s the prime of life these days? — 15 Comments

  1. Trust me, this boomer does not feel in his prime and I neve felt I ran the world as a teen. The media made this garbage up just like they coined the term “hippie”.

  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlyOCf_SOUY

    I’m past my prime
    What a shame
    And I’m losin’ time
    Guess the old clock’s run down
    Seventeen last spring
    My, what a wasted life
    Still without a ring
    When will you be a wife?
    I’m past my peak
    You’re an early antique
    Look at this physique
    Just hear the old bones creak
    Where there was a glow
    There ain’t a glow no more
    Now the wrinkles show
    Where art Thou Romeo?

  3. I ask you who’s elated when you’s Methusilated
    Oh, me, oh, my
    Like a mummy underground
    When you is antiquated ors/and dejectaquated
    Oh, me, oh, my
    They’d prefers you in the round

  4. Well, hell…

    For being born mid-century, last century, I feel in my prime except when:

    I get up in the morning.
    Look in the mirror – anytime (don’t know how my father got there).
    Forget to take my Aleve after workouts, hiking, strenuous work.
    It’s past 11:00pm.

    Other than that – hey, I’m getting through the days.

  5. I was born in 1960, and for the past few weeks I’ve been getting spam for dentures and senior dating sites. The dating site defines “senior” as 50+ so I guess I qualify for that, but dentures?

  6. Big difference between 40 and 50. Almost all my conversations these days center around issues of injury, illness or death (mostly of one’s parents). Doesn’t seem like “prime”.

  7. The authors who coined the age place the cohort as running from 1943 to 1964.

    Their rationale being that those born, even in 1943, absorbed the post-war ethos just the same. Being less than 30 months old, such a tot never knew – or felt – the war.

    To be born at that time — in the US or Britain — was extremely favorable — to the tot.

    It started out as a baby drought — and ended up in a super boom.

  8. Funny, I got the same spam. It’s in my deleted folder, so I went back and tried to find out what was killing all you Baby Boomers. Drat, no luck! In the long, long dissertation they never got around to what the sinister illness was that was killing Baby Boomers. However, I did find this at the end:
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    For only $37 we can all get — and stay — healthy. You are a mind reader, neo.

  9. I have read that the Boomers are like a pig in a python & there are so many that there will always be the urge for marketers to tap into the group, despite us losing members along the way!

  10. Born in 1947, my physical abilities peaked (through extensive training) in my late 30s into my mid 40s. Currently, I’m in my emotional prime. I expect to die having never reached my intellectual prime.

    In general I am ashamed of my generation. We have cried havoc and let loose the dogs of slobbering dependence upon DC. (From the beginning DC has been the biggest threat to liberty.)

  11. Dollars to donuts it’s suicide. Article at Good Men Project. Middle age. Fourth-greatest killer.
    The cause is, you will be surprised to know, societal suppression of men’s emotions.
    I really don’t know how they get that horse up and in the harness any more.

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