Have you ever looked in the mirror, and suddenly realized you are really old.?

Yes, especially when I look downwards into my magnifying mirror to pluck out the odd hair. My whole face falls forward like a rock face caving in. I try not to spend too much time looking at this horrendous sight, sit up straight and pull my hair back really, really tight. It works for a while until I cannot stand the pain any longer. Lol! I have to face it, I AM old!

I can identify with that. Because recently I took a long hard

look at myself in the mirror. At the filled in cheeks, the lines

formed around my mouth now, and the silver strands leaping

forward from my head. But I'm doing pretty good and holding

my own. If I'd have taken after my dads side, I would have

been totally grey or silver 30 years ago. My grandma, his mom, looked old long before she should have. A hard life of just getting by does that to people.

So I don't know how old, "really old" is, but I'm slowly getting

there LOL.

Chevval, I took advice from a documentary on those living in assisted living facilities. One woman said she used a mirror for checking her hair and putting on her hat and going, and never checked otherwise.

I keep the full-length mirror behind the bedroom door, to check a fit at seasons' changes, to check which shoe looks better, etc., when it's important I look like I think I look.

I use the bathroom mirror when it's important what my hair looks like.

I sit down at the dressing table for FaceDays, for makeup, with the magnifyer to the side.

But those are the only occasions, except for the living room mirror, if somebody has knocked on the door, to check if I'm halfway presentable.

I got enough of ye ole sixty-ish face. All it took was once. And approach the dressing table for best fix with the same attitude as any other best-possible project.

Yes I looked in the mirror the other week and I saw my grandma and her double chins looking back at me!

I decided to put my reading glasses on and have another look in the mirror - scream - where did those wrinkles come from. Like you I will stick to the rose coloured glasses and say thank goodness that I have my health. Think young and act young and you will stay young, does not help the wrinkles etc but who cares. Youngish, happy and healthy that's all that matters.

Life has a way of sneaking up on you then one day with one glance in the mirror you realize it has "caught up" with you. I've been told I don't look as old as I really am but I have days when I feel "years" older. I've met people who think my twenty-four year old granddaughter is my daughter so I guess I can't complain. I guess there's a reason I'm still here and plan to take full advantage of the time I have left.

Looking in the mirror is an everyday thing. You don't have to be surprised by the change in you. If you are a down to earth person you should not be surprised. In fact an average person knows as he grows old that he has to take steps in a certain direction to maintain his age and grow with his age in wisdom, reality, and speed.

I'm only 51 which in this day & age is young.....or at least that's what I'm telling myself lol.

I have had a shock once or twice if I've looked in the mirror properly. Usually I just look in to comb my hair & don't pay much attention to anything other than my hair. Well it comes to us all I suppose so I'm thankful I'm still able to look in the mirror when I choose to. xx

I try to look in the mirror, without my glasses and then I don't look too bad. When I do catch sight of myself, maybe in a dept store or supermarket, I think, oh, there is my dad. He has been dead for 4 years and, of course, I am a woman - smile.

~LOL~ I think you need to get a new mirror. Since I still feel very young at heart & I see a young face when I look into the mirror. I take care of myself, especially my face. Not too brag, but I am told by family, friends, & complete strangers, that I do not look my age. Perhaps it's because of heredity & my Scandinavian bloodline.

Yes and have you noticed ,how people that you went to school with seem to have faired better .Even the announcers on the TV seem to get younger every day ,And if they are getting to look old, they put them out to grass ,But then Friday I saw David Essex he was hot ,now he looks 10 years older than me and is 4 years younger ,