chellepig

How do you define old? Some people say that grandparents are ‘old’, but what about those people who don’t have grandchildren will they never be ‘old’?

Other people say ‘old’ are people who have reached a certain age or look a certain way.

There are even people who go by the dictionary meaning: Not new; born or made or existing a long time ago. Most people might think well what is wrong with that definition? But I inform that there is, I can contradict it, there for in my mind it is wrong! I think that the dictionary is wrong as I am then old to babies, my brother is old to me, my parents are ancient, I can’t think of a word for my grand parents let alone my GREAT grand parents!

Now I’m wondering if ‘old’ is even an adjective, since if it isn’t any of the above it mustn’t be one. “You’re as young as you feel” is a well known quote which I think can have the same meaning written with ‘old’; “you’re as ‘old’ as you feel”. I think is describing ‘old’ or ‘young’ as feeling but writing it as an adjective.

That definition to me seems right. I can not contradict it, as my great nana Barbra is over eighty and lives alone in Auckland and to me she is still seems young, more aged than I, but still not the so described ‘old’. My other great nana Thomas is about the same age and to me she is ‘old’ she has one of those deseases wgere you forget everything, and lives in an ‘old’ people’s home. There for my answer to ‘What is ‘old’’? Is a feeling, you are either young as you feel or as old’ as you feel.