Before I drafted my Age Grouping post, I had started typing these thoughts, which are still valid as a separate post.

When do you get old?  

When do you realize you’re old?

Is old a number?

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Today I realized it’s over—well, over soon.

I’ll soon end my time in my current age grouping.

I noticed that some surveys are using the age groupings for adult into LARGE bands of under 35, 35-54 and 55 and over.  Those make three nice big age groups: younger adults, middle adults and older aging adults.  Simple and clean.

But now that I’m 54 (completed 54 years, now living my 55^th year—example: 1900s were 20^th century) I’m in my last year of this polling age group.  Even if I were in the 45-54 age group, I would be ending that smaller band.

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