Guest Posted June 6, 2016 Posted June 6, 2016 I am in my mid 20s but approaching the big 3 Oh. its 2016 and yet somehow I still think 2005 was just a few years ago... Am I just being delusional or is this happening to anyone else as well? One moment I am thinking 2005, well that's not too old and then it clicks... dude that's 11 years ago.
karlpaws Posted June 6, 2016 Posted June 6, 2016 If you're having trouble separating your later 20s from your teens I'd say you have an odder problem. I was working in 2005 so it feels a lot more like now does, as I'm still working. As I'm approaching 40, and since I live close to the town I went to college, I'll get hit with "She's kinda cute... for someone who could be my daughter!"
Ashkandii Posted June 6, 2016 Posted June 6, 2016 Im 18 and already feel out of the loop with todays slang and stuff and it just makes me feel pretty old not knowing what these people are talking about anymore. but I dunno not knowing things everyone my age knows about tends to make you feel that way even though im not old at all
The Martian Posted June 6, 2016 Posted June 6, 2016 The first time I felt old was when I realized that saying "Oh boy, you call that infernal noise music?" was the same thing that made my father look old to me.
gregathit Posted June 6, 2016 Posted June 6, 2016 I stressed about turning 30 quite a bit. It seemed to me at the time that my life was going to be over.......or something like that. I look back on it nearly two decades later and have to laugh my ass off. Other than a few more candles on the cake, my life isn't really any different. I'm actually in better shape than I was back then. Time does fly, so enjoy every minute!
Outlast1 Posted June 6, 2016 Posted June 6, 2016 I am 25 and honestly I never thought of it as the end or crap but I find my self out of place sometimes as I am always looking back to the days of the first Nintendo console with the huge game cartridges that you had to blow into to make it work and how impressed I was when I played the symphony of the night lol. I was born during the end of the eighties where alot of the same influences were still around and cars looked like shit. To this day my niece looks at me as if I am a relic of the dinosaurs when I play the legend of link on my dusty old Nintendo and am so into it. She makes comments of geez I had respect for you but how can you play that ancient piece of crap game from the stone ages. lol I glared at her for a long time and said this was all most people had before all that cool stuff came out, she left and started playing COD on her computer.
Guest Posted June 6, 2016 Posted June 6, 2016 Whaaat? Getting Old? This will never happen! I am 8 years old (when I was 8 years old), I am growing! I am now 16! Yes, I am 16!!!! Yes!!!! (I was stupid when I was 16.) 24. Yeck. Another year and it will be one quarter of century for me. Too busy having fun right now to think about it... 32. OK. 32. Where am I now? Is this France? No, it was last year. Oh, yes, I got married. OK, time to do something. Let's restart everything from scratch just for fun. (Yep, around 32 I was the "king of the world" in my mind.) 40. Let's celebrate! The real life begins now! (Actually I said that about 20 times during the years, but who will refuse to do a party?) Am I feeling old? Nope. I still play, I still do extreme sports (BTW I dislocated my shoulder last week doing some extreme volleyball), I still mod, I still have fun with people elder and younger than me. When I will be old? About 2000 year after I will die.
SethKein Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 I just turned 20 few months ago. Some people could still call me a child lol. But just a few days ago i had such a brain freeze. I was like "So.. i am 20 now.. in another 20 years i will be 40, cool, than 60... hmm some people die around 60 already... Oh my god i wasted my life!!" Haha, just incredible, sometimes its just better not to overthink this stuff, just when i got out of it i could not believe what crap i am saying. Human mind is sure a mess.
Jexsam Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 Memes are emerging and I don't know what they mean. Shows I grew up with are celebrating 20 years anniversaries. I'm closer to 30 than I am 20. Existential dread.
formanfred Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 I am in my late 60's fast approaching 70 years old , I think playing all these games keeps my mind active altho not as sharp as it used to be
the_mess Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 I am feeling old for a LONG time. When I turned 21 I thought my life is over. This year I will turn 26 and I feel this shit even stronger. What scares me is the fact that I won't be able to do the stuff I am able to now. My sight will start worsening. I won't be able to ride my skateboard or bike. My reactions will be the same as slug. I won't be able to go to concerts and stuff like that. I won't be able to stay for the whole night because my body will simply give up on me. Its not the numbers or the fact I am moving closer to death after each year. Its the fact that my body will start dying slowly. If our bodies stayed in the same shape through the whole life cycle - sure, we just die in the end, its ok I guess but we turn into useless bags of crap which is just living its just being (or suffering)
Anicae Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 Not feeling old in that sense. 33 and sometimes (when I get excited about something) I'm giddy like a schoolgirl (that's how you say it, right? ). Other times, especially after work I'm like 80 and about to fall to pieces (on hard days). The thing that concerns me the most is when my son tells me I'm old-fashioned o_O Or that my mum used to complain about a radio station her colleague was playing all day cause it's considered the "old people" station. Now, ten years later she likes it, regularly listens to it. I already switched my taste in music from "oh, I listen to whatever the radio is playing" to "rock, any kind, classic, indie, progressive, some metal too, don't make me listen to that radio-pop-crap". I wonder, 20 years down the line, will I switch to the "old-people" station too? Will loud music be too much for me? *shudders*
afa Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 I have to sometimes reminds myself that people with single digit in their birth year are more likely to be young people and not old people or people in history books.
castlefan Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 hmmm ... my approaching number is ... 40 getting older ... nowadays I need glasses to drive a car ... yeah that kinda sucks... but on the other hand the glasses make me look even smarter Star Wars : A New Hope also turns 40 next year
Jazzman Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 Mostly I feel as old as my son, aged three and a half that is. We're probably the greatest morons for a hundred miles around. And we just love it. Next to that I'm 27 since a week and at the outset of a woman's prime of life, looking better by the day just like any other passionate woman
Slammer64 Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 What formanfred said, when I joined this site, I was the oldest here by far, of course I was the sixth person to join...I think I was born old. Damn, I hit 57 this year. Well, enough rambling, I haven't had my coffee yet. Oh, and get the hell off my lawn...
Molevalence Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 Age is a number. Ill be turning 30 and could care less. Ill be the same in another 30 years if I live that long.
Effie Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 Well i may only be 24, but it does feel like i was just a young teen running around making trouble not too long ago. So i do get that feeling. The years just goes by so quick >u<
Sural Argonus Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 You are only as old as you feel. I feel I am a hundred and fifty. Someone call the coroner... Seriously tho...I don't worry about it much. Yes, at times when I see the people half my age doing things that I used to do...I feel it. I admit it. I can't do a lot of things I used to do anymore...and it kinda gets to me, but if I dwell on it, it will feed into my depression...which is a bad thing...so I must not dwell on it.
Effie Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 Well i may only be 24, but it does feel like i was just a young teen running around making trouble not too long ago. So i do get that feeling. The years just goes by so quick >u< You're right. And it can be pretty easy to miss out on things in life while ending up with a lot of regrets. Guess I need to start writing a bucket list; another reminder of how short life is. I know exactly what you mean. Though i do not regret it too much, i do feel like that when i got really into gaming, i probably missed out on a lot of my teenage years. Been thinking as well to start writing down some life goals i want to at least complete. Travel the world and what not. Because at this rate, it's going by too quick haha.
Guest Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 So i do get that feeling. The years just goes by so quick >u< Yep my point exactly, I feel as though the older you get the faster things seem to pass by.
Cynical Misanthrope Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 I'm soon 36, and that is not big number at all. In my mind I still 20-ish. I have childish, dark, perverted humor, but my body feels like a frozen corpse sometimes. So I guess body-wise I feel more like 60-70 or something. I'm supposed to use glasses. I'm almost stone deaf, my right foot creaks sometimes when I walk, and if I expose my body to position that I'm not used to do otherwise (like, stretching for something under the couch or table), my joints in my shoulders hurts like hell
panthercom Posted June 7, 2016 Posted June 7, 2016 When my dad died of old age (more or less) I became acutely aware of my own impending mortality, so I might have another 15-25 years left. I don't want to live into my 80's with a decrepit, failing body. I want to be a kid again, dammit!!
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