Anyone else starting to feel old?

[bjornk]

I'm glad we have a bunch of 40+ people here, makes me feel... well, younger...

[Userper]

Is it just me or does time move faster as you get older

I remember being 12 and thinking an hour was a long time...

 

Now I can drift through a full week and not really notice, kinda troubling really.

Dat Monotony thou...

 

 

[Guest]

Is it just me or does time move faster as you get older

I remember being 12 and thinking an hour was a long time...

 

Now I can drift through a full week and not really notice, kinda troubling really.

Dat Monotony thou...

 

probably you are right, it is just a matter of monotony.

For me the experience of the time is the exact opposite. Fast when I was young, and slow now.

[karlpaws]

I'm glad we have a bunch of 40+ people here, makes me feel... well, younger...

 

Are you saying you are younger and feel younger still, or older and don't feel quite as distanced from youth?

 

In World of Warcraft I was a member of a variety of guilds over the years, many with female GMs and most over 50. Made for an interesting experience once, being the youngest of 10 people on, and old enough myself to not be considered young in a video game.

 

I point out to lots of people I talk to that many of the first gamers were the older teens in the arcades... and that wasn't yesterday.

[bjornk]

 

I'm glad we have a bunch of 40+ people here, makes me feel... well, younger...

 

Are you saying you are younger and feel younger still, or older and don't feel quite as distanced from youth?

 

The latter.

[Userper]

 

Is it just me or does time move faster as you get older

I remember being 12 and thinking an hour was a long time...

 

Now I can drift through a full week and not really notice, kinda troubling really.

Dat Monotony thou...

 

probably you are right, it is just a matter of monotony.

For me the experience of the time is the exact opposite. Fast when I was young, and slow now.

 

 

I envy you

I'm getting grey hair at 25...

[Jazzman]

[snip]

 

I envy you

I'm getting grey hair at 25...

Many a guy gets spare hair at your age. Both is inherited and no sign of aging, or worse, of a decline in manhood...

[Shadowscale]

At age 34 I don't feel my age. In fact I still feel like I'm in my 20's physically since I make sure to walk every day to burn off as much as I can weight wise. Just wish my shoes didn't need seasonal replacing though.

[Benn82]

Somehow, I want to go back to youth, when I was Innocent and everything looks wonderful.

Now, I see everything skeptical, seldom finishing long games due to boredom of naive story.

And often debate with younger player how bad vs awesome of many many games.

 

The weird part, getting old, I became like the latest CoD ... am I'm going to senile ??? ... HEEEELP !!!

[NickNozownik]

25 here. I feel young, I'm fine and dandy as long as there's coffee and alcohol. I wish I was old, something around 75-80 years, so I can be retired and sit on my ass all day doing nothing. Until then I must bust ass 24/7.

But one day I'll be all old and retired. Then I'll sign in on LL and be like "you god damn youngsters! You better get on your god damn bike instead of doing all this computor game bullshit! It was different back in my day, kid". Or something like that.

[Rod Broward]

25 here. I feel young, I'm fine and dandy as long as there's coffee and alcohol. I wish I was old, something around 75-80 years, so I can be retired and sit on my ass all day doing nothing. Until then I must bust ass 24/7.

But one day I'll be all old and retired. Then I'll sign in on LL and be like "you god damn youngsters! You better get on your god damn bike instead of doing all this computor game bullshit! It was different back in my day, kid". Or something like that.

 

25 is elderly RIP grandpa

[Unfrog12]

I'll be 60 in a few months...retired @ 55 from making airplanes.

 

Plenty to do around here (Puget Sound region of Washington State) and I'm still ridiculously healthy according to my doc.

 

Not planning on slowing down anytime soon.

[worldofhavok]

I guess time flys when you're having fun.

[Queen Bee]

I'll be 60 in a few months...retired @ 55 from making airplanes.Plenty to do around here (Puget Sound region of Washington State) and I'm still ridiculously healthy according to my doc.Not planning on slowing down anytime soon.

Oh thank god, someone older than me! I was starting to wonder if I was the oldest person on this site.

 

And really, all you twenty somethings, feeling old. Give me a break. Trust me, you have no idea what old is. Just you wait, though, age creeps up on you, stalks you like a tiger, and attacks when you least suspect it. You feel old because your favorite cartoon turned fifteen or you remember when the internet squealed while connecting? That's adorable. Talk to me when your body starts falling apart and you know it only gets worse from here on out.

[d2unite]

^ I think that is why we feel old because we realize suddenly how fast we age and how time seem fly by when you don't fully appreciate it and make the best of it. 

Bah. Saw your age on your profile, expected you to be 50+ when you speak of your body breaking down. You a little drama queen yourself.  

[spoonsinger]

Ok, this is an arbitrary sub metric for this thread. Did you see Star Wars originally at a cinema? I saw it when I was a kid, (One and half times. Always was pissed because my sisters choice the previous week was the Rescuers which was a shorter film. and in the old days you could sit through repeated runs on the same ticket, so it was basically the time it took for my great uncle to role out of the Legionnaires club and drive us back home). However I also remember feeling old in my late teens, twenties, and beyond, (It just sort of merges after a point, and you look back and say 'Oh! shit, that went quick'). Time is really subjective. It's just what you fill it up with. Then you get old, lose your experiences from your mind  and it's just wasted anyway. Have fun while you can. If you think it's important to convey those experiences to other people, just remember that you can actually only remember them for a certain amount of time. Even then what you remember is only subjective.

[bjornk]

Did you see Star Wars originally at a cinema? I saw it when I was a kid, (One and half times. Always was pissed because my sisters choice the previous week was the Rescuers which was a shorter film. and in the old days you could sit through repeated runs on the same ticket, so it was basically the time it took for my great uncle to role out of the Legionnaires club and drive us back home).

Yep, and saw it pretty much one and half times as well. Went to see it with my father and since we came too early for the last run at 9 PM, they let us in and we watched pretty much the second half of the movie first and then watched the whole thing again. It wasn't called "A New Hope" back then IIRC, it was just "Star Wars". Was a big fan of the first two movies... and then Ewoks showed up...

[spoonsinger]

 

Did you see Star Wars originally at a cinema? I saw it when I was a kid, (One and half times. Always was pissed because my sisters choice the previous week was the Rescuers which was a shorter film. and in the old days you could sit through repeated runs on the same ticket, so it was basically the time it took for my great uncle to role out of the Legionnaires club and drive us back home).

Yep, and saw it pretty much one and half times as well. Went to see it with my father and since we came too early for the last run at 9 PM, they let us in and we watched pretty much the second half of the movie first and then watched the whole thing again. It wasn't called "A New Hope" back then IIRC, it was just "Star Wars". Was a big fan of the first two movies... and then Ewoks showed up...

 

 

Willow!!!!. Anyway I suspect overtime I'm not really that much different from back then. I can be persuasive, embarrassed, shy, knowing, apparently likeable at times, and can throw a particularly entertaining hissy fit at random periods. Specific points of memory however do tend to deteriorate.

 

Mind this is a 'young' persons post. So lets just look at their 'problems'

 

[Queen Bee]

^ I think that is why we feel old because we realize suddenly how fast we age and how time seem fly by when you don't fully appreciate it and make the best of it. 

Bah. Saw your age on your profile, expected you to be 50+ when you speak of your body breaking down. You a little drama queen yourself.  

 

I'm old enough to be at the start of it, and realizing it only gets worse from here is a sobering thought. I was recently diagnosed with something that, sparing you the details, means I have to drastically change my diet for the rest of my life. There's been many times in my life when I thought "I've reached the end of youth", like when I turned 30 or when I found my first gray hair. It all seems so quaint now, like a little girl having her first period. And I'm sure I'll have many more "end of youth" revelations in the years to come that will make what I feel now seem just as quaint. I suppose the real difference is now the problems I'm faced with are no longer just cosmetic. Sure, I'll start to wrinkle and sag, and my hair will get grayer and grayer, but these things only affect how I look. My body turning against me, becoming pieces that no longer operate as a whole, that's what really keeps me awake at night.

 

For the young among you, enjoy feeling old because that thing you grew up with is outdated while you can. Someday you'll be where I am, and then you'll know what feeling old is really like.

 

*waggles fingers all spooky-like*

 

Ooooooooooooooh!

[Userper]

Lol you know your old when your 16 sister doesn't know what a dial up modem is

She thought I was kidding when I told her my first pc had 8mb of RAM (second hand for me though)

 

Even worse is when I went to my local council office yesterday, trying to get some help with communal housing forms...

They told me to use the "interactive multi-touch help display that is on the council site."  I spent 30 minutes looking for this multi-touch help display around the council grounds, only to have them tell me they were talking about their website...    (which didn't help by the way...)

 

 

 

[Unfrog12]

There's a quote that seems to be relevant here...

 

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young."

 

-Mark Twain

 

 

Yeah, it hurts when I get out of bed in the morning, and I can't hear running water without developing an immediate and urgent need to pee, but it's better than the alternative.

 

And of course, when you're old you don't have to worry about being all nice and polite to everyone.

 

 

 

 

[Z0mBieP00Nani]

There's a quote that seems to be relevant here...

 

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young."

 

-Mark Twain

 

 

Yeah, it hurts when I get out of bed in the morning, and I can't hear running water without developing an immediate and urgent need to pee, but it's better than the alternative.

 

And of course, when you're old you don't have to worry about being all nice and polite to everyone.

 

[Succuboi]

I'm 23 and I feel old only because of how I think/see things, I hate kids, I hate teens, I hate people my own age when they act like idiots, I don't like pop music, I don't like the way kids act these days or treat their parents, My body hurts when I do certain things and I just accept it, I brew my own tea and pretty much drink it exclusively.

None of this bothers me because its just how I am, Its not influenced by how old or young I am but it does make me wonder what kind of elderly person I'll be.

[Hubble]

43 so yes, the years slip by, and yet I continue to squander my time having fun

[DorkDiva]

Yes and no. I will be 40 in a year. But to be honest I actually feel more immature and childish than I ever have.