RE: Feeling Old.

Collarspace Discussion Forums

Home Login Search

RE: Feeling Old.

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> RE: Feeling Old.

Page: << < prev 1 [2]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

RE: Feeling Old. - 7/31/2005 10:08:07 PM

proudsub

Posts: 6142
Joined: 1/31/2004
From: Washington
Status: offline

quote:

Which leads to a question, anyone else go through that kind of feeling, and if so what b-day was it that finally did it for you?

I'm thinking it might happen next year when i turn 60. I don't wanna grow up.

_____________________________

proudsub

"Without goals you become what you were. With goals you become what you wish." .

"You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts"--Alan Greenspan

(in reply to Pavel)

Profile

Post #: 21

RE: Feeling Old. - 7/31/2005 10:28:41 PM

Pavel

Posts: 308
Joined: 1/10/2005
From: Washington
Status: offline

Upon reflection, I think it has to do a bit more with just how things in life are changeing. When I turned 21 the future really didn't have a plan or a route, I was freshly freed of some obligations, I had a girlfriend I was rather involved with, and what red blooded American doesn't look foward to being 21 (well I wasn't extra enthused, but it wasn't bad)? At 22, the future just gained quite a bit more direction/long term comitment (although to be fair it's in a direction I like), I'm single, but I know what to avoid next time, and 21 wasn't really that exciteing anyways.

The conclusion that I came to is every birthday I've had to this point has been kind of a progressive series of steps towards a future, a goal, somthing that never is really quite there. Transitions to high school, then college just shifted what I was aiming for, and it was just like prepareing for somthing that's supposed to be around the corner. With 22, while I've still got years at school (well two), it's like I've reached the point where it's not really etherial goals and the like, but pressing onwards to things I can feel, touch and see.

So I suppose it's a shift from birthdays being hope/orientation towards a distant future, to more steps/milestones on a journey to what I want from life. If that makes any sense at all.

(in reply to proudsub)

Profile

Post #: 22

RE: Feeling Old. - 7/31/2005 10:32:48 PM

SweetDommes

Posts: 3313
Joined: 10/5/2004
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: proudsub
next year when i turn 60. I don't wanna grow up.

I have a sudden, intense need to start singing the toys r us commercial ....

(in reply to proudsub)

Profile

Post #: 23

RE: Feeling Old. - 7/31/2005 11:02:47 PM

UtopianRanger

Posts: 3251
Status: offline

quote:

I feel very much like I have not reached my potential and it is too damn late to do anything about it. Very depressing...

Hang in there Kitten! For me, the ''mental'' and ''career'' parts get better as time goes on, but the body is a whole different story - It just doesn't heal as fast as it used to. I play city league basketball. Before I turned 37, I could play the entire game without having another player sub for me, but now I relish the opportunity to sit on the bench for a few minutes!

- The Ranger

< Message edited by UtopianRanger -- 7/31/2005 11:36:24 PM >

_____________________________

"If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired."

-General George S. Patton

(in reply to quietkitten)

Profile

Post #: 24

RE: Feeling Old. - 8/1/2005 6:48:32 AM

RosaB

Posts: 852
Joined: 1/10/2005
Status: offline

Geeezzzzze and here I am looking forward to 50. (Women in my immediate family seem to die by age 49). If I make it there (50) I can make it anywhere. New York, NY, Newwwwwwww York.

I only feel old if I happen to make the mistake of going to a dance club where the primary make up of the party goers are nothing but 20 somethings. Though I've been known to still party and have a good time right along side those kiddies. Those are the only times I wish I could turn back the clock. I wouldn't want to go backwards, I'm looking forward to sitting in a rocking chair, watching the youth make total azzzes of themselves and having a great time doing it.

Rosa

PS, where's that darn spell-check button when you need it.

< Message edited by RosaB -- 8/1/2005 6:50:28 AM >

(in reply to BlkTallFullfig)

Profile

Post #: 25

RE: Feeling Old. - 8/1/2005 6:22:48 PM

RiotGirl

Posts: 3149
Status: offline

i feel old too.. all the fricken time. i'll be 26 in Nov.. Aaaaaaaaaah. i think it hits me hard because i consider my prime at 15/16. Thats when life rocked, the world rocked.. and as i get older i see my 16 year old body degenerating. i get arthritis, stretch marks, i even lost my boobs to my kid.. its not as easy to lose weight.. my face doesnt look so young and innocent anymore = ( <sigh> They say enjoy you're youth while you can. Now i understand it. Too much of a rush back then to grow up, didnt enjoy my youth and now i realise i cant ever get it back and i'm JUST GOING TO GET OLDER........ Terrible terrible terrible. Have to actually TAKE care of my body now.

Actually just the other day i realised that i can rely on youth anymore, i actually have to start putting effort into preserving myself. God forbid.. i dont wannnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa be 26. i WANT to be 16 again and it blows my mind that its been a DECADE since i was 16 and living life to the fullest in Hong Kong.

Hrump.. i'm going to never neverland

(in reply to RosaB)

Profile

Post #: 26

RE: Feeling Old. - 8/1/2005 7:14:07 PM

Pavel

Posts: 308
Joined: 1/10/2005
From: Washington
Status: offline

I think I've got it figured out, I'll just die before I hit 40 somthing. No offense to 40ish people, but that just seems like a decent time to check out before my face melts at 60-70ish.

I've got to have somthing cool on my tombstone though, maybe like "too awesome to live" or "killed while slaying commies and single handedly restoring America to greatness." Failing that, maybe just somthing weird like "eaten by squid"

(in reply to RiotGirl)

Profile

Post #: 27