Anyone ever feel like...

xzanti

You got to your 20's and somebody pushed the Fast Forward button on your life???

I can't believe it's September already, I feel like I just took down my Christmas tree

I blinked and our "Summer" was over, the kids are back at school and the evenings are closing in.. It'll only be 2 more months and the Christmas lights will start to go up around the place..

When I was a kid, a year felt like a lifetime.. now I feel like my head is spinning.. is it like this for everyone of every generation or is time actually speeding up or wtf is going on?????

Seriously

Edgedinblue

i'm only 20 and i feel like that! :rolleyes:

My name is URL

It's depressing. Society is a prison..

When you're young you get to appreciate living for what it is, but when you get older all of a sudden it changes to what society expects you to consider a life

TheZohanS

When you're 2 a year is half your lifetime, when you hit 4 a year is a quarter of your life time...10 and a year is only a tenth...yadda yadda yadda...

Turd Ferguson

Yeah, it feels like yesterday that I was in my mothers arms sucking on her baps....it was, but I'm talking about the times when I was a baby though

Kalashnikov_Kid

Well I had my dissertation to thank for large chunks of my summer pissing by me. But I get what your saying - when youre living on a week-by-week basis and living for the weekend - time flies. Hits you in your 20s and they fly.

Pyr0

Ever since I'm started full time work (I'm only 19) the year seems to fly by, it's such a head melt !

Rented Mule

I just wish that I could go back and take a few of those naps that I bitched about as a kid.

Neamhshuntasach

Yeah the same thing happened to me a few years ago. Granted i left my Christmas tree up until October. But i still know the feeling.

Actually looking back at the past 3 years. I spent most of that time out of the country. I still can't believe certain memories are years back. Ah well. What else am i gonna do that's slower.

admiralofthefleet

once you hit 21 its a slippery slope, im 29 next febuary but 28 feels like last week

Super-Rush

Responsibilities, bills, work, kids, relation****s, bills, bils ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Where did the last 12 years go?

K-Ren

super-rush wrote: »

Responsibilities, bills, work, kids, relation****s, bills, bils ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Where did the last 12 years go?

3rd fold down.

Jesus Wept

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

once you hit 21 its a slippery slope, im 29 next febuary but 28 feels like last week

It was.

FACEPALM

I think i suffer from alzheimer's because im sure It was christmas a few weeks ago

El Guapo!

This is going to turn into a very depressed mass suicide thread. (Bagsy not drinking the punch first!)
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.........Bagsy........haven't used that word in years............god I feel old

waitinforatrain

My name is URL wrote: »

It's depressing. Society is a prison..

When you're young you get to appreciate living for what it is, but when you get older all of a sudden it changes to what society expects you to consider a life

Yadda yadda yadda! you chose that yourself, don't blame society!

anniehoo

I was thinking the same OP. Had today off work and honestly i think it was the most miserable day yet. I cleaned the apt and found the christmas tree and actually went "wtf this will be goin up again fairly soon" when it felt like i blinked and it was xmas last year. Unreal!

Dudess

Oh god yes... My theory is the CIA shortened the second (as in the unit of time) around the time I was in my late teens...

jumpguy

Yerra it's been like that for longer, you just think it happens when you're 20. I remember back in the day (when I was six...) we'd be talking about how the year flew.

We also talked about philosophy and the causes of World War One and it's effect on modern history though.

Turd Ferguson

Dudess wrote: »

Oh god yes... My theory is the CIA shortened the second (as in the unit of time) around the time I was in my late teens...

Yes for for those of us under 50, that doesnt explain things

galwayrush

Once you hit your 40's, you suddenly realise someone did hit the fast forward button.:(

K-Ren

galwayrush wrote: »

Once you hit your 40's, you suddenly realise someone did hit the fast forward button.:(

And it's really annoying because you don't know how to use the remote anymore, right?

galwayrush

K-Ren wrote: »

And it's really annoying because you don't know how to use the remote anymore, right?

I do, but it took a lot of work from the kids to teach me.:pac:

genericguy

dya ever remember getting grounded for a week? it seemed like it'd never end, now you wouldn't miss a week anymore than you'd miss jade goody.

Biggins

Yea, I know what you mean.

The matrix of life that is called evolution is forever spinning around in ever decreasing circles with the rest of hanging on by our proverbial fingernails for dear life.
As the ever decaying matter and atomic structure within our cells convolutes to bring about our nearing depressive departure from this transient existence on this rock called "Earth" dwell on the fact that you should have been the carnivore that you should have been but didn't!

In conclusion: I'm fcuked, your fcuked, we're all fcuked.

Have a nice day!

mufc4lfe

Biggins wrote: »

Yea, I know what you mean.

The matrix of life that is called evolution is forever spinning around in ever decreasing circles with the rest of hanging on by our proverbial fingernails for dear life.
As the ever decaying matter and atomic structure within our cells convolutes to bring about our nearing depressive departure from this transient existence on this rock called "Earth" dwell on the fact that you should have been the carnivore that you should have been but didn't!

In conclusion: I'm fcuked, your fcuked, we're all fcuked.

Have a nice day!

*shrugs shoulders* I'm going for a dump...

galwayrush

Biggins wrote: »

Yea, I know what you mean.

The matrix of life that is called evolution is forever spinning around in ever decreasing circles with the rest of hanging on by our proverbial fingernails for dear life.
As the ever decaying matter and atomic structure within our cells convolutes to bring about our nearing depressive departure from this transient existence on this rock called "Earth" dwell on the fact that you should have been the carnivore that you should have been but didn't!

In conclusion: I'm fcuked, your fcuked, we're all fcuked.

Have a nice day!

Sings...Wheels within wheels in a spiral display............

4zn76tysfajdxp

This thread is giving me a sad.

tech77

xzanti wrote: »

You got to your 20's and somebody pushed the Fast Forward button on your life???

I can't believe it's September already, I feel like I just took down my Christmas tree

I blinked and our "Summer" was over, the kids are back at school and the evenings are closing in.. It'll only be 2 more months and the Christmas lights will start to go up around the place..

When I was a kid, a year felt like a lifetime.. now I feel like my head is spinning..

Yes.

Greyfox

So true, I had to think of how old I was while reading this...feels like the C word was two months ago but it's almost upon us again!

Really feel's like I done my leaving cert 3 years ago rather then 10 years ago, actually had to think to myself "how old am I?" as I posted this!

tech77

Greyfox wrote: »

So true, I had to think of how old I was while reading this...feels like the C word was two months ago but it's almost upon us again!

Really feel's like I done my leaving cert 3 years ago rather then 10 years ago, actually had to think to myself "how old am I?" as I posted this!

That's something else- i tend to temporarily forget my age as i get older- probably really just an unconscious denial of what age i really am.
Not mad about (and forget) my birthday for probably the same reason.

partyatmygaff

The years get faster the older you get until you suddenly find yourself grey and old looking back on your life and all the youth of the future wishing you were still young and beginning your life.
All in all, age is just a number.
If you didn't know how old you were, how would you say you are?

congo_90

know the feelin.. 19 (young) but feel like the last say 3 years just zoomed past. much like a drunken sat night when jagers are a dime a dozen.. it jus disapears

Exit

Greyfox wrote: »

So true, I had to think of how old I was while reading this...feels like the C word was two months ago but it's almost upon us again!

Really feel's like I done my leaving cert 3 years ago rather then 10 years ago, actually had to think to myself "how old am I?" as I posted this!

You are getting old! You're repeating yourself just one sentence later.

Terminator 3

Sssshhhh less of this getting old talk!

I'm never turning 20.....again.


:cool:

Call Me Jimmy

I think today's weather combined with this thread has been just the motivation I need for a day of non-stop-staring-at-a-computer-screen tommorrow.

Makes ye wonder about what the **** is so great about this whole 'living' lark...

Ballerina

ok this is going probably going to sound even more depressing but doesn anyone ever feel you spend your life doing things to pass the time?

It just kinda hit me when I gave an old man in a bar a newspaper and he said "just something to pass the time".

You cant just live life sitting around doing nothing anyway

This may sound crazy to yous but it makes sense to me :cool: ha!

cherryghost

Ballerina wrote: »

ok this is going probably going to sound even more depressing but doesn anyone ever feel you spend your life doing things to pass the time?

It just kinda hit me when I gave an old man in a bar a newspaper and he said "just something to pass the time".

You cant just live life sitting around doing nothing anyway

This may sound crazy to yous but it makes sense to me :cool: ha!

Meh. You're free to do what you want with your life. Nobody is stopping you. If someones content with reading a paper in a bar, thats perfectly fine.

Life should be: as you make it, no regrets, and most importantly, dont do what others expect you to do, it wont make you happy within.

starflake

I'm 23 (24 next month) and I have this thing where I worry that I'm getting old and I think like I'm really old..... I honestly sometimes think like my life is nearly over.. Not sure why.. times goes by very quickly that's true.. but I reckon I waste my time by thinking so much about time and aging I wish I could slow down my brain sometimes!

Cianos

"Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be" - Eckhart Tolle

AnonoBoy

Maybe you're not drinking enough OP?

Rylan

FACEPALM wrote: »

I think i suffer from alzheimer's because im sure It was christmas a few weeks ago

Me too because I was just thinking......... eh.... what was I thinking again.........It'll come back to me.

Naos

Yup, going waaaay too fast.

I think it's all down to patterns.

The first time you drive to somewhere, it feels like it's ages. You do the same route a few times and it feel's like nothing, as you're used to it.

Therefore you have to mix it up a bit, do something different at the weekends. Mate and I only recently copped this and have now declared that every weekend we are going to go somewhere new - take a look at all those things we've read in history/geography books such as Newgrange, Giant's Causeway etc.

Heisenberg.

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Ballerina

cherryghost wrote: »

Meh. You're free to do what you want with your life. Nobody is stopping you. If someones content with reading a paper in a bar, thats perfectly fine.

Life should be: as you make it, no regrets, and most importantly, dont do what others expect you to do, it wont make you happy within.

Nah I dont mean that we do pointless things to pass the time.

ah I knew I didnt explain it properly its too hard to explain what I mean

nevermind...

Taz86

I turned 23 a few weeks ago and I seem to look back a lot now. Sifted through old pics last week - pictures from the ‘80s and ‘90s and felt a great pang of sadness. My friends and I had a conversation about our getting old a few weeks back. It’s frightening. I am trying to make big changes in my life as a result. Naos, made a great comment there about going somewhere new every weekend. That’s a great idea. I also hope to do something similar. I’m also trying to laugh things off, stop getting my knickers in a twist over silly things, making more time for my friends and my family, leaving work at work and so on because if I had carried on as I was my life would whizz by and I’d still be saying ‘Oh, I can’t go. I have work to do…’ You probably cannot slow it down but you can fill more of it with the people and places you love. Don’t neglect them because you think you haven’t enough time. Going off a tangent there – I think that was a note to self I still wish I could slow things down and take in every little detail.

ChocolateSauce

A year seems like a long time when you're younger because it is a longer time relative to your age. For a 10 year old, a year marks 10% of their entire lifespan to date. A year is only 5% for a 20 year old, and so on. For every year we age, a year becomes an increasingly smaller time for our brains.

Dankoozy

Biggins wrote: »

Yea, I know what you mean.

The matrix of life that is called evolution is forever spinning around in ever decreasing circles with the rest of hanging on by our proverbial fingernails for dear life.
As the ever decaying matter and atomic structure within our cells convolutes to bring about our nearing depressive departure from this transient existence on this rock called "Earth" dwell on the fact that you should have been the carnivore that you should have been but didn't!

In conclusion: I'm fcuked, your fcuked, we're all fcuked.

Have a nice day!

Mr Anderson

Dudess

Taz86 wrote: »

I turned 23 a few weeks ago and I seem to look back a lot now. Sifted through old pics last week - pictures from the ‘80s and ‘90s and felt a great pang of sadness. My friends and I had a conversation about our getting old a few weeks back. It’s frightening. I am trying to make big changes in my life as a result. Naos, made a great comment there about going somewhere new every weekend. That’s a great idea. I also hope to do something similar. I’m also trying to laugh things off, stop getting my knickers in a twist over silly things, making more time for my friends and my family, leaving work at work and so on because if I had carried on as I was my life would whizz by and I’d still be saying ‘Oh, I can’t go. I have work to do…’ You probably cannot slow it down but you can fill more of it with the people and places you love. Don’t neglect them because you think you haven’t enough time. Going off a tangent there – I think that was a note to self I still wish I could slow things down and take in every little detail.

Jeez, thinking like that 23?!

It gets worse by the way...

Taz86

Dudess, I know I'm not a dinosaur yet but over the past few months in particular I have become conscious of how quickly time goes by. I was surprised at people 18-21 feeling like this. I never thought of it much 'til recently.

Dudess

Nah sorry Taz, I meant that in a humorous way, wasn't supposed to be as facetious as it looked.

I totally appreciate what you're saying - those feelings of "Christ, I'm a grown-up but I still feel like a kid" kick in in our 20s. I wonder when that feeling actually ends...

As for my comment about it getting worse, well it sorta does - if you're inclined to look at things that way (and I've no doubt most or all of us are - to a greater or lesser extent). The trick is to just accept it though and not panic about something over which we have no control. And, as you say, grab life by the throat.