What age do you start to feel 'old'?

Killer Pigeon · 04-01-2011 4:30am #1

I'm 20 at the end of April and I feel old. Some people say it's silly to think like that and that they only really started to feel old between 28 and 30. I think it's because I'll officially not be in my 'teens' anymore and I'll have to start facing up to life's responsibilities. The past couple of years have gone so fast, it seems only yesterday since I started college and I'm now half way through. Saying that, my parents are always going on about how they left home early, my Dad left home at 16 for Dublin in the 70's for instance (different times I guess).

What d'ye think? What age do ye start to feel old?

Biggins · 04-01-2011 4:32am

When my kids could start to say "Santa" in all honesty.
Then it hit home! I'm old.

Jesus Wept · 04-01-2011 4:33am

In before age is a state of mind.

alwaysadub · 04-01-2011 4:39am

When my mates kids started hitting double figures in age.
A lot of things make me feel old though. Age wise would've been when i hit my late 20's.

Grimebox · 04-01-2011 4:49am

**** this tbh. 50+ I went for. All my friends say this every year around their birthday. I think its stupid to think like this

Numb.Muzik · 04-01-2011 4:53am

when you start to say "back in my day"

Tar.Aldarion · 04-01-2011 4:59am

when brain cells start to die and not be replenished, 20

Jumpy · 04-01-2011 4:59am

You dont feel old till you start to gain weight.

As soon as you have a belly you start feeling old.

Nemanja91 · 04-01-2011 5:02am

Well I feel old and I'm only 19, my legs are bate and I can hardly walk.

MadPatrick · 04-01-2011 5:05am

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

when brain cells start to die and not be replenished, 20

I'd need to see a peer reviewed paper in a scientific journal before I'd believe that

Tar.Aldarion · 04-01-2011 5:12am

MadPatrick wrote: »

I'd need to see a peer reviewed paper in a scientific journal before I'd believe that

off you go to find it! I believe you lose about 1g of brain mass a year after

maninasia · 04-01-2011 6:12am

I grow my hair longer and pile it on top to hide the loss of brain mass. But I'm going bald now!

Dr. Baltar · 04-01-2011 6:18am

I'm 20, and I've felt old twice:

Once was when my friend's 4 year old brother pointed out "an old telephone in a box".

Another being my little cousin laughing at my re-discovered VHS Player and tapes.

amacachi · 04-01-2011 6:21am

When you try to work out when stuff happened and it doesn't quite tally up, then you realise you were basing it all on your age which you were wrong about.

bonerm · 04-01-2011 6:23am

About 5 seconds after I left college.

!MAVERICK! · 04-01-2011 6:25am

18 and I already feel like lifes half over .:(

amacachi · 04-01-2011 6:28am

!MAVERICK! wrote: »

18 and I already feel like lifes half over .:(

It's just starting.

!MAVERICK! · 04-01-2011 6:30am

amacachi wrote: »

It's just starting.

Good to know, made my morning !

amacachi · 04-01-2011 6:32am

!MAVERICK! wrote: »

Good to know, made my morning !

I'm past the point you are and I've realised a lot over the last two years, life is still well in front you.

1daydreamer · 04-01-2011 6:32am

feeling old or not seems to vary every day tbh

deisedave · 04-01-2011 6:34am

Im only about to turn 21 and I feel ancient, Im dreading how i will feel when im 30:P

efb · 04-01-2011 7:16am

I'm 31 this week and I've never felt younger... Until I go drinking...

Jumpy · 04-01-2011 7:24am

!MAVERICK! wrote: »

18 and I already feel like lifes half over .:(

Jesus man. Your balls have only just dropped.

Irish Guitarist · 04-01-2011 7:25am

I started feeling old when I got my first grey hair. I think I was about 21 at the time. Now I'm 34 and I have about fifteen of them.

efb · 04-01-2011 7:27am

I don't have any grey hairs!!!

4zn76tysfajdxp · 04-01-2011 7:34am

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

I'm 20 at the end of April and I feel old.?

Nemanja91 wrote: »

Well I feel old and I'm only 19, my legs are bate and I can hardly walk.

!MAVERICK! wrote: »

18 and I already feel like lifes half over .:(

deisedave wrote: »

Im only about to turn 21 and I feel ancient

lol

Lumen · 04-01-2011 7:53am

When people half your age are moaning about their life being over.

Run_to_da_hills · 04-01-2011 7:54am

You start to feel old when you can purchase your motorcycle insurance with a weeks wages and your car insurance is less that its road tax.

JustAddWater · 04-01-2011 8:05am

I feel old when I see apartment blocks and say, I remember when this was all fields!

I do remember the fields! Ha! I'm only 27 years young btw

cournioni · 04-01-2011 8:17am

When you pass 21 and age doesn't matter to you any more. I sometimes nearly forget what age I am...

04-01-2011 8:54am

Anyone in their 20s moaning about being old needs to cop on :rolleyes:

seamus · 04-01-2011 9:19am

I still don't feel old. I'm only late twenties. OK, so sometimes I lament not being 21 again, but that's more because at 21 I could stay out till 4am on a week night and get up after lunchtime the next day without worrying about losing a job or my mortgage or having to take the dog for a walk.
But then you realise that you didn't have a lot of money, you didn't have an awesome dog and a house and a wife, and it really wasn't *that* much better except for the general lack of responsibilities. But that got boring too. Getting up at midday is fun for about a week. Then you just start feeling like a complete waster.

I've a few grey hairs, but then I've had them since I was 17. I much prefer sitting in a quiet pub having a chat and drinking pints than skulling shorts in a nightclub where you can't hear anything. But thinking back on it, the pub has always been better than the nightclub, and you skulled the shots in order to make the nightclub remotely bearable.

My theory is that work makes you feel old. As soon as you start having to say, "I'll stay in tonight, have to work in the morning", that's when you feel like your Dad.

Lumen · 04-01-2011 9:30am

seamus wrote: »

But then you realise that you didn't have a lot of money, you didn't have an awesome dog and a house and a wife

Money, awesome dog, house, wife.

seamus · 04-01-2011 9:50am

Listed in no particular order, of course

bonerm · 04-01-2011 10:05am

seamus wrote: »

My theory is that work makes you feel old.

It's not so much the work as the way work is structured. When you're in school or college it all beings in September and ends in June. It's nice and compartmentalised and periodic. You get a break to do something else and most of all the concept of a year actually makes some sort of sense in relation to your life.

However when you get into the workforce it just goes on endlessly and before long one year has bled into the other and you've completely lost track of time and how you got to this particular point.

Sometimes I think it'd be nice if adults got the summer off too, if only to reintegrate myself in some of time-aware-reality, but then I realise I would probably never go back to work.

TheZohanS · 04-01-2011 10:25am

bluewolf wrote: »

Anyone in their 20s moaning about being old needs to cop on :rolleyes:

It's ok, statistically they're the ones that will get cancer and die at an early age of a horrifically painful death. Let them on.

Sanjuro · 04-01-2011 10:30am

Just hitting 30. Dunno about feeling 'old,' but I've begun to notice a big difference between myself and the people I hang around, and 'da youf.' There's a huge difference between my own attitude, interests and general way of thinking and that of people I know who are between say, 18 and 25.

I used to think I was with it. But then they changed what it is. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what it is seem strange and scary to me.

patmac · 04-01-2011 10:34am

Sad if your in your 20's and you feel old. I'm 50 this year and still don't feel old despite all the adverts and 'golden oldies' shíte.

stovelid · 04-01-2011 10:39am

When the clothes that many people between the ages of 15-25 wear make you want to crease up with laughter.

Kimono-Girl · 04-01-2011 10:41am

i believe there is no particular age,

to be honest i think feeling old is directly linked to having children,

children tend to make you feel old,

especially when you find yourself repeating words your parents once used on you

Noffles · 04-01-2011 10:55am

41 now... feel old at times but I think it's in certain situations... when it takes me 2 days to recover from a workout in the gym.. when I'm saying the same things to my lad that my father used to say to me... stuff like that.

In general I don't feel old but get reminded I'm no spring chicken any longer.

BostonB · 04-01-2011 10:58am

Kimono-Girl wrote: »

i believe there is no particular age,

to be honest i think feeling old is directly linked to having children,

children tend to make you feel old,

especially when you find yourself repeating words your parents once used on you

No sleep for 2~3 years at a time has that effect.

Smeggy · 04-01-2011 12:32pm

I feel old first thing in the morning when my body doesnt want to function!
Also when I go to nightclubs, I feel like a granny even tho I'm "only" 26

cherryghost · 04-01-2011 12:34pm

Rofl 16-18

'Back in my day we didn't even know what a condom was' :pac:

cleremy jarkson · 04-01-2011 12:38pm

Regardless of what age makes you start feeling old, there's no point dwelling on it for too long..it ain't going to change!

I suppose at some point between 30 and 40 is when the penny drops though; Most men could play a half hour of indoor football at 30, but not at 40.
Most men could go on a mad session at 30 but not at 40.
Lots of men are content with being single at 30, but not at 40.
Lots of men lose their har between 30 and 40.
Lots of men put on weight between 30 and 40.

I'd say 35 is when the panic hits for a lot of men who thought they would stay young forever!

Dudess · 04-01-2011 12:38pm

When you see a thread like this and you realise people your own age (early 30s) and older (some with children) are FAR more fun than some childless under 25s...

04-01-2011 12:39pm

When my bones start to creek, I find nightclubs too noisy, and I'd much rather stay in with my dressing gown, slippers and a cup of tea. So, 25 then.

derfderf · 04-01-2011 12:43pm

When you stop even considering bringing i.d. out with you.

Carl Sagan · 04-01-2011 12:46pm

I'm nearly 20 and feel old. Friends all pretty much sit in every weekend and never want to do anything. Nobody wants to put any effort into anything anymore, so I'm kind of stuck doing nothing.