Is 25 a good age to stop sessioning?

Broads.ie

This is a not-too-serious personal issues thread, aimed at folks aged 25 and above...



I think I'm having a mid life crisis at 25 years of age.


Hopefully somebody here can give me guidance.

I'm always in a social "hanging out" mood, but all my friends (mid 20s) have turned mouldy and they are now literally a carbon copy of their parents. Work the 9-5 week, stay in of a weekend, sit on the couch and watch X-Factor, eat some Sunday dinner, then drag themselves to work on a Monday to reapeat the cycle.

My "best friend" lives literally 2 minutes away from me and if I didn't text or call him to say hello ... we would literally not communicate ever again. The same goes for all my friends, but it's just that my best friend stands out as the most extreme example because... well, he's my best friend. We should be hanging out, right?

In general though, all my friends are happy enough to go through weeks of radio silence and behave like old people.

Am I deluded? Should I just accept the old age routine and start reading Ireland's Own by the fire? I do live in a town though, which has a fairly strong smell of culch off it.

Still, the main question: is 25 too old an age to be "hanging out" with friends?

Or do you folks in you mid-20s still enjoy a healthy social life?



edit: before the 1st reply suggests that all my friends are trying to avoid me... no. They don't even hang out with eachother.

edit: before you suggest that they actually do hang out with eachother but don't tell me about it.... no.

Zebra3

Broads.ie wrote: »

I think I'm having a mid life crisis at 25 years of age.

25 = mid-life?

madma

No ya nutter

never stop sessioning

TheUsual

Broads.ie wrote: »

edit: before the 1st reply suggests that all my friends are trying to avoid me... no. They don't even hang out with eachother.

edit: before you suggest that they actually do hang out with each other but don't tell me about it.... no.

I just texted them and they told me they were out having great craic.

Sorry.

Reamer Fanny

Can I have your user name?

Keith186

We're in the middle of a resession, if you stop sessioning it'll ruin the buzz.

CageWager

Broads.ie wrote: »

eat some Sunday dinner,

I feckin love Sunday dinner

flutterflye

I'm 26.
I became an old person about a year ago too actually.
There again I do have 2 kids, a house, and a husband, but I did used to still hang out and go drinking a fair bit until I was about 24/25.
Now it's all about the xfactor and chinese take away dressed in my pj's with the fire on.

Satts

tad00 wrote: »

I feckin love Sunday dinner

Me too, can't beat roast potatoes and chicken gravy. :pac::pac:

papu

Don't ever come down

Chuck Stone

Stop crying and buy a round.

Sid_Justice

i presume you're single and your mates aren't.

arodabomb

25? Midlife crisis? I assume you're a smoker then!

haydar

Do what ever you want. Don't ask what you should be doin

Turpentine

Broads.ie wrote: »

This is a not-too-serious personal issues thread, aimed at folks aged 25 and above...



I think I'm having a mid life crisis at 25 years of age.


Hopefully somebody here can give me guidance.

I'm always in a social "hanging out" mood, but all my friends (mid 20s) have turned mouldy and they are now literally a carbon copy of their parents. Work the 9-5 week, stay in of a weekend, sit on the couch and watch X-Factor, eat some Sunday dinner, then drag themselves to work on a Monday to reapeat the cycle.

My "best friend" lives literally 2 minutes away from me and if I didn't text or call him to say hello ... we would literally not communicate ever again. The same goes for all my friends, but it's just that my best friend stands out as the most extreme example because... well, he's my best friend. We should be hanging out, right?

In general though, all my friends are happy enough to go through weeks of radio silence and behave like old people.

Am I deluded? Should I just accept the old age routine and start reading Ireland's Own by the fire? I do live in a town though, which has a fairly strong smell of culch off it.

Still, the main question: is 25 too old an age to be "hanging out" with friends?

Or do you folks in you mid-20s still enjoy a healthy social life?



edit: before the 1st reply suggests that all my friends are trying to avoid me... no. They don't even hang out with eachother.

edit: before you suggest that they actually do hang out with eachother but don't tell me about it.... no.

Maybe you should add some new friends to your life. Some people, not everyone, seem to lose a bit of their zest when they reach their mid-twenties. Keep in contact with your old friends though.

CageWager

Broads.ie wrote: »

I do live in a town though, which has a fairly strong smell of culch off it.

Copper Face Jacks
29 Harcourt St
Dublin 2

Problem solved

a-k-47

Im 30 and still have same wkd routine as i did 21. Cant hack 2/3 day sessions anymore though. One of these days ill cop the fcuk on.

hairy sailor

a-k-47 wrote: »

Im 30 and still have same wkd routine as i did 21. Cant hack 2/3 day sessions anymore though. One of these days ill cop the fcuk on.

Same here,mid 30's love a good session,nothing out of the ordinary to be on the piss till 9 in the morning on a good sess the starting over when i get up about 2,used to be able to do alot more but 2 days top's now then die for a few days,no plan's of giving up anytime soon,i enjoy what i do

Caoimhín

It is a good age to get sense, wish i didnt wait another 5 years.

a-k-47

Caoimhín wrote: »

It is a good age to get sense, wish i didnt wait another 5 years.

Sure hes only 7 years legally drinking. Get some new mates!.

I'm nearly 27 and I go out on the pi*s now more than I did 5 years ago.

listermint

Drinks Thursday!!! Yeeaawwwrr

suicide_circus

Sorry OP you're talking bollix there, its only when you get into your mid twenties that you really start to have the stamina to allow you to session properly and the worries that make you want to do so.

From the ages of 15-18 you down a few cans/naggins in a field, get up to mischief, vomit and fall into bed at 00:30

From 18-22 you pre drink, over do it, hit the clubs and go home at 03:00

From 22-24 you probably learn to moderate a bit and thus last til 4 or 5, probably sighs the aid of stimulants.

Then from 25 onwards you have built up a tolerance and taste for heavy sessioning ovwe a period of days with little sleep, you have your own place and more money so it is more practical, you realise that life is not what you had dreamed thus giving you a desire for escapeism. The ecstasy, coke, ketamine and speed allow for super human sessions.

tallaghtmick

Im 27 from the age of 22 my mates where "burned out" but luckily dating a 18 year old at the time I had loads of weekends out in town,now at 27 im still hitting the tiles with people I work with rather than the oul lads who sit in a pub.

mojesius

suicide_circus wrote: »

Sorry OP you're talking bollix there, its only when you get into your mid twenties that you really start to have the stamina to allow you to session properly and the worries that make you want to do so.

From the ages of 15-18 you down a few cans/naggins in a field, get up to mischief, vomit and fall into bed at 00:30

From 18-22 you pre drink, over do it, hit the clubs and go home at 03:00

From 22-24 you probably learn to moderate a bit and thus last til 4 or 5, probably sighs the aid of stimulants.

Then from 25 onwards you have built up a tolerance and taste for heavy sessioning ovwe a period of days with little sleep, you have your own place and more money so it is more practical, you realise that life is not what you had dreamed thus giving you a desire for escapeism. The ecstasy, coke, ketamine and speed allow for super human sessions.

Nail on the head.

OneArt

I'21 and most of my friends here are 30+ and there's no end to the weekend sessions. Then again it could just be the whole expat thing, only a few have kids.

candy-gal1

yeah i would have to say 25 seems to be the age a lot of people start not heading out as much for mad nights out etc, tbh i dont see why, its a personal choice i suppose. but im 25 now and still feel 21 in terms of that, and out of most of my mates i seem to be the one to say about "lets go out for a few drinks" most of the time. imho whatever happened to the days where responabilities such as kids, mortgages, marraige etc didnt mean anything till you were at least 30 odd?! your 20s are for having fun tbh, well your whole life should be , but definitly your 20s.

3ndahalfof6

yep

Cuddlesworth

Sound like a whole lot of fun and a complete lack of responsibility in your life. Back to study I go.......

bnt

"Sessioning" ... is that an equestrian sport, like "Eventing"?

I dunno ... when I hear people telling me that my life should follow a certain pattern, my first instinct is to say "O RLY?". Doesn't matter whether it's about drinking, or marriage, or 2.4 children, or anything else - if it becomes predictable, I want to do it differently. Particularly if it's something painful that I don't have to do, such as "Sessioning". My advice: do what makes you happy, stuff everything else.

Princess Peach

I really hope when I'm 40 I'm still sessioning.

Sure what else would you be doing?

Jay D

Good point OP. I'm just past that age and I do feel like some of them are a bit out of touch while others are extreme examples of what not to become

Can't seem to find the right balance there for people going to work or college and session the weekend in general.

Since returning to education I've made a ton of new contacts and some great friends from them. Network out I suppose would be my advise. You'll miss them but be kept going in between meetups and they'll more than likely always be there for you if needs be.

Son Of A Vidic

Midlife crisis? Are you well in the head ffs? If you let age constrain you in life, you'll be auld before your time.

Agricola

25 is probably around the age when going on the lash every weekend with a set group of people isnt always a given. Lots of people that age are in serious relationships or married with kids or whatever.
Also imo, mid twenties is the age when the whole drinking yourself into a weekly coma and thinking its the greatest thing in the world ever, starts to wear thin.

People change and I know from lots of experience, if you don't like it, theres very little your going to be able to do about it. Either bite the bullet and call them up to go out. If they are happy to go, just go. If you don't like it, you need to find some new proactive friends.

MiseryCat

WTF 25 is considered old????? are you serious! look i'm 25 years old I have no kids, single and I go out with friends for fun having a laugh and yes I have responsibility like having a job ,paying bill etc It depends on the person you are and attitude on the way you live.If your friends are moving on with their lives ,go out and meet new people .Being in your 20s is not old.

RMD

I sincerely hope I'm still heading out at 25. Head down to your local and make mates with the regulars, that way you'll have people to drink with for a long, long time.

pragmatic1

Your friends are dry shytes OP. Its not you, its them. Midlife crisis at 25? You're only a young pup.

Dudess

No way. The only age to stop sessioning regularly is that at which you have a kid - could be 18 or 40.

MiseryCat wrote: »

WTF 25 is considered old????? are you serious! look i'm 25 years old I have no kids, single and I go out with friends for fun having a laugh and yes I have responsibility like having a job ,paying bill etc It depends on the person you are and attitude on the way you live.If your friends are moving on with their lives ,go out and meet new people .Being in your 20s is not old.

Dude, some folks on this forum go on as if 22 is old.
There are people in their 30s and 40s on Boards who are miles more fun than them ****ing premature auldies.

madma

suicide_circus wrote: »

Sorry OP you're talking bollix there, its only when you get into your mid twenties that you really start to have the stamina to allow you to session properly and the worries that make you want to do so.

From the ages of 15-18 you down a few cans/naggins in a field, get up to mischief, vomit and fall into bed at 00:30

From 18-22 you pre drink, over do it, hit the clubs and go home at 03:00

From 22-24 you probably learn to moderate a bit and thus last til 4 or 5, probably sighs the aid of stimulants.

Then from 25 onwards you have built up a tolerance and taste for heavy sessioning ovwe a period of days with little sleep, you have your own place and more money so it is more practical, you realise that life is not what you had dreamed thus giving you a desire for escapeism. The ecstasy, coke, ketamine and speed allow for super human sessions.

this post is too accurate its scary!

just over 25 here and finished up a 2day super human session last night


agree that mid-twenties and older is better for sessioning, can last longer and build a tolerence, only down side is recovery is worse..

Dudess

A lot of the time though when people say their hangovers have gotten worse with age, I wonder whether it's age or just the fact they drink a lot more than when they were younger?

ejmaztec

Age is irrelevant, as death is life's way of telling you to slow down.

St.Spodo

There's no good age to stop sessioning. Session until you stop enjoying it. You only live once. If your friends aren't up for it in their mid-twenties, they're the ones with the problem.

EdenHazard

2 words-Barney Stinson.

to be honest tho im not mad on going out drinking, it can be class but not too much of it i still like just chillin out with my mates on the road but doesnt happen that much

Logical Fallacy

Dudess wrote: »

A lot of the time though when people say their hangovers have gotten worse with age, I wonder whether it's age or just the fact they drink a lot more than when they were younger?

It's age. Their liver just can't handle it anymore. But sure that's a badge of honour.

Napper Hawkins

Mate of mine who is a year older than me (29) is forever going on about how he's "old as ****" now.

Pisses me right the **** off.

Find new friends.

Amzie

Make some new friends that actually wanna go have fun every now and again!:D Sure your old friends won't even have to know about it since they don't leave the comforts of the house, xfactor/fire and Chinese lifestyle!

What have ya got to loose?

John Doe1

Aye too old by 20 really, after then just prepare yourself for deaths sweet embrace:cool:

Batsy

Broads.ie wrote: »

I think I'm having a mid life crisis at 25 years of age.

There are millions of people worse off than you. I'm 30.

I think someone has bought me a zimmer frame for a Christmas present.

Sky King

Your friends sound lame OP. Get new ones that like partying.

InkSlinger67

I only read the first page and it's probably already been suggested but it sounds like you're having a quarter-life crisis - look it up, happens to everyone about 4 or 5 years after college.

My advice: If you're away during winter, turn off the water supply to avoid burst pipes and flooding.

-Brendan, Allianz customer.

pbowenroe

op you have one year left of being able to session. 26 is the cut-off, from then on you are officially old.