at what age did you ''grow up''?

Robsweezie

at what point in your life did you truly mature as a person? did you always rely on parents and others for things, maybe excessively? were you a mammy's boy/daddy's girl? or were you always independent and strived to do things on your own from a young age?

or perhaps some of you have never grown up at all :rolleyes:

the_syco

You don't choose to grow old, you only choose to become boring.

I find what people call "growing up" usually equals following the norm, stop gaming, and start brainlessly watching crap on the TV.

Senna

Right around the time my third testical grew

beertons

Never.

No, around 27. But such a laugh till then.

peewee_44

I will let you know when it happens

Mint Sauce

Haven't yet.

pinkbear

Really, really young. I can't even remember not being totally sensible! (Some might say boring....). I had a part time job from age 12, bought my own school books from 15, never drank or smoked or missed a class, living with my partner at the age of 22 and married at 24, bought my first house 3 months out of college, and never remotely had the urge to travel or do drugs or have an affair.

I don't particularly feel like I missed out on anything, as I did things the way they felt right to me. But I acknowledge that many people would call my life boring!! (I don't wear cardigans though....)

Laura Palmer

pinkbear wrote: »

Really, really young. I can't even remember not being totally sensible! (Some might say boring....). I had a part time job from age 12, bought my own school books from 15, never drank or smoked or missed a class, living with my partner at the age of 22 and married at 24, bought my first house 3 months out of college

Fair play - you've got your sh-t together. I know other people who have lived similarly, are very happy - don't feel like they have missed out (because it's their life and it's what suits them) and I envy that quite a bit.
For many years I was drifting along - in and out of college, hopping from one job to the next (before 2008/9 of course - been in the same company since then!), not sure what path to choose, and I guess that's just how it went, but sometimes I wish I had had more focus.
Things are as they are though and I'm happy - I reckon my sh-t is mostly together now; better late than never.

Carry

the_syco wrote: »

You don't choose to grow old, you only choose to become boring.

I find what people call "growing up" usually equals following the norm, stop gaming, and start brainlessly watching crap on the TV.

Talk for yourself.

Growing-up and growing-old are two pairs of shoes.

You can be already old (as in boring and conforming) as as 6yo (see above) or still young (as in immature) as a 60yo.

But growing-up is in my opinion to take responsibility for yourself and your actions and maybe for at least your loved-ones or the world.

Growing-up is the moment you realise that there will be no-one who's going to tidy up after you, and I don't mean your toys and your dirty underwear. Growing-up is to take your own life into your own hands and shape it.

That might happen at an early age - or never.

wretcheddomain

Should be as early as possible, though I know of some sad people who continue to get their lunches made for them at 34 years old, and others who have their shopping done for them at 36 - even though the latter doesn't even live with the parents.

Some people will never grow up and will want to live in perpetuity under the comforting wing of their parents.

CrazyRabbit

55. Thank God I haven't reached that yet.

jamo2oo9

20 in two weeks. I definitely haven't grown up. I'll probably grow up in about another 20 years.

Rough Sleeper

When I was younger, Id been going to commercial nightclubs and festivals like Oxegen where it was the norm to act like a drunken lout, and I’m afraid to say that I had a pretty good time being a bit of a prick and not caring if I bothered anyone else as long as I had my own buzz. Then I started frequenting electronic nights and festivals like EP and Life where everyone was completely chilled and the unspoken agreement was that you had your fun but didn’t act like an asshat. It was a real eye opener and I realised that the best way to try to engineer a better society was to lead by example and treat others like I’d like to be treated myself.

I’d like to think it was around that stage that I grew up a bit as a person. But really, it was probably the day I realised that using pointless rolleyes emoticons in my posts made me look like a plonker.

The Backwards Man

Past tense. Haha!

fergiesfolly

Had mortgage. Had sensible job.
But always in the back of my mind was, if we ever got sick of it all, we could sell house, jack in the job and run off somewhere.
Then...
Had child...... and there's no running away from that
You could say I grew up in a blink of a birth.

caustic 1

7

razorblunt

17 - the death of a parent would tend to give you a kickup the arse like nothing else though.

The_Valeyard

Growing old mandatory.
Growing up optional.

cloud493

Probably around the age of 19, when I failed the leaving cert a second time, and realised actually bunking off and smoking and being a dick to teachers/tutors who actually were trying to help me wasn't cool, and if I didn't want to end up on the dole forever or a junkie living on the street that I'd better start pulling my **** together.

Duggy747

I still like to start my weekends with a bowl of Coco Pops and some Saturday morning TV. :pac:

bluestrattos

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Growing old mandatory.
Growing up optional.

basically this

I'm 34 and I still like to have cheerios for breakfast, and watch cartoons
Then I get the news so I can have some conversations with the grown up people in the office

Dravokivich

I'm not sure I'd ever grow up. Not quite Peter Pan mind, but I dunno, lads tend to remain fairly easily humoured and entertained, with bigger toys .

kunst nugget

bluestrattos wrote: »

basically this

I'm 34 and I still like to have cheerios for breakfast, and watch cartoons
Then I get the news so I can have some conversations with the grown up people in the office

Eating Cheerios and watching cartoons doesn't make you immature imo. I'm champion of that and I'm the wrong side of my thirties.

Being immature is being a whiny drama-seeking dick who thinks the world revolves them, who puts others down and who doesn't take responsibility for their own actions.

There is a simple way of knowing that you have grown up

For years you clung to the bed, could hardly drag you self out of bed, keep hitting the snooze button on the alarm, then all of sudden you woke up one morning and getting out of bed wasn't a problem.

I think it might be related to that thing where you don't here high pitched noises anymore.

bluestrattos

mariaalice wrote: »

[...] then all of sudden you woke up one morning and getting out of bed wasn't a problem.[...]

I still face that problem every single day

rob316

When I started a family at 21 years old, I'm still incredibly childish though but don't shirk my responsibilities.

allibastor

When they said they were going to try me as an adult.

Turtyturd

It's on ongoing process, like a lot of people have mentioned I enjoy gaming, reading comics, watching cartoons.

But I think there were several milestones from my mid 20's on which were signs of growing up; moving out, getting a drivers licence/car, having kids, next one will most likely be getting married.