How do you stay connected to your past self?

completedit

So I am getting older, almost 33 and tbh I hate it on so many levels. Getting older is boring as ****; people get more boring and just retreat into their own **** world of mortgages, kids and work. 20's are amazing; nobody has baggage and everything is new. It feels like you're a work in progress and then you wake up at 30 and you're supposed to be the ready made finished article who is ready to leave the good times behind and enjoy bullshit like quite pints and gardening.

So my question is how do you keep up your youth as you get older? Is it an evolving music interest? Sense of fashion? Remaining open to experiences? Still enjoying a night out?

Allinall

You haven’t seen or experienced anything yet.

Wait till you’re 34.

Its hell.

completedit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119350278#Comment_119350278

**** me. I'll probably top myself when am 35.

thefallingman

You never step in the same river twice.

Pauliedragon

I know plenty of people in their mid/late 30's who still act like they are 22 OP so you've plenty of time.

Jim_Hodge

Good God! You can really enjoy life in your 30s, 40s, 50s... Why couldn't you? Good Times are there for the making.

Pissy Missy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119350278#Comment_119350278

Yup 34 and it's a bit **** tbh but that's cause most my friends are married off with kids and unavailable so I don't have many friends to head out with

Pissy Missy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119350320#Comment_119350320

🤣🤣🤣Jaysus

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119350320#Comment_119350320

Fire away so.

Jaysus 35! Life is just beginning. Absolute cool age

Pissy Missy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058254904/how-do-you-stay-connected-to-your-past-self

It honestly just depends on what your situation is. When I was 30 I was finishing a masters which I absolutely adored with fabulous ppl around me on the course and had the best holiday of my life in ibiza 🥳

It all just comes down to your situation and what makes you happy. Money helps too😆

Strumms

Mid 30’s is youth on your side but experience in the bank. 30’s were way more fun then 20’s.

always look forward while not forgetting to enjoy now… don’t be too focused on the past either the good or bad.

Montage of Feck

It's like Trigger's broom or the ship of Theseus; when does your past self become a totally different person to the one your are now?

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119350553#Comment_119350553

Wow dude. Intense. So, like you're saying, that your past self may influence your future self? Mind bending. Wow!

Montage of Feck

Other than a very select group of cells the body you currently have wasn't the one you were born in/with (?).

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119350597#Comment_119350597

No...... I wouldn't take that from it....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LAh8HryVaeY

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119350666#Comment_119350666

Not looking at a YouTube link. So what are you saying?

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058254904/how-do-you-stay-connected-to-your-past-self

Why would you want to stay connected to your past self? That sounds boring as shite! Your 30s are someone says above, are where you've loads energy and some experience. It's a time to figure out where you really want to go in life and start moving that way. Because before you know it, you're fecking forty and the opportunities have slipped past.

olestoepoke

I'm almost 50 and I still play astro soccer once a week. That's me clinging to one of the activities that truly made me happy when I was younger, sports.When I eventually get too old for that I'll probably wither away into the abyss of old age and die lol.

Leg End Reject

Anyone that feels old at 33 needs a swift kick up the arse. Start living and leave the existential crisis until you're middle-aged, then get over that and start living again.

elperello

Transcendental Meditation, your only man.

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119350673#Comment_119350673

It's the clip from only fools and horses the poster you replied to was referring to.

Basically guy gets award for having his brush for 20 years....turns out it's had 17 different heads and 14 handles over that time

Now I've just butchered a classic piece of comedy. You really should watch the clip.....

So maybe the posters intended message wasn't you learn from your past self (not that I don't believe that, we are after all a product of our experiences) but more that you are an entirely different person now to the one you were before with perhaps very little in common between the two.....

The truth for me is a mixture of both....

We're all going to die. Why do we prolong this bullshit existence? Spend years of your life doing meaningless crap only to die and have it all forgotten. Seems utterly pointless to me..

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119351627#Comment_119351627

Ah! Trigger.

We are of course a product of our past

Possibly, hopefully better.

Life is a journey. Scarey, exciting...but none the less, I can't wait!

muddypaws

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119350788#Comment_119350788

Or move on to walking football - great fun. I'm 57 and play it as well as gaelic for Mothers and Others - we can still teach the young uns a thing or two lol

olestoepoke

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119350821#Comment_119350821

I think this probably deserves its own thread. I've read and watched videos and appreciate the many benefits of this, and have tried to get into it many times. I just cannot calm my mind for long enough. Any tips?

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119351631#Comment_119351631

Because we have great fun, new experiences, love, laughter, and adventures alone the way. Every day can be a thing of joy and beauty.

peckerhead

Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux.

You don't "have to" be a finished product by 30. Or 40. And interests like gardening come naturally. Just enjoy what you enjoy. I'm really into music, but not to stay connected to my youth (why bother doing that?) - it's just an interest that has never wavered.

pgj2015

Don't get married. Date younger women.

artvanderlay

Lego.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058254904/how-do-you-stay-connected-to-your-past-self

Why not, you know, mature?