When did you realise you weren’t really a young person anymore?

dartboardio · 02-09-2018 11:20PM #1

Was there ever that feeling of ‘drifting further’ from the life that was really normal to you, for example in your late teens early twenties the normal thing to do for a few years was be with the same friends, go on mad nights out, not thinking too much ahead,
How did you come to not doing this anymore? And did you ever have a moment where you realised you were drifting further and further away from your ‘younger life’ and beginning to enjoy life in other ways?

Or am I just going crazy? Or am I really preparing to leave my youth behind, and almost want to?

02-09-2018 11:23PM

When you look at a festival lineup and don't recognise a single name on it

sundodger5 · 02-09-2018 11:26PM

riffmongous wrote: »

When you look at a festival lineup and don't recognise a single name on it

daughter at E P. checked out the lineup....prodigy and after that i was struggling

Sinus pain · 02-09-2018 11:26PM

When I was asked to mind the bags in a night club- I always asked the oldies to mind the bags

02-09-2018 11:27PM

sundodger5 wrote: »

daughter at E P. checked out the lineup....prodigy and after that i was struggling

Yeah I think EP did it for me too

dartboardio · 02-09-2018 11:28PM

Ha, In all seriousness though did you find yourself drifting from friends you would’ve been very close to? Losing things in common?

02-09-2018 11:29PM

dartboardio wrote: »

Was there ever that feeling of ‘drifting further’ from the life that was really normal to you, for example in your late teens early twenties the normal thing to do for a few years was be with the same friends, go on mad nights out, not thinking too much ahead,
How did you come to not doing this anymore? And did you ever have a moment where you realised you were drifting further and further away from your ‘younger life’ and beginning to enjoy life in other ways?

Or am I just going crazy? Or am I really preparing to leave my youth behind, and almost want to?

When I realised that the soccer players that were my 'heroes' were now younger than me

Infernum · 02-09-2018 11:29PM

The times I've ended up staying in a hospital ward mostly full of elderly folk, albeit with conditions similar to what a lot of elderly people deal with.

cantdecide · 02-09-2018 11:29PM

Going from a head of wild curls to a strong widows peak at 20 had a very profound effect on me in terms of the feelings of moving on in life. Kind of like being expelled from youth too early. In hindsight, it was something like a midlife based on that and many other things that were happening in my life at the time that I wasn't very happy about.

These days, I adjust to getting older quite well... I've been doing it for ages. The only alternative to getting older is dying and it's more important to be you at age _ than to be you the _ year old.

Hammer89 · 02-09-2018 11:30PM

When I got in trouble for asking a 15-year-old out.

Harry Palmr · 02-09-2018 11:31PM

The knees!

JohnFalstaff · 02-09-2018 11:34PM

When I looked at my bookshelf, and all the books I have yet to read, and realised that I won't get around to all of them.

02-09-2018 11:35PM

When I started working with people who were not even born before I sat the leaving cert.

Paulzx · 02-09-2018 11:36PM

The first time i checked to see the immersion was turned off:(

02-09-2018 11:38PM

Paulzx wrote: »

The first time i checked to see the immersion was turned off:(

Ridiculous.
Just leave it on 24/7 it's far better!

The_Honeybadger · 02-09-2018 11:39PM

Was at a family event a few years back and my significantly younger sister in law dragged me out to a bar afterwards as she had nobody else to go out with. It was the ‘in’ place for the young wans at the time and was a bit on the wild side. I would have loved it in my teens and early twenties but after entering the place I immediately regretted my decision. Thoughts along the lines of ‘wtf am I doing here’ were running through my head as I sipped my pint. It was at that point I realised I was no longer young and cool.

02-09-2018 11:39PM

dartboardio wrote: »

Ha, In all seriousness though did you find yourself drifting from friends you would’ve been very close to? Losing things in common?

Not really that but I noticed at one point, that around the office a lot of the people I used to go party with when I started there, now have kids and dont come out no more

questionmark? · 02-09-2018 11:44PM

When you meet your friends for long overdue drinks and go at it like your 18 but end up with a week long hangover!

dartboardio · 02-09-2018 11:48PM

Tbh this post stems from me getting an unusual liking for gardening... wanting to stay in every Saturday night and save for holidays.. I feel like my granny.

ancapailldorcha · 03-09-2018 12:07AM

I used to work on a University campus in my late twenties. I didn't get handed a single flyer about any of the nights out.

OldMrBrennan83 · 03-09-2018 12:08AM

The day I woke up and I was 30.

Tom Mann Centuria · 03-09-2018 12:09AM

When new people starting at your place of work weren't even born when you first started working there.

Yer Da sells Avon · 03-09-2018 12:21AM

It occurred to me recently that most of the people who did their Leaving Cert this year wouldn't have been born when I did mine.

Ah well, dead soon.

pcuser · 03-09-2018 12:24AM

When people started borrowing my tools and ladder

The Pheasant2 · 03-09-2018 12:29AM

When I was able to leaf through a broadsheet newspaper tidily without it turning into some unfoldable mass of creases with half the pages falling out.

Hector Bellend · 03-09-2018 12:30AM

when I started forgetting to knock the gas off

03-09-2018 12:32AM

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

It occurred to me recently that most of the people who did their Leaving Cert this year wouldn't have been born when I did mine.

Ah well, dead soon.

Would you g'wayouttadat. You're the same age as me

I can't recall any particular moment where I felt "I'm old now". Things are different alright. My tolerance for booze and hangovers is very low. And bullshít. Oh and I've become more odd. Muttering to myself and getting stuck in little routines. Thats the extent of it though.

Arghus · 03-09-2018 12:46AM

I intend to stay hip and cool forever.

Verity. · 03-09-2018 12:47AM

dartboardio wrote: »

Tbh this post stems from me getting an unusual liking for gardening...

Ahh.. the gardening bug. Have you told anyone 'its actually very therapeutic' yet? You score even more oldie points when most of the people you're saying it to are in full agreement. Nobody thinks it's weird anymore.

Try tell the twenty something me that about gardening, I'd probably have reacted like you were trying to suck me into an oldies cult of some sort.

For me, the clock started ticking when I had children. My eldest are in their teens now, and nearly everything they say ages you. The younger of the teenagers likes to ask me (semi-jokingly) was I around when electricity was invented. I'm 'only' in my late thirties... The little shìt. -_-

Edward M · 03-09-2018 12:52AM

When I was dropped from corner forward and my son took my place!

KungPao · 03-09-2018 12:52AM

When the “World Wide Web” came out. Something to do with computers I think. But it’s all gobbledegook to me.

When did you realise you weren’t really a young person anymore?

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