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

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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?

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Trigger Happy

When someone pointed out to me that I am older than Justin Bieber’s mother.

Wheeliebin30

When I realised most of my niece and nephews teachers are younger than me.

Teachers were always old people to me.

PlaneSpeeking

2016 wrote: »

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

When you realise you're old enough - just - to legally be the grand mother of the player who's just come on as a sub.

That's a grand one!

PlaneSpeeking

Trigger Happy wrote: »

When someone pointed out to me that I am older than Justin Bieber’s mother.

Not that bad tbh tho - she had him at like 15 or something!

Badly Drunk Boy

sundodger5 wrote: »

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

Same here, except I knew more than The Prodigy (and I'm 45 so that's not too bad). This was my first year not to go to the Electric Picnic.

I got a mortgage at 24 which didn't make me feel old, but getting my first credit card at 28 did.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I've yet to notice. I just drift on from one year to the next, one decade to the next, one stage of life to the next and never consider the age aspect at all. It's a natural flowing process and I go with the flow constantly discovering, learning and enjoying as I go.

ec18

When I spent my saturday in a DIY Store

Hitman3000

When I attended my son's passing out parade.

discobeaker

When your friends 16 year old nephew says "isn't such and such rapper (that I've never heard of) totally dope" and you take a moment and all that comes out of your mouth is...

"Aww yeah,he seems like a thick cnut indeed"

I'm 34 and the kids use the term dope In a totally different way nowadays (it's good to be dope from what I can gather)

cantdecide

When youngsters started having fewer 'mams' and more 'moms'.

Lotus Flower

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It's worth remembering that when you were say 19/20 or younger, you probably didn't spare much thought for the **** feelings people in their late 20s or older definitely would have felt about being out of touch with the culture and experience of people your age. Some things in life are simple, and the fact that it is better to be younger rather than older is one of them. I was in a bad way during what should have been the best years of my life and it still eats me up that I missed out. Those of us lucky enough to live past 24 got one chance to experience life aged 24 and younger (to place a rough figure on what the best years clearly are) and if you don't get to enjoy them for whatever reason, it's a harsh fact that you can never have another "go" at it.

Life is over at 24? Absolute nonsense

Oink

Reading this thread and ticking the boxes as I go along...

Knees -check
Gardening check
New bands, young crowds in pubs, early to bed, check check check check fookin checkity check. Feck yous all I’m going back to bed.

fryup

nose/ear/eyebrow hair growing faster than head hair

eyesight going to pot, developing a fat face with a second chin

and finding yourself watching gardener's world and actually enjoying it

sbsquarepants

Patww79 wrote: »

The day I woke up and I was 30.

The absolute oldest I've ever felt was turning 30 -literally felt like a coffin dodger. I'm 44 now and back to feeling (and acting) like a teenager again.

(well - a strangely inflexible teenager, with dodgy joints and who listens to newstalk anyway:D)

Lollipops23

Seeing stuff in shops that I remember the first time around (hair springs and plastic chokers in particular).

Opting to listen to Q102 on the car radio after turning off Spin due to it being sh*t.

CruelCoin

Dakota Dan wrote: »

What age are you?

33.

PopePalpatine

Going shoe shopping and not bothering with the likes of Lifestyle Sports, JD or Champion.

Oh, and remembering Max Verstappen exists.

xi5yvm0owc1s2b

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

Not that bad tbh tho - she had him at like 15 or something!

He was born a month before she turned 19, but she was still a very young mother.

It's a pretty sad story. She suffered sexual abuse throughout her entire childhood, started using LSD and other drugs at 14, tried to kill herself when she was 17, and spent time in a mental institution. She got pregnant by Jeremy Bieber shortly after her release.

podgemonster

When you see a clip of a soccer/hurling/football match that you remember watching Live and notice how dated the picture/sound/graphics quality are and how old this must seem to younger people.

ButtersSuki

[QUOTE=fryup;107977625]nose/ear/eyebrow hair growing faster than head hair

eyesight going to pot, developing a fat face with a second chin

and finding yourself watching gardener's world and actually enjoying it[/QUOTE]

Looks at username. Looks at post. It all makes sense now. :pac:

Just joking btw!

JonnyM

When you make groaning sounds getting up off the chair!!

PlaneSpeeking

Otto Hollow Chain wrote: »

He was born a month before she turned 19, but she was still a very young mother.

It's a pretty sad story. She suffered sexual abuse throughout her entire childhood, started using LSD and other drugs at 14, tried to kill herself when she was 17, and spent time in a mental institution. She got pregnant by Jeremy Bieber shortly after her release.

Heartbreaker that one, I'd no idea just that he and her seem really close, which is lovely to see.

I was actually on a packed LUAS and couldn't change music and heard one of his, it's actually not terrible!

PlaneSpeeking

JonnyM wrote: »

When you make groaning sounds getting up off the chair!!

And the orgasmic sigh when you sit down at the end of the day and take your shoes off!!!!!

PlaneSpeeking

podgemonster wrote: »

When you see a clip of a soccer/hurling/football match that you remember watching Live and notice how dated the picture/sound/graphics quality are and how old this must seem to younger people.

Having a VHS tape of one of your team's greatest games and some young un goes a) "isn't it on YouTube ??" or b) "I was born 12 years after that!".

FML!

sundodger5

Recent visit to the science museum in London...too many items on display that i have owned....and not that long ago.

daithi84

When my lunch break conversation with my work pals went from stories of wild nights out and sex stories to continual non stop conversations about every movement their kids make. I now go on break at different times!

Apiarist

Sheesh, 20-somethings noticing that they are not young anymore? This is ridiculous. I had noticed that my metabolism was not the same around the age of 33 when I went to try on a shirt in one of those changing rooms with three mirrors and saw a beer belly in a side reflection. That is when I've realised that I am not young anymore and that now I have to watch what I eat and drink. To get back in shape I have started to do HIIT instead of lazing about in a gym and switched to whiskey instead of beers

strawdog

Tried keeping up with the young folk in to my early 30's as didn't have too much going on in terms of family and career etc. Starting to settle down a bit now in my mid 30's but I think the biggest change I've noticed is that I've started lookin forward to a relatively booze free weekend with the same excitement I used to look forward to a boozy weekend. Don't get me wrong, i still love an aul session from time to time but, in the last couple of years, having moderation now means that I don't lose half my week to brain fog and the Fear.

Agricola

When I started developing back, hip and leg pain as a result of something as innocuous as too much sitting mixed in with poor posture. That's when I realized my indestructible youthful body was gone and now I needed to actually look after it!

That and all movies, music, terrestrial tv and general pop culture is gone to hell obviously.

Feed Up

When playing football and someone called me Mr.