What age do you start to feel 'old'?

Dudess · 05-01-2011 03:21AM

In fairness, I can understand anxieties over growing up - I remember feeling a bit freaked about turning 20 too, all I could think was "I'm just a kid, how could I be such an adult age?" And there are all these expectations you THINK are there (but they're not really - after a few years, you'll look back and realise that's all bollocks; plus, while I thought 20 was an "adult age" at the time, I think it's barely out of the cot now). But to refer to this as getting/feeling "old" is just hysteria. And some people take these rational anxieties too far and practically turn themselves into oldies way before their time. As I said, these kinds of threads always make me realise there are people who may be chronologically young but they come across as way older than some other folks here who are years and years older than them. Saying you feel "ancient" at 21... where is that "logic" coming from? It's like all perspective for some people goes out the window when it comes to age.

!MAVERICK! · 07-01-2011 08:19AM

Dudess wrote: »

Oh no, wrong century - people don't die of old age at 36 anymore...

Jeez, some people seem to WANT to be geriatric...

I know I love sounding geriatric.

scientific1982 · 07-01-2011 08:48AM

Im 28 now. My granny is over a hundred. No, I dont feel old.

scheister · 07-01-2011 09:02AM

i think it depends on the person there is normally something that sets the feeling off. For me i feel old not at 24 as a child used to mine who i remember being 6 weeks old can not legally drink. Or the day the nice women asked you about the dreaded P Word

Pension

That might be when i started feeling old :P Im surprised none of the old one liners have come out. age is but a number its how you feel that matters

bullets · 07-01-2011 10:08AM

1994 was the last time I felt young! I was 9 stone, Had Abs of steel and all
muscles I remember thinking, I'll NEVER get a pot belly when I get older...
...... now I'm 14 stone, have 3 chins, manboobs and a huge big fat beer belly.
I feel old now and only in my mid 30's When your waist size starts to have a number
higher than your age thats when I start to worry.

~B

LizT · 07-01-2011 10:39AM

Turning 21 this year, don't feel old yet!

A lot of my friends around the same age as me moaned about turning 20 because they were halfway to 40:rolleyes:

grenache · 07-01-2011 11:08AM

I'm nearly 27, a mature student and surrounded by 18-20 year olds five days a week. So obviously i feel like a pensioner most days. Started to feel proper old when i hit 25. It does be annoying.

Sykk · 07-01-2011 12:16PM

Selected all.. Because I can :cool:

Agricola · 07-01-2011 06:39PM

Id say feeling old first happens when you see that there is a generation of people around who can now be technically termed "adults" but were either not yet born or only just babies when you yourself hit 17 or 18 years old.
When you meet someone whos never known whats it like to not have a mobile phone, the internet etc, then you feel old. These people have no interest in / never heard of the music you listened to, what seems like only afew years ago! Their pop culture references only begin around the time you started college and they are abit oblivious to alot of stuff before that. They never heard of footballers whose poster you once had pinned on your wall and certainly have no knowledge of epic matches that you still remember like they were yesterday. Their first computer was a Playstation 1! They think an Atari Jaguar is just a poll option on boards.ie!

God damn kids these days.... Why I oughta.......!

KnifeWRENCH · 07-01-2011 07:17PM

I was 21 last month and finish college in May. That's enough to make me feel old.

But I think the sign you're old is when you're let into any club/pub, regardless of their age limits. There's a pub in Cork that's over 23's - when I'm old enough for that, then I'll feel really old (unless there's an over 25's or over 30's pub somewhere to make me feel young again!)

RichieC · 07-01-2011 07:20PM

Went into fibbers before christmas, walked out feeling officially old.

foxinsox · 07-01-2011 07:46PM

Hmmm...

I guess the fact that I seem to be 20 -25 years older than most of the posters in here...

I probably should feel old...

Also the fact that I had the Atari that was before the Atari Jaguar...

I probably should feel old...

But meh... I don't feel old...

Maybe when I'm 65 I might feel old

Mint Sauce · 07-01-2011 07:51PM

Bumped into my cousin on new years eve in a small town night club, I used to baby sit her, man I felt old.

Left very quickly to return to the comfort of the bar and people my own age.

Latchy · 07-01-2011 07:51PM

foxinsox wrote: »

Hmmm...

I guess the fact that I seem to be 20 -25 years older than most of the posters in here...

I probably should feel old...

But meh... I don't feel old...

Maybe when I'm 65 I might feel old

Above pretty much sums me up to Foxy

Dudess · 07-01-2011 08:09PM

Latchy and Foxinsox: yet more people who are a lot younger than the actual younglings. :pac:

jubella · 07-01-2011 08:12PM

I'm only 20 but I feel old when I walk into a nightclub full of 16 year olds.

RichieC · 07-01-2011 08:13PM

Hilarious people are clicking saying they feel old at 16 17 and 18, I literally thought i was immortal at that age..

paulosham · 07-01-2011 08:15PM

When you're talking to a girl in a pub and you think "Fuk! I'm old enough to be her dad."

stevejr · 07-01-2011 08:29PM

Sanjuro wrote: »

I used to think I was with it. But then they changed what it is. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what it is seem strange and scary to me.

Calibos · 07-01-2011 08:30PM

alwaysadub wrote: »

When my mates kids started hitting double figures in age.

I felt like that too. Then I said feck it. I'm only 25 FFS. Not my fault the class hammer-man had his first kid just after the inter cert.

Meeting that kid who is now 21 out about the town in the pubs sometimes makes me feel old now though. Then again sometimes it makes me feel good too. When me chin is clean shaven so no grey beard hairs are visible, I don't look much older than the kid. I look younger than my age and he looks older. We kind of meet in the middle.

Glad the kid was not a young one with a preferance for older men though. Bringing me home to meet Daddy or Class Re-unions (Whichever came first) would be...."Fun"

Quandary · 07-01-2011 08:32PM

I turned 30 last September and honestly, it seemed like it bothered others around me a lot more than me. I still feel like I did when I was 20 tbh. I wouldnt want to be 20 again unless I could take all my positive experiences with me. Sure there were some really enjoyable times between 20 and 30 but unfortunately I had go through both parents dying along with a few other unpleasant periods and I would not like to go through all that again.

As long as I have my health I couldnt care less how old I get, in fact the older the better

If getting older upsets you either learn to accept it or stay miserable until the day you die.

phasers · 07-01-2011 08:37PM

I feel old at 19, I have fcuking arthritis and can't remember things very well.

07-01-2011 08:40PM

When I claimed I was one-and-a-half years old.

peasant · 07-01-2011 08:54PM

I'm 45.
I don't feel old, just cynical

Latchy · 07-01-2011 09:35PM

paulosham wrote: »

When you're talking to a girl in a pub and you think "Fuk! I'm old enough to be her dad."

Yeah that's a bummer

Wait .......I am her dad :eek:

/puts shades on and makes quick exit from bar

r3nu4l · 07-01-2011 09:40PM

Well at my Christmas party a couple of weeks ago, I was sat beside a colleague who is 17 years old and we were talking about films we like to watch at Christmas and I said 'Groundhog Day'. She asked me who was in it, I said 'Bill Murray'.
She looked puzzled, so I said, 'You know, Bill Murray from Ghostbusters'. Her reply was 'What's that?'

I felt very old as I suddenly realised that Ghostbusters was out a long time before she was even born and yet I saw it in the cinema

So I told her it was a 'talkie' film :pac:

07-01-2011 10:05PM

There's no excuse not to know groundhog day! :eek:

I was saying to my mum that "you'll always find me in the kitchen at parties" song on the ikea ad is very catchy... "that was out when you were about 3"
Now I feel even more of a baby again

SuperInfinity · 07-01-2011 10:59PM

I think it's stupid to say 40s is old. If you think you're "old" by 40, what are you going to be when you're in your 70s/80s? There's enough time for being old afterwards. It's ridiculous to spend half your life thinking of yourself as "old". My dad is nearly 80 and views people in their 40s as really young whipper-snappers. I remember him and my aunt were talking about how old someone was and they said something like how the person was around their age and my aunt said: "but shur we're not old" and laughed. It's all a matter of perspective. Only thing is.. a few years later she died...

The most important thing is to take care of your health. If you have that down then I don't believe growing older is a hindrance to anything, until you're of retiring age anyway.

What age do you start to feel 'old'?

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