Feeling Old

Trebor176 · 06-01-2015 07:26PM #1

Today, I was added to a Facebook group by a school friend of mine to mark 10 years since our graduation from secondary school. Yeah, it's made me feel kind of old. I'm also a year in my current job today, so time certainly does fly.

Saipanne · 06-01-2015 07:26PM

Cool story, bro.

Honey Monster · 06-01-2015 07:27PM

When is your book out OP?

HeidiHeidi · 06-01-2015 07:27PM

Christ, if you feel old, where does that leave me? :eek:

caustic 1 · 06-01-2015 07:41PM

hahahahahahahahaha, 10 years, I wish I was only 10 years out of school.:(

The Backwards Man · 06-01-2015 07:42PM

Aww bless.

06-01-2015 07:45PM

Thanks OP :'( last year I got invited to my secondary school 25th year anniversary.

Menas · 06-01-2015 07:45PM

Let us know when you start growing hair in your ears.

Irish Guitarist · 06-01-2015 07:45PM

10 years ago I was 28.

Agricola · 06-01-2015 07:46PM

Yer only a duckling. Wait til yer 10 years out of college! Woah, now that is positively ancient*

* in the opinion of most internet forum users who seem to be forever 22.

castletownman · 06-01-2015 07:46PM

Oh yeah.

Well I remember when all of this was just fields

The_Valeyard · 06-01-2015 07:48PM

Well I remember having to plug the phone out to use the internet. Young people today have no idea have good they have it, rabble, rabble,

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 06-01-2015 07:49PM

OP when it's 53 years since your Leaving Cert (we only gaduated when we got our degrees in those days) then perhaps you can start to feel old but it's not guaranteed as I have yet to feel old.
A whole year in a job? Wow! You should set up on your own now as a consultant.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 06-01-2015 07:51PM

I went to my ten year reunion a few years ago. A really tragic affair. Most of the men looked to be 5-10 years older than their actual age. Bulging beer bellies, receeding hairlines, tired and dead looking eyes. Most hadn't managed to make much of their lives. The whole thing was a waste of time and only underlined and reinforced what I knew then - that I had very little in common with my fellow East Galwaymen.

Pumpkinseeds · 06-01-2015 07:52PM

OP, I met someone I was at school with when my husband and I were out over Christmas. He was talking about an upcoming school reunion and I realised it's been 23 years since I did my leaving cert. Really weird to be talking to someone you remember as a bit of a class joker who is now grey bearded.:(

namenotavailablE · 06-01-2015 07:52PM

Well, I did the Leaving Certificate in a previous millennium so I definitely am fossilised.

JupiterKid · 06-01-2015 07:58PM

OP - you're just a decade out of school and presumably still in your twenties. Wait until you are 21 years out of school like myself and rapidly approaching 40.

Menas · 06-01-2015 08:00PM

Op?
No sign of the OP. He must be so old that he forgot he started this thread.......

Fat Christy · 06-01-2015 08:02PM

Just remember OP, every day is a day closer to death!

Señor Fancy Pants · 06-01-2015 08:04PM

I'm 12,394 days old. Jus' sayin'.

Ihatecuddles · 06-01-2015 08:05PM

I feel considerably younger now that I've read this thread. Feel like such an oul wan, sometimes it's nice to be reminded that these are the best years of my life

Tokyo · 06-01-2015 08:08PM

Trebor176 wrote: »

Today, I was added to a Facebook group by a school friend of mine to mark 10 years since our graduation from secondary school. Yeah, it's made me feel kind of old. I'm also a year in my current job today, so time certainly does fly.

Your forum birthday is the only one that matters OP, the years before that don't count. So happy 2nd birthday in April....

4zn76tysfajdxp · 06-01-2015 08:11PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

10 years ago I was 28.

How old are you now?

sammyjo90 · 06-01-2015 08:19PM

Truffle Pig wrote: »

I'm 12,394 days old. Jus' sayin'.

Sure you're only a nipper :pac:

Trebor176 · 06-01-2015 08:24PM

It's probably stupid to say about feeling "old," but I'm just thinking about those I was in school with, or who I hung around with that are of similar age, who are married with kids and are home owners. I guess I just feel like I need to get my arse in gear, find myself a girl and settle down. It won't be long until I'm in my 30s, but hopefully by then, one or two or maybe all of the above will have been achieved.

Fat Christy · 06-01-2015 08:27PM

Trebor176 wrote: »

It's probably stupid to say about feeling "old," but I'm just thinking about those I was in school with, or who I hung around with that are of similar age, who are married with kids and are home owners. I guess I just feel like I need to get my arse in gear, find myself a girl and settle down. It won't be long until I'm in my 30s, but hopefully by then, one or two or maybe all of the above will have been achieved.

Ah jaysus you're depressing me here! Why does everyone wanted to be married off by 30 and having all the babies?

Calm your tits! You're not that much older than me, you're scaring me!

I just want to do a bit a travelling, play the field and then we'll see. Can't be bothered putting that sort of pressure on myself.

Venus In Furs · 06-01-2015 08:31PM

Yeh it's not so much the case anymore now to have all those things achieved by 30. From what I've observed anyway. People tend to be a good bit into their 30s now when they settle down (relationship, kids, mortgage).

Fat Christy · 06-01-2015 08:33PM

Venus In Furs wrote: »

Yeh it's not so much the case anymore now to have all those things achieved by 30. From what I've observed anyway. People tend to be a good bit into their 30s now when they settle down (relationship, kids, mortgage).

One of the girls in my office is panicking because she's 26 and doesn't have a mortgage yet. Twenty-****ing-six!!

MRnotlob606 · 06-01-2015 08:36PM

Why is it always young people who talk about being old ?

suicide_circus · 06-01-2015 08:38PM

I'm hip

as in hip replacement

Karl Stein · 06-01-2015 08:41PM

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

Why is it always young people who talk about being old ?

Because older people don't want to be reminded of the inexorable day-by-day journey toward death.

Have a great day!

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