When did you think to yourself. I'm old.

meeeeh · 10-02-2016 11:36PM

When seeing some of my school mates after 10, 15 years and thinking how old they look. It dawned on me that they were probably thinking exactly the same.

Tigger · 10-02-2016 11:39PM

meeeeh wrote: »

When seeing some of my school mates after 10, 15 years and thinking how old they look. It dawned on me that they were probably thinking exactly the same.

A happy when I get told an email address is xx1975@mail.xx and I realise the old guy in front of me is my age
But he's not really

velo.2010 · 10-02-2016 11:39PM

You start to feel old when sports people retire at an younger age than you!

Anyway, for all you youngsters thinking, 'what the hell is Beyond 2000'....

This intro slightly freaked me out as a kid.

mansize · 10-02-2016 11:40PM

Ask me when Im 70

OldMrBrennan83 · 10-02-2016 11:40PM

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ygolometsipe · 10-02-2016 11:43PM

youth is wasted! damned if you do and if you don't.

water -> ducks back -> off

I spent more time trying to find socks :eek:

BrianD3 · 10-02-2016 11:59PM

If you have decent genes and look after yourself you can postpone feeling and looking old. I am not far off 40. I have been weight training consistently since I was 25 and unsurprisingly am in far better shape than i was then. I'm still getting stronger and better and I get very few injuries now. Also, I have loads of energy.

Far from being weak and feeble, I would slaughter my 25 year old self if we were to have a fight.

I don't notice any reduction in horniness from my teenage years.

Things that are worse now - well my hairline is slightly worse than it was at age 25 but the bulk of my recession occurred between age 20 and 25. I have a fair amount of grey and this is going to increase. I have worn glasses since I was 22 but my prescription has barely changed since age 25.

In terms of brainpower I think my peak was age 23 during final year of university when I was at the top of my game. I haven't been challenged like that since I started working and were I to go back to uni now I would likely struggle badly doing things that I aced first time around. Use it or lose it etc.

Something that does make me feel old is seeing my relatives get sick and die. In the last 5 years most of my parents generation has gone and in another 5 there could well be none left.

The fact that I have had so many bereavements has I think skewed my perceptions of time - instead of the usual thing that happens with age where certain events from years ago "feel like yesterday", to me, 5 years ago feels like 10.

Also with the major technological changes that have occurred in the last decade and also the major changes that have occurred in Ireland (the boom, improved infrastructure, immigration etc.) the past really does seem like a long time ago. To me the year 2000 seems like more than 16 years ago. Also, the pre internet era seems like ancient history. Seeing as I only heard about the internet in 1995 and used it first in 1996, the era before that seems like some ancient primitive time.

The_Valeyard · 11-02-2016 12:12AM

When the barber starts to cut ear hair.

catbear · 11-02-2016 12:15AM

BrianD3 wrote: »

If you have decent genes and look after yourself you can postpone feeling and looking old. I am not far off 40. I have been weight training consistently since I was 25 and unsurprisingly am in far better shape than i was then. I'm still getting stronger and better and I get very few injuries now. Also, I have loads of energy.

Far from being weak and feeble, I would slaughter my 25 year old self if we were to have a fight.

I don't notice any reduction in horniness from my teenage years.

Things that are worse now - well my hairline is slightly worse than it was at age 25 but the bulk of my recession occurred between age 20 and 25. I have a fair amount of grey and this is going to increase. I have worn glasses since I was 22 but my prescription has barely changed since age 25.

In terms of brainpower I think my peak was age 23 during final year of university when I was at the top of my game. I haven't been challenged like that since I started working and were I to go back to uni now I would likely struggle badly doing things that I aced first time around. Use it or lose it etc.

Something that does make me feel old is seeing my relatives get sick and die. In the last 5 years most of my parents generation has gone and in another 5 there could well be none left.

The fact that I have had so many bereavements has I think skewed my perceptions of time - instead of the usual thing that happens with age where certain events from years ago "feel like yesterday", to me, 5 years ago feels like 10.

Also with the major technological changes that have occurred in the last decade and also the major changes that have occurred in Ireland (the boom, improved infrastructure, immigration etc.) the past really does seem like a long time ago. To me the year 2000 seems like more than 16 years ago. Also, the pre internet era seems like ancient history. Seeing as I only heard about the internet in 1995 and used it first in 1996, the era before that seems like some ancient primitive time.

Similar story as yourself, very active and fit all my life but once I hit 44 I could feel myself gearing down a bit. Thinking of taking up some martial art for the joints.
However I have noticed that mentally I'm actually getting better with age, certainly more focused than in my twenties but back then the last thing I was focused on was study!
I remember first using the internet and back then I'd never have guessed it would become so integral to how I live, I think its the biggest revolution since the printing press. I certainly don't long for the days before it.
I do think I lived through something of golden age in music and rarely feel inspired by anything out there now.

Ally Dick · 11-02-2016 12:20AM

I'll know I'm old when I start stinking of piss

Ken. · 11-02-2016 12:25AM

I've said it on boards only recently but here's something to make you feel old. From September there will be pretty much 0% of children in school(Primary or secondary) that were born in the last century.

11-02-2016 12:35AM

When I look at my best friend's kids I feel old. I look back to what I was doing on the day they were born and all that has happened in-between. Her oldest girl will be 13 in June. We were in the toilets of the student bar when she told me she was pregnant. Her middle daughter will be 7 in May. I was in a bookshop in Longford with an ex.

Something about looking back that gets me right in the belly and makes me feel like I've been on this planet for a hundred years. So many memories. Age really is a state of mind. Sure we move on towards the inevitable but at the end of the day it's how we feel about ourselves.

Vandango · 11-02-2016 12:37AM

Mint Aero wrote: »

When did you think to yourself. I'm old.

When I read the thread title.

Thanks for that OP.

RhubarbCrumble · 11-02-2016 01:00AM

One night last year I was watching Reeling in the years. My other halfs cousin was there the same night. It was 1990 and we watched Packie Bonner save that goal. I was 10 when it happened and remember it well. Turned to said cousin to ask him where he was when it happened, and that's when I knew I was old. He wasn't born until 1991.

iguana · 11-02-2016 01:07AM

I woke up to a lovely sunny day and my first thought was, 'great, I'll get so much laundry dried!' Then I knew my youth was over forever.:(

Summer wind · 11-02-2016 01:18AM

When I found myself turning up the television so I could hear the newsðŸ˜႒

Agricola · 11-02-2016 02:12AM

My oldest cousin's kid was born the year I left school. He's now is doing the leaving this year himself and talking about college courses etc. When I think about people that left school EIGHTEEN YEARS before me, I think wow, old farts! So I'm sure he does too now.

I think when you hit mid 30's and you've been lucky enough to have not yet suffered a very close bereavement or any major problems so far, this realization that there you are no longer part of the youth crowd is a gentle little milestone in life.

Magico Gonzalez · 11-02-2016 02:28AM

Started saying things like "that's it for me and the 5 a side football" , the injuries dont heal properly.

Started thinking people were more interesting before they got really drunk.

Found myself the other day thinking about how happy I was to have bought a really nice bag of cherries at a good price. Bargain I thought, tasty and they'll last alright.

the very first inkling of the turning of the worm, many years ago now was the first time I thought ""stag do, ah jesus no..I can't face it"

Magico Gonzalez · 11-02-2016 02:28AM

Started saying things like "that's it for me and the 5 a side football" , the injuries dont heal properly.

Started thinking people were more interesting before they got really drunk.

Found myself the other day thinking about how happy I was to have bought a really nice bag of cherries at a good price. Bargain I thought, tasty and they'll last alright.

the very first inkling of the turning of the worm, many years ago now was the first time I thought ""stag do, ah jesus no..I can't face it"

colossus-x · 11-02-2016 04:33AM

The day your old is the day you give up on yourself, physically.

Wrinkles have noting to do with being old.

We live in a world where people over 40 think that they are old.

They are old because they look terrible because they eat ****e food all their lives.

I'm stunned , that pizza eating burger munching men think they are over the hill physically and sexually because they are so unhealthy, when they have so much more to offer.

I know this post sounds sanctimonious but there are so many young guys in their 40's who act like there in their 70's, I'd love to shake them up !!!!!!

TG1 · 11-02-2016 07:08AM

The day I was setting someone up on our system in work. Their date of birth was 1993. I turned to a colleague to ask were they even legal to employ and she pointed out they were twenty something.... Sad day.

BrianBoru00 · 11-02-2016 07:32AM

In my late 30s... dunno if I m old but I do find a certain melancholy in the fact that I take more responsibility now for funerals, helping out during crises (flooding) , even being asked for advice from young lads I coach.
That's what my parents generation did, and now I m doing it .

It s not that I feel old, it's the sadness that my parents generation are starting to die with more frequency and get ill , and I m seeing so many wonderful friends and family leave us.

But on the other side it makes me want to stay young , at heart anyhow and carry on what the previous generation left us with.

Wanderer78 · 11-02-2016 07:51AM

At almost 40, I'm still not sure what I wanna be when I grow up!

fergiesfolly · 11-02-2016 07:53AM

When you realise that you're completely invisible to the opposite sex.
Their eyes might wander round a room for a look at the talent and not only do you not get a second glance, but there's no indication that they even see you.

Worse when it's your own wife.....

Wanderer78 · 11-02-2016 07:54AM

colossus-x wrote:

I know this post sounds sanctimonious but there are so many young guys in their 40's who act like there in their 70's, I'd love to shake them up !!!!!!

I do a bit of hill walking. There's lads in the club in their sixties and I can't keep up with them. Now that's living!

Graces7 · 11-02-2016 03:33PM

When I could not deny that the difference between my year of birth and the current calendar was 70 years I stopped trying and moved gracefully into old age, taking full advantage of the status..

hmmm · 11-02-2016 03:38PM

Working in IT when "the kids" start re-inventing things that were tried and failed when you first started working. Then explaining to them why xyz failed. And watching them throw their eyes up to heaven, and fall into the same traps...again.

Son Of A Vidic · 11-02-2016 03:49PM

I learned from my late father that age is a only state of mind not a sentence. He was 86 when he died

and his Doc told me he really should have died 15 years earlier. But his attitude to life was so positive and fun filled, he just kept beating the odds. So I learned from the great man himself that life is too short to be feeling old, self-conscious or worrying about what others think.

kellyshell · 11-02-2016 04:19PM

When I realised that I am more excited about shopping for sofas this weekend instead of trying to get cash for a night out on the beer...................I am 32:eek::(

osarusan · 11-02-2016 04:22PM

When the holiday is over and your main feeling is happiness to be back in your own home.

When did you think to yourself. I'm old.

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