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I was just sitting here thinking. (ow it hurts :headbang: ). I fell i'm getting old. Mind you i'm only 19 turning 20 soon... very soon :eek: I know that this is still young but I feel like i'm going to need a cane or walking frame soon :p and when I turn 20 i'll be OLD!!! Yet i sit here and think when i grow up i wanna... So i was wondering how you all feel about getting older and just what everyone else thinks. :confused:

this is what i do when i get that "ohmygod my life is speeding by" feeling

i remember that i intend to live to be 100 and that means that even at 47 i have more life ahead of me than ive already lived. YOU have another 80 years to do all the things you want to do. plenty of time to work, play, learn, make mistakes and fix them.

I can't wait. When I retire I'll spend my days at the horse track betting my social security check away and sipping from a pint of liquor hidden in my pocket. No work, nobody bothering me, just the ponies and the booze.

I can't wait. When I retire I'll spend my days at the horse track betting my social security check away and sipping from a pint of liquor hidden in my pocket. No work, nobody bothering me, just the ponies and the booze.


lol- i can so picture that.

I think time started speeding by when I got married and then increased exponentially with each child we had. I dont hope for the weekends anymore, they clip by just fine on their own.
I would love to be 19 or 20 again.

i remember that i intend to live to be 100 and that means that even at 47 i have more life ahead of me than ive already lived. YOU have another 80 years to do all the things you want to do. plenty of time to work, play, learn, make mistakes and fix them.

thats a good idea.

can't wait. When I retire I'll spend my days at the horse track betting my social security check away and sipping from a pint of liquor hidden in my pocket. No work, nobody bothering me, just the ponies and the booze.

I like your thinking!

NO! I've found the Fizountain of Yizouth!

I was just sitting here thinking. (ow it hurts :headbang: ). I fell i'm getting old. Mind you i'm only 19 turning 20 soon... very soon :eek: I know that this is still young but I feel like i'm going to need a cane or walking frame soon :p and when I turn 20 i'll be OLD!!! Yet i sit here and think when i grow up i wanna... So i was wondering how you all feel about getting older and just what everyone else thinks. :confused:
Growing old sucks.

I know exactly how you feel. I'm only fifteen but I feel thirty five. I'm rather looking forward to getting old. I have certain eccentricities that, if i were old, would just be written off as my brain rotting away.

I can't wait. When I retire I'll spend my days at the horse track betting my social security check away and sipping from a pint of liquor hidden in my pocket. No work, nobody bothering me, just the ponies and the booze.
I want to whack disrespectful little kids on the head with my cane, and steal their frisbees when they accidentally fly over my enormous fence and land on my property. "Its my frisbee now you dern kids!"

I was just sitting here thinking. (ow it hurts :headbang: ). I fell i'm getting old. Mind you i'm only 19 turning 20 soon... very soon :eek: I know that this is still young but I feel like i'm going to need a cane or walking frame soon :p and when I turn 20 i'll be OLD!!! Yet i sit here and think when i grow up i wanna... So i was wondering how you all feel about getting older and just what everyone else thinks. :confused:


I get that feeling sometimes. I'm 23, and I haven't done a thing with my life yet. It's just as well I'm not really ambitious, or I'd start getting worried by now.

Growing old is as scary as you make it.

To me, an important shift in philosophy was when I hit 25. Up until then, I kept looking back thinking, "I had so much fun then, I wish I could hold onto that"...really pointless longing, since I knew damn well I'd never want to repeat the experience. Now I look forward...I'm a hell of a lot more confident and assertive than I once was, and I wouldn't trade that for anything. Knowing people twenty or thirty years my senior has shown me that we still have our doubts (in life, our jobs, whatever), but you learn how to fake it enough to convince everyone, including yourself. I like that. Age only brings wisdom if you let it, and I don't want to miss my life while I'm busy wishing I'd done this or that...

This won't be the first time you feel time passing you by quicker than you expected. Live each day like it's your last...that doesn't mean be a self-destructive idiot. It means set your priorities. Think...if you were on your deathbed right now, what would you regret not doing? Then do it. For me right now, it's my family...I wouldn't want to die knowing I should've spent more time with them instead of working or whatever. And I can't wait to be really old and outrageous...I'll be the annoying old granny counting out her pennies in the express lane, using coupons for everything, sitting in a rocking chair on her porch, grey hair askew, shotgun across my knees, cackling as the youngsters sprint by! I'm going to be politically outrageous too, and use my age to protect me. I can hardly wait!

Having just turned 41 recently, I can tell you that the claim "you're only as old as you feel" is correct. Six years ago I started coaching my son in soccer, three years ago I started playing and now I bike to work (40-45minutes each way) all summer. I'd like to ride in the winter but, will have to buy different tyres for that (and I live in Edmonton so, we really do have winter.)

Overall, I'd say I feel better and younger now than I did 10 years ago but, I can tell you that there were days when I started soccer that I felt like I was 95 the next morning, now it's usually not worse than 50. ;)

The best advice I'd ever give someone is "Live life, that's what it's there for and remember, while you can't avoid growing older, no one ever proved you have to grow up!"

Sinuhue's got an awesome plan, not much different than my own. I'm 18, going to be 19 very soon and I completely understand where you're coming from. It's not so much that there are things that I regret not having done as it is just realizing how fast time goes by. I feel much older than I really am (In fact, when I tell people I'm only a freshmen in college, they are always say they would never have guessed because I totally seem older). But the reality of it is that I'm still very young (and believe me I'm going to feel very differently when I can actually feel my body getting older...that's going to put everything into perspective) and have plenty of time to do things. Part of the problem is wanting to do so much, that I just race forward instead of letting things soak in for a while. For example, right now I'm in school and I want to already be out in the workforce getting things done. It's just a matter of really looking at all the things you do while you're doing them. Pay more attention to that, and it'll keep you grounded. Happy sone to come birthday WM! ;)

Personally I felt much older at 22 or 23 than I do now ten years or so later.

The only thing I don't like about growing old is the aches and pains and losing weight is harder and harder to do. :rolleyes:

But, I do agree, you are only as old as you feel.
And I still feel young. :D