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So I was reading the age thread, and I was wondering when it's allowable to start feeling old. For instance, I have been feeling old for about a year and a half now, and I'm almost 24. I started feeling old at about 22.

So, generalites, do you feel old at your age?

Yes, there will be a poll. It wouldn't be a Galloism thread if there wasn't a poll.

I won't feel old until I am one year older than my current age. Meaning, no matter how old I get I will refuse to feel old. If I am 97 then old is 98, if I am 110 than 111 is old.

I admit that after some days with my students, I am left feeling very old, but that's just the normal side effect of teaching elementary school. :p

I'm 30 and I honestly don't feel old. I don't think I ever really will until I actually reach the end of my lifespan, whatever that may be.

You're only old if you want to be old. I may be 61, but I bet I have a younger outlook than a great many of you.

I'm 23, and I'm already complaining about teenagers and their crappy music.

I'm 23, and I'm already complaining about teenagers and their crappy music.
And it feels good.

And it feels good.

It certainly does.

It certainly does.
My current favourite is ripping on dubstep kids.

18. I have back problems.

I need to see a chiropractor before I condemn myself to walking with a cane at age 35.

Edit: I mean, I feel old.

The first time I started to feel old was the occasion of my five-year high school reunion.

It was reinforced a couple of years later when I reached the point where (I'm an assistant high school marching band instructor) I'd been involved in marching band and drum corps longer than some of my kids have been alive.

My current favourite is ripping on dubstep kids.

I still enjoy insulting people with awful taste in car accessories. There's this Dodge Intrepid near where I live with a fartcan muffler, a giant rear wing, mismatched wheels, and a huge windshield decal that reads "Intrepid".

The worst part is, I finally saw the driver of this thing, and I'm pretty sure he's older than I am. :(

I still enjoy insulting people with awful taste in car accessories. There's this Dodge Intrepid near where I live with a fartcan muffler, a giant rear wing, mismatched wheels, and a huge windshield decal that reads "Intrepid".

The worst part is, I finally saw the driver of this thing, and I'm pretty sure he's older than I am. :(

What the f is with those giant windshield decals anyway? Who cares if your windshield says the painfully obvious car name you're driving (I mean, come on, its already on the back of the car!)? At least get a cool decal. Geez.

I'm 23, and I'm already complaining about teenagers and their crappy music.

It's because todays teens live in a beta culture and don't have a clue what quality is.

I sometimes say I feel old, but then I take a look at my grandfather and know that it ain't true. He's lived a much harder, rougher life than I and payed his dues to the world, raised a family who each raised there own who now are starting it all again. I look at my dad, who near retirement and now a grandfather says he feel old. He's worried he won't be able to do all those things he put on hold to raise the three of us kids. Worried that he may have missed his chance. But then I tell him he can't feel old, we've still got mountains to climb. So, no I don't feel old. I hope that I'm to busy living life to get the opportunity to feel old.

What the f is with those giant windshield decals anyway? Who cares if your windshield says the painfully obvious car name you're driving (I mean, come on, its already on the back of the car!)? At least get a cool decal. Geez.

They're friggin' everywhere in my town, and the people with them drive like assholes too.

I complain about feeling old, but I don't really most of the time. Working with small children makes me feel simultaneously young and old (I had a total generation-gap moment the other day in class when we were thinking of words that started with "s" and I said, "Popeye eats it get strong!" and was met with 20 blinking, bewildered faces >_<). Health problems make me feel older; I had back surgery at 18 and my back's been bothering me again lately, so that definitely makes me feel older.

For the record, I'm 25 (almost 26... ugh, now I do feel old).

I've got that combination of cynicism and optimism that keeps me from being completely naive or completely burned out. I never feel old or young, just there and slightly bemused by strangeness at all ages.

Never!

Ok, jokes aside I feel old mainly while surrounded by today's youth..

I think feeling old is a state of mind. However your body does give you clues that you are aging. Things hurt that never hurt before. For example I had to cut back on outdoor activities because of my knees. I also have about half of normal hearing in my right ear and probably going to need glasses within 10 years.

I think feeling old is a state of mind. However your body does give you clues that you are aging. Things hurt that never hurt before. For example I had to cut back on outdoor activities because of my knees. I also have about half of normal hearing in my right ear and probably going to need glasses within 10 years.

Bah, you lucky bastard, I'd had bad eyesight since I was 10.

I only feel old in cold, damp weather...
Paying the price for having fairly severely injured both knees and shoulders... :(

Bah, you lucky bastard, I'd had bad eyesight since I was 10.

Well you could believe the old saying that "glasses make you look smart". I am going with that one when I am forced to wear them. I dont like contacts so glasses it will be.

Well you could believe the old saying that "glasses make you look smart". I am going with that one when I am forced to wear them. I dont like contacts so glasses it will be.

Well nowadays I wear contacts for the majority of the time. Its just easier to wear things like sunglasses, and such. But I do have a pair of those thick black framed glasses that make me look artsier and more intellectual. Contacts are really easy, but I mean, if you have a phobia of eyes, like a friend of mine does, then it would make putting them in pretty difficult...

When the songs you grew up listening to are played on the Oldies station.

Why would a 14-year old feel old?

I'm 23, and I'm already complaining about teenagers and their crappy music.

I'm 32, and I complain about teenagers and their crappy music since I was 4... it was 1980... A-Ha, Spandau Ballet, Madonna, Duran Duran, Jackson Five :tongue:

No wonder I like classic and heavy metal.

I feel absolutely young, btw.

i was born old. both old and young. once you get really old, then you need to start feeling young for health reasons. i'm still working on that one.

So I was reading the age thread, and I was wondering when it's allowable to start feeling old. For instance, I have been feeling old for about a year and a half now, and I'm almost 24. I started feeling old at about 22.
You'll start feeling young again at 27.


It's all very subjective. I can say that, at 28, I do feel that I'm not as good as I was at 18. But not really feeling old either.

You can start feeling old when some punk asks that question at an age 10+ years younger than yours. :mad:

I dunno, depends on my mood. I think I normally feel old if I'm alone for too long. I start getting too retrospective and stuff. However, if I'm around a people I tend not to feel old. At university I hardly ever feel old (except when I'm depressed for some reason). And at university I'm older than pretty much everyone I know -- something I occasionally will get teased about. But then I know I'm young because all the silly things I end up doing. Like walking round campus with suit and a balaclava with evil stitched on it; or chasing a friend around the computer labs, leaping from table to table as I go; or something as stupid as finding the letters A,B,C and D printed in font size 1,000,000, each on separate sheets of A4 and then getting two friends to help me hold up C,B and A when we start getting sent to sleep by the lecturer. Showing up drunk for lecturers and tutorials is always intriguing too -- in fact that should be mandatory. It'd make the students less inhibited and more likely to engage in the tutorial... so long as they aren't completely inebriated. Oooh, there was also that SU stunt when we ran around campus dressed up as sperm and eggs or something to raise awareness of STDs.

*doesn't feel old anymore* :D

I feel too old at 18, purely because of squandering my youth on video games and the internet instead of my studies.

I can't imagine this will get any better when I get even older. The entire prospect makes me cringe just thinking about it.

i'm wearing slippers and a cardigan... i put a blanket accross my lap often when i'm on the sofa, and my dad keeps saying i'm more of a grumpy old fart than he is. so, yes :p

ps i'm 23

I'll feel old when I am dead.

*checks pulse. whew!*

I like feeling old, now get off my lawn.

I've been feeling old since I turned 22, I want to be young again to continue living the life I am now and since I was working 40 hours a week, one weekend off a month, I missed out on a lot of things and now I want to continue. I also wouldn't mind starting again from 15 and growing up I feel old very often. It is only 20 days till I turn 23 and I don't want to be at all. I want a lot more time.

I've been feeling old since I turned 22, I want to be young again to continue living the life I am now and since I was working 40 hours a week, one weekend off a month, I missed out on a lot of things and now I want to continue. I also wouldn't mind starting again from 15 and growing up I feel old very often. It is only 20 days till I turn 23 and I don't want to be at all. I want a lot more time.*gloats* I'm still a student and I turn 23 in April. :D Fuck getting a real job, I'm going to do my best to get into academia when I do finally graduate -- which, unfortunately, seems likely this time.

*gloats* I'm still a student and I turn 23 in April. :D Fuck getting a real job, I'm going to do my best to get into academia when I do finally graduate -- which, unfortunately, seems likely this time.

Bastard :tongue:

Actually I just finsihed my uni course too and now I have to enter the real world.

15, and feel massively young looking not only around my classes but especially here. I think I'm one of the youngest on this forum...

(And my music's not crappy!)

I consider myself young, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy kvetching about how great things used to be. Remember the Cretaceous period? That was a great time, before any of this fancy-shmancy "electronics," or "Inter-nets," or "sentience." The KT event just screwed up everything.

So I was reading the age thread, and I was wondering when it's allowable to start feeling old. For instance, I have been feeling old for about a year and a half now, and I'm almost 24. I started feeling old at about 22.

So, generalites, do you feel old at your age?

Yes, there will be a poll. It wouldn't be a Galloism thread if there wasn't a poll.

When songs that you think of as contemporary appear on classic rock stations.

When high schools students are studying, in history class, stuff that you think happened "just a couple of years ago."

When discussing politics you make reference to something that happened under the president before the one you were already talking about and the other person says "I was in junior high then."

Men, your pants cover your navel.
Women, your panties sit on your waist instead of your hips.

You can't tell the difference between high-school seniors and college juniors.

There are many other points that tell you to feel old. None of them are your age.

When songs that you think of as contemporary appear on classic rock stations.

When high schools students are studying, in history class, stuff that you think happened "just a couple of years ago."

When discussing politics you make reference to something that happened under the president before the one you were already talking about and the other person says "I was in junior high then."

Men, your pants cover your navel.
Women, your panties sit on your waist instead of your hips.

You can't tell the difference between high-school seniors and college juniors.

There are many other points that tell you to feel old. None of them are your age.

Bolded the ones that apply to me.

(And my music's not crappy!)

Yes it is, that's what you get for being 15.

Ill feel old when I can no longer keep up with today's technology and current events, etc....Basically if I ever turn into my dad, lol...

So I was reading the age thread, and I was wondering when it's allowable to start feeling old. For instance, I have been feeling old for about a year and a half now, and I'm almost 24. I started feeling old at about 22.

So, generalites, do you feel old at your age?

Yes, there will be a poll. It wouldn't be a Galloism thread if there wasn't a poll.

you feel old when you feel old. there is no "proper time" to feel old.

It's because todays teens live in a beta culture and don't have a clue what quality is.

-snip-

Hey! I resent that!
*puts on some blues*

you feel old when you feel old. there is no "proper time" to feel old.

Yes there is, its the second star to the right and straight on till morning...

Everyone knows that, duh, lol...

Yes there is, its the second star to the right and straight on till morning...

Everyone knows that, duh, lol...

Ahem. that's a place, I said "There is no proper time to feel old".

Check your reading glasses gramps. :wink: :D

Ahem. that's a place, I said "There is no proper time to feel old".

Check your reading glasses gramps. :wink: :D

Psh, let me tell you somethin whipersnapper! I pilot the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve Parsecs!! :p

Psh, let me tell you somethin whipersnapper! I pilot the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve Parsecs!! :p

Whipersnaper? Ha! I remember when the first clone order was put in on Kamino.

Meh, I'm 31, with two kids, and most of the time I still feel ridiculously young. Not immature, just not imbued yet with enough wisdom. Then again, I've met Elders who feel the same way, so I'm not really worried about it.

Im gonna put a peg on "When Twelve Year olds dont get your movie references"...*looks at Younger Brother* lol....

Growing Old in mandatory. Growing UP is optional. :p

Growing Old in mandatory. Growing UP is optional. :p

You mean I can still top 5'? I've been LIED to!

When I'm confined to a wheelchair, I intend to have bumpers installed for ramming. :)

When I'm confined to a wheelchair, I intend to have bumpers installed for ramming. :)

You aren't thinking big enough. We could fit a full-auto pie launcher to your wheelchair.

You aren't thinking big enough. We could fit a full-auto pie launcher to your wheelchair.

That'd be great for quick strikes, but I'll need something more ammo-friendy for extended engagements. Think we can modify a paintball marker to shoot grapes?

That'd be great for quick strikes, but I'll need something more ammo-friendy for extended engagements. Think we can modify a paintball marker to shoot grapes?

I was thinking we could get you a little sidecar to hold the ammo, but i think we could rig that up.

Btw, did you notice you made it in my poll? :p

I'm in my 20s and I feel kinda old. I would say there is no age where it is or is not ok to feel old. Either you do or you dont.

I'm 23, and I'm already complaining about teenagers and their crappy music.

You're doing it wrong. I can make people younger than me complain about my music. Now that's the real deal!

You mean I can still top 5'? I've been LIED to!

You'll always be larger than life to me Neesika! ;)

You mean I can still top 5'? I've been LIED to!

I know a man who is 46, and grows an eighth of an inch a year. (he's 6'3, at the moment), So, maybe, if you get lucky, you can be six feet tall in 48 years... but then you have to factor in the possibility of shrinking by age 79, which makes the whole thing much more complicated. :p

I know a man who is 46, and grows an eighth of an inch a year. (he's 6'3, at the moment), So, maybe, if you get lucky, you can be six feet tall in 48 years... but then you have to factor in the possibility of shrinking by age 79, which makes the whole thing much more complicated. :p

That's the worst super power I've ever heard of.

Worse than Nova Man. Worse than Power Friend. That's just awful.

Probably still could get in Alpha Flight, though.

That's the worst super power I've ever heard of.

Worse than Nova Man. Worse than Power Friend. That's just awful.

Probably still could get in Alpha Flight, though.

"Painfully-Slow-Growth-Man, we need you to hit the deactivation button on the doomsday device before it destroys the entire world! Can you reach it?"

"Using my Amazing Super Powers, I can reach the button in... 73 years!"

I'm 31, and it's not so much that I feel old, but that I've wasted my life up to this point...

"Painfully-Slow-Growth-Man, we need you to hit the deactivation button on the doomsday device before it destroys the entire world! Can you reach it?"

"Using my Amazing Super Powers, I can reach the button in... 73 years!"

Maybe he could get help from his sidekick, Pituitary Boy!

Why would a 14-year old feel old?That's about the time to first start feeling old.

I'm 19. I sometimes feel very old and tired..

That's about the time to first start feeling old.

Been their,done that. But I kinda figure if I waste my teenage life,maybe I can make up for it in my twentys right?



15, and feel massively young looking not only around my classes but especially here. I think I'm one of the youngest on this forum...

(And my music's not crappy!)

Wow....what if I told you your post made me feel old for a second? I just reliased I turning 16 in a few months and when I first started this whole internet thingy(which feels like a life time),I thought 16 was OOOOLLDDDDD! (:D)And I was always the youngest by a year or two in games. Not anymore...now their lads younger then me on the net!

And yes yours/ours music is crappy. Ands that coming from a guy who used to spend HOURS listening to the radio EVERY day. Man do I feel old. Those I promse to myself I won't ever feel that I wasted my life when I get older. I gotta keep that proimse those and sometimes despite all the funs times on the internet...maybe it was just a slight waste ya know? Those on the otherhand I probably be alot more dumber and stupid like kids my age if it wasn't for forums like Nationstates.

That's about the time to first start feeling old.

No, it isn't. 14 ain't old.

No, it isn't. 14 ain't old.

No, what I think his means(unless his joking...) is that 14 is the first time you should probably start looking at your life and wondering where it all went,judging your experinces and start to suffer your first bit of depression. its personally normal...(I think/hope).

No, what I think his means(unless his joking...) is that 14 is the first time you should probably start looking at your life and wondering where it all went,judging your experinces and start to suffer your first bit of depression. its personally normal...(I think/hope).

But at 14 you can't really judge were it all went because it hasn't gone anywhere, you can't judge your experiences because they are minimal.

My 20 year old self would probably go and kick my 14 year old self's ass for being so god damn happy-go-lucky, naive and for being such a smart-ass in regards to the world. But then my 45 year old self would probably kick my 20 year old self's ass for being such dick to my 14 year old self.

But at 14 you can't really judge were it all went because it hasn't gone anywhere, you can't judge your experiences because they are minimal.And therefore you can wonder why it hasn't gone anywhere and why you haven't experienced more.

I'm 49. Some days I feel like I'm 89. Arthritis all over.

My body sometimes feels old, but it's really not that much difference from when I was younger since I was never very athletic. My mind doesn't feel old at all. So I guess I feel young and old at the same time. Mentally I felt like I was in my 40s by the time I was 21, but only intellectually (or jadedness), otherwise I still feel young (or inexperienced).

So, generalites, do you feel old at your age?

About a year ago, I could of answered with a definite No!, but now I don't know and decided in the end that it didn't matter in the end. What changed a year ago that brought on that confusion, you ask.

Well, about a year ago the oldies station I listen to on the radio starting playing 80's music along with their already 60's and 70's. As, I was born in the 1980's I thought this a little odd, because by their logic of playing and considering music from the 1980's oldies, they inferred that anyone born in that decade had now defacto become an Old Timer.

And that my friends was the day I become old instead of young. I guess, I should feel so lucky, how many people can say that can name the exact day they went from being young to old.

So, do I feel old, I guess in a way I do considering everything I have seen and done after over two decades of living. However, with that said at the same time I still feel young at heart and to me that is more important then anything else.

I felt old as soon as I got out of High School.

Teaching 18 and 19 year olds every day makes me feel very old and I'm 26.

I voted wrong, does that make me old and senile?

I'm 18 and think that anyone that says that they are old before they reach their 40s probably really likes complaining. No offense to anyone, but somewhere around 40s or 50s is when someone starts to get old in my opinion. Some people take more or less time than that to start acting old. And some people never do start acting old, I might be one of those if I can help it.

I have so much ahead of me and so many decisions I have to make soon I still feel very young.

So, generalites, do you feel old at your age?I feel old at certain times, at other times I feel incredibly young and stupid. (I'm seventeen.)

It's an ongoing process.

you can start feeling old any time you feel like it. old and young both. i've certainly felt both ever since my awareness was implanted, prior to its birth, into this body it now occupies.

as for an end to feeling "young and stupid", i've been looking forward to some magic decade when that was going to happen all my life. at age 60, soon to be going on 61, it hasn't happened yet.

I still enjoy insulting people with awful taste in car accessories. There's this Dodge Intrepid near where I live with a fartcan muffler, a giant rear wing, mismatched wheels, and a huge windshield decal that reads "Intrepid".

The worst part is, I finally saw the driver of this thing, and I'm pretty sure he's older than I am. :(

I'm so glad decals and such aren't popular where I live. I've only seen one decal in the 3 weeks I've been back from Iraq and it said "You've been passed by a Rez Grandma!" so it wasn't a young kid, although I do live in the youngest city in my state.

For example I had to cut back on outdoor activities because of my knees. I also have about half of normal hearing in my right ear and probably going to need glasses within 10 years.

That's called being in the Army. During my post deployment health assessment I waited 7 hours for the audiologist to tell me I had hearing loss due to firing automatic weapons. I wanted to strangle him.