"God I'm old" moments

[Aldem]

I had a pretty depressing one a few months ago when I turned 18. In a matter of minutes, I was hit with the realizations that...

The cartoons I grew up with are now considered old.
The only "cool" cartoon I know of is Adventure Time.
In four years, I will graduate from college and enter the "real world."
When I was younger, I thought college students were really old.
I find that many girls in elementary and middle school dress as if they intend to be pregnant as soon as possible.
I can no longer date a minor.
I am nearing the peak of my biological potential (best chance for strong offspring, if my phrasing was confusing).
I need to seriously start taking care of myself because the freebie puberty energy is pretty much gone.
I will spend the prime of my life sitting in an office.
I will one day be as old as my grandmother and hardly have the energy to cook.
My grandma will die any year now.
I have older parents (my dad is in his early 60s and my mom her mid 50s), so there is a good chance that they'll be dead before I achieve the greatest thing I can in my career.
Some day, everyone I love will be dead.
There is a good chance that I will have to suffer through the deaths of many people I love.
I will someday be married, leading to one of two possibilities:
A)My spouse will die, leaving me alone and miserable.
B)I will die, leaving my spouse alone and miserable.
I will never know how people feel about me after my death.
I will have lived my life only to rot away after leaving a very minimal impact on the world, which is itself totally insignificant with respect to everything.
I have a stronger lens prescription than either of my parents.

Needless to say I spent the night of my 18th birthday in my Canadian grandmother's basement where my grandfather had left a stocked open-bar.

 

[DannyJBeckett]

I have one of these whenever I wake up in the morning with a stiff-back.

I'm only 21

 

[dedem1315]

A friend of mine who was 10 when I was 8, is now engaged and has a baby. I'm 15.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I was discussing music with people who didn't know who Linkin Park were.

That sucked.

 

[scar_47]

I recently realized that at the age of 23 I'm a crochety old man who's tired of all the BS, it wasn't really any one moment but a friend saying I gripe like an old person really got me thinking about it. I just wonder what I'll be like in 40 years if I'm cursed to endure that long.

 

[TwoSidesOneCoin]

Every time at Basic Combat Training whenever someone asked me how old I was, and then went all slack jawed after I told them I was 26.

 

[2HF]

Back To The Future is sadly missing from the list. It's the one that gets me feeling old.

 

[Sarah Frazier]

I tend to feel old when my arthritis acts up to where I walk like I'm 80, even though I'm nearly the same age as the OP.

Other than that, the feeling comes when:

I see girls who can't be older than 12 wearing prostitute clothes (in winter, no less)

Seeing how stupidly simple and cartoony toys with no electronics have become

Seeing that toys that light up, make noise, move on their own have gotten more complicated, but no more fun

When I can't help but wonder how a title could be related to the rest of the 'series' when the only thing it has in common is a couple of item names (looking at you, Final Fantasy)

 

[alandavidson]

I feel old because I have back pain
I've come to the point where I ask for dress shirts for Christmas instead of just getting them
I teach at a theatre company I used to be a part of

 

[CrustyOatmeal]

back in high school during my senior year my football coach had a daughter. a few weeks ago i had a full conversation with that girl and after she ran back to her mom it hit me, im an old guy now. im only 22

it doesnt help that my mom and sister feel they have to point out every single new grey hair i have whenever they see me

 

[Viptorian]

I was in the gym next to my old high school (10 years removed) and this girls is walking around in there with a shirt with no arms, barely any sides, and is torn up on the front and back. She is all but naked and clearly a high school student. I said to myself, "If and when I have kids, I would NEVER let my daughter walk out of the house in that."

 

[Viptorian]

Reading this thread also didn't help.

Damn whippersnappers.

 

[Plucky]

When i look at my youngest brother watching live action tween stuff like Wizards, A.N.T Farm, Kickin' It, ect shows on disney....but then i smile when i see something on Phineas and Ferb with some semi-sly reference...like that electric keyboard sound from Safety Dance.

Either that, or the underepresentation of Anime here in the United Kingdom, before Jetix was shot down and became Disney XD, we had Bo^7 (Bobobo), Naruto, Viewtiful Joe (which never got a full rotation) and anything else ive forgot, they stuck both the latter animes into late night slots and placed Naruto firmly in the 7:00-8:00PM Zone where'd it have to compete with the drama juggernauts such as Eastenders and Emmerdale.

How far did we get to in Naruto?

Spoiler

That arc where Orochimaru needs Tsunade for some reason to heal his arms....or something strange, otherwise it started to repeat from the beginning

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Shortly before Disney XD came, One Piece was moved from cartoon network to cartoon network two, they removed all the Anime besides Pokemon from the channel, even then, it was only the DP series, CN Two became CN Too and lost Pokemon to Disney once the Darkrai film aired on Disney XD.

And where does Naruto appear in all of this? Nowhere. No channels airs anime, besides some semi obscure ones like Kix, Pop and Pop Girl, it only has DVDs....want to play a videogame where the characters are far and wide? good luck knowing first hand about their backstories and such without watching via the internet or the menctioned DVDs. D:

There must've been like 5 or 6 Naruto games here, probably doesnt help that most of them prior to the series reaching here was either released in america/japan only, or was on consoles which probably died by then...that Ubisoft game only got upto..

Spoiler

Garaa becoming some sandbeast

I miss Dragon Ball Z...it was simple. (hated the pacing in the Namek Arc besides the super saiyan bit)

EDIT: looked at Wikipedia, looks like Naruto has had about 17-18 games released here in the EU/UK. (also counts ones that has dates but hasn't been released yet)

 

[geK0]

I feel/felt old:

When I looked in the walmart toy section (Christmas shopping) and saw YugiOh yugi and kaiba decks released as "retro edition"

When people on this forum say that Halo/Halo2 were their childhood

When I realized WOW is 8 years old

When my nephew became old enough that I can remember when I was his age

When I realized that at this point, the people who were only in grade 9 when I graduated highschool will be graduating this year

When my parents ask me "aren't you a little too old to be playing kids games?"

When I realized that this Christmas will probably be my last one that I live at home.

When I realized the Fellowship of the Ring movie was over 10 years old.

 

[mcnally86]

I'm still considered young by most of the population (I'm about to turn 26 if you were curious) but have been feeling old lately. I thought instead of complaining about kids being in my yard, I'd hop onto this new-fangled internet thing and see if others have their own old-feeling stories.

So a bit ago, I was playing tennis with a buddy of mine. We've played a set by now, so I'm warmed up and looking for a win as he just beat me. I go to pick up a tennis ball from the ground when I get a spike of pain in my back. I didn't seriously hurt my back, but I had to stop playing the game because I bent over and hurt myself...

So in tribute to my upcoming 26th birthday, does anyone else have a fun story about feeling old? Yes, you ancient 30 year old's can also participate as long as you don't complain about the music in here being too loud...

I called up a friend and said, "hey you seen that commercial for that-" he cut me off but spoke low so his girlfriend wouldn't catch him, "ya they got it down by the wallmart. I already tried it, it's awesome." I don't know what is more disappointing, that I called him about the Dr. Scholls foot machine or that without having said it he knew I was talking about it. Well at least I can say I didn't sneak around my girlfriend to use it first.

 

[shrekfan246]

Found out my 10-year old niece has a cell phone.

When I was ten, no one in my family had wireless phones, let alone cell phones.

My ten-year old niece and twelve-year old nephew both have iPhones. Yeah, when I was their age I don't think I had even memorized the land-line number, nowadays my dad is about the only person I know who even has a land-line.

I mention Windows ME/98 and my friend stares

My last desktop had Windows 98 SE.

OT: Well, touching on the earlier paragraph, the fact that my niece and nephew don't understand references from films . . . well, that came out before 2000. Most recently noted by me was "The Karate Kid".

Fondly remembering the days of booting up games like "Star Wars: Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight", "Sonic the Hedgehog", "Banjo-Kazooie". . . and how excited I was when my dad finally let me play Final Fantasy VII for the first time, now remembering that game is just about fifteen years old.

Seeing my younger brother, who is fourteen years younger than me.

Being unable to throw away a combination DVD/VHS player that may not even work anymore because it's ridiculously difficult to even find VHS players anymore.

Whenever I note that both of my laptops are technologically superior to the last desktop computer I owned.

Being almost completely unable to find any of the television shows I watched as a child on television anymore.

For the incredibly stereotypical one, every time I remember that I'm going to turn twenty later this month makes me feel old.

 

[moostar]

i feel both of you, the way of how i feel old is how much kids are less discipline than how my sis and i were a few years ago, parents let them get away with almost anything, even trash talking.

 

[Merkavar]

when i think about stuff like it was last year. like movies i saw or places i went but then i realise that it actually happened 10 years ago.

or when i think aut something thinking it happened in 2000s but actually happened in 90s.

 

[mcnally86]

I remember a feild trip to the internet. There was this big building that had it and we didn't get much time to use it.I think we got like 5 minutes to play with an online calculator. That calculator was magic.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Thinking "Damn teenagers" without a shred of irony at the age of nineteen. I wonder what I'll be like when I'm actually old.