How do you tell you are not young any more?

[FC Groningen]

Objectively stating, I believe the average body of a women starts to seriously decline at the age of 20 and the average body of a man starts to seriously decline at the age of 26. Some study might prove this statement wrong, but thats the best I can come up with. (I'm aware you keep losing DNA from birth)


Anyway, I'm 24 years old myself. No major physical limitations yet, although I feel that I gain weight a little more easy compared to 2 years ago. (Still have a BMI of 19 so I'm good) Also, I really think the music nowadays is ****, but I remember saying that 8 years ago as well.

 

[Simon Hadow]

You are officially old when your doctor is younger than you.

 

[Android2137]

I consider myself old when I am no longer able to just rattle off my age in an instant. In other words, when I actually have to calculate it in my head. It's been that way since last year. I was... *quick calculation* 23.

 

[Snork Maiden]

I know I'm getting older because my hangovers have become fucking atrocious.

You're not "young" anymore when you start playing bills.

That doesn't mean you're "old", however.

I remember complaining to my parents that I never got mail yet they got letters everyday. I now utterly understand why they said they'd gladly swap places with me - opening my letterbox each day is deffo something to be put off until the evening.

 

[CrashBang]

I'm the complete opposite to the OP...
I'm 21 and today I went to a high school to get some teacher training experience. Whilst sitting in the classroom observing the teacher, I kept wanting to raise my hand and answer the questions. I still think of myself as about 16 and still behave as such. I truly haven't matured at all and I worry that, when I'm thirty, I'll still have long hair, wear skinny jeans and just look very out of place for my age... when is it time to grow up? Do I have to? Is it normal to have this Peter Pan mentality? I always just reassure myself that if Scott Pilgrim can be a 22 year old child then so can I!

I might just start a thread about this...

 

[DawnSR]

Go to your favorite Dance Club/Disco... then when you see a Girl there and think damm i hit that if she was a bit older than you know you are old!

 

[Pariah87]

When people who are now legally adults cannot remember the things I remember from childhood because they were too young or not yet born. Is 5 years really that much of a difference?

I've realised I'm going to be from that transitional generation, where I still remember having to wait for 5 minutes for a VHS tape to rewind to the beginning then witnessing the birh of DVDs. I went to see Jurrassic Park at the cinema when I was 5 years old. That film is now 18. I completely remember New Years Eve 1999. Plane travel pre 9/11. None of this Health and Safety bullshit we have today. My dad is a train driver and I despite our turbulent relationship I remember going with him, riding at the front of the train, learning how it all worked. The same thing when he worked for a bit driving trucks. You're not allowed to do that today.

Things they are a changing and me being an old fuddy duddy, I don't like it.

 

[vxicepickxv]

When today's kids music sound's like shit.

Thanks, I guess that means 30 years ago I was born old.

 

[Hafnium]

Already there, at 23 years of age.. Though my hate goes to my seniors as well, I don't discriminate!

 

[googleit6]

Well it's an odd juxtaposition because myself and my peers are all 15, 16, or 17, which I would still consider to be quite young, and yet all the majority of them seem to get drunk/high every weekend, (And proceed to discuss it at school without worrying who hears about it, considering how many stories I've heard) and not regret it.

Kids my age get into completely scary and crazy things that I would never dream of doing at this age. I'm an old soul, and sometimes it really bothers me.

What saying have I heard around somewhere? Age is just a state of mind- you're only as old as you feel.

 

[TheLaofKazi]

I feel like getting old in the boring, negative connotation sense of the word is when you stop growing and nurturing yourself mentally and physically. I don't mean grow and age in the literal, biological sense of the term, because your brain and body are done growing I think after your mid 20s, but in a less scientific sense.

Just because the years you have existed on this planet reaches a certain number doesn't mean you can't keep learning and experiencing new things. The moments that truly make me feel 'young' in my life are the ones where I change and better myself. You can keep doing that up until the day you die. Even after I'm 30, 40, 50 or even 60 years old, I can still keep appreciating new types of art, I can still try to understand myself and others better, I can still enjoy my body if I treat it right, and most importantly, I can change. I can adapt to my current situation, just as I always have, and find happiness. Sure, I won't be able to consume as many slices of pizza without getting fat if I just run around a bit as I would at age 50, but is that really important? That was fun back then, and later it really won't be. Alright. I'll find something else to do.

"I don't wanna wait till I get old to care about the "important things in life". I'm going for them now." -Geoff Keezer

 

[Reishadowen]

I felt old when my supervisor at work told me recently that I would soon be in charge of supervising someone else. Then I stopped to realize that I have the ability to completely wreck someone's life at work if I screw up, and the risk of teaching them bad work ethic if they see me slacking.

I think I was already on my way to 'that age' when I was eighteen or nineteen. I had no desire to go out and get drunk or do drugs (never have done either one) at that age. And while out with my friends, a couple of younger teens (13-14) ran right passed us, cutting us off. My response was to say "Goddamn kids don't have any manners anymore."

So I'm not alone after all! I think I started to feel that way before I could even drive (legally, anyways). I always chalked it up to my parents raising me better, but more and more I start to wonder...

I'd think part of the reason is that technology, and the flow of information, are largely behind the newer and newer generations seeming so different. Technology, so integrated with our lives more and more, is coming out in it's own generations much faster and faster than the previous. Although this is just a personal theory...It could just be that most kids today are to busy rebelling against anything that even smells like conformity, and have dipsh*t role-models like gangsta rappers and wannabe whores instead of real heroes...

 

[Hawkmoon269]

I know I'm getting older because my hangovers have become fucking atrocious.

You're not "young" anymore when you start playing bills.

That doesn't mean you're "old", however.

I remember complaining to my parents that I never got mail yet they got letters everyday. I now utterly understand why they said they'd gladly swap places with me - opening my letterbox each day is deffo something to be put off until the evening.

Haha, I was exactly the same. Now those letters are the bane of my life.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

22 myself, not reached the point where I moaming for a return to the good old days but I can feel myself getting there. The first time I felt like I was a proper adult was soon after I turned 21 when an old woman working the cashier in a shop referred to me as "sir".

when its snowing outside and instead of thinking how good that is, you think "this is going to cause some transportation issues"

The sad truth of getting older, that is why everytime it snows I still go outside a build a snowman.

 

[Snake Plissken]

You know when I knew I was old?

I was at work, and some guy called me "sir". I looked around, you know, to see who he was talking to. As it turned out, at that exact moment, I was old. Old enough to be called sir, anyways.

 

[popparik]

You know you're getting old when the music you grew up listening to on the radio is now only heard on the "oldies" station.