That Moment You Realised You're Old

[masterbazza]

I realised I had no new age to look forward to. I'm old enough to drink and that's the last thing of freedom I am afforded.
Also, when I realised that knowing the connection between these two objects is not common knowledge.

i know
and I'm only 14. i wonder how i will feel when I'm 18

 

[zombiesinc]

Wait? Why is it that you're old if you're an adult? At least that's the gist I caught from the OP.

I have plenty of moments where I realize just how much older I am than others, but I have yet to have a moment where I genuinely feel "old". Obviously it'll happen eventually, but I doubt any time soon. Regardless of when it happens, it really holds no significance to me.

 

[Neverbomb]

When all my friends started getting married, but then I realised I am 12 years older than the one who started this discussion, and that was the moment I have felt most being old ...

 

[Chezza]

I am 23 years young. The only possible way for me to feel old is to be surrounded by children online and engaging in a conversation with them. Then the question remains, why would I even attempt to communicate with children. Nothing to gain, it's just testing my tolerance. But at some point you have this small sense of being a father figure when they appreciate you and take in your advise. That's probably as close to being a father as I would ever want to be

 

[fgdfgdgd]

When I realised that I'm not as bullet-proof as I used to be, high falls, fist fights and getting beaten up, I would always bounce back in a day or so, but just the other week I fell from a chair when changing a light bulb and my back, legs and arse have been sore ever since, I can't stay up as long or stay out as late, I remember a time when my friends and I would stay at our friends house party till almost dawn, we had one the other week and it barely made it past midnight; I'm only 21...

 

[wehrp3nguin]

1) When my bones ache in rainy weather...
2) When I ask other students about what they're wearing/doing and make a safety-suggestions...
3) When I say I'm leaving and end up sitting to chat some more...
4) When I walked back 3 times because I forgot things...
5) When I go to class to hand in a report, and go home after the teacher let us out early; when there was a party in walking distance...
And all this was my just last Thursday

 

[Jeremy Meadows]

I noticed I was old (even though i'm only 25) When I kept saying, "back in my day". I can't even identify with kids nowadays.

 

[Boletes Net]

I'm older than some of you and I still feel young.....I live and my parents house and i'm a delivery boy...i've never had a long term relationship yet my heart gets broken everytime....i'm bassically a teenager.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

When people make threads like this for the "first" time.

Also when the emo starts, and I know those kids will have at least two more wonderful relationships and two more tragic losses far worse than they've ever had.

Life's a laugh like that.

 

[Cowabungaa]

When I see the huge difference in terms of responsibility between me and my classmates.

I had a bit of a break between college courses, leading to me sharing classes with 17 year olds, and I'm 21. Lead to me saying things like "Should you really be playing League of Legends right now instead of working on ? We got these free hours for a reason you know."

At moments like that I really feel the age gap between me and my classmates.

 

[PAGEToap44]

Feeling a lot of this just now. Starting uni there's that weird feeling of, just.. not having school. It's odd, being able to do pretty much whatever I fancy without being held back by regulations. That combined with buying all my own food, living with people who aren't my family, doing my own laundry and all those other aspects of life one comes to experience upon leaving home.

 

[^=ash=^]

The day I went to the bank for a "Financial Review".

*sobs*

 

[strider2u]

I get humbled a lot in my work, as I work in the ER but look like I'm 14. I always feel young when they call me Doogie Howser, but feel old when kids ask who Doogie Howser was.

To the people saying: paying bills, cooking, making it on my own.... seriously?! Been doing that since the age of 9.

 

[Powereaver]

when i finished school all those years ago.. then i felt like an adult.. im 26 at the end of the year so im well and truly PAST it

 

[Bvenged]

I realised I had no new age to look forward to. I'm old enough to drink and that's the last thing of freedom I am afforded.
Also, when I realised that knowing the connection between these two objects is not common knowledge.

So what does that make me if I know how and have done so; but I'm just 18?

The same trick worked for me with my thumb and my Fireman Sam videos.

Holy shit - I'm revelling in the old world. :O

 

[holy_secret]

I hate today's popular music. Seriously. This Kesha ***** and those other loony toon chicks that attempt to "sing". Why can't they have good music anymore on the radio?

And then suddenly I understood why my parents hate the music I'm listening to.
I. Am. Old.

 

[AlwaysPractical]

Half passed out after several hours of serious partying, lying on the grass and looking into a neighbour's window where their son was sleeping... and realising that he has no idea of life before Bush... When Texas was famous for NASA and TI... When you could support the US and still be seen as halfway intelligent...