That Moment You Realised You're Old

[Yopaz]

I started feeling old when I realized young people haven't heard about NES or SNES. However when I really started to feel adult was when I was home last Christmas and I was eating cheese and crackers with red wine while watching Poirot with my mother. I only had 2 glasses of red wine so it was for the taste, not for the alcohol.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Eh. That either hasn't happened to me yet, or it already happened when I was about 7, and I don't really notice anymore.

Either way, I don't understand ageing very well. XD

 

[Summerstorm]

Eh, mine doesn't really fit here. And my definition of OLD is maybe a bit harsher:

A few month ago i SLIPPED in the bathroom. As i was laying on the floor it just hit me, i couldn't stop laughing; Who the hell slips in the bathroom: Old people, that's who. {Oh and also: DAMN that HURT, thought for time my knee was smashed. Took a few days to be ok again}

Well, but overall i realized: I never really grew up. I am still like i was when i were 15-16 years old. Only that my body begins to fail, and i don't have that much of a future and more of memories and nostalgia.

It sucks.

 

[tgcPheonix]

When some little kid came upto me and said "excuse me sir"

 

[Scarim Coral]

The last time that happen to me was a year ago when my cousins (one of them is younger than me) came over to visit.
Anyway we were talking about stuff I do and I use the phrase "surf the net". He was baffle at that phrase and I said it's a phrase use to say you use the internet and that "what how people say it". He just reply back "who are these people you're referring to?". His comment make me think of which people who use that phrase but I keep getting blank realising that no one use that phrase anymore...

 

[similar.squirrel]

Most people in their early 20s are in the penultimate or final year of an undergrad. Idiot boy here is in first.

 

[Sarcastic_Applause]

I think I made myself a promise not too long ago; I will not consider myself old until I sincerely begin a sentence or rant with 'Back in my day'... or until I become an officer.
Til then I'm pretty much a brat in my own eyes; I love genesis Sonic, play games, make stupid and sometimes juvenile jokes and I don't care what people think .

Most people in their early 20s are in the penultimate or final year of an undergrad. Idiot boy here is in first.

before I made that promise I would've called myself 'old' for immediately thinking of Wordsworth and Coleridge's poem, "the idiot boy" when you wrote it on your post :3

 

[D Moness]

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

Specially if the OP is half your own age >.>

Except for moments like that not really.

 

[Dutch 924]

I'll always have the mentality of a child.

I'll never grow up

 

[Batou667]

You know you're old when:

You pass an older man in the street, and instead of avoiding eye contact, he says good morning to you.

You start wearing knitwear instead of band/college hoodies.

Getting older is compulsory, growing up is voluntary.

 

[AhumbleKnight]

When doing the whole fitness thing I started getting a special kind of physical pain/discomfort that I had never felt before. It was then I realised that I am now old enough to say "I'm too old for this shit..." That was two years ago.

 

[ryo02]

to all the 19 year olds feeling old ... please stop Im 10 years older than you T_T.

one thing that is kinda sad and makes me feel old.. my dads been dead for more of my life than he was alive for.

 

[mayney93]

I'm not old, i just started uni, on another note, it must make my dad feel quite old when Me his eldest 18 yr old son is entertaining ozzy, his youngest 18 month year old son

 

[Sepphyre]

Curiously, I wonder if there comes a time when you STOP feeling old (at least for a little while).

I recall a feeling of 'getting older' when my responsibilities increased... starting a job, buying a house and being entirely self-sufficient... dramatic changes for sure, and in the aftermath of that you realise that you are not a teen anymore and life is getting away from you.

However, I'm 37 now, and I don't feel like I have aged (much) in the last 15 years. I wonder if it's because circumstances haven't changed much... Physically, I still have all of my hair, it's not greying, I have not gained weight and I don't feel sore or slower. Mentally, I still play games, listen to heavy metal, and regularly stay up until beyond midnight. Me and my wife don't have kids, that might also help.

So I'm at a comfortable spot at the moment and I don't feel old at all. I hope all those in their 20's who are feeling old get to the same happy place soon

 

[interspark]

ha! i'm 19 and my mental age is 12! but that's nothing, my sister is 22 and her mental age is only 6!

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

You know when your old when you think that ageism is a reason you didnt get something. Im only 34 and i feel that my age is stopping me getting interviews. sigh.

 

[babinro]

When technology passed me by. I've got no knowledge of cell phone technology. If you hand me your cell phone, I probably couldn't figure out how to go online, text, check voice mail or even make a call. They simply don't interest me and come across as foreign to me. Like that old lady you have to teach how to 'double click' in order to open a folder on their computer.

The reality is that I don't feel old despite being 30 and having a couple of grey hairs now. This is probably because my hobbies are still the same as they were in highschool.