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I started losing hair when I was 18 and invincible, so I got over that quickly. 10 years ago I was in the best shape of my life, but I've let things slide a bit, so I'd have to say putting on an extra 10-15 pounds was my wake up call. That, and my wife saying that I'm "not overweight at all", but I could swear her fingers were crossed!😱

I've got some genetics that fool people into thinking I look much younger than I really am, which is nice, but then that probably means my hearts going to explode in a year, so I try not to let the youthful appearance go to my head.

I realized that it's now or never to start making headway on conditioning, so it's back to running 3 times a week, flinging the kayaks back atop the wagon more often and watching what I eat much more carefully than I did 10 years ago.



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I lost interest in a lot of stuff i liked as a kid then i knew it was happening...plus chicks became my best interest....yup all grown now🙂


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Well I am only 19 but I noticed that I was maturing when some of my younger friends called me a couple night in a row to see if I wanted to go "ravage the neighborhood" as they call it. They were surprised since I always used to do stupid stuff like that. Glad I grew out of it.
 
jelloshotsrule said:
floriflee- to most, 24 isn't that old!
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Yes, but you alluded to Back to the Future without batting a proverbial eyelash. Kids these days wouldn't know a good movie if it hit them in the proverbial face. Stupid kids with their stupid movies...probably never seen Three Amigos or Back to the Future...let alone know of Alex P Keaton or that Steve Martin used to make good movies (not that Cheaper by the Dozen was bad family entertainment, but it didn't merit a sequel) like The Jerk...Think they're all retro cool because people remake classics like Bad News Bears into crap...
 
A few years ago I was waiting to get my haircut and flipping through a Playboy and realized I was born 2 decades before the centerfold. I suddenly felt weird.

On the bright side, the sweater comes off in the spring.
 
It's interesting, but I can't see myself as old. Sure, I know I'm getting older, as that is inevitable, but I guess I just don't "feel" old. I'm almost 37, but that means I likely have more than as long as I've lived left to live, if all goes well.

I run, I work out, I eat reasonably well, and I have young kids, so that helps me remain young. My wife is older than me, so I also have that comparison going for me.

In the end, I think if you feel old you are old. What's a few wrinkles or an occasional snap-crackle-pop in the knees, really?

And what's so bad about being older? Lord knows I wouldn't want to go back to being a teen-ager, or really even in my 20's again. My life is stable, I have a lot of friends, I have a good life with a great family, and I can actually afford to do the things I would have liked to have done in my 20's.

Now turn that music down and shut off the TV, I've got crosswords to do.
 
iGary said:
I just thoguht of another one - since when did you start growing MORE hair in weird places?

My eyebrows and ears grow hair like weeds. 😱 And I am basically a non-hairy person.
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CanadaRAM said:
Makes me sneeze...
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how about i just staple you to a big canvas and call it art????

nbs2 said:
Yes, but you alluded to Back to the Future without batting a proverbial eyelash. Kids these days wouldn't know a good movie if it hit them in the proverbial face. Stupid kids with their stupid movies...probably never seen Three Amigos or Back to the Future...let alone know of Alex P Keaton or that Steve Martin used to make good movies (not that Cheaper by the Dozen was bad family entertainment, but it didn't merit a sequel) like The Jerk...Think they're all retro cool because people remake classics like Bad News Bears into crap...
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you forgot planes, trains and automobiles, uncle buck, dirty rotten scoundrels, and many more.

3 amigos is stellar.
 
I realized I was old when I scanned the roster of my favorite baseball team and suddenly realized I was older than any of the players. Sigh.

Or when a few friends and reminisced on New Years Eve two years ago about seeing Van Halen's "Jump" video premiere on Jan. 1, 1984 and realizing it was 20 years ago. Note to the youngsters -- this was when MTV used to play videos instead of whatever the heck is on there now.... 😀
 
That was a moment of realization for me when it occurred to me that most NBA players are younger than me, and almost none of the stars are older than me. I remember when Dontonio Wingfield was the only NBA player who was younger than me. He's long since out of the league by now.

In a few years, the only NBA players older than me will be those big, old centers who come in to foul people.
 
When you don't answer a knock on your hotel door ( knowing that it's an attractive 20something girl you met earlier on the beach) because you'd rather get a good night's sleep....you're old.
 
miloblithe said:
That was a moment of realization for me when it occurred to me that most NBA players are younger than me, and almost none of the stars are older than me. I remember when Dontonio Wingfield was the only NBA player who was younger than me. He's long since out of the league by now.

In a few years, the only NBA players older than me will be those big, old centers who come in to foul people.
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As I mentioned earlier, it's worrying when sports stars all end up being younger than you. I remember watching football when I was younger and the players, even the youngest ones, seemed so much older than I was. Last season, me and the missus realised that only three of our teams 30-odd man squad were older than us. This season, only one of them is. And he's always out injured, 'cos of his age. 😱
 
When my conversations with friends began going something like this:

Friend: Hey man, whats up?
Me: Not much, just got out of work, you?
Friend: Went to the lake all day with Kevin. Gonna go back later to have a bon fire with some friends we met - wanna come?
Me: Ah man, I would, but I need to study all night for an exam tomorrow.

And it's been that way for quite a while, and will be for quite a while more 😡
 
I'll go with the 'can't drink and not get hungover' rule too...

Aside from that, it all still seems very normal. 😉
 
I turned 36 years old last month, and at the time I told my youngest brother that this is the first birthday when I've really felt old.

A lot of the reasons have already been mentioned. I can't stay up past about 10:00 at night, and I tend to have more aches and pains these days. Some other indicators:
  • I now enjoy browsing through antiques stores and visiting historical landmarks.
  • When my wife and I go to the beach on vacation, we don't really spend that much time on the beach anymore.
  • I really don't care much about what I'm getting for birthday or Christmas gifts. I mean, I appreciate them, but it's a lot more fun to shop for my nieces and nephews.
  • My wife went looking for the movie of "The Outsiders" and the kid at the video rental store told her to look for it in the "Classics" section.
  • Our niece (age 12) told us, "I like listening to those songs from the 80's, you know, on the oldies station."
  • I used to listen to Casey Kasem count down the top 40 every Sunday afternoon. Nowadays, I'll see a list of the top 10 hits on the Billboard charts and I often don't recognize a single song.
  • I was there for the birth of the World Wide Web. I used the original Mosaic browser, before it became Netscape and later Mozilla. I remember when Yahoo! was just a web page that a couple of guys at Stanford maintained. I used to be on top of this stuff. Nowadays, I keep hearing about instant messaging and text messaging and MySpace and all of this stuff that I don't know anything at all about.
I don't really want to go back, though. 😀
 
Recently, I dunno. I felt funny. I dropped doing childish things and just acted grown up all of a sudden. I look after the house more than my parents, feel like I have more responsibilities and feel proud about it. I even said that getting a job wouldn't be so bad! Stopped having daft arguments with my girlfriend too.

Only recently. not before time too. I'm 20! I still do stupid/different things. I don't drink or smoke, rather go out running than go to the pub.

still not mature enough to get a full time job, get married and have kids. thats what post-university is all about 🙂 still have 18 months of freedom left.
 
miniConvert said:
Hair! Hair in places where hair just shouldn't be!
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Aw come on....you know that's an experience people have at least *twice* in their life 😛
 
Josh said:
Aw come on....you know that's an experience people have at least *twice* in their life 😛
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Yeah, except the second time is kind of horrifying.
 
I thought of this thread today when I was out shopping. How do you know you're getting old? When you start to prefer the clothes in the grown up bit of H&M as opposed to the insane trendy stuff. 😱
 
Lau said:
I thought of this thread today when I was out shopping. How do you know you're getting old? When you start to prefer the clothes in the grown up bit of H&M as opposed to the insane trendy stuff. 😱
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don't they make sexy thongs for old people too?????? 😉
 
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