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how old were you when you first truly realized that you aren't so young anymore?

I realize it every time I'm playing football. :) Harder to breath with much physical activity.. But maybe it is not age but health. Some bad habits make me feel so. :eek:
In other cases most of the time I feel young! :) Well, I am young (22 y.o.) but I think these feeling will be with me for a long time.. I hope so.
Some say that youth is not the age but a state of your soul! :)
I wish you all to feel young! ;)
 
When I had to go to my insurance company a few weeks back, and I realized I had to do it on my own... 18. Bam. You're an adult in legal eyes, but oddly, society still sees you as a gross teen (and rightfully so for the most part).
 
When I got arthritis at 13. But not then. It was when it got severe at about 23, then was at home most of the time and the months and years started whizzing past :eek:

A realise I'm still young and as a past poster mentioned its a physical state of mind, I just don't feel it anymore in all ways.
 
Im 16 and have only felt old when I have been looking at the people in my grade and the grades below. They are all so pretentious and there priorities are all wrong. They focus so much on what others think of them that they begin to stop (nice oxymoron) enjoying their lives. That is when I feel old. But I know I am not at all.

(sorry for the spelling)
 
I can't get over it. I'm 21 and I never get carded. It makes me mad, I mean I look old for my age, but still, I would like to be carded for liquor purchases.

Also, teenagers checking me out at grocery stores have referred to me as Sir on multiple occasions. I'm a freakin' senior in college, I'm not that much older than you...

I am also making many more adult decisions. I'm with a girl that will most likely be my wife soon, we got a dog, I am renting an apartment in my own name, it's sick.

I'm 21 and I feel like I missed my teen years...
 
getting old is all in your head... and in your knees, and in your back, and in your neck. I notice I don't heal like I use to. Tweaked my ankle playing basketball and it took forever to strengthen up. Course the extra 10pounds doesn't help with wear and tear. Ah well, none of us are getting off this planet alive. Pity the fool who leaves spare synovial fluid for the worms...
 
wvuwhat said:
I can't get over it. I'm 21 and I never get carded. It makes me mad, I mean I look old for my age, but still, I would like to be carded for liquor purchases.

Also, teenagers checking me out at grocery stores have referred to me as Sir on multiple occasions. I'm a freakin' senior in college, I'm not that much older than you...

I am also making many more adult decisions. I'm with a girl that will most likely be my wife soon, we got a dog, I am renting an apartment in my own name, it's sick.

I'm 21 and I feel like I missed my teen years...
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well i get carded all the time except vegas and even just recently been asked for id to see an r rated movie (had to be 17). thing is i dont look young lol and im close to 23


but yea once you have loans in your name and have your own place where parents dont help you out, etc you are getting old haha


also when you realize you

1) are older than the majority of the college population (as i am being a 5th year senior)
2) realize that the college sports you love are not being played by guys older than you like they had been my entire life but instead by guys who are younger than me
3) when you see professional athletes younger than you playing a game and being paid millions....there goes my dream of playing for the hawks lol
 
Crawn2003 said:
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when I was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease in my spine at 22.

I have to take Methocarbamol and Tramadol HCL regularly.

~Crawn
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Sorry to hear that:(
 
when i was at an mma event and this gorgeous girl approached me and w etalked for a bit until i aske dher age, she was 16...I could not believe it and also not that im old, or realized im old, but im not you know.. a teen anymore,, Im just 22 by the way.,..
 
I don't feel that old yet.

It seems like when you are in elementary school the kindergardeners are so young. When you are in middle school the elementary kids seem so small, when you are a sophomore in HS the freshman look like they are tiny.

Probably not until at least I graduate college.
 
2007 great age of 46. Can't wait for the big 5 0! I am going to celebrate, I will be half a century old! Woohoo 2011! ;) :D :p

It was when I realized that MY parents weren't getting any younger and wondering how much longer they will be here. Sorry for the downer folks. :(

I can't get over it. I'm 21 and I never get carded. It makes me mad, I mean I look old for my age, but still, I would like to be carded for liquor purchases.
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Funny thing is is that I got carded even at 40. Boy did that make me mad. It is so much easier not getting carded. :)
 
When I turned 30 last year. The first time I took a survey after that, and I had to check the box for 30-49 rather than the box for 18-29.
 
about last week, and im 17. i realized that i am about to be considered an adult, but i don't feel any different than i did in 7th grade... (probably not good).


i also felt old as soon as my days of not going to school ended, at age 5. that was a sad day for me. can you imagine, you only get 5 years to enjoy life before the torture begins!
 
I'll let you know if it happens. My parents were both playing tennis in their eighties, I had a great aunt who lived to 108, and my grandfather lived till 96, so I expect it'll be a while yet.
 
I don't necessarily feel that old, but just a bit dated sometimes. Like when I mention to someone that when I was in high school, back in the 90s, nobody had cell phones, or that I remember a time before the World Wide Web, or that I used to use 5.25" floppy disks.

That, and when technology creeps me out - like those bluetooth headsets. People talking into thin air, or talking in your direction but not talking to you. Creepy. So I guess that officially makes me "old". :)
 
swiftaw said:
When I turned 30 last year. The first time I took a survey after that, and I had to check the box for 30-49 rather than the box for 18-29.
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hahaha

ahhhhhh brilliant

explaining what dial up was to a child last week made me feel a little old, I'm only 19 for gods sake...
 
Schtumple said:
hahaha

ahhhhhh brilliant

explaining what dial up was to a child last week made me feel a little old, I'm only 19 for gods sake...
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Haha, yeah. I had to do that with someone recently, too. I was explaining to someone how to get the phone number for dial-up service and they asked something akin to "Why would I need a land line to connect to the internet?", and at that point I realized they had no idea what I was talking about.
 
"Shoe the horse and shoe the mare
but let the little filly run bare..."

When Grandma walked me up to a Grant's, which was a dimestore back in the day, and the shoe salesman put my foot on his slidey metal foot-measuring gizmo, I knew that I was not a young'un any more.

Sixteen years of wearing shoes to school ensued. I was thrilled to be a "grownup" on that special Saturday, but I think the feeling only lasted until Tuesday!
 
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