I feel so old.....

One day you'll even be 55

 

I was born in 1990, and yet still don't really feel old. It's just freaking Nickelodeon playing "The 90's Are All That" like it was a lifetime ago. It was a golden age of kid/teen shows, though.

 

Oh my gosh I've felt old since I turned 9 years old.

But it's scary to see people I remember as babies all grown up now.

I just turned 23 last month, really depressing month, but already I have a terrible fear of turning 24. I can say 23 is still at least "early 20s", but 24 is on the borderline where people might describe you as "mid 20s". :eek: :tears:

Where the hell did all the time go? I hate being old. I don't know if I can survive to age 30.

 

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I'm going to be 22 in a week, and I'm depressed about it. I have always felt older, mentally, and now I realize I am getting older, physically, but my life is not what I wanted it to be by the time I reached this age.

 

I actually want to be older!
My voice and my appearance doesn't exactly match my age.

 

Wha? Why would anyone want to look/be older? :eek:

 

I hated being young when I was a kid, because I mentally identified with an older crowd, and HATED the fact that the older generation does not respect the younger generation.

 

'86 here. no qualifications. no job (well I have a job.. it sucks.). no love.

 

Hmm, well I hated the fact that there was such discrimination against youth, with the ridiculously high drinking age in the U.S. and all that, but I advocated for youth rights to lower the ages, I didn't actually want to be older.

It sucks that there is age discrimination in all of our public offices too, you have to be 25 to be a congressperson, 30 to be a senator, 35 to be president. Yet you can serve as a senator until you're 97 and braindead. No wonder the youth always get screwed over by our government.

 

I feel old too but strangely, I've always wanted to be older and still do, while being terrified of it at the same time.

 

I feel old watching my high school friends posting baby pictures of their own on facebook let alone them getting married. When I go through my reunion pictures for the elementry school I went to, I just can't believe where the time has gone. Every time I get behind the wheel and go for a drive, I especially can't believe that. Time goes by fast and I just wish I could go back and experience stuff I missed out when I was a naive kid. It's even tough to think that when I see new Freshmen in dorms, I was in that exact same position two years ago.

 

I turn 21 on the 28th and I think I might start to feel the same as you.

Then again, I likely won't know my name by the end of the night. :lol:

 

I'm 16 and I already feel old. In two years I'll be done with high school. Can't believe it's coming so fast. D:

 

Sometimes I feel old, but honestly, I think we need to look at this and realize that what's really going on is the queer community needs to fix the way it views age.

I remember the first time I hooked up with another male-bodied person, and he was 33. During our meetup beforehand, he was complaining about and invoked something I had never heard of: Gay Death. Apparently, Gay Death is at 30. It's the age where nobody finds you attractive any more and you can't cruise. And we have a word for it. I think that's pretty disgusting and indicates how low we've gotten.

A lot of 24 years young people feel old. But we shouldn't have to feel old. We're developing adulthood. We're in our physical and mental prime. Why old??? What's going on? I feel like, unfortunately, it's the intensely sick fetishization of youth that we have.

 

Think I've felt older than my actual age since, at least, high school. Overall, I don't really mind and kind of like feeling as though I pre-matured. At the same time it bothers me because I often find it difficult to connect with people within my own age-group. Even if we have similar personalities and/or interests. It helps that these same people have, themselves, matured since high school, but my anxiety is still there.

Not sure if that's the same, since I don't freak out over it, but that's how I feel about it myself. :/

 

Geez, I feel old too; I'll be 27 this month and I'm starting to freak out! My oldest son is going to the fourth grade, my other son will be in 1st grade and my youngest son will be in kindergarten. I remember when I could not wait until they were all in school and they will be soon enough. It seems like it was just yesterday when they were babies and gosh, I miss those days so much.

My oldest niece, who I practically grew up with has two kids of her own now. And what's even scarier is that my other niece is learning how to drive. Ahhhhh!!! :lol: