Things that make you feel old

[kingjamma]

Having a cold sore and thinking 'ah f**k it'. Years ago, I wouldn't go out the door and phone in sick for a week!

[philipsteak]

That's not growing old, that's growing some f**king balls and going to work when you ain't actually ill.

For me it has to be not getting asked for ID in America for alcohol. It's most likely due to the tash, but still.

[RABun]

That i'm not doing anytghing tonight and i'm happy about it. So i can go home and snuggle up watching iplayer etc, with a cup of cocoa.

[sifi]

That i'm not doing anytghing tonight and i'm happy about it. So i can go home and snuggle up watching iplayer etc, with a cup of cocoa.

[RABun]

I'll be doing the same. Although I'm hoping to badger my beloved into giving me lashings of hor licks.

[sifi]

You might roll your eyes at me now, but I tell you this for nothing, I'm really looking forward to being a dirty old man when - and if - I get to that age.

[RABun]

You might roll your eyes at me now, but I tell you this for nothing, I'm really looking forward to being a dirty old man when - and if - I get to that age.

[feral chile]

At the moment it is the horrible realisation that I am not just old compared to teenagers now - I am old compared to 25 & 30 year olds! I look at proper grown women who I really still think are my peers - and realise they are seeing me as someone a generation older. That is actually quite weird.

A serious realisation that I just totally wasn't on the same page as I thought I was came when it was my birthday, and our apprentice at work (who was 22) asked how old I was. I said "Oh - frighteningly ancient" - so she asked me again, and I told her I was 45. Her response? "Oh that's not old! That's only a year older than my mum!"

I think only people in my age bracket and older can understand how gutting that was - it wasn't that I was older than her mum, it was that it never occurred to her that I wouldn't be pleased or flattered by only being a year older than her mum!

Mostly I am really happy with myself regardless of age because I still have a life that many half my age have given up on, but it's those moments when you realise that your outside doesn't match your inside - hmmmm.

[greenfairy43]

I've just booked tickets to go & see Swan Lake at the gorgeous Tyne Theatre. but

We were there for Stewart Francis the other evening & decided we should try something like a ballet there so Swan Lake here we come

[greenfairy43]

That i'm not doing anytghing tonight and i'm happy about it. So i can go home and snuggle up watching iplayer etc, with a cup of cocoa.

[saratink]

I've just booked tickets to go & see Swan Lake at the gorgeous Tyne Theatre. but

We were there for Stewart Francis the other evening & decided we should try something like a ballet there so Swan Lake here we come

[RABun]

i'm trying soo hard to stay awake lol - just dont want to waste my lovely chilled night in on my own by sleeping through it.

god i'm sad

[feral chile]

Going to see 30 Seconds To Mars and instead of getting into the spirit of things, all the audience participation stuff, and being all hyper and excited just like everyone else, resisting orders to 'raise your hands' 'jump jump jump' etc. And feeling cynical enough to see it all as power tripping and ego feeding. And to start analysing conformity issues among the supposedly alternative groups.

I feel really bloody ancient tonight.

[feral chile]

sounds like how I've always been...

Edited November 27, 2010 by feral chile

[grumpyhack]

When you're a kid you desperately want people to think that you are older than you are.

Then you go through the period of hoping people will think you are younger than you are.

I've reached the lovely stage of equilibrium where I don't care what people think.

I'll be getting old when I reach the final stage when you try to give the impression once again that you are older than you are - e.g. "I'm in my 83rd year you know," says a person who's actually 82.

[llcoolphil]

Going to see 30 Seconds To Mars and instead of getting into the spirit of things, all the audience participation stuff, and being all hyper and excited just like everyone else, resisting orders to 'raise your hands' 'jump jump jump' etc. And feeling cynical enough to see it all as power tripping and ego feeding. And to start analysing conformity issues among the supposedly alternative groups.

I feel really bloody ancient tonight.

[feral chile]

When you're a kid you desperately want people to think that you are older than you are.

Then you go through the period of hoping people will think you are younger than you are.

I've reached the lovely stage of equilibrium where I don't care what people think.

I'll be getting old when I reach the final stage when you try to give the impression once again that you are older than you are - e.g. "I'm in my 83rd year you know," says a person who's actually 82.

Edited November 27, 2010 by feral chile

[feral chile]

30 seconds to mars - just a band

[llcoolphil]

yeah I know but I'm trying to work out whether it was me being grumpy and nonconformist/bloody minded and awkward, or whether they were indeed egotistical.

I just hate being told what to do. It's probably why I'm an underachiever.

[feral chile]

[rexclark]

Going to my mates 30th last night,

[jump]

yeah I know but I'm trying to work out whether it was me being grumpy and nonconformist/bloody minded and awkward, or whether they were indeed egotistical.

I just hate being told what to do. It's probably why I'm an underachiever.

[Gre]

Yeah I'm quite an analytical person anyway, and I've always resisted group pressure. They got the audience to make a sign with their hands in the air, and then said 'to all of you who have raised your hands, welcome to the 30 Seconds to Mars family'.

And all I could do is think in-group/out-group stuff.

I wasn't drunk enough either, that would have probably helped with the social indoctrination. Makes you more suggestible.

Plus, I've heard it all before with My Chemical Romance.

Bloody Americans!

[feral chile]

If its any consolation, just watching 30STM videos makes me think 'what a load of twats'

[Jaybles]

My girlfriend is in her 30's and 6 years older than me......makes me feel young haha