I'd actually say 16.  But of course I'm biased.

Any of the above, age comes into being when one realise those younger than yourself.

I don't know about other people, but I still don't feel fully like an adult at age 20 - I feel a bit like I'm still 17, actually. Probably only feel like 20 when I'm like 25 or so...They say Gen Xers are just 'big kids', but I think it'll be more the case with Gen Y kids. I can't imagine a time when I stop playing video games.etc, even when I approach middle age.

Fifty

Fifty
Thanks for your reassurance?

Thanks for your reassurance?



:) Feeling old is fun

:) Feeling old is fun
Over my past years, I think I have had fun.

Over my past years, I think I have had fun.



Well then, in a year or so, you won't have to look back and say "Boy, I wish I had fun when I was young..."

Well then, in a year or so, you won't have to look back and say "Boy, I wish I had fun when I was young..."
I will make a special point of coming back to this thread then.

Please continue with the topic of this thread.

Now, based on the title of this thread, you don't have to feel old when you're fifty, you just can't feel old until then.

Depends.

I don't feel old, but I feel dated.

Whenever I speak to my neices and say something like "Oh come on, you remember such and such a show." and they just look at me blank. I think, 'Wow, they weren't even born when I was watching that.'

Depends.

I don't feel old, but I feel dated.

Whenever I speak to my neices and say something like "Oh come on, you remember such and such a show." and they just look at me blank. I think, 'Wow, they weren't even born when I was watching that.'




Psht, people MY age are like that with me!

Psht, people MY age are like that with me!


Yes.. but, nobody else watched fish-cat porno races.

Any of the above, age comes into being when one realise those younger than yourself.


Well put.

I think anyone can feel old at any time.. it's a personal experience.. you'll feel it all through your life... at puberty, when you can't relate to those who aren't maturing; at 30-40, when you have a midlife crisis; at 60, when you feel your life is coming to a close.... you just feel different forms and different caliburs of that feeling.

Yes.. but, nobody else watched fish-cat porno races.



Uhh... well.. I did  :-[

Well put.

I think anyone can feel old at any time.. it's a personal experience.. you'll feel it all through your life... at puberty, when you can't relate to those who aren't maturing; at 30-40, when you have a midlife crisis; at 60, when you feel your life is coming to a close.... you just feel different forms and different caliburs of that feeling.


Hmm...very thoughtful statement and I agree. 

As for my experience...I think the first time I really felt old was a few years ago, after my divorce.  The circumstances had very much to do with the person I saw in the mirror and the way I felt inside.  I probably feel younger now than I did three years ago...or younger more often or something like that.  The first birthday that bothered me in terms of feeling "old" was 45.  Now, some days I look in the mirror and what I see and how I feel is young and energetic.  And some days I wonder, "Who is that old lady?"

Depends.

I don't feel old, but I feel dated.

Whenever I speak to my neices and say something like "Oh come on, you remember such and such a show." and they just look at me blank. I think, 'Wow, they weren't even born when I was watching that.'


Exactly me mate, lol.

I was rattling on about 1986 to a guy who's 20 years old the other day before I realised he would only have just been born.  ;D

However I do genuinely agree with the people that say that being old is just a state of mind. My grandad was 79 when he died and he maintained the idea of being childlike and mischievous (in spirit not in intellect). I emulate that man to the best of my ability.

God bless you, Eric.  :)

i never thought it would happen..
but it did.

but i got over it :)

Good question. One thing I'll say - there's a difference between feeling nostalgic and feeling old. It's difficult to say exactly, but I'm guessing it's when you go from simply missing an event in your past, to wanting to actually be younger and start to think your current age s*cks.

For example, I guess you could say I missed things earlier than most people, but that was just because my parents and I moved around when I was a kid quite a bit. My personal surroundings changed totally between, say, age 5 and 12. So it wasn't at all uncommon for me to, say, in 1994 (at age 12-13) have missed the time I first played a Nintendo game from '88, or listened to a 1985 song, etc.

But I now realize I was simply feeling nostalgic, not old. After all, when I was 12, I wouldn't have wanted to be 6. ;D I only wanted to relive the experiences I had then, perhaps.

I guess the latter started hitting me in 1999/2000. The whole concept of turning 18 (i.e. being a "technical adult") and getting out of high school later that year scared the cr@p out of me, because it seemed like two days ago that I'd been 13 or even 10. That was when I started wanting to be younger. This is still kinda true today too, although I think I'll always have elements of a "kidlike" personality, not unlike Gen Xers.

I voted for age 25, only because I am 29 and I can say that I am starter to feel older. I have aches that I didn't have when I was younger, and I find a gray hair every once in awhile (thank God for hair color ;)).

I voted for age 25, only because I am 29 and I can say that I am starter to feel older. I have aches that I didn't have when I was younger, and I find a gray hair every once in awhile (thank God for hair color ;)).


Thanks Erin. Something for me to look forward to in a couple of years time . . .  ::) ;)

Thanks Erin. Something for me to look forward to in a couple of years time . . .  ::) ;)




hey...no prob, Rob! ;)

You're only as old as you want to be.  If you're 70 and you don't want to be old, then you're not.

Fifty
that's f*ckd up Dom ,  picking on BFF again  ;D  ;D 

I remember turning 30 and it felt like I was transitioning to oldness, the youthful young kid-like feeling was gone or at least I imagined it was because of that number. now 20 years later I have no clue. I feel good and thats good enough for me.  8)  and did I mention that Dom is a brat  >:(

Although I'm still 24 I put down 25 as my answer, because these days I really feel out of touch with the rest of the current youth culture and society. However I've always been apart in my own little world since I can remember so you never know...

29.  The age I'm right now.  ;D

I guess you can feel old at any age, my question is at what age should you start
acting your age. I'm 44 but sometimes act 14, unfortunately, my body won't let me.
so, thats my answer.....44

that's f*ckd up Dom ,  picking on BFF again  ;D  ;D 

I remember turning 30 and it felt like I was transitioning to oldness, the youthful young kid-like feeling was gone or at least I imagined it was because of that number. now 20 years later I have no clue. I feel good and thats good enough for me.  8)   and did I mention that Dom is a brat  >:(



Beat on the brat with a baseball bat, oh yeahhh!

Oh, uh, but I don't mean that! (I was just listening to the song a minute ago)

I guess you can feel old at any age, my question is at what age should you start
acting your age. I'm 44 but sometimes act 14, unfortunately, my body won't let me.
so, thats my answer.....44


I'm 46 and I wonder, what does "acting 44" or "acting 46" mean? 

I remember once reading that it's silly for parents to say to a 10-year-old, for instance, "Act your age!"  Whatever trouble they're in, it's probably because they *are* acting their age.

Well, I act like me and I don't know what age people would put on that.  But I do know that most of my friends are younger than me.  I like their energy and their optimism and their openness to things.  I don't meet as many people older than me who are that way (some...not as many).

Someone said something about feeling old because of looking at the past.  When I feel old, it really has nothing to do with my past -- everything to do with my present.  If I'm not feeling happy with myself, I feel old.  If I'm not taking care of my body, I begin to feel old.  Like that.

I've started to feel those kind of feelings(being old) for the first time, and I'm only 18.

I think its partly because of my back problems. 

Also graduating cuts you off from the past 12 years or so of your life in many ways, it makes all of your school days seem firmly like "The Past" so that made me feel older too I guess.

In my head I'm still aged about 16!  things happen to make me realise that I am not.  Usually when a mum tells a young child to "mind the lady" and I realise they mean me!  Or at work when a student tells me their date of birth and I realised I left school or started work that year.

When I go to the college for some kind of fuction. With all the students there, I feel old. But we usually hang out with the faculty and then I feel young (since I am younger than most of them).  ;D ;D


When I feel REALLY old is when I talk to one of my best friends who has a daughter who is now in college and her son is going to graduate HS.  It seems like it was just a year or two ago they were just entering school.




Cat

You're only as old as you want to be.  If you're 70 and you don't want to be old, then you're not.


Exactly. I'll be 30 this year. I still look and feel young.

Exactly. I'll be 30 this year. I still look and feel young.


That's because 30 IS YOUNG.  :)

That's because 30 IS YOUNG.  :)


Yeah, all sorts of people usually over-estimate how old they are.. they do it from their childhoods.. funny how children want to become adults, and adults want to recapture their childhood.. guess we're just never content.

Yeah, all sorts of people usually over-estimate how old they are.. they do it from their childhoods.. funny how children want to become adults, and adults want to recapture their childhood.. guess we're just never content.


In my opinion, you're young when you're under 50 ... since it's probably a safe assumption to say the average person of the early 21st Century will live to be around 100.