I'm turning 25. QUARTER OF A CENTURY old. God help me.

[Daneel]

I kind of had a "holy crap, I'm 25!" moment when I hit the quarter-century mark last year -- it sort of forced me to realize that I was undeniably an adult now, and one without any clear direction or life-plan. I'm still in that position, but to minimize the feeling, I basically tried to ignore my birthday this year. I more or less did, but of course my family couldn't ignore it too, so I couldn't completely forget about it.

In any event, you're only as old as you feel -- sometimes I feel my age. Often I feel like I'm a few years younger, or even still a teenager. In some ways, I feel like I'm about twice my age... man, I'm all over the map. Basically, I don't really feel like I'm where I should be at my age, but that may be due to the fact that a lot of my most recent years seemed uneventful. I kind of feel like I missed out on a lot of experiences, and I'm now half-heartedly trying to catch up, but now it's causing me to just get even further behind...

Ugh. Life. It's complicated. And you need to be, like, responsible and stuff. Why didn't anyone warn me?

Regardless, happy birth-month Danoz. Make the best of it, chum.

 

[Danoz]

When I tuerned 50 last year I thought to myself that if even if I am destined to live to 100 I am now more than half way through my life.

Than I realise though I might be over the hill, the journey down a hill is generally more enjoyable than the long slog up the hill.

Miss Chicken, this may be the most optimistic and happy post I have ever read on TrekBBS. Thank you .

 

[tomalak301]

Congratulations. A week ago I turned 25. You'll get used to it.

 

[Australis]

What Miss Chicken said (I'm the same age). There are worse things that an happen to you. Like reading a MadBaggins thread.

Congrats.

 

[Holdfast]

This month I'll be a quarter of a century old. I'm quite sure I'm having a quarter life crisis... is this normal?

It's normal.

A friend of mine turned 25 a little earlier this year and we were talking about her birthday and she got to talking about the crow's feet wrinkles she noticed developing by her eyes and how much it shocked her. I made the usual sympathetic noises, but being a handful or so of years older than her, I made sure I would have my revenge on her for reminding me of the age difference...

Later in the day, I pulled the old "Wait, what's that?!" trick on her, staring at her face with a worried expression on mine, before moving her hair to one side to be able to smooth out her crow's feet with my fingers and telling her "yep, needs botox".

I'm still nursing the bruise from the slap to my arm.


Anyway, just to say, remember to have some perspective, and Happy Upcoming Birthday Danoz.

 

[Ethros]

I will also be turning 25 this month (in just over a week)
Well, officially I'll be 25, I've actually managed to trick myself this year that I'm still 23. I didn't like the sound of "24" last year, I wanted to stay in my early 20s, so now & again when people would ask me how old I was I'd say 23. To the point where I almost started believing it myself I'd think "How old am I? 23... no, shit I'm 24"

Like a few other people have said above I'm not really into birthdays anymore. When I was younger- great. Mainly because as a kid you get presents. When you're an adult with a job and I can buy whatever I want all year round, there's usually nothing I want that anyone can give me as a present. Just another day to me, and I'll be working same as usual.
Plus last week someone at work was guessing how old I look, and they said around 19-21 ish, so that's not bad

 

[Kirk's_Tights]

Is this a joke?

How the hell do people think 25 is old? I'm turning 26 in December, OMG MY LIFE IS OVER.

Geez, I'd hate to see you when you turn 50.

 

[RandyS]

I'm surrounded by children.....

 

[Kirk's_Tights]

I'm surrounded by children.....

lulz gramps.


But seriously, getting older is great. You get to rule all the younger people with an iron fist.

Plus, I get to tell them I know everything and they treat me like a Goddess.


Being old only sucks when you don't know how to be awesome.

 

[AstroSmurf]

^ Well I won't ever have that problem. Neither will JonathanWally. (He always brings the awesome.)

But I was raised by people who never gave much thought to age. I guess I picked that up idea up along the way. For me growing older is really in someone's head and doesn't mean much. Hell, it means so little to me I don't even celebrate birthdays. My philosophy is if you spend your time living each day to the fullest, you never really think about the past or the future. You just wake up one day and find you are 30, 50 or 80 and have some really good stories to tell from a lifetime of experiences.

Society has decided that we all should live to this terribly exact standard. It dictates we are less of a person if we don't amass money and property, aren't skinny, beautiful, toned, young, exciting, clever and married by the time we are thirty. But that is all a load of horse crap. Folks should be, do, look, feel and go where they want/need to go in our own time and our own way. Despite what society might say, there are NO RULES. Just live and remember to respect others for choosing to do the same.

Ok. Enough rambling from me. If anyone needs me, my 34 year-old butt will be over here playing with my TOS Medical Tricorder and jumping on the sofa.

 

[RandyS]

I'm surrounded by children.....

lulz gramps.


But seriously, getting older is great. You get to rule all the younger people with an iron fist.

Plus, I get to tell them I know everything and they treat me like a Goddess.

Well, at least you get treated well. I tell young people I know everything (I really do you know, just like I did when I was sixteen), and they just roll their eye at me.

Ungrateful little brats.....

 

[Danoz]

Is this a joke?

How the hell do people think 25 is old? I'm turning 26 in December, OMG MY LIFE IS OVER.

Geez, I'd hate to see you when you turn 50.

Haha, I'm not depressed or anything. Just being melodramatic (and I was a few drinks in when I wrote that post).

 

[Kestra]

Well, at least you get treated well. I tell young people I know everything (I really do you know, just like I did when I was sixteen), and they just roll their eye at me.

Just kidding!

 

[Kirk's_Tights]

I'm surrounded by children.....

lulz gramps.


But seriously, getting older is great. You get to rule all the younger people with an iron fist.

Plus, I get to tell them I know everything and they treat me like a Goddess.

Well, at least you get treated well. I tell young people I know everything (I really do you know, just like I did when I was sixteen), and they just roll their eye at me.

Ungrateful little brats.....

hahaha, maybe it's because I look kinda mean. Sometimes. <.<

Is this a joke?

How the hell do people think 25 is old? I'm turning 26 in December, OMG MY LIFE IS OVER.

Geez, I'd hate to see you when you turn 50.

Haha, I'm not depressed or anything. Just being melodramatic (and I was a few drinks in when I wrote that post).

Drinks are awesome, they made me fail at speaking english properly here yesterday afternoon, haha.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Danoz, I'm nearly twice your age, so no sympathy here.

Happy Birthday!

Your present this year is youth. Again.

 

[captcalhoun]

kids. huh. the worst part about getting old is talking to some one and making a pop culture reference and having them go 'what's that?'

or even a 'historical' reference. one time i said to an 16 year old about the 1986 Commonwealth Games commerative £2 coins and he was all 'i was only one then!' i was only about 22 myself, but i suddenly felt bloody ancient!!!

 

[tomalak301]

Is this a joke?

How the hell do people think 25 is old? I'm turning 26 in December, OMG MY LIFE IS OVER.

Geez, I'd hate to see you when you turn 50.

I embraced 25. Screw 24. It's a brand new day.

 

[RandyS]

Well, at least you get treated well. I tell young people I know everything (I really do you know, just like I did when I was sixteen), and they just roll their eye at me.

Just kidding!

 

[Gryffindorian]

AstroSmurf, I didn't realize we were close in age. For some reason, I was thinking you were years younger than I, not that I'm implying you're immature. You're just so cool.

Anyway, I forgot to add that I felt the same way as the OP when I was his age. I thought I was having midlife crisis early in life, but it was more career-related and where I saw myself at the time. I got over the feelings of insecurity and learned to enjoy life to the fullest.

 

[RandyS]

kids. huh. the worst part about getting old is talking to some one and making a pop culture reference and having them go 'what's that?'

or even a 'historical' reference. one time i said to an 16 year old about the 1986 Commonwealth Games commerative £2 coins and he was all 'i was only one then!' i was only about 22 myself, but i suddenly felt bloody ancient!!!

I have a 25 year old friend, and we had this exact conversation. We were in a grocery store and somebody came up to me and told me that they saw me from down the ilse and had to look twice because from a distance I looked like Alan Alda when he was doing MASH. This prompted my friend to ask "Who doing what?".

The kid knows Michael Jackson, but doesn't know MASH.

No love for the classics.