When did you realize you were old(er)?

[K'Ehleyr]

When I wake up to a hot, sunny windy day and instead of thinking 'beach' I think 'Oh this is a good drying day and wash all the clothes/bedding/towels I possess.

Son hides on days like these for fear of being pegged to the wash line.

 

[Amaris]

When I turned 25. I've always had, as far back as I can remember, this feeling I'll never reach 50.

 

[Capn Flukie]

I felt that way too. Of course now I'm 50, and feel like an ass.

 

[Amaris]

I felt that way too. Of course now I'm 50, and feel like an ass.

I hope, on my 50th birthday, that I feel like a total ass, and that I end up having a great day. I would welcome that.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I do remember thinking on my 50th birthday "If I live to be 100 I am now half-way through my life."

 

[Capn Flukie]

It's nice to say I'm a half-century old.

 

[RoJoHen]

Hasn't happened to me yet (now at age 41), but my daughter "graduating" from 8th grade this week (when the hell did they start calling it that??) has me leaning that way a bit more...

We called it 8th Grade Promotion.

 

[creek_chub]

I'm not old by any means (28) but I've started noticing a few things that seem to be ushering me into a new era.

- I caught an episode of Friends and I realized how dated the clothing and makeup was. It's one thing to see a show from when I was a child and to laugh at how it looks dated...it's another to watch a show from when I was a pre-teen/teen (and thus just starting to care about clothes and makeup) and realize how ugly everything was.

- I have an interest in historical and cultural events that happened in the 60s and the changes that have happened between then and now. Sometimes I think about the fact that right now I'm farther away from the year I was born than the year of my birth is from the 60s. If that makes sense.

- My best friend, whom I have known since kindergarten, just posted pictures on Facebook of her son's "graduation" from elementary school. Can't believe he's about to enter middle school.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I currently have a several friends who are about 15 years younger than me. I often find them oddly naive about politics, current trends in health, parenting etc.. As in, they don't have as much perspective to be as cynical as I am. They actually believe stuff they read and take it to heart. They are much more serious about everything than I am. This is probably the first time I've felt "old" but really it's just that I feel "older". And that is a very good thing.

 

[Capn Flukie]

The other thing that makes me feel older is out-living all my five other siblings and my parents and even nieces.

 

[Skellington]

When David Tennant left Doctor Who and was replaced by Matt Smith, the Doctor went from being two months older than me to over three-and-a-half years younger than my little sister - who's also older than Thor, Captain Kirk and Superman!

 

[Candlelight]

When I hit 30. My daughter was born two days after I turned 30, and - obviously - from there everything changed. Gone were the days of looking back, now all I could do, and had to do, was look ahead. Social patterns change, priorities change, money becomes scarce. All of a sudden you worry about stuff blowing up whereas before you just go and buy a new one.

Sort of like Battlestar Galactica. After the New Caprica arc finished, the show had to move on. No more looking back to the colonies, everything was pushing towards Earth.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I was born old. I have always been more mature than my peers, and most of my friends were older than me chronologically. So I always considered myself "older".

As for feeling old: I realized I have reached my physical and mental peak at the age of 25, and after that is just a matter of patching up. I am not as mentally agile or physically able as I was some years ago, but I feel I make up for that with skills, patience, and not-really-giving-a-fuck-anymore-about-silly-stuff. All in all, I think it's a fair trade off.

 

[Captain_Nick]

when was the tipping point at which you realized you had hit middle age?

When I turned 30, 11 days ago.

Unlike yourselves I am bitching and sooking about the fact that I am not in my 20s any more.

THIS IS BULLSHIT

My life is over

 

[K'Ehleyr]

When you start a conversation with 'check out' people at the supermarket.
When you say 'good morning' to people older than you on the street.
When you look in the mirror and think your face has 'character'.
When your party shoes are hung on your wall rather than danced upon.
When you keep your nightie on in 'intimate moments'.
When you start shaving your toes.

The good things though are;
The perfecting the art of the eyebrow raise.
The smug smile.
The realisation that you do not have to go out every weekend night to have a good time.
Discovering gardening ~ I know!
Thinking after an invitation to a party 'but it's the final of Master Chef' and staying in instead.

I'm not really bothered about getting older, in my mind I am still in my 20s, and I really can't do much about it anyway

 

[Goji]

I spent a year teaching children who had been born while I was in high school (or, in the case of the older students, middle school). That was... an odd feeling, as much as I did like the job.

 

[Kail]

There were several signs. Being targeted for membership in the AARP, and when people started asking me if I was my 7 year old sons grandfather.

 

[Starbreaker]

Probably when I realized I couldn't hit on 18 year old girls anymore without feeling creepy.

 

[Captain_Nick]

^ Sucks doesnt it

 

[Jetfire]

Is it creepy if you are 30ish and the lady is 19 and she hits on you?