I'm 31, turn 32 in April, and people always act shocked when I tell them. It's hysterical at college when I'll be talking to someone just nodding and smiling while they tell me about some show or band and I have no idea what on earth they are talking about. I do have to say I am definitely in a much better place than I was in my 20's, and I wouldn't go back if given the option. Before long I too will be shaking my cane at kids so they can vacate my premises.
I'm turning 31 soon and my age doesn't bother me (it shouldn't at this point.) The older I get, the better I am at everything I do. When that starts to go the other way, then I'll complain. Most people in their late teens and early twenties think I'm much younger, but it doesn't matter what they think anyway.
Oh yeah, now I remember! 1. Junk mail becoming: Membership solicitations from AARP Life insurance where your premiums will never increase--EVER! Retirement community property And my favorite: "Pre-need funeral planning" 2. Having a child who beat Dakota Fanning to this milestone birthday by 4 days. 3. Remembering when I hit this milestone birthday it was still the legal age to drink. 4. Someone mentioned watching the Challenger explosion on TV. I didn't. I was already out of college and working. But I did watch Neil Armstrong takes the first step on the moon on live TV. 5. I smoked on airplanes, and no one said a word about it. 6. Reading this thread and seeing I've been out of college longer than a lot of you have been.
While I don't disagree with this (besides your drunken math) I think there's a little more to it. When you're a kid your schedule is regimented in very small increments. Each year is a different grade and each grade is a new catalog to file your experiences under. For example there is fifth grade shit, sixth grade shit, etc... When you're an adult you can be doing the same thing under the same description for multiple years. So for example someone who was a data analyst from 25-35 will have all those yearly catologs as a child, but as an adult will only have stuff like: -When I got the job -When I got married -When we had a kid 10 years, only three periods to catalog, obviously a lot more shit happens in each of those periods than in a single year as a kid, but the way things get jumbled your brain kind of pigeon holed memories into time frames, rather than remembering "oh that party was sixth grade in spring '90" you think "that party was when I was working for NBC but right before I got married somewhere between '04-'09" even though sixth grade was a single year era while your job before marriage was a five year era. I say this because I moved around a lot as a kid and I switched schools in college. Out of anyone I talk to I am much better at isolating events to specific time frames because each memory has more variables like different location, people, and life situation than most. It's like each year long era is a sub-era of location, household (physical house, not people) and friends involved. I feel like it helps me better catalog my time than most people. Focus: When I have incoherent ramblings and don't care that no one's listening.
Realizing I am older than Lust4life. I am probably the only member here who was in school when John Kennedy was shot. On the plus side, I am now eligible for most of the restaurant discounts.
Don't hate. Realizing that James Blake is two-and-change years older than I am and makes music that beautiful makes me feel old.
Nice dude, so I've kind of been pushing this Paleo diet thing here, considering you probably saw it when it was the norm, would you recommend it for the modern day man?
Can't believe no one has put this up yet: Focus: I just turned 31, and I was recently thinking about how my parents had me when they were in their mid 20s. I don't even have the prospect of having a kid with anyone within like, the next two years. Not on purpose, anyway.
To add a few others I was recently reminded of: I got a haircut today. Haircuts now include eyebrows and ear hair. I don't mind how grey my hair's getting, as long as it stays where it is. Getting enough fiber and colonoscopies are now discussion topics and not jokes.
Oh yeah, I used to shake off a night of drinking while running a 5miler at 6am. I just feel like ass all day now.
If I mix a significant amount booze and beer I get two day fucking hang over now. The second day my head and body don't ache as much but I am still lethargic.
I'm 24 so I know I'm not old...but, there are times when I realize that I am getting older. For Christmas, my fiance's parents got us a bunch of new things for our house. I ripped open the pots and pans box like it was the Barbie dream house I got when I was 5. I get more excited over the practical gifts now instead of the materialistic ones. In general, I've learned to care more about the important things and not so much the stupid crap. Just saying that makes me feel kinda old.
I had a twenty year old do almost everything but verbally offer to fuck me in the back of my business last month and I didn't jump on it because, other than being worried about negative repurcussions within the community when the word got out, it just seemed........wrong. Old.
You're welcome. Focus: I work at a University. Two thousand or so first years (your freshmen) are having their first day today. I can't even perve on them because their vaguely addled expressions make them look impossibly young.
This makes me feel old. You mention NSYNC and I thought "what about New Kids On The Block?". NSYNC was formed in 1995 - NKOTB in 1984 (debut album in 1986). Also music related - my roommate in college and I got in her car one day and a Madonna song was playing (Lucky Star for the record). She changed the radio station and made a comment along the lines of "Wow that was old and lame". I turn it back and am like "Uh no that's Madonna. Don't you know who Madonna is?" Other than the kiss with Britney Spears - she had no clue. I dressed up like Madonna at Halloween in KINDERGARTEN.