I love this thread lol, I just turned 27 :( and man was it rough on me. I thought that 10 year high school reunion invitation I got on Facebook was just a glitch.

26 was mid-20's, not so bad. 27 is late 20's and late twenties means 30! I don't know how I'm going to handle turning 30, besides lying about my age.

A 12 year old cracked a joke about "those old box TV's" that us old folks us to use as if she was talking about a phonograph. Man, I bet a VHS player would blow her mind.

:rofl::rofl:

My twin boys are 30

While getting old is not for sissies, it does have its advantages!

Wisdom, patience, self confidence, a real appreciation for what's really important, AND TADA, GRANDKIDS!:carrot:

They're way funner than kids!

This thread has made me laugh. I am 22 years old. The youngest of 3 daughters. My parents are in their early 50s and the idea of them as old is just kinda funny to me. They are the same people they were when I was like 10 years old, but maybe a little more relaxed. So the thought of me as old is pretty funny. Though I must say that it is strange seeing people that I graduated hight school with 5 years ago married with kids. I must praise them, because there is no way that I am ready mentally to tackle those challenges yet. :)

I'm 37 and my son is 9 months old. Age aint nuthin' but a number.

I constantly have to remind myself that feeling old at 24 means I'm going to be feeling old for a veeerrrry long time...especially with how long people are living now, and will likely live in the future, barring some kind of man-made apocalypse.

I do feel old, though. I'm at that awkward age where I've just finished college, but (due to the crap economy) I'm stuck in a bad job and still living at home. Unfortunately, a common theme these days in my age group, but at least I'm not alone in my stunted growth.

I still enjoy childish things, but I'm at the point where I feel like I'm too old for it. It's a little depressing. D: I feel like I need to 'grow up,' but I can't. And, in some ways, don't really want to.

lmfao dont feel bad ill be 28 in January and my siblings 5 years, 10 years, and 14 years younger then me say ive been a dinosaur for like 10 years now... haha :P my grandparents must be farts in a windstorm if im a dinosaur already.

When I was in my 20s I always pretended I was 30. I got sick and tired of people not taking me seriously in work situations once they heard how young I was, so I started to lie and it worked, they took me seriously.

Now I am 33. I still sometimes lie about my age, but if I do, I usually say I am a year older than I really am. I am like a bizarro version of a stereotypical woman, but I do think it is unfortunate that it is ingrained in society that it is bad to be older for woman, but fine for a man. Age should be something to be proud of, you are still alive and have all those years of experience under your belt!

Don't get me wrong, I've had a fantastic adult life, but my 30s have been way better than my 20s! I'm 34...I wouldn't redo the 20s for anything. :)

25 was a cool age...I remember finally figuring out who I was, what I liked and what I wanted in life...well it's still an ever evolving process, but turning 25 was a pivotal point. HAVE FUN!!!

Omgosh. Haha. You ladies are so young! 25 is nothin' ;] I'm almost 30 — almost. I'm 27 right now but get carded all the time. DH says I'll appreciate it when I'm 40 and look 20. HAH.

^This^ :carrot:

i cant imagine having kids this young, im 24 and you have a 10 yr old wow. i cant imagine it. im so young, highschool was like yesterday, im still in school now and i party and have my wild side. im not ready for those days to be over for at least 10 more years. i never want kids truthfully but cant imagine having them at this age or younger XD not judging you just amazed. i think having kids or marrying young can probably make you feel and act older than your peers cause i mean you have to grow up fast once you have your own kids and than you miss out on the things normal late teens and 20s people do. my sister had kids in her teens and once they hit their teen years she than started to live hers lmao it was weird. i dont think your old chronologically but you might seem older versus your peers that dont have responsibilities if that makes sense, just my observations from all the ppl i know that had kids early

Kids say the darnedest things. :stars:

I'm only 23 and yet I feel kinda old...I'm still in school because I transferred twice and changed majors twice so everyone else is younger than me. I rarely meet anyone above the age of 22 which is obviously not that big of a difference...one whole year, wow! But somewhere along the line it kind of started to bug me...might have been when a guy joked that I'm a "cougar" because I keep ending up with guys in the 21-22 age range...I can't help it, that's all that is around me a vast majority of the time! >.<

I'm turning 25 this year and I am pretty scared of it.
It's the end of being a young adult and the start of being a real adult.
I feel like I'm still far from being an adult.

If your daughter thinks you are old at 25 I wonder what she would think of someone born in 1961. I'm 50. :)

This made me laugh til I started coughing my head off :rofl:

This whole thread made me smile :D I have recently gotten a little spooked at my half-century mark...but I think my motorcycle keeps me forever young :cool:

I'm almost 20 and my whole family still treats me like I'm 14 and I act like it a lot of times too. I still watch Nickelodeon and Disney channel! I don't wanna grow up :(

I will 28 in a few months, but I still feel so young. Like I still have so much to learn. My mother also had me when she was young and I can't imagine taking care of a child at this point in my life. It makes me think of how strong she was and how every young mom is strong....

I'm 25 now.. No kids.. and single. I'm def not ready for kids yet. lol I want to go to school do my thing party and have fun before I think about having kids. but with 30 just 5 years away scares the crap out of me...

well im 22 in a few months..i only feel old when i look backk on my teenage years i wasted being fat :( ..im new here..hii

25 is the new "sweet sixteen"! Plenty of income, no serious responsibilities... enjoy it while you can and don't think too much about it! ;)

when i turned 23, i felt old.
when i turned 24, i felt old.
when i turned 25, i felt old.
& when i turned 26 back in apr, i felt old, yet again.

...i've learned after reading this thread that age truly is just a #. it finally dawned on me. thank you guys! :)

Oh man. All my life I couldn't wait to be 18! Then when I was 18 I wanted to be 21! I wanted to be in my 30s right up until I was 25. 25 was AWESOME. Most of my late 20s were great, actually! Now I'm 31, 32 in about a month, and I just feel AWFUL about it. Maybe, because I'd always clung onto the idea that by the time I was 30 I'd have life all figured out, and now that's turned out to not be the case? I mean, I know pretty much what I want to do with my life and I'm making it happen (going back to uni in October :D), I have a good relationship with my parents (finally), have got a few nasty, toxic people out of my life, have been with the man I love (and NEVER wanted to meet - I loved being single so much) for 4 years, have a few great friends, no money (changing careers / recession - i know it's temporary), never wanted kids and still don't, pretty damn happy with how things are going in my life, yet...

I'm obsessing about the idea that my life is slipping away from me! What the what?? I don't get this AT ALL.

I turned 27 in March, which I don't think of as old, but my life sure isn't what I thought it'd be by this time & that's what made me unhappy about being so much closer to 30. I have to remind myself that some people don't even make it to 27, and that getting older is something to be appreciated because the alternative is to not live at all.


Though, when I think about the fact that I was born in 1986, the 80s just seem like they were SO long ago!

WOW !!!!

But to be 25 again.......... SOOOOOOOO young !! mmmm

All I ever wanted to be was 16 so I could get my drivers license, which I got the day after I turned 16.

Like yall, I did not want to get "old."

I spent a year dreading turning 36, don't know why but that really bothered me and messed up 35. Came my birthday and the wife had the cake out for me to blow out the candles. I counted them as I got ready, then say, hey, you only have 35, I am 36. She says no, you turn 35 today !! I nearly fell over. Well, I spent one year dreading 36, I sure as **** was not going to spend another like that. I just enjoyed the year and never gave a thought again about getting older.

I turned 40....... Don't even remember it, but I know I was still having sex 7 times a week and had most things I wanted.

Turned 50, thought I should be physically decrepit. But I still was very active doing everything I wanted to do, even climbing ladders and pruning trees. Sex was still plentiful.

60, now that should be bad. Nope, still had all my hair, physically sexually active, and I got senior discounts !!! WOW

70 Starting to feel the age Still sexually active, still working, and need to get rid of 100 lbs. Still have all my hair which is still brown.

Hope I can report on 80, yall relax and enjoy all of your youth. Due to the modern meds you have a long time to live :D

But, I will ask you this........ Do ya wanna spend it as fattbutt or a skinny weeny?? I think I know the answer......... Good luck all of ya and ENJOY that youth, however long you allow it to last :D

B F R

PS The difference between a young man and an old man is the young man does it all night, it takes an old man all night to do it

But ain't it funny, God gave young boys a stiff penis and a limber back and they have no idea of what to do with either,

but to us old men he gives limber penis and stiff backs..................

Even being 55 is great!.. Shoot... We did not have a TV until I was 4 years old... gosh.... I had to play outside LOLOLOLOLOL I actually feel younger than I did when I was 30 (oh hard age to turn in my memory)... Just keep laughing and moving and you will NEVER GET OLD! :)

I am turning 60 next week and I feel better than when I was 25!

I thought that I would dread this age but I am having the best time ever. One reason that I am good with it is because I reached most of the goals that I set for myself in my 20s. While things didn't happen exactly when and how I wanted them to, things worked out pretty well after striving for those goals for 4 decades.

I have much more freedom now! I don't have to answer to anyone. I felt much older when I was much younger and saddled with responsibilities. Now I have no responsibilities. When I was younger, I promised myself that I would take time to be completely free.

For me, 60 is the new 6!

I just hit 25 a few weeks ago and i'm having a bit of a crisis with it. It's like being 25 with no real explanation of what I want to do with my life is causing me a LOT of anxiety and despression.
I just wish I knew what to do with myself.