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getting older
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As I've finished uni this year and have started the proper world of work, it's made me think a bit about getting older. It's scary...becoming responsible, thinking about pensions, insurance... Feel like I am becoming a little boring yet I don't feel that different to when I was 17/18.
Do you feel old? Do you think you have changed much over the last few years? What's the most adult thing you have found yourself doing? Mine has to be examining the pensions advice from my new job, along with having an appointment with my bank manager. :crying:
Do you feel old? Do you think you have changed much over the last few years? What's the most adult thing you have found yourself doing? Mine has to be examining the pensions advice from my new job, along with having an appointment with my bank manager. :crying:
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I know what you mean.
This weekend I cleaned the kitchen and did some gardening.
Old man me.
Have you considered going back to uni to rediscover your youth?
err bank holiday weekend picture on livejournal
*cough*
im terrified of getting old, my looks and health can only go downhill now, wrinkles, zimmer frame.... and im terrified of dying
Well you're starting that process...I think 15-18 are turbulent times, it's when you really "grow up"
I still feel pretty young, when I was a child I thought 18 was a really old age but it's not that old. I think leaving uni is definately a concerning factor for most. Education is all about routine, since you were a child you were in a system, now you're out in the big wide world you have to fend for yourself. So maybe thats why you're feeling older. Don't worry, when you reach rolly's age, then start worrying, you're in your prime now!
No. 14 was still party time. 15 was getting ready for and taking GCSEs. I just hope the rest of 16 and 17 are as great as some people say and then there's uni.
No worries about being old when you're 16. I have to look for a job and take some areas of my life into my own hands, but it's really nothing major.
I suppose theres like two halves to your life - one, where you'd give anything to be a little older - then the other, where you do all you can to stay young.
that's a dilemma faced by most teens going through puberty. Yes I'm sure you'd love to be able to drink legally (though never stopped me when I was 15
nah... more like when I could sit in front of CITV with 5 bags of crisps and not have to worry about late coursework/lack of funds/junk food having an impact on my waistline
Ah rite...those things never really bothered me...especially coursework, one of the things teachers make out to be something serious when it aint.
i know i hated school too! certainly not the best years of my life. i'm having them now, i think. though won't know until i'm older and look back.
I don't feel any older than I ever used to. But I do find myself seeing the Freshers in town and thinking that they look awfully young, and shouldn't they still be at school?
I would love to be back at high school I loved it.
As for feeling old, I've felt old for at least the last 50 years.
:chin:
Wow your son's older than a lot of the posters on thesite
Taking my mum home because she was too drunk made me feel old! And leaving 21 behind ... no excuses now :eek:
I know. I'm dreading the day I recognise him as another poster on here, same thing happened with my MUM on another board!! :eek:
Mind you he ought to recognise me from my av and would probably avoid like the plague.
I suspose I feel my almost my age, I definatly dont feel like and dont want to be a teenager, I probably feel Id like to be 25, but am feling late 20's 27 28, so its only a couple of years of difference.
But basically being 15 was great - I could do everything I could do at 18 and still get away with paying child fare on the busses, plus after spending 12 - 14 thinking that I'd never have a life, meet any boys/ people who liked the same sort of music as I do - i'd finally met a bunch of great people and was having an excellent time.
Testiment to this i'm still friends with nearly all of them today (12 years on) and we spent yesterday in the park acting like teenagers ie getting drunk and playing stupid games - Soooooo much fun.
I think i'm rambling now and i've somewhat missed the point.
Quite the t'internet family eh! Good God what if he started posting on the sex boards!!! You could quite accidently find out a lot more about your son than you would ever wish to know! :eek2: