For all you over 35 set out there...................

[DianaStormDancer]

:boing: :whatgives Ok is it just me or do you too at times get completely shocked at your age?! I mean come on sometimes i just can't believe I am as old as I am.....LMAO.....ok not in the sense that my damm physical aches and pains dont remind me and not that I have laspses of extreme immaturity(ok I do but thats a good thing...hehehe) It's just sometimes I get this overwhelming feeling like what the hell there is no way I am 38 years old...do ya know what I mean? Have you had this hit ya outta of the blue at times??????????????

Ok so in keping with that I'm off to play...............:jumprope: :clapping: :yayhawaii :ringaroun :smash: :wave: :flowers: :broomride la la la

[~Anamorata~]

I'm 33, and I get horrified by my age, especially, since I don't look it, nor do I act it!..Sometimes, I wonder how I made it this far?! :needcoffe

[Charise]

I just want the clock to stop ticking... the older I get the faster it goes by... everything seems like it was 'just yesterday'... I thought I was going to have a nervious break down right before I turned 30, I didn't want to leave my 20's ever... since then, it's like I blink and another year has come and gone...

great.. now I'm all depressed... *going back to Just Silly*!!

[~Anamorata~]

One day my daughter was just born, and the next: POOF! She's SIX! What happened?! Did I sleep through it?! Geez....eh, now I'M depressed. :sadeyes: :needcoffe

[Moonstoned]

Every morning :thumbsdow

If it wasn't for the bits dropping off or getting nearer to the floor or turning white or hurting .... then I wouldn't believe the actual 'number' of my age. Act like a 20 year old some days :D

Pooh to it all! Still, as my husband says, getting old is better than the alternative :bug:

[Old Witch]

I'm 53.....I feel like I can do everything I did when I was 20, until I actually start doing them. And then the realization hits....Dang I'm old! But I try! And I'll keep on trying...and keep on hurting.... The thing that shocked me so, tho, was how the surf in the ocean beats the stuffing out of me now....

[{Tigress}]

Di, it's funny you should have picked 35 as the magical number. I turned 35 last December and it was the first birthday that ever depressed me! Until then, I'd never cared about my age, but hitting 35 was like hitting a brick wall.

I kept thinking in terms of my life being half over (on the assumption that the average life span is 70) and that really hit hard. Of course, it doesn't help when I see kids on here who were born AFTER I graduated highschool. lol

But yeah, it's tough. Like many have said, I don't FEEL 35 until I try to do some things I did 20 years ago. Then it hits, and hits HARD! :hairraise

[13thChylde]

I don't look, act or feel my age, which is 35, most days.
Till a few weekends ago, when me and some friends from high school were out hitting the town, which was full of college students. My friend Pam said, "Just think, when you were running around with your black-lace eyepatch and purple suede boots (I was madly in love with Prince), all these kids were just being born."

She totally made me lose my buzz!!!

[~*Ginger*~]

*looks around*
hmmm...
I'm lost.

:welcome:

[mara]

Every night before I go to sleep I find myself dwelling on my age..I think about when my mother was my age. i think about how I used to think that people in their 40's were old and gross.I can't believe the Rolling stones and the Monkees are old..Paul McCartney is old...that's not supposed to happen.I think about stuff like that all the time..I'm going to be 44 on the 23rd and I'm obsessed with it..I'm not afraid to die really, I just don't want to. Life goes by so quickly- the older I get the faster it seems to zoom by..I guess I'm Just full of cheery thoughts.

[Boogins]

Nope, doesn't mean a thing to me. But then, I'm a walk-in,, and in that sense, I'll be 29 on December 23rd. :T

[LacyRoze]

I turned 40 on Saturday. It didn't really depress me, it just left me wondering where the time has gone. I looked in the mirror and sure, I have a few wrinkles and alot of gray hair but my feelings about it.. I earned every dang one of them. Life hasn't always been champagne and roses but it's been pretty dang good to me and I wouldn't change a second of it. Yeah, I have aches and pains on days like today, cloudy and humid, but that's ok. I look at how far I've come in my life and the milestones I've passed and I'm pretty darn proud of all I've done!! :ringaroun

[DianaStormDancer]

One day my daughter was just born, and the next: POOF! She's SIX! What happened?! Did I sleep through it?! Geez....eh, now I'M depressed. :sadeyes: :needcoffe
ok ok come on I didnt post this thread to depress anyone it was more along the lines of seeing if we have this feeling in common.......and your depressed Lord one day my daughter was born and poof now she's in college......but yeah thats sort of part of it...not that I feel I missed the time or days gone by I was certainly there for every single lovely beautiful one of them, but at times I just feel like no way am I this old do I have this many kids and have I experienced this much of life.................but then I just play with my inner child and my children and it all falls into perspective again;)

I miss my lil girl though.....they grow so darn fast ...don't blink love before ya know it she will be graduating....and this is not a depressing thing..ok well it is and it isnt its all in the milestones.....:whatgives

[RogueSpirit]

I was fine with my age (almost 36) because I never think about it. I date men who are younger, I'm usually mistaken for younger, I have lots of younger friends... so I just never think about it. Until I ran into a friend of the same age with his 15 year old daughter. At which point I realize my nephew is nearly 14 and his dad (my brother) is only a year younger than me. And that my mom was my age when I graduated from high school at 18. Yikes! (It really doesn't bother me, though, because I can ignore all of that pretty well)

[~Anamorata~]

I wasn't depressed over the age, it was more along the lines of, my daughter isn't a baby anymore, she's a little lady now! And, in that same blink of an eye, she'll be in college, or married, and I'll find myself a grandmother! It's the feeling of, "Wait, did I miss something? I wasn't ready to move this quickly with my life! When I was born, MY mom was 35, and my dad, 42. So, I can only imagine what they were feeling about age...wow! :flowers:
ok ok come on I didnt post this thread to depress anyone it was more along the lines of seeing if we have this feeling in common.......and your depressed Lord one day my daughter was born and poof now she's in college......but yeah thats sort of part of it...not that I feel I missed the time or days gone by I was certainly there for every single lovely beautiful one of them, but at times I just feel like no way am I this old do I have this many kids and have I experienced this much of life.................but then I just play with my inner child and my children and it all falls into perspective again;)

I miss my lil girl though.....they grow so darn fast ...don't blink love before ya know it she will be graduating....and this is not a depressing thing..ok well it is and it isnt its all in the milestones.....:whatgives

[ap Dafydd]

I'm 47...

But I'm still me, the same guy that I was 25 years ago. It's just that sometimes (happened to me tonight), something will take you back to a memory of a long time ago and it suddenly seems that you're looking into a very distant gulf of time.

Or I'll think to myself that there are adults now who weren't even born when...

gwyn eich byd

Ffred

[{Tigress}]

Or I'll think to myself that there are adults now who weren't even born when...

I think that's the one that gets me the most.

Another one that gets me is seeing something on television that alludes to something from the past, knowing that the younger generation just won't "get it".

[Dusk]

I'm 37.

The thing that gets me is how much harder it is for me to function without sleep. 10 years ago I would be tired if I lost sleep, but I'd just brush it aside and keep going. Now, I can't even concentrate on some of the simplest things very well.

[Caffiend]

Most of the time I forget that I'm in my 30's, until I try to do something and my body creaks or groans. lol Mentally, I'm a young whipper-snapper. Just need to convice my body of that now!

[Noriohtle]

I will never forget hitting 40 it was the first time i relized that i HAD to be responsible .. no looking back... no questions its just gotta be done,.

it does not hurt that 90% of my friends are under 30 and they are constantly telling me how they are getting old..

[Xander67]

well, At 37, I am beginning to rediscover my child like nature, the silly forums help me with that.

I have always been goofy,

I can still do for myself, and have even began to excercise a lil more, and I worry about what I am eating..

[Calen]

That's strange, you don't *sound* old...
I'm sixteen, and reading you guys talk about age reminds me to enjoy my youth!
:)

[DragonsChest]

I'll be 42 in November. I certainly don't feel that way. Most folks guess I'm in my 30s, so I must be doing something right. But yes, I look at my son, 17, and just stand in awe of it: where did that time go? It was just yesterday I was dancing to Madonna's True Blue CD (wow, that was new then!) with him on my shoulder, trying to put him to sleep.

Makes me think of the song from Fiddler on the Roof: Sunrise, Sunset.