Your age and your thoughts

[pookie101]

43 (YAY im not the only person in this thread to be that old)

illnesses have gotten to the point of having a lasting effect and bouts tend to linger these days. its weird for me to be thinking about 50 and 60 and realising its not that far away and yeah i dont feel that mentally different from when i was 20

as for games i remember being placed in front of space invaders in around 79 and being hooked and love the games we have had for the last decade/15 years

 

[Bob_McMillan]

18. Annoyed that I'm going to college this late, but still excited/afraid.

 

[Kae]

26, to be honest, I'm just tired I gave up on my dreams to maintain my family which to be clear is my parents and my siblings[footnote]Also worth mentioning that I don't live with them as I can't really stand them, so I just live alone as that way at leas I'm a little bit more at peace, but I'm still so tired.[/footnote] I don't have sons or daughters because I was never that kind of person, I never even bothered finishing High School and considering I was always an honor student and was in love with academical study to the point that I wanted to be a professor at a University, it does make me feel like a failure, now I do realize that I'm still young and I could still turn things around but I'm just too tired and jaded, I no longer care about anything all that much and to be honest I kinda wish I was dead, that way at least I'd finally have some peace and wouldn't have to worry about shit.

Now it's not like I'm suicidal or anything of the sort but it just feels like if I were to die I'd be glad to, I don't believe in the afterlife or any such nonsense so the idea of just ceasing to exist seems extremely relaxing to me.

 

[MHR]

27

Don't even want to talk about it.

 

[Zen Bard]

48.

I used to think that meant being some shriveled old geezer wheezing through life supported by a pair of crutches and suitcase full of pills. But if you consider that's the same age group as Jason Statham, Robert Downey Jr. and Brad Pitt, it sort of puts things in perspective. "Old" really is a state of mind. Still play video games, practice martial arts and jam out on my Strat whenever I can. Helps to have a good job, great wife and goofy kid to keep me line, though. Sure, I've had some regrets. But I feel like I'm exactly where I need to be.

Now get off my digital lawn.

 

[Mr Companion]

24, no debt, never even held hands (not ugly, just bad circumstances), trying to find more work but I got enough money anyways. parent is still happy for me to live with her so little costs. Okay resume, beautiful town, good friend, pretty happy.

 

[babinro]

36 - I feel too young as retirement is almost another lifetime ahead of me.

Life is great for the moment though. I have a job I enjoy and life is mostly stress free for the moment. Also no debt and no dependents which is a big plus. I've been enjoying single life for the last decade and I can't say I feel any desire to change that. There's just something great about living life on your own schedule exactly the way you want at all times.

 

[Jodokh]

26-Confident when working with my hands efficient enough to be employed in most standard labour jobs. Finishing up arborist training got approved for a business getting my own truck, dump trailer, climbing rigging and start contacting in April. Nervous about it, don't want to be a fuck up. felt like I wasted to much time told my mom, that I am trying to force 5 years of maturity in 4 months. Dating a 22 year old for the last 2 years, we are not on the same level, but it still works. I know I am not that smart or witty I just try to maintain self awareness and I think get by on mostly luck.

Going to make time to ride more

 

[Phasmal]

26, nearly 27.

Feeling restless to get settled, if that makes sense. A lot of people I know are having babies and getting married.
While I'm in the process of making my engagement "official" (still ring shopping- the only one we found that we both liked was ?1000 and I really am not going to spend that much money on something I will inevitably break or lose at one point)- I know we're not quite ready for all the rest yet.

So it kinda feels like I'm waiting until we are.

 

[Guffe]

25, 26 in a few days.
I'm doing good I think, got into school for my dreamjob when only 21, studied hard for 2,5 years and since the age of 24 been working in this line of work. This should make me feel like an adult? Because I don't, I still feel like a late teenager just going about, working in stead of going to school, playing games, meeting with friends, watching football and training.
I want kids at some point, maybe that will change my perspective, who knows.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

What the hell Redlin? Why did you have go and get everyone bleak around here?

I'm 24. In regards to my academic life, I'm quite happy with where I am. I started my masters earlier this year, and I'm really enjoying it. I'm a little behind where I could be, but that's not something that really matters that much to me.

In terms of my social life and general happiness, I'm not sure where I am. I'm good at making acquaintances, but I'm terrible at making close friends. I think I've been sabotaging friendships all my life by always waiting for someone else to ask me to do something instead of asking myself, which comes from a desire not to impose upon someone if they don't want to be around me. Also thinking I might be getting into a bit of a depressive state. Dredging up the motivation to do anything has become an uphill battle. I feel content, but I just don't care enough to make myself do the things I enjoy anymore, and I'm worried that I'm going to keep bleeding friends until I don't have any left.

God dammit. Now you've got me doing it too.

 

[King Billi]

29 and having only recently gotten married, left home and had a (absolutely gorgeous) baby I honestly feel like my life is right now truly just beginning. I don't have any real attachment to my past, not that any of it was bad at all just that my regrets don't bother me as much any more and I'm much more interested in what is yet to come.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

32 and life is going pretty swimmingly. On my third degree, I live off my investments ... I don't live particularly well, but I don't need all that fancy schmancy stuff. Looking pretty good for a 30+ year old. Better than I should. I think I have my mum's genes to thank for that. No fine lines, no wrinkles ... though I am gettiung grey hairs more frequently. I don't know how grey I am because I colour it every few months and foil it every 6 months.

All in all, I'm in a pretty good place but I'm forgetting how to adult. I had a pretty shitty teen years, homeless at 16. So I think I'm making up for it now that I'm independently wealthy.

I go to uni because I figure I should do something I can pretend is productive. Given my views on neuroprosthetics and the posthuman condition, I've been working for awhile towards a meaningful spot in the world of neuropsychology and neuroscience. Putting my money and my efforts where my mouth is. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world..." and so on and so forth.

This is just an excuse to keep on studying and feeling less guilty about others that have to work for a living.

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to be an adult, as if what I'm living feels more like whimsy and fantasy made manifest. Or this might be my schizophrenia playing an active role in my dissociation with the world at large. I do take my meds, fyi.

Either/or it's kind of blissful and secretly terrifying.

 

[Baffle]

Either/or it's kind of blissful and secretly terrifying.

It's not really a secret if you tell us about it!

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

It's not really a secret if you tell us about it!

Still a secret if I don't tell you what I hear.

 

[BadNewDingus]

30 with the dreadful feeling of accomplishing nothing in my life.

 

[huckleberryhound]

48.

I used to think that meant being some shriveled old geezer wheezing through life supported by a pair of crutches and suitcase full of pills. But if you consider that's the same age group as Jason Statham, Robert Downey Jr. and Brad Pitt

Joe Rogan is 48. Nuff sed.

 

[balladbird]

[
It took you until nearly 30 to read half of a book?! Actually reading is overrated, I prefer the moving pictures myself.

To be fair, it was a Hemmingway. The man's prose is as dry as the sand Anakin so despises.

Don't worry, we all feel like that - then I realise that I made ?13 a week when I was a kid. It's about the same now, but I have to pay taxes too these days.

True. I felt a strange amount of pride the first year I actually made enough income to have some of it taxed. Gotta take your victories where you can in adult land.

 

[BeerTent]

28 here, I can either jump off the bridge, or watch my pay go to bills and worthless loans.

I mean, they're bith viable options.

 

[Wakey87]

30, and meh I still feel like the same anxiety ridden teenager I once was. But I'm doing fine, maybe even better than most. If everything stayed the same for the next 30 years I wouldn't have much to complain about.