• Home
  • Recent
  • Calendar
  • Register
  • Login
  • Home
  • Recent
  • Calendar
  • Register
  • Login
Iron Heart Forum
Iron Heart Forum

New Iron Heart Website - Live Now - Feedback and Bug Report Here Please!

When you suddenly feel old —

General Chat
23
56
2.1k
Loading More Posts
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • S
    seawolf
    Mod Squad
    Joined: 28 Oct 2011

    I'm in an undergrad program so I'm around college aged people all the time, and I definitely relate more to the professors 😂

    I understand that a lot of students think I'm old, and some of the faculty (and students) have wrongly assumed that I'm a professor. To be honest with you, I actually love where I'm at with my age (43). I'm old enough to have a lot of experience, but young enough to still feel relatively young. Despite the fact that I have a chronic illness that mostly affects men much older than me, I still do a lot and feel pretty good!

    “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

    @zeebeeleather

    last edited by 17 May 2024, 02:32 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 4
    • E
      endo
      見習いボス
      @Matt
      Joined: 29 May 2020

      @Matt said in When you suddenly feel old —:

      Hair growth in new places (ears, nose, back etc.)

      that's the real scourge of humanity

      si tacuisses

      last edited by endo 17 May 2024, 03:04 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 6
      • G
        goosehd
        Mod Squad
        @steelworker
        Joined: 8 Apr 2016

        @steelworker 😂 Nothing better than getting most of the way through a telephone number and your finger slipping on the dial…immediate start over 🙂

        "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

        last edited by 17 May 2024, 04:13 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • T
          Tago Mago
          Mod Squad
          @FlavourFade
          Joined: 16 Jan 2021

          @FlavourFade you can say you to me

          last edited by 17 May 2024, 04:57 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • T
            Tago Mago
            Mod Squad
            @goosehd
            Joined: 16 Jan 2021

            @goosehd a sentiment that Plato also lays out in „the republic“. Speaking of Greek philosophers

            last edited by 17 May 2024, 04:59 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • F
              FlavourFade
              Raw and Unwashed
              @T4920
              Joined: 15 Jan 2024

              @T4920 the peeing really increases from 30 😃 also the stiffness but I stretch a lot that helps

              @jerkules the career thing was very important in my mid 20s for me but now I work for three years in a job that I would not have imagined back then and am as happy as I could be and don't think about switching, I even make a little less money than I did at my last job but also less headache

              Insta: free_the_fades

              wtb:
              The Pale Rider XXL

              last edited by 17 May 2024, 05:00 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
              • I
                injunjack
                見習いボス
                Joined: 19 Feb 2010

                image.png

                This pretty sums up my view about this subject.
                I'm 60, still riding Choppers, messing with cars, gals (my wife ✌ ) and booze. Life will slow you down a bit but more active you are, happier and healthier you'll be. Don't ever stop. Train karate, go to gym, go to see gigs and dance like nobodys watching you, and most of all don't give a fuck.
                That's actually almost the best part being in the last quarter of your life. Not giving a fuck. If you have done so in earlier life, after fifty you usually start not to.
                I think the best part of getting old is to see that your kids get along in life and to see grandkids grow up. Small things make me happy.

                last edited by 17 May 2024, 05:39 W 1 Reply Last reply 17 May 2024, 11:19 Reply Quote 11
                • E
                  endo
                  見習いボス
                  Joined: 29 May 2020

                  well said @injunjack

                  si tacuisses

                  last edited by 17 May 2024, 06:04 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • G
                    Giles
                    IHUK Crew
                    Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                    I am convinced that getting old is a state of mind. My grandfather got old at 50, as he was expected to, my father got old in his early 60's and basically stopped doing shit. Paula is with him in Greece at the moment and I am happy to report that he is actually walking every morning. (the irony is that I can't be there because I just had a hip replacement 🙂 )

                    I feel blessed that for the last 20 years I have been surrounded by people younger than myself, you lot and my fishing mates, and I think that that has kept my outlook younger than my years. Yes, I'm a bit less nimble and flexible than I was, but I don't feel old (except when we go for dinner with local friends of my own age or older, and all the silly old fuckers talk about is health, I've had to ban the topic, as it does no one involved any good). I accepted an invitation to a family party recently on the proviso that any health shit was got out of the way by email beforehand).

                    I was invited to Nicaragua fishing recently by a couple of mates in their late 20's early 30's, I was immeasurably honoured for them to consider me as a fun companion.

                    Think young, and guess what.....

                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

                    last edited by 17 May 2024, 07:07 I 1 Reply Last reply 17 May 2024, 07:22 Reply Quote 12
                    • I
                      injunjack
                      見習いボス
                      @Giles
                      Joined: 19 Feb 2010

                      @Giles said in When you suddenly feel old —:

                      I am convinced that getting old is a state of mind.
                      ......
                      Think young, and guess what.....

                      This.

                      last edited by 17 May 2024, 07:22 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • I
                        IrishHeart
                        Haraki san Expert
                        Joined: 1 Mar 2023

                        When I was working I had to deal with people that I wouldn’t otherwise cross the road to speak to. I retired early as I didn’t want my last day to be a working day, and vowed not to spend any more of my time with with people I didn’t like, weren’t fun or interesting.

                        I can highly recommend it ( although ironically my wife thinks I can be a grumpy git when I refuse invites from people who dont tick those boxes).

                        last edited by 17 May 2024, 10:35 G 1 Reply Last reply 17 May 2024, 10:37 Reply Quote 2
                        • B
                          Brian
                          Joined: 24 Nov 2022

                          image.jpg
                          image.jpg

                          Im feeling it when my son plays with Lego sets from the 1980s that were mine

                          and then I look up what they are worth and wonder why my parents didn’t keep the boxes damn

                          I’m 43 almost 44 but feel young in some ways as really didn’t start real life until I was in my 30’s after moving countries when I was in the uk I did school uni then jobs but never with anything serious, it was only when I went to OZ for a holiday then stayed and got married and had a kid in my late 30’s that I think I was starting my adult life

                          I feel old doing the school drop off when 90% of the other parents are in their late 20’s early 30’s
                          Old man rant over

                          last edited by 17 May 2024, 10:36 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                          • G
                            goosehd
                            Mod Squad
                            @IrishHeart
                            Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                            @IrishHeart That’s not being a grumpy git, that’s managing your time wisely!!

                            "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

                            last edited by 17 May 2024, 10:37 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
                            • G
                              Giles
                              IHUK Crew
                              Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                              I have frequent discussions with P around why I don't want to spend time with people I don't get along with/have zero in common with/think are twats, she thinks I should make an effort. Life's too fucking short......

                              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

                              last edited by Giles 17 May 2024, 10:39 T P 2 Replies Last reply 17 May 2024, 10:52 Reply Quote 6
                              • T
                                Tago Mago
                                Mod Squad
                                @Giles
                                Joined: 16 Jan 2021

                                @Giles amen

                                last edited by 17 May 2024, 10:52 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                • W
                                  WhiskeySandwich
                                  啓蒙家
                                  @injunjack
                                  Joined: 1 Mar 2023

                                  @injunjack dude fuck yea. I'm with you. We're all just kids in aging bodies. I still cant wait to bail from work and get into some fun. I sit in meetings and look around at all the people taking themselves too seriously, and all I see is the kid they were when they were 8 and how they'd laugh at what they've become. Not to judge others, but to give myself some perspective to work with. I think we all kinda fake-it-till-ya-make-it to some degree. We get in to character to 'succeed', but some people get stuck in that role and forget to turn it off and play.

                                  I agree with Giles that it's a state of mind. It's almost a choice to stop having fun, but that's the most important thing.

                                  "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                                  -Seneca

                                  last edited by WhiskeySandwich 17 May 2024, 11:19 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 4
                                  • M
                                    mclaincausey
                                    見習いボス
                                    Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                                    We had a 40th birthday party for a friend at this food hall that is definitely a meat market for people in their 20s (we wanted to host at a posh cocktail bar but were overridden). It’s a first come first served seating situation. We were holding a block of seats for our crew and some young ladies came by and asked if seats were taken. We said they were and as they left they saw some of the 40th birthday paraphernalia and one of them scoffed “40?! shudder” to the other.

                                    Didn’t make me feel old (I’m closer to 50) but it did make me feel right about the cocktail bar being the appropriate venue. And I did give my wife and me a good chuckle.

                                    You should be so lucky, ladies, to be celebrating your own 40th in a couple decades.

                                    Think it, be it.

                                    last edited by 17 May 2024, 12:08 W 1 Reply Last reply 17 May 2024, 12:37 Reply Quote 2
                                    • W
                                      WhiskeySandwich
                                      啓蒙家
                                      @mclaincausey
                                      Joined: 1 Mar 2023

                                      @mclaincausey "you should be so lucky..." damn right. one day.

                                      This also reminds me of the moment in Lucky Number Slevin:

                                      Nick:
                                      There was a time?

                                      Smith:
                                      Mm-hmm. Take Brown Sugar back there, for example. [indicates elderly woman] She's pretty f***ing foxy, right?

                                      Nick:
                                      [pause] She's seventy.

                                      Smith:
                                      If she's a day. But there was a time.

                                      "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                                      -Seneca

                                      last edited by 17 May 2024, 12:37 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
                                      • I
                                        indigostiff
                                        Joined: 23 Jul 2023

                                        This show, Still Game, is one of my all-time favorites, and makes me look forward to those days in the future -- should I be so lucky to get them --

                                        last edited by 17 May 2024, 12:52 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                        • P
                                          popvulture
                                          見習いボス
                                          @Giles
                                          Joined: 2 Oct 2018

                                          @Giles I’ve had the same realization lately and have, for lack of a better phrase, opted out of the relationships with people I don’t have anything in common with. Being friends with some of them was actually a negative experience, but for some reason I felt some obligation to keep it going.

                                          When I was young, I loved having as many friends as possible. Now I really appreciate having a core crew of friends I really love and trust. Hollow relationships? Ain’t nobody got time for that.

                                          WTB
                                          IHSH-IHG-BLK XXL
                                          Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

                                          last edited by popvulture 17 May 2024, 12:59 J M F 3 Replies Last reply 17 May 2024, 14:33 Reply Quote 8
                                          36 out of 56
                                          • First post
                                            36/56
                                            Last post
                                          Copyright Iron Heart 2022.