What Makes You Feel Old?

[Sugarinii]

I always feel old when I'm walking home from school, and I see all the kindergardeners being picked up by their moms. Ah, to be 5 again.

And you?

[Marching Duck]

the latest "i feel old" moment was when i realized that im not the latest graduating class from my high school. & the fact that im about to turn 20 and no longer be a teenager. god id give anything to be back in my senior year. everything was so good and so wonderful.

[robot]

I started feeling old when I turned 20 in May. Not that I think 20 is all that old, but no longer being a teenager is quite strange. I also feel old when I'm talking to PPT members who are younger than me and they have absolutely no idea what I am referring to.
"Yeah, uhm, I think I heard one of their songs when I was like two. My mom really liked them, though." >.<

[Shifty]

I feel old when I look at other kids my age...
I just turned 16 but I feel much older since i'm kind of missing out what its like to be with this age... Its complicated so I won't really get into it...
Its like when ever I see an english movie with a teenage girl in it, I think thats how i'm suppost to live, instead i'm wasting my life in a country which I don't belong in.

[Articfox]

I don't feel old, heck I;m only 15 I feel young at times in comparisen with some things...but old, not till some years pass.

[robot]

Its like when ever I see an english movie with a teenage girl in it, I think thats how i'm suppost to live, instead i'm wasting my life in a country which I don't belong in.

Don't base your "teenage hood" on silly American movies. Most teenagers don't live like that. Granted, yes, a lot of the times the drama between teenagers really is that ridiculous, the rest of it is just entertainment. Don't worry about living up to any "teenage standard". Just worry about being yourself and being comfortable with who you are and how you choose to live your life.

[Shifty]

Its like when ever I see an english movie with a teenage girl in it, I think thats how i'm suppost to live, instead i'm wasting my life in a country which I don't belong in.

Don't base your "teenage hood" on silly American movies. Most teenagers don't live like that. Granted, yes, a lot of the times the drama between teenagers really is that ridiculous, the rest of it is just entertainment. Don't worry about living up to any "teenage standard". Just worry about being yourself and being comfortable with who you are and how you choose to live your life.

Its not about the movies...
It's just that I used to live in the US... And for the past 4 years i'v been living is Israel... And frankly I don't like the people here... So I spend most of my time on the intenet talking to you americans (and all english speaking people)...
But my point is that I feel like I wasted my teenage years here, when I could have lead the life I was suppost to back in the US.

[Bangel]

I haven't ever felt old... I'm not old, nor have I ever come across a situation that has made me feel old.

[Yoshi]

I still feel quite young, but the one thing that really made me feel old was having to spend a summer teaching a class of 4 year olds at church.

[Caesara]

When I'm singing along to a favorite song of mine and some four year old kid comes up and asks me if it's a linkin park song. x_x (When in fact it's CCR or something like that)

[Jill]

When I see my friends turning a certain age. A lot of people I know are turning 16 this year and I'm like...yeah 16 that was a long time ago.

[shapu]

Things that make me feel old:
-My knees
-My back
-"I love the 90s" and "I love the 80s."
-The fact that I remember far more of both of the above shows than my girlfriend.
-The fact that when I see shirts in Macy's juniors section that say, "Not everything is flat in Kansas!" I don't like it, and wonder what kind of parent would let their teenager wear that.
-The fact that I used to love those shirts.
-The fact that Lindsay Lohan and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are all now 18 years old and ready for college, and that I find them physically attractive, whereas I was reading books before they were born.
-The fact that I'm older than everyone chosen in the NFL , NBA, and MLB drafts the last two years.
-"What makes you feel old?" threads, since I realize how old I feel.

[Marching Duck]

Things that make me feel old:
-My knees
-My back
-"I love the 90s" and "I love the 80s."
-The fact that I remember far more of both of the above shows than my girlfriend.
-The fact that when I see shirts in Macy's juniors section that say, "Not everything is flat in Kansas!" I don't like it, and wonder what kind of parent would let their teenager wear that.
-The fact that I used to love those shirts.
-The fact that Lindsay Lohan and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are all now 18 years old and ready for college, and that I find them physically attractive, whereas I was reading books before they were born.
-The fact that I'm older than everyone chosen in the NFL , NBA, and MLB drafts the last two years.
-"What makes you feel old?" threads, since I realize how old I feel.

and its sad that i just read that & agreed to it all.

or theres my favorites:
- going to elementary school & realizing how many kids are into the same trends as most high schoolers & saying "we wernt like that when I was little"
=the fact that i cant fit in the elementary school desks anymore & the tiolets are so low to the ground
-seeing the prostatots at the movie theaters and malls and yelling at most of them to put more cloths and and saying "if i was your mother i wouldnt let you leave the house in that"
=when i walk up to underaged smokers and ask how old they are & then lecture them when they say theyre under 18 (even those i used to be an underage smoker...but i quit before it got too bad)
-giving adive thats actually pretty good to anyone younger then me and them actually taking it & thanking me
=helping them w. homework too, because ive already taken those classes & got my diploma


*most of all - realizing that high school was the best time of my life and wanting to go back because there wasnt any responsibility. you didnt have to file taxes, pay tuitions, or drive hours away to school. things were simple and everything was handed to you.the oposite sex was easier to handle and there was less pressure for commitment and worried about marriage and kids in a few years. all of your teachers knew your name and things about you. you had lockers and designated parking spots and after school activities. you still got detentions or sent out to sit in the hall. you had staff (teachers, principals, etc) who just blamed your eratic behavior on beening a teenager. waking up early to get on ur bus or be taken to school (or just the fact that there were buses).

wht i wouldnt give to be a high schooler again.

[Lillie]

When I start thinking about war, politics, philosophy, grief, pain, cloning, technology, olden days, poverty, suffering, taxes and so on, I then realise that the older I get the more I have to deal with all this and I get upset, don't want to grow up and realise I am growing whether I like it or not and then I wish that these things didn't exist. By the end of this cycle I feel very, very old.

[Lass]

Nothing really. I'm not that old (13). I don't start high school till the fall, I can't drive yet, etc. The only thing that makes me feel old was looking at all the kids in 5th grade and wondering "Whoa, was I really that short 3 years ago??"