How Old Are We?

  On 7/26/2012 at 10:27 PM, Atop said:

very cool, had no idea. GIVE US YOUR WISDOM! hehe

That's just it, there really isn't that much wisdom. Sure, we learn from (some of) our mistakes but basically we are who we are. I have definitely learned to care less what people think of me, and my patience for telemarketers, spam, and the like has grown very thin after dealing with it over and over. Now I see why old people are so grumpy: they've seen the same old shit so many times that they're absolutely sick of it (coupled with the aches and pains of an aging body.) People like my 14 year old son don't understand this, he wonders why I'm getting so upset because to him it's "no big deal".

What I meant in my previous post about the 18 year old mind in the 80 year old body is this: I'm almost certain that if you still have your mental faculties at age 80 you still have many of the same desires as you did when you were 18. You still want to be attractive, you still want to have sex, and you wish you could go out with friends, stay up all night and be ready to go the next morning. But you're stuck in a wrinkled, withered, decaying body with not much time left (and it's flying by at an incredible speed from what I've heard.) At this point about the only pleasure you have left is good food, if it doesn't give you indigestion, heartburn or hemarroids. Ever notice how old people are preoccupied with food?

Bottom line is that as young people we picture the elderly as wise old sages that have lived a long life and have peacefully accepted the idea that their time is almost up. This kind of thing has been glorified in movies and literature forever, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it ain't so. Maybe it's just wishfull thinking so that young people feel comfortable about aging. But I have to say that I feel exactly the same as I did 40 years ago... until I look in the mirror.

  On 7/26/2012 at 11:34 PM, SecondaryCell said:

  On 7/26/2012 at 10:27 PM, Atop said:

very cool, had no idea. GIVE US YOUR WISDOM! hehe

 

That's just it, there really isn't that much wisdom. Sure, we learn from (some of) our mistakes but basically we are who we are. I have definitely learned to care less what people think of me, and my patience for telemarketers, spam, and the like has grown very thin after dealing with it over and over. Now I see why old people are so grumpy: they've seen the same old shit so many times that they're absolutely sick of it (coupled with the aches and pains of an aging body.) People like my 14 year old son don't understand this, he wonders why I'm getting so upset because to him it's "no big deal".

 

What I meant in my previous post about the 18 year old mind in the 80 year old body is this: I'm almost certain that if you still have your mental faculties at age 80 you still have many of the same desires as you did when you were 18. You still want to be attractive, you still want to have sex, and you wish you could go out with friends, stay up all night and be ready to go the next morning. But you're stuck in a wrinkled, withered, decaying body with not much time left (and it's flying by at an incredible speed from what I've heard.) At this point about the only pleasure you have left is good food, if it doesn't give you indigestion, heartburn or hemarroids. Ever notice how old people are preoccupied with food?

 

Bottom line is that as young people we picture the elderly as wise old sages that have lived a long life and have peacefully accepted the idea that their time is almost up. This kind of thing has been glorified in movies and literature forever, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it ain't so. Maybe it's just wishfull thinking so that young people feel comfortable about aging. But I have to say that I feel exactly the same as I did 40 years ago... until I look in the mirror.

TL:DR: Youth is wasted on the young.

I've heard that you start to feel old once you get to 60 or 70; that that's when you hit the "wise old sage" stage (read: the Parkinson's/Alzheimer's stage*). But then that's just what I've heard. I'm 19, and I feel like I'm 19.

*I somehow managed to spell both of these correctly on my first try. I'm proud of myself. PAT ON THE BACK FOR ME.

  On 7/26/2012 at 11:34 PM, SecondaryCell said:

  On 7/26/2012 at 10:27 PM, Atop said:

very cool, had no idea. GIVE US YOUR WISDOM! hehe

 

That's just it, there really isn't that much wisdom. Sure, we learn from (some of) our mistakes but basically we are who we are. I have definitely learned to care less what people think of me, and my patience for telemarketers, spam, and the like has grown very thin after dealing with it over and over. Now I see why old people are so grumpy: they've seen the same old shit so many times that they're absolutely sick of it (coupled with the aches and pains of an aging body.) People like my 14 year old son don't understand this, he wonders why I'm getting so upset because to him it's "no big deal".

 

What I meant in my previous post about the 18 year old mind in the 80 year old body is this: I'm almost certain that if you still have your mental faculties at age 80 you still have many of the same desires as you did when you were 18. You still want to be attractive, you still want to have sex, and you wish you could go out with friends, stay up all night and be ready to go the next morning. But you're stuck in a wrinkled, withered, decaying body with not much time left (and it's flying by at an incredible speed from what I've heard.) At this point about the only pleasure you have left is good food, if it doesn't give you indigestion, heartburn or hemarroids. Ever notice how old people are preoccupied with food?

 

Bottom line is that as young people we picture the elderly as wise old sages that have lived a long life and have peacefully accepted the idea that their time is almost up. This kind of thing has been glorified in movies and literature forever, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it ain't so. Maybe it's just wishfull thinking so that young people feel comfortable about aging. But I have to say that I feel exactly the same as I did 40 years ago... until I look in the mirror.

i've had similar thoughts as i've gotten older. i remember my dad at my age(41), and he was a man with all his shit together, with no fears or lack of self confidence in any area of his life. i realize now this is not really the way it was, just the way it appeared to me. this isn't any great revelation, maybe i'm too dim to have realized it earlier, but yeah, i have the same insecurities, dreams, desires, etc. that i've had for most of my life. except i'm less obsessed with star wars action figures and model airplanes.

  On 7/27/2012 at 12:15 AM, hautlle said:

TL:DR: Youth is wasted on the young.

haha

The older I get, the more I realize I probably won't make it passed 40.

And I'm alright with that.

  On 7/27/2012 at 2:12 AM, Braintree said:

The older I get, the more I realize I probably won't make it passed 40.

 

And I'm alright with that.

My dad used to tell me he wouldn't make it beyond 40, when I was 6 years old.

If you have anything else in common with my dad, you'll want to live longer once you quit snorting mountains of coke.

FUCK YEAH 1987

Oh-- oh, shit. He would have been the same age I am now. I missed out on my own debauched 1987. What am I doing with my life?

I've never had drugs for recreation.

Just to clarify.

  On 7/27/2012 at 2:22 AM, Braintree said:

I've never had drugs for recreation.

 

Just to clarify.

 

 

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Except caffeine and alcohol

 

I was just teasing.

Please try to make it over 40, is all. Consider all of watmm your 6 year old son, who would miss you if you were gone, even if you spent all of the family's money on a phallic speed boat.

Shit, you're right.

I should buy a speed boat!

I'm 34 and still going strong.. sort of.

  On 7/27/2012 at 2:12 AM, Braintree said:

The older I get, the more I realize I probably won't make it passed 40.

 

And I'm alright with that.

you have to go some or be very unlucky to drop dead before 40. if you never take drugs and aren't drinking seriously HARD every waking moment what are doing that's going to kill you?

I'm 17...

You're all a bunch of old farts !

  On 7/27/2012 at 2:22 AM, Braintree said:

I've never had drugs for recreation.

 

Just to clarify.

 

 

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Except caffeine and alcohol

 

It's never too late to start

  On 7/27/2012 at 2:00 PM, keltoi said:

  On 7/27/2012 at 2:12 AM, Braintree said:

The older I get, the more I realize I probably won't make it passed 40.

 

And I'm alright with that.

 

you have to go some or be very unlucky to drop dead before 40. if you never take drugs and aren't drinking seriously HARD every waking moment what are doing that's going to kill you?

sleeping on rooftops is a dangerous game

  On 7/26/2012 at 11:34 PM, SecondaryCell said:

  On 7/26/2012 at 10:27 PM, Atop said:

very cool, had no idea. GIVE US YOUR WISDOM! hehe

 

That's just it, there really isn't that much wisdom. Sure, we learn from (some of) our mistakes but basically we are who we are. I have definitely learned to care less what people think of me, and my patience for telemarketers, spam, and the like has grown very thin after dealing with it over and over. Now I see why old people are so grumpy: they've seen the same old shit so many times that they're absolutely sick of it (coupled with the aches and pains of an aging body.) People like my 14 year old son don't understand this, he wonders why I'm getting so upset because to him it's "no big deal"....

It's not often I hear anyone older than my close friends (around 30) talk about this subject so frankly, so it's cool to hear the perspective of someone further along for a change. I imagine I'll feel similarly, though at 18 I was a much different person than I am now mentally, and I think of that version of me more as a kid. I feel more like the 26 year old version of me now, and he's only 3 years younger than the current me.

24/quarter-life crisis age

just remember these three rules Glunkster.

1. They not ready.
   
2. Motherfuckers need to know.
   
3. Get your shit.
   

apparently i make a convincing 23 year old dutchman

23

  On 7/27/2012 at 12:31 AM, gmanyo said:

I've heard that you start to feel old once you get to 60 or 70; that that's when you hit the "wise old sage" stage (read: the Parkinson's/Alzheimer's stage*). But then that's just what I've heard. I'm 19, and I feel like I'm 19.

 

*I somehow managed to spell both of these correctly on my first try. I'm proud of myself. PAT ON THE BACK FOR ME.

It actually starts at 25, usually. You'll feel it when it happens.

  On 7/27/2012 at 5:29 PM, tauboo said:

  On 7/27/2012 at 2:00 PM, keltoi said:

  On 7/27/2012 at 2:12 AM, Braintree said:

The older I get, the more I realize I probably won't make it passed 40.

 

And I'm alright with that.

 

you have to go some or be very unlucky to drop dead before 40. if you never take drugs and aren't drinking seriously HARD every waking moment what are doing that's going to kill you?

sleeping on rooftops is a dangerous game

What he said.

Plus, it's become a habit to get blackout drunk and go for a ride on the bike.

  On 7/25/2012 at 2:54 AM, Hoodie said:

  On 7/25/2012 at 2:43 AM, dr lopez said:

20 although I think Hoodie is a cooler 20 yr old watmm user. SAD.

 

can we just be equally cool? for real.

I always thought you and Dr. Lopez were older than me.

I'm 20 and look like I'm 16. People still ask me what high school or think I'm talking about high school when I say I've completed two years if I don't then say "of university."

Bought myself a radiator for my birthday since the one in my car cracked. Best birthday ever, standing at a mechanic's shop as he replaced it.

  On 8/2/2012 at 10:17 AM, Xyrofen said:

Bought myself a radiator for my birthday

IDM as fuck

  On 8/2/2012 at 1:48 AM, StephenG said:

23

Same age as Craig hehhehe

24.

BTW For an interesting read along the lines of what SecondaryCell was talking, but more focused on losing your mental faculties, I recommend this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Losing-It-Professor-Laments-Shrinking/dp/0300171013/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343911386&sr=8-1

  On 8/2/2012 at 1:42 PM, roasty said:

  On 8/2/2012 at 1:48 AM, StephenG said:

23

 

Same age as Craig hehhehe

Ha! I just turned 23 in June.

Maybe I am Craig!