When you were younger than 30, did you think that you'd never get old?

[raccoon]

If you're younger than 30 now, do you believe that you'll never get old?

[MissMillie]

1. I knew I'd get old

But there's a perspective thing that messes w/ my brain.

I think of my mother at my age... and don't see myself as being as old as she (at the same age).

When my mother was in her mid-forties, she seemed old.

I don't feel old.

Then again, she probably didn't either.

[seabeyond]

2. husband and i were talking about that. how long it took for each year to come. took

forever to get older and wanted it so much. and last 15 yrs.... zoom zoom zoom. lol

[Rhythm]

3. I was hoping it would take longer than this...

I had no illusions of immortality, but i was hoping to make it to 60 before the aches-and-pains and the grey hair caught up with me.

I'll be lucky to make it to 50 before i'm appreciably grey, and the achy-ouchies are already here.

*pout*

[seabeyond]

4. lmao.... yup, lol. nt

[raccoon]

5. I should add that I didn't ever think I'd get old.

I was wrong. Imagine that. :shrug:

[Rhythm]

16. I was pretty sure my wild streak would be my undoing in this world...

I have outlived many of my friends, and still have no idea how...

[rebel with a cause]

24. That was me also.

That is why thinking about dying now does not bother me so much, I have been prepared for it for years/decades. :rofl:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. I knew I'd get older--but not this soon

But I DO feel younger than either my mother or grandmother did at my age.

When my mother was only three years old than I am now, she had trouble walking six blocks. She wasn't overweight or anything, but she was exercise-phobic. I have let that be a negative example to me.

On my parents' wedding pictures, my grandmother is 50 years old. She looks and dresses like an old lady (even in comparison to the other people in the pictures). She lived to be 100, which means that she lived in "old lady" mode for half her life, always telling people that she couldn't do this or that because she was "old."

My energy level and joints are not in as good shape as they were when I was 30. I have trouble getting up if I sit on the floor.

But otherwise, I refuse to go into helpless old lady mode until I have to.

[BlueIris]

7. I lost the luxury of believing that when I was around 24 or so.

When my mother's health really started to go downhill. After watching her decline happen so rapidly and in real time, it was impossible to ignore the idea that it would happen to me, one day, too.

[fizzgig]

8. i have less than 15 months before i turn 30 and i know i'll get old

yes, i've already begun the countdown to 30 and the closer it gets, the more apprehensive i get about it. but i think that has more to do with where i am with my life and how it's not what i expected or hoped.

i come from rather long-lived families, but i already have enough aches and pains as it is and that's what i'm worried about catching up with me.

[arbusto_baboso]

9. I never thought I'd live to see the year 2000.

It seemed so impossibly far away when I was a child (I was born in '66).

[AlienGirl]

10. I thought I'd die in my twenties, of cancer.

The cancer came in my twenties but I didn't die.

(Bad decision, IMO.)

Tucker

[jmm]

11. I just turned 30, are you calling me old?

;-)

On both sides of my family people tend to die young or live long so many have passed away in their 30's or 90's but few in between. I like to think I'm one of the ones that'll be around for awhile so I'm not old yet.

[graywarrior]

12. I still feel 40

I'll always see myself as 40.

[ipfilter]

13. I thought I would get old, but I never thought it would happen so soon.

I'm 37 and feel much older than I did ten years ago.

[RebelOne]

14. I knew I would someday

and that someday has come. I am now 70 years old. But I hope to be around for another 15 or 20 years.

[kentauros]

15. Almost 50 and still don't feel old.

So, I won't get that way, either :P

[Richardo]

17. I don't remember.

:D

No, in fact in my 30s I felt older. Now, I feel like I'm in my 30s.

[bikebloke]

18. I decide early on not to get old.

And I haven't. Who wants to be like everyone else anyway.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

19. Born in 1961...

I remember looking at the year 2001 (possibly because of the movie) and thinking, "That's so far off. I'll be forty years old! It will be another century!!"

Meh. What the hell ya gonna do?

[Arugula Latte]

20. It's hard to get your mind around not being one of the young ones.

We're considered "young" for so long -- three decades or more, then, somewhere between 30 and 40 society decides, meh, you're not so young anymore. Still, we've grown up with the "I'm young!" mindset, so it's very hard to see yourself as anything other than young. Then, if you have a decent lifespan, you're considered "old" for a very long time -- decades.

[firecrackerfilms]

21. i do

NOT

[applegrove]

22. When I turned 25 I had it in mind that the next birthday would be 30 and I thought that was old.

When I actually turned thirty I thought it was great. I had all the friends I wanted and a job I loved. Anyways... I was so silly when I was 25. I'm now in my forties and still feel young at heart (though on some days I feel like I'm 89).

[Capn Sunshine]

23. I didn't understand the process

I figured as long as I kept surfing I'd live forever.

[femmocrat]

25. Of course---- it seemed soooo far away.

I recently looked at my brother and asked him, "How did we suddenly become the older generation?"

How the hell did that happen? :shrug:

[lunamagica]

26. I started to feel old at a young age

Circumstances in my life which happened when I was 10 put me behind the rest. I was usually the oldest in any group, trying to catch up and people where always reminding me of it.

Now looking back, I just think how sad it was that even at 21 I felt old, and just now realize that I was hardly more than a kid.

[kimi]

32. Yeah, me too! Old when I was young

I thought I'd seen it all, done it all, experienced it all, by the time I was mid-teens. Then, I sorta grew up, and had kids, and became young all over again, in giving my kids the childhood I always wanted. Now the years go by too fast for sure, but they are years well lived. Still, thinking of how old I felt then, it's sad. Maybe I'll keep growing up, but slowly this time.

[JTG of the PRB]

27. I'm 26 and I'm already feeling old.

Not physically, but I recently realized that I have a 10-year high school reunion in a year and a half. It seems like forever ago that I was 18 and truly young.

I know I'm still young (technically) but I enter my late 20's in February, and then it's just a hop, skip, and a jump to 30...

[bigwillq]

28. No

I always knew I would.

[Skittles]

29. no, I had grandparents who proved it wasn't true

[donheld]

30. No, back then I still believed I would have been raptured into heaben by then

[tXr]

31. I knew I'd get old, just not this young.

I've worked some rather physical jobs for this day and age, and it's starting to catch up with me.

[quakerboy]

33. I know it is happening

But I hope that I will check out before it becomes acute.

Working with the elderly has made a big difference in how I see things. I do not plan to be among the ones hanging on, and I sincerely hope that I am one of the ones that goes easy and relatively early.

[old mark]

34. I didn't think I'd get as old as I am now...Now I'm trying to get a lot older.

Very funny thing.
An old guy once told me," Life is like a roll of toilet paper - the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes." Of course, he was a dumb old fart.

mark

[XemaSab]

35. I think it's hard to appreciate the fact that getting older is not a reversible process

:(

[Mollis]

36. I'm 19

and I don't feel like I will ever get old. I feel like my life will be this way forever. God, I hope not. lol

[sarge43]

37. Barring accidents I knew I'd get old, but

it would be far in the future before it happened. Jeez was I wrong.

[crim son]

38. I don't think I really understood until I turned forty-one

and now I really, really resent it.

[kedrys]

39. The old I could deal with

The fat and gray part I could have skipped. :(

[Progressivism]

40. I'm turning 15 .

Double that, and you get 30.

[Godhumor]

41. I am determined to be as active as possible until my dying day

Barring medical issues, of course. However, my grandmother is almost 80, plays in a seniors tennis league, tools around in a Mini-Cooper and refuses to succumb to "old ageitis".

If I can, I want to model my post-retirement time after her.