I'm feeling old these days

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Am mid 50s, so not young..but with events in my life just now, kids moving out and moving on etc, I'm just feeling old. I'll never be 25 and buying my first flat again.

I'm not complaining, age doesn't bother me. But I'm just feeling the years just now. More of my life is behind me rather than in front.

I'm also nostalgic and would love to live my teenage years again and be young

I wouldn't be 25 now but I'd go all the way back to 15 and do it all again

I don't think I've ever lived as vibrantly as I did at university - it was just exhilarating- like living in Technicolor

I mean I wouldn't be 25 in this day and age but would go back to the 80's and be a teenager again and live through to the 90's again

A great way to make yourself look and feel young is to hang out with old people

I'm late 40s and had a bit of a major life upheaval this past year. I think that and spare time have made me reminiscent remember more of the past.

What I've noticed is I suddenly realise I have alot of memories. I'm guessing lockdown has meant I've had more time to reflect than in normal times but sometimes I feel very overwhelmed by the vast amount if memories flooding back. We've led a very nomadic lifestyle due to moving frequently with jobs but I feel like there so much to remember. I don't know if it's because I can compartmentalise it all in stages such as, when we lived in X country Y happened, when we lived in B Town we did xyz etc etc.

I now understand all of a sudden why old people must get confused. There's so much stuff you remember and alot of it pointless. I found myself reminding about the school run on one place we lived the other day, how the lawn was like a farmers field and a nightmare to mow in another house, The curtains I had somewhere else. It's not major event memories just hum drum stuff.

My kids all young adults are doing things and starting out in their lives and I do sometimes feel a bit envious on how it's all just starting for them.

As my old Grandma once told me "you are a long time looking at the lid”..

Omg I love that! 😂

I avidly watched It's A Sin and now can't stop thinking back to the 80's when I was in my 20"s, I'm playing the PSB's in the car constantly and reminiscing, I just never do that stuff, looking back. Ritchie when he was saying 'but we had so much fun' you can't help but be wistful because no matter how great your life is now, it's never going to have that same edge as it did back then.

Being 25 right now is shit. Okay I am probably not your average 25yo. I'm trying and failing to buy my third house. Our wedding has been postponed twice, covid makes me feel like my life is over and the past year has robbed my small child of 1/4 of his whole life. The first lockdown turned him into a shell of himself. I also feel older than I should, I feel stressed, I feel depressed, the future feels bleak and yet, hey, I've got to keep going to buy a house and keep working to pay for it in a career that's underpaid and likely not going very far because the NHS is horrificly underfunded and admin staff aren't heroes or even considered, ever.

The grass is always greener isn't it. I'd rather be 50 with my house paid off, my child an adult and no added stress on top of everything else.

The last year has taken it’s toll and I feel I’ve aged a good deal (mid 50s). I’ve put on a lot of weight and numerous health issues have become bothersome.

The most profound change for me though is I finally like myself. I have become my own best friend.

TrustTheGeneGenie

I'm mid 50's, house no-where near paid off and worried to death about my grown up kids, doesn't necessarily get any easier plus you have less energy to deal with it all..

Plus your health starts to deteriorate! Don't wish you were 50 when you're only 25

@LaurieFairyCake

I'm also nostalgic and would love to live my teenage years again and be young

I wouldn't be 25 now but I'd go all the way back to 15 and do it all again

I don't think I've ever lived as vibrantly as I did at university - it was just exhilarating- like living in Technicolor

Me too. But I'd like to have the knowledge that I have now, so unless I learn time travel...

@LoopyLockdown. I'm with Homer Simpson on this one. "Every time I learn new stuff it pushes old stuff out".

I think overall, I'm ok where I am. :)

I am in my 50s and am the youngest in a large family. My (much) older siblings and their partners are starting to suffer ill health and age related maladies; i am at the stage where i just feel that's all i have to look forward to now. I would love to be 25 again. Newly married, happy in my job, good friends, re-living the early years with my my dc would be fab!

Unfortunately my house is no where near paid off, and we are fianancially worse off than we were when we were young. God i am such a debbie downer, sorry.

Mid-50s here, and I feel the past year has made me old. I was fit, healthy, enjoying life and now I lie on the sofa and watch telly. I struggle to concentrate on anything more demanding. Not having anything much to look forward to is a real downer.

The last 20 years seem to have gone in a flash - another 20 and I'll be mid-70s .

57 here and getting to grips with aches and pains, but have been really down lately as i'm newly single and feel like thats probably it now, i'm doomed to growing old by myself, and sad i may never have cuddles or cosy downs with another human being.. that part of my life has ended now.

@Jellykat

My great aunt met the love of her life in her late 80s. They both drive around in his open top car viewing expensive houses (1/4 million in the eighties) leading estate agents believing they could afford them.
They had by all accounts a rip roaring few years. Although they did maintain separate flats and she made sure he went home for breakfast - otherwise it would have been “improper”. They passed themselves off as mr and Mrs for holiday.

Aw Bargebill19 what a fab story! I'd love to do some crackers stuff with someone and i'm a great Aunt too maybe i should pull myself together and have a little hope! Thank you..