If you have - when have you stopped feeling young?

[Pacoean]

Out of curiosity.
When did you stop feeling young (if you ever stopped)? What age and why?

I recently turned 25 and don't think I'll feel carefree and young again. My life looks a lot different to what it used to just a couple of years ago, although I'm grateful for all the fun time I had.

What about you?

It was around 45. You are still a baby at 25!!!!

Yep, 45 for me too (I’m 45!)

I think although ageing is linear, feeling old isn’t. I also think it’s easy to feel old when you feel ill or bogged down by life, and then when circumstances change or your burden lifts, it’s rejuvenating for both your body and mind. Are you anxious about ageing?

What made the shift for you guys at 45 exactly?

33 finding out I was pregnant and since my body is achy and tierd and my priorities have changed so much.

During covid. I'm in my 50's but didn't feel old before that. During the last two years I have aged (not blaming covid for that!) and also I feel it's a chunk out of my life that I won't get back. It's like I went into covid young and I've come out of it old.

This year, 29. Devastating 😂 thought I had years left!

Late 30s but mainly because I became less mobile and losing weight/ staying fit became far more difficult. I know older people who seem younger than me because they're fitter and healthier.

I felt I felt old (read mature) in my late 30s, now in late 40s I realise I wasn't if that makes sense?! Not sure what you mean by 'old' - tired? Incapacitated in some way? Invisible to others??! I never felt old in my 20s.. you gotta embrace those years!!

I’m 49. Still don’t feel old although I’ve really noticed signs of ageing in the last year so looking older.

I’m nearly 40, I have an important job, responsibilities, pay taxes, talk about mortgages and car insurance, own my own house, have DC, some old enough to have jobs themselves.

i’m young. Im still waiting for the grown ups to come along and tell me off for thinking I can do most of the above by myself.

I’m 45 and nowhere near it yet.,

During covid. I'm in my 50's but didn't feel old before that. During the last two years I have aged (not blaming covid for that!) and also I feel it's a chunk out of my life that I won't get back. It's like I went into covid young and I've come out of it old.
same. Though I do think Covid highlighted it all for me.

You are absolutely right!
I'm not really anxious about aging. Just wish I had thought things through a bit more thoroughly and taken things a bit more slowly. Circumstances and responsibilities rather than age itself, as you put it so well yourself.

i’m young. Im still waiting for the grown ups to come along and tell me off for thinking I can do most of the above by myself.

love it! 😂 * *

I had DC2 & 3 at 38 and 39 so I would say around 38.

I am 46 now and feel my age, i.e. I don’t feel old exactly but I definitely don’t feel young.

I was very grown-up from my mid twenties to my late thirties. With a full time job, lots of children and a rather ineffectual husband I needed to be. But I came through it and got the fun times back.

39 with 2 DC and still waiting to feel like a grown up.

Omg 25 is young lol. I didn’t feel like a grown up till after I had DS at 35! My gran said in her 80s that she never stopped feeling 19 - in her head, just wished her body felt the same

Just recently at 58/59. Still don't feel too decrepit but not as flexible as I was and starting to get aches and pains which are becoming permanent.

For me, it was in my early 30s when I realised that, having been an avid music fan in my teens the 80s, I was now listening to R4 and I neither knew nor cared what was in the pop charts.

My niece just turned 13 and that made me feel old AF! I'm 34, and until then, considered myself young 🤣

I don't actually feel old though, I do have very different priorities now, with work, 2 kids, husband etc.

I'm in my 40s but in my head I'm still 26.

I mean, I feel more grown up in good ways like confidence. But yeah, I'm still 26.

The menopause has made me feel old. Also realising that I could no longer roller-skate due to the fear of doing my back in.

Late 40s. I'm 49 and very very aware of my own mortality now. Plus I noticed on holiday the young staff at the resort would help me and my dh on and off the boats more so than the younger guests

I've been invisible at work or when we go out for years, probably after I had dc in my mid 30s. I think it goes in stages