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If you have - when have you stopped feeling young?

106 replies

Pacoean · 28/06/2022 19:19

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?

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FourChimneys · 28/06/2022 20:04

Early 60s here. Still young. OK, I may have greying hair and go oooff when I get off the sofa but I'm not old. I overtook two teenage boys on my bike on a steep hill at the weekend. I'm not planning to be old for a long while yet.

hamsterchump · 28/06/2022 20:08

I'm 35, no kids, still feel young. in fact I've come to the realisation that probably no one ever feels grown up, it's a myth, we're all still floating about aged 80 wondering when it's gonna happen. I've felt the same since I was 19, I think we're all just making it up as we go along, hoping we never get found out and just muddling through. I will say my friends/relatives with kids seem more grown up but I think they're putting it on too, they just have to so the kids don't know.

Sunshine10012 · 28/06/2022 20:15

I’m nearly 35 and I still feel relatively young. The only thing that’s changed is that I no longer feel in competition with women in their 20’s and feel more comfortable in my own skin.
25 is sooo young and my advice to you is to embrace these years as you’ll look back and realise how young you were one day.

user1474315215 · 28/06/2022 20:16

I'm in my early 70s, lucky to have good health, walk miles every day, do minimum of three days a week childcare for the DGC and love my life. Not sure I can say I feel young but I definitely don't feel old!

ooherrmissus14 · 28/06/2022 20:18

I suddenly realised when I got to 28 that I was getting older. I know that's not old at all but it suddenly hit me I couldn't go back to being young and I was only going to get older. I'm 42 bit turning 28 was definitely a brain shift for me x

Nosetickle · 28/06/2022 20:18

About a year after having my first child I realised in reply so old, so I was about 34 and the sleepless nights and exhaustion had all caught up with me. 25 is so young! I still had so much fun and carefree stuff ahead at that point but I guess it depends how your life pans out and how quickly you saddle yourself with responsibilities.

MiniTheMinx · 28/06/2022 20:18

DuesToTheDirt · 28/06/2022 19:27

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. I'm 49.

Nosetickle · 28/06/2022 20:19

I felt not in reply!

GoodHearted · 28/06/2022 20:20

I feel young physically but so bloody old and tired emotionally. I'm 37.

Titsywoo · 28/06/2022 20:21

What do you mean by old? I'm 43 and although I have some lines and my hair is going grey I wouldn't call myself old. I don't even say that about my parents and they are 70! I'm not tired, am in decent health and keep busy/enjoy life.

SummerPuddings · 28/06/2022 20:22

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MajorCarolDanvers · 28/06/2022 20:23

48 and I still feel young (most if the time)

user1469770863 · 28/06/2022 20:26

Not 'not feeling young', iyswim. It's more when I stopped feeling 'not old' ... which was about three years ago. I'm 67.

GlamorousHeifer · 28/06/2022 20:29

16! I was always described as an old head on young shoulders 🙄
I've 'grown into' myself since then and don't feel much different to my 16 year old self mentally (37 now).
I'm physically more tired, thyroid issues wipe me out but I would say emotionally I've been a steady age since my teen years, I had my first child at 23 and didn't feel too young at all.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 28/06/2022 20:29

When police officers and drs suddenly got younger than me.

Mushroo · 28/06/2022 20:30

I still feel young (30).

I feel my age when I interact with anyone under 25, but day to day definitely feel young! Fit, healthy, no aches and pains, no greys or wrinkles and looking forward to a group trip to Ibiza over the summer, day out at the races, beer festivals. I’m essentially doing everything I wanted in my early twenties as I now have a bit more money, it’s great!

ElEmEnOhPee · 28/06/2022 20:30

I'm late 30s and only just starting to feel old now. I think it's because I'm starting to feel lonely and want to settle down, now I'm panicked that I'm too old to meet anyone because all the decent ones have already been snapped up.

JellyBellyNelly · 28/06/2022 20:33

I’m 64 and still feel young though I do feel that major surgery and a cancer scare I had almost two years ago knocked some of the stuffing out of me.

MerylSqueak · 28/06/2022 20:33

Right now. I'm nearly 49 and I ve just stopped thinking I'll get my zing back after wondering where it went a couple of years ago.

SNWannabe · 28/06/2022 20:35

I dont think I ever felt young, I was “precocious” I guess, and from around 13.5 years old I wanted nothing more than to be grown up, and made choices i now cringe at- as I can see now how young I was, but in all honesty I felt similarly in myself as I do now…
I was a married mum in my teens and I have always had an old head on my shoulders.

LeniGray · 28/06/2022 20:37

36-37 - my health drastically deteriorated, I feel old and tired mentally and physically now, at 45, and I don’t think I’ve even hit menopause yet, so yeah … more fun to be had with that.

user143677433 · 28/06/2022 20:38

38, when I realised that my body clearly wasn’t going to “bounce back” given my youngest was by that point 3.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 28/06/2022 20:40

I still feel young at 41. I remember turning 25 and feeling depressed! I went travelling and moved away to London at 30. Before that life wasn't very exciting 😂

WildHorsesRunInMe · 28/06/2022 20:40

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DogsAndGin · 28/06/2022 20:41

In my late twenties I started to really feel that the under 25s had a culture I had absolutely no clue about, and absolutely no interest in