Is 25 still young

[BoomerAnge]

I'm 25 and starting to feel so down about ageing

I've travelled, got a good job but want to travel so much more! Also don't have a boyfriend... I want to still have a wild youth but worried those days are long gone

At 25, I was living with DH but not married. I was qualified and temping. I hadn't gone travelling yet. I went off for a month with friends (DH couldn't manage the time off). We then went travelling together a couple of years later.

30-35 seems to be a big settling down zone for those who went to uni.

My DCs are reaching school age and are getting more portable and flexible, so my late 30s will probably get more interesting than my baby years of the early 30s.

Life is what you make of it.

I'm 41 and you're only 5 years older than my eldest child so yes, you're very much still young! However, I'll echo previous posters. You can keep the wild ride going forever if you want to. It's just the interpretation of wild ride that changes. We travel a lot and actively seek out adventure and just drag the kids along with us!

I very much remember feeling not old but grown up and definitely not young anymore at 25

I'm 32 now so still young but I look back at then and think you were just a baby even though my life is quite the same, Everything I had then Iv Got now in terms of people children house etc but and this is the thing I have changed inside!

My thoughts and cares have matured, things that worried me then don't seem important now.

I'm sure at 40-50-60 etc il look back at say the 10 years younger version me and think the same as I do now looking back at 25

25 is very young. I barely remember being in my 20's. Seems like another lifetime ago.

Jeez, 25 is so young! Enjoy your youth and get out there and live.

I blood hope so!

I'm 24 and keep wondering when I will start to feel like a proper adult

Bloody hell...

If wild youth means swill and spew, you should be well past that. Otherwise - get your arse in gear, work like hell while you have the energy and get going on adventures.

Run for those hills op.

We had 2 kids by 25, a mortgage and upping the career ladder

My second child is now 25 and youngest is 17, me and dh have a lot of travel plans ahead.

Get gone.

Wild times needn't stop at any age, I assure you. I say that as a grumpy old 31 year old.

Is someone telling you you're not young enough for things?

It's definitely relative, my mother didn't think it odd I married at 23 as she married at 22 BUT she left school at 14 and had been working for 8 years! So if you apply the same to now if you leave uni at 22 you don't think about 'settling down' till at least 30.

In her teens she 'travelled' (package holidays to Spain and Ireland), partied (it WAS the 60's), met new people at concerts and dance halls...

I’m 24 and 5 months, and I’ve been getting a few tiny, sparse, and unnoticeable, but still personally nerve-wracking, gray hairs hidden underneath my bangs since I was 22. I haven’t had a boyfriend, my first kiss, first time, wedding, or first kid yet. I want all those things, believe me, hopefully, I’ll have all those things before my mid thirties. However, right now I’m graduating college and trying to find a steady job of my own before getting tied down.

But lol, seriously, I’m pretty sure 25 is still considered to be a young adult. It’s not until you reach 35-36 that you’re considered a middle-aged adult.

OP is about 28 now!

I'm 31, married with 1.5 DC (currently pg with no. 2) and I still feel young!
I've decided young is till 35 in my head.
Then its 35-45 just 'adult'
45+ 'middle aged'
65+? 'older'

Aah I missed that it was a zombie thread!

I do completely understand what the OP means, though. Where does the time go? It still feels like it wasn’t that long ago that I was an awkward fourteen year old middle school student, but that was already just a little over ten years ago.

I've just turned 40 and I'm having a blast!! I feel younger now than I did at 35 but that's because I was in the baby making stage.

My kids are 8 & 5 now and becoming more independent. I can party harder than I did at 25, am fitter, stronger, healthier and more importantly, have a zest for life that I didn't have when I was 25, full of naïveté and a Hollywood movie vision of what my life would be like. I used to daydream about life, now I fucking grab it by the balls and do it!

My younger brother died 2 weeks before his 26th birthday after a 14 month illness that robbed him of all his hopes and dreams. What a goddamn privilege it is that I get to be 40, that I get to age and watch the wrinkles form on my face. I want to live my life well enough that I make him proud. If he's hanging around watching, I don't want to be boring him frankly 😁

Age is such an insignificant number when you're blessed with a birthday each year.

Enjoy your youth, and become excited by the years spread out ahead of you. You can fill those years with amazement and joy and excitement, or you can fear them for no reason at all. Your choice!

You are fifty years younger than me, if you're not young, what the fuck does that make me? Methuselah? (In case you've never heard of Methuselah - a biblical figure - he was supposedly 969 years old lol).

55 is still young.

STOP DREDGING UP ZOMBIE THREADS!!!!

I also had a quarter life crisis at 23 and genuinely felt likey life was over. I think it was the shift from being a student to being an adult but not knowing what I wanted to do with my life. I got over it though and had a lot of fun in my 20s and 30s. Found a career I loved at 26, did a masters at 33 and a phd at 36.

Yeah, I hadn’t really even been thinking about my age until I turned 23, and realized I had only six years of my twenties left. Now, a year-and-five months later, I’m almost 24-and-a-half and I realize I only have a little over five-and-a-half years of my twenties. I suppose a small part of me is worried because my mother was menopausal when she was in her early forties. She’s the only one in her family who was menopausal that early, so there’s decent chance that I’m not going to stop having my period until I reach my early fifties, but it’s always something that’s at the back of my mind in recent years...24 is only sixteen years away from 40, and I don’t like thinking about the possibility that my fertility could be gone sooner than I’d like.