To ask when you started to feel ‘old’?

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I didn’t feel old until the birthday just gone but suddenly it’s hit me like a ton of bricks that I’m old now and getting older fast!
I don’t know if it’s like a mid life crisis but time suddenly seems to have sped up and be running out. I no longer feel like there are a lot of opportunities for me and this time is now just ‘waiting time.’
It’s very depressing!

almost 62 and certainly don't "feel" old.
absolutely no aches and pains what so ever, walk miles per day.
my mom is 86 with hardly any complaints and says old starts at 96!!!

I'm 60 and I feel quite young. No illness or pains anywhere, can do everything I want to do . Hanging in there.

Just starting to feel old now. I'm 37 and in less than 2 months I will have a 40 year old husband and a teenage son. My youngest is 5 and I am so much older than all his friends mums. And he still doesn't sleep through the night which I'm sure isn't helping me look or feel younger.

When I saw myself in photos taken this year and also realised how much grey hair I'd have if i didn't dye it.

And that I'll be 60 this year.

And discovered my DCs have been talking about which of them I can live with at some point (they didn't tell me if they've decided when!).

But I can run a mile in about eight minutes and run more than that five or six days a week.

I’m mid 50s and feel better than I did throughout my 30s, which generally seemed a slog.

Much fitter, all those job & money worries have gone, I get more sleep, am less stressed and generally loads happier.

Nothing’s stopped working yet

61 and still waiting.

I'm 54 and not old yet.

35 and kids!

38 and still feel young, although things like clubbing or drinking til 5AM are right out.

But still feel like I can do anything and not that jaded or cynical (or no more than I was.)

I'm 45 and I don't feel old. I'm never going to be, come to that, as my card is marked (cancer). BUT I feel delightedly middle-aged: I absolutely LOVE putting my pyjamas on at 6pm; I love not giving a shiny shite about what people I don't care about think of me; I love unashamedly enjoying my very pedestrian sewing hobby and reading habit; I get so much pleasure from staying home at weekends and snuggling up on the sofa with my gorgeous husband to binge-watch TV shows and laugh ourselves silly with our in-jokes...

Okay, I ache everywhere sometimes, and have to wear reading glasses, but my children are grown and I can have a nap or a long bath whenever I feel like it. Being 45 is pretty MINT, now I think about it.

When tradesmen stopped calling me 'hen' and started calling me 'pal'...

Seriously, in my mid-forties, I had a phase of wondering where the years had gone. Last year my son went off to university and while it's lovely when he's back, my husband are rather enjoying it just being the two of us again and are full of plans and ideas for the next few decades.

Change is good for keeping you young, I think. It makes you look at the world afresh, see new opportunities, get out the rut etc

I am 59 and don't feel or look old....a new husband and a new life helps! I am active and healthy which makes a huge difference. Same with my dh....he is 60 and we both look ten years younger.
I reckon if I can get 20 more years before shuffling off this mortal coil, I will be content with that.

I’m nearly 55. I get aches now and then and things are heading a bit south. I feel old somedays, others I feel 30.

"Change is good for keeping you young, I think. It makes you look at the world afresh, see new opportunities, get out the rut etc"

Totally agree. I'm considering changing careers soon and have to do a two year master. I'd be 40 at graduation and people act like I am insane for even considering it. Not for financial or childcare reasons or anything but just because YOU'LL BE 40!!!!!

I feel ancient at 25, because I am the only one of my peers with DC. The years of sleep deprivation have really taken their toll, plus I already have arthritis in a few joints. I'm hoping I'll have a youthful renaissance in my 40s once DD is an adult.

How interesting that this thread is full of people in their 30s saying they feel old, and people in their 60s saying they don't!

Do you think it has to do with a lot of the life stresses that typically come in 20s/30s? Young kids, juggling work and family life, adjusting to life being more 'adult' or 'boring' as compared to when you were 19 and a drunk and carefree student? Adult life not being the way you expected/planned it?
whereas for many people in 50s/60s; kids are grown, careers are built, money might be less of a worry, more free time to do your own thing... more perspective and wisdom therefore less stress or worrying about things that don't matter?

For the record - I'm late 20s, definitely not old(!!) but I can identify with feeling tired/achy/stressed juggling life sometimes, as DS2 is still a baby. Nice thing about doing it 2nd time around is I know in a year or 2 it will pass and I will (hopefully) feel young and fit and awesome again!

On May 24th this year ..... I got my first state pension payment and someone suggested I apply for an older persons bus pass!! I’m 65.

At 50. I had D's at 39 so the cliche of him keeping my young was true. Just the fact of him being a teenager makes me feel old buy also because I am physically feelinguchuch older than even 5 years ago

Peaches take heart! I reckon you will - think that's exactly what
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thewindblows I think you may be right there.

Oops posted too soon.

That's what I was referring to in my post, about life feeling more tiring when you are young.
My Dad and his wife are nearing 60 and having great fun going out, popping off on spontaneous nights away, relaxing holidays in the sun...

I totally identify with how you feel, had my first at 24, but the great thing about having kids in your 20s is by the time they are adults you're only in your 40s and have plenty of time to enjoy life

I don't feel old in myself. I have just turned 54. I am active, engaged, slim, minimal grey hair...

However, other people's perceptions of me make me feel old. We live in an ageist society. Even some of the threads on here sometimes throw in some casual ageism.

My small team at work includes a 15 yr old a 17 yr old and a 20 yr old
They always laugh and say they forget I'm nearly 40 because I do t act like it
In my mind I feel mid twenties but my dressing gown useage and need for slippers on a Saturday night tell a different story

Greys are getting worse so I've upped the game on them and now colour hair every 3 weeks.

Nails are gel polished every three weeks and a good face scrub and mask makes me feel better 😂

Currently about to start fasting as need to get 2 stone off before my birthday in 6 months and want to start my 40s feeling good

I don't feel old (54) until i need to see my G.P or i see a police officer and i realise i have kids older than them

I am 60 and do not feel or look old. It is all in the mind!