Feeling Old
By liltunergirl
@liltunergirl (467)
Canada
September 25, 2008 1:45pm CST
Let me start off by telling you all I'm 26 yrs old and have a 5 1/2 year old daughter.
Well last Friday I went to a concert. It was the New Kids On the Block opening tour from being broken up for 14 years. I used to love them when I was a kid. I had posters of them slathered all over my room, their trading cards, t-shirts, Dolls, video tapes, colouring books and so on of them. I even went and saw their concert when i was 10 with my mom and sister.
Well my sis and I thought it would be great to go see their concert again and boy was it every great. It brough back so many old memories especially when they started singing all their old songs and the entire stadium was singing along. I looked around and even though everyone there was in the same age range as me, i started to feel old. (I even was caught yawning a few times - I was tired). When the concert was over, I felt so tired, and def. My ears were ringing and everything was hollow around me. My throat hurt and I felt like I was falling apart. By the time I got home that night it was 1:30am and I was exausted. Not to mention, I still had to get up early with my little girl.
I love getting out sometimes and having fun, but I'm just really starting to feel old now. Is there anyone that feels like me? You're still young but feel old for some reason?
3 responses
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
25 Sep 08
I will be 30 in a few weeks and sometimes I feel like you do -mainly when I stay up till like 3 am and have to get up at 7:30 the next day. I miss dong stuff though - like going out to clubs and parting all night LOL My son is a bit older, so even when we stay up late, he is usually up late with us and sleeps in. Being 9, he can pretty much take care of himself.
@onelastshot (54)
•
25 Sep 08
I feel old when I look in the mirror and witness my decline .I am in bed by
09-00 I do need my beauty sleep .
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
25 Sep 08
9pm? How do you get anything done. Even when I was getting off work at 1:30 every day, I was up doing something at 9pm.
@liltunergirl (467)
• Canada
26 Sep 08
I also go to bed fairly early. I'm normally sleeping by 11pm. I can't make it much past Midnight anymore!
Thanks for the responses.
@mercuryman3a (2477)
• India
26 Sep 08
Feeling old at 26? My God! I don't feel old at 53. Infact Ihave started counting backwards after 50. I feel I am getting younger every day and every year after 50. Ihav come down to 47 in3 years. soon Iwill be 26 again :-). Why feel old? Age is all in the mind. If you feel old you get old. My daughters who are in their 20s always refer tome as a young boy. I feel energetic and active. I do one and half hours of Yoga and exercises every morning to stay in shape. At 26 you should be feeling at the top of the world.
@liltunergirl (467)
• Canada
26 Sep 08
Yeah, you see, that is the problem. I should feel young and energetic but I don't! I feel tired and sluggish. Maybe if I started doing more physical activities after work I'd start to feel better. It's just hard to do as my daughter is in Martial Arts 3 days a week so we are always rushing around for that. I need to take a step back once in a while and watch the world around me. I cant let it pass me too quickly!
Thanks for your response.
@soulist (2985)
• United States
25 Sep 08
I do feel old a lot of the time. I'm 26 as well and sometimes I just feel like I am falling apart when I bend over or something. I did yoga the other day and pulled a muscle in my neck i was like how did I do that just stretching! I think as we get older we want to do the things we did 5 years ago and can so it makes feel old.
@liltunergirl (467)
• Canada
26 Sep 08
Yes you are right. I definitely cant do what i did 5 years ago but I'd like to!! I see a bunch of my younger friends still going out to clubs and partying and drinking like mad and I just cant do it. By the time they are leaving to go to a club, I'm sleeping! I keep thinking that they will slow down soon as well but so far they havent! I guess they are just on a different page in life then me!
Thanks for the response.
