Feeling old

[Andrew_Culture]

I'm over it. It's my son's 20th and my daughter's 18th birthdays today and I was looking through a lot of old photos last night.
I'm back to my normal sunny self now.

Is there any chance you got married around the 20th July? Or where you born born around 20th July?

 

[LarryDuff]

Is there any chance you got married around the 20th July? Or where you born born around 20th July?

No. Born and married in September (not in the same year obviously!!). Must have been the July holidays in N. Ireland.

 

[deanE]

Look on the bight side. If your son is now 20 and you are, say, 40, then you are twice as old as your son. When you are 60 he will be 40, You will then only be one and a half times as old as he is. So, once your kids become adults you stop ageing as fast.

 

[ASC1951]

Never feel old !

Instead, think of those not lucky enough to make it to your age.

Yep, I'm seven years older than my dad managed.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

At least you're not a 31 year old grandmother. I've met one!

I knew of a 28 year old grandmother; the mother of a 14 year of girl in foster care (across the road from where we lived) who had a beautiful baby girl. I always remember her because at the time I was the same age and with a newly born sister.
But at the same time I have a good friend who gave birth to her first child (first pregnancy) 2 weeks before her 48th (could have been 49th) birthday. Goes without saying that it was an unplanned pregnancy! Her daughter (I won't name) is now 13 yrs old.

 

[cyberknight]

My youngest will not be 18 till i am 62 ,i plan to retire and charge rent !

 

[Noodle Legs]

At least you're not a 31 year old grandmother. I've met one!

:-0

 

[yello]

You're only as old as you feel.

True true.... where's my zimmer frame?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

My youngest will not be 18 till i am 62 ,i plan to retire and charge rent !

that was what my mother did,only she moved out and in with her boyfriend (now husband of nearly 5 years) and rented the property to my sister & younger brother. She later sold the property to my sister, who now charges my younger brother rent...

 

[vernon]

At least you're not a 31 year old grandmother. I've met one!

Thats nowt I met a twenty eight year old grandmother, her daughter and grand daughter at a parents' evening. Having taught two of them, I'm thankfully too old to be able to claim in the future that I've taught all three.

 

[vernon]

Last Saturday I was sitting next to a pal from my university days who is a notorious whinger. I'd not seen him for a couple of years and I patiently listened to his list of ailments and gripes and behaved as if his life force was leaking away. He looked shellshocked when I listed last Friday/Saturday's activities: Drinking beer, attending two gigs separated by a 70 mile FNRttC and getting up to mischief with the second band,

Feeling old is a state of mind.

What greater massage to one's ego can one have when a thirty five year old female PhD mathematician sends one an invitation to go train spotting in York to see the gathering of six A4 pacifics or when colleagues twenty five years your junior have you at the top of their list of folk to go to gigs with or when the pupils that you teach moan and tell you to grow up?

Middle age is a long way off in front of me and the gap ain't closing.

 

[ianrauk]

My youngest will not be 18 till i am 62 ,i plan to retire and charge rent !

Same as me with son # 2.
And by that time, son # 1 will be 41.

 

[TheDoctor]

Feeling old? I'm still not sure what I want to be when I grow up.
Should I ever do so...

 

[RedFeend]

Look on the bight side. If your son is now 20 and you are, say, 40, then you are twice as old as your son. When you are 60 he will be 40, You will then only be one and a half times as old as he is. So, once your kids become adults you stop ageing as fast.

That's weird that is.

 

[postman]

My youngest will not be 18 till i am 62 ,i plan to retire and charge rent !

Eldest Daughter 17 i am 63 and a bit.