Age Milestones

[Steph_D]

I'm turning 30 in a few weeks and this has really seemed to bother me. I mean to the point of almost having panic attacks. I'm actually getting OLD and I can't do anything to stop it :lol: You know, when you're still in your 20's, people say you're still just a kid. I'm not gonna be just a "kid" any more and I think that scares me. When you're 15, you have so much to look forward to because at 16 you can drive, at 18 you're an official adult, and at 21 you can buy alcohol (if that's your thing). Now that I'm turning 30, the only thing to look forward to is the senior discount and bingo night :new_shocked:

Just wondering what your age milestones have been and how they have affected you

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[CKC]

I'm getting ready to turn 40. I passed 30 with no problem. I kept thinking 31 would be a problem, but it wasn't. I saw on Oprah one day that she mentioned how around 38 or so you start not caring what people think and you start really becoming your own person (this may not be true for all, but it certainly is for me). I'm finally comfortable with who I am and I'm having my second child this month. I don't feel my age at all. They say that 30's are the new 20's, 40's are the new 30's..... and I would have to agree. My Mom is close to 60 and doesn't act her age at all. As a matter of fact she's quite a bit wilder than I am. She actually wants to go skydiving soon. She listens to the same music as me(which happens a little everything, but I am current on what's to 40). She did two demolition derbies(one when she turned 50) and won one of the ladies divisions and placed third with the professionals(men and women) so she isn't one to back off from a challenge.

I still have people treating me like I'm 18. I actually had someone tell me that I looked like I was early 20's the other day. That is a number that I don't feel LOL and don't want to go back there.

Happy early birthday and try not to be too upset about it.

And about the senior citizen discount... the way it's going they will up that to 70 by the time I get there.

 

[PaintedPromiseRanch]

i am now 45 (and 1/2!) and just this morning looked in the mirror and thought OMG i am almost 50!!! i sure don't feel that old! none of the "over the hill" or milestone ages have really bothered me. one thing that made me finally feel "grown up" was when i went to parent-teacher conference and i was older than the teacher! if my daughter had done what my mom and i did (first baby at age 21) i would be a grandma by now... but i'm not. i'm sure i would enjoy it but not in any hurry either. right now i am concentrating on my 4-legged "grandkids"

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besides my kids (24, 17 and 15) right now all say they don't want kids. so the furbabies may be all i ever get...

 

[MiniforFaith]

Thirty was very hard for me too. I know that my mom dying two months before my 30th didn't help either.. :no: I never even got out of bed that day.. It was very sad..Now I am 34 and getting closer to 40.. I think it will be another hard one..I feel old, as my body just doesn't work like it should.

: And next month my son will be twelve.. That makes me feel even older...

 

[Relic]

Age is a state of mind l'm into my 60's now and only since a few weeks ago l decided l was getting older. l'm thankful l am healthy as a horse and can still jump any fence on the property and do the same work as when l was in my 30's just not as quick. :no: the mind says one thing but the body says another. l will be old when l am 80 and not before because thats what l choose..

 

[backwoodsnanny]

Truthfully the birthday (so far) that bothered me the worst was my 25th I had a child go to school and my 25th birthday all in a week and remember thinking my life was over. LOL

 

[Reble]

When I was 16 couldn't wait to be 18 when I was 18 couldn't wait to be 21.

Than came 30 was still young than 40 still young now in my 50's I think young but my body is starting to say old, but I do not want anymore birthday parties untill I am 65 :lol:

 

[JO~*]

Well I was in the best shape of my life when I was 35.

The age 30-35 I could do anything and could work like a mule.

Then at 37 I had my first and only child and its been downhill since.

I think if I had not gained so much weight I'd still be on the top of the world even at 51.

If your fit stay that way it helps keep you young.

Every day I tell myself I need to lose weight but its really hard to do the older you get

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[Pepipony]

Age has never bothered me, maybe because people used to think I was older than I was, now they think I am much younger LOL Still, it just doesnt bother me. Mom had a fit when I turned 30, I was like, hey, I'm alive, so what LOL Then 40, still, I'm alive so what LOL Sis is 7 years older and she wont even allow her kids to know her age, I told her to have them call me

: I'm even getting a little gray finally. Guess so long as I keep waking up, I'm ahead of the game :aktion033:

the only age that makes me nuts is one that I kept dreaming, for over a year, that I wouldnt make. I wont mention it else I make it fact. Since I havent had the dream in quite sometime, I am assuming that I already changed the future , we shall see :lol:

 

[Just Us N Texas]

I remember turning 30 and thinking the same thing. That now I really had to accept that I was a true adult. I cried for a couple of days. Now that I'm soon to be 65, I think I feel as young as I did that day. Yep, I can still do all the things I ever could, but it just takes a little longer, and some days there may be a few extra aches and twinges that go along with the accomplishments. I'm a full blown adult, put on weight, and I am comfortable in my own skin! Whenever I have those moments when I feel "old", I just think to myself,"at least I've made it this far, so many others haven't, and wouldn't they have loved to!" I am grateful for every day I have!

 

[PaintedPromiseRanch]

I remember turning 30 and thinking the same thing. That now I really had to accept that I was a true adult. I cried for a couple of days. Now that I'm soon to be 65, I think I feel as young as I did that day. Yep, I can still do all the things I ever could, but it just takes a little longer, and some days there may be a few extra aches and twinges that go along with the accomplishments. I'm a full blown adult, put on weight, and I am comfortable in my own skin! Whenever I have those moments when I feel "old", I just think to myself,"at least I've made it this far, so many others haven't, and wouldn't they have loved to!" I am grateful for every day I have!

:aktion033: :aktion033: :aktion033: that's so right, i work in a law firm that does estate planning in a retirement community. one of our clients said, "any day above ground is a good day" LOL - i see so many different ways people age. my attitude is, if my great-granny could make it to 102, then surely i can do better! so that's my goal, AT LEAST 103 :bgrin which means i am not even halfway there yet

 

[sfmini]

I have to say I was pretty surly when I turned 50 this past September, but really, it is just a number. Sure beats the alternative, you know? Any day you wake up on the right side of the dirt is a good day.

I no longer care what people think of me, If I want to wear socks with sandals, so be it, get over it already! No more periods, personally will never be a grandparent, but have to say I sure felt old having friends that are grandparents! My friends with children are finally free of all the events and activities and we are resuming our connections, I am even starting to meet up with some old friends from my wild partying high school days (how did we ever survive that?!). One is an ex flame, talk about the best thing that never happened to me! Reinforces that thought every time I see him. Phew! :bgrin :new_multi: :cheeky-smiley-006:

 

[CKC]

I forgot to mention that my 81 year old nana was still working at a nursing home up until about a year ago doing all of their laundry and she walked to work. She had to have double hernia surgery last year. They told her they don't know if she will be able to go back to work. She is devestated. That's all she talks about is how they are holding her job for her when she's ready to come back and she thinks she's ready to go back now.

Kim

 

[stormo41]

I'm still young but when I turned 16 I was looking forward to turning 18 so I could vote and get a tattoo, however I have yet to vote and got nervues when I was about to make the call for a apoitment for my tattoo so I decied that i should wait and now I don't one. Since I turned 18 I've been looking forward for my 19th brithday, It's coming up in a month and a half(ish) and now I'm scared My younger friends keep saying how they are going to get me to buy them achocol and I wont do it nevermind don't want to be faced with them even asking me to, and my brother and his girlfriend want to take me out and me some kind of big drink at some bar and again I don't want to do that Even though I will tell them all NO I hate to feel presure like that from my friends and family. I'm kind of glad that after I turn 19 I wont have anything else to "look forward to". I have my whole life to look forward to.

(oh ya the legal drinking age in Ontario is 19 just for your information)

-Vanessa

 

[~Karen~]

Mile stones? Don't reckon I have any. I use to want to outlive George Burns, but I have decided that I don't want to outlive my generation and be put off to the side. 90's would be a nice goal to meet, and possibly 100 since I have young children and I am going to be 42 this April 4th. As long as I go without suffering or being a burden, that is all that matters to me.

All of the so called milestone birthdates were flops, so really the only thing that I reflect on is remembering my mom and what she was doing when she was my age.... that really can make me feel old (in age #, not health) at times, LOL. And the other day my mom and I were talking about how my grand parents would travel to visit us, and my mom really made me feel old when she said that my grandparents were what my age is now :new_shocked: Okayyyy....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, just remember, it is only a number, not a health line. ;~)

~Karen

 

[Sunny]

My 20's were great. The first part of my 30's.... not so much. But then I met my husband at 37, and had my daughter at 38 which, of course, was superb. My 40's have been absolutely awesome!!, and I'm so looking forward to my 50th birthday in July and all the adventures that I'll have in this next decade! Like a couple of others have already mentioned, I thank God I've made it this far since so many have not.

I truly hope you enjoy being 30, and all the years to come!

 

[minimama]

I will be 41 shortly here. Other than some health issues that are very recent. I feel great! Not my age at all. Never acted my age anyway so not about to start now. Yesterday we had a guy over to do some work and he asked me if my dad was home. I told him I love'd him!!!! :lol: And my daughter and I constantly get asked if we are sisters. My ego does not suffer. hee hee

The only age that has affected me was turning 25 and it was for a very silly reason. In the movies you always hear about an old man leaving his wife for a cute young 22 year old or 23 year old, occasionally even 24 but NEVER 25. That bothered me. Silly huh?

I agree, I finally feel like I fit in my skin. I like who I am now better than I ever have. And you couldn't pay me to go back to my 20's or even 30's.