Remember when 35 sounded old?

[BillStein]

me neither

[pipi_k]

1. I do...and

I also remember when turning 30 was a traumatic experience.

At twice that now, I'm sorry I wasted so much time being a putz about it.

[BillStein]

2. Don't trust anyone over 30!

Ah yes, those long ago years

[lastlib]

3. I agree in principle, but I say drop the zero........

[Chan790]

4. I still don't trust anybody over 35.

Even when I pass 35, I'm never going to trust anybody over 35.

I'll only ever be as old as I look...and that's 25. Going on 8 years now.

[In_The_Wind]

5. I remember when 45 sounded old!

[BillStein]

6. I remember when 60 sounded old!

oh wait.... it still does

[In_The_Wind]

7. I swear it LOOKS old on everyone but me.

[BillStein]

9. you will never look old

where did you find that fountain of youth?

(same post as deleted before so it would be response to post)

[DFW]

10. Hell yeah, I do!!

It was less than 300 years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday, because the Washington family down in Mount Vernon just had a baby boy in February, and they decided to name him George.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. No, but my memory's not what it used to be...

[elleng]

12. HELL no!!!

[LancetChick]

13. YES!

When I was 16 I decided that I didn't want to live until my 40's because... well, just LOOK at them, just LISTEN to them... why would anyone want to be like that? Better to be dead and buried with your best years uncorrupted by old age (which I considered the 40's to be).

I'm evolving pretty rapidly. Now I look at 16 as the age of know-nothing-but-think-you-do egotistical drama, and I'm so thankful I don't have to relive those years because... well, just LOOK at them, just LISTEN to them! The funny thing is, I remember all the way back to baby-in-a-crib, back to toddlerhood, when I couldn't understand what my parents were saying to each other because they spoke too fast, and it's the same "me", same consciousness, all through life, just different libraries of knowledge, and therefore different behaviors and points of view.

[olddots]

14. I still behave like a 13 year old

As long as we keep our sense of humor we remain young .

[BillStein]

16. I have my own definition

This is based on a visit to the doctor, and an office filled with pamphlets about erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence....

I figure as long as I can hold it in and keep it up, I'm still young!

[csziggy]

15. 35? At 30 they go to the Carousel!

[MadrasT]

17. Yep, because I turned 35 in 2000.

When I was younger, I would think, "Wow, when 2000 gets here I will be 35, and that is really old."

[BillStein]

18. me too

I remember wondering if I'd live long enough to see the turn of the century.... after all, I'd be forty eight

[Arugula Latte]

19. Me too. I'd do the math -- but I was 34, much younger than you.

[Callmecrazy]

21. Me three.

35 was a big milepost for me back in 2000. I'm going through a mild mid-life crisis at 47 but it's starting to taper off and I feel like my grown up years are just beginning.

[Silver Swan]

20. Not quite

Back when I was four years old, I remember my parents laughing about a cartoon wherein a little boy says about his mother, "Wow! Thirty-six, and still alive!"

My parents were both 36 at that time, so I assumed they were really old.

So no, I don't remember when 35 sounded old, but I do remember when 36 sounded old.

I'm 67 now.

[trof]

22. I remember when I thought 21 was old.

I was a freshman in college and got to be friends with a fraternity brother who was 21.
Damn! He could buy beer without worrying about using s fake ID.
He could walk into any bar and get a drink!
HE COULD EVEN VOTE!

For me, 30 was nuthin'.
40 was meh.
50 made me reflect on the previous years.
Half century.
Hmmm....

60 got my attention.
No longer 'middle-aged' by any stretch of the imagination.

70?
Over the hill.
Far over the hill.
Closer and closer to that Lonesome Valley.
I'm a geezer and I know it.
I try not to act too geezerish, but it's hard.


ONE GOOD THING ABOUT GETTING OLD:
"I. DON'T. WANT. TO." is all the excuse I need and I don't have to explain why.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. I remember when I thought I would NEVER live to be Sixteen! driver's license = freedom!!

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I remember thinking that 35 was a Real Adult ... not old though ... just mature.

[RebelOne]

24. When I turned 25, I thought that was old.

I thought, "A quarter of a century is really old." Now I am 74 and close to three-quarters of a century and thankful I have made it this far.

[Moondog]

25. I remember believing that I would not

live to see 22.

But when 35 sounded old? Nope. Too long ago.

[BillStein]

26. a couple years ago,

on my nephew's 40th birthday, I told his 6 yo daughter that I used to baby sit her father... she looked at me like I was nuts. So I told her to ask her Grandmother (my sister). My sister said "sure, and your uncle too".

My grand-niece still refused to believe it- to her we were all the same age, since there was no difference between 40, 57 and 67