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PostPosted:Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:37 am
i'm old. 
Happy Birthday!
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PostPosted:Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:24 am
Happy Birthday!
PostPosted:Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:29 am
Happy Birthday, man!
I know what you mean. I'll be 25 in 2006 and I feel like that's so old. We're in our mid-twenties!!!
I know what you mean. I'll be 25 in 2006 and I feel like that's so old. We're in our mid-twenties!!!
PostPosted:Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:35 am
dude I just turned 28, shuddup...lol
PostPosted:Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:07 pm
Happy B-Day! 
PostPosted:Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:44 pm
Late-Twenties!!!Seraphina wrote:dude I just turned 28, shuddup...lol
PostPosted:Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:35 pm
Man, Natsumi is 28 and I'm 23. I guess I'm still the youngin on these boards.
PostPosted:Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:52 pm
I'm 22 :p
PostPosted:Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:58 pm
ALRIGHT!!! I'm not the youngest!
PostPosted:Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:20 pm
Tessian was like 14 I think. I think he was our youngest member.Barret wrote:ALRIGHT!!! I'm not the youngest!
PostPosted:Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:45 am
I'm going out tomorrow to try out walkers. Or maybe I'll go for one of those cool little go-carts. I can't decide...
PostPosted:Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:05 am
Tessian was a student at Penn State, if I recall correctly. Probably was at least 18.The Seeker wrote:Tessian was like 14 I think. I think he was our youngest member.
And I just turned 27 three weeks ago. I think 30 is my "scary year".
PostPosted:Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:24 pm
Wasn't Anarky a baby?The Seeker wrote:Tessian was like 14 I think. I think he was our youngest member.Barret wrote:ALRIGHT!!! I'm not the youngest!
BTW, I'll be 30 on Jan 23, the day we all vote up here. Freakin' politicians....
PostPosted:Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:13 pm
Hah! 25!!!
I am 26, sir, going on about 4, so I understand your dilemma...
However, two things come to mind. One is that humans are living way the hell longer than ever before, and there's no way to accurately predict life expectancy by the time we're old. Average U.S. life expectancy when my grandparents were born was around 65, or so, I think, and it's now something like 72 for men and 79 for women - but that gets skewed by a large number of people who get taken out young by alcoholism, drug abuse, or just general rough living, so if one makes it to 60, life expectancy within that subset goes way up, I believe. My grandparents are all in their 80s, and three of them are very, very healthy. It's not unreasonable to believe that by the time we all get to be very, very old, medicinal advances will have put the life expectancy up in the 90s, I believe.
The second is that this long life expectancy, I think, tends to create a longer period of "adolescence" in general for people. Most people now don't enter the workforce and become "adults" in a societal-economic sense (taxpayers, producers, etc.) until their early or mid-twenties. (I think this is a valid point even past my own ability to use it as a rationalization about how immature I still am, even at the age of 26.) So if you don't feel emotionally as old as you think you ought to be, there may be an actual reason for that which is not your fault in any way.
If you just want to whine about how you're not a teenager anymore, I'll get out the case in which I store the world's smallest violin...
Life's too short to feel old, anyway, even if one is!
I am 26, sir, going on about 4, so I understand your dilemma...
However, two things come to mind. One is that humans are living way the hell longer than ever before, and there's no way to accurately predict life expectancy by the time we're old. Average U.S. life expectancy when my grandparents were born was around 65, or so, I think, and it's now something like 72 for men and 79 for women - but that gets skewed by a large number of people who get taken out young by alcoholism, drug abuse, or just general rough living, so if one makes it to 60, life expectancy within that subset goes way up, I believe. My grandparents are all in their 80s, and three of them are very, very healthy. It's not unreasonable to believe that by the time we all get to be very, very old, medicinal advances will have put the life expectancy up in the 90s, I believe.
The second is that this long life expectancy, I think, tends to create a longer period of "adolescence" in general for people. Most people now don't enter the workforce and become "adults" in a societal-economic sense (taxpayers, producers, etc.) until their early or mid-twenties. (I think this is a valid point even past my own ability to use it as a rationalization about how immature I still am, even at the age of 26.) So if you don't feel emotionally as old as you think you ought to be, there may be an actual reason for that which is not your fault in any way.
If you just want to whine about how you're not a teenager anymore, I'll get out the case in which I store the world's smallest violin...
Life's too short to feel old, anyway, even if one is!
PostPosted:Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:22 pm
Why the hell do people in their 20s whine about being old? Your parents should slap you around a bit.
PostPosted:Fri Dec 23, 2005 6:43 am
You have been on this earth for a quarter of a century. Assuming life expectancy is around 75, you're about a third of your way through life.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!