age

To be honest I don't really think it makes a huge amount of difference.

mine = my sistah's oldest friend also = known since she was 11 and i was 13; second = since she was 14 and i was 17 (ie in first case nearly 29 years)

My longest still-regular friend I have known since I was 14 i.e. 15 years. And he's even on ILE! I should get back in touch with other people who I have known even longer and see if they still want to be my friend despite my shameful neglect.

I swear I was 24/25 just...a couple of months ago. What happened?

life

Yeah! Oh yeah! Oh life! Oh life!

I'm afraid of the dark
Especially when I'm in a park
And there's no one else around,
Oh I get the shivers.
I don't want to see a ghost,
It's the sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
And watch the evening news.

Chorus:
Life, oh life! Oh life! Oh life! doo,
Doot doot dooo... Life, oh life! Oh life!
Oh life! doo doot doo

I'm a superstitious girl
I'm the worst in the world
Never walk under the ladders,
I keep a rabbit's tail.
I'll take you up on the dare,
Anytime, anywhere;
Name the place,
I'll be there,
Bungee jumping, I don't care!

Chorus

Life! Doo doo doo doo doo...

So after all said and done
I know I'm not the only one
Life indeed can be fun,
If you really want to.
Sometimes living out your dreams,
Ain't as easy as it seems
You wanna fly around the world,
In a beautiful balloon.

Chorus (2x)

Doo doot doo doot. Repeat
Oh, life, oh life!

I swear I was 24/25 just...a couple of months ago. What happened?

-- admrl, Tuesday, July 17, 2007 4:10 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i'm this now. will it really go by that fast?

"it" being most of your twenties, yes!

Remember - you're young today, not tomorrow! Do young stuff before you start to look stupid doing young stuff!

I'm semi-joking of course.

It was harder for me to turn 27 than any other year, because whereas earlier I could say, "Well, I'm still young, lots of people don't do shit until their late 20s," I had to recognize that 27 was pretty definitively within my late 20s and I still hadn't done anything of note.

wow, that's EXACTLY how i felt when i turned 27 (last year). i no longer feel 'youthful' enough to get away with all the fucking-around i've been doing.

I'm 36 and I still feel like I've done for a long while -- maybe a touch more sleepy. Check back with me in about five years.

I've got friends from early 20s to late 50s in general, with one in his 70s. This has been the range since I was a teenager. Lots of crazy old hippies in my hometown.

I met my oldest friend 23 years ago in September, when we were both new kids on the first day of school. I should give her a call.

Good friends age range...20 to 50 or so. It's all over the place!

In my last town, they were all 19-30, with me about the mean of those two (and the median). Here, there's my fiance, who is five days away from me in age, and then my two wonderful neighbors who are 50 and 76.

*good* friends range from -7 to + 2
friends range from -8 to +4

Most of my friends are between 30 and 40. There's one guy in my nursing program who is 50. Most of my friends are from high school or college, but we also keep gaining friends through our kids (our kids are friends, so we end up hanging out...).

waht?

you've ALWAYS done enough serious underage drinking O_o

I've been drunk twice in my life

I have to avoid questionnaires now because of the "wait, can't I? NOES" feeling when I realise I can't tick 18-25 any more ;_;

Also, jaymc OTM. Maybe it helps that most of my friends are a little older so I get a while to be used to them being that age before my own birthday hits, but still, none of them like music enough to have the "oh noes, I was supposed to be a (corny indie) rock star and I still can't actually play three chords" blues.

I'll be 20 in December. I fear that I will reach 21 without doing enough serious underage drinking.

I hardly did any underage drinking. I feel like I've made up for it the last 7 years.

otm.

I have no friends so this is easy.

Actually that's just self-deprecating dishonesty. My friends are nearly all younger than me (and my boyfriend) not by much though. Mostly ranging from 26-31 or so. I'm 34 this year.

well, i've only drunk myself into a stupor three times...

don't worry curt1s, I'm 20 in october and I'm in the same boat as you -- could probably count on one hand the number of times I've gotten really seriously drunk. of course, I do start college in the fall, so there's plenty of time for that to change...

(every time I meet another 17-year-old rising freshman I can see the wheels turning in their head and the sudden increase in friendliness as they realize that I will turn 21 at the start of sophomore year. I should probably be bothered by people already thinking of me as their own personal boozewhore but it is not overly troubling)

wow. curt1s's lifetime of drinking < my past week!

my youngest friends are probably about 19 or so, while my oldest friends are most certainly in their 60s-- mostly old teachers and family friends who like me better than my parents, at this point.

not many in their 40s or 50s.

but yeah mostly between 19-30. i'm almost 23, so this makes sense.

Close friends would be 23-30. I'm 26.
My work "friends" would be 32-45.

I'll be 20 in December. I fear that I will reach 21 without doing enough serious underage drinking.

Hey, I tried to do my part and be a bad influence!

I'm 36 and where has the time gone? When I hit 30 I was depressed enough thinking I would never buy my own place, hated my job etc. Now I'm heading towards 40 and that really upsets me for some weird reason.

A lot of my friends are very young, and sometimes I wish I still was too.

things that make me feel old - when YOUNG PEOPLE refer to certain things as "old school" and "back in the day" and I think HEY I REMEMBER THAT.

I'll be forty in December and I have friends that range (I almost wrote 'rage') in age from 18 to over 60. Aging is ineluctable (with the notable loophole of death) but cool people don't get to choose when they're born. Sometimes I feel young-ish and some times I feel unspeakably old, sometimes on the same day. Maybe it's a sign of age that I don't care so much any more.

I make sure I spend enough time with people in their early 20s to remind myself that I would never ever ever want to be that age again ever.

Maybe it's a sign of age that I don't care so much any more.
OTM. I'm 34 and I find that as the years go by, I care less and less about the issues that plagued me in my teens and twenties. I was out with one of my younger friends (25) a few weeks ago and he kept saying, "All these hipsters annoy the shit out of me." I remember thinking that all the time when I was that age but realized that I don't ever think that thought nowadays. I guess the older you get, the more comfortable you are with your place in the world?

I'll be 20 in December. I fear that I will reach 21 without doing enough serious underage drinking.

-- Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:34 PM

Hi dere 21 in 14 days.

I feel kinda torn at times. I see post-college people a few years older than me (22-25 generally) who seem to be living these all-fun-all-the-time lifestyles and I covet it a little bit.

But then I ask myself: do I really want to be doing the scenester thing when I'm 24? Or would I rather spend my time getting some real work done?

I guess the older you get, the more comfortable you are with your place in the world?

It's not as simple as that. It comes and goes. By the time you reach your 40s you pretty much feel invisible in society.

at 32 I'm already starting to feel that way. I live in a youngish hipstery town, tho.

I'll be 20 in December. I fear that I will reach 21 without doing enough serious underage drinking.

-- Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:34 PM

Ha ha! I'd been out drinking so much by the time I hit 21, I actually stayed in bed reading for most of my 21st b-day and was only convinced to get up and go out ( and rather late, at that) by some very insistent roommates.

Counting down to 51. I think I may be the oldest female ILXor, but I'm not an overage drinker yet.

Get to work. Oh wait.

My youngest is 14, and I've been friend with him (online) for about two years -- although my 7yo sometime band member might also count, but we don't have a lot of heart to hearts, you know? Oldest is I don't know how old, 70ish, unless I'm not thinking of someone. I'm just shy of 32.

Also M. White is about seven years older than I thought he was.

I'll take that as a compliment but I will also assure you I've always been told I was mentally young for my age - not so sure about that as a compliment.

I'm 34 years old. Now that I have a daughter, I tend to compare myself with my mother (and mother in law) who had me (and my husband) at a young age. At my age they had teenage kids! EK! For some reason that makes me feel so... weird. Old but also.... just weird, y'know, like I don't know. I think it's this feeling that my generation tends to have kids at a later age and in a way I'm not sure if that made me feel older than I am.

I just think I need more sleep. That's what I lack the most. Sleep.

Yeah, when my mum was my age I was 13 and a half. I distinctly remember her 25th birthday, which did seem really weird when I was 25 myself.

Most of my friends are around 28-35 I think. I'm 31 in a couple of weeks.

At 28 I feel like I'm about to hit some kind of premature midlife crisis which is annoying because a) it's totally irrational and b) this is only going to manifest itself in my doing what I normally do anyway.

I had my (hah!) mid-life crisis, or maybe it's just some sort of weird id-crisis, when I was around 27 yrs old.

Mid-life crisis, ha ha, no - 27/28 is when you finally end your adolescence and become a proper adult.

I think my youngest friend is about 20. Actually, I have some online friends who are 17, but 20 for IRL. Oldest friends are sort of late 40s early 50s.

I had this weird realisation in the pub the other day, ws drinking with this bloke I used to kinda have a crush on. And his mum was visiting him. And I realised that I was actually closer in age to his mum than to him. That was kind of an "Oookkaaayyy..." moment.

I suppose other people go through it when they realise for a tiny moment that they half fancy their friends' children. Followed by "Eeeuuwww, no!"

my friends right now range from early twenties to late forties.

Apparently my brother had a melt-down last week when he turned 29. I feel bad for him.

"27/28 is when you finally end your adolescence and become a proper adult."

OTM

i'm 27 and i think my friends range from about early 20s through to early 60s. the older ones are mostly people i met through waitressing. the 'old' folks really seem to like me, particularly old guys... hmmm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_return

interesting. i was discussing the 'quarter life crisis' with a good friend awhile back. he'd never heard the term before, and he subsequently ended up self-publishing a chapbook of poetry entitled 'quarter life', since the four poems had themes of major life and identity changes.

my eldest brother is 27, youngest brother is 21. we all hang around or are on good terms with each other's friemds so i'd say 20-30 is a fair range.

if i don't have a house/settled job by 30, then i don't think i'll bother with them at all, but that's probably just the economy talking.

Saturnz Return:

goldie - classic or dud?

I distinctly remember her 25th birthday, which did seem really weird when I was 25 myself.

I read this as "as I was 25 myself"

27/28 is when you finally end your adolescence and become a proper adult.

Erk! Nooo. Not even having the part of Shadow of Stockholm by Echo Is Your Love (corny finndie moment) where she sings "for 27 you don't seem very smart" on loop in my head permanently is making me feel guilty enough for that.

I distinctly remember her 25th birthday, which did seem really weird when I was 25 myself.

I read this as "as I was 25 myself"

probably just the economy talking.

It's dipping man, you'll be fine.

Yeah, when my mum was my age I was 13 and a half. I distinctly remember her 25th birthday, which did seem really weird when I was 25 myself.

This is like one of those IQ questions: so how old is his mum now?

ARGH.

OK, this makes me feel sooo old.

I'm going up to Northampton for a band's record release party - so far, so OK.

The band features my friends' son.

How can people who are approximately my age, have kids, who are old enough to be in bands that are releasing records and stuff?