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I'm 26, and I feel like my youth is already at an end. I feel old and wish I was young again.
People get angry who are older than me, but is anyone else my age terrified of aging and getting old?!
I'm 25 and I feel ancient! All of my friends are married or engaged, some with children. It's like I couldn't wait to be 21, then once I turned 21 all I did was party nonstop, and now all of a sudden I'm a grownup. I think some of it comes with having a "real" job, living in downtown Chicago, and having an 18 year old sister to remind me just how out of touch I am ;)
I'm 26 and feel exactly the same. It's completely irrational, because I'm very fit and healthy and look like I'm 20, but there is definitely something that happens between 25 and 26 that makes you really realize that you're an actual adult.
Yes this is normal. I'm in my late 30s, and even though I pass for early to mid 20s the thought of aging terrifies me. I first became depressed about my age at 24. That's when it really hit me. Like...wow...I'll be 25 next year. A quarter of a century.
I think it's natural to feel like that in your mid-twenties, it even has a name; the quarter life crisis. Just remember that when you're 30 you'll be looking back at your 26 year old self with envy and when you're 40 you'll be looking back at you you're 36 year old self with envy.
I am 100% the same way! I am terrified of getting older. I am only 27, but sometimes I feel much older. However, I do try my best to stay young at heart. I'm kinda like an older kid sometimes, lol. I honestly never wanted to grow up. Being an adult sucks! But hopefully we can all stay young at heart :)
I am 21 and nervous about getting old! Ironically 26 does not sound old to me at all. Afterall, they are saying that 30 is the new 20 now :)
I am 25 and I still don't feel 100% accomplished. I own my own business but not married.
I feel too old for my age and at 26 I imagined myself with a wife and my own house but don't really see it happening..
im 18 and already feel like i missed my chance at fame by not becoming a child actress when i was little and cute.
Also I just noticed this blog was posted 10 years ago CRAZY! So most of the 20 somethings on here are now 30 somethings! Wow. I feel silly for commenting on it now not noticing how long ago it was this blog was posted. 10 years ago I was 38!!!! Wow!!!
Ok yes!!! I was all worried about getting old at 19....and every few years. No lie! Now my problem is yes I still worry about aging but now I am 48!!!! And I also get told and have all my life I don’t look my age....however the thing I struggle with now is that I am actually finally old lol but I feel young. It’s a strange thing to be sure. It’s like yes I can tell I’m aging like needing reading glasses now to read small print. Ugh! Already raised 2 children 18 and 22....but I don’t feel my age. The physical years I have been on the earth and the years I have left on the earth if I live to be really old are just not adding up right compared to how I feel about myself and my age. So my advice to anyone younger then myself is......do not sweat the 20s and the 30s because take my word for it you are still young. Enjoy your youth and wait until 40 to start sweating it. Also the other problem in my life is....I am starting all over at 48!!! Imagine that anomaly! I am now divorced and single and still look in late 30s but I am 48 and super scared. I left my career I worked most of my adult life up until now due to I’m burnt out on it. So now I’m without a partner and trying to figure out what to do about career still. It’s like I’m in my 20s again and it’s scary. The only difference is the calculation of years I have left to acquire a partner if I ever do and a new career. Also I don’t feel my age but I know I don’t have as much time as I did in my 20s and of course the whole aging process. Ugh.... so yeah life is indeed strange for me right now.
Perfectly normal, I'm 27 soon to be 28 and I feel old as well. Sometimes I kinda wish I was a teenager again, no major worries and major responsibilities.
I started feeling old when I turned 18. I am not kidding. I was like "damn I am an adult now :S". Now I am 27 and even though people always think I am much younger, I do feel old. But I'm working on it because I think age is irrelevant and I do not want to judge myself based on the number of years I have lived.
Grow up! Life is much better when you truly feel that, whatever age you are, that is the perfect age to be - and act accordingly.
Stay in shape eat well and live well and u will look young for a long time
Yes, it is normal to feel aged sometimes. Perhaps you should try placing your age in another age group:
1. you are younger than someone that is 30.
2. you are younger than someone that is 40. and so on...
maybe you are hanging out with younger kids too much?????
im 14 and i feel like im wasting my life at school. i can hardly remember anytihng before 7th grade. ive made some memories, but all i want is to do what i want and i know that every day im going to stay up late doing my hw or im going to do something wrong. then i go to bed and it all just restarts. i feel as it everything is so pointless. life sucks, and i gotta get with it cause im wasting time and i know it, but it still sucks. ugh.
I pretty much had the same situation when I was 14. I hated the idea of spending the rest of my life being forced to do all this stuff - school, homework, education and then a 9-5 job in an office. I became a bit of an anarchist and a socialist, and felt that society was a joke. One day someone told me that that is just how society works at it's best: everyone pitches in and does their bit, and you get to be whoever you want to be. Actually we have it very easy. If you get through school, and work out what you want from life you can have that. It's not as far away as you think.
I did badly at school, blagged my way into university and got bad grades, but now I'm doing the job of my dreams, because that is what I wanted from my life, and luckily my grades weren't an issue in this career (media). University was the BEST time of my life, so I'm so glad that in the end I decided to go.
Basically, what I'm trying to say is that life is long, and you can make it what you want it to be - you never know what will come of your life, but you are lucky that it could be anything you want.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I recently turned thirty and I am both in college and working at a seasonal tax-preparing job. I am also engaged with plans of marrage and my fiance is pregnant with our first child. But from work though, I am getting the experience I need and I have earned few good references, this is all stuff I should have done ten years ago.
pretty normal. maybe you need to chill and stop worrying about the future. good things come with getting older, you know!