I feel old

[masta247]

Yeah, I'm 23, will be 24 this year, a friend of mine who is 2 years younger told me that I'm old, and I started thinking about it. I'm in between being 18 and 30, and thinking about it that way makes me feel even older, since it seems like I was 18 really not long ago and time seems to rush faster now. I'm in between being eligible to drink and thinking about starting a family and there are so many things I wanted to accomplish until then - mostly travel the world and live in many places. However I won't graduate my university until I'm 26, which is even more scary. I feel like I live for the future now, but I'm afraid that at some point when that future comes I will realize that I should have done cool things when I was in my 20s instead. A gay feeling. I want to be forever young.

 

[S O F I]

i don't have those problems. the only reason I feel really old about being 24 is that I've seen some very attractive 16 year olds and realized I'm 8 years older. that age span saddens me. but 18 year olds too. i don't feel like freshman year of college was a long time ago, but those girls are 6 years younger. crazy. soon enough, bout age 40, we'll stop finding women our age (40, that is) attractive.

 

[Pittsey]

 

[Flipmo]

 

[masta247]

^ I had this song in my mind while starting this thread. Not the Jay-Z remix, coz I'm OG like that.

 

[Jokerman]

bout age 40, we'll stop finding women our age (40, that is) attractive.

Nah, you'll find some attractive because your tastes will have slowly changed, not just your mindset. The personalities and experience of women of different ages will play an important role in your taste. Then you won't find 16 or 18 yr-olds attractive, esp if you ever have children that age. (19 yr-olds are a different story.) You'll be more attracted to the mature look because you'll know what that comes along with and what the young (immature) look comes with, and be more attuned to the mature.

 

[Da_Funk]

It's probably because of where you're at in life. A long degree which requires a lot of time being devoted to mainly introverted practices that you may not want to always be doing will have that affect on a guy.

I know a lot of people want to travel and live around the world when they're young but you have to understand that you'll be giving up (more than likely) prosperity when you are older to do this so really it's a double edged sword. Besides, if that really is what you want to do, 26 is still very young. In my class of ~40 people 75 % are 24+. I'm the third youngest person at 22.

I don't feel old at all (I'm 22) but then again I'm graduating this spring and moving to literally the otherside of the world. What I am, though, is much more cynical and opportunistic than I was even 2 years ago.

 

[Ristol]

I'll be as old as Pittsey is now in exactly seven years.

 

[S O F I]

Nah, you'll find some attractive because your tastes will have slowly changed, not just your mindset. The personalities and experience of women of different ages will play an important role in your taste. Then you won't find 16 or 18 yr-olds attractive, esp if you ever have children that age. (19 yr-olds are a different story.) You'll be more attracted to the mature look because you'll know what that comes along with and what the young (immature) look comes with, and be more attuned to the mature.

I don't know, man. Michel Houellebecq makes a pretty good argument for what I said. But then again, I'm not 40...and you very well could be .

 

[Jokerman]

Michel Houellebecq makes a pretty good argument for what I said.

Wikepedia makes a pretty good argument that Houellebecq is a peddler of sleaze and shock. (And I could very well be over 1,000 yrs old. Though I do draw the line at women over 300.)

 

[S O F I]

Wikipedia*

You should read his second novel The Elementary Particles. His writing is somewhat pessimistic, nihilistic even. So I feel like that alone would put you off. But it is critically acclaimed..

 

[Ristol]

End this, SOFI. You're telling them everything.

 

[Pittsey]

Wikipedia*

You should read his second novel The Elementary Particles. His writing is somewhat pessimistic, nihilistic even. So I feel like that alone would put you off. But it is critically acclaimed..

From reading the book I came to the conclusion that the author is/was a cunt. Sorry.

 

[Ristol]

And it was all just overwrought, heavyhanded, dumb. Good book though.

 

[S O F I]

From reading the book I came to the conclusion that the author is/was a cunt. Sorry.

Well, one reading The Stranger would find Albert Camus a cunt too.

 

[Pittsey]

Well, one reading The Stranger would find Albert Camus a cunt too.

No doubt. I feel that way about a lot of people in life. But.... All the people I thought Cunts on SH have left, or only post a couple of times a year.... Which is why I like it here....

I like to capitalise the word too, it seems.

 

[Jokerman]

I relate to Camus, though his philosophy and Sartre's reached a dead end I think was short-sighted. The message of The Stranger was supposedly deep, but in order to show it, we have to spend time with this boring and empty character. So, maybe a classic but not really a good read. But I'll try The Elementary Particles.

 

[S O F I]

I'm really interested to know how you relate to Camus, just because of the themes he touched upon. I feel like you're a strong existentialism/absurdism critic.

 

[Pittsey]

And this thread took a turn for the worse. I cannot and will not have discussions with words I barely understand.

 

[Da_Funk]

And this thread took a turn for the worse. I cannot and will not have discussions with words I barely understand.

What are you stupid or something