you're only as old as you feel...

[baratron]

from #sims, with other people's comments snipped:
[baratron] i'm finding it really amusing that punk and goth are actually fashionable now
[baratron] kids going around with Guns N' Roses "Appetite for Destruction" t-shirts on who weren't even _born_ when it was released
[baratron] and i bought it in 1989
[baratron] so that must make me old
[baratron] and I'm only 26!
[baratron] when I was a teenager i thought 21 was old
[baratron] then when i was 21, i thought 25 was old
[baratron] now i just think _i_'m old
[baratron] but i don't care
[Dudesim] you will :)
[baratron] i expect i'll have a minor crisis when i get to 30
[baratron] and then again at 40
[baratron] by 50 i hope to have outgrown them
[baratron] i tell you what first made me feel old - when Ash released their album called "1977"
[baratron] which was the year they were born in
[baratron] and i thought, erk, i was born in 1976
[baratron] at least most of the bands i like are older than me
[baratron] Richard mostly likes albums released in the 70s
[baratron] he's had a mental age of 50 since he was 18
[baratron] when he actually gets to 50, he'll probably revert to being 18 again, having not had it properly when he _was_ a teenager
[baratron] i look forward to it, and laughing very hard :)

Comments

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Thirteen year olds wearing Nirvana hoodies. I can say no more, save that I keep getting the urge to shout "you were five when Cobain shot himself!" at them.

(the fact that Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan died when I was less than six months old is, of course, completely different)

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

*grin* 26 isn't old. at least I hope not. I don't want to suddenly become old in December... *worriedlook*

[jhaelan.livejournal.com]

MM, noticed that on the 'Net - whether it's MUDs, ITC, journals or whatever - people either assume you're a fair bit younger than you are or a hell of a lot older. I've been 47 since I was 17 so I can sympathise with Richard ;)

[36.livejournal.com]

I only feel old when computer game shows start referring to games systems like the NES and the Spectrum as 'your dad's video games'. But only because half the time I consider myself a kid.