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Hey, so the baby on the Nirvana Nevermind cover is 18 today. Anyone feel old?
I can tell you the first time I really felt old was when 18 year old Justin Williams suited up for the Flyers. I also had the ‘Where the hell did my life go’ feeling as well.
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I’d’a thought the moment your wife popped out a baby would have been the moment you really felt old.
I have a lot of younger cousins so I get older moments when each of them graduates high school and goes to college, and this year is no different. My cousin is 18, about to start college in the fall.
That’s right, KIDS BORN IN 1991 ARE IN COLLEGE.
and driving cars. sad face.
John said:I’d’a thought the moment your wife popped out a baby would have been the moment you really felt old.
Nah, I actually felt anything but. I would describe it to you, but it is something you have to experience yourself.
This happened to me twice recently. First was when the kids I used to babysit (and whose diapers I changed) sent me their high school graduation announcements. Second was when I was trying to explain to a guy that the girl he was hitting on was named Jennifer, like the sister from “Family Ties.” I got some blank stares and I felt sad.
My youngest cousin just graduated from college and got a real job. It seems like only yesterday I was helping him come up with ways to not get accepted to the prep school his folks wanted him to go to for high school.
Also, being a grade school teacher and realizing I could be most of my students’ mother. So it’s extra weird and old feeling when they yell “I love you!” at me.
shmEvan said:John said:I’d’a thought the moment your wife popped out a baby would have been the moment you really felt old.
Nah, I actually felt anything but. I would describe it to you, but it is something you have to experience yourself.
John can now only relate to expereience and human emotion if it can be conveyed in 140 characters or less so choose your words wisely.
Also I’ve found as I get older I relate things in reverse. I’m not really looking at the younger kids as my benchmark but I more think back to what my parents were doing when they were my age. When my parents were my age, they had a kid in college (me) and another in the thick of high school. Oouch.
I only tend to feel really old when I’m standing at a cash register at a convenience store and see that tear-off calendar that tells you what the year a newbie smoker was born.
From the Wisdom quote to the right:
“If PacMan were here…I’d be fucked.”
-Reggie in his Pacman Ghost halloween ghost costume
Maybe the funniest thing I have ever heard.
Yeah, my realization I was getting old always seemed to tie into professional sports. When the players started being younger than me in all the 4 major sports (not soccer or european leagues, they start young over there) it felt pretty weird. I think Lebron James was the first one, haha. You grow up looking up to them, and now they’re younger than you, feels weird.
I was actually going to do a really similar post as it is the 20th Anniversary of The Stone Roses Debut Album.
This now seems stranger as I associate Nirvana and The Roses with 2 completely different chapters in my life but I guess Bleach must have been around at about the same time as I was loving Madchester.
Anyway I am old.
The Manc said:I was actually going to do a really similar post as it is the 20th Anniversary of The Stone Roses Debut Album.
This now seems stranger as I associate Nirvana and The Roses with 2 completely different chapters in my life but I guess Bleach must have been around at about the same time as I was loving Madchester.Anyway I am old.
I am old as well, and this is roughly the time frame in my memory. I remember being into the whole Manchester thing (from quite a bit more distance than yourself obviously) when I was a college radio DJ in ’89/90. Then when Nevermind came out I was a board operator and intern at a top 40 station the end of my senior year.
Also, when I’m at the beach and realize that the guys I’m checking out are all dads.