Forty was a worry, because I'd been thirty since I was about fifteen, but I've adjusted OK. I wouldn't want to be a teenager again, or in my early twenties - can't remember much of the latter anyway, due to having worked between 60 and 110 hours per week. Once an adult, age becomes very much less important anyway - I too have friends ranging from 21 through to 103.

Do I hear a forums birthday party coming on for everyone who hits 50 this year?

Only if we can get sponsorship from an ibuprofen manufacturer - I can't handle another hangover like the one from after the Christmas party

I wouldn't want to be a teenager again either!

I'm 18 and I love it. its really nice, not too young not to old I think I'll try and stay here forever, Cat

I like being my age, apart from the fact that I'm only 4'11''(150cm) and I look like I'm 8 instead of 12.

Never mind my age, with this mail my "Total Cumulative Posts" score will hit the big five-zero!

Hopefully this means I will no longer be tarred with the epithet 'Newbie'.

14 and I like being it, there's not too much too think about but you still have responsibilities and you can make your own choice about stuff.

Excellent idea. It's either a drown-your-sorrows Big Party or I'll just do a runner

Which of us hits it first, sbhoa and andante? I'm May...

As those who were at Egham and helped me celebrate my birthday already know, I'm only just 49.

Congrats

October

Bother, it's me first by a long way, then!

I'm quite content at 24. Will be more content once fiance is also 24 - am bored of the old bird jokes. 20 wasn't great....people kept waiting for the other number.....

Still get ID'd though, even when quite plainly buying a month's worth of shopping!

I'm entitled by age to add a bit of advice... always question authority... and next, don't mess up the world the way my generation did. I'll be 79 on the second of April.
Ray Baldwin

Ah good! someone who isn't blaming the youth of today on the world's problems and history!

I like my ex Eglish teacher's phrase " What you are inside when you're 16 is what you'll be for the rest of your life"

(obviously he meant your organs would change...)

I can sympathise with you there. I'm exactly nine weeks older than my husband. The 'change of decade years' are particularly trying.

My late uncle was 5 days younger than my Dad. My Dad's birthday is 30th December; my uncle's 4th January. My uncle spent the year my Dad was due to turn 80 saying,'You're going to be 80 this year. I'm not going to be 80 until next year'.

I'm 17, turning 18 at Dec.
And I'm always happy with m age.

Hehehe

My age is annoying. if you go out on a Friday night then the police don't have to explain why they have stopped you if you have. We were walking down the street the other day with J20s in our hands. They wouldn't believe us that they didn't contain alcohol. It will be worse from Monday.......I'll be a year older and be more likely to be stopped.

Quite ironically, the age that is supposed to be the most exciting and unforgettable of one's lifetime, has been the most difficult, confusing and even boring period to me ! My adolescence, about 14-23, was my personal 'Dark Age', full of philosophical struggling, unsure and worrying about where I was going to end up.
I regretted loosing my childhood and having to face the hard floor under my cracked illusions.
Anyway, this is all past. Happy to be over 30 !

i'm 19.. 20 this year.. which has both good and bad points, and is kinda scary!

it feels wierd, because as a kid there's always that thing of 'i can't wait to be 18, cos then i can do all this legally, people will see me as an adult, i'll be my own person'... etc etc
then you hit 18 and think... oh.. dammit... what now?
and now because the nearest town is quite small, and not a uni town.. going into our local pub my mate and i always say we feel ssoooo old! because everyone in there's underage, hehe.
Its much nicer when everyone comes back for university holidays

on the other hand.. every year i feel more like myself!.. (if that makes any sense)
spent years in school feeling like everyone saw me as this person that i never was inside, never wanted to be, and didnt recognise. now i feel like me, and like people who meet me are seeing my true nature.. which is cool

Being 17's alright! It's especially cool cuz I'm almost the youngest in my grade which makes me feel smart. I don't think I have anything to be proud of yet though lol

I'm 17 as well, but it's got to be the oddest feeling. I don't feel older than 15, and I'm turning 18 is about half a year. University next year, adult status next year... And it's not about feeling old, it's about how I don't feel old enough to be 17 and that the world always just seem to be going a little too fast for my mind to get any grounding.

It's funny how you spend the first quarter of your life in school so you can get a job and make money, you spend the next half of your life trying to make money, then you get cancer and die (although, of course everyone has cancerous cells in their body *love my Bio teacher*)

Mmm, me too. I am 17 in June but I keep thinking that next year I'll be at uni, be driving, be 18. All too scary for me...

I still feel that way, and I turn 28 this year

me too, and I'll be 39 in July.....

Scary ain't it? I keep thinking "how on earth did that happen??? "

Yeah, I'm sure I was twenty-one a minute ago....

I still remember teasing older friends that 25 was over the hill.

Doesn't even seem that long ago...

I remember when I was a little kid (about 6 or 7), I felt as if I had lived for ages already; when I thought about my past, it seemed infinite, and I could hardly believe that all this wasn't more than just 6 or 7 years. So when I thought about my future, I considered that '30 years later' would be something like the infinite future, never to come actually. But I was terribly wrong about that. Ever since, I've had to readjust my psychological watch again and again. A painful matter.

I keep finding that as I get older time goes more and more quickly. I remember it seeming to speed up dramatically a little way into my degree, and since then I have not been able to keep up...

Stop the world, I want to get off!!!

I'm 18.

It's fantastic.

So true Sarah! Only seems two seconds ago when I was 21.......

In a sense, this is logical. Our estimation of our (past) lifetime doesn't change very much, but as we are getting older, any time unit (a week or a year) will become smaller and smaller in proportion to of our total past lifetime.
I believe that there's only one solution: what we are missing in length of time, we should try to gain in width. Give a second dimension to your time. If I believe that life can be eternal, it would be in width, not in length.

Well Im turning 19 this coming friday. But age doesnt really bother me..apart from the fact that im on my probationary license and i cant drink at a party when i drive there

It doesn't bother me especially being 27, it just seems strange... I am not sure I ever used to being in my 20s and I haven't much time to get used to that before I find myself in my 30s

I am currently hating being 16 and at the brink of doing GCSEs. All I seem to do is complete coursework on pointless subjects which I won't be doing at A-level, revising for exams (either internal or external) or being told off by teachers because I got an A instead of an A* and I was happy with the A (or a B ). Also friends aren't being the most....helpful either.

Look on the bright side... they are STILL older....

true....

Hey, I like being 16, cos there's no point in berating your age cos you can do sfa about it! But also, it's a cool age to be cos you're a semiadult; some rights but you can still be as cheerfully irresponsible as you like.

You don't look it and you don't act it

"48 or 23?" she(!) asked innocently.

You are really about 33 in mind and body,aren't you? Just like me

ad infinitumly yours,

S

PS Shame that concert featuring Our Roge is so expensive.You could have gone and listened and proposed to him on my behalf. ""I'm too scared and too good looking" Get that quote????

http://www.rogerwatersonline.com/photos/ro...tunned_look.gif

Absolutely shocking,unflattering picture,isn't it?

Definitely 23 in mind (sadly not even 33 in body anymore - time has taken it's toll as you well know!).


I might go anyway - I think I know someone who works there.


The Pros and Cons ..... I'm much too scared (but NOT too good looking)

Love from Pamela xxx