March 22, 2007
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I am an Old Man
Had this private message exchange today (names have been changed to protect the innocent):
your cool!! I was born in 1992 and that’s when you were in High School how old are you???
Posted 3/22/2007 11:38 AM by xangauserI am 32
Sent 3/22/2007 11:42 AM by johncool that’s old
Posted 3/22/2007 11:43 AM by xangauserYes it’s true… I am officially old. Recently at work I didn’t get a joke, and a coworker explained that, “maybe you don’t get it since it’s not from your generation.” He had just turned 23…
OMG, I am now a member of “your generation”. Where did my youth go?!
Comments (86)
Yea, I ask myself that same question. My youth is far gone.
Wait until you are 67 and then ask where your youth went.
Y’ain’t old! How does the commercial go? “You’re as young as you feel!”
I don’t think you’re old… *hugs* You are not old until you can’t speak properly anymore, thats what I say!
Hey, you’re not old. You’re just…wise! lol
Thirty two is not old. Your age is just one third of my age.
bahahahaha
hahaha that’s so cute
32 isn’t old though
Not old. Haha.
Welcome to the club! Soon it’ll be time for a walker and you better start thinking about the home you want to spend your last days in now!
You’re not old…if you’re a tree!
Old is a state of mind, and always relative, I say.
(Duuuude! I’m older than you?!
Ouch.)
With age comes the ability to differentiate between “your” and “you’re” … So there, xangauser. Then again, my daughter was born in 1992 and knows the difference. *Ahem.*
Not old at all. When my husband hit forty he stopped telling people he was 41 or 42 or 43. He is thirty-thirteen, he says.
Your youth is being siphoned off while you sleep, in order to satiate the fuzzy vampire bunnies who rule this world from the shadows… and sunny bunny meadows. They prefer the meadows, actually.
I ate it. =)
Take it with grace and dignity, embrace it, like Chief Redbird’s surrender.
“I am ready,” said Redbird. “Let me be free. I have given my life–it is gone.”
He then stopped down, picked up a pinch of dust between finger and thumb, blew it away, and said, “I would not take it back. It is gone.”
haha…funny.
just embrace it!!! there’s just so much you can do that they CAN’T…if they only knew…they’d WISH to switch places. that’s how i see it.
Dude, I’ve started feeling that already. And I’m only a sophmore. All these new middle schoolers don’t know what tai bo is or anything. *whimper*
I have been ditched three times already by “friends”when the figured out how old I was, one said that I was too old to be on Xanga…is there an age limit
Good God, I graduated in 1979… you are so not old. I have also experienced what Seedsower has, on the other hand I have had many a friendly banter with the rebellious youth…
Tricia
I’m 22 but i feel quite old too, maybe its because i’m surrounded by young people.
30s are the new 20s. no worries
If u saw the first “moon landing” when u were a freshman in highschool & began 1st grade when u where five (never advanced or held back a grade) how old should I really be? Ur not serious! That’s FUZZY math 4 u!!
…at the ripe old age of 20, I recently started spending some time with a few 16-18-year-olds as part of a community-building exercise at my college. I think they go out of their way to make me feel old…they don’t even know what TMNT is for crying out loud!
I don’t let it worry me, though. After watching the teenagers’ social catastrophes (to one girl, it counts as a serious crisis if she meets someone who doesn’t like the color purple), I’ve decided I’ll take wisdom over youth any day.
As an 80s baby, I’m still in awe that there are people born after 1990 already starting college. I didn’t think that day could ever come.
thank God i’m still 16.
sucks man… our Father Time is doing His work…
I’m afraid it only gets worse from here…
Well, if it makes you feel any better, you are a “young man” to me! : )
where did your youth go? where did mine go…? were you born in the year of the tiger?
Ahem…as a fellow 32 year old, I can assure you with utter certainty that we are NOT old. Goddamn it.
I long for the days of my 30′s. I tell people I’m celebrating the 10th anniversary of my 30th birthday.
Ah, youth. It goes by far too quickly.
But I don’t think 32 is too old.
32 is like the new 15 i think.
Since I’m 44, 32 seems pretty young. Really it is relative. I think you can choose how old you are really going to feel. Living life to the fullest, knowing how fortunate you are for what you have and having lots of goals and plans keep you young. I also find not dwelling on the number helps. Lastly, putting yourself into situations where you are around older people that you can learn from and give back to helps to bring age into perspective.
You’re still a baby. I remember Gilligan’s Island in first run. ”My Generation” invented the Internet. We’re just letting you youngsters play around on it until we kick you off the lawn . I wrote about this the other day. The Aging Thing. http://www.xanga.com/Lady_Songbird/242875298/item.html
you’ll have to speak up, sonny… I can’t hear you.
aww that is cute
i’ll mail you a cane
I think it’s stunning that someone born in 1992 could already be 15. And I still have a hard time believing that anyone was born in the 1990s, let alone the 00′s! As far as I’m concerned, everyone younger than me was born sometime between 1983 (my birthyear) and 1989 (even that’s a stretch).
your life evaporated into teh internets! lolz!
it gets better when you work with (young) kids. i’m a dance instructor and in one of my 6-8 year old classes, one of the kids said to me “well, i don’t know how old you are. you look 16, but you’re probably 40 or something.” (i’m 26) lol. gotta love ‘em!
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That’s all right, I’m 26, but I don’t understand most jokes by 23-year-olds…
*coughs* I would comfort you, but I guess it wouldn’t do any good from a 17 year old
hello. could u feature this weblog? http://www.xanga.com/Ms_M_Rocks/566697688/world-of-the-spectaculars.html
it’s really cute. ^_^
as long as you’re young at heart,that wouldn’t be a a problem
this is where reality bites you in the ass … but its no reason to sob … just accept it and you’ll be fine …
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. – Jack Benny
What I wouldn’t give to be seventy again! – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Old age is not for sissies. – Malcolm Forbes
I’m 32 also, and we’re not old. We’re just finally getting good.
As another 32 yr. old. . . congrats to us!!
In another few years, you won’t care anymore about not getting the jokes or the music or whatever, and that’s when you’ll really be old.
WTF. You’re not old! It’s just that “that” generation tends to speak of anyone over the age of 25 as old. I’ve been called old by these people since I was 30. I’m almost 36. I’m not old, damnit! Although I am prone to say to someone born in the 90′s is young. But omg they are! Double standard, yes, but I’d rather be young than old anyday. People who don’t know who the Beatles are make the baby Jesus weep.
Someone stole it from you! Their names are Time & Memoryloss.
If you think hard enough, perhaps you might remember!
Seriously though, if you remembered every waking moment of your life in your head, you’d go crazy.
If you’re old I’m in BIG TROUBLE!
Sad, isn’t it?
32 seems like a child when you’re 50.
i was in high school in 1992….i’m def from ur generation. i feel so ancient!
Funny that someone trying to act all smart can’t even do simple math
AAAAAAAArrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh
WHAT is wrong with the comments today? It is driving me CRAZY!!!!
at least you have your own company. I’m still working to get mine going! hehe. And I’m getting up there too. Boo.
LOL…
I’m starting to feel old lately…..sigh.
Old at 32? shit if I consider myself old at 60 I better have cancer or something else working against my body causing me pain everytime I move. Are you sick? are you dying? was there some medically traumatic experience in your life causing you pain when you move? If not then suck it up and go out and enjoy life. Don’t retire yourself already, you are still very young. Don’t be a bitch man.
Oh please, 32 isn’t old. Some people just have a weird perspective.
You are really old when the 19-20 year olds hit on you because they want someone to replace their daddy.
holymoley?!
I think i’m old to and i’m just 25 years old.
dat looks gay
Youth is where you leave it.
If you leave it behind then… well…
It is amusing to me to hear the incredulous sounds when I tell the younuns I am 30 and everyone else it 23 tops, except the promoter, and he is 38.
Work is another thing entirely. It takes practice and a sharp wit to make people 10 years younger than you laugh and laugh and laugh… their jokes aren’t as funny anyway, us old people?
We know what’s good!
Just turned 30 myself. I hear ya on that one. Is it just me or does the text messaging thing leave you looking like an old fart as well?
Daniel
With age comes the ability to differentiate between “your” and “you’re” … So there, xangauser. Then again, my daughter was born in 1992 and knows the difference. *Ahem.*
Posted 3/22/2007 8:49 PM by TheMissingTenenbaum
Born in ’92 myself, I’m thinking the same thing.
John, thought I would tell you of some problems I am seeing. My sister just went into her site and didn’t have to log in to her private site in order to put up a new blog. She was also able to view my locked down site without logging into her own. She is on my friends list but was not logged in. I also have not received any of my Xanga updates for about 3 or 4 days. I am getting emails when comments are made but no blog updates.
Becca aka LittleE and
Lol, you are still a pup
I’m 48.
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*Hillary
If it makes you feel any better, you’re not old enough to be my dad.
what are you talking about??? your so young! LOL (iside joke )
Don’t worry man, 32 is hardly old. So don’t think much about it. I know the person who called you old in real life, she can be pretty heartless…
32 isn’t old… don’t let them get to you~
isn’t a generation 20 years? So wouldn’t the 23 year old be in your generation?
LMAO! Yep it’s true. You’ll be graying soon, John. ::ducks::
ha ha ha. 32 is cool man … i would know.
we probably got shirts that are older than half the population of xanga 
i see a lot of physical changes, but i think i’m still about 12. and i’m older than you.
LOLOLOLOLOL. Please..
My son turned 28 last year and is fond of saying ‘back in the day.’ His day, not mine or more ancient, yet, mother’s. One of his Christmas gifts last year was a shirt with Pac Man on it that says, “Back in the Day.”
Like I told my Dawg when he turned 40 and wondered at all the new aches and pains he was having, “It does not get any better, but you do get used to it.”
You are 10 years younger than me so hush! 32 is not old you are at the age you can really enjoy your youth!
On a completely Different note. Xanga is adding some extras to classic users how about increasing the number of people I can have on my protected list?
Ha! Wait until you hit 42!
haha . . . i guess 30 is the magic marker