don't get me wrong, i get what you're saying and i don't want to be my father. i don't have some superhero worship of him, i just respect the job he did. howeva, remember the scene in the first godfather when the don is telling mike about how men have to be different women and kids when they are sitting in the garden. i do believe that, and that may be ridiculous and narrow minded, but its just the way i am. men have to be responsible to handle most situations that come their way and be able to lean on themselves. that is always not possible but i am relatively healthy and blessed despite the diabetes and i am not at that point and i feel i am behind the curve. i am trying to catch up though.
I'm trying to wrap my head around getting worked up about the '80's. I could have taken a nap, missed 80% of the decade, and not really missed much, in my opinion. The best thing I did was probably moving to Austin in 1980. The world changed during the 1970's, and what was great about the '60's that had carried over into that decade was gradually lost. (you're supposed to imagine Galadriel's voice at the beginning of Fellowship of the Ring) The change wasn't kind to the 80's at all, I think. Good luck with getting older, though. It ain't all it's cracked up to be, but better than the alternative. There was some great NBA basketball, and the Coogs had some great teams, though.
I'll turn 37 in a few days. 32 years of soccer is finally taking a large toll on my body. I'm currently dealing with a torn meniscus in my left knee (found the beginnings of arthritis when they did the x-ray) and a calcium deposit on the it band in my right hip (and the beginnings of arthritis there, too). The morning back pain is something I've dealt with since I was 16, so that doesn't bother me any more. It's the constant pain shooting down my leg from my hip and the pain when I run and the day after playing. The obvious thing is to quit playing soccer. Problem is...I hate working out. I hate running. Riding a bike bores me to death. The only way I'm going to get consistent and good exercise is by playing soccer. I'm not crazy about having surgery but maybe I should just get it done on my knee and hip so I can quit having pain every single day. Otherwise, I'm healthy. I'm looking for a new job and my family and I are seriously considering a move back to the Houston area. We love being in the Austin area but are starting to feel the draw of being closer to family and our closer friends.
Really, y'all... I'm 37 and the "feeling older" thing hasn't hit me yet. It all feels like it's been more years of the same, gradually learning and getting a bit wiser. I never did the high impact sports and feel no worse than ever when exercising. I'm out of shape and want to lose weight, but I see that as being more my own fault than an encroaching age thing. I just hate looking older - and there only seems to be so much you can do about it. I'd like to think I don't, but no one is that surprised by my real age, and I don't get carded or anything. Still don't think of myself as so much of a "grown-up". Started doing the grown-up thing - house, kids, full-time job in whatever paid the best - recently because not only did I want to have a family sometime in my life (and time can be a limiting factor), but because I started getting tired of not being able to afford anything at all. I still reserve the right to act however I want when I'm not at work, etc., assuming that it still sets a good example for the baby. Not too bad really. I do look forward to the baby (and whoever may come after him) being a little older so I can get a bit more of my freedom back - just hate how old I will be by then.
I'm also 37 and my knees creak and wobble, but I don't think these are my "older" years yet. I have my health (aside from the knees) and my family and just switched jobs, but that's what keeps me going. I guess that's how I "grew up" and continue to do so. I believe I have not met success yet, but I will soon due to the new job and my two girls getting older. Hang in there, Señor pgabriel.
Oh, how I wish I could be 37 again. A full head of hair, a tiny little prostate. Oh, those were the days. Did someone say 37 was getting old?
I'm 37 and I feel good. I don't have the mid-life crisis syndrome, yet. Of course, I look like I 30... an advantage of being Asian . I do notice that after a hard day of drinking, it takes longer for me to recover. Not the hangover, I just feel like crap the whole day as oppose to just til the afternoon. A weird feeling is that I'm getting married for the first time, next year. I think that'll be the miles stone in my life where my POV changes. I still feel like I did when I'm in my 20's. We'll see.
let me clarify something, i don't feel old and that's the problem. when i realize i've been out of hs for 19 years, i feel like i don't act grown enough. at least i'm not that guy at the club though.
I get those same feeling, especially watching older TV shows and movies. Hell, I was watching Die Hard With a Vengeance the other day and thought, wow this came out nearly two decades ago. Doesn't feel like it but oh well.....
pgabriel: I am 65 and take 4 insulin shots a day, 4 major surgeries and my mind still thinks I am young till I get out side and try to do what I use to do. I'm telling you now that I wish I had not done some of the crazy stuff that I did before I turned 45. Its not to late to make a change, Just don't get stuck behind a desk like I did. Good luck with aging to all Clutch Fans, and keep moving,
I think I could talk about things like life, growing, maturing, stupid things I've done, wild rides, blown opportunities, family etc. etc. forever. I'm 40, I've experienced so much, good and bad. I used to have regrets but have very few these days. Everything I've gone through has made me the person I am today, so no regrets. It probably took me until I was 37 for true understanding to kick in for me. I feel like I've always been the same person, but have cut out the stupid mistakes I made in my earlier years. I don't feel old, I won't let myself feel it. I've been pretty lucky as far as health is concerned, so that has helped me in feeling young. I started having kids probably later than what may be your average aged parents so my kids help keep me young as well. Not to mention, my wife is 12 years my junior. That said, she's the most together person I know. OP, you spoke of music, I think music more than anything takes me back, makes me reflect the most. Certain songs remind me of certain times, moments that I hold close. I miss those days on occasion but not enough to get depressed, I guess. Having my second boy due in just a few weeks makes me glad I have this whole new chapter starting. I can give my sons something I never had in a father, which is anything but I digress. Now that I've ranted long enough OP. Who says you have to grow up? What you should do is just live right, make the right choices, do right by you, your family and friends. Cut out all of the fat, get rid of everything that truly doesn't matter, meaning anything negative. Keep your heart young but your mind solid. Hope you get it all figured out. Live well man.
I was too young in the 80's but from what I can remember people in that gen. was super nice and chill. I'm 28 and most people in my gen. are douches. You have a better chance winning a scrach off ticket then you do finding a decent person.
When feeling old, you can always poke fun at the geezers older than you. Hard of hearing or remembering?
That's the thing. These days you don't have to forget, don't have to live your age (if you like video games, who's to stop you from playing non-stop for weeks?), and can meet up with people on the internet. It's not like how it was 20 years ago, when we were at the whims of media forced upon up or mostly interacting people within your social circle. The downside is that you're never allowed to forget. If the stupid **** you did in 2000 was immortalized online, then someone somewhere will know about it (the day of Duckface reckoning is nigh...). Your Facebook "timeline"? A chronicle of evidence and memories so much more detailed than how you remembered. I wouldn't go as far to say that nostalgia will die, but it's harder to forget that you were a rotten prick growing up (instead of a mischievous, fun loving troublemaker) if the proof is readily there. The other consequence of the digital life is how much easier to it is to confirm your worldview rather than reconciling with the reality surrounding you. For example, the two highly different streams of news political junkies seem to fall under. So it's more easy to be enabled by your past instead of confronting the uncertainties of a potentially different future life. Pretty big challenge for a lot of people.
this is a great point, i have tried to shy away from video games for the reason of them making me feel childish. but you're right, this isn't 1950, however the downside besides your life immortalized in cyberspace (good and bad) is that we are doing the same thing our kids are doing. this leads to a whole other subject, i sometimes waste time comtemplating, are we adults like our parents were or were our parents childish ways hidden from us. i actually sometimes get scared at the prospect of my generation and future generations being responsible for the well being of mankind.
44 and just posted a thread on high cholesterol. I hear ya Been to jail a few times. The key is to learn from all of it and move on...
"Gettin' old? What y'all know about gettin' old?" :grin: Seriously....you're not really old until you start groaning and grunting when you bend over to pick something up off the floor. Trust me. I'm 51. I know these things.....
