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May 5, 2010

Confession Wednesday: GETTING OLD

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My friend Karen does a weekly confession on her blog every Wednesday.  I'm going to participate for the first time today.  Yay!

Today's confession is the first time you felt old.

When I was in school, all my friends and I were the same age, give or take a year or so.  Everyone knew if someone was a sophomore, junior or senior.  It always seemed like a BIG deal.  It also seemed that once I graduated from high school, age suddenly became irrelevant.

The first time I really started to feel old was when I moved to Idaho Falls.  I quickly became friends with people in my neighborhood and church.  I would go out to lunch with my friends, have them over at my house, go over to their house - all the usual friend stuff.  

After awhile, I learned that everyone I was friends with was 4 - 5 years younger than me.  For whatever reason, I just figured everyone I was chillin' with was my same age.  It seemed so weird that I was close to so many people that were my brother's age.  I never hung out with my brother's friends!  Gasp!

I felt so old!

Another time I felt old is when I uttered, for the first time, the words:  "About ten years ago..." and had a perfect recollection of what I was doing with my life at that point in time.  Double gasp!

Thoughts?

7 comments:

  1. First off, I LOVE the layout!

    I'm at the point where I have friends that are 22 and friends that are 62, so that doesn't bother me at all. But someone tried to set me up on a date with a guy that is younger than my brother. THAT was weird.

    And 10 years ago...I moved to Utah to finish college.

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  2. There's been various times I've felt "old" throughout my 31 years. When Dustin and I got married he was 24 (he's five years older than me) and I thought that was really old. Then on my 24th birthday, I realized I was now as old as he was when we got married. I felt old.

    I had one of those moments just the other day. My sister just had a birthday and she turned 29. She said something about her next birthday when she'll turn 30 and I almost fell over thinking about my little sister turning 30. It makes me feel old when the people who are younger than me do "old things" like getting married, having a baby or turning 30.

    Plus little wrinkles around my eyes and skin changing on my neck don't help either. So weird.

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  3. I felt old the first I ran into someone I used to know and had forgot existed.

    Forgot. Existed.

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  4. It's so true...once you're out of high school age doesn't matter any more. Especially when you're married. It's weird. I totally have friends that are younger than my younger brothers...and they totally seem like they're my age. Every once in a while I'll say something that will make me seem REALLY old. And yeah...I'm totally turning thirty this year. YIKES!
    I feel especially old around the young women. We'll be at an activity or something and I feel like I'm still sixteen hanging out with them and I'll say something...they give me this look like YOU'RE OLD! Sad, but true.
    sorry for the novel

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  5. Yeah for first time confession! I always seem to pick older friends...I was the kid that always talked to adults instead of playing....I guess that's why I'm so "mature for my age"

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  6. About ten years ago... when I catch myself saying that I laugh.

    The first time I felt old was when I was big and pregnant. Nothing makes me feel older then not being able to move around easily.

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