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Post by flummery on May 13, 2008 16:29:50 GMT -4
Click here for the original thread. This thread is for letting us know how old you are. Latest posts: hey everyone! =) i'm new here and i just turned 30. nice board! Herzliche Wilkommen, Fin!!  Hey everyone Actually I'm 20, but in the July... Best wishes from Poland!  And I'm 15 Hey, there are really many people from different countries! Tomorrow I'll be 25 years old. (Today i'm 24) I want a Teddy-Ben in my birthay I'm 27. Really want it to stay that way too - not looking forward to saying bye to my 20's!
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Post by leighs11 on May 20, 2008 13:02:37 GMT -4
I'm 39 and think I might stay that age for a while.  I'm not sure I'm ready to turn 40 this year... |
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Post by fearandloathin on May 26, 2008 20:16:56 GMT -4
Last time I wrote on here - I was 18. Now I am 19. Seeing as my birthday is today. lol. Horrific! Or was I 17 when I joined here?
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Post by tigerlily on May 26, 2008 20:18:20 GMT -4
Today's your birthday?  why don't you show up on the birthday list??? no worries...new thread imminent....hold on!! |
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Post by Edith S. Baker on May 26, 2008 20:20:38 GMT -4
Today's your birthday? why don't you show up on the birthday list??? no worries...new thread imminent....hold on!! Her birthday is May 27 and not 26. Maybe it is the 27 where she lives. |
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Post by tigerlily on May 26, 2008 20:21:19 GMT -4
I'm 39 and think I might stay that age for a while. I'm not sure I'm ready to turn 40 this year... I've just hit 30, and decided to move backwards. So I'll be celebrating my 29th next February! |
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Post by tenderlumpling on May 26, 2008 21:38:27 GMT -4
I'm 18, but I'll be 19 by the year's end. |
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Post by fearandloathin on May 27, 2008 4:01:31 GMT -4
My birthday does show up on the birthday thing, lol. Should show up on yours tiger - you're in England aren't you???
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Post by tigerlily on May 27, 2008 9:42:31 GMT -4
It shows up today, but didn't yesterday! I'm actually living in Boston - I'm just a committed Anglophile and wish with all my heart that I lived in the UK!! |
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Post by silvia1 on May 27, 2008 17:14:13 GMT -4
Leighs11, I'm 39 too and this year 40. Horrible. What's your date?
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Post by Edith S. Baker on May 27, 2008 17:51:36 GMT -4
There is nothing wrong being any age. You are only as old as you feel. I am 59 and proud of it. I don't feel like I lost my youth. I feel young and that's what matters. When I was 20, I thought the world ended. I was so upset that I had turned that age. Looking back, I realized why I felt that way. I had not accomplished anything and I had nothing to look forward to because I was living a directionless life.
Can anyone of you explain why you are so upset about your age?
1. Is it because you feel that you are closer to death?
If that's the case, there are a lot of people who die young and were never able to reach your age. So stop mopping about that possibility. You may live to be 100 or more. Who knows? Worrying about death, only makes you lose out in life.
2. Is it because you feel that now that you are older, you are not as "beautiful" as you were as a young person?
Heck, many of you are always talking about how beauty is only skin deep. Some of you even complain that fan magazines are always throwing the "perfect" look at us, trying to make us achieve an impossibility. If that’s the case, that you better rethink your priorities. You will never look the way you look as a young person, but you have achieved wisdom and if you use it properly, you will not feel cheated because you are older.
Off my soap box
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Post by tigerlily on May 27, 2008 19:54:59 GMT -4
I enjoyed the soap box episode, Edith! For me, personally, I think it's because I haven't accomplished everything I've wanted to. You know how people, and especially women, tend to set certain age goalposts on their lives? I've always done that. I wanted to be married at 27, and having children starting at 28. That was my plan. I'm now 30, and have a long-term boyfriend who's reluctant to take either step. So it's more of a frustration about my 'plans' not being fulfilled, even though life plans are really pretty stupid and belong in middle school. If you take that element out of the equation, I'm actually quite happy with being 30. I'm smarter, kinder, and feel much more beautiful than I ever did at 20. Still awkward, most of the time, but hoping that'll iron itself out in time. I'm on my way to a fulfilling academic career, and that's got me very excited. I will never, ever get plastic surgery or any other kind of synthetic beauty treatment. Aging is beautiful - look at Julie Andrews, Judi Dench - they don't need it. They look distinguished and healthy, and that's how I want to look. I want laugh lines, and eye crinkles. It's natural, it's healthy, it's HUMAN. It shows that you've experienced life. Death doesn't scare me. It happens, it's never a happy thing, but it's unavoidable. It could happen any moment and it actually shortens your life by worrying about it. I was brought up around death - my mother's family were all much older, and my cousin operates a funeral home. Funerals and wakes were a part of my childhood, so I'm actually more comfortable with death than most people I know. I can't worry about what I have no control over, and when it happens I know I'll be in good hands and have lived a good life. It's just that stupid life plan that I have to learn to let go of, I think. *jumps off the soap box, gives the next person a go at it!* |
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Post by Jo (chielohana) on May 27, 2008 20:59:57 GMT -4
*climbs upon soapbox* Each year's been better than the last for me, for the most part. I don't look back and think, "I wish I was XX again." Now, granted, I'm only 25 - but even some people at my age long for college or high school years again. Whatevs. Life plugs along and there's no use struggling to hang onto the past. As far as cosmetic surgery, if it isn't extreme or for the wrong reasons, I'm for it. I have friends and family that have had subtle procedures that look very natural. I just don't condone it when people are doing it but they actually have a much deeper problem that surgery alone can't fix. Like when I see an extreme makeover show and it's evident that the person will just be going back to a sad life with a new face. Or when they're too young, or could "fix" is some other way, or it's really just in their head, etc. I mean it's not a haircut, it won't grow back |
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Post by greenleaf on May 28, 2008 12:12:42 GMT -4
Really, I never was afraid of death. The death is important also as a life. The death gives us a knowledge of meaning of a life. I just began 40 years.. Seems to me, I just now started to live ;D |
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Post by tigerlily on May 28, 2008 12:40:48 GMT -4
Well-said, Greenleaf!! |
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25 years - 26 in June. 
Hey everyone 
And I'm 15
Tomorrow I'll be 25 years old.
I'm 27. Really want it to stay that way too - not looking forward to saying bye to my 20's!
I'm not sure I'm ready to turn 40 this year...
