As we grow, we must face more and more new responsibilities. Sometimes it feels cool to be "older" than others, to be an "adult" - mainly due to driving license and such things I guess...
But have you ever started feeling jealous of younger people? Of having more opportunities than you in the career world? Of the fact that they always have the better technologies? The better knowledge? etc. And our experience will be not the same as theirs? Life prospectives? aaahh...
In reality, each birthday means "one year less to live"...
Can't have anymore fun in the good old ways...
I actually just finished my A Levels but I already think like an old grandfather LOL
Oh no your not alone, I get this a bit. Mostly it's to do with wasted oportunities though. I would go back just to do things differently. Like stick with Judo. Or pay attention to my GCSE's.
I dont get jealous of children because of technologies and more opportunities. I get jealous because they have no responsibility and its generally fun to be a kid.
I'm generally pretty freaked out by dying and about getting old and getting wrinkles. I'm only 19 and I don't feel like I've thrown away too much but I do think that time passes too quickly. I would happily be 19 for about 10 years. At the end of the day we have to come to accept the fact that everyone ages and that we aren't even old yet. I don't envy people younger than me I just don't want to get older. It's ridiculous but I think it's pretty normal. My mum says that lots of people worry about being old but that as you get older you come to accept it a bit more. I'm pretty bad at the moment because my Grandad died on tuesday and my nan died a year agoxx
As we grow, we must face more and more new responsibilities. Sometimes it feels cool to be "older" than others, to be an "adult" - mainly due to driving license and such things I guess...
But have you ever started feeling jealous of younger people? Of having more opportunities than you in the career world? Of the fact that they always have the better technologies? The better knowledge? etc. And our experience will be not the same as theirs? Life prospectives? aaahh...
In reality, each birthday means "one year less to live"...
Can't have anymore fun in the good old ways...
I actually just finished my A Levels but I already think like an old grandfather LOL
Am I the only one here?
Just wait until you've graduated...
Right now I feel incredibly strange. I don't feel old, but I'm realising more and more that I can't actually call myself "young" any more. People my age are going out and getting real serious jobs, getting houses, getting married. Life is never going to be the same as it was as an undergraduate. But I guess you just have to move on with it rather than try to live like you're permanently 18.
Right now I feel incredibly strange. I don't feel old, but I'm realising more and more that I can't actually call myself "young" any more. People my age are going out and getting real serious jobs, getting houses, getting married. Life is never going to be the same as it was as an undergraduate. But I guess you just have to move on with it rather than try to live like you're permanently 18.
Meh, what are you Helen, like 21 or something? That's still young And how come you've finished uni I thought you did Medicine?
Right now I feel incredibly strange. I don't feel old, but I'm realising more and more that I can't actually call myself "young" any more. People my age are going out and getting real serious jobs, getting houses, getting married. Life is never going to be the same as it was as an undergraduate. But I guess you just have to move on with it rather than try to live like you're permanently 18.
yup! so right.
I reckon you can still feel young but be responsible... i own my own home and car, and graduated today, but i dont feel like an adult yet!
If you're just doing your A levels, how can people younger than you have more technological/job advantages?? you are at the best point in your life to be learning these things... even if you dont end up going to uni or college, you clearly have some computer skills, which means that you can easily keep up to date with new releases/skills etc!
Meh, what are you Helen, like 21 or something? That's still young And how come you've finished uni I thought you did Medicine?
I'm 22. And I haven't actually finished, but because of the way my course works (compulsory intercalation), I graduate as a BA after 3 years along with the rest of my peers. So I've still got three years to go, but it won't be the same as half my friends have left to get real jobs, the others are all living far away from my house and will be doing serious grad-student things. It'll still be fun, I hope, but definitely in a more mature fashion...
I'm 22. And I haven't actually finished, but because of the way my course works (compulsory intercalation), I graduate as a BA after 3 years along with the rest of my peers. So I've still got three years to go, but it won't be the same as half my friends have left to get real jobs, the others are all living far away from my house and will be doing serious grad-student things. It'll still be fun, I hope, but definitely in a more mature fashion...
Oooh actually [today] my cousins friend was telling me about the medicine course at Cambridge [she graduated last year], she said that you do 3 years + a further 3. That is sooo long to be a student, loves it! However I guess I'll technically be a student for 5 years by the time I've done the LPC/TC or BVC/Pupillage. I don't want to grow up and face the real world
I hate the idea that I've left school now! It was like the best years of my life (well, ok the only years) but I cant imagine ever having that kind of fun again where I don't have to think of responsibilites and consiquences! Just loved all my friends, subjects, teachers, the sixth form space, "owning" the school as a year 13! Uni will never be the same! XX
i recokon its because we get in to a comfort zone... im 17 but couldnt imagine being 18 (next month), but soon ill get used to the idea of that and just adapt...