[gummybummy]

I'm 24 years old now and I seriously feel like I was 18 just a few years ago, but in reality it has already been 6 years since I was 18. I feel like time i flying by so quickly. I ran into an old schoolfriend the other day and she told me that she had gotten married. I am now in the age group where people are getting married and settling down, and I feel like I am nowhere near this stage of maturity.

oh the feeling of social and peer pressure

Does anybody else feel this way?

[Raito!]

yup i feel yaaaa.

I am 22 and most of my friends are in a relationship and on there way to getting married.

Me on the other hand, is very far behind since i never been in a relationship before LOL.

so to relieve myself from social pressure, i just keep on reminding myself the good stuff that single lifestyle has to offer and the bad stuff that the married lifestyle can cause. Like for example: I was a horrible troublemaker when i was young, so i am expecting my future kids to be the same multiplied by 2x worse so ya LOL its gonna be hard raising the future them.

[derrek]

That and not to compare yourself with others... some people have dreams of working 9-5, and having a wife and kids, some dream of being a cyborg ninja fighting aliens in space. It's all good!

[HERMIT]

Of course you feel that life is passing you by so quickly: you're single and carefree.
If you want to bring your life to unbearable monotony get married. If that's not enough, have kids.

As the saying goes, "time flies when you're having fun".

[Prot]

Yeah just make sure you push for the things you want out of life, don't wait till you're really old then have a mid life crisis wondering what you did with your life and youth and unsatisfied at the way things turned out. I feel the same way with my graduation soon and all these preparations needed to get a job I want.

[LS1toSVT]

I know exactly what you mean, ever since High School ended, things seem like they are flying by. I'm 20 but already I'm running into old friends who are all "i'm having a baby!", "I'm engaged!"....me...I don't want either of that right now, and I'm kind of feeling out of place.

[rubyj]

mmhmmm.. DEF know what you're talking about.

career/relationship pressures.. and i still feel like im in high school

[magichouse]

yeah i know the feeling, im 21 and still at uni, while some of my friends are already working full time jobs, others engaged, and a few have kids.

life really does go by really quick when your older...

[aurican]

I get that feeling too. I can still remember the High School days. Most of my friends have a direction they are going in life right now [jobs, gf/bf]. Some of them are already married and have kids of their own and they're only 20-21.

[DarkWaltz]

As a matter of fact, I'm pretty much similar to you.

I'm around your age as well and feel like my 18 year old period was close by. 2 of my friends already got married, and many people with whom I lost contact moved somewhere else, to my knowledge a few days ago.

Time sure flies fast, but I'm trying to enjoy my life as much as I can right now instead of reminiscing too much and getting stuck in the past :]

[coreancc]

I'm 24 years old now and I seriously feel like I was 18 just a few years ago, but in reality it has already been 6 years since I was 18. I feel like time i flying by so quickly. I ran into an old schoolfriend the other day and she told me that she had gotten married. I am now in the age group where people are getting married and settling down, and I feel like I am nowhere near this stage of maturity.

oh the feeling of social and peer pressure

Does anybody else feel this way?

I'm 33 now, and can tell you that this sensation of time passing faster only gets worse. Half my life ago I was 16. Yet, it seems like it took me four times as long to live the first half of my life. 20 seems like yesterday to me, yet it was freakin' 13 years ago. Sometimes I have a familiar memory flash into my head - it will feel like it happened very recently, like maybe last week, and then it suddenly hits me, "dude! That was 12 years ago!" Gah... that's a weird sensation. So, even though I'm 33, have a wife and two kids, I feel like I'm still 20 or 21... though, as I step back and look at myself, I can see I act nothing like I did at that age. I've grown and changed over the years, yet deep down inside, I still feel that age.
I have a theory for why time seems to go by faster and faster as you age. Think of it this way: when you are 1 years old, a year is your entire life... it literally seems like a lifetime, and so it seems VERY long. When you are 10, a year is 1/10th of your life. It goes by faster, but it is still a fairly large portion of your life. By the time you are 20, a year is 1/20th of your life, and you begin to kick into this new mode of living, where years slip by without you even having a chance to really soak the whole thing in like you once did. Now, at my age, a year is 1/33rd of my life. As I age, the year keeps becoming a smaller and smaller percentage of the amount of time I've experienced so that my perception of how long a year is keeps shrinking. It all starts to blur together, and you begin to feel like you are just along for the ride.

[SeX1eStAsaBa]

For me, I don't really count the years that past by. I count the months that do. Cause I swear, every 1 week feels lik 1 month passed by. I think it's mostly me just working, going home, sleep, and repeat.

[x0ny]

I'm 20....I'm soon to be spreading my wings and fly off away from my family, friends, and "home" town. I always think about what's gonna happen when i come back years from now. My highschool sweetheart getting married to some guy, all my friends still here doing day jobs, some may still be in school....It's sad when im the only person I know that will leave this town,and the rest will choose to stay here. Everything has seem to fly by fast ever since i got a real full time job. Everything is gonna change...

[HERMIT]

I have a theory for why time seems to go by faster and faster as you age. Think of it this way: when you are 1 years old, a year is your entire life... it literally seems like a lifetime, and so it seems VERY long. When you are 10, a year is 1/10th of your life. It goes by faster, but it is still a fairly large portion of your life. By the time you are 20, a year is 1/20th of your life, and you begin to kick into this new mode of living, where years slip by without you even having a chance to really soak the whole thing in like you once did. Now, at my age, a year is 1/33rd of my life. As I age, the year keeps becoming a smaller and smaller percentage of the amount of time I've experienced so that my perception of how long a year is keeps shrinking. It all starts to blur together, and you begin to feel like you are just along for the ride.

Hi coreancc. Being a fellow oldbie, I think I have an alternative that will help change your perception of "shrinking years".

Do what I do: Start looking forward to retirement.

You watch. All of a sudden one year of working will suddenly feel like a lifetime again.

[Prot]

Hi coreancc. Being a fellow oldbie, I think I have an alternative that will help change your perception of "shrinking years".

Do what I do: Start looking forward to retirement.

You watch. All of a sudden one year of working will suddenly feel like a lifetime again.

I think all of this goes back to the theory Dunbar had in Catch 22 of trying to slow down life and make it last by making his life as boring as it could be. All a matter of perspective. Quote:

"Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?" Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. "This long." He snapped his fingers. "A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you're an old man."
"Old?" asked Clevinger with surprise. "What are you talking about?"
"Old."
"I'm not old."
"You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. How the hell else are you ever going to slow down?" Dunbar was almost angry when he finished.
"Well, maybe it is true," Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. "Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?"

Just make sure what you do with your time is worthy of the time you got because no matter how long or short it feels, it doesn't change the actual length of the time.

[sheart]

Yes, because I'm graduating just a little earlier than my high school friends my age and have to start my career and paying off loans and all that. So while they're going out and stuff.... yeah. (I'm 21)

But kind of not cause I'm the youngest one in my thesis class. Then I feel really young/fast again.
So confused.

[Pogichinoy]

Yup, I feel ya. I'm 24 as well and some of my friends have gotten married. I don't plan to marry for another 4 years at least.

Marriage, owning homes/businesses, travelling, etc.

These are the all things that our age group does.

I think I've done generally everything except for marriage.

Enjoy what time you have now, do it your own way. ^^

[crayon851]

Age is just a number created to make you conform to the age restrictions that society has put on us! 40 is the new 20 they say, and I bet that in a couple of years 60 will be the new 20. You should live your life according to your maturity. So if you still feel that video games and staying up late is what you find most fun, just do it. If you like hitting the clubs with the 20 year olds and you're 30 just do it. THey won't know the difference, as long as you're acting according to your maturity age.

[redzone85]

I feel like im still in high school too, i felt like that since the day i left high school to be honest (never grew out of it). I feel life is moving too quickly and i am not making the most out of it. But if there is something i have learned, i have learned not to be pressured by other peoples opinion of myself. I live my life on the basis of what i want, not what other people want and think of me.

[PaNgIeE]

When you're young you think the day would never end and you could play all day. All of a sudden you're in your 20s and before you know it you're 30. Time surely do fly by when you get older. Why? Because you have a lot more things in life that occupiese your time and when you realize it the day has gone by and almost done with. Sometimes you wish you had more time in a day to do things, but think about it..sometimes you'll just pile on more things that will take up more time. 24 hours is good enough for me. Besides, being older doesn't mean life is over. There's always something happening at every age!