How Old Will You Be in 2006? (Please take the poll)

[Scheherazade]

Tell us how old you will be in 2006! I know some are changing their age brackets this year! :D

[Weeping Willow]

23.. :( booo hoooo.... why oh why!!!!
:D..

[Monica]

I will be 21. Gee, I'm not a teenager any more :bawling:

[Nightshade]

HAHA University here I come :D !!
:banana:

[~Maude~]

23.. :( booo hoooo.... why oh why!!!!
:D..

My 23rd year was my best, I don't know why but it was just a great year for me. My second best was 17 so maybe I have a 6 year cycle going, making this year my 29th a hopeful one, eh?

[Virgil]

To all you people crying about being in your twenties, PLEASE! My favorite age, if I remember that far back was twenty-five. Out of school, earning money, no attachments. You see how Star brags about his adventures, well I used to have them too at twenty-five. This year I'll turn, Oh my God, forty-five. Whenever a discussion of age comes along, I lately recall the Pink Floyd lirics to "Time".

TIME

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation in the English way
The time is gone the song is over thought I'd something more to say


The lines that really hit home are:

The sun is the same in the relative way but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death

[shortysweetp]

in sept of 2006 i will be 24 and my daughter will be 4. time sure does fly when you are having fun man i am starting to get old

[kilted exile]

24 at the end of the month, not quite moving brackets just yet.

[emily655321]

I, like Monica, will be turning 21 this year. :) Not as significant an event for me as it might be for others, because I don't enjoy getting sloshed in public. But it will be nice to be able to accompany my friends into the liquor store, and to be able to purchase said liquor without having friends smuggle it to me like some kind of criminal (irony intended), and especially to pay $2.00 less to get into my favorite club. :banana: The cheap clubbing is, to be honest, my favorite part.

[crisaor]

I'll be 24 in 2006.
Still one more year in the same bracket. :D

[Kaltrina]

I'll be 22 in 2006... and as I talk about my age it feels so weird to say I'll be 22. not bad just weird... :confused: :)

[smilingtearz]

wow!! im turning 20 this year!

:D

[Monica]

I, like Monica, will be turning 21 this year. :) Not as significant an event for me as it might be for others, because I don't enjoy getting sloshed in public. But it will be nice to be able to accompany my friends into the liquor store, and to be able to purchase said liquor without having friends smuggle it to me like some kind of criminal (irony intended), and especially to pay $2.00 less to get into my favorite club. :banana: The cheap clubbing is, to be honest, my favorite part.


Hehe, here you olny need to be 18 to be able to buy something stronger than coca-cola :lol:

[Themis]

Oh my. I'm also going to turn 21 this year.

@smilingtearz: I wouldn't be happy about it if I were you... Well ... actually I would since that would mean I was still 19. ;)

[Taliesin]

Eighteen.

*shudders*

[Rachy]

I'm going to be 18 this year :(, Luckily towards the end though! I can still get away with being a child! :D

[Schokokeks]

Roughly 6935 days on this planet this year! :D

[DamnJoe]

I, too, will be turning 21. Happy New Year, indeed.

[samercury]

lol
I'll be turning 17 in August......:p

[smilingtearz]

@smilingtearz: I wouldn't be happy about it if I were you... Well ... actually I would since that would mean I was still 19.

you mean its better not to grow?

:D

[Themis]

Of course. ;)

[RococoLocket]

I will be 20 years old on May 13th :)

OH GOSH I'M GOING TO BE OLD :bawling:

[alicialiv]

Yes! I will finally be 18

[Virgil]

I will be 20 years old on May 13th :)

OH GOSH I'M GOING TO BE OLD :bawling:

Oh, gosh. The alternative is not worth thinking about.

[Riesa]

Really, really starting to feel old around all these young whippersnappers?! (takes out wooden teeth, and shakily scrubs them with borax and a frayed twig)

[RococoLocket]

Oh, gosh. The alternative is not worth thinking about.

Pardon dear?

[Wirhe]

Turned 23 this January just a few days ago and it's getting better. Finding your own company, moving abroad, starting to earn big (at least when compared to the "salary" of a student), and graduating sometime soon. Then, finally, I can afford to visit bordels more often. :p

[xccf]

hi,i will be 22 in 2006....and i am new here:)

i am a girl from Jiangsu,China. nice to meet u guys here.

[Nightshade]

hello :wave:
Now I have a question why is this in this forum??
:confused:

[Virgil]

Pardon dear?
The alternative being death. Either you grow old or you die. Freezing yourself to an age is not an option available to us, at least not in this world.

[Darlin]

hello :wave:
Now I have a question why is this in this forum??
:confused:

To make the old feel even older I think. To bleaken our days. Is that even a word? Or maybe it's kinda like leaving one's mark only a little more intimately. I have decided I'm no longer aging and have in fact regressed. My current and future age will always be 40 even though no one will believe it because I certainly don't look any where near 40 yet so I think I can pull this off for a good 10-15 more years.

Or maybe the poll is here in Introductions to get the newbies posting? :)

[Bluebiird]

Well, I'll be eighteen in march, though I'm not going to go out drinking all night, ugh :sick: alchol repulses me. I can't even stand to be around my mum when she's had just one glass if wine.
And why are you all making such a fuss about being 20+? It doesn't mean your life's over, far from it. My parents are in their 50's for goodness sake and they don't complain, often.
When you're young, you dream of being older, so that you can drive a car and stay up late and that kind of thing. But when you do get older, you moan about how you're getting old and how you wish you were younger. :confused: Where's the sense in that?

[Stanislaw]

I am going to be 20 this year. Guess that means I actually have to do something with my life other than piracy :D

Well, I can't wait till retirement...I am going to be the badass of the retirement centre, :D :D :D

I think if I get a wheel chair, I call it the Stans dasterdly chair. :D

[Nisha]

Im gonna be a legal adult!!!!!YAAAAAAAII!!
lalallalalalalallalalala....mwahahahahahahahahahah aaa...
Samercury..Im an August gal too...heheh..And here I was thnkin I was the youngest..whew...

[rachel]

Tell us how old you will be in 2006! I know some are changing their age brackets this year! :D


My dear Scher,
unless I have missed something aren't you one who never divulges anything, and I mean anything on forum.? And yet you seem to initiate these personal, tell all sites!!!
So tell us beautiful faerie butterfly how old will you be and er um where is that picture to co ordinate...hmmm? :confused:

[rachel]

Really, really starting to feel old around all these young whippersnappers?! (takes out wooden teeth, and shakily scrubs them with borax and a frayed twig)

she is just joking, she is an amazon from the faerie world and never ages. she is like lady Arwen,like Galadriel, never growing older in face or form, always the same, beyond the splendor of moon and stars and golden sun.
so give those wooden teeth back to your husband and stop funnin with us! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Scheherazade]

My dear Scher,
unless I have missed something aren't you one who never divulges anything, and I mean anything on forum.? And yet you seem to initiate these personal, tell all sites!!!
So tell us beautiful faerie butterfly how old will you be and er um where is that picture to co ordinate...hmmm? :confused:Dear Rachel,

If you kindly check the results of the poll, you will notice that I have indeed already answered the very question I asked myself (I was the first one to answer it actually). The poll clearly indicates which age group I belong to, which is, I am sure, enough to satisfy the curiousity of my Forum friends.

I hardly ever ask things which I am not willing to answer myself but since you have brought it up - and please do feel free to correct me if I am mistaken - I can see neither your name in the poll nor your photo in the Photo Album section. :)

[rachel]

:D I thought I would get a rise out of you! I just never have had the fun of bugging you, it is the 'must be respectful to teacher" in me I guess. Good to see you are real flesh and blood and I humbly apologize.You are right and you are fair and you will see me tomorrow, if all goes well. Travis at least was able to get some pics into photobucket but from there well as I told Willow I dont' want some poor guy in siberia ending up with my face in his email site because trav and I don't have a clue what we are doing. And yes I remembered Willow what you said, you are so funny. but that doesn't mean trav will transfer your words into actuallities! :lol:

forgive me Scher, forgive me Scher, forgive me Scher. Here is a lovely pot of jam and some money. if that doesn't work I appeal to your sweet nature and very forgiving heart!(if that doesn't work -help.

[Scheherazade]

And we are yet to see your name in the 'How old will you be in 2006?' poll...

:p

[topher-30]

hey, i will be 19 in october 06, goin to college and gonna love it, parties,girls, alchol, girls, parties, nad did i mention GIRLS. i am a huge ladies man so if any of yall girls want to stop bye and chat then go on ahead, i am willing to please. :lol:

[EAP]

18 in August.

[Hazel-Ra]

To all you people crying about being in your twenties, PLEASE! My favorite age, if I remember that far back was twenty-five. Out of school, earning money, no attachments. You see how Star brags about his adventures, well I used to have them too at twenty-five. This year I'll turn, Oh my God, forty-five. Whenever a discussion of age comes along, I lately recall the Pink Floyd lirics to "Time".

TIME

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation in the English way
The time is gone the song is over thought I'd something more to say

OMG, virgil, I adore pink floyd. Without a doubt there is no-one like them. My favourite album is 'Wish You Were Here', but 'Dark Side of the Moon' is a close second.

I'm in my twenties, too, and I was going to whine about my age before I read your post. Don't forget it's just as intimidating for us to be the age we are now that is was for you when you were our age. It is scary for me to be turning 26 this year (not til the end of the year, thank god!) because my teenage years really are just a distant memory now. Any mistakes I make are my fault alone, and now I am no longer old enough to run to others for help. It's all my fault and my responsibility to sort out. I'm adult enough to deal with that, don't get me wrong, but the prospect is a little daunting to me. Does that make sense?

[RobinHood3000]

hey, i will be 19 in october 06, goin to college and gonna love it, parties,girls, alchol, girls, parties, nad did i mention GIRLS. i am a huge ladies man so if any of yall girls want to stop bye and chat then go on ahead, i am willing to please. :lol:
Willing you may be, but that has little bearing on your capacity--maturity is looked particularly well upon by most forumers here.

[Virgil]

OMG, virgil, I adore pink floyd. Without a doubt there is no-one like them. My favourite album is 'Wish You Were Here', but 'Dark Side of the Moon' is a close second.

I'm in my twenties, too, and I was going to whine about my age before I read your post. Don't forget it's just as intimidating for us to be the age we are now that is was for you when you were our age. It is scary for me to be turning 26 this year (not til the end of the year, thank god!) because my teenage years really are just a distant memory now. Any mistakes I make are my fault alone, and now I am no longer old enough to run to others for help. It's all my fault and my responsibility to sort out. I'm adult enough to deal with that, don't get me wrong, but the prospect is a little daunting to me. Does that make sense?

Hazel
I know what you mean by distant memory. You are closer to your teeanage years than I am to your 26. I'm not sure I remember 26. And don't think that it's not fearful the older you get. I think it's worst. When I turned 30 it gave me a healthy shock; when I turned 40, I literally was parlyzed with trepidation. And I'm not one that ruffles easily. Lord knows what it will feel at 50.

[Pendragon]

As one of the older posters, I suppose "Too old" will not be accepted. I will be 46 if I make it to November. http://www.websmileys.com/sm/dressed/bek205.gif

[water lily]

Lol, my my, but we do seem to be an old and depressed bunch, don't we? I just finished the development chapter in my psychology text book, what they call "tomb to womb" pyschology, I admit it was a little depressing. They did a study on whether older people are actually wiser; they also pinpointed all the ages during which our abilities slip away one by one. But I won't divulge the depressing specifics.

But WAIT! My trusty psychology text also offered hope! If you read, you're more likely to preserve your cognitive abilities to a ripe old age, and we all read here, so there's a happy thought (the one miniscule happy thought fighting against the thousands of black depressinig ones that pervadet this thread, like Atlas struggling to hold up the heavens, then suddenly there's a grinch moment, and the single little happy thought spontaneously gains the "strength of ten grinches plus two", and he launches all the depressing thoughts away in an effortless heave... okay so that went on longer than planned).

I guess after that speel I ought to divulge me own ripe old age. I will be 19 this year. And to stick with the theme of this thread: OH WOE IS ME! Mine heart quivers in my breast. Old-age hath claimed me, death approaches! Life is short, soul-wrenching, terrible, and time is even more cruel. Furthermore I'm already loosing my eyesight!

heh, that was sort of fun.

BTW, Rachel, I love reading your posts, you make me happy, you're a sweetie.

ps. what scares you guys more about getting older: the approach of death, or the physical aging process?

[water lily]

ehem. that would be "womb-to-tomb psychology"*. pardon me.

[Hazel-Ra]

I guess after that speel I ought to divulge me own ripe old age. I will be 19 this year. And to stick with the theme of this thread: OH WOE IS ME! Mine heart quivers in my breast. Old-age hath claimed me, death approaches! Life is short, soul-wrenching, terrible, and time is even more cruel. Furthermore I'm already loosing my eyesight!
lmao! You sarcky youngin'!


what scares you guys more about getting older: the approach of death, or the physical aging process?
I think it's fashionable to be young, and as such, it scares people. It's similar to being slim being in fashion, and any female who isn't a size 8 feeling crappy about themselves.

[Pensive]

Bang - 14 in December - Bang

[topher-30]

Willing you may be, but that has little bearing on your capacity--maturity is looked particularly well upon by most forumers here.
Mr. Robinhood300 i am so sorry that you have to be so aggressive in your resent postes partaining to me. i troubles me to know that a guy who is the King of the Shapeshifters considers me immature.

[RobinHood3000]

I hardly deem myself agressive, and certainly no more than is justified. I still await a PM response.

[Virgil]

I guess after that speel I ought to divulge me own ripe old age. I will be 19 this year. And to stick with the theme of this thread: OH WOE IS ME! Mine heart quivers in my breast. Old-age hath claimed me, death approaches! Life is short, soul-wrenching, terrible, and time is even more cruel. Furthermore I'm already loosing my eyesight!


Hey that was GREAT! Let me ask, at 44, have I earned the right to complain about aging? I can tell you that no one under 30 shoulf be cmplaining.


ps. what scares you guys more about getting older: the approach of death, or the physical aging process?
For me death. I can't believe it will all be over someday. I heard a cute quote not too long ago: I don't know who said it, but here it is: We all know that everyone has to die someday; howver we all secretly hope that God has made one exception to the rule.

[emily655321]

Yeah, and I hope it's not me! :lol:

Do you think fear of death increases with age? I suppose that's a silly question. Personally, though, I wouldn't take kindly to living forever. If I can't stand the pop music of today, at 20, just imagine how much I'll hate the pop music of the future, when I'm 80! *shudders* Hopefully my hearing will have gone by then.

[Virgil]

Yeah, and I hope it's not me! :lol:

Do you think fear of death increases with age? I suppose that's a silly question. Personally, though, I wouldn't take kindly to living forever. If I can't stand the pop music of today, at 20, just imagine how much I'll hate the pop music of the future, when I'm 80! *shudders* Hopefully my hearing will have gone by then.
Yes that is a silly question. My father is 70 and has come through heart attacks, stroke, and pneumonia. He's in a nursing home rehabing. He knows he could go any day. I talk to him every evening. Some days he's relaxed and accepts it; other days he's agitated and nervous. For me, when I turned 30, a feeling that I was no longer indestructable came over me; when I turned 40, I felt my mortality. I can't imagine exactly how my father feels; you have to be in his shoes. I hope I never go deaf, though. I would miss not able to hear Beethoven's Nineth Symphony too much. And why is it that the older one gets, the less they like the pop music of the day?

[Pensive]

I want to be 18 as soon as possible.

[Scheherazade]

ps. what scares you guys more about getting older: the approach of death, or the physical aging process?Neither! The worst part is the fact that there are more and more young'uns asking you the above questions.

[Pensive]

Neither! The worst part is the fact that there are more and more young'uns asking you the above questions.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Lol, when I was very young, I had a belief that older people know everything. So I used to ask my parents and grandparents a lot of questions and when my mother did not know the answer or did not want to tell, then I used to think that my mother is not telling me because she thinks that in this way, I will not lean a lot and I will be always under her. :p

[Scheherazade]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Lol, when I was very young, I had a belief that older people know everything. But older people do know everything!!!

[kilted exile]

But older people do know everything!!!

Or will at least pretend to.

[Scheherazade]

Or will at least pretend to.Who can tell the difference?

:p

[kilted exile]

Who can tell the difference?

:p


Not many people, and those able to are usually polite enough not to agitate the old dears :D

[water lily]

:p well it's pretty easy to tell when you guys admit to it!

[Ranoo]

I'll be 25 - 1 = 24 :D .I love mathe lol :cool:

[Virgil]

I'll be 25 - 1 = 24 :D .I love mathe lol :cool:
Ranoo - I love your avatar and the A. Lincoln quote. Welcome to lit net.

[Virgil]

Normally I would have posted this in the Jokes thread, but it's kind of appropriate here after the above discussion:

A guy is 81 years old and loves to fish. He was sitting in his boat the other day when he heard a voice say, "Pick me up."

He looked around and couldn't see any one. He thought he was dreaming when he heard the voice say again, "Pick me up." He looked in the water and there, floating on the top, was a frog.

The man said, "Are you talking to me?"

The frog said, "Yes, I'm talking to you. Pick me up. Then, kiss me and I'll turn into the most beautiful woman you have ever seen. I'll then give you more sexual pleasure that you ever could have dreamed of."

The man looked at the frog for a short time, reached over, picked it up carefully, and placed it in his fr! ont breast pocket.

Then the frog said, "What, are you nuts? Didn't you hear what I said? I said kiss me and I will give you sexual pleasures like you have never had."

He opened his pocket, looked at the frog and said, "Nah, at my age I'd rather have a talking frog."

[Ranoo]

thanks Virgil for liking my avatar and the quote .:D

[Ryduce]

I'll be 18.Wow that sucks.

[Virgil]

I just keep getting jokes about being old. Soebody's trying to tell me something. Here's another. Actually I can see this as me and my wife in the coming years.

A couple in their nineties are having problems remembering things. During a checkup, the doctor tells them that they're physically okay, but they might want to write things down to help them remember. Later that night, while watching TV, the old man gets up from his chair. "Want anything while I'm in the kitchen?" he asks.
"Will you get me a bowl of ice cream?", she replies.
"Sure."
"Don't you think you should write it down so you can remember?" she asks.
"No, I can remember."
"Well, I'd like some strawberries on top,too. Maybe you should write it down, so's not to forget it?"
He says, "I can remember. You want a bowl of ice cream with strawberries."
"I'd also like whipped cream. I'm certain you'll forget that, so write it down, OK?" she asks.
Irritated, he says, "I don't need to write it down, I can remember! Ice cream with strawberries and whipped cream - I got it, for goodness sake!" Then he toddles into the kitchen.
After about 20 minutes, the he returns from the kitchen and hands his wife a plate of bacon and eggs.
She stares at the plate for a moment and asks:.
"Where's my toast?"

[Koa]

LOL Virgil... :D

Well, I'll be 24, which will raise my mental age to 88 (since I started to feel 80 when I was 16...). I'm feeling old, and yes I know I shouldn't and bla so don't repeat it cos I've read it several times in the previous pages. It's not something so controllable... what makes me feel old is the fear not to have achieved anything, the fear of not having the time to really do things, the thought of all I've missed in my reclusive youth, the memories piling up... Do you also feel that memories make you older? Like, when I was about 18 I started to realise how many memories I have... not just about myself, about the world as well, like, think of big events... when I think of past events and realised that "I was there", it makes me feel kinda old... and I'm not saying just in the bad way, but it makes me feel there's a lot behind me... (like, I don't remember something that happened in, say, 1985, but I do remember things from like 1999, and that was ages ago but still I was there and conscious...). And yes, teenage years seem so far away and they somehow felt safer... I don't want to grow up, ok? :mad:
Plus, I'm still totally directionless... and the older I grow, the less alibis I feel for that...

By the way, I hate it when with the turn of the year I automatically feel one year older. Like, I was asked about my age a few days ago and I spontaneously said "24" :eek: Just to add seconds later: "no wait...23!" Which makes me sound quite confused :D So please let me shout it for the remaining month and a half... I'm 23!!!

[rachel]

Lol, my my, but we do seem to be an old and depressed bunch, don't we? I just finished the development chapter in my psychology text book, what they call "tomb to womb" pyschology, I admit it was a little depressing. They did a study on whether older people are actually wiser; they also pinpointed all the ages during which our abilities slip away one by one. But I won't divulge the depressing specifics.

But WAIT! My trusty psychology text also offered hope! If you read, you're more likely to preserve your cognitive abilities to a ripe old age, and we all read here, so there's a happy thought (the one miniscule happy thought fighting against the thousands of black depressinig ones that pervadet this thread, like Atlas struggling to hold up the heavens, then suddenly there's a grinch moment, and the single little happy thought spontaneously gains the "strength of ten grinches plus two", and he launches all the depressing thoughts away in an effortless heave... okay so that went on longer than planned).

I guess after that speel I ought to divulge me own ripe old age. I will be 19 this year. And to stick with the theme of this thread: OH WOE IS ME! Mine heart quivers in my breast. Old-age hath claimed me, death approaches! Life is short, soul-wrenching, terrible, and time is even more cruel. Furthermore I'm already loosing my eyesight!

heh, that was sort of fun.

BTW, Rachel, I love reading your posts, you make me happy, you're a sweetie.

ps. what scares you guys more about getting older: the approach of death, or the physical aging process?

thank you very much Water Lily.
I have thought about that so much and I guess just that moment when you have to say adios and you weren't really ready. I know most people will think about heaven or hell, and I do so hope God lets me come to be with him.But honestly I will probably wonder if I brushed my teeth and flossed and if I truly remembered to wear my new undies and shine my shoes that day. If you think I am fibbing ask my doctor. When I bore Travis it was after 49 hours and I could barely remember who I was . A room full of doctors, IV's and losing blood so fast I had to go on oxygen. But in the midst of the agony I was worried that they were "looking" and the long white nylons they had put on me to ward against shock(they were heated) I kept trying to straighten so I wouldn't look messy. sigh. I wish I was normal. :D

[Virgil]

LOL Virgil... :D

what makes me feel old is the fear not to have achieved anything, !!!
Oh, you're still 23. I started my career at 23, and Lord knows I didn't achieve much my first few years.

the fear of not having the time to really do things, the thought of all I've missed in my reclusive youth, the memories piling up... Do you also feel that memories make you older?
Oh, my goodness, you'ree young. Come on. Reclusive? You've been to more places at 23 than I had at 33.


(like, I don't remember something that happened in, say, 1985, but I do remember things from like 1999, and that was ages ago but still I was there and conscious...).
You know, memory is the first thing that goes? Or is it the second? I forget. :D


And yes, teenage years seem so far away and they somehow felt safer... I don't want to grow up, ok? :mad:
I've grown up, and now I don't want to grow old :bawling:


By the way, I hate it when with the turn of the year I automatically feel one year older. Like, I was asked about my age a few days ago and I spontaneously said "24" :eek: Just to add seconds later: "no wait...23!" Which makes me sound quite confused :D So please let me shout it for the remaining month and a half... I'm 23

I started doing that in my mid twenties too, and I too just corrected myself. I wonder if most people do this.


Oh sigh. To be in my twenties again and complain I'm getting old.

[Nisha]

ps. what scares you guys more about getting older: the approach of death, or the physical aging process?[/QUOTE]

didnt the thread start off with talkin about ones age?And now we are talkin about death eh?lol...

When I was younger I used to thnk tht the nex year Im gonna be the wisest eva.Lik when I was ten yeras old I thot I was really old cos I got two digits.8 years later the novelty has worn off & now Im no longer lookin to grow old or young.

As for death..Its the death of other tht terrifies me.AS you grow older you get to meet the death angel more.I mean I don thnk I can handle the deaths of any one close to me.I hav even made a foolish pact with most of my frnds tht they will pray tht I will be the first to die.Needless to say I hav yet to experience the lose of sumone I love.

I also haf this phobia about gettin paralysed and not being able to mov& stuff..Alzheimer is another thing Im scared of .....I cant imagine being tht helpless...*shudder*

[water lily]

Thanks for the jokes, Virgil

[IrishCanadian]

I'll be nineteen. In Canada this is an odd age. At 18 I could vote and die for my country (legally) at 19 (a few months away) I can purchase cigarettes and booze. But I'm still a teenager all the same. I don't get it. By the way, i wont be taking advantage of being able to buy cigaretrettes.

[Petrarch's Love]

I just turned twenty four yesterday, although like Koa I've been accidently telling people I'm that age for the last month or so. It's interesting that Virgil says he did this too. I wonder why we would start aging ourselves come mid-twenties?

Good heavens, I don't feel old at all and I don't understand why people my age would. I feel like there's so, so much I haven't done yet and it's all before me. I wouldn't want to have acheived great things at this age. Then I would just spend the rest of my life trying to recapture some youthful highpoint. This way I have all this potential to acheive set before me. As for mortality, I'll be really happy as long as I don't die young. I mean, I'm not saying i'm itching to be eighty tomorrow but I'd rather make it there (in good health) than bow out at thirty.:)

[RobinHood3000]

Ooh, Happy Birthday, Petrach's Love!!

[Petrarch's Love]

Many thanks for the natal greetings Sir Robin :).

[Virgil]

Good heavens, I don't feel old at all and I don't understand why people my age would. I feel like there's so, so much I haven't done yet and it's all before me. I wouldn't want to have acheived great things at this age. Then I would just spend the rest of my life trying to recapture some youthful highpoint. This way I have all this potential to acheive set before me. As for mortality, I'll be really happy as long as I don't die young. I mean, I'm not saying i'm itching to be eighty tomorrow but I'd rather make it there (in good health) than bow out at thirty.:)
That is a very good attitude, Petrarch. As Bloom says in Ulysses: "Life!"

And happy birthday. I didn't realize it or i would have started a birthday thread for you. Nonetheless here are a couple of gifts:

http://www.rtots.com/grafix/bday.gif

http://www.merrittsbakery.com/party/IMAGES/eimages/precious%20moments%20birthday.jpg

[Petrarch's Love]

Exactly: "Life!"

Thanks for the darling birthday pics Virgil. They made me smile:).

[Koa]

Reclusive? You've been to more places at 23 than I had at 33.


Then I chose the wrong word. I spent my teenage years in my room reading books and translating songs, while people of my age were doing what was right to do...go out, be stupid, be social, have friends and boyfriends... Sometimes I feel like I missed a part of life...

Petrarch's Love, lucky you then. I don't know what to do now that I can choose my path, and I've been feeling older than 80 since ages ago...

[Koa]

By the way I was thinking, that one of the aspects of Petrarca's poetry I liked most back at school was his awareness to the passing of time (la fuite du temps, as it can be called), and how bitterly he often seemed to relate to it. I can only recall a couple of lines, namely "La vita fugge e non s'arresta un'ora" :D but I'm sure there were a lot...

[Petrarch's Love]

Hi Koa--Yes, like many good poets, Petrarca is very concerned with the passage of time, especially in relation to the untimely death of his beloved Laura. He's feeling particularly beset at the start of the sonnet you cited: "La vita fugge et non s'arresta un'ora,/ et la Morte vien dietro a gran giornate;/ et le cose presenti et le passate/ mi danno guerra et le futura ancora..." Poor fellow. It's pretty miserable when there's no comfort in present past or future :confused: . Ah well, such is life :lol: .

By the way, I can actually relate to you saying you feel about 80 sometimes. I too was pretty studious in my teenage years (I think many people on this site probably were/are), and even when I was a little kid my friends nicknamed me "mother" or, worse still, "grandma" because I sometimes acted too old for my age. I've actually found getting older a benefit because of this. I finally feel like I'm at a point where my age has caught up with my mind and doing the things I like to do (studying, listening to classical music, throwing dressy martini parties for my academic friends) are finally age appropriate ;). As for having missed out on something, yes I occasionally get all depressed and wonder if I should have partied and dated more as a teen, but then I laugh at myself for imagining that all of life somehow happens at the age of 16 :lol:. I actually don't regret any of the time I spent with my books and music. I loved it. You and I are entirely too young to feel resigned about missing anything because, unlike Petrarca, we still have the present and the future to do whatever we want in--live, love, experiment with different careers, dance like a crazy banana :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:, and generally carpe diem! Anyway, I just wanted to say that I also get confused a lot but I think all we can do is live the best we know how right now and try never to think of any age as too old to enjoy life. :cool: (Certainly not 24 I hope!)

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Ye gods :eek: I'm in the top three!!! I'll be 47 in December. Still, I intend to be a whole lot older before I buy the farm, eventhough I feel like Methusalem in this company... ...or maybe I don't:

My missus grandmother will be moving to a home for the elderly on friday. She will be 100 this summer. That puts things into perspective, wouldn't you say?

Anyway, I'm happy to see all this interest in literature among you youngsters. Hopefully, this means that someone will be available to read to me when I get really old ;)

/Claes

[Virgil]

Ye gods :eek: I'm in the top three!!! I'll be 47 in December.
Thank God. Someone finally older than me. Welcome Claes.

Hey, I just read your profile and you're an engineer as well. There are a few of us on Lit Net. I find it interesting that engineers would enjoy this site. Well, I hope you stay around.

[RobinHood3000]

No bracket change here, but I won't post my age--hopefully, people will be motivated to seek out my Age thread.


Ennybody here know where to buy an upturned necktie?

[Virgil]

You mean like this?

http://patentlaw.typepad.com/photos/patent_snippets/necktie.jpg

[RobinHood3000]

Ah, yes...the staple of the engineer's wardrobe, eh?

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Thank God. Someone finally older than me. Welcome Claes.Thank you. :wave: Happy to oblige ;)


Hey, I just read your profile and you're an engineer as well. There are a few of us on Lit Net. I find it interesting that engineers would enjoy this site. Well, I hope you stay around.Oh, I intend to stay around, now that I found my way here. As a matter of fact I already posted a link to this place in the "coffee break forum" of a site brimming with engineers. If a fraction of them get interested in this site both the "engineer quotent" and the average age here may change. ;) Some people over there, including yours truly are real book worms.

P.s. Question to the moderators: Would it be ok to post a link to that site in return (Being new here, I wanted to ask first, in order to avoid stepping in some gooey stuff)?

/Claes

[Martinus]

I've gone with the letter of the poll and confessed to entering the 50-54 bracket leter this year. Much later this year...

[chef]

I just turned 16

[hera-on-earth]

well.........will turn 21 this august!!! not unhappy about it at all!!! i guess every year just happens to be great in some way or the other! so have fun everyone!

[pinter_fan]

18 in october, my parents still treat me like a baby lol..

[Bysshe]

15 in August. :)

[CatonHotTinRoof]

i'll turn 16 in november

[Virgil]

Oh you poor darlings are just getting to be old fogies. It breaks my heart. :p

[ClaesGefvenberg]

18 in october, my parents still treat me like a baby lol..Er... News flash: They will keep doing that for the rest of their lives. Parents tend to do that. :lol:

/Claes

[summer grace]

I am going to be 20, which seems rather strange!

[white-goldfish]

i just turned 14 about 8 days ago.

[Virgil]

Welcome to both of you, summer grace and white-goldfish. I hope you enjoy it here.

BTW, I'm 44 and I find it strange.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

BTW, I'm 44 and I find it strange.
I'm 46, and I don't find that even remotely strange, since I was born in 1959 ;).

Nope, I'm 46, and I bear the scars to prove it. Along the way I have come close to buying the farm a couple of times, but I'm still here, I'm happy to say.

/Claes

[sdr4jc]

24 on June 18th

[ElizabethSewall]

I'll turn 21 in August. But most people say I look younger... :mad:
Do I? :lol:

[Virgil]

I'll turn 21 in August. But most people say I look younger... :mad:
Do I? :lol:
It's always harder for an older person to estimate the age of a younger person, so take my perception with a grain of salt. The top photo of you in the photoalbum makes me think you look older, perhaps 25-ish. The second photo makes me think you're younger, 17-ish. I guess when you average that out it comes to your real age! Funny, I didn't start this post thinking it would fall that way.

[ElizabethSewall]

It's always harder for an older person to estimate the age of a younger person, so take my perception with a grain of salt. The top photo of you in the photoalbum makes me think you look older, perhaps 25-ish. The second photo makes me think you're younger, 17-ish. I guess when you average that out it comes to your real age! Funny, I didn't start this post thinking it would fall that way.
:D :D :D Yes indeed!! Thanks Virgil.

[Stanislaw]

older people estimating younger peoples age: My grandfather calls anyone who is younger than him by ten years a young guy...hes 91. :D

but I did notice there is a huge age gap here mainly 15 - 25 and then north o 40.

[SmVilleTeacher]

I hit the big 30 this year!

[emily655321]

Congratulations, SmVille! :D Welcome to the Forum.

[Mililalil XXIV]

My 23rd year was my best, I don't know why but it was just a great year for me. My second best was 17 so maybe I have a 6 year cycle going, making this year my 29th a hopeful one, eh?
You should be grateful - I don't think I enjoyed a day of my twenties circumstantially (though in my later twenties, I had much greater Peace of soul spiritually).

[Aurelian]

I'm turning seventeen this year...does that make me pretty young in realtion to everyone else here or what? I'm new, I dunno about everyone else's age yet...

[Pensive]

Hi Aurelian, Check the poll and then you will find our ages.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Hello Aurelian, and from one newbie to another: Welcome. :thumbs_up
I'm turning seventeen this year...does that make me pretty young in realtion to everyone else here or what?No, but it makes you pretty young compared to yours truly :D As Pensive says, Enter the poll, and find out.

/Claes

[jackyyyy]

Interesting results and comments, and turning 40 was the best day of my life, I don't feel any different except I know I few more things. This is neat I think, " live each day like its your last ".

[SleepyWitch]

I'll be 25 this August

[Aurelian]

Ahh...apparently I'm not too young here, I'm in the age majority. Weee. Thanks for the welcome, too, noob-friend.

[Minx]

well i'm in the same boat as Arelian, WOO for the dingy!! but hey your never to young/old for English Literature!

woo yay for the Yr12 Lit class! you guys rock!!

"thats a good quote, write that down... also use stalker in relation to Roderigo in your essay!" lol

[Aurelian]

It's not Iago, it's Roderigo who is the stalker! Yegads, get it right, woman!!

[Minx]

i sed roderigo.... wot are you on about? crazy women!!!!

[myself]

in 2006 i will be sweet sixteen!!!!!!!!

[Pensive]

In 2006, I will be fantastic fourteen!

[Nightshade]

in 2006 Ill be nutty nineteen!
:brow:

[Nymphamadria]

21... crazy.

[Mililalil XXIV]

Any guesses? There are only two answers!

[smilingtearz]

why don't you just tell?... It'll make things easier for us...
We did have a hard time figuring out Robin's age sometime back... it would leave us with sleepless nights... thinking ang guessing and sighing...("maybe... or no... hmm..")
and the story continued till one fine day he revealed to us the secret!! and then there were celebraions!

*am i exaggerating a bit?*...

[RobinHood3000]

No, that sounds about right :D.

[AliceW]

I just got here--I turned 70 on my last birthday, and hope I'll soon be joined by other "Golden Oldies". When I was growing up, 70 was O-L-D (yes, I know it sounds that way to most of you, too). Certainly my grandmother would never have worn pants and t-shirts like I do! "Seventy" was usually followed by "poor old soul". But we're planning a trip to Disneyland in June, so I hope to put off being a "poor old soul" a while longer!

[Virgil]

Welcome Alice. I too am older, though not golden yet. I hope you enjoy lit net. I do.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Welcome Alice,
But we're planning a trip to Disneyland in June, so I hope to put off being a "poor old soul" a while longer!Good job. Like Virgil, I'm way over the average age here :D , but I enjoy the company of the young' uns tremendously. They made me feel welcome right away, and I feel certain that you will experience the same thing.

/Claes

[Petrarch's Love]

Welcome Alice. :wave: Thought I'd send out a hello as one of the "young'uns." It's great to have an older member here. My grandmother, who is sixteen years older than you and continues to refuse to be a "poor old thing" is always telling me that now she's lived long enough that she knows how to really have fun and appreciate it--unlike us confused youth I guess. :lol: Hope you have a great time at Disneyland.

[Pendragon]

46 for this old hick! :lol: http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/bigs/e106.gif

[ClaesGefvenberg]

46 for this old hick! :lol: Not that old imo... ;) I'll be 47, but who cares about years anyway?

/Claes

[Virgil]

Wow, you guys are old. :p

[Jay]

The pot calling the kettle black, eh? :brow:

[Virgil]

The pot calling the kettle black, eh? :brow:
Yes, of course. :lol: But I am a bit younger than they. :nod:

[Pensive]

Hi, Welcome to the forum, Alice W!

I told my grandfather to join the forum as he is very much interested in Literature, specially in Allama Iqbal, Shibli, Ralph Waldo Emerson, HG Wells, and another Emerson whose name I have forgotten. He is a retired Professor of Urdu Literature and he is 76. But he said that his eyes are not powerful enough to read the stuff. He just use internet for news when he is in England! Here, he does not use internet because he has got a lot of friends to talk to.

Hehe, I wonder what I will be like in my 70's. I am very talkative like my grandpa.

[Jay]

Yes, of course. :lol: But I am a bit younger than they. :nod:
Insignificant details ;)

[Morad]

I'm going to be 20 inshaa Allah "If God wants" :)

[Virgil]

I'm going to be 20 inshaa Allah "If God wants" :)
I'm sure God will want, Morad. Welcome to lit net. I hope you'll enjoy it.

[Morad]

I'm sure God will want, Morad. Welcome to lit net. I hope you'll enjoy it.
What a great welcoming I have here :)

Thanks alot dear for your kindness .. I appreciate that alot ..

[Pensive]

Welcome to the forum Morad, Which country are you from?

[Morad]

Welcome to the forum Morad, Which country are you from?
Actually, I'm from Jordan "The country" which lies in middle east :)

Thanks for asking. BTW: I posted a new thread for me here in the same sub-forum. Go there and continue with me if you want, cuz we'll make this thread a chat board .. lol :D

[WaxDoll]

I already turned 14 in February. Starting high school next year. Wheeeeee!

[formality hater]

hello everyone.I am not concerned with my age but the thing that makes me cry:my "crucial exams".(One can see my thick framed glasses and can guess my age-a wrong guess rather.lol)

[kathycf]

Hi everyone:
2006 is a milestone year. *gasp* I will be 40 in July. :eek2:
It isn't that old, but it is the oldest I have ever been...

[optimisticnad]

Dear all,

I will be 20. not too old and not too young either. too young to tie the knot, old enough to tie my laces.

[Bandini]

Thirty Five this year - I don't really feel it, and I am still a cool mo fo, and happier and sexier (yeah - sexier - want to make something of it?) than I've ever been - so aging doesn't bother me! Mind you, I've got longish hair (think Stephen Malkmus rather than Bon Jovi, thank you very much!), and I reckon I'll start crying when I start to lose it!

[tooba umber]

Love for all hatered foe none

[RJbibliophil]

I turn 14 in July. Yeah!!! finally

[cateye515]

i turn sixteen in like seventeen days!!!! ;)

[WaxDoll]

i turn sixteen in like seventeen days!!!! ;)
Cool! Happy early sweet sixteenth :D

[cateye515]

Cool! Happy early sweet sixteenth :D


thank you! :D

[WhimsySA]

Sweet 16 & never been kissed b4!

[Shannanigan]

I turned 20 in March...I didn't feel "old" or anything...but it was strange to shred the "teen" from myself...I mean, c'mon, I had spent 7 years perfecting the art of being a teenager...and suddenly I woke up one morning and "poof!" it was gone!

Two decades old...it's just a strange feeling for some...not bad, just different...

Drinking age here is 18...so I don't really care about 21 so much...

[cateye515]

Sweet 16 & never been kissed b4!


:confused: what??? what do you mean??? :confused:

[IIRexII]

Turned 16 on May 7th, got my driver's lisence the next day since was Sunday on my b-day, got a car (can't drive it alone yet though :()

[chef]

well you have a car i am not going to get mine untill i am out of high school :( i guss a year will go by fast but I WANT MY CAR!!!!!!!!!

[MeInDisguise]

Fourteen. I'm turning in it on halloween.

[WaxDoll]

:D
Fourteen. I'm turning in it on halloween.
LOL... a birthday on halloween? That must be fun :D

[Kelly Vercetti]

I'll be 15 this August :)

[ClaesGefvenberg]

LOL... a birthday on halloween? That must be funYep... and how about mine? Christmas Day... :santasmil

/Claes

[Kayak Jack]

I'm an old War Horse. At 68, I feel like a kid inside an older body. When I turned 50, I celebrated that and my 100th birthday. Next year I celebrated my 51st and 99th. Figured, what the heck! I may never get to celebrate it otherwise.

Every year, I celebrate two birthdays, one going up, and the other coming down. Besides - I get twice as many presents!

[Nightshade]

I'm an old War Horse. At 68, I feel like a kid inside an older body. When I turned 50, I celebrated that and my 100th birthday. Next year I celebrated my 51st and 99th. Figured, what the heck! I may never get to celebrate it otherwise.

Every year, I celebrate two birthdays, one going up, and the other coming down. Besides - I get twice as many presents!
what a neat idea!
welcome :wave: BTW

[apple jiang]

I am turning 20 in 15 days! :D It seems that I am in a comparatively young group, but I'm learning to be mature and more sensible. :nod:

[cateye515]

yay! it's today! :lol: :bday_2:

[Josielynn]

i'll be 19 june 3rd, 2006 :brow:

[Mariam]

19- July 27th..I can't wait.


well you have a car i am not going to get mine untill i am out of high school i guss a year will go by fast but I WANT MY CAR!!!!!!!!!

My car is in the garage..it's almost a month now!!
I miss my car!! ehehehe!! :(

[jortiz]

Wow in 2006 I turned 26 years old. The year wasn't even warmed up when my birthday came along. I was born in February; please tell me if anyone can relate to that. My best years were when I was in High School, which we're 1995-1999. I didn't have a care in the world. No bills, no crazy friends, just school and sports. My parents did everything for me. Now it’s all on me. Please help me turn the clocks back--this adult thing is not working. There are so many days that I feel like I’m losing it. Books and school keep me going. When I read I place myself in the stories. For those of you young people enjoy your youth while you have it. You will never have the opportunity to go back again.

[SmokeBellew]

I turned 21 in March. The best period of my life was probabaly 13-17. After I turned 18 everything went weird. Although I believe each period of life has its good and bad moments. Who knows what's coming next???? Maybe one of you here will become a family man or even a parent soon and immediately stop complaining about getting old?!
Who knows?????!!!!!

[ClaesGefvenberg]

After I turned 18 everything went weird.I suppose you grew up? Not that I would know a lot about that - I'm 46 now, and still feel like a kid impersonating an adult. Acc. to my missus that is exactly what I am, btw :lol: Anyway, expect things to stay wierd.


Maybe one of you here will become a family man or even a parent soon and immediately stop complaining about getting old?!Old? Who is old? Come to that, who is complaining? ;) :D

Life happens... enjoy it while it lasts. :D

/Claes

[rocktheworld]

I just turned 16! I left school last week and I have my first GCSE in a couple of days (wish me luck!!)...It doesnt seem 2mins since i left junior school and now Im going to college! Not that I feel old cos Im only 16, but I swear Im growing up way too fast.

And not that Im wishing my life away but I reckon things will be easier when Im older. My parents really dont like that Im growing up either, according to my dad Im not allowed to grow up, not till he tells me I can, which is apparently in about 10 years!

[SmokeBellew]

I suppose you grew up? Not that I would know a lot about that - I'm 46 now, and still feel like a kid impersonating an adult. Acc. to my missus that is exactly what I am, btw :lol: Anyway, expect things to stay wierd.

Old? Who is old? Come to that, who is complaining? ;) :D

Life happens... enjoy it while it lasts. :D

/Claes

Wow 46? That's great. No, I'm not joking! I always wondered how it is to be an adult. I admit I'm not grown up yet. 21 of course, is not a kid playing out there, stealing sweets and kicking fat neighboor's cat while he's a few meters away. But I don't feel that I'm an adult yet. Not that I want to grow and become one. But sooner or later it will happen.

You know in a couple of days I'm having this graduation ceremony in my University with all that teacher handshaking and weird graduation cloths. And in July I'm going to join the army for there's not really an alternative.
Maybe except for applying masters. But I've decided to leave it and apply after I come back from the army.........if I come back of course.

Army is mandatory where I live......I won't go into details and say which country it is; just a little tip: one of little ex USSR countries that became independent in 1990's.

So I don't really know what to expect now. No more mommy's apple cakes and daddy's cash. Just you alone with an angry dude in uniform shouting at you for whole year. (according to friends' stories).

Weird indeed. I don't know what to expect. Thinking about it makes me mad. Maybe I should just go with the flow. Whatever happens is OK :p

[ClaesGefvenberg]

You know in a couple of days I'm having this graduation ceremony in my University with all that teacher handshaking and weird graduation cloths.
I suppose congratulations are in order, then. :thumbs_up


And in July I'm going to join the army for there's not really an alternative. Maybe except for applying masters. But I've decided to leave it and apply after I come back from the army.........if I come back of course.
The army... Well... Been there, done that. The only advice I can provide is what you are already planning to do: Get it over with, so you can get on with the rest of your life.


Army is mandatory where I live.......
Er... I didn't exactly volounteer myself either :D Just one of those things you had to go through. It was not too bad though: We sometimes refer to the service as a way of making boys out of men...


Weird indeed. I don't know what to expect. Thinking about it makes me mad. Maybe I should just go with the flow.
Well... I don't think you have much of a choice? Anyway, good luck to you :thumbs_up

/Claes

[mono]

Ugh, just barely on the brim of the next tier on the age-poll list. In August, I will turn 24, almost 1/4 of a century. :eek:

[Manfred]

Since the vast majority of you seem to be young people who are worried about being young, I'll make you feel better by telling you that IT DOESN'T IMPROVE WITH AGE. So enjoy it while you can.
Personally, I just turned 46, but don't notice such trivial things as birthdays anymore. It doesn't pay.
That being said, can anyone help me with the avatar function? Every one I try to put up is rejected as being too large, and I don't have a clue as to how to get around this problem. Thanks!

[Petrarch's Love]

Hi Manfred. Welcome aboard. :wave:

There may be easier ways, but I would try using photobucket (a free online image hosting service) to downsize the avatar pic. of your choice. All you need to do is
1. Go to www.photobucket.com, sign up for an account and follow their instructions for downloading a picture to their site (it is pretty easy--even I, a techno alliterate English grad. student can do it ;) ).
2. Once you have the picture in your photobucket album click on the "edit" button. It'll take you to a screen with your image at the top, and over the image its dimensions should appear. In order to make it fit as an avatar for this site, I think it has to be 100 x 100 pixels (you can check to be sure). Below the picture is a section saying "resize image" with options to make it 75%, 50%, or 25% of its original size. Pick one of those and it will resize the image. If your original showed as being 200 x 200 for example, then making it 50% of the original should make it 100 x 100, the right size for an avatar. If it's a really big pic you may have to resize it a couple times.
3. Now you can use your resized picture and you have a beautiful new avatar.

Ask me or another of the nice people here if you're having trouble with this for some reason. We're always happy to help.

[Virgil]

Since the vast majority of you seem to be young people who are worried about being young, I'll make you feel better by telling you that IT DOESN'T IMPROVE WITH AGE. So enjoy it while you can.
Personally, I just turned 46, but don't notice such trivial things as birthdays anymore. It doesn't pay.
That being said, can anyone help me with the avatar function? Every one I try to put up is rejected as being too large, and I don't have a clue as to how to get around this problem. Thanks!
Welcome to lit net, Manfred. We're not all young; I'm 44. It's good to know someone older than me. Nice name, by the way. ;)

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Welcome to lit net, Manfred. We're not all young; I'm 44. It's good to know someone older than me. Nice name, by the way. ;)Let me echo that... Welcome :wave: Besides, I have both of you beaten, turning 47 this year. :lol:

/Claes

[cuppajoe_9]

I am now 18, legal drinking age where I live, and will turn 19 later this year, legal drinking age in the provinces to my right and left.

[kathycf]

Since the vast majority of you seem to be young people who are worried about being young, I'll make you feel better by telling you that IT DOESN'T IMPROVE WITH AGE. So enjoy it while you can.
Personally, I just turned 46, but don't notice such trivial things as birthdays anymore. It doesn't pay.
That being said, can anyone help me with the avatar function? Every one I try to put up is rejected as being too large, and I don't have a clue as to how to get around this problem. Thanks!

Hi there, Manfred:
In addition to photobucket as Petrarch's Love suggested ( I also have an account there, they are good.) You can also edit the image for size with an image editor like irfranview (which is freeware) or you can use the paint program in windows, if that is your OS. If you use ms paint, look under image properties.

[Idril]

Welcome to lit net, Manfred. We're not all young; I'm 44. It's good to know someone older than me.

Now I don't feel so old, I'm only 39. ;) I always thought when I 'grew up' I would feel old, I would feel like I assumed my parents felt but that doesn't really happen and I've since found out that it didn't happen to my parents either, they still don't feel old and their both in their 70's. The body ages, but the mind seems to stay at about mid 20's. :lol:

[kathycf]

Now I don't feel so old, I'm only 39. ;) I always thought when I 'grew up' I would feel old, I would feel like I assumed my parents felt but that doesn't really happen and I've since found out that it didn't happen to my parents either, they still don't feel old and their both in their 70's. The body ages, but the mind seems to stay at about mid 20's. :lol:

Heh, you are right about that. Actually I am the same age as you, and I almost never feel like a "grownup". ;) ( I will be 40 in July, eep! )

[Manfred]

Now I don't feel so old, I'm only 39. ;) I always thought when I 'grew up' I would feel old, I would feel like I assumed my parents felt but that doesn't really happen and I've since found out that it didn't happen to my parents either, they still don't feel old and their both in their 70's. The body ages, but the mind seems to stay at about mid 20's. :lol:

Possibly; I still feel and act the same--well except for the excessive drinking, but most of those I grew up with have turned into stodgy, conservative money grubbers. You know, responsible adults. My 77-year old, astrology-reading mother is more interesting.

[Idril]

Possibly; I still feel and act the same--well except for the excessive drinking, but most of those I grew up with have turned into stodgy, conservative money grubbers. You know, responsible adults.

Oh, there are those that 'grow old' gracefully and do what they have to do but I'm not one of them. ;) I will go kicking and screaming. My son told me the other day, "you're not like other moms" as we're fighting about who's turn it was on the Gamecube but thank heavens for that because I don't want to be like other moms, other moms are so boring! :lol:

[Petrarch's Love]

Glad to see you got the avatar up and running, Manfred. I had thought we had a Byron fan on our hands, but I now see he's the infamous red baron. Do we need to get up our defenses? ;)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e386/LeonardoD/logo.jpg

[Idril]

... but I now see he's the infamous red baron. Do we need to get up our defenses? ;)

That's who that is! My dad would love you, Manfred, one of his favorite pastimes is playing his Red Baron game on the computer. He flies all these missions, he even has a diary of sorts to keep track of them all...another example of someone who refuses to grow up. ;)

[Manfred]

I'm not quite sure how I got the avatar to work, but...I tried Photobucket. I didn't think I had it right.
I love those games, but my girlfriend already thinks I spend too much time on the computer. She'd kill me if I got into that.
Nobody needs to worry, I won't try to shoot anyone down.

[Logos]

I'm not quite sure how I got the avatar to work, but...I tried Photobucket. I didn't think I had it right.
I love those games, but my girlfriend already thinks I spend too much time on the computer. She'd kill me if I got into that.
Nobody needs to worry, I won't try to shoot anyone down.

Manfred have you checked your Private Messages? I re-sized and then uploaded your avatar for you here right on the site.

[Manfred]

Yes, I checked a little late, and thanks again.

[Logos]

No prob ;)

[bazarov]

I didn't knew that some people on this forum have 50+...I thought that I've read a lot of books, but :D :D , how much then did they?? No offence nobody :D

[Manfred]

I read 84 books between my 13th and 14th birthdays. I remember counting just out of curiosity. Of course, now that I'm in my 40's, I do well to finish 15 per year.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Of course, now that I'm in my 40's, I do well to finish 15 per year.Interesting. I honestly don't know how many books per year I read (I never bothered to count them), but I have a distinct feeling that the number has not declined as I have grown older. Quite the opposite, in fact...

/Claes

[Manfred]

Interesting. I honestly don't know how many books per year I read (I never bothered to count them), but I have a distinct feeling that the number has not declined as I have grown older. Quite the opposite, in fact...

/Claes

I suppose I had less responsibility in those days. School came easy enough to coast by, and I had few other outside interests. I was not popular. So I read a lot.
Now, I have to hold down a job, keep the girlfriend happy, etc. I don't have as much free time.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

and I had few other outside interests.That would be it, I guess. I used to spend countless hours, mainly on weight lifting, dancing (Now, there's an interesting combination :rolleyes: ) and flying gliders. Reading has always been among my favourite pastimes, though.


Now, I have to hold down a job, keep the girlfriend happy, etc. I don't have as much free time.I hear you brother :nod: My escape is that I crave much less sleep than my wife and daughter. That provides me with bags of time for reading.

/Claes

[Manfred]

That would be it, I guess. I used to spend countless hours, mainly on weight lifting, dancing (Now, there's an interesting combination :rolleyes: ) and flying gliders. Reading has always been among my favourite pastimes, though.

I hear you brother :nod: My escape is that I crave much less sleep than my wife and daughter. That provides me with bags of time for reading.

/Claes

I'm only getting about 7 hrs of sleep as it is, and working a physical job--unfortunately at my age--I need every hour. Still, I try to squeeze as much in as possible, and am currently trying to read two books at the same time.
I don't really count how many per year read, that's only an estimate.

A dancing weight-lifter, eh? Interesting.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

I'm only getting about 7 hrs of sleep as it is,I manage quite well on 5-6 hours, and you can imagine the amount of reading I can do in those extra hours...
and working a physical job--unfortunately at my age--I need every hour.Yes, I can understand that. I'm a pencil pusher, and if I sleep more than 7 hours, it just gives me gives me a headache.
Still, I try to squeeze as much in as possible, and am currently trying to read two books at the same time. Et tu? :nod: I usually have a bunch going at any given time. The problem is that I keep putting them all over the house (Yes, I admit it), thereby causing my missus to have a fit every now and then :lol:


A dancing weight-lifter, eh? Interesting.Yep. Among other pastimes. I have never been able to limit myself to one pastime. I'm to curious by far... :D

/Claes

[RJbibliophil]

I read 84 books between my 13th and 14th birthdays. I remember counting just out of curiosity. Of course, now that I'm in my 40's, I do well to finish 15 per year.

Well, that is not surprising. I amaze myself every time I tell myself I have only been reading for about 6 years. (I'm not doing the exact math) I've read a lot. But books are where I learn. I constantly find myself saying, I read that...

I have found that the older you get, the heavier the books get. Thus you read less books in a year, than if you read hundreds of skinny paperbacks.

[Manfred]

I manage quite well on 5-6 hours, and you can imagine the amount of reading I can do in those extra hours... Yes, I can understand that. I'm a pencil pusher, and if I sleep more than 7 hours, it just gives me gives me a headache. Et tu? :nod: I usually have a bunch going at any given time. The problem is that I keep putting them all over the house (Yes, I admit it), thereby causing my missus to have a fit every now and then :lol:

Yep. Among other pastimes. I have never been able to limit myself to one pastime. I'm to curious by far... :D

/Claes

I sometimes wish I were doing a sit-down job, but at least I stay in shape this way! Also, if I try cutting back on my sleep, Kimberly nags at me to give up my computer time to make room for more. Gotta keep the women happy!

[Manfred]

Well, that is not surprising. I amaze myself every time I tell myself I have only been reading for about 6 years. (I'm not doing the exact math) I've read a lot. But books are where I learn. I constantly find myself saying, I read that...

I have found that the older you get, the heavier the books get. Thus you read less books in a year, than if you read hundreds of skinny paperbacks.

I was reading classics before I was in my early teens, although some lesser works were included--aren't they always?

[RJbibliophil]

Of course! What knowledge of literature could you gain if they weren't? I too read, or at least try to read classics. But not all good literature is long, and not all of it is short either.

[SarahRose]

19 in January 2006

[Virgil]

19 in January 2006
19? A mere child. :cool:

[SarahRose]

19? A mere child. :cool:


Well, for being a "mere child" I have been through a lot and seen a great many things, thanks.

[bonnett]

I'll be 28.

I had to think about that, i nearly said 27.

Must be getting old :cool:

[Shakira]

:banana: :banana: Yippeeee just turned 21 yesterday. :banana: :banana:

:bday_2:

[cruciverbalist]

I'll be 20 this year...so i'll be switching brackets :)

[Sabo]

I've been 24 for several years now :)

[NEDJ293]

well since feb 5 of 2006 I am 19 yeah....

[TENNWH]

Born June, the fifth 1926, celebrated my 80th birthday.
DON'T POSTPONE JOY
TENNWH

[ClaesGefvenberg]

DON'T POSTPONE JOYWell said TENNWH, and welcome to the Lit network :wave:

/Claes

[TheFemme]

I turned 26 last month. :D

[Hna]

I'll be 18 in November

[AussieHannah]

I'll be 56 this coming Friday! Where did the last 55 years go? My, it flies by into the by and by with even bothering to say goodbye. :)

[aeroport]

December shall mark my 19th. Maybe then I will finally be cool. :rolleyes:

[TEND]

A pleasant and youthful 17, although that was back in January, I'm actually closer to 18 by now. Yes, yes how childish, but I'm 17 and a half!! :lol:

[miss tenderness]

I'm already 22. so Tend,you sound older!!I mean I thought you were 29 or about!I think that most of the members are around your age then,it comes the 2o to 30 rage and lastly from forty to.......one hundard!

[TEND]

Ah, thank you so much for the compliment. :D (Well I'm taking it as a compliment at least.)

[Virgil]

December shall mark my 19th. Maybe then I will finally be cool. :rolleyes:

Anyone who reads Henry James is cool in my book.:thumbs_up

[Koa]

19 is the last cool one. Then come the wrinkles and all :P
Really though, after 20 birthdays are not that fun anymore...:rolleyes:

[Virgil]

19 is the last cool one. Then come the wrinkles and all :P
Really though, after 20 birthdays are not that fun anymore...:rolleyes:

Oh Koa. Wait until you're in you 40's and see if they're fun. Enjoy your twenties.

[Koa]

Yeah I know, that's why I'll always pretend I'm 29 :lol:

It's just scary because until I was 19 I was happy of growing older, but after that it wasn't that exciting anymore, you don't have big things to wait for like when you turn 18 (no 21 issue in my part of the world)

[Sarka]

I done turned 18 in March. Pretty surreal. And I'm half a year under drinking age. Hmph.

[ShoutGrace]

It's just scary because until I was 19 I was happy of growing older, but after that it wasn't that exciting anymore, you don't have big things to wait for like when you turn 18 (no 21 issue in my part of the world)


Right now it still seems like everything is in the future for me . . . all my thoughts centre around what I shall do next month, or before 5 years is up, or by the time I get out of school next semester. It makes me wonder when the future will catch up . . . I've read that it makes most sense to live in the present, rather than the future or the past.

[serafina]

I'm sitting comfortably in my 25-29 bracket. Trying to enjoy my twenties to the fullest while they last...

[Danika08]

wow i feel young i just turned 16 in April :-D

[Virgil]

wow i feel young i just turned 16 in April :-D

You are young. Nice to have you on lit net. Welcome.

[TEND]

wow i feel young i just turned 16 in April :-D

Yes, welcome and I hope you enjoy this wonderful forum!

[iNsoLeNT]

In sept i turned 20 :)

[xHPxbookxfanx]

I m 25 but in November in'll be 26 :)

[orra]

Am already 22years old

[Evi]

I am 38 years old.

Evi

[eventide]

I'll be 23 on November 5th and I'm cool with that, except sometimes I wish time would stop so we could enjoy life at ease, no hurry. :P

[Eulalia]

I was 30 in july :bawling:

[Laindessiel]

Still inside the bracket. I turned 17 last January 30th.

So next year, *tremble, tremble*, I, uh....oh by golly....

I know I shouldn't be scared of owning the big 1-8 since it wouldn't do any harm to me, but for heaven's SAKE, man, WHY DOES EVERYBODY MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT BEING A YEAR OLDER THAN 17???!!! :alien: :alien:

[Eufrosyne]

Agree with you, Laindessiel! Ill be 18 as well, and it seems to be a big thing... Well, maybe theyll give me expensive presents, then;)

[Walter]

WOW! What a young demographic!
Even if you reversed my numbers I'd still be too old. :bawling:

[plainjane]

My 20's.....not sure if I can remember back that far....:lol: Probably because I don't want to! :eek2:
But I've way more than doubled that already....and certainly would not want to do that again! But I am given to understand the second half of the century is more interesting. :D

[Walter]

I am given to understand the second half of the century is more interesting. :D

It tis. It tis. :D

[plainjane]

:thumbs_up :D

[Aiko]

Currently eighteen, will turn 19 in January. :cool:

[fruity]

Geezz I feel old now seeing the poll

28 here

[Nightshade]

I just realised I move a bracket next year :D :banana:

[BibliophileTRJ]

I'm thrilled to see that there are so many young people that visit this site! I was under the impression that reading books was steadily being replaced by the internet, HDTV, XBOX and the like. Glad to know that not all of the future leaders of the world will be educated by Sony PlayStation.

[Virgil]

I just realised I move a bracket next year :D :banana:

Don't be in such a rush to get old. I wish I could slow down the clock that's ticking. ;)

[Angelic Devil]

hmm 17 -.- :P

[Annamariah]

I turned 18 in August. Legally an adult:eek:

[dramasnot6]

turned 14 in May. wish it was 18 though, I WANT TO VOTE!!!!

[dramasnot6]

annamariah i love your siggy, i too am a hardcore Austen fan.

[Virgil]

turned 14 in May. wish it was 18 though, I WANT TO VOTE!!!!

It's best not to rush life, dramasnot (I wish you had picked a less gross name ;) ). I now want some of my years back!

[dramasnot6]

It's best not to rush life, dramasnot (I wish you had picked a less gross name ;) ). I now want some of my years back!

haha, the name wasnt mine for the picking. In my days of theater obsession a friend jokingly titled me so dramatic i was snotty(or snobby) and its just been the nickname i use on the web ever since. I wont mind if you call me Mira though.:D

[Annamariah]

annamariah i love your siggy, i too am a hardcore Austen fan.
Thanks :) I think that's maybe the best first sentence in a book ever :D