Social Anxiety Support

Mucho · 11-02-2009, 09:13 PM

Well I just turned nineteen two months ago, and I'm already starting to feel like I'm getting old!

I just keep thinking in a few years from now, all the teenagers are going to start calling me "sir" and I wont be hip, and plus I'll start getting wrinkles. I hope I never live to 80 cause then I gotta wear a diaper again too

Anyone here agree?

shyvr6 · 11-02-2009, 10:52 PM

I wouldn't worry about it. You probably still look like you're 17. You most likely won't start getting noticeable wrinkles until your thirties so you have plenty of time left. You can also be hip at any age. You care about teenagers opinions now, but in a couple years teens will be a thing of the past. You should look forward to hanging out with twenty somethings now.

WineKitty · 11-03-2009, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Mucho

Well I just turned nineteen two months ago, and I'm already starting to feel like I'm getting old!

I just keep thinking in a few years from now, all the teenagers are going to start calling me "sir" and I wont be hip, and plus I'll start getting wrinkles. I hope I never live to 80 cause then I gotta wear a diaper again too

Anyone here agree?

Get wrinkles at 21? Really?

I thought from the title you meant fear of getting old not that you are already old. If one's age ends in "teen" one is not old.

Of course, I am some old, demented, nonhip lady wearing diapers so what the hell do I know?????

Hand me my cane, sonny!!!

zomgz · 11-03-2009, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Mucho

Well I just turned nineteen two months ago, and I'm already starting to feel like I'm getting old!

I just keep thinking in a few years from now, all the teenagers are going to start calling me "sir" and I wont be hip, and plus I'll start getting wrinkles. I hope I never live to 80 cause then I gotta wear a diaper again too

Anyone here agree?

i feel the EXACT same way!!

i think it's kind of comforting to know that all the people i know are also getting older with me though. that makes me feel a little better =]

ironheart · 11-03-2009, 12:53 AM

I can't believe I'm actually saying this * phew - where does the time go* but however "old" you may feel at whatever age, a decade from now you will look back on your younger self with great fondness and perhaps even a trace of envy. Reason enough I would contend for most to treasure at least some aspects what they are in the here and now.

spiderling · 11-03-2009, 01:09 AM

Teenagers nowadays don't show respect to their elders. Darn whippersnappers.

nubly · 11-03-2009, 06:30 AM

ahh the big 1-9. now youre an old fart.

crayzyMed · 11-03-2009, 07:10 AM

I'm gonna turn 22 in a few months

i dont like it, wish i stayed a teenager.

shadowmask · 11-03-2009, 09:02 AM

I don't fear the effects of aging on my body, but the fact that society expects you to "settle down" after a certain age. I won't be ready to settle down any time soon. Hell, I've never really stirred things up in the first place.

Prakas · 11-03-2009, 10:35 AM

This is very depressing for me. I'll be 22 in about a month. I feel like life is already over. Why can't we just stop the clock...This sucks

Banzai · 11-03-2009, 10:44 AM

It's not the fear of getting old...it's the fear of having to set out your life very early on in life and the constant fork roads you have to take in life. If you take a wrong turning, you fail.

In about half a year's time, I will have to take some exams for college. In another 9 months or so after that, I will have to take another set of exams. And then after that, I have to apply to university and then do a degree then get a job. At any one of those points I fail, well, I'm pretty much screwed for life.

And what's more, I feel as if my childhood is quickly vanishing and I've done hardly/achieved hardly anything in it. I've never won anything worth mentioning, never done anything, etc etc.

Fuzzy Logic · 11-03-2009, 03:38 PM

I was visiting my grandmother in hospital a couple of days ago and seeing how frail and slow she has become (plus her dimention) really scared me because I can still remember her being relatively able bodied from like fifteen years ago. All I could think about was how much I didn't want to be like that and that I hope I die before I get that old.

Hoth · 11-03-2009, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by ironheart

however "old" you may feel at whatever age, a decade from now you will look back on your younger self with great fondness and perhaps even a trace of envy.

Not really. Being a teenager was all-around awful, and I'll have to wait for dementia to set in before forgetting that.

I do fear looking old. Some days I look in the mirror and see an old person, some days I see a kid. It's weird being two people.

JFmtl · 11-03-2009, 05:47 PM

Sometimes, time seems to flow by too fast. Just this year, i feel like 2009 went by so fast, already November

coldmorning · 11-03-2009, 05:51 PM

If you spend your time worrying about getting old, you'll miss out on enjoying your youth.

Prakas · 11-03-2009, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by coldmorning

If you spend your time worrying about getting old, you'll miss out on enjoying your youth.

This is so true. Unfortunately I fail enjoying my youth.

polardude18 · 11-03-2009, 10:05 PM

I can very much relate to the feeling. I'm Turning 18 later this month, and it feels like I'm getting older. I like being young but now I see kids that are like 16 and I just feel like I'm getting old. It wont be long before I'm no longer 'in the know' with modern culture, sense pretty soon I'll be looked at as an adult, which will be weird.

UltraShy · 11-03-2009, 11:03 PM

Just imagine how I feel when I welcome kids less than half my age to SAS.

Futures · 11-03-2009, 11:03 PM

I'm almost 29 and just beginning to feel like my looks are finally catching up to my actual age. For years I looked much younger than I actually was and I hated it. Now I'm desperately trying to hang onto it.

It is a bit strange though because even though I'm getting older, my mindset is still stuck in the teenage years. I refuse to "grow up" I suppose. When I'm 50, I'm going to be "that old guy" at the heavy metal concert! Just because you get older doesn't mean you have to start being lame because that's what society expects of you.

Fuzzy Logic · 11-04-2009, 03:38 AM

Meh, I still considering myself to be pretty down wiv da kidz.

11-02-2009, 09:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
Mucho Status: SAS Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Sandston VA, USA Gender: Male Age: 19 Posts: 20	Fear of Geting Old? Well I just turned nineteen two months ago, and I'm already starting to feel like I'm getting old! I just keep thinking in a few years from now, all the teenagers are going to start calling me "sir" and I wont be hip, and plus I'll start getting wrinkles. I hope I never live to 80 cause then I gotta wear a diaper again too Anyone here agree?

11-02-2009, 10:52 PM	#2 (permalink)
shyvr6 Status: Makin Waves Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Somewhere on a map. Gender: Male Posts: 9,645	I wouldn't worry about it. You probably still look like you're 17. You most likely won't start getting noticeable wrinkles until your thirties so you have plenty of time left. You can also be hip at any age. You care about teenagers opinions now, but in a couple years teens will be a thing of the past. You should look forward to hanging out with twenty somethings now. __________________ Music

11-03-2009, 09:02 AM	#9 (permalink)
shadowmask Status: Seeing stars Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: TN Gender: Male Age: 23 Posts: 1,083	I don't fear the effects of aging on my body, but the fact that society expects you to "settle down" after a certain age. I won't be ready to settle down any time soon. Hell, I've never really stirred things up in the first place. __________________ Basically, I'm complicated I have a hard time taking the easy way I wouldn't call it schizophrenia But I'll be at least two people today

11-03-2009, 10:44 AM	#11 (permalink)
Banzai Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: UK Posts: 911	It's not the fear of getting old...it's the fear of having to set out your life very early on in life and the constant fork roads you have to take in life. If you take a wrong turning, you fail. In about half a year's time, I will have to take some exams for college. In another 9 months or so after that, I will have to take another set of exams. And then after that, I have to apply to university and then do a degree then get a job. At any one of those points I fail, well, I'm pretty much screwed for life. And what's more, I feel as if my childhood is quickly vanishing and I've done hardly/achieved hardly anything in it. I've never won anything worth mentioning, never done anything, etc etc. __________________ When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me. -- Emo Philips

11-03-2009, 03:38 PM	#12 (permalink)
Fuzzy Logic Status: SAS Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: United Kingdom, Northern Ireland Gender: Male Age: 23 Posts: 307	I was visiting my grandmother in hospital a couple of days ago and seeing how frail and slow she has become (plus her dimention) really scared me because I can still remember her being relatively able bodied from like fifteen years ago. All I could think about was how much I didn't want to be like that and that I hope I die before I get that old. __________________ “There is but a thin line between madness and genius. I have been trying valiantly to cross it, but I don’t think I’m mad enough yet.”

11-03-2009, 12:53 AM	#5 (permalink)
ironheart Status: The Kwisatz Haderach Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: England. Gender: Male Age: 32 Posts: 69	I can't believe I'm actually saying this * phew - where does the time go* but however "old" you may feel at whatever age, a decade from now you will look back on your younger self with great fondness and perhaps even a trace of envy. Reason enough I would contend for most to treasure at least some aspects what they are in the here and now.

11-03-2009, 01:09 AM	#6 (permalink)
spiderling Status: Steadily going nowhere Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Bog of social ineptitude Gender: Female Age: 24 Posts: 34	Teenagers nowadays don't show respect to their elders. Darn whippersnappers.

11-03-2009, 06:30 AM	#7 (permalink)
nubly Status: SAS Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: USA the greatest and best country in the world!! :) Posts: 7,065	ahh the big 1-9. now youre an old fart.

11-03-2009, 07:10 AM	#8 (permalink)
crayzyMed Status: Crazy Member!! Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Belguim Gender: Male Age: 21 Posts: 387	I'm gonna turn 22 in a few months i dont like it, wish i stayed a teenager.

11-03-2009, 10:35 AM	#10 (permalink)
Prakas Status: Failure - Life Sucks Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Delaware Gender: Male Age: 21 Posts: 425	This is very depressing for me. I'll be 22 in about a month. I feel like life is already over. Why can't we just stop the clock...This sucks

11-03-2009, 05:47 PM	#14 (permalink)
JFmtl Status: schtroumpf grognon Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Montréal Gender: Male Age: 22 Posts: 1,096	Sometimes, time seems to flow by too fast. Just this year, i feel like 2009 went by so fast, already November __________________ Reverend Lovejoy: Marge, just about everything’s a sin. [holds up a Bible] Y’ever sat down and read this thing? Technically we’re not supposed to go to the bathroom.

11-03-2009, 05:51 PM	#15 (permalink)
coldmorning Status: Add water and shake Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Northern California Gender: Male Posts: 2,122	If you spend your time worrying about getting old, you'll miss out on enjoying your youth.

11-03-2009, 10:05 PM	#17 (permalink)
polardude18 Status: Peanut Butter Jelly Time! Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Tennessee Gender: Male Age: 17 Posts: 115	I can very much relate to the feeling. I'm Turning 18 later this month, and it feels like I'm getting older. I like being young but now I see kids that are like 16 and I just feel like I'm getting old. It wont be long before I'm no longer 'in the know' with modern culture, sense pretty soon I'll be looked at as an adult, which will be weird. __________________ If you are ever sad because you can't be with the person you want to be with. Never frown Because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.

11-03-2009, 11:03 PM	#18 (permalink)
UltraShy Status: Accident of Birth Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Milwaukee, WI (Atheist, Libertarian) Gender: Male Age: 36 Posts: 24,572	Just imagine how I feel when I welcome kids less than half my age to SAS. __________________ Nothing is ever the way it should be What we deserve we just don't get you see http://www.insureyourgunrights.com/

11-03-2009, 11:03 PM	#19 (permalink)
Futures Status: SAS Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Midwest Gender: Male Age: 28 Posts: 1,904	I'm almost 29 and just beginning to feel like my looks are finally catching up to my actual age. For years I looked much younger than I actually was and I hated it. Now I'm desperately trying to hang onto it. It is a bit strange though because even though I'm getting older, my mindset is still stuck in the teenage years. I refuse to "grow up" I suppose. When I'm 50, I'm going to be "that old guy" at the heavy metal concert! Just because you get older doesn't mean you have to start being lame because that's what society expects of you.

11-04-2009, 03:38 AM	#20 (permalink)
Fuzzy Logic Status: SAS Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: United Kingdom, Northern Ireland Gender: Male Age: 23 Posts: 307	Meh, I still considering myself to be pretty down wiv da kidz. __________________ “There is but a thin line between madness and genius. I have been trying valiantly to cross it, but I don’t think I’m mad enough yet.”