I just wanna take a poll and see how old all of you guys are on here . I feel like from what I read a lot of you seem to be older than I . So how old are all of you ?
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33 (and yeah, likely most of us all older than you, but don’t worry, you can think of it like a visit to an hospice home or something).
Hahaha a hospice home ! You’re funny . Yeah all of you are older than me . But it’s nice to know people of all ages feel the same way as I . We can all relate .
I’m 21. 🙂 I’ve seen a lot of teens (and a couple younger, sadly) here, and also quite a lot over 60 or 70 in the past, so I think there’s a big mix of ages here. From what I’ve seen the younger people tend to post more though.
Yeah I’ve seen like 14 year olds post on here . It makes me sad that people have to suffer that young already . It’s sad that anyone has to suffer .
Yeah, it is sad. I remember being that age and not really having anywhere to discuss this stuff though, so it’s nice that people have a place to talk about it here. 🙂
I’m 15
And you are as welcome as anyone Crooked.
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3. Going on 4. I’m actually a goldfish though so…yeah I’m legendary I guess.
I’m not 50.
Oh, great response. I am going to have to remember this.
Middle forties (When I was in my mid-30s my primary doc referred to me as middle-aged. The other day my dermatologist called me young. I like dermatology)
You sound like you’re in your 30s. Or early forties.
That was meant to be a reply to sunflower.
If she’s in her twenties you’re going to get wrecked… lol 😀
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I’ve been 29 for a while now.
Well sounding young online isn’t really a good thing is it? So its totally a compliment that you sounded older than you were.
Well played, hahahaha.
Out of curiosity, how old do i sound?
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Truthfully that was meant as a joke. I’m not 29 and haven’t been 29 for about 15 years. I am never sure how to answer about my age, because I feel about 17 all the time.
Yepp. Proud veteran of ww1. But you’re close though.
HAH! HAH I WAS RIGHT! I was right.
That’s pretty surprising, wouldn’t had guessed it. I’m pretty bad at guessing ages tho, so what do i know 😀 lol.
Not sure if that is a compliment or I need to just sit my middle ass down in the middles of my middle assed existence and just bawl my fucking eyes out.
Mf, I would have guessed 28 for you.
Looks like mfs the one in the hot spot now.
That proves that you don’t know me, otherwise you’d think i’m 15 due to my immaturity, lol. But thanks for the compliment haha (i’m already called mister at grocery stores so i’ll take any age-downgrade chance that i can take).
You guys are pretty much my parents age . Ha ha ha
Mmm… let’s think… i could either:
a) be brutally honest and say that i said that because due to the interests HDS has i wouldn’t have guessed she’s over 30, which has nothing to do with intelligence or attitude btw (she does express herself pretty eloquently but in a sort of youthful way).
b) be a coward and claim: hey! it’s a compliment! you have a youthful soul! you’ll be young forever in the eyes of all people and that’s something to envy!
… but i guess i kinda screwed it up even worse by typing both…
*runs away*
(and i have no idea i would have guessed for Diem S. Sky. either a pretty polite person, or someone over 30).
@nicole nope, you and I are the same age.
You’re 18? I thought you were about 35 . My mistake
@mf HAHA over 30 is how I always come across. Probably coz I’ve been jumping from hell to hell all my life. Plus I carry the age of those that have left the weight of their youths on my shoulders.
I’m 19.
Sounds about right. I mean, not too diferent from shephard below, before knowing his age last year i could have sweared he was 28 or 30, mostly due to the politeness and intelligence of his replies. Next time i check i’ll be talking about life with an unborn baby and he’ll be the one giving me advices, lol.
Hmm at times I feel like I have a older soul. I definately do not carry my self like other 18 year olds do . It’s hard for me to make friends too that are my age , I don’t really get along with young people . Plus they obsess over stupid things like social media and other things. Bunch of garbage. Can’t have that in my life .
Yeah shep and I have been around a while. We never talked much though, but I have stalked him extensively on sp because I love reading his posts….0_0.
this is awful and really no fun. I should have stayed out of this conversation like I originally intended to do. I have no idea why I joined in.
Why do you feel that way ? @sunflower
@HDS: if i said something that bothered you i’m sorry, we were just joking around (at least that’s what i thought). In my book you’re cool, no matter if you’re 5 or 100 years old.
Sunflower, what’s wrong? If it’s my fault you’re feeling bad, I apologize, for my part. We all love you. Honestly you’re one of the only people I consider a friend, one of the only people I feel understands me. Your support makes life so much easier to deal with. No one cares how old you are. A friend is a friend, period.
All of your usernames are interesting . I wish I could put a face to all of them . I like it being anonymous though.
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22.
Have been mistaken for a “45 year old veteran” though, and I hate being called “sir” — I work(ed) for a living, dammit!”
No way. 22? That I would not have guessed. Oops. I call everyone sir, sir.
Well this has been a highly entertaining thread.
Sometimes I’m mistaken for a 14 year old, and a 26 year old. Hahaha
60 – Old enough to decide if I StayOrGo. First time posting and this seemed like a ‘safe’ thread.
I’ve been reading SP for the past several months and am inspired by so many eloquent expressions.
not much of thread I’d SAY I am 64 and feel like 84 and do not want to be here any more, is this a better thread
Do you like being in your 60s? What is it like
RAYSRVS is 64 and feels like 84.
I’m 60 and I feel like I am 30…. OK, some days I feel like 35 or 40. But I never feel like 60. Tomorrow I’m meeting with a long-time friend who is back in town for a short vacation. We rarely talk, but tonight we were laughing while on the phone about what we thought age 60 would be like or feel like. We are both 60 but feel much younger.
I don’t feel old, but I feel weary. Weary of fake people and plastic platitudes. Weary of brushing my teeth and washing clothes. Weary of cleaning the toilet and mowing the lawn. I’m weary of tasking for too many years.
19 here.
Glad to know other people are close to my age
Glad to know other people are close to my age
Soon to be 38. I’ve had a crazy life and honestly don’t know how I made it this far, or got through it all, being as inept to handle life as I am.
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Sunflower…=(
I was gunna stay out of this conversation too. I guess I just thought the goldfish thing was witty and got carried away. I think the passing of time is one of the most depressing things, because there’s nothing like time to kill dreams. At least, if you’re feeling the weight of ‘wasted’ time, you’re not alone. This a place for those that have lost things, and time is one of them.
I live with someone who is merciless about my age. I am sorry I acted so immature. It really didn’t occur to me how relentless he has been until I joined this conversation. I could just kind of cruise without thinking about how truly miserable I am.
23, but I everybody says I look 18
(Now I’m wondering if I really look my age lol or older)
I hit 43 this year.
Mf. It wasn’t you. I have been avoiding how truly abusive the person is I live with, one of the things he is relentless about is my age. I truthfully over reacted. I’ve kinda gutted myself on this site and its been a really rough week. I don’t have a whole hell of a lot of insight into my situation nor do I have a decent escape plan. I’ve just been hiding here loving everything and reading posts and just fml.
And how old is he? Does he realize that aging is a natural part of life? People like that should be exiled to an island of undesirables.
His age is less important than how I feel about myself. He makes these awful milf jokes and I feel like a total ass even talking about it. It is just so damn degrading and he thinks it is hilarious. Truthfully this sound petty and pointless. I mean there are far worse things in this world.
I live with an abusive person too (not by choice) so I feel you. Some people just have no censor and blurt out whatever they want, either to make others feel shitty or because they don’t think before they speak. (I’ve been guilty of this at times too, but mocking someone’s age is really low.)
yes. Yes that is exactly it. He just blerts out these awful things. and they are truly awful. and I want to scream at him, that is not me! I’m fun, I paint, I run around on the beach on mustang island catching ghost crabs in a bikini. I go camping and dancing. I killed myself this year getting in shape so I could look good and feel good about myself. I’m not who he portrays me to be. I have so much fun when I am away from him. He is this black cloud that just makes me so fucking miserable.
I have the TV to myself and since I am done with my giant pity party I put on Netflix. It looks to be a really good story line plus (and this is a bonus) it is dubbed. I am seriously considering taking back up Japanese so I can watch this in the native language.
Did I mention that in addition to having majored in Psychology, I have a minor in Asian studies with a concentration on Japan and China?
Nope, you didn’t mention that, and that pretty much rocks. I’ve considered studying japanese myself at some point since i listen to it so often in songs (rarely listen to english stuff) that it shouldn’t be THAT hard, lol.
But then, i’ve also considered taking up drawing again, taking piano and guitar courses (i play some guitar, almost no piano), doing a videogame, recording my song ideas, building a perfect grade gunpla (very time consuming), learning how to airbrush, learning to do sculptures… well, you get the idea. I usually save money, get all the supplies i need and when i get them… they just gather dust. Way too much ideas and you end up doing = nothing, lol.
I will look up a couple of durarra eps, thank god for netflix, lol. I think one of the bands i like plays on of the openings on that, so that’s a plus. Can’t remember the last anime i watched other than one piece or jojo’s bizarre adventure (and attack on titan, which my stepsister forced me to watch… did like it tho). I don’t count dragon ball super because that’s pretty much a recounting of the movies, lol.
Good to know it wasn’t me, i was starting to think that there was actually some weight behind the “my jokes get people upset and are highly offensive” theory. I am sorry to hear he’s relentless about your age tho… i agree with optimus (PRIME!?), and i’ve always found kind of curious that many men do mess with women regarding their age… what, do they think they’re vampires or something? idiots. I hear you on the hiding here thing too btw, at one point i think i even forgot that the past week has been crap because of sp.
I went back and re-read your comment Mf and truthfully it was a compliment. I have very young interests. I never really bought into the whole adult thing. I’m kind of stuck as a perpetual teenager in my mind. I sit around dreaming of how I will paint this cactus paddle or how I can word this thing I am seeing just so. I good around in my back yard with my chickens and just sit looking at my passion vines watching the caterpillars hatch. A couple of weeks ago I was catching tadpoles in one of the streams near my house. In America if you are over 40 you are either a milf, a cougar or you are some pathetic middle aged woman acting like a pathetic teenager.
I don’t know. This isn’t how I truly feel about myself. It is how he views me, he doesn’t see me as a human being. I’m not entirely sure if he ever did. Maybe he was just really good at faking it for a long time. I woke up 6 months ago and realized that it’s really too late to start over in a way that I could when I was in my 20’s. There is just too much to loose at this point.
that is one fucking raw nerve. and not a fun nerve. Not like my fingers, it doesn’t drain anything by poking it.
Read the post above and this one and you know? i get you completely. In my last relationship i was still “me”, and my gf back then was younger than me, but she started to change her interests (growing up in a normal way i guess?) and so… i tried to adapt, which in turn killed my motivation and everything that she supposedly liked about me (that + i got ill and lost most of my voice, which i’ve never gotten completely back even for talking).
Fun thing about it is that she left me claiming that she didn’t want to feel like she was wasting her youth on me. Leaving aside the fact that she lied since she left me for a guy a bit older than me (but healthy and with money, plus used me and my family for a place to leave and left me as the bad guy… lol), i was left with a shell of my former self. Took me quite a few months (i’d say 2 years tbh) to even begin to realize that i was the one that lost his youth on her.
What i’m getting at with this is: no matter what, don’t lose track of who and what you are, and don’t let anyone, not even yourself, tell you what you’re supposed to be. Be what YOU want to be. Sure, you have to live with the consequences of it (and at times one can make brutal mistakes), but hell… at least those are the consequences of your choices, not someone else’s opinion on you.
Maybe i got a bit carried away there so i’ll just end with this: regardless of what anyone tells you, or what age you have, you’re pretty cool to me (and pretty sure that many here think the same about you).
Now I want to run down the middle of the road in my bikini giving the entire neighborhood the bird.
I’d consider leaving that for some moment in the morning. If it’s as late over there as it is here (close to 2am), it’s likely that somebody else would try to give you another kind of bird if they see you running around in a bikini. And… yeah, you don’t want that.
I guess what I am trying to say is thank you. You are right. Of course you are right. My myopic vision of the situation blew a perfectly harmless fun post out of perspective. Of course you don’t view me the way he does. All these insane thoughts were running through my head, chief of which was I might not get any more anime andJjapanese music referrals out of you if you knew how old I was. Now how absolutely ridiculous is that? It is just amazing how my mind works, this script I have running in the background. I have edited it extensively but not enough apparently.
Not that odd and not that weird either. I’m going to use this chance to unload a story (why do have so many of this these days? lol), because just the other day i had a similar cognitive moment that REALLY freaked me out.
I was waiting in college (admission process, had to enrol for 2nd year, 3 hours of wait), and a younger couple were sitting in front of me (the guy had a guitar), and suddenly they turn around and look at me and start laughing (subtly, but noticed it). Then the girl turned around and saw my t-shirt (anime one), and looked at my face and turned around, talked to his bf, they started to look for something on their phones and… then i realized it. That guy played guitar on a band that was just starting when i still used to perform, so they kinda figured out i was the guy that used to sing in a j-rock band years ago (my city ain’t big so there were just a few), and surely enough, they got a kick out of noticing that now i’m older, have grey hairs (and less hair, lol) and… well, you get the picture. I used to wear a full v-kei attire (no legs tho), which involved shaving cream, tight clothes, dyed hair and makeup, so… yeah, i can see why they had fun by looking at my former self.
My instant reaction was to go away, felt embarrassed, like a stupid person, wtf i’m i doing here, why did i ever did that, i’ll get back home and burn all my t-shirts and wear nothing but black suits from now on, i’ll even start reading the newspaper!. And then a class mate’s daughter (5-7 yold, cutest red haired little thing i’ve ever seen) asks me: “hey, why do you have a monster on your shirt?” (brook from one piece) to which i answered “it’s not a monster, it’s a skeleton, a good one, which has no skin but he’s cool with it”… she proceeded to smile and drawed me a tornado (according to her… i’m pretty sure it was spaguetti that fell into the floor).
If i got something out of that long story is that if a 7 yold can get that you should do what you’re cool with and not make fun of it, then i should get this into my head: i don’t give a damn what everyone else thinks about my preferences. Then i proceeded to murder 5 people and eat their skins, all while humming the peanuts song.
No, but really, anyone that’s not cool with what you like (if it doesn’t harm them), should really get their heads checked. I’m not cool with a drone life but you don’t see me making fun of them (well… most of the time). So yeah, i’m not stopping the anime and j-music suggestions any time soon (at least if i don’t run out of them… lol).
Mf, that is amazing. Just amazing. ^insert really silly gosh thanks for being my friend emoji here^.
Mf: true story (and why I relate so strongly with your post)
I was pregnant and going to school and married. I went to class pregnant, I mean REALLY pregnant. My fellow classmates were terrified of me. Still I waddled to class daily ignoring other students staring at me. I was married and everything.
Fast forward about 6 months I had moved with my then husband to another state and applied to go to another school in yet another state, got accepted then went back to school with a baby and breast feeding. Feeling awkward is not even a term that describes how I felt. I knew though that if I didn’t finish my degree it would be the end of me, who I am inside. I even had to bring my baby to class at times because of not having any care.
The point is that you are absolutely right. I am me. I would have so sat there and just stared down those idiots with the snickering. And I wouldn’t even have to put on my ass kicking boots.
That’s pretty amazing, many would have just dropped out (specially if they were married). I do have a class mate that is pregnant, but of course it’s pretty different if everyone is over 25, because by then it’s pretty normal and not a biochemical hazard. I remember having a pregnant mate when i was in high school tho and… gosh, the way she got cast away by most people was appalling, wish i would have been less stupid back then and help her somehow (all i did was sit at the back and draw all day).
And well, thanks for reassuring that point for me, now i’ll see if i can keep it and apply it, lol. Realizing something sure is easy but doing it? different story. And nah, no snickering needed, even if they got a good laugh out of me i still got sort of happy that someone remembered me (after the initial panic and the chtulhu please save me from this predicament moment).
Well it appears I have worked through my silly fear of people knowing how old I am. LOL
Mf you ever watch Durarra!!?
Not really, i remember hearing people talking about it at some point in my past life (lol), is it any good? might watch it while i wait for another 50 episodes of one piece ti go by (i often do that now… watching 600 in a row got me used to seeing a lot of new episodes at once). And, any particular reason why you brought it up? (just curious).
Mf, look up one post. I replied the wrong section of the thread.
This appears to be a slice of life anime thrown in with some supernatural.
I originally was going to get a degree in art, with a concentration in sculpture, but it’s hard to feed a family as a starving artist so psychology it was. Just chatting like this is making me feel human again. This year I’m giving paintings to all my extended family members. watercolors to be precise. I have the topics picked out I just have to start them.
As far a the Japanese language goes, I find it easier than the romance languages, because it is so much different than English, and writing it is really fun. I’m really rusty though, which makes me sad. So I really want to go back and take classes again. I was joking the other day that if I could find an Access class in Japanese I could kill two birds with one stone.
That’s…somewhat scary. My initial career choice was graphic designer, which got shunned by my family because “you’ll die of starvation”. Funnily enough, this was back in 1999, and as you know in the 2000’s graphic designers… started getting real money, lol. Considered psychology but didn’t have one specific required test for it, and again “you’ll die of starvation”… and now the world is breaking down and psychologists are needed everywhere, haha. So, IT engineering it was… which i ended but practically tossed away in the trash by waiting for my ex to finish her studies (i would have had to move, and i didn’t want that)…. so… now i’m studying psychology.
I say it’s scary because hey, you considered art and ended up on psychology and want to study japanese while doing art on the side because you like it. I considered art and eventually ended up studying psychology and might want to study japanese at some point, while doing art on the side (music) because i like it. So… you know? now i don’t feel like such a crazy person anymore, so thanks, lol.
Have you heard of rosetta stone computer courses? i found some info on them (and they are on torrent sites to download too) and they’re supposed to be pretty good, they have several languages “packages” including a few japanese levels too.
yeah I have. I wouldn’t be able to do that here though, I would need to be out of this house in order to learn anything of substance. There is a really good community college in my city so I’m just going to enroll in Japanese language classes if I can find the time and money. I did however teach myself HTML online using a free online website. It isn’t so hard once I wrapped my head around how it is structured.
That sucks. Good think that you have a community college to learn japanese, nothing like that over here, even english courses suck (you learn more by using the internet, lol). If you learned HTML by yourself you might want to look up for CSS too, pretty easy to learn (and kinda fun as well). Another good site i found for learning is udemy, bought a couple of courses on guitar and programming that i’ll hopefully put to use at some point… lol.
21. going 22 this Wednesday, I hope my family and friends don’t forget
The person I live with has all kinds of baggage and mental issues (so do I, but that’s beside the point), and they are oversensitive so they overreact with unnecessary rage to anything that they perceive as the slightest insult. I’ve also found that when they’re in a bad mood they often have taken it out on me and others, with insults and criticism.
I know that the things they say about me reflect how they feel about themselves and that no matter how difficult *I* may be to get along with (in their mind, since they take offense to absolutely everything), I don’t deserve the shit they say to me. So it’s likely your roommate is similar, he probably hates himself and takes it out on you, because upsetting you makes him feel better about himself.
So please don’t take what he says personally. Maybe insult him back sometimes just so he’ll know what he feels like. Point out to him how he’s taking out his anger/depression/self-loathing on you and tell him to take a good, long, hard look in the mirror and to talk to a therapist.
Believe me, it’s never too late for people to change, but sometimes they don’t quite realize what they’re doing until it’s pointed out to them.
(The person I mentioned does apologize at times when they know they are in the wrong.)
@Hazy Day Sunflower
Such good points optimus. All true. He is cruel because he hates himself. I find some amount of comfort int he fact that it isn’t just me he is cruel to, it is the entire world. He is about the meanest spirited individual I have ever met. I watched him totally destroy someone online one night and commented to him that when the troll site you enjoy frequenting tells you to stop it, you might want to look at what you are doing. He scoffed it off stating they could take it they were all trolls. that was when it dawned on me that I was living with someone who truly hated the world and himself. and there was very little I could possibly do about it. If he doesn’t want insight I can’t force it down his throat right?
4 chan would shake their collective anonymous heads at him.
Maybe if he joined SP he would realize he’s not alone in being misanthropic and that he needs to change. I look at extremely bitter people and try to use that as a note to myself so I don’t turn into that. I’m already considered an asshole sometimes because I too can misinterpret what others say and take it too personally and react with spite. That’s not how I want to be, so I guess it’s just a learning process. If I’m aware of my mistakes, I can try not to repeat them in the future.
I would never, even on pain of thumb screws, allow him on this site. I would delete my account and burn my computer before I allowed him to ever read a thing I have written. He hates my writing. Won’t even read it. Which is fine by me, I came to terms years ago that he is so self consumed that there is only one opinion, his. So I hold my cards close and lay in the sun.
Well, that doesn’t sound like a happy situation at all for you, I hope you’ll be able to move out as soon as possible (and I hope the same for myself). Hang in there. *hugs*
Yes. Thank you for the rant space. I am going to be thinking of you tomorrow, that you can find the strength (and maybe the money?) to move out as well.
Spent a hefty 29 years on this earth
21 years 346 months
nicely played.
… i’ll save that one for the future. Can’t use my “i’m twenty-ever” card anymore.
26-fuck me if there s gonna be a 27!
192720 hours old
19 🙂 just turned nineteen last month. still not feeling it though
I’m 25. I get regularly mistaken for a 15-16 year old girl in person, and am mistaken for a women in her forties online.
I like talking to people online ’cause I don’t get asked ‘if there are any boys I like at school’ or have words like obituary explained to me.
a little later than everyone else buuuuuut……I’m 16 and have been told i act like a 6 year old but look like an 18 year old. 🙂