i never want to get old
 

fuck.

yea aging sucks i'm 25 now. ha.

I feel old cause I like bob dylan.

35. The time in life where cool new bands are exactly half your age, and your instinct is to give police officers who stop you a clip round the ear for being cheeky young scamps.

It's cool though.

Actually, I still want to give police a clip round the ear for representing The Man.
Young or not, it takes a certain kind of person to want to be a police officer.

by old i mean like 50-60
i turned 19 today and it got me thinkin'

Keiji Haino is in his 50s and he can still totally bring the pain in massive doses for hours on end.
The definition of "old" is getting older and older all the time.

I used to feel a little similar. But now I'm 35, and I still feel pretty much the same as when I was 19, so I've come to accept that I can still be the person I want to be when I'm 60, or whatever. We have at least one 50+ member on this board, I think. And need I say the magic words 'John' and 'Peel', or mention a certain band?

A message of hope there.

I have lived in an arrested state of late teens/early 20-dom for a long time now, and it shows no signs of letting up.
It's actually better now, because my furniture is way cooler, my record collection is way better and my own music gear completely wipes the floor with what I had 15 years ago.

I know plenty of people in their 50s or 60s that are by no means 'old'. The people in the band in whose forum we post are an example.

Exactly. Life is grand, is it not?

No, it isn't. It's a deries of crushing disappointments interspersed with largely soul-sucking and meaningless hours spent doing crap we don't care about in order to survive in an increasingly aggravating and devolving society.

But at least I have really cool furniture and a totally boss collection of LPs.

that's really all i can say for myself. except i'm not as old as my dad.

i look forward to getting old, i don't understand why people are so horrified by aging.

....and I'm willing to bet money I can probably play guitar better than Cantankerous due to the many gruelling years of practice and building up a salty, embittered attitude toward the musical climate of the day, giving me the needed energy to channel into honing my chops for that final journey to the Mystical Cosmos.

it occasionaly bothers me, but i am young enough to still enjoy my 20's and feel better now than when i was younger.

Sorry to hear you feel that way. You've stumped me a bit I'm afraid, because I just have never felt that way. I don't know what to say, other than lots of love to you.

I was only being half-serious.
In all seriousness, I am much happier now than I was in my 20s; I just have some deep-seated problems with the Human Condition, that's all.

i'm with the clone on that one, especially now that we seem to be starting an early autumn, now there are 9 months to face all the while wishing i'd been born as a hibernating speices of animal rather than human.

It's all relative, I suppose. To be fair, I had a cosy sheltered upbringing and (so far at least, and apart from ill-health) a perfectly nice adult life. For those who are made the victim of crime or heartbreak or whatever, I realise life can be made truly awful; I work in a community centre, and I can't begin to imagine how I would deal with some of the things that people have gone through. It was working where I do now that made me realise just how cosy a life I've had. Not desperately wealthy or anything, just cosy and pleasant.

But to return to the older age thing, I have a good few friends in their 50's and 60's who are exactly the kind of people that stop you from being scared of aging.