Monday, December 3, 2012

Aging

I am 33 years old.  Fortunately, no one ever believes me when I tell them that.  My whole life people have consistently thought I was at least 4 to 5 years younger.  Bonus for me!  But I feel older because I don't really relate to the main body of students on campus.  Don't get me wrong, I love being a student (the learning part, not the homework and stress of balancing work and school part), but I feel I have less and less in common with 18 and 19 year olds.  I like Facebook and texting and am as addicted as the next person (I deactivated my FB account because I spent too much time on it when I should have been doing homework).  But I don't know the hip phrases and meanings of these phrases.  One I've heard is "I miss your face" and "Hey, lady," "What's up, lady?" "Lady this and lady that."  Maybe it's just my one friend who uses these phrases. Either way I find it annoying.  Just use my name or say hi.  And if you miss my face, how come I only see you when you're having a crisis?

I'm so old that I still use "cool" and "sweet."  I know, those phrases are neither anymore.  I really felt the generation gap when the songs I listened to in high school were put into one of those anthems you can buy on CD.  Yes--CD!  (Do they even make those anymore?)  All the great hits of the 90s can now be played for my listening enjoyment and I can feel like an old "lady" while I watch reruns of Saved By the Bell and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.  

When I was 18, 33 seemed OLD OLD.  Now I think my dad, who is 65, isn't that old at all.  Maybe it's just my perspective has changed, maybe it's because I've lived a little bit of life and have gotten out of the "loop", which probably isn't a phrase anymore, either.  I just feel the gap and am not sure how I feel about being considered a "non-traditional" student.  But I will say I don't want to go back and relive what I've experienced.  I am happy some of those years can't be repeated.  So, to all you young whipper snappers out there, enjoy your 20s because soon you will be where I am wondering where the time went.
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  1. YuliyaDecember 3, 2012 at 3:17 PM

    AHH! i'm tottally loving my twenties... and im only 19 haha. it has it's up's and it's downs but i know how you feel... from my mom telling me how weird it feels to wake up and look at yourself and realize you're not 20 anymore :(

    Even though im 19, i LOVEEEE saved by the bell and fresh price, and i do hate the "i miss you face" saying..... it think it's way retarded.

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  2. UnknownDecember 3, 2012 at 6:50 PM

    I was thinking the other day that school feels different when you are older. When I was 19, college felt like an "experience". Now it just feels like a bill I have to pay.

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  3. DianaDecember 3, 2012 at 7:23 PM

    I have friends that say "hey lady" as well. I've always been a little behind the times for my age. We didn't have a lot of money growing up so I was always one of the last in my class to get a cell phone, or an iPod, etc. And even now I'm usually a model or two behind every once else's cell phones. I use a lot of the same vocabulary that my mother, an 80's girl, used while I was growing up (although I swear like a sailor and she doesn't, haha). Most of my close friends are late 20's early 30's so 33 doesn't seem all that old to me. :)

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