The hard part about getting old

I just took a Google Street View tour of the neighborhood I spent the first 18 years of my life. MY CITY WAS GONE! Everything's changed. Even the school across the street from my house that I spent my elementary years in is in ruins (I was in the last 6th grade class before it closed down in 1989). There are houses where I never thought they'd put houses. The forest is gone, completely cleared. My old house has been completly remodeled and *gasp* the driveway paved. The barn on the hill is gone. There are trees where there used not to be trees and no trees where there used to be trees. It's not the same place. :cry:

The old arcade I used to hang out at is gone. The grocery store where I had my first job as been tore down and a bigger grocery store built in it's place, but oddly facing 90 degrees from the first store. There's a bridge where my dentist used to be. There's a McDonalds where my friends house used to be and a Walgreens at another.

You can never go home again. Oh, time, you cruel **** you.

Maybe that's why music is so nostalgic: a song never changes.

I know most of you aren't as old as I, but do you have any old haunts that have fallen to the steady march of progress?

Say what you will, but the hardest part about getting old in my opinion is balding.

You think it's bad now, wait until your really old.

Say what you will, but the hardest part about getting old in my opinion is balding.

Suicide-Bunny

It breaks my heart a little sometimes to see the places I love and people I love ( especially people ) undergo a change or practically just ...cease to exist. I'm always grateful for the memories however, and I'm looking forward to going back to the areas of my favorite hang-outs and pointing them out to some younger generation, telling them what used to be there. My parents, older family members and friends do this with us and they will always get some faraway twinkle of nostaligia in their eye whenever they relate to me their stories. I'll probably end up as sappy as that and I don't mind. :?

The hard part about getting old is seeing kids enjoying their spring breaks and summer vacations without a care in the world. Not some missing street. :lol:

The hard part about getting old ...That part is not hard anymore :cry:

[spoiler] I apologise [/spoiler]

Man that sounds bad...I thought about checking out googles street view of my old elementary school... I think I'll do otherwise now. :lol: Actually I already did osmething like that, a couple of weeks ago I looked at the old church my family used to go to as a kid, google maps had pictures of the interiors and MAN! was that church small. I remembered it like it was some sort of vast cathedral. What a letdown!

I think I know now not to EVER dig up the past, seems to always have bad results.

You know you're getting old when you're called 'mister' 'sir' 'ma'am' or 'Dear'. Then you know you're getting on in the years.

R/T

You know you're getting old when you're called 'mister' 'sir' 'ma'am' or 'Dear'. Then you know you're getting on in the years.

R/T

Smokescreened84

the hard part about getting old is recognizing your body will eventually start to wear down and you will die. damn this is a depressing topic

Most depressing topic ever?

There are alot of good things about getting old as well. With age comes WisdomMangledMike

Nostalgia and reminiscing are the hard part of getting old. That and having to conform to responsible adulthood.

This thread wins the most depressing thread awards. Seriously though it sucks though time wont stand still for any of us.

It absolutely pains me I can't go back to being a kid or stay this young forever. 23 isn't really a kid, but I can still act young and play sports without any complications. It just sickens me to know that in maybe 15-20 years I can't do this stuff anymore. I guess if I keep myself in good shape I can still play sports, but just not with the young step I have now. Simply put, I don't want to grow up or change.

I just took a Google Street View tour of the neighborhood I spent the first 18 years of my life. MY CITY WAS GONE! Everything's changed. Even the school across the street from my house that I spent my elementary years in is in ruins (I was in the last 6th grade class before it closed down in 1989). There are houses where I never thought they'd put houses. The forest is gone, completely cleared. My old house has been completly remodeled and *gasp* the driveway paved. The barn on the hill is gone. There are trees where there used not to be trees and no trees where there used to be trees. It's not the same place. :cry:

The old arcade I used to hang out at is gone. The grocery store where I had my first job as been tore down and a bigger grocery store built in it's place, but oddly facing 90 degrees from the first store. There's a bridge where my dentist used to be. There's a McDonalds where my friends house used to be and a Walgreens at another.

You can never go home again. Oh, time, you cruel **** you.

Maybe that's why music is so nostalgic: a song never changes.

I know most of you aren't as old as I, but do you have any old haunts that have fallen to the steady march of progress?

For most people I think time acts like a filter for the bad so you only remember the good which is why I think most people miss their childhood. For me, I still remember the bad. I actually made myself remember it when I was 15. I was being bullied at school and I was sat in the corner crying. Nobody came to check if I was ok so I wrote "Phil, always remember this pain. Don't miss your youth when you're old" inside my school book and still have it to this day.

For most people I think time acts like a filter for the bad so you only remember the good which is why I think most people miss their childhood. For me, I still remember the bad. I actually made myself remember it when I was 15. I was being bullied at school and I was sat in the corner crying. Nobody came to check if I was ok so I wrote "Phil, always remember this pain. Don't miss your youth when you're old" inside my school book and still have it to this day.

manicfoot

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For most people I think time acts like a filter for the bad so you only remember the good which is why I think most people miss their childhood. For me, I still remember the bad. I actually made myself remember it when I was 15. I was being bullied at school and I was sat in the corner crying. Nobody came to check if I was ok so I wrote "Phil, always remember this pain. Don't miss your youth when you're old" inside my school book and still have it to this day.

Listen_420

Would you mind sharing what happened? No worries if you do, just curious :)

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Depressing thread is depressing. :cry:

I would actually be thrilled to see some change in my old home town. That sordid little burg has been locked in time since the time I was born. But if you ask me, the hardest part about aging is the joint pain.

[spoiler] I apologise [/spoiler] Lto_thaG

You think it's bad now, wait until your really old.

nohabs

[QUOTE="Listen_420"][QUOTE="manicfoot"]

For most people I think time acts like a filter for the bad so you only remember the good which is why I think most people miss their childhood. For me, I still remember the bad. I actually made myself remember it when I was 15. I was being bullied at school and I was sat in the corner crying. Nobody came to check if I was ok so I wrote "Phil, always remember this pain. Don't miss your youth when you're old" inside my school book and still have it to this day.

manicfoot

Would you mind sharing what happened? No worries if you do, just curious :)

[QUOTE="nohabs"]

You think it's bad now, wait until your really old.

xaos

[QUOTE="manicfoot"]

[QUOTE="Listen_420"] Yeh, but I'm happy I've been through some rough times and fights aso. You grow as a person and learn from your mistakes. I'd never be the same person as I am today if I hadn't seen that one week of my life...Listen_420

Would you mind sharing what happened? No worries if you do, just curious :)

My town changed completely too in the past 5 years. I haven't left my town my whole life, but since the beginning of middle school my town has changed completely.

I find it kind of cool, how they changed stuff so much, so fast.

My town is toatally different and I havent left it alot of housing development.

A lot of places have changed in my long lifetime (not to mention the people who are gone) but the places I was especially sad about losing were

-an old abandoned summer camp (my dad went there when he was a kid) that I used to play in (scary) was eventually torn down and is now a subdivision

-a beautiful 19th century school I once attended was left to sit and rot for years while the developer and heritage preservationists fought over it until it finally burnt down

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

Makes me sad cause its true. Dammit Waters :cry:

That sounds... depressing.

When building get old, they need to be rebuilt.

I think the hardest part about getting older is losing touch with the people you thought you would be close to forever. A lot of people I used to be super close to, I haven't talked to for 3 or 4 years, and it hurts sometimes. I mean, I'm happy where I am, but sometimes I wonder who I would be if I hadn't lost touch with my best friend, or if I hadn't gone to a different high school than my 8th grade crush, etc., etc.