Is 27 old?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"You don't start growing old until you stop growing up."

[Crossless2.0]

27 is not only not old, but at that age you haven't reached the good part yet. You haven't even peaked, kid.

Now get the fuck off my lawn!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

27 is not only not old, but at that age you haven't reached the good part yet. You haven't even peaked, kid.

Now get the fuck off my lawn!

This. I didn't even get married until I was in my 30's. When I moved in with my lady and her boys it was the first time in my life that I felt "at home".

[Peebothuhlu]

Wait? Why should any one "Shake off their mental child"?

I can be old, cynical about how young peeopl are just repeating all the stuff that's already been done as well as yelling at kids to get off my lawn just as much as I can enjoy jumping in puddles.....

Not at work.

The mental child keeps telling you that you're still young until this happens:

 Uhm... I become a 'Sit-com'?

Not at work.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

27 is old for for an apricot. For a head of lettuce, even more so. For a mountain, it is not even begun in years. (Paraphrase from a film. Any guesses?)

Boru

[Little lunch]

You're not good at being old?
That's because wisdom grows with age.
And you're still very young. :-)

[onlinebiker]

I've got cars that old.

[Divinity]

70 is old.

[Brian37]

I hate getting old sure, but cant do shit about it regardless. So I just deal with it, be as happy as I can and enjoy my time.

[Deesse23]

Im 50. When i turned 30 i thought i was getting old, remembering the decade that just passed (my 20s). Now 20 years later, i just smile about those times.

My take on life (male, central european):
20s is the "high life". You are in posession of fully physical strenght, experienced enough to know stuff, not experienced enough to be disappointed/cynical about life and people.

30s: You notice its going downwards from now. Peak of physical strenght is gone (more hangover after parties, need a break in between parties), university is passed, you are in the middle of tedious, seemingly endless working life..

40s: Fuck, im getting old. There is some stuff i cant do anymore at all (unlike when i was in my 20s). You notice that maybe moe years have gone by since birth, than you have left.

50: OMG, SOMEBODY SHOOT ME. I gonna die, im getting fat old and (always was) stupid.


On a sidenote: this weekend i finished a book about the Burma campaign in WWII 1942-1945. I am born in 1968, and there is less time between WWII and my birth than between my times at university (early to mid 90s) and now! A co-worker just told me as well, that now more years have gone after the fall of the Berlin wall (1989-2018), than the Berlin wall existed at all (1961-1989/91). Time is a strange thing.

Tl;dr
Fuck off, my kids could be 27. You are still young........somehow. 

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I've got cars that old.

My car, my avatar, is 20 older than him.