When you think of "ten years ago" do you think of 1992 rather than 2002? I feel old... anyone else?

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Anonymous wrote:Some days I still feel like a 17 year old girl. I was looking at some pictures of family vacations this summer and the picture of all the aunts and uncles and cousins at the beach. I looked at the pictures of the 15-17 year old nieces I have in their bathing suits and from behind, they looked like me....30 years ago. The dumpy woman standing next to them? Was really me.

+1 I totally know this feeling. I still feel like pretty much the same person, but every once in a while I see photo of myself and realize that I look more like my mom than what I think of as "me." (I am 39.)

Every once in a while, I will see or write the year "2012" and feel like it is some futuristic dream from which I will soon wake.

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I agree 100%!!

I heard on the radio today that Cal Ripkin broke the streak 17 years ago. That seems like yesterday.

I feel old too.

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YES! I totally do this but I'm only 32.

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Anonymous wrote:I am in my 30s. I totally relate to this. My husband is a college professor, and his students didn't know of Pearl Jam.

I remember listening to them on a cassette tape that my sister's high school boyfriend gave me, the summer before they went big.

What?!? No way. That really makes me feel old. Pearl Jam was the defining band of my high school years.

*sigh*

I guess I really am getting old.

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I am a teacher and 34 yo. When I tell my HS students that I didn't have the Internet when I was in high school they look at me like I have lobsters crawling out of my ears.

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Yes!!! I am 40.

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Yes, I do this all the time! The early 90s don't seem so long ago. I'm 50, which honestly I hate saying but don't mind being. I never feel old. I know my parents - in their 70s - don't feel old either. I'm convinced that unless you're totally immobile or being spoon-fed you don't ever 'feel' old!

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, yeah. I started my freshman year in college 25 years ago this week.

My friends from high school are starting to have grandkids.

It's a little weird. I thought 43 would feel older.

I'm 36 and some of my high school classmates are having their first grandkids too.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, yeah. I started my freshman year in college 25 years ago this week.

My friends from high school are starting to have grandkids.

It's a little weird. I thought 43 would feel older.

I started college 35 years ago in August. As my college roommate and I say to each other every year, "Elvis died and we went to college!"

Yeah, that makes me older than most of you - and i'll increase the number by one tomorrow - but I don't stress about it. I had my fun in each decade, and getting older is certainly better than the alternative. Plus, I have a young child, so I'm surrounded by youth, which I enjoy, but it doesn't particularly make me want to go back. I like moving forward.

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Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one? Time's flying by in a flash. I'm 42. College seems like it was yesterday.

No. It is simple to subtract 10 from 2012 and come up with 2002.

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I remember Stella Neptune at Chief Ike's Mambo Room BEFORE the Clintonistas moved to DC! Yikes!