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Signs that you are getting old

Written by Dimago from the blog Some food for thought on 07 Jan 2008
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I have just had a birthday about 9 days ago, and I must say getting older traumatises me. Anyhow to further confirm that I am maturing (not getting old) I realised that:

1. I don’t know anyone in Matric or Grade 12! When everyone was excited waking up early to get the paper, the 28th December was a non event to me. Except I was a bit depressed cause it was 2 days before I got even more older!

2. I no longer celebrate my birthday with my parents! In my family birthdays are big events, we do something special for the celebrant, but this year I opted to have a small braai at my place – I just told my parents to buy me a gift.

3. On the 31st of December (a day after I turned another year older) everyone was excited stocking up on booze, meat, snacks etc, to me this was another non event. I wasn’t phoning around to find out ukuthi “where’s it going down”. I was just chilling in my house, content as can be, thinking that if I really need company, I’ll go see my cousins.

4. Everyone in my family has or is going to have a baby! Cousins, sisters, brothers! Gosh, why am I so left behind??? I’m being called “auntie” left, right and centre.

5. I was watching “Are you smarter than a 5th grader” and I couldn’t get any answers right…Granted this was American version but has primary school become that difficult or is it just me (you better not say I’m stupid). The SA version of the show is coming, we’ll see if this confirms anything.

6. I can no longer stand Y-FM… I was a die hard fan, but I really cannot spend more than 5 minutes on the station.

7. I listen to SA FM, 702, Kaya FM and I actually enjoy it.

8. I watched a lot of CNN and BBC over the holidays, again I enjoyed these!!!

These are my signs that i'm "maturing" what are yours?

51 Comments

cleave
07 Jan 2008 08:18

Nice one Dimago, couldn't agree with you more. I can't stand YFM. I am tuned in 702 at every chance I get and I enjoy it big time.

I used to love fireworks, now I don't go anywhere near them.
I now actually sit and watch the news on SKY.

belz
07 Jan 2008 08:22

Hayi Dimags, i didnt know that listen to Kaya means im old, i guess im very old then coz recently i've been listening to it a lot and i just love how laid back that station is. CNN, LOL!!

Toxic
07 Jan 2008 08:30

1. I don’t know anyone in Matric or Grade 12! When everyone was excited waking up early to get the paper, the 28th December was a non event to me. Except I was a bit depressed cause it was 2 days before I got even more older!

LMAO!!!!!!! Eish my love i so feel you on this. The only reason the 28th meant anything was cause my lil brother was in Matric!

6. I can no longer stand Y-FM… I was a die hard fan, but I really cannot spend more than 5 minutes on the station.

Hayi nna i still love Yfm-old as I am..the playlist on that station is rockas!!!

Thanks D, u've just made my monday!!

Toxic
07 Jan 2008 08:31

I used to love fireworks, now I don't go anywhere near them.

LOL Cleave, i don't even bother to buy "crickets" and it's even such an effort to wake up at midnight to ring in the new year. All that HAPPY!!!!! stuff irritates the life out of me..

Dimago
07 Jan 2008 08:35

Cleave: Huuu, amacricket (fireworks) - i cant believe they still let people "use" them...
Belz: you have an old soul LOL!
Tox: I found the DJ's loud...huuui!

Uber B
07 Jan 2008 09:13

1. I don’t know anyone in Matric or Grade 12! When everyone was excited waking up early to get the paper, the 28th December was a non event to me. Except I was a bit depressed cause it was 2 days before I got even more older!

I was in matric last year, and young as I might be I do feel a bit older plus the fact that this Wednesday everbody is going back to school and I have to wake up and go to work. That is a really sad and nostalgic feeling.

I can no longer stand Y-FM… I was a die hard fan, but I really cannot spend more than 5 minutes on the station.

I feel you there, although im part of the 'youth' that they target I cant stand Y anymore. For me they have lost the plot...

Nanana
07 Jan 2008 09:40

you are as old as you feel

Mawandi
07 Jan 2008 10:22

eesh mina am old but I still listen to Y-Fm they play nice music and also love Khaya Fm,702,I watch cartoon network and I still love fire works especialy the sky rockets am not worried about getting old and ngizoguga whether I like it or not ,I will definately have that wrinkled face and I am looking forward to that and hell yeah one day I will be a grand dad am not scared of that, I will only feel bad if I will be a poor old man and die poor thats scares me.

Brown Shuga
07 Jan 2008 13:47

<<<On the 31st of December (a day after I turned another year older) everyone was excited stocking up on booze, meat, snacks etc, to me this was another non event. I wasn’t phoning around to find out ukuthi “where’s it going down”. I was just chilling in my house, content as can be, thinking that if I really need company, I’ll go see my cousins. >>>
SAME HERE!!!

eish-bo
07 Jan 2008 14:06

Eish the being "25" scary I know....
Everyone in my family has or is going to have a baby! Cousins, sisters, brothers! Gosh, why am I so left behind??? I’m being called “auntie” left, right and centre.

Tell me about it ngiyazi,
I can't stand these violent cartoons...nearly had a heart attack on New Years Eve when a friends' bambino lite the fire crackers eish I am getting old!

cnhlanhla
07 Jan 2008 14:22

I have just had a birthday about 9 days ago, and I must say getting older traumatises me.

1. It's like you had me on this one, early today I was saying to a friend of mine that the thought yokuthi from now on I am forced to work even when I don't feel like it bcoz of the responsibilities that i now have is indeed traumartizing.

2. lately I've stopped enjoying the fact that I leave far from my family, unlike those schooling days when I just enjoyed staying at a residence with frendz.

3. I find myself hating everything that is noisy, I now prefer laid back stuff

4. time is now important like never before

Pooky
08 Jan 2008 01:43

Gugo othandayo sana

Amazing
08 Jan 2008 01:59

"Thixo ndicela indincede ungandi thathi ndisames ncinci, yoh kumnandi ukuphila hayi kumnandi emhlabeni." Mna sana I'm having the time of life at the moment. I don't have to worry about old age for another 2 decades. Student life rocks big time. Even though I'm broke 99,9 per cent of the time. But guys sitting at home alone on the 31st is sad. No matter how old you are.

I also watch CNN and the BBC. It's a matter of taste and different strokes for different type of thing.

J-Girl
08 Jan 2008 02:11

i honestly thot there was something wrong with me when i left long street round about 1 coz i somehow felt out of place, half my friends were home with their little ones and my 22 yr old sista dragged me along but I just couldnt, maybe it was the absence of my friends that made me feel out of place.
all that stuff about babies - i console myself by saing I need to find a partner first so I am in no hurry!

Amazing
08 Jan 2008 02:20

I would have a baby right this moment if I wasn't studying and my bank balance was 20 timeshealthier than it is now.

lepogo
08 Jan 2008 02:27

This is soooooo scary-I was going thru the same motions over this weekend.Am glad I aint the only one feeling that.

In fact I spent the holidays on my own,found solace in writing the next few pages of my novel(and lyrics to a song for a friend),I had joy in sitting on my balcony,Foundry and zol keeping me company.

Other than that,loud cars annoy me,same as screeching punks who dont know the direction to Kyalami for their souped up cars,I am beginning to hate Jet Li,my porn stash is more bothersome than exciting,my boozing friends arent smart enough and my young brothers set up meetings to talk to me....

And the bald spot is irritating bloody hell out of me.....

Jeslaaik

Amazing
08 Jan 2008 02:30

Yoh Lepogo depression, suicide, Homocide. Hayi bendingekho, objection!

tshepiso
08 Jan 2008 02:32

"Gugo othandayo" (mabrrrrrrr's voice)
date the young ones & u will feel young again

Miss K
08 Jan 2008 02:33

Hello people, glad to see u all made it to 2008.

I'm so happy i'm not the only 1 feeling this way. Yazi I went to PE this festive and i was expecting things to be hectic as usual but every night i was the first one to say girls i'm going to sleep and my frends were like 'WTF is up with u, ubuye eGoli uli griza'

I'll be turning 26 soon i've been feeling kinda depressed so i'm glad i read this.

Toodecent
08 Jan 2008 02:35

zol keeping me company. >>> You loosing it right there..! Get that zolo and all drugs and give them to me. Lepogo I aint doctor Phil but due to what i understand makes u feel that way my brother you need help and you should start by helping yourself.

spice
08 Jan 2008 02:36

Gugo othandayo" (mabrrrrrrr's voice)
Tshepiiiiiiiiiiii youre soooooooooooo right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lepogo
08 Jan 2008 02:42

Yes you right!!!A few people would lead to my arrest,boys who drag race at ungodly hours,say,10pm,I mean I must get my son to sleep during that noise????

Not only them,sum morons in my complex having parties till 1am,when will I read my self help books when they are partying up a storm??I know a few years back I would have joined them,even moved the whole riot back to my place,but Gaaaaad,arent house parties 90's?Thats why I now have 10111 on speedfreaking dial.

So,yeah,Im contemplating murder,strus Gaaaad

lepogo
08 Jan 2008 02:44

@TDC,
Ga ke addicted tlhee,it helps in countering cancer and balding....

Toodecent
08 Jan 2008 02:46

You need a shagg bro....lots of it all will be fine.

Amazing
08 Jan 2008 02:51

Lepogo I'm seriously worried about you.

lepogo
08 Jan 2008 02:58

But y are you worried???

Look,Im still meself who is turning 29 in March,have bought tickets 4 the do ko Kempton Park Golf course,but I wont leave when they are taking down the stage,or when the security guys are now ordered to forcefully throw me out...just have had to grow sum more in the past few months.

As TDC said maybe all I need is a very good shag....and to take a chill pill.

Dimago
08 Jan 2008 03:00

date the young ones & u will feel young again
ehhehehe Tshepi, i'm right there...

...every night i was the first one to say girls i'm going to sleep
@ Miss K - iyho, me too!

Toodecent
08 Jan 2008 03:02

have bought tickets 4 the do ko Kempton Park Golf course,but I wont leave when they are taking down the stage,or when the security guys are now ordered to forcefully throw me out...>>> Now that to me its not even a habbit but its part of me..! Bo stout is my hobby hi hi hi hi growing up or not.

Dimago
08 Jan 2008 03:03

Look,Im still meself who is turning 29 in March,have bought tickets 4 the do ko Kempton Park Golf course
I'll see you there Pogos...

Toodecent
08 Jan 2008 03:03

date the young ones & u will feel young again
ehhehehe Tshepi, i'm right there... >> Jaanong gona lo batla go re fetsa neh?

Amazing
08 Jan 2008 03:04

Lepogo TDC is probably right, I'm beaming right now because of the prescrption he gave you. But that taking down the stage and being thrown out by security ish is a bit hectic. It's never happened to me, you must have been wild in you heyday ne?

Lex
08 Jan 2008 03:06

Thank goodness,there are people helping me to age.On new year's eve we went to some new year's thing,we got there just after twelve and by 01:15 my friend and I were yawning as if we were babies.By two we decided to go home,we had such a good laugh about getting old,thinking back to the olden days when we caused mayhem at functions like those.But we were better...my boyfriend went to sleep in the car 15minutes after we got there.Heish,go tsofala!

libra
08 Jan 2008 03:11

1.3-4 years after i had matriculated i bought the paper cos i knew people who were still in matric but now haai bo, i do have little cousins in high school but then they will call and say they have passed/failed so there is no need for me to wake up.

2.birthdays- i prefare quite ones with my family and then go out with mr libra and if i decide to have a party it will be all chilled out with friends playing mature music - no sista bettina and no 6to 6 in my party-amazing how preferances change as we get old.

3,i was actually sad to notice how unaffected i was by the new year celebrations-the only reason mr libra and i went to buy fireworks was because he had little cousins visiting at his home and they wanted them but otherwise we would not have bothered - i am terrified of fireworks anyways i enjoy watching from a distance but the pollution in the air is too much and i feel sorry for stray dogs

4,i am now referred to as auntie - but i enjoy my nieces and nephews - it is a wonderful feeling and experience

6, never liked y fm but my choice of music is more mature these days.

nonetheless - go tsofala yo o ratang - jus'keep on enyoying life - age aint nothing but a number

Mambox
08 Jan 2008 03:19

@mawandi if it sounds like a man then it is a man...only guys don't care about getting old and wrinkled...

carino
08 Jan 2008 03:23

There's no such thing as getting old. People get LAZY!!!, thats all.

Happy 2008 everyone!! Only got to work today... and GAAAAWWWWDDDD, this is going to be a relatively long year!!!!

spice
08 Jan 2008 03:27

Carino o reng naa!

Toodecent
08 Jan 2008 03:27

There's no such thing as getting old. People get LAZY!!!, thats all.>>> True that..!

Mizana
08 Jan 2008 03:31

Nyaka omtsha Mabloggers

I feel the same too, my bday was 4 days back and instead of being excited as always I just got chills that wow gal u are getting old and did'nt want to do anything neither go out, my man keeps on asking what do u want ,where must we go - we endedup sitting at home which was fine by me & boring for him. I'm not into noise stuff anymore I feel relaxed at home doing nothing other than changing TV channels or radio station. SAFM is my fav at the moment.

They say there is TIME for everything!

monchooza
08 Jan 2008 03:35

mina i fell and lokk younger everyday and my secret is that i take good care of my body so the age thing does not ffect me that much except when i look as my Goals then i worry

joy
08 Jan 2008 03:38

i only discovered tvsa on my fone last days of December 07!! i dnt kno wat mxit was,until i was invited, i thnk im the oldest person there, when they a/s/l/r me,its just so fickle.
sadly no KAYA fm or y-fm here.On the 31st of December (a day after I turned another year older) everyone was excited stocking up on booze, meat, snacks etc, to me this was another non event. I wasn’t phoning around to find out ukuthi “where’s it going down”. I was just chilling in my house, content as can be, thinking that if I really need company, I’ll go see my cousins. join the club!!lol
Everyone in my family has or is going to have a baby! Cousins, sisters, brothers! Gosh, why am I so left behind??? im glad i hav none. but every1 (family) gettin married, mna, always bridemaid,never bride...

Zee Babes!
08 Jan 2008 03:45

@Joy i relate to being a brides maid and neva a bride....(sad neh) Well I also didnt c anything spectacular with the 31st it was just anada day and was irritated to bits with all the noise and crackers. As much as some say kugugo thandayo - somethings as we age change...nothing stay the same. Um glad um not alone in guga-land.

myname
08 Jan 2008 03:45

Im coming 30 ha ha ha

lepogo
08 Jan 2008 03:54

@myname,
I find your last comment depressing and desrving an early lunch to go see new Wits students playing all adult and cool at a guy wearing a suit le Chuck Taylor....

spice
08 Jan 2008 04:04

Lepogo I feel like spin kicking you to your old self ,youre stilling my joy I miss the funny witty Lepogo meet me at the puching blog

tshepiso
08 Jan 2008 04:12

There's no such thing as getting old. People get LAZY!!!, thats all. o opile kgomo lenaka, and welcome back!

myname
08 Jan 2008 04:26

oh shame lepogo u will b fine dear bt really woza 30 just waiting............

joy
08 Jan 2008 05:16

Zee babes i was asked 2b 1 in december, dnt do it, dnt like weddings 4 sm odd reason, mayb cos im stil single, but im cool with that, cos i can blog abt it here!hahaha

heavenly
10 Jan 2008 05:22

simons webbe's seventeen " oh my*3 these days are flying by, i still feel seventeen inside, not one day over, dont let the trials of life, change who you are tonight, stay seventeen each time you get a year older.... he said you r @ the tym of lyf when your heart is strong, future is bright u can do no wrong & dont let those feelings out of sight keep hold of them as the years go rolling by" its a good album.

tender tee
10 Jan 2008 05:42

There's no such thing as getting old. People get LAZY!!!,
i cudn't agree with this mo, we are only as old as we feel and mina am turning 24 this year but feel 18, dont bore yourselves people,it's not good for your health,
smile and smell the fresh air,after all,
age is just a namba until we see those wrinkles...damn i hate them!!!!!!!

Segololo
21 Jan 2008 07:41

Oh heavens! Am I the only person that still thinks that b-days are the things to live for...?? This year I WAS planning a huge 3 day party - including a club party like Paris and Britney do it - with all amabloggers invited to share the moment of my 3rd decade with me... devastatingly I had to cancel the thought but God when I turn 40, I will still be on tvsa and I will throw a true Soul Sessions 4 day party with Eddie Zondi in his 60's DJ-ing the evening away...

Dims, I know you really hate celebrating your special day but my friend as I, mini Oprah, always say - "you are only as young as you feel..." Feel and do things that make you feel young and my dear friend, you put to shame some 16 year olds I know... You look so good that some 16 year olds actually look much older than you!!

Dimago
21 Jan 2008 08:24

@ Sego, you are good for my self-esteem....

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