Finally becoming a grown up

sparrer

thorsoak wrote: »

I'm 71 -and I don't intend to Grow Up - Ever!! Growing older is obligatory - growing up is optional:rotfl:

Hear Hear!

I'm 67 next month, in the last three years I've zip-wired over Wembley stadium, booked a hot air balloon flight, taken a cable car over the bay at Barcelona, am going to my first rock concert tomorrow,and won't even start on the amazing places I've visited both here and abroad - this is just the start of my bucket list, it's 2 x A4 pages long and being added to all the time. Grow up? Been there, done that didn't like it, not going back

nanto3girls

The first day we moved into this house 45 years ago.I was 17 and pregnant, and hubby had to go to work on the night shift.
The first 4 months we were married, I didn't feel so grown up, because we lived in rented property. I think it was knowing this was going to be our long term home, that made feel grown up.

meritaten

ohh at sixteen I thought I was reaaaaaaaaaaaaally grown up! at 60 I am still waiting for that 'grownup' feeling to happen again. in fact, I am not sure what a 'grown up' is now.

pukkamum

themull1 wrote: »

i didnt even feel like a grown up when my second husband left, and i bought him out of the house, and had my two kids. i sort of felt like a kid being left in charge!!! and i was 42 at the time!!

I completely get this, sometimes I feel a little like I'm 'playing house' and someones gonna shout hey whats that kid doing?

pukkamum

sparrer wrote: »

Hear Hear!

I'm 67 next month, in the last three years I've zip-wired over Wembley stadium, booked a hot air balloon flight, taken a cable car over the bay at Barcelona, am going to my first rock concert tomorrow,and won't even start on the amazing places I've visited both here and abroad - this is just the start of my bucket list, it's 2 x A4 pages long and being added to all the time. Grow up? Been there, done that didn't like it, not going back

Wonderful, I want that to be me, god willing.
On a side note pukkadad and I are off to Barcelona for his 40th, four nights, kids free and this sounds amazing, is it expensive?

Pyxis

I rarely feel grown up!

However, if a shop assistant calls me 'Madam', that makes me feel grown up, and rather splendid!

Politicians, when they say things that make me think," I've heard that before, and before that, and before that," then I think that I must be grown up. And for a few moments, I feel very wise!

And thirdly, when I am checking into a hotel on my own, I feel quite grown up!

The rest of the time, I think I'm getting sillier and sillier! But it's good fun!

NY1986

Going to my grandads funeral last year at 27, I had only been to one funeral before that (a great aunt, never in the immediate family).

As the oldest grandchild I made myself useful by mingling with everyone, it was just overwhelming.

The second time in the weeks after my grans funeral the realisation that nothing would be the same again (including Christmas as we had spent every year there as a family since I was born)

billa_champion

38 in a few days, married, two kids (11 & 9), bought/sold a flat and have moved into our forever home. Still feel like a kid. I'll be doing silly stuff and sometimes just pause and think 'Dad never did that when we were growing up!'
I also reminisce a lot too and can't believe how life has flown by since my GCSEs. Wish I was 21 again.

Person_one

Half the time I feel like a grumpy old woman, half the time I feel like a clueless teenager.

I reckon that's probably a good balance.

Soleil_lune

LOL, how can anyone be asked for ID to buy alcohol when they're in their 40s?! Nobody looks under 21 in their 40s. Either the assistant has seriously bad eyesight or they were taking the p1ss! :rotfl:

I have never felt 'grown up.' And buying our first house in the early 1990s didn't make me feel 'grown up.' In fact within a few months, it just made me feel pretty depressed. For the 18 years we were homeowners, we never had any spare money!

Now we are in a very long term rent - an assured tenancy (in a cottage in a rural area,) we have money to spare again, But no, I don't feel now (in my mid 40s) that I am any more grown up than I was at 18.