MysteriousTelephone
Well-known member
So, this is a slightly unique one, but I can't be the only one.
I'm 31 now, with most of my friends being similar ages. I spent my 20s taking care of myself, eating reasonably healthy and exercising regularly. I also like to party on weekends. My friends did not, many are overweight and do not exercise. A few have had children, and generally grown out of the 'party' times when the weekends roll around.
We're now at the point where my friends all talk like they're 70. They're the same age as me, but all they can talk about is how they can't do things "like they used to", or not wanting to be out till 5AM because "we're not 19 anymore", when I just don't feel like that; mentally I've matured, but physically I feel twice the man I was at 20.
Every time I try to get something together, like paintball or zip-lining, obstacle courses, even club-nights, I just get a round of groans and instant refusals. It's a shame, I love them as people, but it saddens me that they've just allowed themselves to become like this, in a decade where most athletes have their peak years. I don't like to comment on anyone's weight or lifestyle, but I have tried to delicately broach the subject with some, they quickly shut it down and insist it's an age thing.
So for me, I still have energy to burn, I want to do physical things, but the people I love just no longer seem to have any desire for such. Guess I've got to be the weird older due hanging around twenty-somethings to find people who don't mind running around a little? It's not that I'm competitive, I just enjoy doing more physical things.
I'm 31 now, with most of my friends being similar ages. I spent my 20s taking care of myself, eating reasonably healthy and exercising regularly. I also like to party on weekends. My friends did not, many are overweight and do not exercise. A few have had children, and generally grown out of the 'party' times when the weekends roll around.
We're now at the point where my friends all talk like they're 70. They're the same age as me, but all they can talk about is how they can't do things "like they used to", or not wanting to be out till 5AM because "we're not 19 anymore", when I just don't feel like that; mentally I've matured, but physically I feel twice the man I was at 20.
Every time I try to get something together, like paintball or zip-lining, obstacle courses, even club-nights, I just get a round of groans and instant refusals. It's a shame, I love them as people, but it saddens me that they've just allowed themselves to become like this, in a decade where most athletes have their peak years. I don't like to comment on anyone's weight or lifestyle, but I have tried to delicately broach the subject with some, they quickly shut it down and insist it's an age thing.
So for me, I still have energy to burn, I want to do physical things, but the people I love just no longer seem to have any desire for such. Guess I've got to be the weird older due hanging around twenty-somethings to find people who don't mind running around a little? It's not that I'm competitive, I just enjoy doing more physical things.