What Stage are you at in your life?

I'm 21, am a bit immature to be honest... Get keys to move into flat tonight though, so that will wise me up a bit!
I don't take uni seriously and going by right now it will be hit or miss if I pass the year.
Relationship ended last month and I am still taking it fairly hard and thinking that I am the unluckiest person ever. I'm clearly not, but you know what like...

The only thing I really need to change right now is my attitude towards uni and my ridiculous negative view on life. I'll leave the growing up for another couple of years yet.
 
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Nearly 48 and I'll never grow up.
I still feel 18 but my body is now acting like an old mans.
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Im nearly 30, and am starting to notice lots of changes in myself. Im starting to get wrinkles, got a few grey hairs, and have some aches and pains that I didnt have when I was "young". I still feel like a kid, I mean a little kid. Im really worrying about growing old and thought it would never happen to me.
 
23 years of age
Excellent salary (2 jobs)
Have 3 homes
Married
Half decent cars (Toyota, Mondeo etc)
Wife expecting 1st child
Feels like 18, like a kid with his jar of sweeties.
Everything depends on me, without me my wife would struggle.
 
remember the sunscreen song..

i read the lyrics to that the other day.. and it has woken me up to how important and precious these years are now that i have.

i.e. 18-30

more importantly.. 16-25
 
guess I'm lucky..I'm like a few guys on here

35 years old and married
own house (paid for in about 5 years...hurrah for the housing market when I bought one!)
both my wife and I work with satisfactory incomes for where we live
we only need the 1 car
we have no kids

we basically please ourselves and get by quite comfortably...we have no kids as I suspect we are both selfish when it comes to enjoying ourselves...we like to eat out a lot and have a lot of weekend breaks in the UK and europe...mainly just to see whats out there in the big wide world..theres always a new experience just round the corner

and anyway..I'm really just a big child..a many have said..my brain still thinks I'm 15 or 16..its just my outside thats getting older

I still giggle at fart jokes and think things are 'cool'
I still enjoy old Tom and Jerry cartoons and think rock music reached its pinnacle with Iron Maiden in the mid 1980's...nothing will change my mind on this

I'm even happy in my job....its a trade off against salary and responsibility/hassle

I dont really feel the need to be more ambitious as I'm happy where I am and dont feel the need for extra money compared to the additional stress it would bring...as long as it keeps us in red wine and lets me get out fishing when I want I'm content
 
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I'm reasonably grown up. I had to grow up very quickly when I was at university because my mum died just after I started. Part of me thinks it was a mistake getting my degree done because it seems worth nothing.

I have too many regrets to go into but its a case of I moved home in June 2005 and lost the independence of living away. A lot of things came back to me, and I had to see a counsellor. I'm glad to say that things are looking up, I don't feel so low and I don't have so much anger in me.

I've just passed the application form for British Transport Police, in the mean time I'm working intermittently in a call centre. It doesn't pay enough for me to do much. I'm waiting for BTP to get back to me about going through their selection, but I'm tempted to apply for a few other proper jobs.

The one thing that is getting to me (money doesn't bother me) is that my friends from Stoke have all gone their seperate ways. All my friends are from university except one or two. Maybe its time I found my path as well.
 
i mess about too much and i'm no where near independent from my parents financially so I don't class myself as that grown up.

However I think i'm pretty well rounded, educated and cultured that most people think i'm older than i am (22). I think thats more that I spend too much time with my head stuck in books or on wikipedia so I just know lots of random stuff that some of my friends might not know, and therefore makes me looker 'wiser'. So intellectually i feel reasonably grown up.
 
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