I need to vent....

[SmartyBeardo]

lloyd mayflower Wrote:

Fitz Wrote:

the ollie reed fan club Wrote:

Fitz Wrote:That's happening a little bit with one group of my mates. About 27-28 and they are all starting to settle down. A few of them are married, some are engaged.

Interestingly being 38 and still unmarried I went through that phase you are talking about Fitz in my late 20's where all my mates and wing men were going down like flies to the dreaded ball and chain disease.

However now roughly 10 years later many of them are now going through divorce and separations, coming out of their 1st marriages and are looking to tear it up again, haha.

Good times.

Haha. You've watched the lives of friends unfold in front of your very eyes.

It's funny you mention that. Me and one of my few other single mates have kind of laughed and mentioned it a couple of times how a lot of these people, they are on the decline and father time is frowning upon them. Some of the women were mint that they began going out with, some of my mates were good looking dudes and did ok for themselves, but we are watching all of them let themselves go in front of our very eyes, lol.
It bothered me a little bit a while ago that it felt like everyone was moving on, and I was gonna be left behind. But not any more. I'm a bit of an introvert anyway, so I'm can be pretty content on my own. I just take each day as it comes now, and using other peoples lives as a comparative tool to measure your happiness is fucking stupid anyway now that I look back at it. I feel like I am just hitting my prime now for some reason.
But it's true, about this age is when they start dropping like flies, lol. It's interesting watching peoples lives change, obviously I don't watch hoping for someone's ultimate down fall, though, lol.

Think your right about not looking at other peoples lives to compare to your own. The bottom line is i'm happy just now with the way my life is. It's changed a lot in the 3 years iv been with her. I used to be answerable to no one with a bit of spare cash and was away on holidays at every opportunity, but although I still crave after my former glory sometimes, I know deep down that i'm not what I once was, I can't go away clubbing holidays and last the pace anymore. A week on the drink would kill me, and there is no one to do all these things with anyway. I think im just in a transitional period of my life and i'm trying to cling on to my youth a bit.

Cling hard.