feeling mighty old recently

[mickey]

(apologies for anyone older than me who might be going through something similar)

Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, U2, Joe Montana, Michael Jordan, Pearl Jam, Steve Yzerman, Seinfield, Glasnost, The Berlin Wall, email, The Goonies, Mathew Brodrick...the list is endless.

Icons, stallwarts, moments of magnitude in my time....these things seem behind me - some of them are still around (like U2/Yzerman), but they're often considered old, if not senior in today's world.

At 30, I feel sullen at times that the world I grew up in and around has changed so much.

Is this midlife crisis?

 

[mickey]

God, they put up Mark Messier's number in the New York rafters recently! New York! I was around when he was in Edmonton!

 

[JCOSTER]

Wake up!!!!!!!

You have great years to be alive!

At forty (almost) I think my life is fab.!!!!!

Theres a lot to look forward too, I think they say 40 is the midlife crisis stage.

And if you remember MM in edmonton, I remember U2 when they were 19!!!!!!

 

[clarityat3am]

When I turn 30 next month I'll let you know how I feel and we can compare notes.

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

31 one here and I know what you are talking about.

 

[mickey]

why wait? let's compare notes right now. Below is a short list of significant people/events/fads/music that I've had the fortune to live through. Feel free to add anything.

RULES: These must be once-in-a-lifetime moments we've lived through from the period 1970's ~ current. Copy/Paste and insert anything I've missed.

1970's ~ Current “Once-in-a-lifetime” list

SPORTS
Wayne Gretzky
Paul Coffey
Mark Messier
Jari Kurri
Mario Lemieux
Steve Yzerman
Mike Bossy
Raymond Borque
Grant Fuhr
Patrick Roy
Dominic Hasek
Dennis Potvin
Joe Montana
Jerry Rice
Tom Brady
Dan Marino
Warren Moon
John Elway
Steve Young
Michael Jordan
Magic Johnson
Larry Bird
Sergei Bubka
Michael Schumacher

POLITICIANS
Jean Cretian
Bill Clinton

MUSIC
U2
Radiohead
ABBA
Michael Jackson
Madonna
Simon & Garfunkle
Pink Floyd

CELEBRITIES
Al Pacino
Edward Norton
Tom Cruise
Amitabh Bachan
Jackie Chan
Bruce Lee
Johnny Depp
The Brat Pack (Nelson, Ringwald, Estevez, Hall, Lowe, McCarthy)
Lady Diana

INVENTIONS
The Internet
Mobile Phone
Email
Wireless Technology
iPODs

EVENTS
The Berlin Wall
Collapse of the USSR
Gulf War I & II
Canada Cup - Gretzky, Lemieux, Messier, Yzerman, Coffey, Borque, Fuhr, Roy on same squad
9/11
Live Aid/Live 8
Lovetown/Zoo TV/Vertigo tours
NAFTA/EU formation
FADS
Break dancing
The moonwalk
Starbucks

MOVIES/SHOWS
The Breakfast Club
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Braveheart
The Matrix
St Elmos Fire
Star Wars
Transformers
He Man
Seinfeld
Star Trek (Next Generation)
Cheers
The Godfather
The Goonies
Molson’s Hockey Night in Canada


Please don't insert good or great things in the above - the litmus test is "once in a lifetime"

 

[mickey]

1970's ~ Current “Once-in-a-lifetime” list

SPORTS
Wayne Gretzky
Paul Coffey
Mark Messier
Jari Kurri
Mario Lemieux
Steve Yzerman
Mike Bossy
Raymond Borque
Grant Fuhr
Patrick Roy
Dominic Hasek
Dennis Potvin
Joe Montana
Jerry Rice
Tom Brady
Dan Marino
Warren Moon
John Elway
Steve Young
Michael Jordan
Magic Johnson
Larry Bird
Sergei Bubka
Michael Schumacher

POLITICIANS
Jean Cretian
Bill Clinton

MUSIC
U2
Radiohead
ABBA
Michael Jackson
Madonna
Simon & Garfunkle
Pink Floyd

CELEBRITIES
Al Pacino
Edward Norton
Tom Cruise
Amitabh Bachan
Jackie Chan
Bruce Lee
Johnny Depp
The Brat Pack (Nelson, Ringwald, Estevez, Hall, Lowe, McCarthy)
Lady Diana
Nelson Mandela < Forgot to add that in

INVENTIONS
The Internet
Mobile Phone
Email
Wireless Technology
iPODs

EVENTS
The Berlin Wall
Collapse of the USSR
Gulf War I & II
End of apartheid < forgot to add that in
Canada Cup - Gretzky, Lemieux, Messier, Yzerman, Coffey, Borque, Fuhr, Roy on same squad
9/11
Live Aid/Live 8
Lovetown/Zoo TV/Vertigo tours
NAFTA/EU formation

FADS
Break dancing
The moonwalk
Starbucks

MOVIES/SHOWS
The Breakfast Club
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Braveheart
The Matrix
St Elmos Fire
Star Wars
Transformers
He Man
Seinfeld
Star Trek (Next Generation)
Cheers
The Godfather
The Goonies
Molson’s Hockey Night in Canada


Please don't insert good or great things in the above - the litmus test is "once in a lifetime"

 

[indra]

I remember when Bjorn Borg won his first Wimbledon.

I remember when even high school kids rode the bus to school.

I remember Watergate (not well, but enough to know it was a "big thing") and "Tricky Dick".

I remember the Vietnam War (same note as for Watergate applies here)

I remember when U2 referred to the spy plane not some band.

I remember Saturday Night Fever.

I remember when Saturday Night Live was new.

I was working at my first job after college when the Challenger blew up.

I remember Live Aid.

I remember (very fondly) cute guys in very tight pants and eyeliner (ah, the wonder years of music, because even if the music sucked -- and lots of it did -- the guys were adorable.)

I remember M*A*S*H. I remember when it first came on. I remember Henry dying. I remember when it went off the air. (I even remember the movie...)

I remember Eric Heiden winning five gold medals in speedskating in 1980. I especially remember Eric Heiden in those great speedskating outfits.

I remember the Munich terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympics.

I remember when Larry Flint was shot.

I remember when Aldo Moro was kidnapped (and several weeks later when his bullet riddled body was found stuffed in the trunk of a car in an alley).

I remember when earrings on men were considered scandalous.

I remember when Pope Paul IV died. ...and then when Pope John Paul I died.

 

[U2Man]

I remember redwood trees, bumper cars and wolverines
The ocean's Trident submarines
Lemons, limes and tangerines
I remember this

I remember traffic jams
Motor boys and girls with tans
Nearly was and almost rans
I remember this
History is made
History is made to seem unfair

I recall that you were there
Golden smile and shining hair
I recall it wasn't fair
Recollect it wasn't fair
Remembering it wasn't fair outside
Low ebb, high tide
The lowest ebb and highest tide
A symbol wave I must confide
I guess we took us for a ride
I guess it's just a gesture

I remember this defense
Progress fails pacific sense
All those sweet conspiracies
I remember all these things

I remember traffic jams
Motor boys and girls with tans
Nearly was and almost rans
I remember this, this

Low ebb, high tide
The lowest ebb and highest tide
I guess we took us for a ride
I guess it's just a gesture

At the end of the continent
At the edge of the continent
At the end of the continent
At the edge of the continent

 

[mickey]

waaaaaahhhhhhhhh! the part I'm having most trouble with is responsibility. the overwhelming feeling that I have to be so miserably responsible for (mostly) myself, and after that - people that I care for.

it was so easy when everybody took care of me - pout

waaaaaaaaah

 

[Numb1075]

turned 30 last October, I go through such meloncholy phases as well....but thank god they pass after the 7 beer.

 

[jammin909]

Yeah all my worries seem to go away after a 6-pack too.

 

[Bono's shades]

(apologies for anyone older than me who might be going through something similar)

Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, U2, Joe Montana, Michael Jordan, Pearl Jam, Steve Yzerman, Seinfield, Glasnost, The Berlin Wall, email, The Goonies, Mathew Brodrick...the list is endless.

Icons, stallwarts, moments of magnitude in my time....these things seem behind me - some of them are still around (like U2/Yzerman), but they're often considered old, if not senior in today's world.

At 30, I feel sullen at times that the world I grew up in and around has changed so much.

Is this midlife crisis?

I think you are looking at this backwards. You should consider yourself fortunate that you are old enough to remember things like the Berlin Wall coming down. Kids today don't know what they missed!

 

[girlhappy]

I love Breakfast club and Princess Diana, Seinfield, the Goonies, Flashdance, Dirty dancing,etc...and almost all of the 80s pop music. And how about something like Unforgettable fire

 

[Carek1230]

Wow this thread is like a trip down memory lane! I remember so many of these things!

 

[trevster2k]

You're only 30, haven't you heard 40 is the new 30!!

Besides, growing up now would be a pain in the ass, with all these new fandangled contraptions which the kids play with nowadays. When I was a kid, we only had 2 channels, CBC and fuzzy CTV and we appreciated it. Teen movies in my day were fuzzy too if you get my drift, nowadays they you can't say shit or they might make it a R-rated movie. ( grumpy old man impersonation)