thats great jimmy boy!

very nicely told.....yer

I felt like a kindergarten kid after reading that.

Well told thoe

excluding my parents who are abusive and a few of my friends parents who are also abusive i agree with that (even if i AM 16)
and youre not old
i know someone whos 42 and i wouldnt call them old
youre only old if you act it
damn i forgot what else i was gonna say... whatever guess i wont worry about it

Muwahahaha.... everything is coming to plan...
I believe only ONE person pointed out your age... MEEEEEE!!!!
I like pointing out the obvious ^.^
yeah i believe in the kid at heart thing
like my history teacher he's about 50-ish and still acts like if he is in the 1960's
No hippy kombi though :(

Nicely put. I enjoyed reading this.

Also you shouldn't give jerks more attention than they deserve, (Wolfblitz)

Then he thinks he is cool. ^^^^^^

Your kinda sounding like a psychiatrist right now. No offense or anything.

I perfectly understand where your coming from but I don't like my parents because they constantly badger me during my work and don't let me get any sleep.

did my comment make you feel any older or more decrepit? XD

it's stereotypically uncool to agree with anything anyone over the age of 20 says or writes

yeah... but it happens anyway though not many people admit it

I don't think a lot of people around here realize most of us admins are 29 or 30...

I fit in your 13-18 year age bracket, and I agree with you. I guess that makes me uncool, eh? But, being at the end of that age (17), I've got a lot of growing up to do. I've got my driver's license, I've finished school, next year I'll be at uni and living without my parents. I guess I'm in that transition phase, and there's more good things about becoming an adult than there is for staying a kid. I like independence and I like making my own choices. I think it's pretty cool that you've got your own life, no "can I get a lift here" or "can I borrow some money" there. Adults are pretty cool. Especially the ones that play videogames and watch cartoons and still act young.

There is a lot of truth in your news post. You're definitely a wise old man. =P

Respect.

OMG you're saying April is pregnant!?!?!?!?

After reading that you make me feel so old. Of course, this is part of life and something that everyone experiences. As you get older you need to take more responsibility because of lots of stuffs being pushed to you but you can't just run away and hide behind your parents back or anything (unless your parents are rich or you plan to live under the basement your whole life!) . You'll just have to confront with it, deal with it somehow whether you like it or not. That's the difference between being an adult and a kid in my idea at least. But otherwise, I supposed adults are just like big kids after all.

You're still lamenting (to a degree) about this 'old' thing? You're still a young man. Carpe diem, buddy. You might feel funny about this after 30 more years.

it's true what u say.
you could be like 45, but inside you're still a big kid at heart.

It is amazing how quickly and just how much your perspective on life changes as you pass the teenage years. All the drama of that time period just seems silly.

I completely agree. We're all just kids. I might only be 18 right now but I still feel like I'm 13. I wonder how many real adults there actually are in the world excluding the big kids who think they have to act mature. 30 isn't old at all. I know you understand that but it's really really young.

April is smart enough not to get pregnant while Tom is pregnant with a child called "Castle Crashers". The poor child would have a horrible sibling complex.
I'm 20 and I haven't the faintest comprehension of what's going on in the forums.

A good message there, and personally, I wouldn't have minded being told that a few years ago. I like to think I have changed, that moving with or against certain people is a big waste of time. I'm not sure about the extent that's true though really.

Actually, if anything, I've been feeling much older than I am recently, which is 17 (18 in April). I seem to be dwelling on things from the past, which is odd, as I spent 1996 to 2000 on a "rich man's council estate". Okay, it wasn't that bad, but you probably get my point. Maybe it's just my tendency to listen to Nightshift by the Commodores in the dark that's bringing me down.

Oh, to what Bob said, I can confirm that. My brother thought Tom Fulp was a 18 year old living in his Mum's basement.

I've actually come to the same conclusion, only in my case I'm going back to college in my late twenties. The thing that kills me is just how unmotivated most of the 18-21 year olds are at school. It's almost like they walk around with a sense of entitlement, always ready to ask for an answer to a problem but never willing to give one. Granted, the Irvine community is a upper middle class, so I'm positive that these little shits have been waited on for most of their lives.

Believe it or not, I had that same feeling of getting old and feeling old when I was only 16, just two years ago...I hate it when people say that life sucks for them...poor you then...

graet speech. but not saying the ''speach'' when its a silly thing way, or crap, i mean the ''good wise thing'' speach speach. so, i hope you get me. it still has to be shown something. age doesnt matters. sure, ou may see something differently when you are older than 20, or have your own family and have to be responcible, or raise you children, but what i want to tell, is that if a guy at the age of 14, is an ass**le, then he will remain an ass**l at his 30 too. so, yea, people fdont change, but they sure see a different perspective in other age, (like 30) yea. i hope there are people who are still kids at their hearts, by playing games, or watching tv, or ONLY by living every day. yea

Adults need to grow the fuck up.

I WILL NEVER BE OLD

(it does kinda bother me all my friends are getting married and having..kids. yech)

It seems we all are . . . I know I still havn't changed much at all in the last five years. I sure hope I'll have no problems posting at the forums at double my lifetime . . .

humm. Just got one thing to say. it's not stereotypically uncool to agree with anybody 20 years or older, it's uncool to agree with somebody 30 years or older. I love my bro, and he's like 32, 29, somewhere around there. He's really cool. So it's not like that. you just can't agree with somebody who is a parent. that ain't cool.
Just wanted to point that out.

one of the blokes i know of thinks i might have made a grown man (you) cry
so if i have made you upset my apologies
still friends with the Australians? :)

I couldn't agree more!
Even though it's still odd to see 40 years old people playing video games, for example, it's probably what I'll be doing in 20 years, if I ever get to live till there.

Really? When I look at the BBS, I see Dick Jokes and shitty photoshop threads.

very inspirational

i feel for you. maybe cos im english and it's just an unnatural bond we have. do you want a hug. i'm here for you any time. :D

Isn't the whole point of parents, that they control you?!

"it takes becoming an adult (yeah, I know - long time to wait for those of you still in that age bracket, but it'll come around sooner than you think)"

Absolutely.

I'm only 21 but I feel about the same. (No will to argue on the internet, think idiots are a waste of time instead of fodder, threads don't make sense anymore, chalking up "nobody understands me" to immaturity and angst, etc.) So if anything it's kicking in later for you, lucky S.O.B.

thank you for being one of the few people who agree with me on that matter!

I saw you in the street the other day

I fit in towards the end of your stereotypical Newgrounder -- I'm a seventeen year old (fitting nicely into the 13-18 bracket). But as I've grown older, I've slowly come to discover just as you put it, parents are just "big kids" (it might not be the words I'd normally use, but it does the trick).

The other day, I was in a conversation with some guy who was probably around 35 -- I ended up just talking to him for a couple hours about anything ranging from Shakespeare, movies, and even the colleges I was thinking of attending. I sort of came to a realization afterwards, that it wouldn't be long before I'd be the same age.

I suppose I've never really fit in with the others from my age group about "parent hating" and all that -- I usually find it rather funny, when someone says, "I hate my parents!" on Newgrounds, but fails to remember that it was their parents that bought them the beautiful computer that they're using to gain access to the site.

I'm really not sure what the point of this whole comment I've made was -- I think it's knowing that my 30s, nearly twenty years away now, will be on me before I know it -- but I think I've figured that I'm just fine with that. Or maybe it was that I've never really thought of older people as particularly weird or un-cool. I guess you can sort of decide what it is that I've said. :P

Cheers.

Ever since I was little I was fascinated by the concept that every single other person on this earth is a thinking and feeling being the same as I. I used to wonder what, in particular, was special about my body and mind that I was conscious within it. It felt rather arbitrary to me that I should be conscious at this particular time in this particular place in this particular body.

So I decided that I would never make the mistake of failing to respect another simple for being another. Interestingly enough, I hated my parents for a large amount of my teenage years. I'm not as removed from that frame of my life as you are, but I'm getting there and it feels like the process is moving faster and faster every day. It took basically a semester's absence from interaction with my family for me to drop all the petty bullshit I used to hold against them. I guess it takes a little bit of decision-making without parental input for someone to realize they're doing things the same way their parents would anyway. After a while things kinda just click.

I think everyone reaches that point sooner or later when the expression "you'll thank me when you're older" starts to make sense.

go back to russia!

This blog post should be a required read alongside the NG FAQ before creating an account.

It's not so much that teens are unwilling to listen to anthing any person over 20 tells them, I feel that they have difficulty in general accepting advice from anyone, regardless of age. However, they do forget, more often than not, that us "older" individuals have already been where they are going and could offer very valuable insight.

You are only as old as you think you are.

It is around the time people think they're getting old when they start to feel the effects most. Now don't get me wrong; saying you're 18 won't make an 80 year old feel like one, but thinking you're old doesn't help.

I'm 20 years old, but hell, I still watch cartoons, anime, play games, etc. I plan on being like this for as long as possible. I refuse to grow up.

Fuck this place, I'm going to Neverland.

Yeah, everybody keeps at least a bit of being a kid in them, and life is the same foundation with a different coat of paint until you're retired. Liberation of finishing up high school, then there's college, and joining the workforce.

Then there's always the things you take for granted as a kid you wish so bad you could go back and change. For me, it's learning how to ice skate so I could be a hockey player.

Oh well though, no dwelling in the past.

Also, haven't seen you on xbox live in a while, what's going on with that?

I'm part of that 13-18 bracket and want to say I disagree just as much with kids who claim they're being oppressed or controlled. They're given plenty of freedom, and often just aren't grateful for it.

I miss you. :'(

30 isn't old.

90 is old.

Until you hit 90, don't worry about it.

That's why parents always say "Be a kid as long as you can."

Everyone is gonig to get old man. It's not liker people are gonig to sit there in a chair and be the same age.

Besides, I've been picked to go to war.

It happens.