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Oh, sweetie!! You haven't even hit your best years yet! Take it from me - I'm 33. I probably freaked out at 25, too, but it was all for nothing. The best is yet to come! 
Oh, gosh, me too! I have till September, though. I know in my logical consciousness that 25 is really still young, but then, I see all my friends with good jobs and buying houses and I feel like I am getting so old and still spinning my wheels. Like you, I am not unhappy, but I'm also not where I thought I'd be by now. What can you do, right?! Early happy birthday to you! I hope you can make the best of it. Time just keeps moving no matter how old you are!
I turn 25 in August and am feeling the same way!! I think to myself "Holy hell, a quarter of my life is gone!! What am I going to do?!" :/
@Amaryllis: Thanks I am so glad I am not the only one!! I think what brought it on was my Fi's 23 yr old sister just bought a house and we are no where near that!!!
I am almost 29 and I had a really hard time with 25. Then I turned 25, had one of the best birthday parties ever and every age after that was a breeze and they get better!
I know the feeling but you will see that it is really no big deal.
With every birthday these past few years, I'm just glad I'm not 18-22 anymore because those were not proud years for me.
I was okay with turning 25 this year. I'm not sure what my "scary" age is... don't worry, soon you'll forget that you're even 25 and life just goes on. I'm sure it's like that with every age... unless you have serious regrets about where you are in life and what you're doing with it. And even that is something that most people have the ability to change. :)
25 is a big coming of age - for a lot of people just getting out of grad school, or people who are just a couple years into the job market, it's a big "holy cow what do I want to do with my life?! what if what I thought I wanted isn't what I want anymore?!" time. The quarter life crisis will pass, I promise :)
I have a hard time at just about any birthday (I'm either entering a decade, at the mid point of a decade or leaving the decade - gasp!). Time goes by so quickly - the best thing you can do for yourself is not focus on the number but on life. Before you know it, you'll be double your age (sorry, depressing thought, I know) - but, seriously - just enjoy the age you are at - because it's all so fleeting!
I freaked out a little at twenty four. My partner told me he randomly read some Adam Corrolla joke about how he wants to write a book called "I thought Adults Were Supposed to Be Good at Stuff."
I think sometimes I think about all the "adult stuff" in my life- like car insurance and cat food and sensible shoes and whatever, and think I should have "figured it out" or at least be on my way there, and I don't necessarily feel like I'm there. But it turns out "adults" are just kind of winging it too.
So I comfort myself with the idea that nobody really has it figured out. Even the adults.
I am freaking out about mine, its a few months away and I will be 26... UGH! I totally understand. Its a weird feeling.
if you think 25 is bad, wait till 3-0. 25 wasnt all that bad to me, youre still young, in your mid 20s.... well, 30's come and gone for me and... now i say age is just a number!!!
Haha so did I - it's a quarter life/coming of age crisis or something.
But honestly things have gone well since 25 (just turned 29 - freaking out I think will start happening again for the next birthday).
I found the same thing happened to my friend's ex when he turned 25. He said he was at a quarter of a century and felt his life was over. I turned 25 last year (now 26) and didn't feel that way at all. I looked at it in a different way-I'm in such a better place than I was at 18 or 21 and can have more fun because of it! Life isn't ending-it's beginning in a good way! You can still go out and do fun things!
i seriously felt the same way when i turned 25 last year! I actually had such a freak out I went and cut my long hair really short as a rebellion to my 25th.
When I turned 25 I cried so much, mostly though because my then boyfriend and I had just broken up and I was single and like where is my life going, when will I meet Mr. Right. I was the type sooooooo scared to be old and single. Now I just turned 28 and getting married in a week! Don't try to put yourself on other people's timelines. I know it's hard at times but you have so many things to be happy about and you'll get there too:)
I just turned 25 (a month after our wedding). I am very happy for everything I have done especially since turning 21:
Holy Cow its been a busy 4 years!!
Anyways, I still feel like I am totally "winging" it. I have no idea how to run a house, if I want to make my current job my career, working at marriage, etc.
I freaked out too when I turned 25, but now each year I celebrate my anniversary of turning 25! ;)
Really? I'm excited to turn 25.. I'm 23 now though.
But My mom and grama always told me their 30s and 40s were the best years of their lives, so I'm excited for it.
Wow, I can 110% relate to this. I turned 25 recently and I randomly broke down crying about it last night! (poor FI had to observe the ridiculous scene -haha)
I don't feel "old", I'm stable in my job, I'm obviously in love and excited about planning our wedding, I love where I live.....etc....BUT I don't know! There's just a feeling, like a full 1/3 or 1/4 of my life is OVER. It's like time is moving faster and faster. I can easily remember specific moments of being 5 years old...and that was 20 years ago! Its like when people say "life is short", its very cliche but I suddenly agree with them! I guess my only consolation for this is my belief in something even better afterward....but its still hard thinking about the years flying by.
I'll be honest. I'm 32 now (33 in a few months) and 25 was the WORST. I seriously had a melt down, freaking out about it so bad. I didn't even freak out like that at 30. I think it's pretty common. It's so hard to deal with - you're no longer a teen, no longer in your early 20's, I felt like I suddenly had to be SO responsible and adult and perfect and it was just downhill from there...of course, none of that was necessarily true, but it ddn't stop me from feeling that way. It's normal. :) But I totally, 100%, understand.
I am so glad I am not the only one with these feeling, I agree with just about everything on here it is definitely not a rational anxiety but still a very real one!!! Tonight my Fi is taking me out to dinner and I cannot wait to have glass of wine and just focus on the good stuff!!
I am turning 25 in August. I don't feel too too bad about it but sometimes I wonder why the heck I am still in school (phd student... so I have many more years to go).
I was OK at 25, I loved turning 25... I'm freaking out about the closer I get to 27...
Wow i had no idea 25 was a "freak out" age. I always feel like 25 is the epitome of your 20's, haha. I'll remember this when my BFF turns 25 and be sure to throw her a sweet ass party =]. I think a good party, friends, and cake can soothe over any issues, though =D
@fancypants, the dog in the darth vader costume is cracking me up this morning =]
I took turning 25 pretty well, but I definitely remember feeling like 25 was the age you were magically supposed to become a grown-up. You're not just out of college any more, and I still (at 27) feel a little bit like I'm playing grown up. I have a Masters degree, a great job, am married and buying a house, but it still feels like a cosmic joke that I'm an "adult now." I think it's just something about round numbers.
I'm sorry, I totally laughed a little when I read the post title. Wait 'till you get closer to thirty!!!
Don't feel bad, Girl. We all have that happen to us at some age or another. I was lamenting my 'old' self when I turned 27, and made the mistake of doing it around my parents, lol.
My Dad, thirty years my senior, (kindly?) told me to knock it off :)
I giggled at the title, too, but I can soooo relate. For whatever reason, 25 was hard for me, too. I remember having to go into a closet at work because I had started to tear up, and having to call my mom crying from the ladies room! She told me 25 was hard for her as well, so you're totally not alone in how you feel. It passes, though, and I'll be 29 in a couple months. I'm okay with this year's birthday, but I wonder if I'll go through a time next year when I turn 30. :)
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Ok so I know that 25 is not old at all but my Fi was joking around and saying o how do you feel about being an old lady on Sunday and stuff like that and I all of a sudden burst into tears. I felt so silly because I am so happy in my life right now and would not go back to being 18 but I just had an overwhelming feeling of HOLY SHIT. My Fi felt really bad and cheered me up but am I the only one that did this at turning 25?