Am I getting too old for theme parks? š¤
Is this a thing?
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This is something that's been playing on my mind for the past 3 years or so.
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Whenever I visit a theme park these days, there's usually one or two moments throughout the day where I feel like the odd one out. Ā At 30 years of age,Ā I feel old.
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I look round me when stood in a queue, and most of the other guestsĀ are teenagersĀ or adults with kids. Ā Yes, there are a few couples or older groupsĀ etc who visit, but they're a rare sight.
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Usually the feeling passes after a moment, and I brush it off with my usual "who cares, I love theme parks!" take on the situation.
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But this year at Fright Nights, it really hit me. For most of the day, the feeling stuck with me. I know it wasn't the case, but IĀ felt like the oldest person on the entire park. Nearly everyone queueing around me was in their teens (except my theme park buddy who is a year younger than me), and going through the mazes with a group of young teenagers did make me feel like an old man, reminiscing about mazes from over 10 years ago, when many of the other guests would have been toddlers.
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As we head towards next weekend, me and Mrs Inferno are heading to the fireworks at Alton Towers, and I have a very faint feeling of dread buildingĀ - am I getting too old for all this stuff?
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I've always been a firm believer in just going for it, and if anyone ever asked me the question "am I too old to go to a theme park", I would say absolutely not! Ā But just lately, I'm beginning to understand why people might feel that way.
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I'd love to know if anyone else ever feels similar, and what your take is on being "too old for theme parks"?
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