More of a phrase than a word but still symbolic in everyone's life.
It is a time in which you thought your parent couldn'tdie or you could never be that guy.
Person 1.) Hey how's your dad
Person 2.) He passed away and my life seams completely different.
Person 1.) Gotta ditch that "can't happen to me mentality" or it'll hurt your game.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)