What age were you when you first felt old? What caused you to notice?
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What age were you when you first felt old? What caused you to notice?
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Probably when I was 6 looking at toddlers who have nothing to worry about all day long while I was stuck with my fast paced 6 year old life.
Age is more of a frame of mind.
24ish, I’m 27 now. My little cousin asked me what “Don’t touch that dial” meant and that one stung a little bit.
The day I hired someone for a bar job that was born the same year I graduated high school.
I’m 50. It feels just like 40, 30, and 20 did. Hopefully the same will be true at 60.
There’s no single age. It creeps up on you slowly. Getting more minor (for now) aches and pains. Slower healing/recovery from injuries. Getting diagnosed with high cholesterol.
Mentally, things just start losing novelty. Nothing is really “new” anymore. It’s all just variations on something I have experienced before.
37 I think, I started looking like my uncles when I was young.
About maybe 32. At the gym playing some basketball and tried to jump and realized i could barely reach the net. Lost almost all explosiveness in the legs.
25. Thinning hair, wrinkles, slowing metabolism…
There comes a point in everybody’s life (typically early-mid 20’s) when they stop growing and start aging.
Right now. I’m 22 and I’m soon 23 (in two months).
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I used to be friends with this one guy, when we were friends his youngest brother was a toddler. Incapable of speaking, barely capable of walking. I just saw on facebook that he’s 13 now, and is acting/behaving like a typical teenager.
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I used to know him when he was a baby, now he’s older.
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It makes me feel very old even when I’m not old. Heck, technically I’m still mentally a child. But still. I don’t like aging.
So, did not really “feel old,” but I was first acutely aware of my age by age 27. Volunteering with a bunch of kids, I realized that many of my favorite video games when I was their age are now older than they are. And time only marches on…
Like a year ago maybe. My gf came to me with the video asking if when you think something is funny do you put a laughing emoji or a skull? I was like, “Why the hell would i put a skull?” And my gf is like, because they’re saying ‘I’m dead’ when something is funny now. And then the video elaborated on more ‘new slang’ and i immediately turned to both Clint Eastwood and Red Foreman at the same time. Then i saw on a stream on YouTube some people are saying ‘pog’ instead of ‘cool’ now and everything just feels so cringe. Also all the girls with the septum piercings and birth-control glasses.
I’m 45 and have never felt old. Age is just a number unless you decide to attatch a meanimg to it
My shoulder started to develop a click , I felt like Riggs from lethal weapon
I turned 39 this year and I have felt really old. More than just the number. I feel my body starting to break down. It’s scary and depressing.
When I realized the adult administrative assistant at my work is half my age
18 like a year ago
Maybe because im the older brother and i should act/feel old
When I was 27.
I was a PE teacher in university, and until this year students called me by my first name.
And they started to call me sir. 18 to 24 years old guys !
First time it happened, I looked behind me to see if they spoke to another person.
Around 31. My hip has been going and it’s making mounting/dismounting my bikes harder. Believe it’s arthritis setting in as I haven’t rode most of the summer. The layer of plushy fat around my midsection probably isn’t helping.
I’m 20 but mentally 60
Fam
When young girls offered me their seat on a bus.
30 Started getting aches and pains that didn’t go away in a few days. 3 years later and they’re all still here.
I know it’s going to get worse, and worse, and worse. Can’t wait.
When I turned like 32 or 33 was talking to someone about something and the amount of time that had passed was 20 years….I realized omg I can say I did this or that 20 years ago….FFFFUUCCCKKKK
28 for me, but I don’t think it was the age as much as the circumstances. I was disconnected from my group of friends over COVID that I typically would see every 2-3 weeks. This summer when I resumed seeing them it seemed like a decade had passed. 3 have kids on the way, 2 are engaged (had not even met the ones fiancé yet), and another 3 had bought houses.
I found out why Sciatica pain is so bad…at 39
So..FUCKING….BAD…….
16 I thought I was old