Today fucker. Why you got to remind me I just turned 40. Fuck!
Happy birthday, that's a big one.
Time to buy a sports car. I love my new midlife crisis car
I’m 50 and still don’t.
I'm 42 and same here.
I see a lot of posts in this thread that, on the surface, seem to be more health and lifestyle issues than solely age. I still play ice hockey, climb mountains, stay out late, enjoy alcohol, play in a band, play computer games, bartend, throw parties, travel, and generally live life to the fullest. I’ve been fortunate to not have any debilitating genetic problems, but I’ve also kept myself physically active and emotionally healthy throughout my life. I truly wish society supported more people to be able to live that way. As I’ve aged I’ve become more of an activist for a shorter work week, better support from the government, and much higher wages. I hope, those of you who want to, can find ways to reverse some of the things that make you feel old beyond your years.
That's the spirit. Although sometimes I see changes in my skin that don't match the age I feel :-D
I’ve gone the “drinking the blood of virgins” route for that one.
When I turned 50 they asked me if I planned to grow up now 😂
Whoever “they” are should stop asking stupid questions.
When a little boy in the supermarket called me "sir"... I'm 18
When I noticed how excited I get about good quality appliances.
IMO fuck everyone who doesn't care about good quality appliances. They are to blame for how common shitty ones are these days. Especially developers who just get something that looks nice but actually sucks when you use it.
Glares at oven that takes forever to preheat, doesn't keep the temperature even once it does, and has a drawer oven that takes even longer to preheat than the shitty main oven takes to preheat and COOK things
I was at a cocktail party a couple of weeks ago, and had an engaging conversation with 4 other dads about our choices and regrets in kitchen appliances....and lawnmowers.
I was at Warped Tour many years ago, talking with randos in the campground. I mentioned which bands I was there to see, and this guy gave me a huge smile and yelled 'You're old' in my face.
I went in 2018 and only went for/recognized reel big fish... Wuf
When the moms at the skatepark seemed too young to flirt with.
Shortly after turning 34, it occurred to me I was closer to my 50th birthday than 18th.
Yeah somewhere between 32 and 34. So long youth, I guess I had my go.
My joints were already telling me I'm old. Did you really have to point that out to all the other 34 year Olds on here?
I took four naps on my day off. I'm 32.
That may as well just mean you're overworked (or something else) though. I do stuff like this in my 20s
Could be a nutrient deficiency, too. I've gotten myself out of that exhausted state with b-complex and magnesium supplements. It's quick, too, if that's the real problem. I felt normal and alert again within 15 minutes of taking the supplements.
Well, throwing out my lower back bending over a table a couple weeks ago sure didn't help...
The worst I have ever thrown my back out was picking up a pair of scissors. I was in my 20s.
Yep. It hit me at 32. I literally wasn't even bending over. I walked about 30 feet in my house and by the time I got to the couch I was in terrible pain
When I honestly felt that what my homemade juice/blended smoothie thingy needed more of was celery and that without enough celery it was too sweet and lacked body. That was the day there was no more pretending. Only a year before had I suffered through my first back injury, so they can go together.
Otherwise, the beginnings of it for me were when I noticed warming up for physical exercise took longer. 10-15 minute bicycle commutes used to require no warm up at all. Then I’d feel warmed up only by the end of them. That’s when I knew I was turning the corner.
Within the past few years, once my neck problems started getting worse and I finally went for an MRI and was diagnosed with arthritis.
0/10, do not recommend.
My MIL has had really good luck with non-thc CBD creams for arthritis. Done it daily for the the last couple of years and she swears by it. Don't have personal experience with it, but she recently opened a jar of pasta sauce in front of me and didn't blink. Hope you get some relief.
I was speaking to someone at a party recently and realised they where both in their 20s and born after 9/11. Was quite a moment.
Hell, I clearly recall the space shuttle Challenger tragedy. I even vaguely recall when Reagan was shot.
When my cousin's babies that used to play in my grandmothers house had children of their own
When I had to fill a survey and I filled age group 25-35 instead of 18-25
When I realized I could say "I've been doing this for 20 years".
when the web became an application platform
When I realized that the games I enjoyed in college were released over twenty years ago.
At my BF's cousin's 18th birthday party, a small family do at the uncle and aunt's house. The living room was full of people 60+, so as 30 something young people we naturally headed out into the hallway to hang with the cousins and their friends. All these young people barely registered us and just moved aside to let us past, they didn't even look at us, just carried on talking to each other. We got to the kitchen and looked at each other and just went oh shit, we're old aren't we. Grabbed drinks and headed back to the old folk, at least they would speak to us!
Politicians being younger than me.
Damn, you must be like 100 or something.
you know there is now a member of the US Congress born in 1997, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Frost
When I started sharing aches and pains over lunch with friends.
When I turned 50 this year...
The first time was when even the "old man" veteran professional athletes were younger than me.
When I was 23, I was in a conversation with some teenagers and realized I didn't understand half the things they said.
The gap grew at 30. Teens and social media challenges? Planking? Chili powder? Tide pods?
Now at 40... YouTube drama? Lil skizzle doing a pop tart on Biancas Insta made her reem? I don't even wanna know.
I'm concerned that I'm not sure if you were making up words or not.
When I address my peers suddenly as "old white men", and then realize they're just as old as me.
Cellulite. :(
"sir"
Depends on the context, I look pretty young but people still call me sir in restaurants.
When kids born after I could drive started getting their licenses. That's when I knew I was a grown up for real.
So around 34?
When I got blackout drunk last week and I'm still feeling the hangover effects.....I'm 29 for fuck sake! Let me do what I did ten years ago and still come out strong!
When I felt out of breath after walking up a flight of stairs.
This. 1000%.
When I started to need to constantly crack my lower back.
People have started calling me ma'am.
I was in a GameStop one day and there was a father and son there. The son was wanting to buy some Pokemon cards and asked his father if they were similar to the Pokemon cards they had when he was growing up and that's when it hit me that people who grew up playing Pokemon are old enough to have children.
When I looked in the mirror one day and saw all the gray in my hair and beard.
I've always enjoyed some classic rock, when I was a kid I used to listen to the oldies station and groove to some Steppenwolf or whatever. One day I was driving to work, radio tuned to the classic rock station, and they played Pearl Jam.
Multiple times a month ever since the day I was taught what birthdays are.
When I was 21, and I got the first of my "arthritis."
It's in quotes because years later it was diagnosed as an entirely different (and even more debilitating) disease, but I still effectively have arthritis a lot of the time, I just now also have constant insomnia and fatigue.
would you mind sharing a little more? im 22 and have suffered from arthritis, insomnia and fatigue for a while, notably bad for my age
If it wasn't going bald after high school or turning 30, it had to be when I turned 36 since I realized I could have pressed a magic reset button and relived my first 18 years of life over again within that time.
I saw the Coachella lineup this past year and didn't know 90% of the lineup. My back started acting up that day. I'm 33.
As soon as I was born
My partner keeps calling me 'old man' but it makes me feel more like a slug than old...
40 essentially. Intensified when my anxiety peaked from tapering off meds, and realized that at 60 im 75% done with my span statistically.
I'm not sure about "old" specifically, but the first time I really felt my mortality and the ticking clock was when I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, and realized that virtually every night I sleep from then until I die is with something strapped to my face.
That was 14 years ago, and now I have high blood pressure meds I will likely take until I die and arthritis from working as a helicopter mechanic (those 9 years of piano lessons are sure paying off, lol). So I guess the new feeling of old is seeing the ticking clock and hoping it runs out before the general painful breakdown of my body progresses too far. When I was in my early 20s, I imagined I'd be unlikely to live past 60. Now I dread what my life will be like if I'm still alive after 60.
