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.
The funny thing is planking, chili powder, and tide pods was like a decade ago.
Multiple times a month ever since the day I was taught what birthdays are.
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
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.
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.
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When I looked in the mirror one day and saw all the gray in my hair and beard.
When I started to need to constantly crack my lower back.
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!
When I felt out of breath after walking up a flight of stairs.
This. 1000%.
Shortly after turning 34, it occurred to me I was closer to my 50th birthday than 18th.
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Can confirm at this point that they were making it up as they went… Just like I am now.
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?
When I had to fill a survey and I filled age group 25-35 instead of 18-25
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 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 turned 50 this year…
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.
