What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?
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Do you have to calculate it now though? I have to go let's see, I was born in the year… It used to be innate knowledge.
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Tech also just isn't advancing and changing as much as it was when we were younger so it's not as exciting anymore
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My wife and I get excited every time we come across articles about exoskeleton tech. Can we expedite this a little? I want a mech suit—not a fucking wheelchair—when I reach that age.
Also, a note to the designers: make sure you can use the toilet with it. Extrapolating current trends, I suspect this will become one of my primary activities.
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While listening to the oldies radio station and hearing music that was popular while you were in high school
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I like this comment the best. These points are all true, undeniable. Aging is funny cause you never can tell how old someone is.
I work at a liquor store with a college feel and holy shit I card everyone!!
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Stuff hurts more than it used to.
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COVID really did destroy the flow of time for me.
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I don't get that at all. To me it feels like there's so much progress happening right now.
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Hungovers last longer, so do injuries from sport, easier to put on weight, less patience for bullshit, more selective with whom I spend my time with... There are so many!
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Weirdly enough I got way better at night driving post-40.
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I don't think this is true.
It's not exciting to me any more because I hate the way it's changing the world.
In the 2010s it felt like tech would save us.
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- At 30 you reach the peak.
- At 40 you start to have small health problems that don't go away and are mostly annoyance.
- At 50 you seek help because it's more than annoyance. You get your first permanent medication.
- At 60 it's somewhat limiting and for the first time causing Intermediate pain.
- At 70 it's debilitating and pain is a familiar companion. You might have your first seizures.
- At 80 if it hasn't killed you yet, it soon will. You are probably an invalid or close to it.
- At 90 if you are still hanging on, you are waiting for death and welcoming it.
That's pretty much it, ±10 years.
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Ain't it brutal? They say if you haven't started balding at age 40, you probably never will, but I've known several people with a full head of lush hair at 40, and in their early fifties, it's all gone to hell.
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- Your former school teachers die. At this point, I think the majority of mine is gone.
- Your gum recedes, and there's nothing you can do about it except to stop smoking. On a larger scale, your circulation gets worse because your erythrocytes become less elastic, for reasons still unknown. Add to this the most damaging impact of UV light and our atmosphere's oxygen - an objectively very aggressive chemical - and you start shriveling, just withering away from the outside. Molecular bonds are simply getting broken faster than they get repaired. Your insides last a bit longer, but their days are numbered, too.
- On the plus side, you'll get to learn new words for body parts you didn't even know you had.
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I don't enjoy gaming anymore
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I am 34. Close to 40, but not there yet.
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I don't think that's a age thing.
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The Baz Lurhman's Sunscreen Song is correct in every way.
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Unless you are 70, that sounds more like a problem with lack of exercise and stretching catching up to you.
Not judging.
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You start grasping for the past again. You may have at one point when you were younger, have gotten tired of people telling stories of their past and how things were in the day. But before you know it, you will do it too. A lot of people already are doing it and they're in stages of their lives that the older people once were who also did it.
You feel like the world becomes greyer and greyer when you read the news about some celebrity that played a role you remembered them in be it a show or movie that passed away. This also applies to knowing about the individuals through the cracks that don't get as much coverage, like pioneers that helped make things you take for granted, knowing of people that took part of something that made you realize that they were what made something work and not who you thought did.
You get increasingly annoyed at just noise. Dogs barking. Children loudly playing. Babies crying. People shouting. People clumsily doing things that make something break or whatever. You yearn for periods of silence.
You could become isolated by choice, like caught in a web of indecision as to what hobby you want to enjoy. You're getting older, not younger, so you feel like you have to try to enjoy what you can before you really can't anymore.
And above all else, you grow more and more distant from the connections you once called your best. There will be a point in your life much later on, where you will be in a nursing home or whatever and you may not have a way to stay in touch with your friends. All of you are on a course of this same life and the sad part is all of you are also racing to your ends.
