What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?
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Time feels way faster as you get older.
It's also pretty grim that the people you know are either dying, dead, or have a life altering illness that comes out of nowhere. I feel like there's a funeral in my family once a month, rather than once every decade.
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That first happened to me at 18 and it was so weird. I was helping out at my old school for an interschool music festival—a week of all sorts of different workshops and rehearsals between different schools, culminating in a concert at the end. During a break I was tinkering around on the piano, and a student came up to me and said "excuse me, sir…[some question about the timetable or something, that I definitely didn't have the level of authority to know the answer to]". I have her the best answer I could and she went on her way, but I was just stuck there feeling way too old.
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I feel you, I hate it.
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Driving at night just sucks.
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Nobody mistakes me for a teenager anymore.
Kids call me "lady"
I want to go to bed at 9 PM
I get excited for new appliances
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Im not old but general lack of energy compared to when I was younger. Likely a symptom of both age and more responsibilities.
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I hit that in my mid 20s. Turned out my headlights sucked and I needed to clean the inside of my windshield.
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Looks at a picture of a family dinner from 10 years ago. One third of the people are now dead…
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I feel sick all the time
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Hot take but I think it’s because people stop having or seeking out novel experiences. Most of people’s lives are repetitive and boring jobs with barely any time to zone out in the evening. And once your kids move out and you’re with a long term partner, hardly anything is dynamic in your life. Or fresh. Or unexpected.
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Cuts and such heal WAYYYYY more slowly.
I also seem to bruise easier.
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I’ve started to lose height as I get older instead of gaining it
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I got excited about a sale on toilet paper. It was 50% off for 30 rolls of the really high quality one!
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Me too. But I stopped hopping ten years ago and settled down on Alpine, Void, or Gentoo, based on how fancy the hardware is, and the use case.
To me, the hopping part relates more to tinkering and fine-tuning. Today I prefer things just work. I wish no down time on all my devices and servers, because who has time to figure out why my photo doesn't sync to my NAS, or dig up that piece of paper when my password manager does not respond because of the proxy service is down?
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My (slightly) balding head.
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I tore the fuck out of my shoulder and had to have extensive repair surgery done. When I was talking to my physical therapist about a specific aspect of the repair, he said that they tended to do that with "older" people.
Ouch.
Also, I guess that my goal of looking like 2016 Rich Piana has now morphed to looking like 2018 Rich Piana.
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Having to do something on a weekday evening is a huge inconvenience.
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Ah but you're not really a proper old guy until you get a bidet and start bitching about how medieval everyplace you go is that doesn't have one.
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I stepped out of a van wrong and completely tore my acl and mcl and partially tore my lcl (basically, fucked up my knee).
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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.
