What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?
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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.
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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.
