What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?
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I hear this question being asked more frequently
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Just wait until your first student dies
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When did Nirvana become classic rock?
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Your living expenses increase far more than your pay
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Then people call me insane for not wanting to make it past 40
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We're well past that day. Foo Fighters are played on our Classic Rock station.
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The rage inside has only ever increased. The older I get the more militant I get. By the time I'm 40 I'll be living in the forest defending my country from fascists with a bow and arrow.
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I don't get it, the year on the calendar keeps getting bigger, and I can't figure out why.
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Sounds strange but I feel like, they listen to me more at work. There is more respect to the things I say.
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The weight gain is really the big sign shit is going down hill. I've been making a series of changes since about age 35, and each time the new diet or exercise routine works for like a year or two and then the weight slowly creeps back up. At this point I literally ride a bike 200 miles per week and I will still gain weight slowly if I eat breakfast. It makes no sense.
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Whatever im doing i gotta be careful or ill fuck my back up
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Losing the people you love in very different ways.
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I still do but I just don't have time for any serious gaming, so it's only quick or indie games for me. But I think I could see myself get back into an MMO or something when I'm retired.
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Also, “lasts”.
You start to realize that there are things approaching that are the last time you’ll see or do something. The last time you visit where you grew up. Last time your kid lived at home. Last car you’ll ever own.
Yeah, the lasts suck.
I remember being in college, and this Onion article gave me a little bit of an existential crisis.
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I just turned 50. I have an extremely good memory for events long ago, like I remember parts of being 2 years old even without difficulty. This is the first year in my life that all those things seem so very long ago though. I don't know how to describe it, but the fact I was alive before we got answering machines suddenly makes me feel very ancient when it didn't before. I also try to describe how horrible 1980s parenting was and nobody really gets that, like how casually you were molested or sexually pestered by adult men and nobody cared, or girls at my high school having adult boyfriends, or my teacher dating Tanya Memme when she was underage, and briefly being suspended for it because it was Catholic school, but she graduated and they went right back to it. (Tanya is a good egg though). It seems very alien to anyone I've talked to about it who are younger, but it really was like that, your parents did not give one fuck about your safety. That makes me feel suddenly a lot older, because nobody else seems to understand or have forgotten how bad it was.
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Aww I love that you still go out at night though. I don't unless I bus.
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Feeling confident without makeup.
Realizing that the pillars of success written by governments or institutions is bullshit and caring more about good people.
Feeling comfortable with a small social bubble. Quality over quantity.
Valuing naps over parties.
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I notice the 55 and older menu. Save some money!
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I have to keep scrolling further and further back every year on age verification for websites.
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Considering the Bowling for Soup song 1985, 2003, which is now classic rock.
