What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?
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If I sleep wrong I wake up in pain.
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My age keeps increasing.
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At age 30, I noticed I couldn't skimp on sleep anymore and hangovers were much worse than in my 20's.
In my mid-30's my eyesight started to blur and I had to start wearing glasses.
At 40, my digestion isn't as good as it used to be and I take supplements. Also, it's harder to memorize things now, and I no longer have the option of missing workouts or daily stretching, because I notice it much more if I haven't done these things.
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I had perfect vision for decades and then it suddenly went to shit. Found out there's no preventing it, no lifestyle changes to make it better. It's just gone. Presbyopia can't be prevented or fixed. Feels bad, man.
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Lots of things like grey hair, moving more slowly, injuries that I would have bounced away from before instead hurting for weeks or months.
But the one that hit hardest was a breakup I had a little while back. She was the love of my life and I fully intended to marry her, and when she ended it out of nowhere I was sad, but fine. She dumped me, and it sucked, but I also needed to finish a staff report for a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting that night. So I moved on.
The thing that upset me most was that I wasn't that upset. There was a time in my life when I would have been a mess. But as I've aged, my emotions have become more regulated.
I miss being capable of that level of joy and pain.
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This is the plus side of being older.
I've been burned enough times in life that it's really easy to just write people off that I shouldn't have let in my life anyway, and I'm much happier in my own little world with my books.
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Btw I was born in 2004 and I'm 20
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Love definitely hits different in your 20's. Though, the plus side is when something ends I don't obsess over it like I did as a young man.
I remember in the mid-2010's when Guns n Roses decided to reunite and tour, and my first thought was: "Why would I want to watch Axl Rose now that he's old and fat?" That was a sign.
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Waking up with a new pain and having to make it the new normal.
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And sneezing then having a pain in your back from it.
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I don't distrohop or tinker with my Linux install anymore. I just install Linux Mint XFCE edition and don't even bother changing the background.
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And Your Living in the UK.
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20+ years ago i spent hours each day developing my own lcars interface based on enlightenment; now i just use whatever x-windows environment the distro i'm using at the moment defaults to.
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My knee inexplicably hurt for a few days a couple weeks back.
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So very much this. Waking up now includes logging what does and does not hurt. It sucks.
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All kinds of random aches that just just become the new normal.
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Got excited about a four slot toaster that I bought.
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The clothing styles I wore in middle school are cool now, except those damn low rise flares will not work on me at 40 because my mid-section would flab out everywhere. Damn kids.
My shoulder still hurts from last week when I slept funny.
The idea of staying out past 10pm sounds terrible.
I almost set up a breakfast date with a friend for 7am.
I'm really excited for a larger capacity water heater.
I'm starting to do that thing where I look down to focus on small text right in front of me.
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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.
