What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?
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Same here!! Why don't they dim with the rest of the dashboard lights??
It's almost to the point I'm putting some electrical tape over them. Can't wait to have a car with self dimming lights, then I'll tape over it and keep them toggled on forever without worries
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I worked construction from 14-20. Nowadays I work a cushy desk job. Still whenever we need something sone in our house (which is a lot, my house is a degrading shack) if it's something I'm comfortable doing I do it myself. Every once in a while there's a job that just kills me and I feel like I need a week to recover from.
Last weekend I put new drywall up on my kitchen ceiling. I used to do it all the time with ease, by myself, light work. Nowadays I'm glad my wife wasn't home to see me struggling. I had to pull out all my tricks and it was still fucking rough.
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Scattered gray hairs on head and beard. At this point, they look kinda good because Iām mostly retaining my natural color.
Used to be super skinny. Metabolism slowed and I have a beer gut.
Far less interested in pursuing hobbies into the wee hours of the morning. I like to go to bed by around 1030pm and wake early even on weekends. I woke naturally at 6am today (Saturday).
Feel out of place in some younger crowds like concerts for young artists. We were definitely some of the oldest people at a 100 Gecs show.
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diminished eyesight, especially at night.
oh, and of course, making some references that some of the youngsters don't understand.
(also, using the term "youngsters")
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The solution to this is to make breakfast in the afternoon
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It takes exponentially longer to heal from physical injury. That's it so far, except for feeling calmer - older people are exceptional at emotional regulation, which oddly enough is why they are easier to scam, they don't freak out as quickly.
But mostly it's the slow healing. I am still strong and flexible but have to be careful and moderate because getting hurt will set me back much more than it used to.
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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.
