How/when do you realize you're getting old?

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NathanDavis · Accepted Answer

I've gotten old quite a few times... lol

for example, around 19~20... when some little kids started to call me "sir" lmfao

-- or more recently, when a lot of the music I do like (from the early 90's and on) it is actually OLD music and many, perhaps most of the youngsters and kids don't even know what it is... lol

-- giving a lot of money to the government... that's starting to feel old already

physically though, I don't feel old at all and that's just because I'm really not, and I have not had two decades or so or terrible habits, I never had most of them and the few I got I did quit them, partially because I did not want to be like many other people I know within the range of my age and they actually need to plan on how to get up from bed and couches, lol

Noahzaid · Accepted Answer

When you start urging less and feel like this world is bigger than you. That you are unique but nothing makes you special in anyway. when you realize that each person you meet has his own experience and knowledge that you need to reflect on. In a nutshell, When you get out of the box that each person has been or still in it. just like a womb, you get out and grow

Prettygurl12 · Accepted Answer

I've been old since I was 7 😂

Many of my friends' parents have described me to my parents as: deep, thoughtful, mature, and an old soul.

I'm not sure when I accepted it. I've always been the boring one - methodical, structured, and having more "old-fashioned" values. I met my husband in 8th grade and was pretty much just set 😂 We dated in high school and college so I didn't have the stereotypical college experience like my friends and roommates. I remember them wanting to go out and party and thinking that I would literally rather die than stay out late lmao

* Please note that there is absolutely nothing wrong with having a more traditional college experience and I fully support everyone doing whatever [legal] things they want to do, those things just aren't for me.

melanieeeB · Accepted Answer

The last time was when the 20 year old trainee in our company thought I was 23, then figured out my real age and went "OMG you're SOO old!" Hahaha
Or when we have new technical updates and I'm sitting their with my oldest colleague and don't get it at first
Or my employer measured my desk with his phone and somehow you can do that and I still don't get it, I would have used a measurement thing for it...

But I must say yesterday I sat with the over 30 year olds and felt young, cause I'm not ready to sit there and be mad about the trash...

Sonorous · Answer

When my niece said I looked like a grandpa one day

Anonymous · Answer

At 29, I got my first gray hair which was a total shock to me as I'd mentally prepared for okay you turn 40 and then go gray, but it was smack dab in the middle of my part staring me in the eye alerting me that the apparent aging process had begun, but even though I am now about to turn 40 and have way more gray hairs, I don't quite feel old which is good. No one has said the dreaded, "OMG, you're old!!!" I still thankfully get a surprised look of, "you're not actually 39 are you?!?" which I will hold on to for however long it lasts.

SnowedIn · Answer

Sometimes it's a milestone birthday. Sometimes it's when some piece of technology I used growing up is not only obsolete but unknown. But mostly it's when younger people start working at my company and they're younger than my kids. That's when I feel old.

OddBeMe · Answer

(Deep breath)
1) When the oldies station plays your hits
2) when 18 yr olds look like preteens
3) when the words they say are worse than foreign languages
4) when you duck out of parties to get home asap
5) your Pinterest feed replaces hot bodies with countertops and hardwood floors. Oh baby…

Weapon77 · Answer

I'm not old, and I've never realized I'm old, but I sure started feeling old when I realized I had been losing my hair since I was 19 (I realized when I was 20). When I finally am getting old and realize it, I assume it won't faze me in the slightest after what I've already delat with 😅

TrueConfection · Answer

The first time I attended a 40th birthday party, I felt like "old" was just around the corner for me.

Now I am nearing the next bracket and I remember my parents were OLLLLD at 50. I'm not as old as they were at my age, not even close.

My own kids are becoming adults and that makes me feel like I'm aging and need to get on an ice sheet and float off.

sheenagwapa · Answer

appreciate gettinh older you all tomorrow is not promised... i think being old is a good thing it means you hqve enjoyed earth longer

may God grant us more and more years to enjoy life here on earth bit heaven isn't bad it's actually very beautiful

humanearth · Answer

When you see a photographs of your younger self and then you look in the mirror and see an old fucker looking back

Your oldest kid now has gray hair

Your kid has to help you get up from the couch

You see someone in their 20s that's sexy and they think your a sick old fucker.

You someone in their 20s and you think their hot, then you realize that you have kids older then them

When you can say yes to these questions, Then your ann old fucker to

DryGermanGuy · Answer

When I started to make sounds while tying my shoelaces. 🙄

jennifer_bloom · Answer

One is when I used to get guys in their early 20s chasing me and 5 years later, guys in their 40s are interested in me. It’s like a 20 year difference in 5 years.

Ian69 · Answer

1, Forgetting things. 2. Repeating yourself. 3. Forgetting things. 4. Repeating yourself. 5. Forgetting things. 6. Repeating yourself.

Tenebrae_mentis · Answer

When I noticed my facial hair turning white. And then when I had a big gray strand of hair in the bangs. I can no longer deny it... I've crossed the threshold... I'm old...

AngelOfLight258 · Answer

When I had my first mammogram 8 years ago. Nothing quite reminds you of your own mortality like standing topless in front of a strangers with your knockers pressed flat in an acrylic vice grip.

MCheetah · Answer

I first felt "no longer young" at 27. My 36th birthday was this Tuesday, the 8th, and now I officially feel "old."

481632 · Answer

When you're trying to have a conversation with someone younger but start to wonder if you're even speaking the same language.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

I didn’t start thinking about getting old until i started waking up with aches and pains with no memory of injuries from the previous day. Ell oh ell!

JordynJayne · Answer

When my bedtime went from 3am to when my kid goes to bed at 8:30. Lights out baby! Any later than that, and I’m not functioning.

nolabels · Answer

18 years old. First day on the job. My back screwed up and never recovered. It's been downhill from there.

Ezra_lila · Answer

When before my pouch are full of make-up kits but now it have been for muscles relieving ointment instead.. Tita's pouch as we called it.

PainusNdeeAnus · Answer

I don’t like getting old I don’t burn off Taco Bell, takis and caprisuns like I used to 😅  😂

Sour-rose · Answer

"Is that another crack I just made in my body? Oh fuk me..."

Phoenix98 · Answer

I groan when I get up from chairs and my knees make occasionally creaking noises o and the grey hair slowly making its way in.

docster · Answer

When they started playing songs by Madonna on the oldies station.

jshm2 · Answer

When your "favourites" are now called "classics"

Rockstarrrrr · Answer

Me as a teen : why don't people take me seriously? Me right now : I hate teens... stupid edgelords...  Plus forehead wrinkles lol

bamesjond0069 · Answer

When you can't attract teen girls anymore. Thankfully I have a look that is mature but good skin and stuff so many think I'm 25 when I'm actually 35.

Fuentes · Answer

I think with the fact I am disgusted with Gen Z and any new trends or anything I have no idea about and I'm out of what's in or the new style is & don't care for it lol

bean2k21 · Answer

When you go to take a shit and accidentally sit on your balls.

Mtbgirl · Answer

Lol we all age but I seriously don’t think about that. I feel I am way to young.

exitseven · Answer

When my kids were all done with college and were as big as me.

BJP21 · Answer

When I turn on oldies station that normally plays Motown or 50-60s music playing 80s music. WTF.

annabananna · Answer

When someone says you looked so young in that picture.

ArtemisSilver · Answer

When you try to do something you used to be able to do easily and you crunch or pull a muscle.

Anonymous · Answer

I'm not 20 years old anymore, so i am pretty much expecting to expire Anytime in the future. It Could be tomorrow before i Even know it. I'm not tripping about it.

AsaKyo · Answer

When I feel awkward about still liking things from my childhood

Andres77 · Answer

when ur kids ask you what life was like before electricity...

KostasKouvalis · Answer

Not this past summer, but the summer before that. And I had a mental breakdown because of it

Sixgun77 · Answer

Hmm. Either the first time I heard guns n roses on a classic rock station, or the first time that I hurt myself and it took several months to heal.

Wise4myage · Answer

Aches and pains that you normally don’t experience I guess.

Likes2drive · Answer

When you keep getting ARRP applications in the mail

Sparkie460 · Answer

When I wake up and everything hurts or starts cracking. It started in my early 30's

peedy · Answer

When everything hurts more than it used to, and things don't work like they used to

shortster · Answer

When you hurt yourself getting out of bed. Not hitting anything; just getting out of it like normal.

Anonymous · Answer

At the age of 16. Numbers doesn't scare me anymore. I know only day everyone has to die. So not scared about it.

EaterPeter · Answer

Be in relationship with a woman and she will remind you with every opportunity she gets

Anonymous · Answer

When you go to stand up and you make the old man noise. 🤣

Anonymous · Answer

When I was 14, I realized I'd be 18 soon. Now I'm 18, I'm pretty much getting old now because time will mercilessly continue to force itself forward

MrKinktastic · Answer

Everything hurts when I wake up in the morning lol

bubblegunnn · Answer

21st when i start to work

Agape93 · Answer

When my body starts to work against me

skilled_jellyfish · Answer

You're only old when you give up.

TroyDT2 · Answer

When you believe that you are.

Desconhecida · Answer

When parties start to feel like work.

art84 · Answer

When my body hurts like arthritis

Charliefretz329 · Answer

Gray hair and sore body after heavy labor lol

bigpink · Answer

When I started to resent birthdays

panamared1 · Answer

realize it is better than the alterative

eagle1951 · Answer

everytime someone saids your old

Anonymous · Answer

When im not as dumb as i used to be

Seangreen · Answer

when you hit 40

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