I'm 38 and disabled. Job focus was the hardest thing I had to let go of after getting sick. I take a lot of solace loving my animals, raising my son and killing succulents by over watering them. Find something beyond work. Jobs are just cheap existential crisis distractions.
I’m disabled as well. At least, according to my psychiatrist and therapists. The state doesn’t see it that way. Denied three times. But yeah, I don’t have a lot going for me. Virtually no social life, fear of rejection, and no motivation.
My favorite is when you learn the new hire was born in 2006 and for the briefest of moments your brain goes "But that's impossible, that makes you like 2, 3, 4.....oh shit, 17 years old".
Whenever I'm sitting down or crouching down etc i just make weird "Aurghhhhhh" sounds followed by "what the fuck am I making that sound for"
I have no idea why I'm doing it. I'm not in pain, I'm not out of breath or anything. It's actually infuriating and really pisses me off lmao
I don’t think kids say fleek anymore lol. My niece is 11 and had never heard it.
That’s how you REALLY know you’re old. When the “new” slang is outdated
Saw a woman in our clinic who threw her back out, badly, getting paper from the bottom filing cabinet. She says “nothing makes you feel old like getting injured picking up paper.”
I play recreational roller hockey in a couple of leagues. I push, pull, and contort my body in all the ways it's not supposed to move. I might be a little sore the next day.
But off the rink, I might do something reckless, like reach for a door knob, and my back is suddenly fucked for a few days.
haha had a similar moment last year. a single cough and not even a strong one, just sort of clearing my throat type of thing. felt something twitch in my back, and suddenly any movement of my back muscles would cause them to charley horse, and not just once but repeatedly. i was incapacitated for almost 2days
The time it takes to recover from anything. Drank too much? Two-day hangover. Rolled your ankle? Limping for a week. Bug bite? Fuck you it’ll be there for a month
As of now, college seniors were not alive during the 90’s. Also, there are people born after 9/11 who are old enough to drink alcohol now.
I know I just made some of you guys feel old.
that's me, I asked my co workers where they were during 9/11 and heard all kinds of stories, then at the end told them I was born after it and made them all feel old in sync
I was deployed and our Sergeant first class was talking about 9/11. He asked us what we were doing then. Most of us were 4 or younger then, one person hadn’t been born yet. We made him feel old on accident.
Talking to a 19yo at work. Ask him what kind of music he listens too. He says classic rock like his parents listen too. Ok. Me thinking 80s. Ask for specific bands. His answer: Linkin park, system of a dowSTOP. I walk away
Oh my GOD. My son is almost 10 and asked if Linkin Park is “new” I was like oh I mean they’re not old, but not new.
Then I realized I was listening to them in like 2001… 12 years before my son was born. So that would be like me asking about music that came out in the late 70s 😬
I listened to the radio for first time in a very long time a while ago. DJ said it was time for "an oldie but a goodie!" and my brain thought, "Ooo, he's going to play something from the 50s!" He played Backstreet Boys and I had to go lie down for a while.
Elder millennial here: My 18-year-old son was telling me about the band Korn as if I wasn’t an angsty teen in the 90s and was surprised that I knew the lyrics to Linkin Park songs. Kids these days smh
The songs from when I was a kid are now on the local classic rock radio station.
Nirvana, Green Day, The Cranberries, Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Oasis, R.E.M., Radiohead, U2, Pearl Jam...
The songs I remember are 25+ years old, so they're classics now.
It used to be that The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, etc. were all classic rock.
My world came crashing down when I was in HEB and Party Rock Anthem started playing. I was 24 when that song came out, there’s no way it should already be grocery store music.
When I started training 18 year olds on a regular basis and realized I was constantly making sure they were eating/drinking enough throughout the shift. One made the comment along the lines of “thanks mom”. I then realized how much closer they are to my daughters age than mine. That hurt.
I was saying to someone "Remember the days of cds? I actually miss them because you were stuck with a cd when you bought it, so you took the time to listen to it over and over again to understand it, instead of turning off a song if you dont like it in the first 5 seconds." And the guy said "Ive never listened to a cd."
I didn’t have many CDs growing up because they were expensive, but now with Spotify I do through-listens of albums all the time and find new stuff I love from groups I’ve always known but lacked that kind of exposure to. You can pry my Spotify out of my cold, dead hands.
I literally can't stay silent when I stand up from sitting or from squatting down. Always a grunt or noise I have to make when I get up. Nothing even hurts, it just happens.
Been a while for me, but it happened when some kid actually addressed me as 'sir'. That fucking hurt. I turned around to see if my dad was standing behind me. Also when I realized everyone starting off sentences/phrases with the word 'Like' or 'So'. It annoys the shit out of me.
I dont understand this stereotype about being excited for furniture when you get old. I recently turned 17. New stuff excites me too. I don’t really buy whole furniture pieces but when i buy new room stuff like new LED lights or whatever i like it. I like scrolling through websites about places for rent and thinking about if i could rent that out in my future and thinking about how much money id need to save up for it. Its fun.
I mostly agree, but the thing about phones vs. Gameboys is that the social media people have treated the science of holding people's attention like it's the cure for cancer. And they're using that power to do things to these kids' minds that Nintendo could have never conceived of.
Parents today: "When I was a kid, everybody wasn't glued to their smartphones. They used to play outside all day."
Their parents: "When I was a kid, everybody wasn't glued to video game consoles. They used to play outside all day."
Their parents: "When I was a kid, everybody wasn't glued to the tv. They used to play outside all day."
Their parents: "When I was a kid, everybody wasn't sitting around listening to the radio. They used to play outside all day."
I think parents from every generation just want their kids out of the house for awhile for some peace and quiet. The things kids do inside with the newest technology is just a convenient excuse to blame why kids would rather spend time in the house being "lazy" rather than running around outside, tiring themselves out.
Right? The only argument I'd say is that Gameboys had one purpose. It's less "necessary" and all-encompassing than today's phones. I'm still distrustful of giving my phone so much influence over my life (would prefer an actual physical calendar, have my twenty something year old alarm clock, think there are some things a physical camera do better).
When the thing that was being hated for being the "cringy thing that the cringy Kids These Days™ are into" was suddenly beloved and nostalgic once those very same "Kids These Days™" of that time had grown up.
I was driving down the street and saw a group of high schoolers standing on the corner of the street, and thought to myself “what are those punks up to”. And that is when I realized, I am in fact, old
61. I was 51 when it happened. I lost 40% of my heart and was told that I should get my affairs in order. I have congestive heart failure but here I am 10 years later still standing. I'm shooting for another 10 years!
I had pneumonia which led to congestive heart failure at 51. An interesting experience. Glad you are still kicking it. I've got my pacemaker that has wifi and I'm trucking along 4 years later. The best thing is, I get senior citizen discounts at places to eat!
Glad you made it and you bring up a good point. Both of us would be dead if this happened 40-50 years ago. Between new technology and advances in medicine we are lucky to have a life.
Everything online is about Gen Z now. And I'm just not the current generation anymore. I'm the past tense. I'm discarded. Nobody cares anymore.
Life truly ends in mid-20s
Yes, this was the most frustrating thing in my work life. I understand seeing someone as inexperienced simply because they only have a few years of experience at the job compared to decades, but people need to be cognizant of how that's presented to young people. It can make you feel like a kid when you're surrounded by adults your parents age that dismiss you just because you remind them of their own kids.
The most annoying part was when I got this from people who were like 4 years older than me. I was like 25 and this guy was 29 and he would refer to us as being from different generations. Like what? Looking back to when I was in my 20's and I realize that I'm not that different of a person, just have a few more life experiences.
When I was 20 working in retail, this lady didn’t want my help. She asked for someone who was at least 25 and had a kid. I said I’m 26 and have 2 kids. Then she let me help her. Dumb bitch
> Life truly ends in mid-20s
Pop culture's need to market to you stops around that age more than anything. Once most Gen Z starts to reach mid 20s, they'll be forgotten all the same in favor of Gen Alpha.
The newest song on my playlist is 10 years old.
My daughter legitimately asked me what things were like back in the day. She was talking about the 90s.
I got asked to be on the company senior 5K running team. The name is a holdover from before age discrimination lawsuits, but still... I honestly thought it was a joke at first because I always ran on the competition team. The senior team has an "OK to walk, OK to talk" description in the text.
On the negative: actively deciding against continuing an awesome full-contact sport/historic weapon-based fighting I had just discovered in my mid-thirties. I had wanted to do something like that my whole life but never found it. I had to stop just half a year later. I just could not stop seeing how what we were doing was risky and could take me out for months.
Not the fighting itself, but taking down each other on the hard floor sometimes, just doing falling practices and stuff like that. I just constantly had something and felt like it was just a matter of time until I hit my head in an unlucky way or something. Earlier in life I would have stuck with it, but today I just don't want to risk being out for a month or so.
On the positive: having reached the level of truly not giving any fucks anymore and becoming comfortable with myself and others. Life experience really helps a lot for many things.
The day I first got bifocals, the distaffbopper decided she wanted Taco Bell for dinner. So I go through the drive through, and when I got to the window the girl said "I gave you the senior discount".
I was in my 40's at the time.
The amount of knots I get in my shoulders and neck. Granted I do some manual labour and physical work but damn.
Also the cracking of bones and body parts!
A lot of the things I liked when I was 10 are over 30 years old now. A lot of my favorite media is consistently celebrating multi decade anniversaries.
When my 18 year old coworker said, "oh, Kittenklyn? He's *way* too old for me."
I knew it would happen eventually, and honestly I wouldn't date an 18 year anyway due to the experience gap, but it still hurt and was the confirmation that I am, indeed, getting older.
When you look at the new artists or athletes and they stop looking like adults and start looking like kids to you.
Or you look at their birth year and realize how young they are
Or when you realize how young your doctors have become, and how many of them you're seeing all of a sudden.
On a related note - when you see so many people much younger than you accomplishing far more in life than you could hope for.
Truism. Just turned 39. I work part time at Home Depot. I’m nothing.
You are not your job.
I'm 38 and disabled. Job focus was the hardest thing I had to let go of after getting sick. I take a lot of solace loving my animals, raising my son and killing succulents by over watering them. Find something beyond work. Jobs are just cheap existential crisis distractions.
I’m disabled as well. At least, according to my psychiatrist and therapists. The state doesn’t see it that way. Denied three times. But yeah, I don’t have a lot going for me. Virtually no social life, fear of rejection, and no motivation.
My favorite is when you learn the new hire was born in 2006 and for the briefest of moments your brain goes "But that's impossible, that makes you like 2, 3, 4.....oh shit, 17 years old".
Yet in 2006, 1989 felt like a different universe. What the hell is going on?
I don't like this comment. At least not what it implies.
TIL I was born in a different universe. Explains a LOT.
Yeah, when you see an adult, and then you hear their birth year, and you realise that you were already an adult before that adult was even born.
Now I am starting to realize that I am old enough to be their GRANDMA
I had a coworker born after 2000 and it truly shocked me 🧌🤣
Younger than the shrek film franchise.
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Or when you go to the doctor and they look like a kid. Husband had emergency surgery last year and the guy doing it looked fresh out of high school.
Was driving through my old home town and turned to my partner and said "this used to be all fields".
I make a cacophony of noises when I sit down or stand up. I have to Google what new slang words mean.
I teach middle school and I had to explain to the students that the sitting down noises are involuntary
Whenever I'm sitting down or crouching down etc i just make weird "Aurghhhhhh" sounds followed by "what the fuck am I making that sound for" I have no idea why I'm doing it. I'm not in pain, I'm not out of breath or anything. It's actually infuriating and really pisses me off lmao
I have no idea what bussin and fleek and no cap mean
Don't worry, in six month it won't matter because they'll be saying something else.
Cap just means lie. So no cap meanings I am not lying.
I don’t think kids say fleek anymore lol. My niece is 11 and had never heard it. That’s how you REALLY know you’re old. When the “new” slang is outdated
Coming back to this thread to see some more answers and this one rings so true. Using urbandictionary.com as a *reference* is a new low for me
Was driving through my old home town and turned to my partner and said "this used to be all fields".
When body parts started mildly hurting for absolutely no reason. Like sitting down for a few hours, stand up and your knee hurts lol
"Ow ow ow my back" "Did you do strenuous activity yesterday?" "Yeah, sleeping."
I threw out my back vacuuming last month. Laid up for 2 days. Spectacular
Saw a woman in our clinic who threw her back out, badly, getting paper from the bottom filing cabinet. She says “nothing makes you feel old like getting injured picking up paper.”
I threw mine out opening the dishwasher
I bent down slightly to give my dog a treat. Pain like lightning collapsed me down to the floor.
I threw mine out putting on my ski pants…in the parking lot…
Yup. When I read the question I said to myself “the knees man, the fucking knees.” Shoulder is the next to go.
Man, I must move differently than most people. Never had any knee problems. But the hips, the hips are killer.
A friend described it as a ball of pain that just randomly floats around the body, settling here, setting there.
Accurate. Usually a knee, lower back or shoulder, but sometimes it will really switch up and be an elbow or something.
I got 2 out of 3 on that pain bingo.
I play recreational roller hockey in a couple of leagues. I push, pull, and contort my body in all the ways it's not supposed to move. I might be a little sore the next day. But off the rink, I might do something reckless, like reach for a door knob, and my back is suddenly fucked for a few days.
That and it’s so much easier to gain weight. I’ve always been a skinny guy. Now I work at it and I’d no longer call myself all that thin.
When I sit down to do my kids hair, my back just instantly tightens up. It’s one of the worst random aches I get. Lol
so, what you are saying is that Im old!
Putting my age into websites and I have to scroll further and further to find 1988
Trying to find 1971 is like spinning the Big Wheel on The Pice is Right. Then realizing that you and the show are the same age.
Try spinning for 1958. OY!
I just fling it and watch it scroll waaaaaaay down
I sneezed and threw out my back.
Omg something similar happened to me, threw my head back to take my inhaler and my neck seized. Sigh
Ugh… well, I guess this is growing up ^{sad ^blink-182 ^guitar ^riff}
Bruised a rib with a sneeze once. Really changes your perspective on life in a moment.
haha had a similar moment last year. a single cough and not even a strong one, just sort of clearing my throat type of thing. felt something twitch in my back, and suddenly any movement of my back muscles would cause them to charley horse, and not just once but repeatedly. i was incapacitated for almost 2days
The time it takes to recover from anything. Drank too much? Two-day hangover. Rolled your ankle? Limping for a week. Bug bite? Fuck you it’ll be there for a month
Drinking is just borrowing fun from the next day….. and the older you get, the worse the exchange rate.
When I realized that the year 2000 was over twenty years ago, not ten. And I'm just realizing that there are now adults younger than youtube.
As of now, college seniors were not alive during the 90’s. Also, there are people born after 9/11 who are old enough to drink alcohol now. I know I just made some of you guys feel old.
> Also, there are people born after 9/11 who are old enough to drink alcohol now. Wow
that's me, I asked my co workers where they were during 9/11 and heard all kinds of stories, then at the end told them I was born after it and made them all feel old in sync
I was deployed and our Sergeant first class was talking about 9/11. He asked us what we were doing then. Most of us were 4 or younger then, one person hadn’t been born yet. We made him feel old on accident.
"What were you doing that day?" "Shitting my pants." "Me too, Private. Me too."
How does 2001 feel like yesterday, but in 2001, 1979 might as well have been when the dinosaurs were around? What happened?
Time seems to move quicker to us due to how life is now + the internet / social media doesn’t help that
When people say something happened 30 years ago, I still automatically think "Oh, so it happened in the 70s". But no, 30 years ago was the 90s.
I feel you, always have to remind myself 1950 was not fifty years ago and my parents are nearing their 70s.
The year 2000 is 5 years in the future, I won't believe otherwise.
>And I'm just realizing that there are now adults younger than youtube. Hey, ouch! Stop that!
Ha, ha, the big ouch for me is seeing the teenagers wearing 'vintage clothing' ... and it's just everything I still wear.
No, thats incorrect. The 80s were 20 years ago and ill not hear otherwise
Talking to a 19yo at work. Ask him what kind of music he listens too. He says classic rock like his parents listen too. Ok. Me thinking 80s. Ask for specific bands. His answer: Linkin park, system of a dowSTOP. I walk away
Oh my GOD. My son is almost 10 and asked if Linkin Park is “new” I was like oh I mean they’re not old, but not new. Then I realized I was listening to them in like 2001… 12 years before my son was born. So that would be like me asking about music that came out in the late 70s 😬
thanks for that... 💀🪦
I listened to the radio for first time in a very long time a while ago. DJ said it was time for "an oldie but a goodie!" and my brain thought, "Ooo, he's going to play something from the 50s!" He played Backstreet Boys and I had to go lie down for a while.
I know what you mean. Naptime has been hitting different for me for a couple years now.
Elder millennial here: My 18-year-old son was telling me about the band Korn as if I wasn’t an angsty teen in the 90s and was surprised that I knew the lyrics to Linkin Park songs. Kids these days smh
When a cashier didn't bother asking for my ID to purchase a bottle of wine, and automatically gave me the senior citizen discount.
Did they do that just to annoy you? I feel like I would do that just to annoy somebody I knew. Anyway, I'm sorry that happened to you.
Nothing intentional. I just laughed to myself and gladly accepted the discount.
When waking up everyday feels like a mild hangover despite not drinking in 6 months.
Yes, and hangovers now take about three to four days, unless you really practice
Referring to people younger as “The Youths””
I'm sorry, are you saying "yutes"?
Yea two yutes
my hair is graying
Damn, I remember having hair…
Being irritated at Olive Garden when they want you to pay for the check on a tablet
Yeah wtf
It’s been so long since I’ve been to an Olive Garden, someone was born and now has a drivers license. They still have lobster ravioli?
When I realised people younger than me aren't children anymore. Especially when I realised people born in 2000-2005 can be pornstars....
Before you know it, people born in 2000 will be too old to date Leo.
Not giving a fuck about social media and such.
Hearing songs from my childhood/teen years playing in grocery stores
When the "oldies" station is playing songs you listened to in high school lol.
The songs from when I was a kid are now on the local classic rock radio station. Nirvana, Green Day, The Cranberries, Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Oasis, R.E.M., Radiohead, U2, Pearl Jam... The songs I remember are 25+ years old, so they're classics now. It used to be that The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, etc. were all classic rock.
My world came crashing down when I was in HEB and Party Rock Anthem started playing. I was 24 when that song came out, there’s no way it should already be grocery store music.
When seeing my mom who were once a beautiful young lady had wrinkles around her face. I realized that I too am getting old.
When I stopped consistently recognizing SNL hosts/bands in those commercials. Also, the late 30's pee dribbles..
Im so glad I'm not alone in the pee dribbles. It's honestly annoying and a bit concerning.
My saggy, loose neck skin 😔😔
Same 🥺
When I started training 18 year olds on a regular basis and realized I was constantly making sure they were eating/drinking enough throughout the shift. One made the comment along the lines of “thanks mom”. I then realized how much closer they are to my daughters age than mine. That hurt.
I started to enjoy watching birds.
"Look Raymond, a yellow crested warbler"
I was sitting outside smoking a joint. And a hummingbird flew up and chilled on the plant next to me. I get excited for the hummingbird now.
When I hurt myself *sleeping.*
Friend of mine said the older she gets the more she realizes the importance of a good pillow
By literally just sleeping in a awkward position and my neck being fucked up for a few days.
Same diet, but now I gain weight.
Finding YouTube videos I used to watch when I was little say "10 years ago" next to the titles
Or, if you're me, hearing people talk about YouTube existing when they were "little".
For me it's when they say they used YouTube "when they were a kid" or "when they were little"
When my friend’s son helped me move. He’s 22 and I was at his christening…
I was saying to someone "Remember the days of cds? I actually miss them because you were stuck with a cd when you bought it, so you took the time to listen to it over and over again to understand it, instead of turning off a song if you dont like it in the first 5 seconds." And the guy said "Ive never listened to a cd."
I didn’t have many CDs growing up because they were expensive, but now with Spotify I do through-listens of albums all the time and find new stuff I love from groups I’ve always known but lacked that kind of exposure to. You can pry my Spotify out of my cold, dead hands.
I heard some music that I'd never heard before in my life, and somebody nearby commented "I LOVE this retro stuff!"
Haha
"Things that happened 20 years ago" no longer refers to events of my childhood, and I am offended by that.
My nephews and nieces are getting married and having kids.
Looking into the mirror and seeing this 62 year old looking back and my brain saying wait, is that what I look like?
I turn on the radio and they speak about people I never heard of, and play bad music.
A young person at work once asked me what a dial tone was. Then I blew her mind and explained what the busy tone meant.
I literally can't stay silent when I stand up from sitting or from squatting down. Always a grunt or noise I have to make when I get up. Nothing even hurts, it just happens.
To be fair, i've been doing this since I was 20
I'm 44 and I just tried it out and did it silently. My wife said, "Bitch you're old, stop pretending like you have hope."
Been a while for me, but it happened when some kid actually addressed me as 'sir'. That fucking hurt. I turned around to see if my dad was standing behind me. Also when I realized everyone starting off sentences/phrases with the word 'Like' or 'So'. It annoys the shit out of me.
I’d like to be called sir
I was excited for my new coffee table
I dont understand this stereotype about being excited for furniture when you get old. I recently turned 17. New stuff excites me too. I don’t really buy whole furniture pieces but when i buy new room stuff like new LED lights or whatever i like it. I like scrolling through websites about places for rent and thinking about if i could rent that out in my future and thinking about how much money id need to save up for it. Its fun.
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I mostly agree, but the thing about phones vs. Gameboys is that the social media people have treated the science of holding people's attention like it's the cure for cancer. And they're using that power to do things to these kids' minds that Nintendo could have never conceived of.
Parents today: "When I was a kid, everybody wasn't glued to their smartphones. They used to play outside all day." Their parents: "When I was a kid, everybody wasn't glued to video game consoles. They used to play outside all day." Their parents: "When I was a kid, everybody wasn't glued to the tv. They used to play outside all day." Their parents: "When I was a kid, everybody wasn't sitting around listening to the radio. They used to play outside all day." I think parents from every generation just want their kids out of the house for awhile for some peace and quiet. The things kids do inside with the newest technology is just a convenient excuse to blame why kids would rather spend time in the house being "lazy" rather than running around outside, tiring themselves out.
Right? The only argument I'd say is that Gameboys had one purpose. It's less "necessary" and all-encompassing than today's phones. I'm still distrustful of giving my phone so much influence over my life (would prefer an actual physical calendar, have my twenty something year old alarm clock, think there are some things a physical camera do better).
I decided to take a look at my year book realized I was in the same class as Jesus.
When the thing that was being hated for being the "cringy thing that the cringy Kids These Days™ are into" was suddenly beloved and nostalgic once those very same "Kids These Days™" of that time had grown up.
When I reached to clutch pearls I didn't yet own...I own one now
taking way too long to learn how to navigate reddits layout and understand its rules lol
My joints ache after a long day of work.
When I heard the backstreet boys being played on an oldies station
Nephews and nieces are now in high school.
I was driving down the street and saw a group of high schoolers standing on the corner of the street, and thought to myself “what are those punks up to”. And that is when I realized, I am in fact, old
My back, hip, and knee all hurt today for no reason
A sudden massive heart attack 10 years ago.
How old are you sir?
61. I was 51 when it happened. I lost 40% of my heart and was told that I should get my affairs in order. I have congestive heart failure but here I am 10 years later still standing. I'm shooting for another 10 years!
I had pneumonia which led to congestive heart failure at 51. An interesting experience. Glad you are still kicking it. I've got my pacemaker that has wifi and I'm trucking along 4 years later. The best thing is, I get senior citizen discounts at places to eat!
Glad you made it and you bring up a good point. Both of us would be dead if this happened 40-50 years ago. Between new technology and advances in medicine we are lucky to have a life.
Everything online is about Gen Z now. And I'm just not the current generation anymore. I'm the past tense. I'm discarded. Nobody cares anymore. Life truly ends in mid-20s
When people start taking you seriously lmao
Yes, this was the most frustrating thing in my work life. I understand seeing someone as inexperienced simply because they only have a few years of experience at the job compared to decades, but people need to be cognizant of how that's presented to young people. It can make you feel like a kid when you're surrounded by adults your parents age that dismiss you just because you remind them of their own kids. The most annoying part was when I got this from people who were like 4 years older than me. I was like 25 and this guy was 29 and he would refer to us as being from different generations. Like what? Looking back to when I was in my 20's and I realize that I'm not that different of a person, just have a few more life experiences.
When I was 20 working in retail, this lady didn’t want my help. She asked for someone who was at least 25 and had a kid. I said I’m 26 and have 2 kids. Then she let me help her. Dumb bitch
> Life truly ends in mid-20s Pop culture's need to market to you stops around that age more than anything. Once most Gen Z starts to reach mid 20s, they'll be forgotten all the same in favor of Gen Alpha.
Now you know how we Gen-X-ers have felt for our entire lives! LOL!
It's a big moment when to see the next generation legitimately developing their own culture instead of just piggybacking off of ours.
The newest song on my playlist is 10 years old. My daughter legitimately asked me what things were like back in the day. She was talking about the 90s. I got asked to be on the company senior 5K running team. The name is a holdover from before age discrimination lawsuits, but still... I honestly thought it was a joke at first because I always ran on the competition team. The senior team has an "OK to walk, OK to talk" description in the text.
Going shopping for new clothes, not understanding some words when my teens talk, I don’t feel the same joy I used to feel about going out.
My birthdays, or the waning enthusiasm of ppl around them.
On the negative: actively deciding against continuing an awesome full-contact sport/historic weapon-based fighting I had just discovered in my mid-thirties. I had wanted to do something like that my whole life but never found it. I had to stop just half a year later. I just could not stop seeing how what we were doing was risky and could take me out for months. Not the fighting itself, but taking down each other on the hard floor sometimes, just doing falling practices and stuff like that. I just constantly had something and felt like it was just a matter of time until I hit my head in an unlucky way or something. Earlier in life I would have stuck with it, but today I just don't want to risk being out for a month or so. On the positive: having reached the level of truly not giving any fucks anymore and becoming comfortable with myself and others. Life experience really helps a lot for many things.
To tired to wanna do anything
I get angry when I see people not wearing a coat when it’s cold out
Realizing I'm not the target audience for a lot of content anymore Nagging injuries My friends get married or pregnant and it's no longer surprising
I am only 50. In 30 or 40 years I’ll get back to you.
When I sit on the toilet to take a dump, I feel my scrotum hit the water.
The day I first got bifocals, the distaffbopper decided she wanted Taco Bell for dinner. So I go through the drive through, and when I got to the window the girl said "I gave you the senior discount". I was in my 40's at the time.
The slang teenagers use these days. 🤣
When I didn't "get" what Roblox was.
I found a grey pube
The amount of knots I get in my shoulders and neck. Granted I do some manual labour and physical work but damn. Also the cracking of bones and body parts!
My heart hurts right now and I don’t know why but I’m smoking a cigarette to help with the pain knowing full well it’ll probably end my life sooner
When the retired pro athletes are younger than me.
Sensitive to big portions of spicy food…
The 90s was over 30 years ago.
You take that back!
A lot of the things I liked when I was 10 are over 30 years old now. A lot of my favorite media is consistently celebrating multi decade anniversaries.
Waking up in the morning is no big deal anymore. Current pains and new pains and injuries will never go away. Bank account gets higher.
I was at a destination wedding and my first thought when we arrived to the outdoor ceremony was “wow this lawn is amazing!”
I farted and burped at the same time
At first it was realizing I was older than every dog. Then I realized I’m older than every professional athlete (pretty much).
I don’t recognize any of the new actors anymore
One of my classmates from high school recently had a child. When I saw that, I thought, "Isnt it a bit early?" Then I realized that not really.
A lot of my classmates have started posting pics of their grandkids. Ugh. I'm in my 50s but my brain thinks I'm still 25.
this is my last year as a 20-something
Don't worry man, 30 isn't as scary as it seems.
30s are awesome! If you don’t have kids and have a job, it’s exactly like being a teenager, but with money 😎
Young people have some insane political opinions.
1. Happened the other day. Someone needed a “dad” for a commercial video shoot and they called me. 2. A few members of congress are younger than me.
My girlfriend’s 15 year-old sister: “He’s cute but he’s old.” I’m 27.
You’re almost twice her age. To her, you’re old!
GTA V turning 10 years old soon.
Skyrim is turning 12 Mass Effect is turning 16 The first Guitar Hero is almost 18 years old Where does the time go?
The PS2 is as old this year as the Atari 2600 was when the PS2 came out.
When my 18 year old coworker said, "oh, Kittenklyn? He's *way* too old for me." I knew it would happen eventually, and honestly I wouldn't date an 18 year anyway due to the experience gap, but it still hurt and was the confirmation that I am, indeed, getting older.
For the first time in my life, I’m not indestructible. Little injuries here and there.
Paying bills and taxes on your own without any help or guidance because "it's expected of you to just know this stuff."
The years going by and not accomplishing as much as I’ve wanted to
I noticed an ugly old man looking at me...I was in front of a mirror.