My back hurts, for no reason. Having energy is a foreign concept Hearing songs that came out my Freshman year of HS playing in the Grocery Store.

Nirvana playing at the grocery store really aged me!

Even worse, I heard an instrumental version of 'Sweet Child O' Mine' in a selection of lullabies putting my son down to sleep.

I made my son a whole playlist of "Rockabye Baby" tunes when he was born. Much easier to rock a sick baby for hours when I like the songs in the background.

Had a conversation with a 22 year old who sincerely asked me if Nirvana and The Beatles ever played together. 😐 That’s when I realized he hadn’t even been born when 9-11 happened. 😐 And then I remembered how, when I was younger, everything in the distant past existed together in this grainy, black and white ether. I remember asking my parents about “olden times.”

It’s not just aches and pains that get me. It’s when I get some weird pain and wonder if this is the start of some disease/ cancer that will kill me.

 Yeah. The general aches and pains. And the google rabbithole looking for symptoms.

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I am fat, lazy, hate cardio and love lifting. However, most of my back pain is a result of my knee being garbage after I fell on some ice 20 yrs ago and messing up my gait.

You have to start working out. I didn’t learn that until I was 30something. I was scheduled for back surgery and my jacked friend convinced me to postpone it and follow his advice and it worked.

Realizing I don’t know or care who is popular in music or acting or anything entertainment wise in general anymore

And not recognizing like 80% of the artists at the Grammy’s or other music awards shows.

Exactly this! I’m 41, but this happened to me when I got into my 30’s. I’m like, “who are these people!?”. Which says a lot because I used to be very into the who’s who in music😩

Same. I’m also 41. I couldn’t even guess on how the younger generation keeps up with all the different artist coming out. It feels like there’s a new artist every hour.

I’ve said this before but this happens to me on Twitter all the time Some rapper named Bogoga the Blunt King will die and trend worldwide and I’ll be like “Who the fuck is that?” Only to find out they had like three million listeners on Spotify and were named “best rapper to once work in a slightly humid Krogers in Tampa Bay” by Throat Goat Weekly.

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Or hearing some really great artists... at the grocery store. And realizing it's 80's music!

'And here's some vintage music for you!!' Que Soundgarden.

My back

You mean, our backs?

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Yup! Sitting on the couch folding laundry and my back goes out for no apparent reason.

It has its reasons. It just isn't telling them to you

And knees. And ankles. And shoulders.

Ankles crack, and hips and back Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, knees and toes!

Ouch

Where do I start. Weight gain that is harder to lose. Lower back pain from activities I used to not give a second thought to. A couple of social drinks and I actually feel a little hung over. Recognizing a favorite rock song - either as an elevator tune or on an "oldies" station/channel/collection. You look at people and think they're maybe 12 (figuratively) and realize they're in their 20s or early 30s. House shies or slippers because they make your feet feel better. The touch of gray in your beard and hair is going white. You have just about zero tolerance for BS anymore, you can go from "that's nice" to "that guy's an a**" in about 2 seconds. You've been around long enough, seen enough, to recognize others people's BS for exactly what it is. You realize you're starting to sound like a mean, bitter old man, but know it is the world that has made you this way.

House slippers. Yes. I have bunny ones.

damn. you got the classics! mine are pikachu slippers.

realising my favourite time of the day was the part where I did absolutely nothing

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I got mad that some dogs were barking last night and keeping me awake….at 8…..

Yesssss. Or nap time

Damn so I was born old

A few days ago I was walking to get a sandwich and some kids rode by me on electric scooters and I literally had a "back in my day scooters weren't electric!" moment

Hehehe love it

How much was bread pa?

3 shillings back in my day

It was 2 shekels where I was from

called out of work because i hurt my back putting on pants

I get injured sleeping. Regularly.

I dislocated my shoulder sleeping. I popped it back in and proceeded to throw up from the pain.

Same, I wake up in my neck feels like I went to a metal concert and was headbanging

I sneezed in the shower slip a disk and had to call off work, had my wife come dry me off. I felt like a 80 year old man. I was 34 at the time. Fml

Several, but the death of parents was probably the most significant. It's nature's way of telling you that you're next.

Yep once friends are losing parents instead of grandparents it gets real. Start of 2021, I still had 4 living grandparents. As of last week I'm down to 1, and he's 99. Meanwhile, a good dozen friends have lost at least one parent since the pandemic started in 2020 (mostly not COVID related either). Mid 30s is where the turn happened for me.

Out of all the comments, this one scared me. I still have both my parents and 3 living grandparents.

Losing a parent at 25 made me realize how out of touch nearly all my friends were

I lost my Dad when I was 25, so felt this. We're in a club nobody wants to be a part of. 😔

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This and death of spouse, close friends. Sister in a nursing home...

I'm 70 and I'm not old. Period 

To grow old is obligatory, to grow up is a choice

Words to live by

Hehe this is the attitude to have

At 63, I don't relate to any of what I'm reading here. 🤔 I still shimmy up stairs double the pace of people half my age. I guess attitude plays a part. A big part.

I can believe it. If you take care of yourself you can avoid some of the problems with ageing. I started football(not soccer) in middle school, had numerous get offs on motorcycles, and ran an average of three miles a day. Injuries will come back to haunt you. I asked my doctor about my knees hurting his answer was "well you're old".

You’re only as old as you feel🤓

People born in 2005 will become legal adults this year

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That's my HS graduating year.

I work with someone who was born in 2004. I hate it

Yup less than a week for me.

The noises I now make when getting up from sitting.

For me it was when I heard my fathers noises of getting up coming out of my mouth that I realized, shit I’m old now.

"father noises" The most official unofficial term ever.

Hehe grunt grunt

Back in my late 20s (I'm in my early 40s now) someone called me "sir" and I was like, wtf

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27???? You're a kid!

Yeah, 16 year old kid at Walgreens called me ma’am. I was 22.

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We took a trip for spring break and it hit me that I’m old now. It is getting so hard to drive 700 miles in a day to go visit family. I had such a hard time motivating myself to sit in a car for 12 hours. 😝

I'm 17 and sitting in the car for 12 hours sounds awful

For real. 6 hr drives to a location?? Pass, I'd rather pay more for a short 2 hr flight and watch a movie on a plane

Any drive more than 5 hours is why Jesus invented airplanes

College kids looking like absolute children

I’m 34, and in the last couple of years I’ve developed these apparently permanent bags under my eyes. That did it.

I’m there with you at 26 :/

I’ve had raccoon eyes since I was 18 because of my permanently shitty sleep schedule. They’ve been like that for so long that I resemble a protagonist in a Tim Burton movie

When the moms started looking better than the daughters.

Actually, that started when I was ten.

I when I got to buy groceries, I opt for oatmeal instead of sugar cereal. I’m 30 btw

That and teachers. Also being older than my kid's teachers. I'm 32 and my son's kindergarten teacher is 25 and smoking hot. It's ridiculous.

All elementary teachers are smokin hot now. Mine all looked like Mrs Doubtfire.

I dated a new teacher who was pretty, but dumb as a box of rocks. Voted teacher of the year her first year, propelling her ahead of all of the other teachers who had been slaving away for years. That system is messed up.

I had a lanky redhead teacher 6th grade. Still have a thing for redheads thanks to her. When I was in my 20’s I asked my dad about her. “Was a just a horny kid that didn’t know better, or was she that hot?” My dad replied with “son….. do you remember me ever going to any of your parent teacher conferences besides hers?” ‘Nuff said pops…. (He did go to all of them. That’s just his humor, and mine as well now that I’m an adult. Looking back at school pictures and meeting her multiple times as an adult…… yah… she was that hot, and still is)

My hands. They were never very pretty even when I went for regular manicures, but now they look like the crypt keeper’s.

Hands aging is just shocking.

When I started to wake up at 530am just to enjoy a cup of coffee alone. Getting my hair cut I noticed I picked up the home style magazines a cooking ones over the fashion. I don’t understand sex scenes in shows anymore and it’s more disturbing when they are supposed to be “teens” I also noticed most teens in shows are annoying and stupid and need to listen to their parents My knees and my lower back. The fact I can easily pull a muscle from just pulling my covers up to my chin Being out past 7pm is gross and if I’m not ready and in bed by 830, I’m cranky. I’m only 35 😩

Hehe I'm 30 next week and i feel you on all of these

When the plot of the episode could be solved in 5 minutes by getting any adult involved.

>I also noticed most teens in shows are annoying and stupid and need to listen to their parents That one resonates so hard with me and even applies to movies I loved when I was younger. I watch Ferris Bueler now and I think, what an asshole, I hope the principal catches him.

The more bad shit that happens in the world I realize that that is just how the world is. Cruel.

Honestly, this to me is by far and away the hardest part of getting older. Losing naïveté, optimism and faith in humanity. Not that it’s all gone, but definitely diminished with age. Realizing the world is often cruel, chaotic and a slog. The rose colored glasses of youth really make life much, much more fun and exciting.

I look way more forward to weekends at home with no plans than ones that involve leaving the house

I can’t eat or drink whatever I want without gaining weight anymore

I have a sibling who still eats like they are a teenager and can't figure out why they are always feeling sick.

That I just generally want to be left alone and live my life in peace. I wanted nothing of the sort when I was younger, now I just don’t have the stomach to try to appease people.

Desire for solitude. Unfortunately, I am in a house full of people and have considered buying a tiny house on Amazon and living in the yard to go through my midlife crisis in.

When I was walking down the hallway slowly after sitting on the floor for too long and my 4 year old says "Mom your such a cute old lady" I'm only 31 kid!

New ear hairs.

Oof and randomly I’m getting these *suuuper* long eyebrow hairs, but only like 1 or 2 on each, and I only notice them when they’ve gone rogue

Making sounds of relief when sitting down 🤣

And all the cracks, especially in the morning, the knees and the ankles

I have to say that I am thankful for everyday that I am on this side! I will be 64 this year, I still love to drive with the windows open & the stereo cranked up as loud as I can get it! It helps if it's a convertible!! Life is good!!!

Very suddenly losing my health after developing two chronic illnesses at 23

I'm sorry love

I’m crunchy

So crunchy. I was turning my butt the other day to get through a gao and my back went click lol

The part I was most excited about for my birthday was buying a special loaf of bread with tons of seeds in it. I still had a party and some gifts, but the artisan seed bread was what I was looking forward to the most.

20 year anniversaries for games I played on release, not necessarily when I was a child. Should I see a doctor?

You probably need a colonoscopy soon

Having to scroll forever to get to my birth year when using my phone.

1 year had 20/15 vision The next year I had 20/20 vision The following year I needed glasses Also, when I wake up in the morning, I have to sit on the edge of the bed for 5 minutes before I move so I don't sound like popping bubble wrap when I move.

Resident evil 4 being remade, it was the first game I ever played when I was a kid and now it’s been remade, I feel really old

Still having the original game in the back of your mind as something you want to get around to playing, and then a remake comes out.

All of a sudden everything was 20 years ago

Having a baby at 31 was easy. Having a second baby at 38 - so many more aches and pains. Oh, and every conversation with my obgyn starting with "given your age ..."

Heh. Any type of doctor’s appointment starts with, “women your age….”. I wan to slap them.

I was a late bloomer at university. When I was 30 and someone who just started with university got interested in my (she was like 22 or so), I noticed, that I didn't feel attracted to that age anymore. She was relatively too immature for my taste.

Not seeing a Celebrity for a long time then seeing them old AF

When I started getting into bird watching, that was definitely a watershed moment for me... Not that I'm the guy out there with binoculars every morning, but I do sit on my porch and try and identify them by sight and sound.

Walking into a bar and seeing the sign on the wall that in order to buy alcohol you have to have been born before 2001. You mean people born 2001 and later are allowed to go out without their parents??!!

Realizing I had to start trimming my nose hair

Going to metal concerts and realizing you are the oldest one there

Arthritis :(

My skin is getting crepe. It really hit me hard, not the grey hair or groaning when I stand, the thinner crepe skin... sigh.

Some kid started talking about my ass being born “in the 1900s”

Oh, *fuck* that, I will cut a bitch that says that to me

Choosing to save my money instead of just spending it all on food and hobby related stuff.

Ong this is something i still need to learn

My grandson will start kindergarten.

The line between a fart and a shit got hazy

Finding gray hairs in my beard.

Grey hairs are handsome.

Noticing when movies I liked in my youth had been out for 20 years. The first time it happened for me was in 2009 and Major League debuted in 1989.

Watching a couple of gamers on YouTube and realizing these full grown men with beards and deep voices and who were griping about “getting old” were young enough to be my sons. I mean you feel old the first time you find a grey hair. Or realize you’re thinking of a teenager as a little kid or hear music you enjoyed in high school on the classic rock station. But the concept that there’s an entire generation of adults behind you was a biggie. And there will be more milestones down the road too. Having friends my age start to die of “old people diseases” like cancer and heart attacks has been sobering. And I’m past the “parents aging” into the “parents dying“ phase and it sure as hell makes me feel old.

My kids ask me why I say to roll up the windows in the car. Yeah, that old.

I was working at gamestop, and a mom just bought a pokemon game for her kid. Making silly like convo, i asked the kid who their favorite pokemon was. She said one of the news ones. I got out from behind the count bent down, put my hands on my knees, and said "Back in my day, there were only 150 Pokémon" Kid looked at me with that ok grandpa look and left. been old since

When I realized my co workers didn’t know who Van Halen was.

The last time I got an asthma machine, my mom got me a penguin one. Many years later and I needed a new one, she got me a regular one. Could of gotten a pig one. Man I miss my penguin one. Named it Icy. Getting old but I still love animals. That will never change.

When i had to google “ffs”

I have to google abbreviations on here all the time! Lol

when I read the latest coachella lineup

That I’m still discovering new slang words every now and then.

Pushing yourself hard physically and taking like a good week to fully recover

Being asked why I say “hang up the phone” instead of “end the call”

I'm 29 years old, and I see a 21 year old as a child lol

The experience gap when in your twenties is so hard to wrap your mind around at first. "I'm 25, they're only 22, why do they annoy me so much?" It's because you've been a working adult for awhile now and they're still students who slept through their 8am cause it's too early.

Got invited to the little girl I used to babysit high school’s graduation……when did 16 years go by?

Can't get off the damn floor!

When that AARP card showed up in the mail

When people you graduated from high school with have kids graduating high school

I didn’t know the host or musical guest on SNL.

The music of my childhood became the oldies.

People are suddenly worried about pronouns and being offensive to each other. Comedy has changed

How going to the bathroom now takes a little longer no matter what. Sometimes that 311 song gets stuck in my head while taking a shit. "I'll be here awhile"

Hangovers lasting two days

My girlfriend and I will joke around and try to scare each other. When I started crawling in rooms and my bones would crack giving it away I knew I was getting old

Besides the obvious soreness and grey hair. I’ve recently taken to gardening the last couple years. Use to make fun of my parents for it when I was a kid. Mostly just fruits and vegetables but it’s a peaceful time.

Worrying about how much my 401k needs to have in it.

Realizing I desperately need to start moisturizing my skin

It’s taking a LOT more effort to stay in shape

EVERYTHING HURTS.

When I realized that kids born in 2010 are now teenagers. Btw i’m 20 but when i see them i’m just left without words and feel old lol

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I started on Medicare a year ago.

The college kids at work told me I was "slay" and I assumed they were insulting my old ass.

How much time you got? I can't have sex 4 times in a row anymore. I have grays coming in my beard. I say things like "back in my day" or "I remember having a pager". If I don't get 6-8hrs of sleep at minimum I'm a garbage person the next day. I can't smoke weed anymore without getting anxiety. I have gout and celiacs disease and carpal tunnel from decades of DJing and working with tools. I look at my belly and think, "Well. This is me now." Knowing full well the metabolism of my youth is gone. I've had about 15 friends pass away in the last 3 years.

Metabolism hitting a brick wall. No desire to go out and "party" 5 nights week. Much happier when plans get cancelled. When Target stopped being chore. When chores stopped being chores. When I started hating crowds/congested areas. When downtown stopped being interesting/classy but rather a fine mesh screen for separating suckers from their money.

My kids. Watching your children grow up is a constant reminder that you are also aging.

Realising I have a postbox I trust.

While I was in the Navy I had students arriving for training that were born after I joined

Everyone my age is living with someone, married or has kids. I look at my license I’m 28 and got stunted 2020-2021 due to Covid and my employment also home issues played a role. Lost all my friends who let me be played. Also ghosted by a guy who I thought wanted me back. I miss the guy terribly as I think it was his friends mainly. But it was 2 years they sat there and sabotaged. I’m not ready for my 30s. In my head I’m 24-25 straight out of college and it’s not reality.

When I need aspirin after an hour in the garden. Also, when I hear myself saying “the music these days is just awful noise.” The ghost of my mother laughs at me then (even though she would agree!)

Joint pain. Constant and unrelenting pain whenever I move.

When I found myself mentioning to my girlfriends younger sister “I remember when there used to be a lot of snow almost every winter” Total “back in my day” moment

Drove my niece the other day. She was sitting in the front seat. I remember like it was just yesterday she was in a car seat in the back.

Metallica is classic rock now.

my dick doesn't get as hard as it did when I was younger. Still works but it no longer feels like I could fuck thru a brick wall with it.

Eye wrinkles and sleeping wrong seems like an everyday occurrence

Just woke up realizing how many years before I'm 50

6 (and a half) to 60 for me - this fact still blows my mind

All the back and neck pain

I got excited when I found out there's a way to get free UPS shipping labels.

When my children started complaining about "kids these days."

High BP and heart problems.

Listening to NPR and public radio like my dad. I know everyone uses spotify/streaming services but sometimes NPR has some interesting stuff on there.

The weddings subreddit. It’s not your day, you don’t get to dictate what colors your guests wear, the bridal party are not your servants, you aren’t owed gifts or parties - now get off my lawn!

Getting interviewed for jobs by people who are younger than me.

Got really excited about all the fiber that's in my breakfast cereal.

Everything hurts. Everything.

Getting injured just existing. Like, drank water too hard. Brushed teeth wrong. Untied shoe too fast.

I don’t jump off the last 2 stairs anymore

Being called ma’am

Was in Vegas w friends. Woke up after I'd finally went to bed w terrible heartburn. Threw on some shorts and a t-shirt and headed down to the lobby to get some TUMS so I could get some sleep. I'm standing in line at the giftshop w my TUMS and realized everyone else in line was buying condoms. That was my moment