When I was 18, I went to a skatepark. I don't know what the name of this thing was. But you dive off of the top onto a 45 degree angle.
Well, when I left the top, I missed the 45 and face-planted directly onto the ground. This thing was taller than me, so I basically belly flopped onto solid concrete from a 7' fall.
I was fine... *back then*. My middle aged ass now would be in an ambulance. There is just no fucking way.
Everything takes forever to get better!!! Holy shit is annoying lol! I get so annoyed when I hurt myself now, thinking it's going to hurt for months now.
To me its the recognition that there is no do-over.
To know now what I wish I'd known then, or at least taken more seriously back when I was younger, but its too late now.
It is absolutely fucking terrifying isn’t it? I know I will have to, but it genuinely doesn’t compute as to how I’m supposed to live and go on without them.
Right before my mom died, my dad called me and told me that ‘its better for you to watch her die then her have to watch you die’ and that has always stuck with me because its true. I dont even have kids but I know what that grandma feels infinitely more empty without all of her children alive
I have consistent nightmares about being at their funeral and crying like there’s no tomorrow. I love them so much, its gonna hurt terribly…. But makes me cherish every moment with them now.
My dad passed suddenly a couple of years back. It really sucks. Spend as much quality time with them as you can while they are still here. I miss the big guy every day.
FUCK CANCER!
And I refuse to get half-glasses because they would make me look old, but I’ll go all day with my readers on the end of my nose, which makes me look old.
Wishing I’d stopped giving a fuck about what people think about me 20 years ago. The internal torture I endured when I was young and beautiful thinking I wasn’t cute enough when it never mattered.
I still cringe about the things I said and did 30 years ago. Yet the more embarrassing things I've done in the past few years barely register because I don't care anymore.
I get sleepy when I read so I've switched to books on tape. Spent my life with a book in my hands, now I can't keep my eyes open. I still go to the library often just because it feels like home. I'll walk up and down the book aisles saying hi to the books, my old friends.
The mind going. I forget names, get up to get something from another room and don't remember what it was when I get to that room, and forget to return phone calls.
I can deal with the physical pain and slowing down, but I'm not happy about the brain stuff.
When I (female) run downstairs in my PJs something makes a slapping noise. I am yet to figure out which part of my body is doing it. Nothing made a slapping noise in my twenties!
The worst part is losing that sense of youth. Remember all the older folks telling you “enjoy it while you’re young” and “young people think they’re invincible”? Well, it turned out they were right! I developed chronic back pain pretty much as soon as I hit my twenties and I found myself thinking the exact same thing. Please cherish your health and physical ability while you have it!
Not from a personal point of view but from what my mother said one time which really stuck with me. She was waiting to pay and no one even looked at her, she was waiting and waiting and they just looked right through her. She felt invisible!
Young people calling grunge looks “preppy”. They don’t know what preppy means. IRS not something that changes. It’s meant the same thing forever. Stop stealing our looks and calling them preppy.
Running out of runway on various things I want to do in life. There’s a lot of things which I can’t really keep saying “I’d love do that one day” because it kind of already is “one day”
I’m not even middle aged yet, but I have a growing sense of “if not now, when?”
That you don’t realize it’s happening. One day you just don’t recognize the people in movies and tv; modern music sounds like shit. You enjoy that same cup of coffee more and more. Everyone seems to be getting younger, people you know start having more health issues, and you think it’s everyone else, and then you really look in the mirror, and holy hell.
Living alone, losing touch with family as uncles and aunts die off. Losing your spouse 2 years after your done actually retire . Dealing with the loneliness as your spouse's parents are gone, then your own parents are gone. .
Living in a house full of memories, you realize you are the very same way you started as a single man.
No human contact unless you go shopping, making more trips just to get out of the house.
Pretty much , reality sinks in. You could move to another planet and they wouldn't know or ask.
Chin hairs. Ultra insulting when said chin hair has the audacity to be grey. You can eat right. You can wear sunblock. You can exercise. You're still gonna have to deal with those chin hairs someday.
Shit just starts hurting for no good goddamn reason. I’m just going about my day exerting no extra energy and all of a sudden my ankle is like hi, can I treat you to several hours of agony just because I feel like it?
Being thrown into a box based on my age. People assume that just because I’m 33, I’m going to have a kid any day now. Jokes on them; can’t have em, and don’t want em anyway.
I embrace the cat-lady aesthetic and will enjoy doing whatever I want. That being said, I relate much less to fellow female peers because all they talk about are their kids!
First 10 years my life shopping worked one way: kids looked at price on tag and punched it into register. Then barcode scanners became a thing and it worked another way for 20 years. Then self checkout -- fine. And it worked one way for about 20: swipe your card. I swear it changes every time I go to the damn store: swipe card, insert card, tap card on screen, tap card below screen to the left. Cash or card ok, then just card, then cash or card again but watch the signs for which lane takes it. Make up your minds and stick to a fucking system please!!
Don't get me started on having you install an app and register for an account with an SMS pin in order to buy a fucking glazed donut.
As a woman my changing hormones. My whole body, and everything I do is thrown off. Just when I thought I understood myself, everything gets turned upside down. Now I rely upon medications, and trying to figure out what works for me. It’s like starting from scratch.
Confronting mortality. It gets closer by the day. Could even happen by surprise — a brain hemorrhage, a bad fall, maybe some freak sleep disorder. Beyond a certain age threshold, you increasingly feel lucky that another day has been granted you.
Ageism. People assuming that anyone over 60 is “elderly”, must look like the white-haired little old lady with a dowager’s hump pushing her walker, and has a zillion different things physically wrong with them. At 66 I still don’t have a bunch of aches and pains.
Pains, indigestion, pains, weird pains, having to pee in the middle of the night, sleeping "wrong" one night and my neck and shoulders feel like I got in a fight with a bjj purple belt and they cranked on my neck for ages. Also pain.
Younger people who are always tired. Taking naps like infants. My nephew is 18, unemployed and yet he’s always grouchy and moaning “I’m tired!” I mean, what the actual fvck?
Thoughts of inevitable doom… seeing your partner pass away. Your parents. Your kid(s).
You passing away tearing your partners heart apart. Your family.
Those kinda thoughts 🥺
Not being able to just hop out of bed in the morning. Waking up nowadays is a freaking process. I have to wake up early just to wake myself up on time.
The sickening feeling that we are leaving behind a worse world then we inherited from our forebears and that we have failed as custodians of our place in time.
Pain. Loss of mental acuity. The world I adapted to when I was younger no longer exists. People I know and love keep dying. More pain. Not enough people vote the way I think they should vote. My medications are heartbreakingly and walletbreakingly expensive. Environment hasn’t been saved. People seem rude AF in person, by default, anymore. More pain, that never goes away, just ebbs and flows. Why am I still getting periods?? I am so done with that shit.
My social security check is late.
Stuff costs more than it used to.
Young people use curse words.
Losing capacity, physical abilities, mental sharpness, and loss of energy. When you are young you are like a perfect, strong and sharp pencil. Ready to go. Can take any test. But, no matter how great and perfect that writing tool may be...it wears down.
General stupidity on certain topics and continually revisiting the same stupidity:
-- Yes, climate change is real, and man made.
-- No, taking all billionaire's money will not solve any significant problem
-- No, your religious beliefs don't qualify as useful in any conversation on how to run a country.
-- No, not every person who wants to wander into the US should be able to.
-- Yes, there are differences, in intelligence potential, physical potential and disease susceptibility in different populations, and no, that doesn't mean their can't be significant overlap and outliers.
-- Yes, some 10% of the population don't fall in standard sex definitions
-- No, the election wasn't stolen
It’s getting harder to meet someone to date and build serious relationships… seems like everyone is younger than me (I’m almost 31) and they get scared when I say I’m almost 31🫠 like wtf
I'm 35 and have been taking dance classes, I've given up on dating apps because it just feels like I end up dating a bunch of narcissistic rich girls that treat me poorly or bully me after love bombing me for 3-6 months. Get aggressive when I talk back/don't put up with their entitlement and behavior, or get insecure when I don't give them all the attention all the time whenever they want it like I'm a dopamine vending machine for their ego.
I'd rather just dance, practice martial arts and play games with my friends. Trying to date just ends with me being disappointed in the behavior of others and feeling exhausted.
I had a good answer, but forgot.
I felt this in my soul. The scatter brain is real the older I get.
Ha ha!!
Hurting for no reason
No kidding. I wake up in the morning and something hurts that didn't the day before. WTH.
I work in the trades, i can’t pinpoint what hurts because everything hurts
Right there with you. I walk like Frankenstein until I get warmed up
There is always a reason; like throwing your back out opening a box of cereal, but not feeling it until the next day.
Start doing more stuff. I started skateboarding a couple years ago. I still hurt, but for a reason now.
When I was 18, I went to a skatepark. I don't know what the name of this thing was. But you dive off of the top onto a 45 degree angle. Well, when I left the top, I missed the 45 and face-planted directly onto the ground. This thing was taller than me, so I basically belly flopped onto solid concrete from a 7' fall. I was fine... *back then*. My middle aged ass now would be in an ambulance. There is just no fucking way.
How can everything hurt before I even get in the shower?!
"What did you do?" Nothing! I was just sitting there!!
You ever get excited something went away only to have something else go wrong? It's like weeds, sprouting.
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As for "Slowly losing touch with modern trends", I quit caring decades ago.
I have teenagers. I promise you're not missing out.
Somehow I try to stay relevant fr fr
You just like me fr fr
On fleek, bruh! Fuck! Even that's old
So relatable except I'm not losing hair on the top of my head!
*yet
Having to have upstairs ibuprofen and downstairs ibuprofen
home aleve, car aleve, office aleve
Bedroom boner pills, strip club boner pills, office boner pills.
This guy boners
I used to boner. Then I had to killer.
when you go from buying the 25 bottle of ibuprofen to the 100one
Having to go upstairs to see what my wife wants, and then down and up agin to get it for her because “i just dont want to go downstairs” yeah no shit
Use your cell phone.
Vitamin I
I have to use Acetaminophen because Ibuprofen makes me shit blood and mucus.
You may have an ulcer somewhere. Just don't drink alcohol then take Acetaminophen.
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Slow healing
Everything takes forever to get better!!! Holy shit is annoying lol! I get so annoyed when I hurt myself now, thinking it's going to hurt for months now.
You can sell a car. Fix a house. Buy a new TV. But when your body starts failing, you're pretty much stuck with it.
Seriously! Like, why can't we have tune-ups, oil changes, body work and a new battery like cars do?
low level hormone replacement helps
Looking back at everything I could have done differently
To me its the recognition that there is no do-over. To know now what I wish I'd known then, or at least taken more seriously back when I was younger, but its too late now.
I always tell myself that one different decision could have changed my life for the worse. Don’t think it couldn’t get worse because it could.
Thank you. That’s a good way of looking at things.
This... especially when it comes to past relationships
Even worse are the times you never even tried and won't ever know how the relationship could have turned out.
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It is absolutely fucking terrifying isn’t it? I know I will have to, but it genuinely doesn’t compute as to how I’m supposed to live and go on without them.
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Right before my mom died, my dad called me and told me that ‘its better for you to watch her die then her have to watch you die’ and that has always stuck with me because its true. I dont even have kids but I know what that grandma feels infinitely more empty without all of her children alive
I have consistent nightmares about being at their funeral and crying like there’s no tomorrow. I love them so much, its gonna hurt terribly…. But makes me cherish every moment with them now.
Yep, it really is that bad when it happens.
I think about this often 😢
My dad passed suddenly a couple of years back. It really sucks. Spend as much quality time with them as you can while they are still here. I miss the big guy every day. FUCK CANCER!
Knowing more people who get very sick and or die.
Multiple reading glasses stashed EVERYWHERE
And then when I have my reading glasses on, I can't see anything five feet away.
And I refuse to get half-glasses because they would make me look old, but I’ll go all day with my readers on the end of my nose, which makes me look old.
Wishing I’d stopped giving a fuck about what people think about me 20 years ago. The internal torture I endured when I was young and beautiful thinking I wasn’t cute enough when it never mattered.
I still cringe about the things I said and did 30 years ago. Yet the more embarrassing things I've done in the past few years barely register because I don't care anymore.
Same. Now I don't give a flying F about what people think.
I get sleepy when I read so I've switched to books on tape. Spent my life with a book in my hands, now I can't keep my eyes open. I still go to the library often just because it feels like home. I'll walk up and down the book aisles saying hi to the books, my old friends.
I will always love going to the library! Just the smell of the books, the nostalgia. I wish I could visit the libraries in different states/countries.
My all time favorite smell, even over freshly baked cookies or honeysuckle in spring, is an old library book.
The older I get, the more invisible I feel when out in public.
Seems more like a perk than an annoyance tbh.
I talk and nobody listens unless I use COMMAND VOICE.
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Hahahah yes
I wake up and my ankle hurts
Watching young people make the same stupid mistakes I did but swearing to me that the world is entirely different.
x1000
The mind going. I forget names, get up to get something from another room and don't remember what it was when I get to that room, and forget to return phone calls. I can deal with the physical pain and slowing down, but I'm not happy about the brain stuff.
I guess you forgot about the money you owe me too?
Knowing death is getting closer.
Worse that that….when you start to contemplate if that is a bad thing or not.
When I (female) run downstairs in my PJs something makes a slapping noise. I am yet to figure out which part of my body is doing it. Nothing made a slapping noise in my twenties!
LMAO!!
I feel like Luke Wilson in the movie "Idiocracy"
hangovers Then again, I should probably thankful for them since they are almost certainly the only reason why I am not an alcoholic.
I quit back in March of '21 and I'm damned glad I did.
That I don't feel older in my head until I look in the mirror and think "why is there an old man in here with me... Oh... Wait.."
Memory loss.
I’m always tired.
I’ve started creaking.
Responsibilities.
I used to love the winter. Not any more.
Winter AND summer are both a pain in the butt for me.
That my parents are also getting older, and one day I will have outlived them :(
The game plan is to bury your parents, not your children. Its better that way.
Yeah. Mine are both gone. Not easy.
I'm 25 in my head and my 40 year old body disagrees with that
My mom said that at 70. I guess we always feel the same.
The worst part is losing that sense of youth. Remember all the older folks telling you “enjoy it while you’re young” and “young people think they’re invincible”? Well, it turned out they were right! I developed chronic back pain pretty much as soon as I hit my twenties and I found myself thinking the exact same thing. Please cherish your health and physical ability while you have it!
Seriously true!
The pain and my body starting to shut down and making me go through some major surgeries.
Not from a personal point of view but from what my mother said one time which really stuck with me. She was waiting to pay and no one even looked at her, she was waiting and waiting and they just looked right through her. She felt invisible!
Sounds like it's free to me
My mom warned me of the same thing. Now, I'm living it. It sucks.
I dont recover from workouts like I used to. I took a couple years off and trying to get back is fucking hell. I'm 47 btw.
The number of stupid people seems to be increasing the older I get.
Ear hair
Nose hair
Watching people I’ve known my whole life die off
Going to sleep and everything is perfectly fine and waking up and my back hurts. Like wtf I wasn’t getting up to anything.
Getting together with friends and hearing nothing but health problems and doctor visits.
Waking up and having back pain
Not having made the progress I feel like I should have by now.
Younger people lol
Younger people always lamenting how old they are. You're 23. Calm down
But I’m 18, I’m like ancient! According to my 8 year old nephew
Young people calling grunge looks “preppy”. They don’t know what preppy means. IRS not something that changes. It’s meant the same thing forever. Stop stealing our looks and calling them preppy.
Not knowing what to expect about my future
Running out of runway on various things I want to do in life. There’s a lot of things which I can’t really keep saying “I’d love do that one day” because it kind of already is “one day” I’m not even middle aged yet, but I have a growing sense of “if not now, when?”
DO IT NOW!!
Everything hurting for no particular reason....
My nerves seem to be getting twisted just by getting out of bed.
Ear hair... Wtf evolution?
Slowing down after being super energetic forever!
Somethings get harder the older you get. And some don't get hard anymore.
Everyday death getting closer to me. Like bro wtf get away.
That you don’t realize it’s happening. One day you just don’t recognize the people in movies and tv; modern music sounds like shit. You enjoy that same cup of coffee more and more. Everyone seems to be getting younger, people you know start having more health issues, and you think it’s everyone else, and then you really look in the mirror, and holy hell.
My face
Going to funerals instead of weddings
Having less and less fun every year that goes by
Living alone, losing touch with family as uncles and aunts die off. Losing your spouse 2 years after your done actually retire . Dealing with the loneliness as your spouse's parents are gone, then your own parents are gone. . Living in a house full of memories, you realize you are the very same way you started as a single man. No human contact unless you go shopping, making more trips just to get out of the house. Pretty much , reality sinks in. You could move to another planet and they wouldn't know or ask.
Constant aches where there were none before
That it took me this long to know what i know.
Watching my body change in ways I don't want it to (ie. receding hairline, love handles developing, etc.)
Getting mostly annoyed with other older people haha.
Chin hairs. Ultra insulting when said chin hair has the audacity to be grey. You can eat right. You can wear sunblock. You can exercise. You're still gonna have to deal with those chin hairs someday.
That my body feels 53 but my mind thinks like I’m 30.
bad sleep. doesn't help i was garbage at it when i was younger. but now it's just sleepless nights with like 4 hours with pain.
Shit just starts hurting for no good goddamn reason. I’m just going about my day exerting no extra energy and all of a sudden my ankle is like hi, can I treat you to several hours of agony just because I feel like it?
Being thrown into a box based on my age. People assume that just because I’m 33, I’m going to have a kid any day now. Jokes on them; can’t have em, and don’t want em anyway. I embrace the cat-lady aesthetic and will enjoy doing whatever I want. That being said, I relate much less to fellow female peers because all they talk about are their kids!
First 10 years my life shopping worked one way: kids looked at price on tag and punched it into register. Then barcode scanners became a thing and it worked another way for 20 years. Then self checkout -- fine. And it worked one way for about 20: swipe your card. I swear it changes every time I go to the damn store: swipe card, insert card, tap card on screen, tap card below screen to the left. Cash or card ok, then just card, then cash or card again but watch the signs for which lane takes it. Make up your minds and stick to a fucking system please!! Don't get me started on having you install an app and register for an account with an SMS pin in order to buy a fucking glazed donut.
As a woman my changing hormones. My whole body, and everything I do is thrown off. Just when I thought I understood myself, everything gets turned upside down. Now I rely upon medications, and trying to figure out what works for me. It’s like starting from scratch.
Teeth. What’s happening to my TEETH????
Confronting mortality. It gets closer by the day. Could even happen by surprise — a brain hemorrhage, a bad fall, maybe some freak sleep disorder. Beyond a certain age threshold, you increasingly feel lucky that another day has been granted you.
Loud restaurants.
Noise 🤣
the new generation lol
My vision diminishing. I had perfect vision the first 45+ years of my life
Mobility not as good and people way underestimate what you're still capable of.
My body betraying who I still am inside.
I can admire younger, fit women. But I can’t date them because I’d be labeled a creep
Ageism. People assuming that anyone over 60 is “elderly”, must look like the white-haired little old lady with a dowager’s hump pushing her walker, and has a zillion different things physically wrong with them. At 66 I still don’t have a bunch of aches and pains.
I've noticed getting to sleep at night is tougher and staying asleep is harder.
Pains, indigestion, pains, weird pains, having to pee in the middle of the night, sleeping "wrong" one night and my neck and shoulders feel like I got in a fight with a bjj purple belt and they cranked on my neck for ages. Also pain.
trying to warn younger people about stuff, but knowing you were once that younger people and didnt listened neither
Back and hip pain
Lack of energy.
Losing most of my hair! Why couldnt it be pubes that fell out for fucks sake!
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Younger people who are always tired. Taking naps like infants. My nephew is 18, unemployed and yet he’s always grouchy and moaning “I’m tired!” I mean, what the actual fvck?
My back. The hair and the hurt seems to grow every day.
Seeing my friends turn in to those “kids these days” adults, it’s very sad.
Being wise enough to be constantly recognizing past mistakes. Good news is you get to learn from them, so it's not all bad.
Getting closer to death and even worse getting old, physically.
Nostolgia and realising you can't live the life as u were a kid.
Having health issues…
Getting judged when you want a nap time
actually having to try to stay healthy and fit
Thoughts of inevitable doom… seeing your partner pass away. Your parents. Your kid(s). You passing away tearing your partners heart apart. Your family. Those kinda thoughts 🥺
Excruciating back pain
Wrinkly hands and poor eyesight.
Realizing life is way too short. Any of us could die anytime for any reason, and the possibility of not seeing my kids live long, healthy lives exist.
Not being able to just hop out of bed in the morning. Waking up nowadays is a freaking process. I have to wake up early just to wake myself up on time.
having to figure out what i’m gonna eat for dinner EVERY NIGHT
People....I can genuinely say people annoy me
Being tired all the time.
The sickening feeling that we are leaving behind a worse world then we inherited from our forebears and that we have failed as custodians of our place in time.
Pain. Loss of mental acuity. The world I adapted to when I was younger no longer exists. People I know and love keep dying. More pain. Not enough people vote the way I think they should vote. My medications are heartbreakingly and walletbreakingly expensive. Environment hasn’t been saved. People seem rude AF in person, by default, anymore. More pain, that never goes away, just ebbs and flows. Why am I still getting periods?? I am so done with that shit. My social security check is late. Stuff costs more than it used to. Young people use curse words.
Having to watch younger people be less efficient than myself
The dogs keep getting smaller
Having to always pop my back
When my finger muscles listen to early onsets of arthritis that go against what my mind tells them to do.
Someone saying to you "hello there young man!" It's basically saying "I see you as an old person"
Losing capacity, physical abilities, mental sharpness, and loss of energy. When you are young you are like a perfect, strong and sharp pencil. Ready to go. Can take any test. But, no matter how great and perfect that writing tool may be...it wears down.
Looking in the mirror and not recognizing my self.
having lived more life than I have left to live.
I can't work as much as before.
You can walk to the museum, or walk around in the museum. Choose one.
Sagging skin.
Responsibilities
Why does sitting in a chair NORMALLY hurt my lower back. I'm just fucking sitting down!
The pain!!!
lack of energy I have. I'd like to stay up for 12 hours without needing to take a nap.
Not having friends
Anxiety for no reason
I can't look at a 20 year old co-worker without feeling guilty that I find her attractive. For reference im 35.
General stupidity on certain topics and continually revisiting the same stupidity: -- Yes, climate change is real, and man made. -- No, taking all billionaire's money will not solve any significant problem -- No, your religious beliefs don't qualify as useful in any conversation on how to run a country. -- No, not every person who wants to wander into the US should be able to. -- Yes, there are differences, in intelligence potential, physical potential and disease susceptibility in different populations, and no, that doesn't mean their can't be significant overlap and outliers. -- Yes, some 10% of the population don't fall in standard sex definitions -- No, the election wasn't stolen
My teeth falling out of my head.
Un-explained pains in my body
It’s getting harder to meet someone to date and build serious relationships… seems like everyone is younger than me (I’m almost 31) and they get scared when I say I’m almost 31🫠 like wtf
I'm 35 and have been taking dance classes, I've given up on dating apps because it just feels like I end up dating a bunch of narcissistic rich girls that treat me poorly or bully me after love bombing me for 3-6 months. Get aggressive when I talk back/don't put up with their entitlement and behavior, or get insecure when I don't give them all the attention all the time whenever they want it like I'm a dopamine vending machine for their ego. I'd rather just dance, practice martial arts and play games with my friends. Trying to date just ends with me being disappointed in the behavior of others and feeling exhausted.
You are definitely still young. But I think dating apps have made it much harder to find real dates.
No one asks how fast I am in my new trainers
After 35 your body begins to break down.
Everything hurts, all the time