When you suddenly feel old —
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Tbh I love not being 20something anymore, am 33 years old and I live the best life ever .. but what really hurts sometimes is when people I assume are my age adress me with a formal "Sie"..
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@FlavourFade also 33. I'm as a fit and active as I've ever been, but I do feel those looming symptoms of aging... stiff knees in the morning (and the uncontrollable urge to pee the moment my eyes open!)
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Good thread! I’m 38 this year, have definitely noticed changes to how I feel creeping in. I cannot drink copious amounts of booze without paying for it to the point that it rarely seems worth it. A full sugar coke will leave me feeling nauseous now, while I I used to down energy drinks like water in my early twenties
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In other ways I still feel surprised that I’m approaching 40. I still couldn’t give a shit about work despite having a decent job with a reasonably high salary. While other people my age are planning the next career move, I’m more interested in what music I’m listening to, what I’m gonna eat for lunch, or what book to read next. Sometimes I worry that I’m letting opportunities, and therefore life, pass me by. But we’ll all by pushing up daisies at some point, might as well try to extract some humble pleasure or joy from day-to-day existence rather than chase the next thing. -
@jerkules I think you touch on a good point. Everyone is so concerned with climbing up the ladder, competing with the neighbours, and trying to out selfie each other, that no one is truly enjoying day to day life.
Enjoy what you have to the fullest and I think you’ll experience true happiness.
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When I showed my kids how a rotary dial phone works they laughed their asses off
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@goosehd said in When you suddenly feel old —:
@Matt Holy fuck…keep this up and you’re going to give the great Greek philosophers a run for their money.
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I'm in an undergrad program so I'm around college aged people all the time, and I definitely relate more to the professors
I understand that a lot of students think I'm old, and some of the faculty (and students) have wrongly assumed that I'm a professor. To be honest with you, I actually love where I'm at with my age (43). I'm old enough to have a lot of experience, but young enough to still feel relatively young. Despite the fact that I have a chronic illness that mostly affects men much older than me, I still do a lot and feel pretty good!
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@Matt said in When you suddenly feel old —:
Hair growth in new places (ears, nose, back etc.)
that's the real scourge of humanity
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@steelworker
Nothing better than getting most of the way through a telephone number and your finger slipping on the dial…immediate start over 
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@FlavourFade you can say you to me
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@T4920 the peeing really increases from 30
also the stiffness but I stretch a lot that helps@jerkules the career thing was very important in my mid 20s for me but now I work for three years in a job that I would not have imagined back then and am as happy as I could be and don't think about switching, I even make a little less money than I did at my last job but also less headache
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This pretty sums up my view about this subject.
I'm 60, still riding Choppers, messing with cars, gals (my wife
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That's actually almost the best part being in the last quarter of your life. Not giving a fuck. If you have done so in earlier life, after fifty you usually start not to.
I think the best part of getting old is to see that your kids get along in life and to see grandkids grow up. Small things make me happy. -
well said @injunjack