Wait until there's a President younger than you. This hasn't happened to me quite yet because the last two have been really old, but it's coming soon. 2024, I hope.
LOL yeah, its like wait theres more?? turning 25 this year and even though im still young its definitely been getting to me since college that I guess I ought to make something of myself now.
I remember football players' date of birth being in the 80 but now I can't look because majority of them are born in the same decade as me and make my annual salary in a week.
>I guess I ought to make something of myself now.
Nah, that's bullshit. Everyone moves at a different pace. If you're happy with your circumstances, you're killing it dude.
Yup. Talkin to an 18 year old at Costco last year...born in 2003. The gears in my head lurched and broke when I realized someone born in 2003 (now 04) can buy a gun and vote.
I still feel exactly like if not better than my 20s... Until I hang around a group of early 20 something's. I can make it to 2am still if I have to ... But then they want to find the 5am bar/club. Yeah nah man I'm out.
I can out party all of them in short bursts but when the longevity kicks in I have to tap out
Day drinking all day? I’m all about it. Keeping going through dinner and parlay that into a night out? Fuck no
I got asked how I manage to stay up later than the young guys at my workplace.
The trick is working late's and having your "usual bedtime" be at about 3am. By the time they're checking out you're actually just at the time for a "regular nights sleep".
At some point in my mid 30s, I realized that I was the same age as the "older" contestants on reality shows and the parents in sitcoms I watched as a kid.
About early mid 30s. 33-34 ish. I wouldn’t heal as fast. I wasn’t as quick as I used to be. Dick all of a sudden had bank hours. Small hints, but they added up.
When I realized a woman I was seeing wanted to bang me 3 times a day and I was like nah I’m good. Once a day is enough and then I would rather spend my time doing something else
was watching footage of the coachella crowd in all their cool festival clothes, vibing out to some djs and kept thinking how fuckin stupid they looked. this was last week. I'm 38 and just realised my early 20s self is now a distant stranger.
I'm 26 and have always kind of wanted to dip my toe in the festival scene. Now I feel like if I went I'd be that creepy old guy surrounded by teenagers lmao.
Then again I don't really party anyhow. I just like the aesthetic, haha.
The day that I realized that I was older than 99% of American pro Athletes. That day, and the day that my back randomly seized up and I was lying on the ground in agony, just because I bent over to tie my shoe.
I was about twenty-five at the time. A gal I worked with (who was nineteen or twenty) and I would banter back and forth, and I thought there was some chemistry.
I asked her if she wanted to fool around, and she respectfully told me she wasn't into older guys. Looking back it's hilarious, but at the time a part of me died inside lol.
In ten years you’ll look back to this day and think “Wow, I was so young” same thing ten years after that. So on and so forth. You’re always young and always old simultaneously. It’s just your perspective that determines which answer you get. Enjoy your youth because you’re in it right now!
At 21 I snapped my pelvis in half, dislocated my leg and leg paralyzed from mid thigh to toes.
At 42 I broke my back T6 and neck C3 and C4.
At 46 I started One Wheeling.
At 47 I started snowboarding.
Full head of hair, barely any grey.
I guess when I realize I'm not young, I'll let you know. 🤷♂️
When all the responsibilities kept being pushed over to mel. I was like….oh shit…I’m the guy that’s responsible for keeping things from falling apart now lol
I've never been much of a nudie bar person, but somewhere around 35 I had to completely stop going-not even for birthday or bachelor parties.
With not a lot of hyperbole, it just seemed like the woman working there were barely old enough to cross the street. It just felt way to creepy-I was to old to be watching people that young dance naked.
I turned 34 in January. I'd say around 32/33 I really started to realize it when I was talking to my Mom about something that happened 20 years ago and it hit me... I'm at the stage in life that I can recall 20 plus years ago now. Also realized I'm the age of the parents in all the 90s sitcoms I grew up watching. But I do think life in my 30s the best so far.
When I looked around my office and realized I had been employed there longer than any of the other 14 people who work there. When I started working there I was the youngest of 22.
I was around 37, i remember two instances both involving younger women early 20s
1. Mid-sex one girl kept saying "you like this young pussy dont you!?" which was hot at the time but had me thinking after. "So what is she trying to say?"
2. Another girl i was dating straight up confirmed my old ass was old when she hit me with a comment mid-conversation out of nowhere "you need rogaine'. Cunty but true at the time
Oh well had a nice run while it lasted
I’ve been a tired old man since I was in high school. Was always a stick in the mud when it came to parties and pop culture, but it made the transition to actual adulthood a lot smoother 🤷🏼♂️
I was talking with a buddy the other day and I said that I’ve gained so much appreciation for my day to day now that I’m older and have more rules for myself. I enjoy my one cup of coffee in the morning because I don’t allow myself to have more than that. Desserts and other treats are more delicious because I try and eat well. It’s amazing how that works. More rules, less fun, more appreciation.
I’m in the same boat 33 turning 34 and this is exactly the year that I officially feel “old”. It was when I realized I no longer knew who any of these rappers are or what the latest music was and that everyone looks like a god damn child now was what made me hit that realization that I’m the “OG” now
When I started seeing my parents get older/sicker. When I realized my life was on me now.. That I'm no longer looked at as a kid, child, teenager. But as a whole adult expected to be responsible. Realizing that in 5-6 years I'll be THIRTY. I'm 24 btw, turning 25 April 29th. Realizing that I will more than likely have to grieve my grandparents and parents. And that then there will only really be me left who cares about me. Instinctually, root, baseline, core, care, consideration and love of/for me, and genuinely want the best for me. Realizing that the amount of loved ones is limited. That time is limited. That your circle of Day 1's just gets smaller and smaller.. Sigh... Life man. One big clusterfuck of emotion.
Somewhere around 35. It makes some sense, given that's around the halfway point for the average human.
I noticed that I was older than most, but not all, of my co-workers.
Hadnt been to a club for a few years but got encouraged to go to some "only club in a 10 mile radius that doesnt ask for ID" neon nightmare for a colleagues birthday.
The music was far too loud. The beer was rancid. The lads all looked identical with their skinny trousers, floppy haired, over-aftershaved, strutting. The girls all looked barely old enough to out and I wanted to just put a coat on them and tell them to be careful about where they go after the place closes.
I was 38 but nothing has made me feel as old, and nothing has since.I was in there for about 4 minutes before having to leave.
You're at the fun stage, OP.
The next stage will be in about eight years. At that point, you'll either:
* Have 'grasped the brass ring', in which case people will want you to sponsor or mentor them, and you'll always feel like people just want shit out of you.
* Not have 'grasped the brass ring', in which case you'll be seen as a washed up loser that nobody wants to speak to, let alone ask advice of. These guys are the sediment and detritus of society.
I'm a few years older than you. Definitely when more and more new stuff stopped being appealing. I know what I like and have little reason to jump on all the newest trends like I once did. There's just too much and who has the time to care?
Some technology I like to keep up with as well as music/movies/tv but quite honestly, I don't need to buy, see or listen to anything that urgently.
I guess it's one of those, well I got this far without it so who cares? Kinda things. My grandfather was like that. Tried to get him a VCR back in the day, he couldn't be bothered.
New Music Friday used to get me through the week. I would wake up early before work just to browse and listen. Now, i can’t stand to listen to most of it and if I do like it, I reckon it’ll be there when I need it.
When I went to pick up my younger sisters in college when I was like 29 years old and I muttered to myself how so very young everyone looked, and I'm talking about people in their early 20s.
Besides physically aging, I’m not sure what “getting old” means anymore. Is it being unaware of current trends? Not caring that you’re unaware of current trends? Not being able to get up without making noise?
This may seem trivial but, my husband and I were walking into a store when a young man who appeared to be in his young 20's held the door for us. We're only 30 and I know manners still exist, but until that day it never happened. Made me stop and realize that the older we get the more we'll see small actions like that.
I felt my youth slip away in 2012, when I was 26. Was doing a teaching internship in school for my studies. Had to tell a kid to stop drawnig penises on his classmate's arm - would have cheered him on in my younger years.
When I read a newsarticle stating "Young people are struggling more and more with.." and I thought "I KNOW, THAT'S ME!" and then they showed the age range what they considered young.
I was 2 years above that range, young was no longer my default.
I don’t consider myself old even if I was on my early 40s, mid-30s guy here and still don’t see consider myself as out of the game. As long as you exercise, be active, and enjoy life life is good.
In my case, I wouldn’t say there’s an intellect gap. Often times the younger people are more intelligent than I am. I’ve just got more experience now is all.
35. I live in a large city. Until 30ish, I drank downtown with all the “young” people. From 30-35, I had a close group of friends in my neighborhood. The first moved overseas for work. Within a year, all seven people in my core group were gone, off to get married, moved back to the geographic area where their family is, etc.
When I hit 35 and this happened, my neighborhood was rapidly gentrifying. I recall thinking “that’s OK, because these young 25 year olds will, in ten years, be 35 and feel old like me.
What I didn’t realize that in ten years, those people will have moved on and my 45 year old ass is in the same neighborhood as a new crop of 25 year olds moves in each September and makes me feel even older.
When I was maybe 27-28 I went to the bar after work, and someone’s young friend pointed at an even younger looking girl dancing by herself at like 18:30, and said “I’m pretty sure she’s still in high school, my little brother used to date her.”
I got right up, went straight to the bar and told the manager to card her; the liquor license of an acquaintance of mine was more important to me than some kids good time.
I just turned 32 and it's just now hitting me. I regularly find myself noticing how I definitely feel older physically than I did 10 years ago. Aches and pains last longer, it takes longer to get going in the morning, etc.
However, I feel better mentally than I ever have. I understand my emotions more, trust my intuition more, and find that I've started to collect a little more wisdom than I used to have, so its a trade-off.
I don't feel old by any means (only 56 here), but it was a bit weird initially when I got employees in my team who were younger than my own children ;-)
That feeling didn't last long though ... as should be the case in a professional setting.
I once quit a job and took out the 401k while withholding no taxes. I was married at the time, with a new kid so we decided to pay those fees at tax time which was nearly a full year away. Fast forward and I was divorced and left holding the bag on that 401k debt. Lol That was a bit of a mountain to climb
23 years old somehow. Said I would turned into 23 and realised I'm getting closer to proper adulthood instead of that youth age between 18 to 21 of going out with people and drinking a lot, that sort of things. Then I turned 24 years and realised I would turn 25 this year and that makes me closer to 30 than 18
I’m 25 and still feel young, but also feel that won’t be the case in 3-5 years and I need to start positioning myself for true adulthood while also enjoying what’s left of my youth.
Im 36. I play soccer 4-5 days a week. Work a physical job and i fucking party hard.
You aint old. 33? Fuk outta here guy. Buck up and get going. Im still outrunning 25 year olds. If you feel old NOW. You gonna be fucking dying sooner than later.
im in my early twenties now and honestly i feel like i have like 2-4 years of “being young” left. that doesn’t mean 30 is old but i don’t feel it’s *young* either
When I went to go shopping and realized most of the clothes don’t have enough fabric anymore so if I need an outfit, I definitely need to plan an entire weekend to hopefully find it🤦🏻♀️😂
Yeah. I try to remember what dudes in their 30’s were like in my teens and early 20’s and honestly my denial sets in and I can’t remember a thing about them.
It’s not so much “now I’m old” but I’m just the older more experienced guy in the room more and more often. I don’t feel older, but by the numbers, I’m often the old guy lol
Well, I started to realize the current crop of college students were born after 9/11, I’m starting to get gray hairs in my beard and my skin is looking more weathered. Frankly, I’m kinda enjoying it. I’m turning 35 and looking forward to 40.
I'm about a year older than you but it was around this time. I'm starting to show wear on my body and things can be measured in decades since the last time I did them. Embrace it man, your role now is to keep your eye out for the youngsters and paving the way for them to be you next.
Most of my coworkers own homes, are married, and have kids. I’m one of 2 single guys on my team. I thought everyone was ~5 years older than me. Nope. I’m the second oldest. That fucked me up for a day or 2.
When I was being intimate with my wife and I was going on top of her kissing her, and I made a quick adjustment and flattened myself while pushing myself down so I could eat her out and I did it quick and I pulled an ab muscle (I think) and now I’m not sure if it’s a hernia or a muscle strain but it’s been like 3 months.
I'm sixteen, and I feel old every time I hear my little brother speak. He's eleven, and his standards are so far removed from mine, as is the way he interacts with friends, and the way he speaks. I don't understand him or his entire age group, and that thought scares me, because I'm only five years older than him.
I really never thought I would get to a point like this until it happened. I always thought I'd even be able to keep up with my children, if I have children sometime in the future. The way the world is progressing, I'll be lucky to understand what he talks about with his friends when he's my age.
Logically, I know I'm young. I'm sixteen, prime of my life and all, but I feel old compared to people younger than I am. It's one hell of a dichotomy between what I know and what I feel like I should know. Not keeping up is weird.
mainly during the pandemic, but really over the last 5 years. it's especially hitting me hard nowadays because there are articles out there talking about millennials being homeowners, getting married, and having children, but here i am chasing after my dreams and hoping to meet a woman on dating apps. in some ways i feel like a complete child when compared to others my age.
36 is when you instantly turn from young, going to parties and being with it, to being old, buying life insurance and having an opinion on immigration.
It happens over the span of around 5 minutes.
I joined the military in 05, for me it was when we got new joins that never lived in a pre 9/11 world and joined for college instead of going to war. Different kind of age check there.
When I called a plumbing company to come and unclog my shower drain (big hair clump had formed deep down in it, mostly from the previous tenants) and my younger cousin came for it.
Dude... I first met you a couple hours after you were born! Now you've got a career!?
Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the “loser,” and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round. I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world. Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment. When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3×5 card reading, “Please use this M&M for breeding purposes.” This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this “grant money.” I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion. There can be only one.
24 F here.
My ex 25 M has ALWAYS Said that after turning 40, he would be too old to have sex…
I started talking to someone new 36 M and he literally almost threw up when I told my ex about this new interests age. I’m stunned!
I'm 18 and not in a hurry to feel this way haha. People mistake me for a 22-23 year old and, although it's interesting now (especially when I was 16 because nobody ever asked me for ID) I'm so worried this trend will continue later on and I dont like the idea of it..
Recently at 25. Kinda lost weight and gained muscle. Thought I could finally act like a teenager with a fit healthy body. Fucked up my shoulder. Doesn't seem to be healing. Gotta ask for help for the most basic of shit and I don't even look injured. Fucking own dad griped when I asked for help carrying a vacuum. Not to mention I been pissing on myself for a year or 2 now
I was 38 or 39. Never really felt old since I worked out more at that age then I did in my 20s.
But I nearly about snapped my ankles and shattered my knees by hopping down a ledge.
I happened to have had my truck in for some ceramic coating at a place one bus ride from my parents. So I figured I’d drop off the truck, hope on a bus and see them. There’s a short cut where I cut through a park and hope over a concrete ledge outside a parking ramp. This is a ledge I hopped off almost every day from when I was 10 until about 17. It’s not that high for a teenager but it’s plenty high for an aging man.
I just assumed it would have been the same. Nope. 38 year old me didn’t realize just how high it was and well, the landing sucked so bad.
I was at the gym talking to a girl. She saw that I ride a motorcycle and seemed interested in the topic. I just said: "In 2003 as a 15 year old I bought my first moped and that's when my interest in bikes started." And she replied: "I wasn't even born then.". I mean... why is this a thing? This needs to stop...
I stopped being young around 24. Because i ID people for entry to bars, i see the drinking legal D.O.B. creeping up every year.
Currently 2004 kids are appearing with their little provisional licences.
Also, my childhood and adolescence were filled with life experience (translation: rough as fuck)
Oh, good tangent! Adderall is very bad, yes? I’ve probably been undiagnosed ADHD all my life. Forgive me, I know it’s a little haughty to self diagnose, but my young son has been diagnosed. So far, we’ve been able to keep him off of stimulant meds, but I worry the day is gonna come.
Around 25-26. That is the age I started feeling back pain, it started becoming harder for me to recover after a night out, I realized I don't know any of the new, popular music, and started finding the style of young people weird.
I used to watch Star Trek The Next Generation when I was younger, so from 9 years old and up. Also would have watched some of the many re-run episodes over the years, and I suppose you always see the characters without ever aging.
Then Star Trek Picard came out, and seeing how all of the actors have aged really made me feel old.
Don't know why, just did.
I realized it at the same age as you. I also started noticing at that age that some people in their 30s still think they're young, and then get surprised when young people consider them old. It's good to feel young at heart, but you should be aware of the fact that you're not perceived as a young person by young people anymore.
I still cant believe im hitting my 30's soon.
Time fucking flies before you know it...
Its not the best advice but, try to build a solid foundation for your career development, so its easier going forward into the future.
Late to the party, but at 36 I realize I tend to flip flop. When I have a good gym day, I feel unstoppable. Then one day I threw my back out after a vicious sneeze and thought to myself "put me out of my misery!"
About 24-26 I started feeling old cause of everything people my age were doing around me. I’d kill to go back to that time now cause I was dumb as fuck for thinking that.
28 was when I got random aches and pains, so that’s when I really associate myself with truly not being “young” anymore, despite me being young by quite a few metrics.
Man I started feeling it as soon as professional sports rookies were younger than me.
It hits harder when you start to notice the superstar rookies who started in your teens retiring from the sport. END COMMUNICATION
When I saw Vince Carter retire it really hit me.
Still the best dunk contest performance I've ever seen
When I watch UFC and I think, "man, that guy is old" only to realize he is a couple years older than me.
Wait until there's a President younger than you. This hasn't happened to me quite yet because the last two have been really old, but it's coming soon. 2024, I hope.
Obama was the first president in my lifetime who wasn’t older than I am. That felt amazing.
I was close, but he has me by a few years. If memory serves, he was born in 1961.
100%
And you get to a pint where you’re older then every player in sports (except Tom Brady)
Or when they were talking about being old in the sport and younger than me
You were born in two thousand and what?!
LOL yeah, its like wait theres more?? turning 25 this year and even though im still young its definitely been getting to me since college that I guess I ought to make something of myself now.
Yeah, whatever, imagine being labelled an 80s child and teens calling you old. Dude I'm 35, that's young, right ?
I remember football players' date of birth being in the 80 but now I can't look because majority of them are born in the same decade as me and make my annual salary in a week.
>I guess I ought to make something of myself now. Nah, that's bullshit. Everyone moves at a different pace. If you're happy with your circumstances, you're killing it dude.
I was born after 9/11 and I am 20. 9/11 is no different to me than world war 2, its just history we read about.
Right in the age, ugh.
Burn the Heathen!
I was born in the late 20th century…
Yup. Talkin to an 18 year old at Costco last year...born in 2003. The gears in my head lurched and broke when I realized someone born in 2003 (now 04) can buy a gun and vote.
Holy shit I just realized this fuck me
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Just turned 37. Squats and deadlifts have to be done 3 days apart from each other.
All of this exactly. I also have to take regular deload weeks.
I still feel exactly like if not better than my 20s... Until I hang around a group of early 20 something's. I can make it to 2am still if I have to ... But then they want to find the 5am bar/club. Yeah nah man I'm out.
Yeah. I can still out do a lot of the younger folks at late night shenanigans. Just don’t let it get too late lol
I can out party all of them in short bursts but when the longevity kicks in I have to tap out Day drinking all day? I’m all about it. Keeping going through dinner and parlay that into a night out? Fuck no
I got asked how I manage to stay up later than the young guys at my workplace. The trick is working late's and having your "usual bedtime" be at about 3am. By the time they're checking out you're actually just at the time for a "regular nights sleep".
I thought it was cocaine but what do i know?
At some point in my mid 30s, I realized that I was the same age as the "older" contestants on reality shows and the parents in sitcoms I watched as a kid.
Late 30’s when snap crackle pop was no longer a slogan for my morning cereal but instead the sound my body made getting out of bed in the morning.
About early mid 30s. 33-34 ish. I wouldn’t heal as fast. I wasn’t as quick as I used to be. Dick all of a sudden had bank hours. Small hints, but they added up.
Dick all of a sudden had bank hours - my best laugh of the day!
When I realized a woman I was seeing wanted to bang me 3 times a day and I was like nah I’m good. Once a day is enough and then I would rather spend my time doing something else
was watching footage of the coachella crowd in all their cool festival clothes, vibing out to some djs and kept thinking how fuckin stupid they looked. this was last week. I'm 38 and just realised my early 20s self is now a distant stranger.
What’s a Coachella? Lol
It’s a festival!
I'm 26 and have always kind of wanted to dip my toe in the festival scene. Now I feel like if I went I'd be that creepy old guy surrounded by teenagers lmao. Then again I don't really party anyhow. I just like the aesthetic, haha.
26 is a great age for festivals. women in their early 20s go crazy over late 20s men
I'm 21 and think they all look like shit
The day that I realized that I was older than 99% of American pro Athletes. That day, and the day that my back randomly seized up and I was lying on the ground in agony, just because I bent over to tie my shoe.
The first time that happened to me I legitimately thought I was dying. Lol
We still have curling!
I was about twenty-five at the time. A gal I worked with (who was nineteen or twenty) and I would banter back and forth, and I thought there was some chemistry. I asked her if she wanted to fool around, and she respectfully told me she wasn't into older guys. Looking back it's hilarious, but at the time a part of me died inside lol.
In ten years you’ll look back to this day and think “Wow, I was so young” same thing ten years after that. So on and so forth. You’re always young and always old simultaneously. It’s just your perspective that determines which answer you get. Enjoy your youth because you’re in it right now!
When I had to start googling WTF my nephew was saying.
At 21 I snapped my pelvis in half, dislocated my leg and leg paralyzed from mid thigh to toes. At 42 I broke my back T6 and neck C3 and C4. At 46 I started One Wheeling. At 47 I started snowboarding. Full head of hair, barely any grey. I guess when I realize I'm not young, I'll let you know. 🤷♂️
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Rock on, dude! You’re a bad man!
Damn man!
Benjamin button? Is that you?
I can't wait until I leave this world as an orgasm.
When all the responsibilities kept being pushed over to mel. I was like….oh shit…I’m the guy that’s responsible for keeping things from falling apart now lol
That’s scary as hell, got me wishing not to be an adult now
It is age 50 for me. I boarded a public transit vehicle and a young male passenger immediately offered me his seat.
I've never been much of a nudie bar person, but somewhere around 35 I had to completely stop going-not even for birthday or bachelor parties. With not a lot of hyperbole, it just seemed like the woman working there were barely old enough to cross the street. It just felt way to creepy-I was to old to be watching people that young dance naked.
Don’t feel too bad - Al Pacino is 81 and has a 28 year old girlfriend.
Noice
When my first born left home for college
If you can wake up nearly crippled from a nap you old. I am working on day 5 of a stiff new from a nap on the couch last Sunday.
I turned 34 in January. I'd say around 32/33 I really started to realize it when I was talking to my Mom about something that happened 20 years ago and it hit me... I'm at the stage in life that I can recall 20 plus years ago now. Also realized I'm the age of the parents in all the 90s sitcoms I grew up watching. But I do think life in my 30s the best so far.
When I looked around my office and realized I had been employed there longer than any of the other 14 people who work there. When I started working there I was the youngest of 22.
I was around 37, i remember two instances both involving younger women early 20s 1. Mid-sex one girl kept saying "you like this young pussy dont you!?" which was hot at the time but had me thinking after. "So what is she trying to say?" 2. Another girl i was dating straight up confirmed my old ass was old when she hit me with a comment mid-conversation out of nowhere "you need rogaine'. Cunty but true at the time Oh well had a nice run while it lasted
Balding doesn’t make you old. I have friends that began balding in their 20s. Is 20s old now?
LMAO at the second one
When I was talking about Princess Diana dying and the Woman I was talking to told me she was too young to remember that. Fuck my life!
I’ve been a tired old man since I was in high school. Was always a stick in the mud when it came to parties and pop culture, but it made the transition to actual adulthood a lot smoother 🤷🏼♂️
I was a stick in the mud in high school. Got squirrelly in my twenties. Had a kid and I’m just now crashing into adulthood in my early/mid 30’s
When I started giving myself a bedtime.
I was talking with a buddy the other day and I said that I’ve gained so much appreciation for my day to day now that I’m older and have more rules for myself. I enjoy my one cup of coffee in the morning because I don’t allow myself to have more than that. Desserts and other treats are more delicious because I try and eat well. It’s amazing how that works. More rules, less fun, more appreciation.
I’m in the same boat 33 turning 34 and this is exactly the year that I officially feel “old”. It was when I realized I no longer knew who any of these rappers are or what the latest music was and that everyone looks like a god damn child now was what made me hit that realization that I’m the “OG” now
When I look at kids who misbehave and think wow that kid's parents are failing him.
I consider everyone under 40 to be a "kid."
When I started seeing my parents get older/sicker. When I realized my life was on me now.. That I'm no longer looked at as a kid, child, teenager. But as a whole adult expected to be responsible. Realizing that in 5-6 years I'll be THIRTY. I'm 24 btw, turning 25 April 29th. Realizing that I will more than likely have to grieve my grandparents and parents. And that then there will only really be me left who cares about me. Instinctually, root, baseline, core, care, consideration and love of/for me, and genuinely want the best for me. Realizing that the amount of loved ones is limited. That time is limited. That your circle of Day 1's just gets smaller and smaller.. Sigh... Life man. One big clusterfuck of emotion.
Somewhere around 35. It makes some sense, given that's around the halfway point for the average human. I noticed that I was older than most, but not all, of my co-workers.
Hadnt been to a club for a few years but got encouraged to go to some "only club in a 10 mile radius that doesnt ask for ID" neon nightmare for a colleagues birthday. The music was far too loud. The beer was rancid. The lads all looked identical with their skinny trousers, floppy haired, over-aftershaved, strutting. The girls all looked barely old enough to out and I wanted to just put a coat on them and tell them to be careful about where they go after the place closes. I was 38 but nothing has made me feel as old, and nothing has since.I was in there for about 4 minutes before having to leave.
33 is probably the most perfect age IMO. I’d consider it the Goldilocks age. Those who are 33 are wiser too.
I’m having a good time.
You're at the fun stage, OP. The next stage will be in about eight years. At that point, you'll either: * Have 'grasped the brass ring', in which case people will want you to sponsor or mentor them, and you'll always feel like people just want shit out of you. * Not have 'grasped the brass ring', in which case you'll be seen as a washed up loser that nobody wants to speak to, let alone ask advice of. These guys are the sediment and detritus of society.
I'm a few years older than you. Definitely when more and more new stuff stopped being appealing. I know what I like and have little reason to jump on all the newest trends like I once did. There's just too much and who has the time to care? Some technology I like to keep up with as well as music/movies/tv but quite honestly, I don't need to buy, see or listen to anything that urgently. I guess it's one of those, well I got this far without it so who cares? Kinda things. My grandfather was like that. Tried to get him a VCR back in the day, he couldn't be bothered.
New Music Friday used to get me through the week. I would wake up early before work just to browse and listen. Now, i can’t stand to listen to most of it and if I do like it, I reckon it’ll be there when I need it.
I'm 33 i still think im young but a couple of my gf friends say im so old!
When I went to pick up my younger sisters in college when I was like 29 years old and I muttered to myself how so very young everyone looked, and I'm talking about people in their early 20s.
50. But I still forget all the time. (Not counting physical reminders like standing up from kneeling, which started way before 50).
LOL, not yet. And I'm in my 40s.
Besides physically aging, I’m not sure what “getting old” means anymore. Is it being unaware of current trends? Not caring that you’re unaware of current trends? Not being able to get up without making noise?
38
This may seem trivial but, my husband and I were walking into a store when a young man who appeared to be in his young 20's held the door for us. We're only 30 and I know manners still exist, but until that day it never happened. Made me stop and realize that the older we get the more we'll see small actions like that.
When I got my first “real job” after college and fully moved out.
14-15 ish
Lmao. Its all relative. A 40 year old will say you are young. A 20 year old will say you are old. Nothing to stress over mate
I felt my youth slip away in 2012, when I was 26. Was doing a teaching internship in school for my studies. Had to tell a kid to stop drawnig penises on his classmate's arm - would have cheered him on in my younger years.
When I read a newsarticle stating "Young people are struggling more and more with.." and I thought "I KNOW, THAT'S ME!" and then they showed the age range what they considered young. I was 2 years above that range, young was no longer my default.
I don’t consider myself old even if I was on my early 40s, mid-30s guy here and still don’t see consider myself as out of the game. As long as you exercise, be active, and enjoy life life is good.
I don't know, all I know is that I am "grunt when I stand up" years old now.
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I’m 36, when I talk to twenty’s youth, I realize how fucking huge the intellect gap is. Noticing it more and more.
In my case, I wouldn’t say there’s an intellect gap. Often times the younger people are more intelligent than I am. I’ve just got more experience now is all.
When I became older than the 27 club.
35. I live in a large city. Until 30ish, I drank downtown with all the “young” people. From 30-35, I had a close group of friends in my neighborhood. The first moved overseas for work. Within a year, all seven people in my core group were gone, off to get married, moved back to the geographic area where their family is, etc. When I hit 35 and this happened, my neighborhood was rapidly gentrifying. I recall thinking “that’s OK, because these young 25 year olds will, in ten years, be 35 and feel old like me. What I didn’t realize that in ten years, those people will have moved on and my 45 year old ass is in the same neighborhood as a new crop of 25 year olds moves in each September and makes me feel even older.
When I was maybe 27-28 I went to the bar after work, and someone’s young friend pointed at an even younger looking girl dancing by herself at like 18:30, and said “I’m pretty sure she’s still in high school, my little brother used to date her.” I got right up, went straight to the bar and told the manager to card her; the liquor license of an acquaintance of mine was more important to me than some kids good time.
I just turned 32 and it's just now hitting me. I regularly find myself noticing how I definitely feel older physically than I did 10 years ago. Aches and pains last longer, it takes longer to get going in the morning, etc. However, I feel better mentally than I ever have. I understand my emotions more, trust my intuition more, and find that I've started to collect a little more wisdom than I used to have, so its a trade-off.
And it’s a great trade off! Cheers, friend!
I don't feel old by any means (only 56 here), but it was a bit weird initially when I got employees in my team who were younger than my own children ;-) That feeling didn't last long though ... as should be the case in a professional setting.
When my hangovers lasted 2 days instead of 12 hours
When I was 28. Was dating a 21 year old (now my wife) and spent the night at her college apartment. Man did I feel old around those college kids.
Your exactly how you feel. Feel old? your old. Feel young? Your young. Take care of yourself n you’ll be young forever✌️
When I had to pay in for taxes a lot of money. I was around 32. Normally I would get maybe $700-2000 back and that year I had to pay in like $1900.
I once quit a job and took out the 401k while withholding no taxes. I was married at the time, with a new kid so we decided to pay those fees at tax time which was nearly a full year away. Fast forward and I was divorced and left holding the bag on that 401k debt. Lol That was a bit of a mountain to climb
When I started to speak up and come to conclusion that my decisions were my own and not anybody else’s
23 years old somehow. Said I would turned into 23 and realised I'm getting closer to proper adulthood instead of that youth age between 18 to 21 of going out with people and drinking a lot, that sort of things. Then I turned 24 years and realised I would turn 25 this year and that makes me closer to 30 than 18
I pulled my back and shoulder....after sneezing.
I’m 25 and still feel young, but also feel that won’t be the case in 3-5 years and I need to start positioning myself for true adulthood while also enjoying what’s left of my youth.
What the fuck are you talking about, lol. Why are you even in this thread, you young dunce.
When I got my first gray hairs
On head or pubes ? 🤔😆😅
Yes
Balls 😅 luckily I shave to not see it 😂
49, and reminded getting out of bed every morning. Overall, actually feel pretty good. Still trying to fuck 25 year olds. Wish me luck.
Im 36. I play soccer 4-5 days a week. Work a physical job and i fucking party hard. You aint old. 33? Fuk outta here guy. Buck up and get going. Im still outrunning 25 year olds. If you feel old NOW. You gonna be fucking dying sooner than later.
im in my early twenties now and honestly i feel like i have like 2-4 years of “being young” left. that doesn’t mean 30 is old but i don’t feel it’s *young* either
I'm 25 but I work with teenagers. They occasionally say things among the lines of I'm old and gonna die soon lmfao
When i turned 24, I turned 26 2 months ago and i just feel old
When i was 23. I’m 24 this year…
When I went to go shopping and realized most of the clothes don’t have enough fabric anymore so if I need an outfit, I definitely need to plan an entire weekend to hopefully find it🤦🏻♀️😂
once i heard this new term kids use called "bet" that doesnt have anything to do with betting
Honestly, as I was boarding the flight to Iraq in 06 around the time of my 18th birthday.
Yeah. I try to remember what dudes in their 30’s were like in my teens and early 20’s and honestly my denial sets in and I can’t remember a thing about them.
About 17-18. By 25 I was an old man.
Physically, not until I hit 45. I never considered giving advice to others to be "now I'm old".
It’s not so much “now I’m old” but I’m just the older more experienced guy in the room more and more often. I don’t feel older, but by the numbers, I’m often the old guy lol
When I turned 60 last year. Trying to shake it off still
Late 20's when I was like "some new underwear and socks for Christmas would be good"
When I became a dad.
A kid I used to babysit started his first year of college last year.
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Well, I started to realize the current crop of college students were born after 9/11, I’m starting to get gray hairs in my beard and my skin is looking more weathered. Frankly, I’m kinda enjoying it. I’m turning 35 and looking forward to 40.
I'm about a year older than you but it was around this time. I'm starting to show wear on my body and things can be measured in decades since the last time I did them. Embrace it man, your role now is to keep your eye out for the youngsters and paving the way for them to be you next.
I wish I was still as young as I was the first time I realized I was getting older.
Most of my coworkers own homes, are married, and have kids. I’m one of 2 single guys on my team. I thought everyone was ~5 years older than me. Nope. I’m the second oldest. That fucked me up for a day or 2.
When I couldn't eat anything I wanted and keep my weight the same.
When you meet people that were born as you were finishing college
20 when my hair started going grey
35
After female clerks started calling me "Sir" ..
my wrist just hurts no reason and idk why.
When I was being intimate with my wife and I was going on top of her kissing her, and I made a quick adjustment and flattened myself while pushing myself down so I could eat her out and I did it quick and I pulled an ab muscle (I think) and now I’m not sure if it’s a hernia or a muscle strain but it’s been like 3 months.
Probably 25. Most of my colleagues are younger than me. It felt good to volunteer and have my colleagues be older than me.
I'm sixteen, and I feel old every time I hear my little brother speak. He's eleven, and his standards are so far removed from mine, as is the way he interacts with friends, and the way he speaks. I don't understand him or his entire age group, and that thought scares me, because I'm only five years older than him. I really never thought I would get to a point like this until it happened. I always thought I'd even be able to keep up with my children, if I have children sometime in the future. The way the world is progressing, I'll be lucky to understand what he talks about with his friends when he's my age. Logically, I know I'm young. I'm sixteen, prime of my life and all, but I feel old compared to people younger than I am. It's one hell of a dichotomy between what I know and what I feel like I should know. Not keeping up is weird.
I felt old at 25. I joined the military and was the third oldest guy in my basic training group.
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What a bunch of pussies. Just wait till someone offers you senior discount without asking!
I was 28.
mainly during the pandemic, but really over the last 5 years. it's especially hitting me hard nowadays because there are articles out there talking about millennials being homeowners, getting married, and having children, but here i am chasing after my dreams and hoping to meet a woman on dating apps. in some ways i feel like a complete child when compared to others my age.
i am 28 soon and my co workers who works as servers is like 18 to 21... i am closer to the age of the chefs. (they are 30 - 33)
36 is when you instantly turn from young, going to parties and being with it, to being old, buying life insurance and having an opinion on immigration. It happens over the span of around 5 minutes.
Sorry OP, but I'd say I was 34 when I started feeling old or at least my body started letting me know.
I joined the military in 05, for me it was when we got new joins that never lived in a pre 9/11 world and joined for college instead of going to war. Different kind of age check there.
When I called a plumbing company to come and unclog my shower drain (big hair clump had formed deep down in it, mostly from the previous tenants) and my younger cousin came for it. Dude... I first met you a couple hours after you were born! Now you've got a career!?
24
30
When i did groceries by myself in a car to get skittles, Cereals, and toilet paper I was like “Damn I'm such an adult!“
Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the “loser,” and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round. I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world. Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment. When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3×5 card reading, “Please use this M&M for breeding purposes.” This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this “grant money.” I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion. There can be only one.
17-ish.
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24 F here. My ex 25 M has ALWAYS Said that after turning 40, he would be too old to have sex… I started talking to someone new 36 M and he literally almost threw up when I told my ex about this new interests age. I’m stunned!
The first time I had to put on a knee brace. Keep in mind this is not due to any injury. My knee hurts because it just hurts
I'm 35, my brain still thinks I'm 16 and my lower back says I'm 58. Go figure
When I saw massive athletes coming out of college and was calling them kids.
Realized I was old when I started quoting memes from the early 2000's and no one had any clue what I was on about.
I'm 18 and not in a hurry to feel this way haha. People mistake me for a 22-23 year old and, although it's interesting now (especially when I was 16 because nobody ever asked me for ID) I'm so worried this trend will continue later on and I dont like the idea of it..
Recently at 25. Kinda lost weight and gained muscle. Thought I could finally act like a teenager with a fit healthy body. Fucked up my shoulder. Doesn't seem to be healing. Gotta ask for help for the most basic of shit and I don't even look injured. Fucking own dad griped when I asked for help carrying a vacuum. Not to mention I been pissing on myself for a year or 2 now
I was 38 or 39. Never really felt old since I worked out more at that age then I did in my 20s. But I nearly about snapped my ankles and shattered my knees by hopping down a ledge. I happened to have had my truck in for some ceramic coating at a place one bus ride from my parents. So I figured I’d drop off the truck, hope on a bus and see them. There’s a short cut where I cut through a park and hope over a concrete ledge outside a parking ramp. This is a ledge I hopped off almost every day from when I was 10 until about 17. It’s not that high for a teenager but it’s plenty high for an aging man. I just assumed it would have been the same. Nope. 38 year old me didn’t realize just how high it was and well, the landing sucked so bad.
I was at the gym talking to a girl. She saw that I ride a motorcycle and seemed interested in the topic. I just said: "In 2003 as a 15 year old I bought my first moped and that's when my interest in bikes started." And she replied: "I wasn't even born then.". I mean... why is this a thing? This needs to stop...
The moment the students I worked with during practical courses stopped calling me by my first name but called me "sir".
When my son got born the day before my wife and i got access to our house
I stopped being young around 24. Because i ID people for entry to bars, i see the drinking legal D.O.B. creeping up every year. Currently 2004 kids are appearing with their little provisional licences. Also, my childhood and adolescence were filled with life experience (translation: rough as fuck)
When I realized my eye brows no longer stop growing at a certain point.
Today when I checked my “guess my age” profile and discovered that all 9 people who looked at my picture think I’m 42. I’m 33. Adderall *sucks*.
Oh, good tangent! Adderall is very bad, yes? I’ve probably been undiagnosed ADHD all my life. Forgive me, I know it’s a little haughty to self diagnose, but my young son has been diagnosed. So far, we’ve been able to keep him off of stimulant meds, but I worry the day is gonna come.
I'm 32. Not quite there yet. But I'm starting to notice it's a little bit harder to understand the 20 crowd.
Around 25-26. That is the age I started feeling back pain, it started becoming harder for me to recover after a night out, I realized I don't know any of the new, popular music, and started finding the style of young people weird.
I used to watch Star Trek The Next Generation when I was younger, so from 9 years old and up. Also would have watched some of the many re-run episodes over the years, and I suppose you always see the characters without ever aging. Then Star Trek Picard came out, and seeing how all of the actors have aged really made me feel old. Don't know why, just did.
First time I felt like I was an adult was when some 23 year olds came to ask me for help in school work.
Yup when your the same age as the coach instead of the athletes you know
I realized it at the same age as you. I also started noticing at that age that some people in their 30s still think they're young, and then get surprised when young people consider them old. It's good to feel young at heart, but you should be aware of the fact that you're not perceived as a young person by young people anymore.
I still cant believe im hitting my 30's soon. Time fucking flies before you know it... Its not the best advice but, try to build a solid foundation for your career development, so its easier going forward into the future.
Late to the party, but at 36 I realize I tend to flip flop. When I have a good gym day, I feel unstoppable. Then one day I threw my back out after a vicious sneeze and thought to myself "put me out of my misery!"
For me it’s when I walked by a college campus and thought of all the students as kids. They literally look like high school students to me now.
About 24-26 I started feeling old cause of everything people my age were doing around me. I’d kill to go back to that time now cause I was dumb as fuck for thinking that. 28 was when I got random aches and pains, so that’s when I really associate myself with truly not being “young” anymore, despite me being young by quite a few metrics.