What tells you that you are absolutely, undeniably, getting older way too fast?
We all have these moments. You’re minding your own business, living as usual, and then all of a sudden out of nowhere, something happens. You see something a different way, maybe something you see often but all of a sudden, it looks different. Or you have a normal experience, nothing out of the ordinary, and something just clicks in your brain and it hits you like a ton of bricks.
Tonight I was watching TV, trying to sleep, when I saw a commercial for a new movie with Robert DeNiro, and he was playing a grandfather, and he looked like a grandfather. Right after the commercial, Conan O’Brien came back from the commercial break, and Al Gore was a guest, and he was so grey.
Normal, everyday things you wouldn’t think twice about, but it’s as if someone turned a radio dial a hair to the right and all of a sudden, the station is coming in perfectly clear, and you realize that time is passing much too quickly.
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The first time I had a doctor who was younger than me.
When I see my cousins it can be very unnerving. I remember when they were born, 20–25 years ago, and now they all have kids and spouses. It’s like…“huh?? wait a minute now…”. This also happens at family reunions (all that gray hair)
There was recently a question in Fluther asking where you thought you might be in 10 years and I realized if I don’t live any longer than my mom, I’ll be dead in less than 10.
That makes you sit up and take notice, heheheh!
The new James Bond… This $%$#$bas#@ is actually younger than I am!
That and my being scared by the fact that children born in 1993 can legally drive a car in the US. 1993, that feels like yesterday!
My knees get sore alot faster now when I’m doing my running sessions during the week.
42 years old is much too young to have my vital joints being uncooperative with me. It’s just not fair.
when I realise my peers are actually married with children and jobs and seem like they’ve got it together as adults…
My nieces and nephews don’t want toys and cool clothes for Christmas anymore – but their children do!
I knew I was really getting old when I watched Alice’s Restaurant a few years ago and the most sympathetic character was Officer Obie! (He just wanted them to pick up the garbage.) And the fact that most of you won’t have a clue as to what I’m talking about makes me feel even older still. (sigh)
@janbb I do, I’m old too!! lol
- when I referenced Kathryn Hepburn at work and not one damn person knew who she was
- The tell tale “sploitch” sound at my last check up
- the fact those darn kids wont stay off my lawn
- When I read the obituaries, and see people younger than I am died of heart attacks, cancer, etc.
- The fact that I read the obituaries.
When I realized I was the same age as the president.
Also, aches and pains everyday.
@AstroChuck How aoubt when you’re older than the President? Much, much worse!
@janbb
You can get anything you want… excepting Alice. ;) Nice memories. TX
I assure you, you are getting just as old just as fast as everyone else. The fact it snuck up on you means you have been busy living life, doing good things to keep you busy. If you would have been sitting there watching yourself age, you would get a complex, and not have lived as good of a life. Ignore it, move on. Everyone gets old. Everyone doesn’t want to. The only thing we can do is make the best of the time in between birth and death. Worrying about your age is counter productive.
@Judi – Yes, that younger doctor thing gets me all the time.
They use to be old and wise. :-) Now I am becoming the old and wise guy.
I have also been using the “youth wasted on the young” line lately.
I think when I said, “Get off my lawn, you damned kids!”
I’m not getting older too fast I’m aging at a normal rate equal with anybody’s rate
I realized I was getting too old when I discovered my blood type was discontinued.
My nephew will be 20 next year. 20!! He was just a baby like a week ago.
The first time I looked in the mirror and saw my mother looking back at me.
My son is huge. It seems like yesterday he was a tiny babe cooing on the floor while playing with rattles.
Two of my nieces are now pre-teens…How did that happen?!
I have white hairs popping up all over the crown of my head!!!! What the hell?
The worst is when a college kid comes up and says “Ma’am” Am I really a ma’am now?!
@mowens: really? Does every question have to be that deep? Most of the responses here are in the “laughing” spirit. I am not sitting here dwelling on my age or crying about getting older, or insisting I’m doing it faster than everyone else. Geez.
You go to a pub to have a chat and a quiet drink instead of getting legless and getting off with someone!!!
Bunions.
The first time I looked down and saw my grandmothers hands where mine were supposed to be.
Now get off my lawn.
@poofandmook That wasn’t my intention. Some people get depressed over their age… I was trying to say that it really isnt worth getting depressed over. :)
You fart whenever you feel like it and don’t even bother to pretend it was someone else.
Now I wish they’d just get back to the movie when they start kissing scenes!!
I was at the coffee bar earlier this afternoon and a young man was giving me a good look. I was going to smile at him, but when I looked at him, I realized that I was probably now of an age to be his mother, at least biologically, if not at a socially-acceptable age yet.
But that’s not too far off these days. And I’m no Demi Moore, no matter how young I look.:(
My mom had a joke that I’m planning to use one day: she told her friend she had to buy a new mirror, there was something wrong w/hers. Her friend asked what, & she said when she looked in it, some old woman looked back!
Work. I used to almost always be the youngest person on staff and now, well now I’m not.
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