Emphasis on “feel”, you can be 20 years old and still have something that makes you realize “i’ve been on the planet for quite some time”
Old technology and thinking of how life was before the Internet usually makes me feel that way. It surprises me sometimes how far we’ve come.
Young people
Malena, my Sicilian lemon tree. I’ve planted her from a seed, and she has a woody trunk already.
Ron Desantis. He certainly looks younger than many other candidates, but he still looks like a typical presidential candidate age. When I found out he graduated high school the same year as I, I’ve never felt more old.
Age
spoiler
44,
in case you’re wondering.
Cassette tapes. Found a friend that recorded some music on one and found it in his attic. Old feels.
Pornstars
Museums - particularly local/folk museums.
As a kid my dad would drag me around them. I was born fairly late in his life, so he would be reminiscing about various things on display but I had no context for them and so no real interest. Maybe I would find a couple of the large items something to play with or on etc.
Later they started to be come more interesting, once I developed an interest in history and then they started to have a value as a resource on low/intermediate tech solutions to actual things I was doing. And then I started to notice items in the displays that my grandparents and then parents actually owned and used…
These days I am starting to find things on display that I used myself at the start of my working life.
Physical pictures and albums…digital pictures are here for so long sometimes I forget we had to buy camera films and reveal pictures without knowing they’d be good
78 RPM records.
