I’m a 51 year old (as of today) and I feel like I’m 25, and when I talk to people… Wait, I don’t talk to people…
Yeah, nah, you gotta talk to a 45yo to reset!
I feel a normal number of years old same as I always have. 23 was once too old, then it was normal, but these days I understand it’s quite young.
Something similar has been hitting me recently. I’m 30. So I was born is the last millennium, but you know, not by a lot. Most of my life has been the 20XXs. But even though it’s been 26 years of that, it just all feels so recent. Like it’s hard for me to call anything that happened after 2000 “old” because… old was last century/millennium. “That can’t be old, it happened just a few years ago!” Checks when it happened: 2012, 14 years ago…
Thinking about how we perceive the time we live through is weird. When you think about it, the lives of everyone alive today has been radically different than the vast majority of human history. There were times when things might not meaningfully change in your whole lifetime, maybe even several generations of people living the same way. Post-industrial revolution everything has happened so fast. Tech and culture changes so often that we conceptualize each decade in the 20th/21st century as being it’s own thing. (Obviously that wasn’t entirely the case, there’s all sorts of bleed over, but I’m just talking about how we think about it.) We talk about almost any other time in our history in terms of centuries and some key historical turning points.
I have now written way too much for a comment on a shitpost. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Whats the cut off though? Im early 40’s along with most of my friends within 5 years up or down. We do have some other friends that are mid 30s and they are and have always been just like us as far back as i can remember. Im sure if i saw a 25 year old it would be much different but i do wonder what the cut off is.
Normal. This is normal.
I tried to explain to my 23 year old grandson’s co-worker that we used to have to jack off to magazines and he had no idea what the word magazine meant. What a sad little wanker.
I mean, everyone has their kinks and I ain’t shaming anybody. But did you really jack off to the part of a gun that holds bullets??? /jk
the key is to not talk to people
I’ve had a 40 year old body for like, 25 years. I’m not 40 yet.
In the freezer?
Speaking as someone whose in their mid 40’s, no you don’t have a 40 year old body, you only think you do. When you actually get there you’ll realize how wrong you’ve been.
Oh, from 40 on upwards there are so much “oh shit” moments. The fuck around phase is over and the find out, final, phase starts.
“Told you so” also starts trending among friend circles.
Weird too to be 55 and physically feel 65 and emotionally feel 15 and have friends who are 35 to 45 who will make me feel socially 25 until my practically guaranteed death at 75.
Trolling all my friends who were born after 9/11 by showing them clips from “Love, Actually” and talking about how easy it was to get through airport security.
The pre 9/11 world was truly a different place. I used to cross the border into the states as a 15 year old to go to concerts with nothing but an old red and white Canadian health card that didn’t even have a picture on it.
I was stationed in San Diego, and we would walk across the border to Mexico. To get back in, all you needed was to show a US drivers license and be sober enough to say you are a US citizen.
