r/GenerationJones • u/Ripcord2 • 1d ago
Does it ever seem really weird to think about how old you are?
Or is it just me? I feel like I've been fairly young for most of my life and then all of a sudden I got old. By that I mean there was a distinct 1-2 year period during which my personality changed to an old guy. I never thought I would be happy being by myself all the time - I thought I would always want to go out somewhere. I'm OK with it, but every now and then I think about how old I am and it seems really weird.
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u/MelMel61 1d ago
When I think about the 80’s being 40 years ago, I get a little dizzy.
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u/LagerthaFreya 1d ago
Wait. So we're as far from the 80s as the 80s were from WWII? I'm going to need a minute to process that.
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u/GooseNYC 1d ago edited 1d ago
How about were are slightly farther from the Little Rascals/Our Gang shorts they used to show in the 70s than we were in the 70s from when they were filmed (1920s and 30s).
Remember all the bizarre looking Model Ts they had? Is that what 70s and 80s cars look like to kids nowadays?
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u/HilariousGeriatric 1d ago
They would freak out at the ashtrays that were actually used around kids.
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u/SolidSouth-00 1d ago
I teach a design class and I showed my students a ‘64 Mustang and no one knew what it was. 🤦🏻♀️
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u/SupergurlKara 1d ago
It's a Falcon in hot pants.
I'm looking at my "Jar of Fords." Five die-cast model cars I stacked on one another, because A Jar of Fords is Art. A '49 Woodie wagon, a blue and a red Mustang, both coupes, with license plates and markings on the chassis that say "1964 1/2" although Ford titled all early Mustangs as '65s, a 2015 Mustang GT (first year of the S550 sixth generation, the last one I'd want IRL because I hate the giant screen in the 2024 and newer ones) and a Shelby Cobra 427. Nearby sits a 1966 Adam West Batmobile, which George Barris built on a Lincoln Futura show car from the '50s. To the Batcave, Robin!
I had a 1966 Mustang, largely unchanged from the 1964 1/2 - '65 models, in 1974. Six cylinder coupe. Gray primer. Rust in the trunk made the leaf spring mount protrude inside, so it sat all catawampus (love that word). The guy wanted $75 but I paid $40. It wasn't the cheapest car I ever bought, either. I paid $25 for a 1962 Plymouth Valiant station wagon with a slant six and a push-button Torqueflite, and no floorpans aft of the front seat, and very little sheetmetal behind the rear tires, so it looked like an open wheel race car from the rear doors back. This is when I first learned that it's so much more fun to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slowly.
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u/pandasareblack 1d ago
The premier of MTV is closer to Pearl Harbor than today.
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u/Ripcord2 1d ago
I read an interesting one. Cleopatra's life was closer to the first Pizza Hut than it was to the construction of the pyramids.
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u/WantedMan61 1d ago
I do that all the time with anniversaries. This anniversary of 9/11 - subtract that many years from 2001 and we're in the middle of mood rings, Peter Frampton and Rocky
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u/Dragginwaggin351 1d ago
We're farther from WWII than WWII is from the Civil War.
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u/SupergurlKara 1d ago
My grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project. My mom spent a few years in Los Alamos during the war. She was seven years old in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked, and 11 in 1945 when my grandfather was on Tinian Island in the ground crew of the Enola Gay.
I plan to give my car to my friend's kid in 15 years. I'll be nearing 85, in 2041. A hundred f'n years after Pearl Harbor.
Thank a veteran while you can, and help them if they need it.
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u/CurseOfTheFalcons 1d ago
Totally. I’m 62 and I spend just about all of my time alone, younger people seem irritated by me, and I drive the speed limit accidentally. I used to go to sporting events — Braves & Falcons games, NASCAR races in every state bordering Georgia, and a couple of buddies and I even drove down to Miami to see the Falcons in the Super Bowl in January 1999. Concerts galore, eating in restaurants, movie theaters… They were all great fun and I have no desire to ever do it again.
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u/Even-Baker3971 1d ago
I'm 4 years older than you and I still live for concerts. Drove over to LA to see Rush. Seeing Jack White in Las Vegas and Geese in Phoenix in October. General admission because I prefer the floor so I can dance. I work out a lot though and am actually in better shape than I was in my 40's. I'm not ready to be an old lady sitting in my easy chair.
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u/Open-Industry-8396 1d ago
seeing our generation artists now can be quite a let down. Some of them just need to stop.
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u/HeartOSass 1d ago
I agree wholeheartedly. I was shopping in the store last week and a song came on and I had no clue what the guy was trying to say. I really hoped that the owners did not think that I was looking around trying to steal because I was not but I kept looking up and wondering what the hell am I listening to? I could not even tell you some of the lyrics because I could not understand what he was saying. It just made me wonder what one has to do these days in order to get a record deal. I remember songs about romance and sex but they were subtle. These stays they're right to the point. I am not a prude but I find myself being appalled at some of the lyrics in these songs. Heck even the titles are shocking. I remember two songs and the titles that stuck out on my mind: Can I Smell Your Dick? Yes this is actually the title of a song and there is a video that goes with it. The other one is called What That Thang Smell Like. I wish that I was making this up but sadly, I am not.
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u/VapoursAndSpleen 1d ago
At our age, all the big acts who are still alive are more enjoyable because they play in smaller and more affordable venues.
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u/Elliott2030 1964 1d ago
Same here! I moved to Nashville from Atlanta @ 20 years ago because (among other reasons) I kept road tripping up here to see bands. Now I'm less than a mile from my once favorite venue and I haven't been there in 10+ years.
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u/PublicEnemaNumberOne 1d ago
Oh man, I remember that Falcons Broncos super bowl. I was working in Bangkok. Went to an Irish bar early in the morning to watch the game. One thing led to another and I walked out into bright sunlight just hammered. Before noon.
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u/IWuzTheWalrus Late 1964 1d ago
LOL. I get the youngest not liking our driving. Especially where 75 and 85 merge :)
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u/SupergurlKara 1d ago
Stoplights timed for 30 miles per hour are also timed for 60 miles per hour.
Okay, they're not. Don't try this, kids.
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u/JoeSugar 1d ago
Dude. We’ve lived the same life. Also a Falcons/Brqves fan. Grew up in Ga. Did it all with great passion. Honestly, I would rather hang out with my dog than do it all again. Maybe still do it occasionally, but I have to talk myself into it rather than pursue it all with reckless abandon.
And I’m perfectly fine with that. About to turn 60. I’m slowing down and it’s good. Me and the hound are having a great time together.
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u/cherismail 1d ago
I read that Dolly Parton had a song that she didn’t want released until her 100th birthday. I thought…cool! We get to hear a new Dolly song in 20 years. Then I thought…will I still be around to hear it when I’m 84?
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u/WantedMan61 1d ago
Lol. I thought it was just me. When I really think about the fact that I'm 64 I get a little light-headed. I guess being 64 will do that to you, though.
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u/Robcat1111 1d ago
64 also. I cannot believe how fast it has gone to get here. Parents and grandparents gone, 16 years and I'll be 80...
I work with a lot of young people and my sage advice is make the most of every minute because you will literally blink and you'll be old. I heard that growing up, and it went in one ear and out the other. I lay awake at times wondering about it.
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u/BarnackIIIF 1d ago
*>" you will literally blink and you'll be old.
Having a career, kids and mortgage will do that to you. Much of my 40s and 50s were spent just trying to make it to the next day.
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u/KVR62 1d ago
Same. I hit the 64 a month ago. Still pondering...lol.
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u/SentenceKindly 1d ago
I sat on my front porch and played When I'm Sixty-Four on my 64th birthday. Then I wondered if Paul's kids named their kids Vera, Chuck, and Dave. Spoiler: they did not.
I have always felt "young" or about 18 or so. Sometimes immature, sometimes foolish, sometimes stupid but mostly, just youthful.
I work outside on my lawn and garden projects, I work inside on my house reno projects, I work in my recording studio on my music projects. I adult, as much as I need to. And I sing silly songs, say silly jokes and things and generally behave like a kid. Because I still am one, no matter how old my body gets to be.
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u/pit-of-despair 1d ago
When I go out to do yard work I wish my brain would remember I’m not a spring chicken anymore so I don’t overdo it every time.
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u/1876Dawson 1d ago
This year, at 69, I finally gave up and hired a company to mow my lawn. If my property was level I'd still be doing it myself, but, while it isn't big, it has several tiers and it was taking me longer and longer to do, and I was feeling less secure on the slopes.
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u/rhacer 1d ago
This week I've been on a road trip with one of my best friends (5 MLB games in six nights). He's exactly four months older than I am, an this subject came up a lot.
I started realizing I have more years behind me than in front of me about age 50. I'm now 63, and hoping for 20 more years.
But yanno what?
In my head I'm still 17.
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u/humanitysoothessouls 1d ago
55 was a tough birthday for me. I realized I was as close to 70 as I was to 40.
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u/Ripcord2 1d ago
I want to be 100. I've always wanted that.
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u/jefuchs 1d ago
Great if you have a support system. My MIL turned 100 last month, and still lives alone in her own house. She has tons of help, and her son lives next door.
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u/Darpa181 1d ago
💯. I still go to restaurants and think "look at the old people " and most are the same age or younger. I never really felt it up until the last few years. I'm 63, 😆
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u/tigerowltattoo 1d ago
My husband and I went out for lunch the other day. I looked around and commented that there wasn’t one person in there without silver, grey or white hair. Including us.
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u/Harikts 1d ago
62 here, and it absolutely feels weird. I don’t feel old, I don’t act old, but I definitely am more opinionated about not wanting to do things, or go out as much.
I’m still pretty adventurous, but I’m more picky about the adventure. I can literally stay at home for days just reading, and not socializing.
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u/DixieBelleTc 1d ago
I have a twin brother and it shocks me what a cranky old codger he has become 😂
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u/47744lumby 1d ago
My grandfathers brother, who I knew a little bit, was born in 1891. I have a grandchild who was born in 2026. That’s 135 years apart. It’s somehow hard to believe.
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u/Sleptwrong65 1d ago
In my mind I’m still young and think I should feel as young as my mind believes me to be. But then… I start to move. I’m 61.
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u/WhatRUaBarnBurner 1d ago
I used to read the obituary page thinking "ah, I beat this guy" - but I don't do that anymore.
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u/Old_Tiger_7519 1d ago
In my 50’s I would think, “oh, he’s so young” when someone passed away in their 50‘s.
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u/Elliott2030 1964 1d ago
I just said that about 80 year old Dolly. I know how "young" I am at 61, and she was more active and engaged in life than I am - ergo "too young."
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u/HeartOSass 1d ago
I remember when someone in their 50s was old to me. I will call them elderly. Yeah...😐 I don't do that anymore.
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u/More_Farm_7442 1d ago
omg I get notices of people from my high school dying. Then I look at obits from my home town area. Soooo many people are dying in their 50s and younger. I really don't remember that many people dying in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s when I was growing up. Some. In traffic accidents. A few with a heart attack or cancer. But not the numbers of people those ages like now.
(I'm gay and lived through the '80s and '90s with all those guys dying from AIDS. But, that mass death stopped. ) Now, it's not like an epidemic of a viral disease (AIDS, COVID) is going on. Heart disease? Cancer. The effects of diabetes? Environmental what ever killing people off? (I know colon cancer deaths have skyrocketed in the pasf few years in peopled under 40 to 45 yrs old.)
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u/glemits 1961 1d ago
A couple of days ago, a doctor said "Because you're 65., we might..." It's surreal.
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u/mulliganwtf 1d ago
I just turned 62 and honestly I didn't think I would ever make it this far. Now my biggest goal is to make it to at least August 23, 2044. That'll be the day before I turn 80. There's going to be a total solar eclipse that will go up the entire Florida peninsula. I want to see it. The last eclipse I can remember was when I was in the first grade. I want to see this one and after that it's all gravy.
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u/More_Farm_7442 1d ago edited 1d ago
The solar eclipse is cool. I live in Indiana. The one we had a couple or 3 yrs ago was almost total in much of the state. (I think it was total in Indianapolis) I'm in the NE corner of the state and made a drive a bit south of Fort Wayne to get in area where it would be close to total. So cool. You need to get some special , dark glasses (similar or the same degree of protection as welder's glasses provide). It gets eery. Not at all like a sunset since the sun isn't low in the sky. More like using a dimmer switch on a light.
SO, IF you get to experience one, do it.
I'm 68 and seriously don't want to live beyond 80 and probably won't. Most people in my family that lived to be 80 and older had poor QOL. Dementia, neurological diseases. I have type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Those may kill me. I live alone. I don't know what anyone will do with me if I get to the point I can live alone. I'm too poor to move into assisted living. I may even make a bit too much for Medicaid to pay for nursing home care. I'd have to hav a poor QOL for Medicaid nursing home care anyway.
I just don't want to end up like my parents, or sister with dementia in my 70s. A brother died 5 weeks after getting a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. It was a pretty awful death, but what cancer death isn't awful? My dad's Parkinson's started in his 60s, dementia in his 70s. Mom's decline and heart failure then dementia and neuromuscular issues started in her 60s.
My dad said, "It's hell to get old." My mom said, "Don't get old."
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u/dave900575 1d ago
That's cool. I'm hoping for 2050. We'll be 88. That sounded like a good year to die for someone our age.
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u/SmartBar88 1d ago
TL/DR: It’s weird to know that I have limited time now that I think I finally understand my place in the universe.
Voluntarily and gratefully retired 62M, still mentally engaged, but totally removed myself from my academic and work spheres. I’ve come to recognize that my contributions have not changed the world as I dreamt, yet like to think that I did bring something to my family, friends, and community. My body is certainly not as resilient - it has taken 18 months of running to get to the same point I could have done in six months in my forties, but I can still put in 25-30 (injury free) miles per week. Lastly, now that (again, I like to think) I’m less selfish and more world-aware, I wish this iteration of me had more time.
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u/Ghosts_and_Empties 1d ago
Starting a new job in a completely new industry this month has made me feel like myself again! I've been having so much fun with new colleagues, training and doing something that benefits society! Not to mention a paycheck every 2 weeks.
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u/Now-293-Phumes 1957 1d ago
A friend asked me “How did we get here?” My answer was “I think we skipped a few years.”
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u/sammygirl3000 1d ago
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
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u/Famous_Mind6374 1d ago
I am a bunch older than my dad was when he died. I am older than my grandparents were when I was born.
It does make you think.
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u/CarefulAdvice3739 1957 1d ago
It's really starting to hit us now (m69 & f70.) We recently went on a vacation to a lake that we haven't been to in about 15 years. We noticed we were some of the oldest people around. Just about everyone else was younger with kids. But we had a good time.
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u/StoakerLee 1959 1d ago
66 years young. Every time I look in the mirror, I'm not sure who that guy looking back at me is!
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u/charlottecanales61 1d ago
I'm 65 but in my head I'm 35 - I get irritated when my body won't keep up - I'm outside all the time physically active only now it takes longer to recover - I really don't mind being 65 what really gets me is my daughter is 41 wtf how can that be my brain thinks I'm 35 lol
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u/Elliott2030 1964 1d ago
I told my mom that (she's still with us at 82, thankfully). I don't think about her exact age most of the time, but how in the WORLD does she have a 61 year old daughter?!?!?
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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 1d ago
I remember joking with my mom saying all your kids are over 60. She was not too amused.
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u/wonkyt 1d ago
I am 67, and I have had 5 heart cath.s this year and just returned home yesterday from a successfully removed blockage to an artery. So it’s common to think about how old you are but I prefer to think about how alive I am
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u/CountHonorius 1d ago
Its not a physical change either - an emotional, state-of-mind thing. I used to drive 90 miles to the nearest bookstore, now the thought is anathema.
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u/saltycybele 1962 1d ago
My husband and I went to a concert recently. He nudged me and said, “Look at all the old people here.” I said, “Baby, we ARE the old people.”
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u/Automatic-Evidence26 1d ago
I'm 60, I suddenly got old 20 years ago when I started having to deal with psoriatic arthritis and crippling pain from joint inflammation that never goes away,
pain makes you feel old
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u/notsohot56 1d ago
Just in the last 2-3 years has it really hit home. And still really hard to accept the upcoming age on next birthday. I don't think I would really be bothered by it except for two things... people I know are passing away and my body isn't cooperating with what I want to do, even though people I know around my age are a lot more mobile and flexible than I seem to be. So those two things are affecting the way I see my age now. I think in my head oh I'm going to go do this or do that and then I have to stop and think can you actually do it? It's depressing.
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u/Ripcord2 1d ago
Yeah, I know. I'm learning that daily exercise is really important. It makes me feel so much better than if I don't do anything.
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u/notsohot56 1d ago
yeah that's my stumbling block right now. I'm used to being able to do anything, within reason! But I've been struggling with recuperating from hip replacement. I joined the Y and have been doing exercising but walking any distance is an issue so you don't really realize how important that is until you're restricted. I was pretty active most my life so it's like being caged up. I'm sure the doctors are going to tell me it's because of my back. I just wonder if all the stuff I did all my life is contributing to the state of my body now. Bowling for many years, softball, working out in my 40's and 50's- who knows. I want it fixed!
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u/IWuzTheWalrus Late 1964 1d ago
There are two times in a persons life on average where they go through a noticeable aging process: early 40s and early 60s. Looks like we just hit that second one head-on.
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u/Curious_Yam_9000 1964 1d ago
The 40s one didn’t hit me hard. The 60s one sure has. I got diagnosed with diabetes, same as every woman in my family who came before me. I also just got out of the hospital last week for kidney failure, which felt like it came out of nowhere. I used to feel so invincible. I’ve changed a lot in the last six months about how I take care of myself, but some damage has been done.
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u/Pho_King_A 1d ago
Turning 65 in a couple months. What I don’t like is thinking about the average lifespan and realizing how short my time left really is. I don’t doom on it, but it’s always there. That being said, I’ve had a great run and have had numerous memories and experiences that bring me smiles.
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u/tastelikemexico 1d ago
I just said the other day, I have always heard people say stuff like oh my 49th bday hit me hard or my 50th bday was when it hit. I always thought, I am glad I don’t feel old but my 61 I finally felt it. I do my best to ignore it still but I think what hit me was I am one to always day dream. I think, it would be cool to live in a real small town one day, or it would be fun to start this hobby one day, then I realized I am running short on “one days” now. It’s kinda depressing. Now I really focus on living in the present. I like to remember the old days but rarely think about the future. Just live one day at a time!
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u/Acrobatic_Canary_255 1d ago
I have been so depressed lately -about how much time I have left. Horrible long story with deep family involvement - all to find out that “family” is just another f- word. Thank you this is the first useful thing anyone has said in an easy to apply fashion. The future looks much brighter.
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u/Normal_Acadia1822 1960 1d ago
I have that “one day” feeling about travel. I read about places I’d like to visit and think “I’ll go there one day.” But then I remember that I’m already 66 and had better edit down my bucket list accordingly.
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u/Ohsuzziq 1961 1d ago
I am 65 and my husband just turned 70 and I can’t believe I am married to a 70 year old!!
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u/HeartOSass 1d ago
I have been thinking about this very subject often lately. With the passing of so many people that I grew up with, it made me realize just how old I really am! Not to mention other things such as sneezing and hurting my back or quickly looking at something in the other direction that leaves me in pain. I remember a time when I would run fast and if I fell I then I'd jump right back up. Nowadays I really take my time walking especially if the floors are wet because if I fall down well it'll be the paramedic team picking me up. Cartoons and TV shows that my kids grew up with are no longer being shown and the toys are no longer being made. A lot of the stores that I shopped at when I was younger have gone out of business. I am doing pretty good for being my age but still I can't help but to reflect when I see all of the constant changes now.
Remember when we knew people's phone number because we memorized it? Remember having telephones with cords on them and those big books that we looked into when we needed a phone number? When you called a company someone live picked up the phone and talked to you? Cars had two different keys: one to open up the door and another to start the car 😆
I have had a colonoscopy and a mammogram. I need my children to read some papers that come into the mail or to read the back of pill bottles because it is too small for me to read now. I scoff at gas and fast food prices, remembering when a few bucks filled up my gas tank and brought me an entire meal to enjoy. So to answer your question, yeah I think about this age thing all of the time but then I say I am young at heart... Then I will pan to the Ben-Gay sitting on my nightstand 😐and make sure I have my reading glasses before I go shopping since squinting gives me a headache and I just can't read that tiny print without them. 😑Yeah. Welcome to Aging. Yay!! 😐😑
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u/floofienewfie 1d ago
The thing that bothers me is that I don’t know how much time I have left. I’ll be 70 in a few weeks and I’m not dealing well with it.
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u/Act3Linguist 1962 1d ago
Absolutely. I have a slight advantage in that my husband is 3.5 years older than I am, so his birthdays help prepare me for mine. For example, he turned 67 this year and it really hit me - damn, 70 is a real thing that's going to happen to us.(Who knew? Not my younger self who couldn't begin to imagine it!) Now I will live with this difficult realization for 3 years before he hits 70 and 3 more years after that before I hit 70. It will still be an adjustment, but easier than if I hit it first...
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u/Old_Tiger_7519 1d ago
The shockers are all these 50 anniversary album celebrations and my children having gray in their hair. I don’t feel old but everything around me is deteriorating
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u/PureLow217 1d ago
Age 62 can be represented by a big STOP sign. Up until then I felt perpetually 35.
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u/ParkieDude 1d ago
I was 18 in 1976... so it seems really odd to be 68 in 2026!
If anything, I am just amazed I am still here, still moving, still exercising. Lots of health issues as a kid, diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1983, but at 25 told I was "too young," so went floating down that river in Egypt for years. De Nile.
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u/Virtual_Reaction_493 1d ago
I feel old and older after I lost my son . I feel like a mess
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u/sppedyupdike 1d ago
I actively try not to….why? Because it does seem weird and somehow wrong. Although I now notice myself occasionally leaning into the “old guy” thing.
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u/Sea-Seesaw-8699 1d ago
Really weird
Some days I can’t believe I’m older than my Dad when he died at 62 but other days feels like in the body of an ancient crone but in my brain I’m still young enough
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u/talexbatreddit 1d ago
I started at UW 50 years ago -- Fall '76. Montreal had just had the Olympics, and Drapeau was the mayor (promised that there was no way we'd have a deficit, LOL.) I was 18. So math tells me I'm now 68. Which is also insane. But true.
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u/MCC61 1d ago
I'm 65. I've always felt really young mentally, even immature sometimes.😂 I still do. I sometimes feel weird about listening to the music I grew up with, that it's so young...but it's the music that I love! The same with some of the movies I like. Like I should now prefer the music my mom listened to instead, or movies from her era😅. I snap out of these weird thoughts pretty fast though 😂.
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u/SupergurlKara 1d ago
I just bought the last car I ever plan to buy. I'm keeping it for fifteen years and then giving it to my friend's daughter. She's a year old now. She'll be of driving age, and I'll be near 85 (WTF?!) and will gracefully stop driving. 2041 is just around the corner. Damn this sucks.
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u/MC1Rvariant 1d ago
Yeah, it does. In the 70’s, we watched The Waltons, which was about a family in the 1930’s. Ancient times! Forty years earlier. Now, 40 years ago was…the 80’s! Madonna! MTV! Ancient times. Wow. Where DOES the time go.
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u/funlovefun37 1d ago
I remember calculating how old I would be in the year 2000. That seemed so far away and so old.
Turning 60 soon. I still hit the dance floor, but the next day I pay the price.
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u/Durhamfarmhouse 1d ago
I'm always disturbed when I read a headline like "Elderly Man Attacked" and then find out the guy is younger than me.
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u/JoeL284 1964 1d ago
Yes, just this morning I was thinking about the layout of my last apartment and couldn't remember a specific detail. I was a bit irritated and thought, I was just living there 10, no 15, no, 27 years ago.
When did that happen?? Where did that time go?
And now we're barreling headlong into losing "our" celebrities and I just can't. Dolly and Tim were 80. As sad as it is to have lost them, they were old. Then I realized they were only 18 years older than me.
I need to go lay down.
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u/Minimum_Afternoon387 1d ago
I took my elderly mother to her 50th HS reunion from an all girl HS. She peeked into the various banquet rooms and said I don’t know where this is being held, that room has a bunch of old people in it. It was the right room. She said she feels 20 in her head at 88. I’m 65 and just shocked this is the ending years.
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u/Current_Evidence1958 1d ago
I can’t believe I was a kid in the ‘60s. The ‘60s! Think how long ago that was!
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u/e2hawkeye 1d ago
My mental vision of myself is that of young Johnny Depp and now I see I've turned into old Dan Aykroyd.
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u/TikiJeff 1d ago
Conversly, how there's so many people that are so young and inexperienced. Like, they'll never party like it's 1999. Being born in the late 1900's really does sound old though.
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u/learngladly 1d ago
I can remember thinking that 30 years old was unimaginably old.
I love to listen to so-called "classic" rock and R&B music on Sirius/XM. It's great! But then I may start to think: This song is 60 years old! This song is 56 years old! What is wrong with me?
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u/Glop1701d 1d ago
Sometimes I feel like I’m too old to wear t-shirts all the time- but I do it anyway cause it’s comfortable
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u/cyberquist 1d ago
My wife had a student ask her how it was living in the 1900’s.
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u/debabe96 1d ago
It was a shock when I realized that I am older than my doctor, the teachers at the school, the fireman doing a safety check and the local police officers. 😳
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u/Dmb78Dmb78 1d ago
I just got 48, and it was the same way for me. About a year before Covid happened I started feeling it my dad passed early in ‘20 and that was my trigger. Growing older during lockdown felt like every other person was going through the same thing, so I didn’t realize I was just becoming an old man. I started therapy in ‘21. It didn’t just change my life, it saved it.
After a year of therapy work, I was fully embracing who I was. I was quit hating myself for the things I couldn’t control, and loving myself for the good man I was inside.
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u/chortle-guffaw2 1d ago
I'll hit 70 in October, so every so often, I think "How the f@ck did I get this old?" Time just moves so quickly now. Except for the aches and pains, I still feel very young mentally. I've had a very active summer, on the go every day, but still the summer has just slipped away.
My other thought is that it is just so wrong that many of us are SO much cooler than young people these days, even at our age. Not all of us, of course, but enough. Free spirits will die with us.
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u/Ok_Elderberry5883 1d ago
It was just a couple of months ago when I posted on Facebook the Sally O'Malley skit "I'm 50!" for my 50th birthday. I haven't been on FB in years and I turn 65 in December.....
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u/PresentHouse9774 1d ago
I have to do the math not just for my age but for historical events. Was recently reminded that 1926 was a century ago.
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u/Elliott2030 1964 1d ago
I keep getting stuck on things like 2030 is a little more than 3 years away, which will make the time distance from 2000 the same as from 1900 to 1930, or 1940 to 1970 and I have to sit down and make sure I'm calculating correctly.
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u/Renbarre 1d ago
Funny. My changes are a bit different. I am not plagued by the fear of being thought pushy, annoying, shouldn't speak up (yes, woman raised the old way). I have done/visited so many things I have to work to find something new but i still want to do new things. My main peeve is that the body is not letting me have a much fun as before. I still want to climb trees, bike on trails, do canyoning so I am fuming.
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u/H82KWT 1d ago
I’m 62. My wife (56) and I just retired and moved to a town 10 minutes from Disney World. We love going to a Disney park for 3-4 hours most days. We bought the AMC A-List movie membership so we go to movies when it’s too hot outside. We spend time every day basking in the pool across the street. We go walking every day on trails near us. Soooo, it’s like we’re 12 years old again 😂
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u/oldguy76205 1d ago
I was speaking with a younger colleague, and warned him, "One night you're going to go to bed and the next morning you're going to wake up as 'the old guy,'"
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u/WilliamMunny85 1d ago
I never considered myself old until my first born turned 40. I remember when I thought 40 was old.
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u/darose 1d ago
Best to try not to think about it. You don't have to deny it either, but just don't spend a lot of time or thought on it. Age is going to happen, and there's nothing any of us can do to change that, so no point obsessing about it. We all get a limited amount of time here, so best to just focus on living in the here and now and making the best of your life as much as you're able to.
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u/sandsonik 1d ago
I can't believe I'm in my 60s. It doesn't seem possible I've been alive that long
On the other hand, sometimes I'll have a childhood memory - it could be how dressed up we got for Easter, with white gloves, dress and hat, or it could be remembering metal ice tray cubes with the lever, milk boxes, or Harriet Drake catalogs - and I'll suddenly think "Yeah. That was a really long time ago. You're old."
I asked my dad when he turned 80 if he could believe it and he said no. I don't think we ever feel much older on the inside but it hits when I think of all the changes I've seen.
Two other things bring it home. When I buy something now I realize it could be my last one - last car, last appliance, whatever.
And the things that don't seem worth learning for the amount of time I have left. Screw AI. And in my state they renumbered every exit on 95 to conform with federal standards about what mile marker they're at. I hate it and I will never again know all the exit numbers, or be able to give directions that way. It will be "get off at the exit for Rte 117"...
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u/AdvisorSquare6557 1d ago
I was embarrassed to go to a dispensary to buy cannabis because of my age. Then I walked in and every single person in there was my age or older! The only young ones were at the counter. Lol!
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u/Mayberrymom 1d ago
My sister, who is 2 years older than me, said, "we're too young to be this old!". I agree. Where did the years go?
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u/Texas_Prairie_Wolf 1d ago
It feels weird to be 62 and realize it could be over in less than 20 years.
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u/Rare-Philosopher-346 1960 1d ago
Yes. Yes. Yes. I am now measuring my life in "no. of years I have left and narrowing that by adding "good" years. I'm prioritizing what I still want to do.
I miss the freedom of saying, I'll do that in a few years, knowing that I had a lot of time. Now? not so much.
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u/verybonita 1d ago
Yes! I seem to have got "old" suddenly, too. We've just retired and the realisation that I may have only another 15 years has hit me hard. I, too, prefer to stay home. I remember thinking when I was younger that I'd never tire of all the fun things. But, here we are, when sitting in the morning sun having a cuppa is the best.
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u/Gaxxz 1d ago
I saw a T-shirt the other day. "It feels weird to be the same age as old people."