Hints that you're getting older

[DRes82]

My joints are stiff for no reason when I get up in a morning.

Also, I've started referring to people younger than me as 'the young 'uns', or 'the little ones', or 'those bloody kids'.

The worst part of it all is that I only turned 21 less than three weeks ago!

Good lord, I wish I was 21 again.

I can't drink nearly as much as I used to. Also, my broken ankle is taking a whole lot longer to heal at 29 than my broken hand did at 21. Haven't gotten grey hair and am still unable to grow a full beard. ::sigh:: My wife doesn't want to have sex as often as we used to, but I still do. I've gained 30 pounds over the last five years. Used to be rail thin, now I'm normal weight. I am NOT looking forward to 30. Just going to stay 29 forever.

Its strange, though...I thought getting old didn't happen until you were 40 or something.

Being under 30 and worrying you've done nothing significant with your life.

And this, a million times this. I don't even have children yet, and I've been married 6 years.

 

[petrolmonkey]

OH! And also reading

The pure fury that characterized me three years ago have simmered down to just a loathing of my parents. I guess that's either getting more mature or the distance talking.

And knowing he is just a pissy teen who isn't "old" and is still one of those kids that can still do stuff and not be aching the next day.

 

[The .50 Caliber Cow]

The pure fury that characterized me three years ago have simmered down to just a loathing of my parents. I guess that's either getting more mature or the distance talking.

And knowing he is just a pissy teen who isn't "old" and is still one of those kids that can still do stuff and not be aching the next day.

I'm sorry your back aches old man but I'm not a teen anymore. Well technically maybe but after dealing with years of abuse and parents trying to indoctrinate you into a religion you don't give shits about can make you bitter. Glad I fucking left on my own accord. Though my life ain't easy, its my life and I'm thankful for the few friends I have in real life who made it possible to leave everything behind.

So don't call me a pissy teen. Call me a pissy adult.

 

[2xDouble]

Oh, I got one. Actually getting angry when people tell you remakes of classics are stealing from their modern iterations. For example, I have actually heard someone say "Lord of the Rings totally ripped off Harry Potter".

When you unironically want the damn children off your lawn (literally or metaphorically).

When things from your childhood and teen years are referred to as "nostalgic".

When you start noticing famous people younger than you.

When you assume "the past decade" started before 2000.

When all of your social network friends have pictures of people uglier than you getting married.

 

[petrolmonkey]

The pure fury that characterized me three years ago have simmered down to just a loathing of my parents. I guess that's either getting more mature or the distance talking.

And knowing he is just a pissy teen who isn't "old" and is still one of those kids that can still do stuff and not be aching the next day.

I'm sorry your back aches old man but I'm not a teen anymore. Well technically maybe but after dealing with years of abuse and parents trying to indoctrinate you into a religion you don't give shits about can make you bitter. Glad I fucking left on my own accord. Though my life ain't easy, its my life and I'm thankful for the few friends I have in real life who made it possible to leave everything behind.

So don't call me a pissy teen. Call me a pissy adult.

If your age ends in "teen" you're still a teen.

 

[DRes82]

If your age ends in "teen" you're still a teen.

Addendum: If you still live with your parents, you're still a teen. Regardless of the presence of 'teen' in your age.

 

[Rawne1980]

When my kids were born.

I was in the army when my first daughter was born but even the training and shit I did in the forces didn't mature me enough for raising a kid.

Now i've got 4 of my own and step daughter who is just about to turn 19.

That makes me feel old, knowing that my step daughter is old enough to make me a step bloody grandad.

That, and i'm going grey.

And when I see people here talk about cartoons from their childhood Pokemon gets mentioned ... I was a bloody teenager when that came out, stop making me feel old you young buggers.

 

[Herr Uhl]

When you unironically want the damn children off your lawn (literally or metaphorically).

I wouldn't want strangers to run around on my property. The difference is that the children have the balls to be on your lawn. This proves age.

 

[petrolmonkey]

If your age ends in "teen" you're still a teen.

Addendum: If you still live with your parents, you're still a teen. Regardless of the presence of 'teen' in your age.

Ah! No, I think you then become a manchild.

 

[Erana]

I'm in a grad program at 19, I've been watching HGTV and the likes since I was 9, I have health issues that partly manifest themselves by looking an aweful lot like menopause, and I like a lot of stuff from the 80's.

My childhood never stood a chance. D:

OK, more like my teen years, but yeah. XD

 

[CODE-D]

The gray pube.

 

[IndomitableSam]

I'm starting to look things up on Urban Dictionary because I have no clue what they mean.

My knees crackle on stairs... but my condo is a main floor unit, so I don't normally use stairs anymore, so that may just be it.

People constantly asking me if I have kids. Or when I buy something they say "and get this for your kids!" ... Do I look like I have kids? My clothes are clean, I don't have bags under my eyes, and I'm in a supermarket alone. And my purse isn't full of diapers and cookies, it's bulging because my tablet is in it. >.>

 

[floobie]

I was a chubby kid. I lost about 60 pounds in 2007, and my general fitness level has only improved since. So... I can't really comment. I most definitely feel better now, at 24, than I did 10 years ago.

But, if non-physical hints are up for discussion: The fact that I was 14 TEN YEARS AGO. The fact that I graduated from high school SIX YEARS AGO. I'm suddenly in my mid 20s. Fucking "time". Who came up with that shit anyway?

Oh, and seeing people my age having kids and getting married. The prospect of doing either right now creeps me right the fuck out.

 

[IndomitableSam]

The gray pube.

Oh, and definitely this. The first time you find a gray hair not on your head... yeah. Mine was a few months ago. Been going gray on my head since I was a teen, though.

 

[Synyster]

Once I started a sentence with the words, "when I was a kid", also when I realized my hairline was receding I got a little depressed lol

EDIT: I'm only 20 so it's really not that bad, but since I'm the oldest out of all my friends they never let me forget about it....

 

[Orks da best]

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaa, me 17, i don't wanna get older!!!!

 

[Weaver]

My back hurts like all the time.

 

[DanielBrown]

Three things stand out the most to me;
Realising that people born in the year 2000 are making their way to internet.
Noticing that I have to shave much more often.
Not being able to pull all-nighters anymore. If I do my daily rythm is messed up like crazy and my body will hate me for it. It's currently 3 am and I woke up just an hour ago. The daily rythm has been disturbed ever since I spend an all nighter with Dark Souls over a week ago.

I'm only 22, so I'm just starting to enter adulthood, but it's going way too fast!

There has also been a couple of times when I've watched a movie and thought about when the last time I saw it was. When the numbers end up between seven-ten years+ I feel a bit dead inside.

 

[AwkwardTurtle]

Well I'm not all that old yet, but one thing that's brought me to reality is the fact that I can't really use the phrase "When I grow up/get older." anymore. T^T I'll miss those days.

 

[XDravond]

Pwhaa I'm not had that feeling yet... Much thanks to the kid(~15 or so) knocking on the door wanting to sell stuff and asked if my parents where home, I'm over 20 with a bunch of years to spare.. It might been something to do with still having my "morning hair"... (when I closed the door I couldn't help laughing really hard...)

But I have used the one classic sentence that almost put you in "stone-age old.." directly: "When I was a kid..." When I realized I just said that I felt really old...