That Moment You Realised You're Old

[ReinWeisserRitter]

Playing a random game online saw one of the players asking how old the other people in the game were; they stated they were nine.

"Oh hey, I played games when I was your age, too." I replied.

It hit me then that I had spoken the dreaded phrase.

Also, age twenty six hit me especially hard for whatever reason; I felt like I'd gone over the hill. It's been two years since, and it's mostly abated, but I still have some difficulty with it. Yes, I know I'm not over the proverbial hill, but I feel like I am.

It doesn't help that my other half is several years younger than me. This has introduced another disturbing possibility, courtesy of my overactive imagination: if I am with this person for the rest of my life, the possibility of them outliving me, and the possibility of them watching me die, is very high. I find the concept of subjecting them to this unsettling, especially because I will have no way of knowing how they are coping with it, or if they are coping with it. It's the first time I've experienced any fear regarding my own death.

Damn it, I told myself this wasn't going to get heavy.

The first time I got pissed off at a group of little punk teenagers.

Goddamn teenagers with their Lady Goo-Gahs and Justin Beavers and their...their Ponies.

This made me smile, though.

 

[Zhadramekel]

I was hanging out with my housemates last night and they looked at me like I was mental when I suggested listening to some 90's music on my friends iPhone.

 

[Kae]

Well though I hardly old, that moment that made me feel old was when I visited my parents after 3 years of not seeing them and they didn't recognize me and called the police because a "strange man" broke into the house, of course I just used my key and let myself in because I thought I would surprise them, took me 10 minutes to convince them that it was me : /

 

[Akimoto]

When my brother asked me what Pokemon was all about.

But... it.. it can't be.. that old, right?
Right?