You’re tired all the time. You realize there’s degrees of tired and you figure out how to do things at different levels.
There’s more of the past and less of the future.
A lot of comments here with legitimate aspects of getting older, but not many that aren’t fairly common knowledge.
I offer the compressed sense of time as you age. Everything just seems to go by faster and faster leaving you wondering where all your time went when things are over.
Yup, a week is such a long time in school, I’m in my thirties and I see months go by so quickly
Losing friends is probably up there.
Your life isn’t going to get better. Those old “It gets better.” campaigns used to seriously piss me off. You are a slave to crapitalism until you die
I’ve got good news for you!
No purpose, no goal. My entire life has been driven by: goto college, meet someone, get married, buy a house, have a kid, pay for college, save for retirement. Ok, done?
Hope you had more good times than bad
For sure. It’s mainly psychological, feeling a bit adrift. Trying f to transition from always working toward a long term goal to … not. And obviously you don’t want to just exist and kill time. There’s a whole world of short term experiences and satisfaction just waiting for the right shift in mindset
In my 30’s, if my pee was extra yellow I’d think “Wow” and then get on with my life. In my 70’s, if my pee is extra yellow I think " My organs are broken! I’m dying!".
I think you just need to drink more?
They drank 4 liters of water is the plot twist
Rapid aging happens like growth spurts. Around 40-44 apparently again around 65. Small print becomes a problem, body does not handle alcohol as before, body aches and pains become constant. Exercise is essential, but a setback from an injury or sedentary lifestyle is difficult to escape from.
I have heard this as well. Hitting 42 this year and feeling less youthful than I did in years past…
Your body starts breaking down long before you’re ready or expected, despite every warning you heard your whole life.
It’s traumatic for many. People start to realize that they actually age in their 30s and turn to weird shit because they don’t know how to deal with trauma of aging.
Rampant discrimination against older people, especially women is crazy and something you don’t fully notice until you or your peers are affected directly.
The fastest rise in homeless demographic are women over 50. GOP are directly putting your mothers and grandmothers on the street effectively murdering them
In your mid 30s all the pets you and your friends got as your first pets as “adults” die. That first dog for your first place? Dead. That first cat after college? Dead. They all die in the same ~5 years period so you relive your loss through your friends over and over, and dog save you if those happened to be the pets your children were born with… it’s so hard
RIP Evey, Momo, Bonnie, Otie, Maddoc, Buddy Lee, Twinkie, Blue and Pippen, among so many others, we still miss you 💔
My wife and I have been married for 15 years, our 9th cat is now 2 years old.
We started with my two, and her two. Magic (1), Carmen (2), Max (3), and Paddy (4).
We lost Magic and Carmen (siblings) when they were 15. Then Paddy.
We took in Whisper (5), as a stray, then got Rocket (6) and Keanu (7).
We were forced to downsize and limited to two cats. Our son was attached to Max, and took him. He later died from cancer.
Whisper DEMANDED the outdoor life and was adopted by a horse farm where he was hit by a car.
When we bought a house, two of our neighbor cats had litters so we took in Lorelei (8) and Willow (9).
It fucking hurts.
Seriously, every day there’s a new ache or pain. Things that never hurt when I was younger now hurt if I think about them wrong.
Body on Monday: “So we’re taking a step today, are we? Not without your ankle suddenly feeling like a knitting needle is being driven through it for the next week”.
Body on Tuesday: “Sneezed, huh? Enjoy the feeling of your lower trapezius muscles being ripped from your back!”
Body on Wednesday: “Did you turn your head slightly to glance over that way? Boy, you don’t like this neck, do you?!”
Body on Thursday: “Yeah, nothing fancy today. Just flaring up this old back injury, because you turned over in your sleep”.
And so on …
The future seems distant but the past is an instant. Your life seems like it went by in a flash.
You have to live with all the mistakes you’ve made for your entire life.
You’re getting tired. When you ride your bicycle, it always goes uphill, even when in fact you’re going downhill. And the older you grow, the steeper it gets.
