- My knee still doesn’t feel right after that hiking trip two weeks ago.
- I started listening to really old music.
Have I crossed the threshold?
Sometimes between 25 and 40, you’ll realize you “can’t drink like you used to.”
From here, you’ll almost never be out til last call again. Certainly not without regrets. And it’ll dwindle to where you’re learning to cook instead of asking the Uber driver to swing through McDonald’s on the way home.
You’ll find you’re amid a new hobby, and an old hobby is in the rearview.
Welcome to midlife. You’re probably as old as your parents were when they had you, if not older.
25 … Uber …
This comment alone makes me feel old. I don’t think Uber Eats was a thing when I was 25. Certainly not where I lived (in a fairly large metro area)
I can’t drink as much as I used to without experiencing an all-day headache the following day.
Check out this young un, who still has one day hangovers
Hah! Yeah, I’ve read about people having multi-day hangovers. I’ve definitely never had that happen before, but I’m “only” 44, maybe time will tell.
Let me inflict upon you a sobering (pun intended) thought: Good! If you suffer from day- or week-long hangovers, it means you are not an alcoholic! I never, ever suffered hangovers after being drunk. All the time. For years.
That stopped 247 days ago tho.
But have you begun yelling at clouds yet?
No but sometimes I grunt when I get up from the couch.
Oh to be young again. I remember questioning whether I was old or not. Embrace your youth, it’s nearly gone…
i think people are way too worried about being old while not enjoying the youth they have left right now
you can always be and feel older
You’ll never be as young as you are now
And this is the oldest you’ve ever been.
No this is
You nailed it. I’m loving it, I’m more fit now than ever and do so much more in my 40s than in my 20s even. It’s great. You’re only as old as you want to be. Listen to new music, try out new things and complain about it all when you’re 90+
We always feel old cuz we’ve never experienced being as old as today.
I slept 4 am during one weekend because we had celebration, it’s been 5 days now and i’m still feeling the lack of sleep and catching up.
i’m not that out of shape tbh, i use stairs daily on my 5th floor work office without needing to catch my breath, so i’m pretty sure ive got normal cardio and muscle condition. but the sleep, damn i feel the need to really catch up.
When you go onto a website with one of those cheesy self assessment age restrictions boxes and you’re still scrolling to get to your year.
As far as any of those sites are concerned, I was born January first, [the earliest year they allow].
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When listening to new music, I’m constantly recognizing how heavily they sample older songs that I remember listening to when I was a kid.
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A night out with friends often ends at 9 or 10p because we’re all tired.
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A night out with friends often includes a lot of discussion of various health issues and encouraging each to see a doctor.
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I’m finding myself more and more avoidant of new technology. Or maybe it’s just that I’m getting more concerned about maintaining a little sliver of privacy?
It genuinely irritates me when I hear sampled songs get passed as new without any credit to the original
In your opinion, how should they be crediting it? I’m having trouble trying to imagine a good way that it could be credited within the song, and I can’t imagine very many people actually pay attention to the credits for music, especially when so few of us are buying physical copies anymore.
I’ve definitely experienced feeling annoyed at the new songs, but some have grown on me, and hearing the samples often leads me to add the original to my playlist. I’ve actually been having a lot of fun trying to see if I can name the original artist & song title whenever a new one pops up.
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What’s really old music? Like Greenday?
No no like, that classic golden oldies singer, Britney Spears!
Bro don’t
Someone in here will say The Weeknd and cue mass existential crisis.
I didn’t even know who the weekend was until a couple years ago. Green day I do because I like the band a lot.
I mostly listen to music from my parents’ youth. Growing up I listened to the oldies station a whole lot (Oldies 98.1 used to be so good!). I’m Gen X, they’re boomers. So classic rock is definitely in the mix, but also artists like Petula Clark, the Supremes, Tommy James and the Shondells, etc. There’s a great station on SiriusXM called '60s Gold that I listen to pretty much every day.
And then when I need a change, I switch to New Wave / post-punk or Grunge.
Oh you mean music from the 1900s?
You are a menace and must be stopped.
So, you mean music composed before 1800? Bach and Mozart should be fine, whereas Beethoven is way too modern.
I start my day on 1960s English prog and ska, and end my day on 1970s Italian and Turkish prog and pop. I dunno what’s out there
I’m late Gen X but I’m really enjoying Gen Z music. Some of it’s so chill.
When you injure yourself sleeping
Been doing this since I was a kid. I regularly hit my head off (on?) the wall in my sleep because I twist and turn during the night.
I do not like this comment.
The most depressing sign is your parents that were once invincible are now having concerning health issues
A couple of years ago my dad, who has always been heavy into cycling and never had a weight problem, had a quadruple bypass. He was 72 or 73 at the time. He was always so healthy and fit, but the men in his family hoard arterial plaque like crazy. It was really sobering to see him go through that, and especially to see how lost my mom was while he was recovering. And my mom has osteoporosis; she’s getting treatment for it but she’s afraid to do much more than a brisk walk because if she falls, she could easily break her spine or pelvis. And she’s only 67!
It’s really depressing seeing them get old. I visited them over the weekend and we watched old camcorder tapes*. Seeing them younger than I am now was so weird; I didn’t realize my mental image of them has aged along with them, if that makes sense. But watching those tapes, all I could think was how strong and youthful they both looked!
*Seeing myself as an awkward teenager with braces and huge glasses was godawful, do not recommend!
Please try different shoes. I was panicking that my knees were gone and it was just the shoes.
Barefoot shoes ftw.
When young people talk about the video games you played when you were their age as if they were written in hieroglyphics and relics of a forgotten age.
You’re not old until the music you don’t consider old becomes old.
I remember someone referred to a song as old, and it was maybe 4 years old.
It felt new to me, but he called it old. Is 4 years the cut off? Lol
(Though some people do just listen to the top 20, but I seek out classics and indie stuff)
Sorry to confirm your suspicions, buddy. Be careful if there’s always at least one process of fermentation going on under your roof.
The radio station that plays the old hits has started playing newer hits. Spoiler: they’re not new.
The radio station that plays old hits I swear is playing even older songs. I swear it is now playing 60’s music. And not the good songs from the 60s either.
I sometimes listen to old balkan songs (from yugoslavia timen) and am 17.
