What subtle things/ thoughts make you realise you’re getting old?
I got excited over a non-stick pan today, it’s over for me.
26-30, F
PoetryNEmotion · F
Many things. Many.
The joy I get at finding epsom salts on sale.
The discovery of darker hair on my chin and around my mouth.
The inability to spring out of bed most days.
The fact that I can see myself retiring in the nearer future.
Shopkeepers or salespeople calling me Ma'am.
Using seat warmers to warm me up at the end of a winter night shift.
Putting extra things in place to prevent falls for my partner and for me around my home.
Lifting up my glasses to squint at tiny printing even though I have worn glasses since a child.
Those are just a few.
PS. I am trying to get a nice non-sticky frying pan for weeks now with my free grocery points. They are hard to locate now.
PPS. You are a young lady. Older is not a word you use at your age to describe yourself.
The joy I get at finding epsom salts on sale.
The discovery of darker hair on my chin and around my mouth.
The inability to spring out of bed most days.
The fact that I can see myself retiring in the nearer future.
Shopkeepers or salespeople calling me Ma'am.
Using seat warmers to warm me up at the end of a winter night shift.
Putting extra things in place to prevent falls for my partner and for me around my home.
Lifting up my glasses to squint at tiny printing even though I have worn glasses since a child.
Those are just a few.
PS. I am trying to get a nice non-sticky frying pan for weeks now with my free grocery points. They are hard to locate now.
PPS. You are a young lady. Older is not a word you use at your age to describe yourself.
WindTherapy · 56-60, M
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@WindTherapy That is so annoying 🤦♀ Sex or food. But not both at the same time.
WindTherapy · 56-60, M
@Punches Actually it was supposed to be some fantastic fried chicken if I recall correctly. Maybe they didn't want to have greasy fingers?
AngelUnforgiven · 51-55, F
Lol thats cute and adorable. I'm a nurse and one of my client's bed keeps locking and won't work at times, just bending all day, my back reminded me just how old i am. And it snowed here and in winter my body just aches sometimes in the morning. So i have to take arthritis meds sometimes. I'm no spring chicken 🐔
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Posts by people less than half my age that say how old they feel. 🙃
They get over it oh so quickly.
Try to remember a time when you were very young and a day seemed like forever. Situations seemed so long in that moment. You couldn't wait for the moment to end.
Your perspective to a older person is very similar. A day becomes an eye blink. A week becomes like just yesterday. A month becomes a few days ago..
Events happen and it's all over before you know it even happened. 😞
They get over it oh so quickly.
Try to remember a time when you were very young and a day seemed like forever. Situations seemed so long in that moment. You couldn't wait for the moment to end.
Your perspective to a older person is very similar. A day becomes an eye blink. A week becomes like just yesterday. A month becomes a few days ago..
Events happen and it's all over before you know it even happened. 😞
JamesBugman · 56-60, T
@DeWayfarer This is directly related to those morning and afternoon naps I think.. or maybe it is the decreased memory capacity or the daily routine of things, but yea, as you get older the days fly by.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@JamesBugman has more to do with the rate of change cells changes at any given point of time in the life cycle.
You don't heal as quickly later in life either. Your whole bodies cells rate growth slows down. You loose hair even the older you get.
Everything is slower the older anyone is.
Look how quickly a baby grows. It's growing in overtime even as it sleeps. Even faster as a fetus in the womb.
In nine months a fetus grows from two cells weighing 2 nanograms to an average weight of 6 pounds. Some smaller some bigger. Yet the growth rate varies in every fetus.
Pure speculation yet I suspect you could determine anyones natural life expectancy just by the various rates of change, if they actually would keep records on that from a fetus to adulthood.
It wasn't possible until the latest scanning imagery machines.
Now they can even see the internal organs of a fetus as it grows in the womb. From a week after conception onwards.
You don't heal as quickly later in life either. Your whole bodies cells rate growth slows down. You loose hair even the older you get.
Everything is slower the older anyone is.
Look how quickly a baby grows. It's growing in overtime even as it sleeps. Even faster as a fetus in the womb.
In nine months a fetus grows from two cells weighing 2 nanograms to an average weight of 6 pounds. Some smaller some bigger. Yet the growth rate varies in every fetus.
Pure speculation yet I suspect you could determine anyones natural life expectancy just by the various rates of change, if they actually would keep records on that from a fetus to adulthood.
It wasn't possible until the latest scanning imagery machines.
Now they can even see the internal organs of a fetus as it grows in the womb. From a week after conception onwards.
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dancingtongue · 80-89, M
Aside from having to keep reminding myself to keep an upright posture and not shuffle, the primary thing is to realize that my typing no longer keeps up with my thinking and when I discover I left out words or things got slewed I blame it all on AI and auto-correct. Then again, on second thought, I think AI is responsible for most. Its vocabulary is not as large.
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Lotsofberries · 26-30, F
@MarbleMarvel Love me some puzzles
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Lotsofberries · 26-30, F
@TurtlePink Thanks. I’m a fan of turtles myself 🐢
PoetryNEmotion · F
@Lugwho Anyone of any age can love visiting garden centres!
Lugwho · 61-69, M
@PoetryNEmotion of course they can, it's just used as a bit of a joke
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JamesBugman · 56-60, T
My dog started running and I had a hard time keeping up.
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Lotsofberries · 26-30, F
@NerdyPotato Oh yeah. The old creaky knees followed by “oof!”
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Lotsofberries · 26-30, F
@DunningKruger She sounds like an optimist 😅
DunningKruger · 61-69, M
@Lotsofberries Not the word I would use.
I mean, she monopolizes all my time so I have no time to do anything on my own, but then she complains that I never use my PlayStation, so we should get rid of it.
Is that a sign of getting old?
I mean, she monopolizes all my time so I have no time to do anything on my own, but then she complains that I never use my PlayStation, so we should get rid of it.
Is that a sign of getting old?
Lotsofberries · 26-30, F
@DunningKruger Maybe use the PlayStation and when she complains say she’s old so she wouldn’t understand these newfangled contraptions?
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Entwistle · 56-60, M
A make groaning noises when I get up out of bed or out of a chair.
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I don't know who modern pop stars are or what they sing..and I don't care.
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I look forward to have my 2-3 cuppa coffee everyday 😒
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Lotsofberries · 26-30, F
@pancakeslam I love old black and white films
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I was about 30 and a teen identified as a pimp. In my day it was a mild insult
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@Moneyonmymind Wait till your 40'th and you think, "How the h3ll did this happen?"
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@Punches I’ll be there in about 6 years yay 🙃
Lotsofberries · 26-30, F
@exexec “Old but gold” or something to that effect
Lotsofberries · 26-30, F
@req89hikowquou But it was a pretty colour and I don’t have to scrape goop from it 🥺
redredred · M
Muzak has gotten better