Each additional decade of age seems half as long as the previous one was.
0-10 took forever
10-20 took 20 years
20-30 took 10 years
30-40 took 5 years
I’m 40 and it feels like 50 is next year already.
That makes sense based on your perception of time. 0-10 was your whole life doubling, over and over. 10-20, your life doubled. 20-30 your life will increase 33%. And so on.
This is a rough one.
Uff… I felt this.
This is for you. From another comment
- Even WWII is closer to my birth than I am.
Ffuuuuuccckkkk meeeeee
WHY did you make me realize this?
You realize how some people never grow up and some people never mature. I see these as two separate entities. Having an inner child is one thing, but being completely disrespectful to others like a 5 y/o as a grown person is something else entirely
The immense shock of realizing that I am realistically over a third of the way through my life.
Two thirds for me.
The fact that I continue to grow older. I’ve had multiple horrifically potentially fatal health issues that should have killed me decades ago but I’m still here and somehow healthier. Wtf.
So agreed. Living on includes facing death. It’s kinda confusing, this strong idea we have of The End. Reality is we get to think its over many times before it is.
Your actions, whether good or bad, will eventually affect you. Luck, which is defined as the factors that are beyond your control, such as genetics, family upbringing, and place of birth, is a major determining factor in life.
How much older people “don’t know fuck about fuck”.
As youngling I thought elder know something and I believed them.
Now I know they didn’t know anything, same as me and my friends don’t.
This is the reason my wife and I will admit we don’t know to our kiddo. When possible we explain how we can find out. Growing up without a sense of how being older actually is has been wild.
How often I need to get up at night to pee.
Flomax. Life changer.
How “not old” everything is. I’m not old, but when I was young I thought people my age were at the general end of one’s life. People also are surprisingly clueless.
Same idea but in, perhaps, a different sense:
When I was young, landing on the moon and the US war with Vietnam were all “in the past” and when I was young everything “in the past” had equal weighting and distance from my existence.
As I get older, I look back on things with the perspective of equidistance, time-wise, from my birth (or sometimes from ~adulthood) and events within that ever growing range start feeling like “not that long ago”
- The Vietnam war ended only 3 years before I was born!
- Apollo 11 was less than a decade before I was born. I’ve experienced that 9 year timespan three times in conscious memory and five times in my life.
- Even WWII is closer to my birth than I am.
- Heck, even the Great Depression was just starting to recover.
The older I get, the more recent everything seems.
when I was young everything “in the past” had equal weighting and distance from my existence.
As a young person I relate to this feeling. Sometimes I forget how close to my birth some historical events were. Like, 9/11 was just a couple years before my birth, and the end of the USSR was closer to my birth than I am (and by quite a margin). Which… to me, the USSR feels very much “in the past”.
I relate very much with you on this comment.
It’s bizarre to me these days to really realize and contemplate how close events like WW2, Kennedy’s assassination, the moon landing, Woodstock, etcetera actually all were to my birth.
But as a child and even into my early 20s most of those events felt like practically an eternity away.
It really puts it into perspective when I think about the fact that I moved out of my parents’ home and started working full time over 30 years ago…
First saw the Grateful Dead in concert over 30 years ago… They’d already been performing for over 25 years at that point and seemed like such a massive juggernaut that had just sort of always been around.
Mentally, I still feel like I am the same person as back when I was a teenager, until I actually meet some real teenagers and thought “oh, they are a bunch of children.”, and then “wait, was I actually as immature as them when I was a teen? That’s not the way I remembered it.”
Exactly! When I was younger I wasn’t that immature and stupid… Thinks back to when I was younger. OH! Shit. Yes I was.
It’s nice to have somewhere where I can stop being a grown-up for a little bit and make some dumb jokes.
That I just keep getting older. I kind of expected a bunch of life events into my mid thirties, but I was pretty hazy about everything after that. Now here I am, getting older, not really sure what to do.
And the other way around: the banality of everyday. Large parts of my working life are just a blur, because so little of relevance happened. My life is just kind of running on autopilot.
The autopilot sucks. My work is interesting, but I stopped doing a lot of things when we had kids, and I stopped even more when the pandemic hit.
I have never planned for getting this old,no idea what to do.
Everyone my age is angry about something that happened two decades ago and is working off a mental life story that “explains” why they are doing awful things. As if they get angry enough or disagree enough it can somehow backwards correct the unfixable.
I find it surprising that conversations and interactions with my cohort are basically an eternal thanksgiving dinner without the food or happiness. People are reduced to sore points, don’t mention x, don’t talk about anything related to x, whatever you do dont downplay x. They will demand you take a side about x.
The fact that history gets shorter as I get older
How many people actively vote and influence against their own self-interest
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“Shrieking idiot” has been an unsettlingly popular role for grown-ass adults to play in American politics, especially since 2008 or so. Sure, Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Party did it earlier, but it really kicked up a notch in response to the election of a black president.
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