People Share Things That Make Them Feel Old

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Jun 27, 2023 8:00 PM EDT

Every moment we are older than we were the last. These quick seconds of aging don't really hit us until we look back and see how far away we are from the past. For me, it feels wild yet appropriate that 2013 was ten years ago. I have changed tons in that stretch of time between being a teenager and becoming a full-fledged adult. However, I don't quite feel "old" yet. I think it's unconstitutional for a 23-year-old to claim that they're old in any context. I will start complaining about being old when I meet adults that were born when I was in high school. My elderly whining will commence when I have to stretch every day to feel like I can walk five blocks. I am not old yet, but I have made people feel old by saying I was born in the too-soon year of 1999, and for that, I apologize. Millennials, Gen X-ers, and Baby Boomers alike took to Reddit to discuss things that make them feel old, and for many of us, they are all too relatable. 

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    Font - r/AskReddit u/Halloween-365 - 1d What makes you feel old as shit?
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    Font - Previous Life7051 • 23h I look in the mirror, and that 72 year old face looking back at me says it all. Reply 2k
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    Font - JohnDragonborn. 1d 1 Award People who were born when I started college are starting college. ... Reply 8k
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    Font - i_wotsisname . 1d I'm in my 30s doing an apprenticeship for a new career and there's a kid in my class who was born the year before I graduated high school. Reply ... 3.2k
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    Font - whizpig57 22h ● 1 Award Doctors are younger than me now Reply 6.9k
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    Font - chinchenping. 1d i was talking with the daughter of a friend, she's 15, she told me "Harry Potter is an old people thing, I wasn't even born yet" ... Reply 9.3k
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    Rectangle - Not Jim3. 1d I tried to pull something remotely similar to an all nighter recently and got about 3 hours of sleep. I want to die. Reply 7.3k
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    Font - AlwaysNipping. 1d 1 Award Being the guy that owns the Gmail and Hotmail email address with just my first and last name together. All the other same named people have to add a number or something at the end to have their name. ... Reply 2.3k
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    Font - jrhawk42 23h ● Listening to Nirvana today is the same as listening to The Beatles in the 90's ... Reply 6.9k
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    Font - DefenderOfNuts. 1d 1 Award The fact that we're closer to 2050 than we are to 1995. Reply 48.2k 8.2k
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    Rectangle - Horrorbmoviepunk. 23h 2 Awards The 90s wasn't actually ten years ago. Reply 4.7k 4.7k
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    Font - LucyVialli • 1d Not knowing any of the newer artists at festivals. Reply 3.2k 3.2k
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    Font - I love you more than Kanye loves Maiselmaid - 22h Kanye. Having to scroll and scroll and fecking scroll to find my birth year when completing an online form Reply 1.8k
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    Font - Tira13e 23h ● Went to a public library. Told me that they no longer use USBs. /Thumb drives. Reply 976
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    Font - ackmon • 1d . My daughter turning 40 ... Reply 41.9k
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    Font - Foodie_Ho 1d My hips, my swelling randomly for no reason but the onset of menopause, my silver hair being more than 75% now, and the fact that I can't eat most foods like I used to without some horrible side effects (swelling, constipation) AND my perfect natural teeth are starting to go bad. Oh and anytime I start a movie, I fall right to sleep. Damn, also waking up to pee like every 2 hours during the night. Like wtf is that about!!? Reply 981 ...
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    Font - bigredpbun I'm an older first-time parent. Ran into someone I knew from high school when I went to pick my son up from daycare. She was there to pick up her grandson... • 22h ... Reply 704
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    Rectangle - Maycrofy. 1d 1 Award People romanticizing the 90s aesthetic. Reply 3.1k 3.1k
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    Rectangle - Intelligent-Soup-836 • 22h 1 Award One of the new soldiers in my unit was talking about how they learned about 9/11 in history class. Bitch I was in class when that happened, fuck might as well join AARP now. Reply 1.3k
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    Rectangle - SkinfluteHero • 1d 1 Award I make a noise when I sit down/get up Reply 968
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    Organism - arrronia 1d ● The fact that children who were born in 2016-2017 are going to go to school It feels like it's been like 2 years ago... ... Reply 1.9k
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