Aging is a natural part of life—but we don’t necessarily have to look or feel our age. If you’re taking care of your body and mind, and have an active social life, then you probably feel on top of the world. However, even small reminders can shock you that you’re actually living in the year 20XX. Like someone pointing out that we’re closer to the year 2050 than 1995…
Redditor u/Halloween-365 served up a big dose of reality when they asked the internet to share all the things that make them feel old as heck. We’ve collected their answers to share with you, Pandas. Read on to check them out. Warning: Apparently, there are some inconsiderate youngsters who think that Harry Potter is an ‘old people thing,’ so just keep that in mind so you don’t faint, Pandas!
Bored Panda got in touch with Alan Castel, Ph.D., a UCLA psychology professor and the author of ‘Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.’ He shed some light on the shock that people feel when they realize that they’re getting older, and shared his thoughts on why some people have a different sense of the passing of time.
#1
Having to scroll and scroll and fecking scroll to find my birth year when completing an online form
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#2
I recently stopped smoking… one of the lasses I work with asked how long I’d smoked for. She’s 21 and I’d smoked longer than she’d been alive :/
Positive news 3 weeks without a cigarette
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#3
The 90s wasn’t actually ten years ago.
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#4
I make a noise when I sit down/get up
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#5
TikTok. I’m too old for this s**t.
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#6
The fact that we’re closer to 2050 than we are to 1995.
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#7
I tried to pull something remotely similar to an all nighter recently and got about 3 hours of sleep.
I want to die.
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#8
When people say, “30 years ago”, and they mean the 1990s, not the 1960s.
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#9
My Hotmail account is older than most of my coworkers
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#10
I showed my nephew the matrix. We are a few minutes in and he is frowning.
I’m like, “what’s wrong?”
And he asks, “why are the phones ringing?”
M**********r was born after dial-up.
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#11
Doctors are younger than me now
Image source: whizpig57, Zakir Rushanly
#12
Listening to Nirvana today is the same as listening to The Beatles in the 90’s
Image source: jrhawk42, Panos Sakalakis
#13
Hearing songs that were popular when you were in middle school and high school playing in the supermarket
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#14
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.
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#15
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”
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#16
When I see a photo of myself that looks my actual age, even though I feel 20 years younger.
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#17
Not knowing any of the newer artists at festivals.
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#18
I dont like anything new coming out anymore. Feels like that south park episode when Stan turns ten and it’s all s**t.
Image source: Outrageous-Debate-64, charlesdeluvio
#19
People driving by me when I’m riding my bike, beeping at me and giving me the thumbs-up like “you go, old man!”
Apparently someone of my advanced years riding a bicycle is *inspirational.*
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#20
The song Sweet Dreams Are Made of this is 40 years old.
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#21
My daughter turning 40
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#22
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…
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#23
I was watching a make-up tutorial on YouTube and the girl was using some butterfly clips to keep her hair away from her face and she said “Girls used to wear these in the olden days.” Also, a few weeks ago, I bought a bottle of wine and the cashier asked for my ID but literally only glanced at it for a split second before giving it back. I said ‘that was quick’ and she said ‘I just have to see the 19– at the start of your birth year and not 20–‘
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#24
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!!?😫
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#25
– Kids don’t know what a house phone is.
– Kids do not know the world before internet.
– Kids trying to figure out a cassette tape.
– Kids think anything not touch screen is a touch screen.
– Knowing Millennials are the adults of the world now and boomers are the grandparents.
– Time appears to be going faster, but that’s relative to how long you’ve lived.
I can go on…
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#26
I went to go see Janet Jackson and Ludacris in concert about a week ago and my 25 year old son said, “what retirement home did they break out of?” 😒
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#27
Channel 3 for video games
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#28
Watching movies from 2002 that once looked real and clear, and now they look fuzzy as old dog s**t
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#29
People who were born when I started college are starting college.
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#30
Trying to pick something up from the ground.
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#31
Went to a public library.
Told me that they no longer use USBs.
/Thumb drives.
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#32
Hearing bands that I grew up with (Foo Fighters, STP, Soundgarden) on classic rock radio stations.
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#33
All the s**t kids are into these days. All these mobile games and YouTubers and influencers and TikTok videos with the screaming. Seriously what’s with all the f*****g screaming? I swear there’s no way my childhood would have seemed this nonsensical and alien to my parents when I was that age
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#34
Thinking about how my kids will probably never use a dark room in school. They have no idea what a cassette, floppy disk, or zip disk is.
Basically, as a millennial, the fact that I got to experience and grow up during the tale end of the analog age, as well as the digital age.
They will only get the digital age, & all of the societal ramifications that come with it.
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#35
Going back to my uni and making Shrek jokes with students, then realising that they were all born after the first Shrek movie came out. Their introduction to Shrek was as a meme, not as a character.
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#36
Realizing that kids born far after 2000 are like, functioning members of society now.
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#37
People romanticizing the 90s aesthetic.
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#38
I recently went to the Museum of American History in Washington D.C. and there were numerous items from my childhood in there. Numerous items.
Also, there is a plaque at our local lake from when it was built in 1986. My kids were all, “Wow, dad. You’re older than this lake.”
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#39
2 things:
– Getting old enough to remember my parents at my current age.
– Spent an evening shift with coworkers once, all around 20-21 (im 42). They were talking about 90s music the same way we were talking about 70s music. Playing Radiohead like it was the hottest discovery of the year.
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#40
Saw a FB post from a guy I went to high school with. He was holding a newborn baby. Thought, “Good for him, having a kid at 45.” Then read the caption. The kid is his SECOND GRANDSON.
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#41
None of my baby and childhood pictures are in color…
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#42
The sudden appearance of my wizard eyebrows.
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#43
My anger at current teenage angst on here. Like I really need to be mad at these kids being kids? And people walking on grass, like why am I getting angry at this except for the prospect I am becoming a fuddy duddy.
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#44
Finding 30 year old women look like kids.
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#45
Breaking Bad finale was 10 years ago.
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#46
Remembering how it was to see without glasses
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#47
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.
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#48
I can’t stay awake for more than 24 hours anymore
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#49
When 20 something year Olds call me sir
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#50
Went to a museum in Seattle, and they had a video game section. A group of young teens are standing in front of a GameCube. One kid says to the other, ‘I think this is the first Nintendo.’ The other kid responds back, ‘Isn’t it the first game system ever?’ The first kid responds back, ‘I don’t know. maybe?’
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