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The amount of candles on you're birthday cake are so numerous that the fire department comes out.
You look at your weekly pill container to know what day of the week it is.
One of the biggest and most terrible things that ever happened to my province, which CONSUMED everything for a long time back when I was a teenager and people still talk about very passionately to this day, well meeting someone who has NO idea what this is makes me feel old.
I have learned the difference between "your" and "you're".
I guess Iβm still growing as a person
You start correcting people when they say "your" instead of "you're" :-)
Quite the opposite.
The older you get the less clever it feels to point out the common mistakes of others
Agreed. Matter of fact, I usually direct the offending party to one of two, if not both, sites.
https://www.sciencealert.com/people-who-pick-up-grammar-mistakes-jerks-scientists-find
https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/76120
Always a good time.
I don't heal as fast anymore. Cuts and scrapes turn into scars easier.
Vision. It gets hard to read in low light, driving at night is tough, you can't quite figure out how close or far to hold a book or phone.
Alcohol. You just don't shake it off like you did when you were younger. Now you really think about whether that next drink will be worth the shitty sleep.
Money. You talk about property taxes and 401k contributions more often than you ever thought you would.
Patience. You're more patient with kids and your parents, and way less patient with everything else.
definately physical pain on stuff you used to do on the regular. Had a job were I would get impatient waiting for a delivery and would jump off the dock to go check if I could see the truck. A little after I got into my thirties I jumped off one day and just stopped and stood still in a crouched position for a bit. I never "felt" the landing like I did that day before. It was the sart of what would be a long line of things I would cease to do.
When you fall down nobody laughs. Only concern.
Next up: you don't fall down, you "have a fall".
You mix up your and you're.
My tolerance for incorrect use of your / you're gets lower.
It's funny, because my tolerance of people correcting other people's grammar or spelling gets lower.
https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/76120
https://www.sciencealert.com/people-who-pick-up-grammar-mistakes-jerks-scientists-find
I find it takes much, much longer to heal from injury. That's the main downside I've experienced. When I say longer - when about 8 yo I broke my arm, it took 5-6 weeks to heal, maybe 10 to really heal, stop swelling ever and feel exactly like the other. When about 45 I broke my finger and it took 2 years to fully heal and feel like the rest of them.
But it also takes longer to get mad, I'm less irritable, more perspective I guess. Easier to feel happy/satisfied, too, it's closer to the surface now.
You can't stand grindy videogames. You see young adults as children, and their behavior becomes irritating.
The music I grew up with is βclassicβ and the βhits of yesterdayβ that I donβt recognise on the radio is βyoung peopleβs musicβ.
All pro athletes are younger than me. Except maybe a hockey player or two.
Finding grey hair in your beard. The first time I started to feel older was once I found a couple grey hair in my beard. None in my hair, just beard
Asking what the signs of getting older are?? π
Letting autoincorrect slip in homonyms
Pain. Just pain and exhaustion doing everyday things. Recovery time from the same pain taking longer and longer as time goes on.
I'm not even 30 yet, and it really puts a damper on things.
You might want to get that checked out. You shouldn't be feeling pain to that level in your 20s. I'm 40+ and do not have pain and exhaustion from everyday things. I work outside daily on my farm as well. So you really shouldn't be feeling this at 20.
Back pain
Deadlifts fixed my back pain completely. Ymmv.
thanks, i'm trying with swimming now, hopefully it'll help
The year changes
For me it clicked when pretty girls started tallking and being nice to me
It's probably because you stopped caring so much and acting awkwardly around them
It is! Hence the realization that I got older. Sorry, re-reading my comment above I wasn't clear
"You've exited the dating pool but aren't in old adult territory yet", someone I've heard describe it once.
Less birthday parties for you, more for younger folks.