“It Will Happen To You”: 28 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread

The fatigue.

Resistant-Insomnia:

I haven't felt rested in over ten years. Always tired. The moment I open my eyes I'm exhausted.

Your face looks older than your body, your soul feels younger than your mind ...

I’m 61 and sometimes I feel like this world is not for me anymore. I feel almost like an imposter. For example, I can’t find clothes I like that fit correctly, tv is abhorrent, only old music sounds pleasant, shoes are uncomfortable, I don’t recognize most celebrities or famous people in the news or tabloids, and I don’t understand the need for most new and supposedly exciting products.

I’m an educated person, I still work and have an active life. I’m not a recluse. But a little at a time, I feel the world is moving on without me. I finally understand why, in her final years, my mother only watched movies from the 1950s and reminisced about the past more than she talked about the present. Her world was long gone.

The world becomes more beautiful and people become less necessary.

Your body really does just start hurting out of nowhere.

You will realize that you hate planning meals and making food every single day. It's boring and to easy to fall into monotony. But you have to make lunch again and then plan for dinner again then make dinner again and what do you want to eat tomorrow so you plan for breakfast tomorrow and get up and make breakfast again and then plan for lunch again.....

I am so tired of planning and making food.

Just how horrid menopause is and how little the medical community cares about how much you're suffering.

How your mind stays young while your body starts to slow down. You still feel like the same person you’ve always been but suddenly you notice little things changing.

Kremidas:

When I turned 40 I was asked by a younger person what that felt like. I told them I just feel like a 27 year old who has been hanging around and doing stuff for 13 years.

Doors start closing once you reach a certain age.

Frozboz:

Ageism is real. I just turned 50 and am in a young person's career (software development). I feel how hiring managers look at me when asked to turn my camera on, during an interview that was going very well and suddenly it's "we'll get back to you".

How much time you wasted in your life trying to make others like you.

Time for the hard truth.

One day, and yes it will happen to you, you will see a box... and you won't just throw it away because IT'S A REALLY USEFUL BOX.

I'd just turned 40 and wasn't happy about it when I happened to talk to a couple in their 80s. Oh 40 they said, eyes misting up. What I wouldn't give to be 40 again. Made me feel better and now that I'm 60 I'm beginning to see their point of view.

You start to realize the older you get that the end is closer than the beginning and you still feel like you have so much more to do.

It’s really lonely being an adult. I mean you have friends and co workers etc but it’s just incredibly lonely because you only ever have surface level conversations with most people.

How much it hurts to fall.

I fell off the roof of a house as a kid and just got up and walked away.

Now I'm careful when stepping off of a tall curb...

Hair grows where you don't want it and falls out where you wanted it.

Things that seemed so important when you were younger, really are not important.

No one prepared me for how much energy and time it takes to maintain everything—like health, relationships, and just staying organized. It’s way more work than I expected!

It will hit you unexpectedly, you think you're still young but your body just won't cooperate and will show some signs.

It's not just you who is getting old.

Your parents are getting even older.