Hey Pandas, How Did You Realize You're Getting Old?

Well, this is an interesting question. You see I will be 70 in December of this year so; I am definitely OLD! So, let's see, I began to feel old last year when I realized I needed something to sit on when working in my garden. Getting up from sitting on the ground has gotten difficult. Now I do not sit on the ground without a plan on how I am going to get up! There have been lots of reminders that I have been heading towards being old over the years. I graduated high school in 1970 (I think, it's been a long time you see) and have watched the music I enjoyed back then become classics. I have watches new technology come along. When I was a girl there was no color TV (no remotes either), computers, we only had party line phone lines and dial phones, (ours was on the wall in the kitchen). I remember a car my dad bought for $300 brand new! We rented our house for $50 a month. Now all that's changed. So, I guess over the years there have been lots of signs, but I have been ignoring them.

During training sessions at job when I asked the new hires their DOB's.... Realised I was a kid or teenager when they were born 😱

To answer my own question:

When I talked to my students about watching LOTR in cinema. Many didn't even know it and others called it an "old movie". Well damn... I didn't even dare to bring up my favourite movie "Smokey And The Bandit" from 1977, a movie that I grew up with.

On the plus-side: My students keep me up-to-date with the latest trends, apps, technology and so on. Even though I mostly can't share the excitement.

Also: Bruises don't fully go away anymore. And even the smallest cut leads to a scar.

When I realised it's odd to go to a park as an adult only for swings.

When I song you loved in High School is played on the Oldies station.

When I started groaning when I bent down to pick something off the floor. Suddenly the floor seems a long way away.

Last year I realized that the only new music I like is Nirvana and The Black Eyed Peas.

not me, but my son... he came home and told me he was getting old because he was at a stoplight and the car next to him was full of young (he's 29) kids. they had their music loud. he wanted to yell at them to turn it down. he was them 5 years ago.

When I discovered my " weather knee" every time it's going to rain/snow then here comes the pain

When I realised I bend down to pick something off the floor in a very ungainly manner, just like my mum.

I don't know if it's getting old or unaddressed health problems from when I was much younger...I find myself shopping for a back brace and a posture corrector for scoliosis and degenerative disc disease and scoliosis.

I've been working in an alternative school for at risk teens. Only in the last year or so have I not understood the music. I've always found something I like in most the genre's but Drill rap makes me feel old! I don't understand it, it sounds like shite, theyre all poseurs and the beat is rubbish. So yeah, drill rap made me old

When I have to spin or click for 5mins to get to the year I was born on, online forms and stuff

Ok...I might not be too old for some ppl. I am gonna hit 18 by the end of this year. But I feel OLD. I don't even feel like I lived through 2019 to 2023...it feels like time just skipped. Its like yesterday I was 15 and laughing with my friends but now I am gonna enter the new world of adulthood. Honestly I am a little bit scared.

when i hear people calling the xbox 360 antique but its only 2 years older than me.....

When you see a little kid and ask what grade they're in and they say "8th."
8th grade was so big.😭

when I realized it was 2020 three years ago and not 2017

In 2019 I sat down wrong on a backpacking trip. I still feel it at some point every day. So, sometime between then and right now. Thanks.

Yesterday I saw a meme that said something about changing “years” to “levels” when talking about how old you are, as in “Level 43” sounds more badda*s than being 43 years old like some old person. 43 is old!? I’m older than 43, but I’m not old!? Am I? UGH!!! LOL

2003 was 20 years ago