As the years pass, the way we think about the world changes. Our information processing capacity slows down and we become less open to new experiences.
This is not to say that there are no open-minded seniors, rather, as we age, we turn to data that we have collected to make our opinions and decisions, which can be quite different from what we had thought about the same stuff 20, 10, or even 5 years ago.
And there's a discussion on Reddit that vividly illustrates this. Created by user Istrx13, it asked everyone, "What are you starting to like less and less the older you get?" Below you will find some of the most-upvoted answers.
#1
Social media. I hate what it does to people and I hate the things it makes people do. So much. It used to be useful once upon a time but now social media is just a cesspool of the worst kinds of people.
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291points
#3
How quickly things break down. Everything is cheaply made so you will have to replace it quicker. My grandmother had the same oven for 50 years. A fridge that was easily 30 years old.
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239points
#4
I give a s**t less and less about whether people find me attractive or not, because I’m comfortable with myself more than ever.
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222points
#5
Crowded areas. Went to the grocery store yesterday, felt uncomfortable with that many people around.
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215points
#6
Getting wasted and partying.
I am in my early 30s and i think im okay to not party anymore for the rest of my life.
Its just that weekends are damn precious now that im working full time. When I get wasted and party, i just waste a whole sunday recovering from that.
Yea so im good.
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197points
#7
Making appointments. For my dog, myself, my kids. Start a new patient portal. Verify your email. Try to make an appointment through their portal. Portal down for maintenance. Call. Sent to electronic voicemail, recommends online portal. Rinse and repeat. Eventually find the right formula to speak to a human, not accepting new patients/no openings for ten weeks.
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193points
#9
Politics. It’s so polarized and feels like a clear psyop to promote us fighting amongst ourselves.
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180points
#10
Chasing a career.
We whip ourselves into a fury chasing this thing. Our entire society is built around the assumption that everyone wants one. That it's a way to be happy.
It's not.
It's a waste of a great gift we've been given.
You enrich others. Always. If you're lucky you'll get some cream off the top. But most people won't.
They'll just pump hours of their life into the comfort of other people who had the fortune to be born into the right class of people.
You'll chase it and chase it and feel like you're getting somewhere but at the end of the day, it won't matter. The only things that will matter are the things you couldn't do because you were playing by someone else's rules for a happy life.
F**k. That. S**t.
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158points
#11
Holidays. Really turning into a Scrooge lately. Christmas is just the worst. All people care about is receiving/giving present and I just think that s**t is the absolute worst. Let me just spend time with my family, see some nice decorations, and have a good meal
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158points
#12
Someone opening an Instagram/Tiktok video on loud volume out of nowhere. Whether its on the train or in the sofa. Makes me scream inside
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142points
#13
Having to have a job just to afford the small amount of time I have between having a job
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141points
#14
Since I haven’t seen it yet after scrolling a good while:
Soda and other soft or carbonated drinks. They’re so sugary and awful it’s like I can imagine my teeth dissolving and my insides corroding just from drinking a bit of it. I don’t hate it with a passion and in a social occasion I might even drink some, but I always feel bad afterward and sometimes even sick.
Water is love, water is life.
139points
#16
*gestures to everything*
I just want to sit on a front porch in a comfy chair, book in hand, cat(s) on lap, on a mild summer evening. And shoot buckshot at anyone who comes to bother me.
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129points
#17
Rude people. Especially middle aged and elderly people who think they can get away with being rude just because of their age. I'm in my mid 50's and I hate those a******s as much as I did when I was a young person.
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126points
#18
Shopping. As a kid and teenager there was a bunch of stuff I couldn’t have, so when I started earning money I was really enjoying buying something, if I wanted to. Now I just think that constant online shopping and the throw-away-and-repurchase-cycle makes you feel empty on the inside and hurts the environment. I’d rather have kind people and joy in my life than things
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120points
#19
People running their mouth in the movie theater when you're trying to watch the movie that you just paid $15 to watch.
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115points
#20
Videocalls since they inherently use the speaker phone. Nobody seems to remember when using speaker phone to talk was considered rude/lowclass
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114points