- Your former school teachers die. At this point, I think the majority of mine is gone.
- Your gum recedes, and there’s nothing you can do about it except to stop smoking. On a larger scale, your circulation gets worse because your erythrocytes become less elastic, for reasons still unknown. Add to this the most damaging impact of UV light and our atmosphere’s oxygen - an objectively very aggressive chemical - and you start shriveling, just withering away from the outside. Molecular bonds are simply getting broken faster than they get repaired. Your insides last a bit longer, but their days are numbered, too.
- On the plus side, you’ll get to learn new words for body parts you didn’t even know you had.
Just wait until your first student dies
The hairdresser asks if he needs to do your eyebrows.
These kids on my fucking lawn, dawg…
All kinds of random aches that just just become the new normal.
Driving at night just sucks.
I hit that in my mid 20s. Turned out my headlights sucked and I needed to clean the inside of my windshield.
Whatever im doing i gotta be careful or ill fuck my back up
I don’t feel happy
I feel like this is not a part of getting older. Arent there things that are exiting to you or make you happy?
Got excited about a four slot toaster that I bought.
fuck
Time feels way faster as you get older.
It’s also pretty grim that the people you know are either dying, dead, or have a life altering illness that comes out of nowhere. I feel like there’s a funeral in my family once a month, rather than once every decade.
Hot take but I think it’s because people stop having or seeking out novel experiences. Most of people’s lives are repetitive and boring jobs with barely any time to zone out in the evening. And once your kids move out and you’re with a long term partner, hardly anything is dynamic in your life. Or fresh. Or unexpected.
Having to do something on a weekday evening is a huge inconvenience.
I feel you, I hate it.
Feeling confident without makeup.
Realizing that the pillars of success written by governments or institutions is bullshit and caring more about good people.
Feeling comfortable with a small social bubble. Quality over quantity.
Valuing naps over parties. 😴
The clothing styles I wore in middle school are cool now, except those damn low rise flares will not work on me at 40 because my mid-section would flab out everywhere. Damn kids.
My shoulder still hurts from last week when I slept funny.
The idea of staying out past 10pm sounds terrible.
I almost set up a breakfast date with a friend for 7am.
I’m really excited for a larger capacity water heater.
I’m starting to do that thing where I look down to focus on small text right in front of me.
Nobody mistakes me for a teenager anymore.
Kids call me “lady”
I want to go to bed at 9 PM
I get excited for new appliances
Sounds strange but I feel like, they listen to me more at work. There is more respect to the things I say.
I’ve also found that I’m more outspoken when I see mistakes happening or calling out when people are being foolish.
Looks at a picture of a family dinner from 10 years ago. One third of the people are now dead…
I feel sick all the time
