Old Man Cone.

Cone what takes precedence, banning Flaming Weazel or cutting quote trees?

The blank space actually.

Well, I'm still allowed to think 40 is old for a few more years.

It's true though - You still think of yourself as kind of a kid (or at least young) for a long time and then suddenly, you find yourself thinking "40's not that old."  And then you realize that's what your parents used to say.

It's funny - When you're a kid, you can't relate to the generational gap at all because you have no frame of reference.  The idea of being a full generation ahead of someone (like your parents are to you) is a totally alien concept.  25 years... 30 years... those are just numbers.  You have no perception of time on such scales.  They seem like a lifetime away because, for you, they are.

But then one day, you realize that you're the same age your parents were when you were a child.  And even more terrifying is when people in their generation express the same sentiments about 60 that you're expressing about 40!  That's when the full horror of it hits you.  This doesn't stop - It keeps on happening!

And worst of all is that by the time this happens, you do have a frame of reference.  That uncrossable generational chasm you peered across as a child suddenly seems a lot narrower.  Being as "old" as you've always thought of your parents suddenly seems far more reachable.  And why wouldn't it?  You've already done it once!

Hmm... I wonder if this is what a midlife crisis feels like.  Let's see...

I'd like to hypothesize a multiphase process with four distinct stages that your brain passes through, which I shall dub "The Four 'R's".

1. Realization

Abject horror as the brain tries to process the full reality of this prospect for the first time.  "Hey you!  Yes, you!  See those two old fogies?  Well, one day that will be you.  AND IT WILL HAPPEN SOONER THAN YOU THINK!"

2. Reflection

A phase characterized by deep contemplation, as the brain desperately tries to make sense of it all.

3. Rejection

As the futility of the situation becomes increasingly apparent, the brain makes one final, last-ditch effort to protect its sanity by entering a state of flat denial.

4. Resignation

Eventually, having failed to convince oneself that "there is no spoon", the brain enters the final stage of the process.  Primary distinguishing feature - Grudging acceptance of reality.

For the record, I also hypothesize a possible alternative fourth stage...

... but, thankfully, I haven't experienced this one so far.

Disclaimer: The above hypothesis is not endorsed by any doctor, mental health professional or medical institution... but there is this guy with a mail-order degree who thinks I'm onto something!

Yep.  HTML problem.  Someone had the name already so I used angle brackets on mine, thinking they looked cool.  I didn't realize the site wouldn't display it.

If you're interested, it was explained to me in this post...

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6381960

Sorry if my explanation is a little abrupt.  I get asked about this all the time so you're kind of getting the abridged version.

Happy birthday to the wisest man on gamrconnect ;)

Ahahahaha
poor Cone, his birthday is a website issue ahahahaha

You have put a fantastic point.

To complement I'll put the relativity of time passing (why when we are older time seems to pass to fast). When we are 1y old that year was 100% of our time on earth. With 10y it already reduced to 10% and whe we are 30 it already reduced to 3,33% so time is always looking like it's passing faster.

Yep, I've heard that one too.  It does make sense.  If you think about it, the only reference frame we have is our own lifespan.  I suspect that our gut sense of time ultimately has to come from that, one way or another.  The actual length of time isn't different but how long it "feels" can be.  How long does a month feel?  How long does a year feel?  A decade?  A century?  It entirely depends on how long you've already been alive.

Something like a century would be virtually inconceivable to a small child.  A ten-year-old may understand, mathematically, that it's ten times as long as they've been alive, but do they really have their own internalized sense of how long that is?  I seriously doubt it.  To them it must seem like eternity.  But fast forward to someone who is 25.  Ok, we're still a long way off but at this point you're starting to get a feel for what it means - you're already a quarter of the way there.

Now come up to the age of 50 and you have an even better sense of what a century "feels" like.  Just take your current subjective experience and double it.  This still isn't completely accurate, of course, but it's a lot closer than your sense of 100 years when you were a kid.

The upshot of all this is that life does have a tendency to fly by faster the more of it that you live.  Kind of depressing, when you think about it.