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I'm 41.

-I don't feel like "my generation will change the world!" anymore.

-I used to feel like Batman. Like I could jump off the roof of my house and be okay. Now, I feel like I shouldn't skip a step when I'm using the stairs.

-I was home by myself the other day. Didn't even feel like masturbating. Not once.

-I used to think that, if I didn't go to sleep, tomorrow wouldn't come. Now, I go to sleep at a reasonable hour.

-I spend a lot of time thinking back to my childhood. A lot of people I knew have passed away.

-I can't just eat everything I see. I have to have some common sense or I could gain weight.

-I don't care about having the coolest clothes or the nicest car. I don't feel like I have to prove how great I am to other people.

-20 year olds scare me. Their hair styles, music, and lack of respect make me nervous.

Aside from that, I feel great. I don't really feel old at all.



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Oh, and I see my daughter playing games like Cuphead--a game style I used to beat on a slow weekend- and I say "Fuck that! I'm not that good anymore."

When these young whippersnappers start consistently kicking your ass online, you're getting old. Also, you use words like "whippersnappers".



d21lewis said:
When these young whippersnappers start consistently kicking your ass online, you're getting old. Also, you use words like "whippersnappers".

Last time I played CoD (BO3) I was basically top of every game I played, these 'kids' are crap at gaming my man, we will always be better than them.



Hmm, pie.

My memory is hurting me. And not because its getting worse, for gods sake Im only 28. But you start to have so many new tasks that you did not have to think before and now its all on your platter.
Quickly you realize that yoi have become one of the older people out there and there are certain expectations that you have to be perfectly fit to achieve. Hey at least I get drunk faster than 10 years ago, amirite?



Vote the Mayor for Mayor!

Knowing the ascii table inside out. The B on my keyboard is broken, so now I type b with Alt 98 and B with alt 66 on the numeric keypad. Didn't even have to guess lol.

The clearest sign of getting old is my eyes losing flexibility. I have to take my glasses off now to read the small print. It also takes longer for my eyes to focus well in the morning.



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Looking older stuck, and there is some you can do to slow some of it down, but its inevitable. Now I'm a little vain, so when I met people recently who I was younger than, but they thought I was young, it felt good. They may have been saying it to make me feel better, but it worked.

The awful part about getting older is everything aches and hurts. You make those groaning noise when you get up from a chart or out of a car.

One day I started thinking about people in my life, and started wondering if I knew people that had died, or were still living. And how close I was to crossing that line.



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

Top 50 'most fun' game list coming soon!

 

Tell me a funny joke!

It's weird, because it sounds like getting older signifies life losing its luster for many. I find the opposite. I have a career (and money) to what I like, I am mature enough to understand what's important in life or prioritize accordingly, and I can pretty much make all the rules my life runs by (obviously relative to being a kid with nothing but parents' discretion...work, bills, etc. still govern how I set those rules up so that I am not a failure at life).

It doesn't hurt that I constantly get early to mid 20s for my age despite being 33 or that I have worked on fixing my health so that I feel physically healthy and therefore younger (lost close to 30 lbs in the last 6 months). So I do feel youthful.

But I do hate the texting abbreviations which, apparently, is a requirement along with emoji knowledge in order to communicate with women 21 up to my age.