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During the week, I was perusing through some thread about gender settings here on VGC, when I decided to check out my profile on here, as I don't think I've touched it since I first signed up.

First thing I noticed was "a 23 year old male gamer".

At first I thought it was just some bug that had gone unnoticed on VGC, but I decided to Google "how old am I?" anyways, brought up a date calculator, and typed in my birthdate.

Turns out I'm genuinely 23 years old, I had no idea. I thought I was 22. Like, I believed I was celebrating my 22nd birthday back in September, and I'm pretty sure I was celebrating my 21st last year. I have no idea how long I've been wrong about my age.

Now being more concerned with my age, and fading immortality, I've started working out more, and am cutting back on the steaks. Just one for Friday lunch now.

I've also become more aware of my underfunded pension, upping my contributions by 10% in the new year.

Please, everybody, for your own sake, insist on birthday cards that have the age printed on them.