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OLD: ~ Looking at those "what they look like now" 80's and 90's stars web pages.
~ Browsing through old shows and music videos from the 80's and 90's on You Tube and realizing how dated they look now.
~ YouTube. It wasn't around until the mid-2000's, but I am able to find things from my youth and makes me feel old.
~ Going back to my hometown and walking down the streets I lived during my youth. It's different now. Neighbors have moved away, people have died, it looks rundown. Not only do I feel old, but it's depressing too. Also going to the mall and remembering the old stores that aren't there anymore. Looking at all of the teenagers with their cell phones glued to their ears.
~ Visiting the college I attended. I am too old blend in with the students. Looking at all of the changes made to the campus and the surrounding area. Realizing that some of my old hangouts are long gone and most of my friends are scattered all over the US.
YOUNG: ~ I've been told I look younger for my age. Taking care of myself by exercising regularly and watching my food intake.
~ Being able to run up the stairs at work instead of taking the elevator with no problem.
~ Knowing that I am still not old enough to qualify for senior discounts, but I know time seems to move faster now that I'm older and it will come soon enough.
~ I keep a close network of friends and we hangout and do silly things sometimes.
OLD:
Memories of growing up in the hot humid South with no air-conditioning in the home or in any of our cars. Also, having to dial the operator to make any kind of long-distance telephone call.
I was born in spring of 1938. Not hung up on the young/old thing in the way that seems pervasive on C-D. The negative obsession in the forums with "old" is both bizarre and fascinating to me. I'm not sure that I have ever felt nostalgia as I hear people describe it, and maybe that lack in my sentiments is a partial explanation.
I am going on seventy-nine, so my level of energy and various physical problems are a constant reminder of the passage of time. I enjoy having become my age, so it is really a matter of whether I feel a pleasant-79 or I feel an unpleasant-79 at any given point. My activities are like the playlists I make up for my iPod - combinations music from all different eras that I have lived through, plus from all the places that have interested me laced with just plain weird bits of this and that. But when I flick on a playlist it is simply the experience of right then and there, and not a reflection of other times, other places. In a similar way, everything I do is "almost-79" because that's where it is happening.
Makes me feel old:
John Stamos keeps doing these "hot, for an old guy" roles (last year in "Grandfathered," this year in "Scream Queens".
That used to be how we saw people like Sean Connery or Harrison Ford (hot, for an old guy) not John Stamos, who I still envision on the cover of Tiger Beat.
old:
*Realizing that most of my formative years happened before most of my coworker's births
*Seeing that the gray in my hair is way more than a strand or two
*Listening to some of the extracurricular activities my coworkers engage in and thinking "I'm too tired for that"
*Knowing that my oldest child is headed to college in another few years
*It's easier to injure my back with one wrong move
*Seeing that many of the "older men" I thought were so hot now look positively geriatric and seeing that the new "hot" guys are a decade or two younger than me
*Calling digital recordings "videos" and still feeling like "hook up" means to connect with (not intimately)
young:
*When people older than me think I'm still a "baby"
*Knowing that I have decades before retirement
*Being able to run for a bus, run up the stairs, and basically move around with relative ease
Old: Graduated high school in 1965
Seems like most people could be my children or grandchildren
Young: Our 90 yr old neighbor calls us "kids" (we are 70)
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