What makes you feel old?

[DebbieTheCat]

Alexa just played Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’.

Justin Bieber now has a baby.

Oh my!
Where have the last 15 years gone?! 😳

Thanks for that. I’m less than 10 years older and just worked out I’ve lived in 6 decades 😭

@NinetyNineOrangeBalloons you are most welcome...I think...

My school friends' kids are now going to university (I haven't had children myself). One of my school friends is now a grandma.
Children I taught in my first year of teaching are now no longer 5 years old but pushing 30!

Two years ago, aged 55, my boss called me in to listen to a comment he was writing for my annual review.
He looked delighted with himself as he read aloud: "Despite Foxtrot's age, she is a fast learner". We both howled laughing. He's 6 months younger than me.

My niece said I wasn't allowed to play with the balloons because I was too very long pause "old."
I'm only in my 40s but to a six year old, I'm ancient. I feel old when I think of when I was sitting GCSEs and the baby's born then are well into their 20s now.

The England team are all younger than me

Watching a film you watched as a child and suddenly the adults who you looked up to and idolised look like kids. I mean John Travolta in Grease and Saturday Night Fever for instance. Also Princess Diana always looked really mature and grown up when I was younger but when I see pictures of her now I can see how young she looked.
Realising that as a child in the 80s the 1960s were only 20 years ago, which is the same as 2005 is to now. That really blows my mind.
Seeing old television programmes from the late 1970s and early 80s and they look like the 'olden days'.

Yes the England team all look like young boys to me now

A young bloke in front of me in the queue at the supermarket got asked for ID when buying alcohol. The shop assistant looked for about half a second at his ID and when he commented how quick it was she just said "I saw your date of birth starts with 19...."

That I'm not even 40 yet and 3 of my friends are grandparents! One is younger than me!

We’re currently doing the rounds of university open days. I remember thinking I wasn’t old enough to have a child starting high school and now she’s preparing to start uni - hard not to feel old!

The open days have taken me back to my own time at uni and it’s hard to get my head around the fact that it was over twenty years ago. Excited for my daughter but definitely increasingly conscious of my age.

I shared more on my thoughts of being at this stage in life here:

My osteoporosis infusions!
DD in charge of a bunch of Y10s
DS becoming Dr Hellebores (academic not medical)
Grey pubes
44 years of NI contributions!
People being surprised when they find out I still work full-time
Free prescriptions

Went to get a Covid jab and the medics looked like sixth formers. But then again, not sure they have to be trained doctors to give the jab.

First time I felt old. I was 14 and babysitting for the kids next door. (1969), Suspicious Minds played on TOTP. The 5 year old said 'Who's Elvis'

Now, it's because my 70th birthday is in 3 months time.

😳

When people on mumsnet write about their parents who turn out to be early 50s like me

That is ridiculous. Kylie is in her 50s, and she doesn’t need a stair lift, saga holidays or meals on wheels!!

At work the other day we were having IT issues and I wanted to say 'computer says no' but I know I would have been looked at blankly!

For the first 30 years of my life, Victorian times was 100 years ago, now that's the 20s.

I got one of those for my 43rd birthday! 😂

What in the skibidi sigma, I'm old?

Ha ha same!
Which ones did you go for? I got some lovely Scarpa boots. Just in process of wearing them in.

😂😂 Although I was most disappointed only an hour ago to discover that West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys was actually released 40 years ago, not 30ish 😂😂

When your PM is younger than you.. very tricky in Ireland right now as Simon Harris is in his 30s.

I've started doing that grunt thing when I attempt to get up off the floor.

A seasonal one - Michael Jackson's Thriller is 42 years old.