Time really does fly, so what 'I feel old' moment have you come to realize based on how long it's been?

Last weekend I bought a switch 2, and a father and son were in front of me. I got the pokopia bundle, they got Mario kart. The kid was telling me pokopia was really good, and asked if I ever played Mario kart. So I told him the last time I played that was on the Nintendo 64 in like 1999 when I was about his age

The kid thinks for a bit, and goes "oh wow, I didn't know you were an old lady!"

Snoop and Eminem are grandparents.

About 15 years ago I started hearing Nirvana on classic rock stations.

I paid a couple kids to shovel my sidewalk. That was the moment I knew I was old.

I finally really realized both that I am old and that I am mortal after both my parents died.

Got something you want to do? Get cracking.

Recently I was listening in on a conversation and someone said "It was 15 years ago" and my reaction to that was "So not that long ago" 💀

Dad dying didn’t help, but more and more it’s the simple fact that I need a little ibuprofen to get through the day without my knees hurting.

Tech. I hate new tech more and more every year. I used to love new tech it was awesome and exciting even enjoyably silly at times.

Now I hate it. Everything spies on you. Everything is used to persecute you. Being online used to be a refuge from the shit sandwich of life, now it's become the destroyer of worlds. While there is still some good tech news, it's too often just bullshit wrapped up in surveillance packages.

Want to just EMP the world now

My class didn't know who Quentin Tarantino is.

It's Quake's 30th anniversary this year.

It seems like five minutes, not five years, since the 25th.

Next year my age has a five in it, five years after it last did. I cannot comprehend this. I'm still the teen who became obsessed with Quake. How did this happen?

I felt rather disconnected from youth/young adult fashion when those brokkoli hairdos became widespread. I wasn't ever particularly interested in fashion anyway, but those look like complete ass to me.

Also, Skyrim release was 15 years ago and they keep reminding you of their old-ass game by rereleasing it instead of a successor (I doubt it would be any good, anyway).

When people stopped seeing me. If they notice me at all, they immediately avert their gaze and look right past me. I used to get more attention than that.

Whenever someone posts "Are you this old?", and it's a picture of an original iPod, or an original Razr, or similar.

When I remember my son is the same age I was when I got married.

When I think about how many pets I've had, and they're all dead now.

When 40-year-olds talk about how old they feel.

That all my fun symptoms are "just peri menopause" FML

Seeing a Chevy S-10 90's model with an antique license plate.

you, writing that 2004 is 22 years ago

The Xbox 360 will be old enough to drink in a couple months.

Honestly, I've never felt old in my entire life.

But just from looking at me, most people cannot guess my actual age. Part of me is starting to worry that there's a picture around here somewhere that I definitely should not look at.

The Beloit/Mindset list that comes out every year. It takes the form of "This year's college freshman have always/never ______". For instance, they've always had GPS in their pocket. They've never used a desktop computer. $Celebrity has always been dead. It's always been a post-9/11 world.

Each year, that list always makes me feel old.

I was recently thinking about the Rocky Horror Picture Show 15th anniversary box set I bought when it came out, then realized that RHPS is now just over 50 years old.

Being told that my girlfriend was probably too old to have children naturally - technically about her age rather than mine, but we were close in age.

A few years earlier, seeing people born when I graduated from high school graduating from high school themselves.

Or before even that, living longer than my mom had - she died young but I hadn't really felt how young.

Y2K was half a lifetime ago.

I counted the other day for a different comment and I’ve not been speaking to my mother for 14 years.

When young people started to wear slim jeans. You would have been bullied for wearing such a thing when I was young.

Then a few months later when they started to wear 80s jeans again. Fashion changes every five minutes it seems.

When I realised I've had my job for almost twenty years now. At the beginning I though, well it's good enough while I search for something else.

Group of neighbirhood children lighting stuff on fire with a magnifying glass in the parking lot all panicked and tried to hide what they were doing as I walked to my car. 👴 Guess I'm too old for classic summer fun.

A lot of bands that I liked when I was in high school are now on 20th anniversary tours of their famous albums.

Also I saw a few Pokemon red 30th anniversary banners while in Japan

This was a couple months ago, but I had a conversation with a college-age extended family member. He brought up some games he was playing, mentioning Call of Duty.

I said something along the lines of 'oh, I liked so and so feature that was in World at War or Black Ops 1'. Kid hits me with "wow, those are old. idk if I was even born yet."

Recently realized I've gained weight seemingly overnight. Used to be rather skinny. Then I started thinking when this must have started and it's been 7 years.

I referred to "Shin Godzilla" as "That newer Godzilla movie."

It came out 10 years ago.

If you were born in 1980 then a 1975 vehicle was old, made before you were born. To a 16-year-old kid born in 2010 a car built in 2005 is old, made before they were born.

When an old, wrinkled, grey haired person, started talking to me about an old thing, and then didn't have experience about the things before it, like I did.

This was a while back. It makes me pretty happy now when it happens tbh. The people are always surprised, and I now realize they don't expect me to be that old. I've noticed that sometimes they seem to even be a little surprised when I know about whatever things they're talking about to begin with.

I'm older than old people! I made it. Wtf?!

Had friends over for dinner Saturday night. Realized that we're twice their age.

When you're a five year old, one year is 20% of your entire life. When you're a 50 year old, it's 2%. As you get older, time passing does speed up, at least from your older perspective.

For me, and I know it's a bit of a meme, but the 1970s really do feel like they were only 30 years ago. It's like my brain picked 2000 as the point from which I understand and reference the passage of time. I have no doubt that when I've been alive longer in the 2000s than the 1900s I still won't feel like that's true.

Was looking up one hit wonders and there was a grouping of them that my best friend in high school had burned onto a CD for me....

Twenty years ago.

God

Have lived through the cycle of baggy pants, skinny pants, and now back to baggy pants.

(I'm sure someone older will be along that has gone through more cycles than that)

In a few months Grand Theft Auto 6 will be released. GTA5 came out in 2013. The time difference between the release of GTA6 and GTA5 is about the same as the time difference between GTA5 and the turn of the millennium.

I can't believe we got existential dread from comparing GTA release dates before we got GTA6.

Just now when I tried to think of an example and realized I've been having these kinds of thoughts for 30 years. I remember in the 90s when I realized it was as long ago that Grease came out as it was from then to when it took place.

When I see a YouTube video I remember watching that's like 18 years old or something

Most recently, hearing "Friday I'm in Love" when I stepped into the wawa was weird and disconcerting.

everything. all sorts of media and such seems like just a bit ago and its measured in decades.

Realizing it's been 10 years I graduated high school. Or watching favourite youtube videos and it's posted "15+ years ago."

When my wife told me that the 16-year-old babysitter was too young for me.