How often do you think about age?

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Never used to think about mortality but past couple years I have thoughts run through my head like "it's been 30 years since I was at FSU and it doesn't seem like that long ago but in 30 years I'll be an old man if I'm even still alive."

Or someone older/elderly will die and I realize when I first met them they were younger than I am now.

Depressing stuff like that.

Anyone else?

 

[BarryB1081]

Well, hell yes; that's why I created the thread about low T. Getting old is scary as crap.

 

[ericram]

It's not the age it's the miles

 

[cmanole]

I'll be double nickels this year, so yeah, I think about it. It bothers me less since my sister passed away last year though. A lot of things have come into perspective...

 

[billanole]

Some say it is just a number.

 

[FreeFlyNole]

I've always been a super physical guy and just last weekend I took my kids to the trampoline park. Normally I pay and jump with them. However one time I did it an threw out my back, and since I'm going to be in Hawaii for a week with no kids, the idea of not being able to get freaky with the wife was terrifying. I didn't jump. I try to keep relatively fit, but at 42 I just didn't trust that I wouldn't hurt my self.

I've never had to consider things like that before.

 

[LesClaypool]

Increasingly so...and it sucks.

 

[NDallasRuss]

More and more...

Just got an email for an upcoming Ozzy tour - "celebrating 5 decades..." I remember when he'd come play the Texxas Jam in Dallas in the 80s.

There are lot of those types of things that come up that make me recognize how old I'm getting.

 

[BelemNole]

Lol, I did 2 hours of yardwork this weekend. I'm damned near a cripple.
Wife and I will be hitting 50 this year, seems like age comes up the more you accumulate it.

 

[billanole]

We have had a number of friends/family in our age group die over the years, but the trend is accelerating. Wifey is a few years older and recently suffered a herniated disk that has changed her physical activity dramatically. This kinda put us on notice and drives home the old saying that getting old is not for the faint of heart.
I watch myself more whenever I am playing sports or hitting the backwoods and have backed off at times instead of going full tilt boogie. That would never have happened 10 or even 5 years ago, but getting hurt or laid up is not a viable option. The extra 25 pounds has something to do with that and my hope is to lose some or most of that this year.

 

[funksouljon]

Lately yes.

Best buddy from grades 5-12 just had a heart attack. Another guy died last month. The bands I grew up with are retiring or dying.

So yeah, lately I am.

 

[Dr. Nole]

Welcome to the party!

 

[cfbfan23]

Every time jreed has a teacher post.

 

[squiffynole]

I'm 63 and would do well to see another 15 years although I have been looking at the Tom Brady diet plan.

 

[SoddyNole]

I was 49 twice. For some reason I spent the entire year at 48 thinking I was 49. I was more troubled by the poor math and taking a year to figure it out than anything else.

I only think about age the next day after playing basketball with the son or doing yard work. But that is more along the lines of being out of shape.

 

[Semiologist]

When I wake up in the morning paying for all the disregard I've had for my body in my lifetime....aching and creaking....I think about my age. So...every day.

 

[GoNolesTX]

Some say it is just a number.

Yeah, and those people like to pee on teenagers - literally, allegedly.

 

[Nole Lou]

I am (45), but more about "amazing how the time flies" than about mortality...yet. Although it creeps in a little bit, the realization that you're on the back nine. Thinking about how fast the past 25 years have gone by since getting married/having kids...the idea that another 25 I'll be 70...that's something. I'm hoping that with the kids' imminent departure, time will slow down a bit.

But just in terms of mind blowing...I always think of things like this...

So think about U2 releasing The Joshua Tree. Obviously, that's an "old" album, but something like that doesn't seem ancient.

However, back in 1987 when that came out, an equivalently old song was Great Balls of Fire, which (while great) felt positively prehistoric by the 1980s, 1950s revival or not.

Or to look at it another way...hip hop is still considered a relatively new music form...but there's more time between Erik B and Rakim's Paid in Full and Kendrick Lamar's DNA than there is between Paid in Full and Buddy Holly's Peggy Sue.

Those relational things make me feel crazy old.

 

[maddog69]

So here is my story....I turned 48 this past year. I have an 8 year old son. He asked how old I would be when he is 48. When the word 88 crossed my lips it hit me.

 

[funksouljon]

....

Those relational things make me feel crazy old.

That will drive you crazy, don't.

But since we are at it......

Betty White is older than sliced bread.
The Pyramids of Giza were built when wooly mammoths were still alive.
The fax machine was invented at the same time of the first Oregon trail migration.
Tiffany & Co jewelry was founded before Italy was a country.

Oh, and apparently the guillotine was still being used in France after many in this thread was born.

 

[DanC78]

I think about it a lot.

Turning 40 this year, it’s the first time I’ve actually dreaded a birthday.

Another weird thing is that I’m more concerned about my health and taking care of myself now than I have ever been in my life. However, I’m taking less action at making sure I’m eating the right stuff and exercising regularly than I have ever have. It’s a combination of having two little ones and being old that makes it difficult. Also, not really caring as much about what we people think of me with my shirt off at beach kills motivation.

 

[funksouljon]

I think about it a lot.

Turning 40 this year, it’s the first time I’ve actually dreaded a birthday.

Another weird thing is that I’m more concerned about my health and taking care of myself now than I have ever been in my life. However, I’m taking less action at making sure I’m eating the right stuff and exercising regularly than I have ever have. It’s a combination of having two little ones and being old that makes it difficult. Also, not really caring as much about what we people think of me with my shirt off at beach kills motivation.

If this dude can strut and make money, I wouldn't worry too much. Besides, at our age, not too many are looking.

And the cameos always amuse me. Fez, Alistair Overeem, Pink, Hedgehog.

 

[KitingHigh]

That will drive you crazy, don't.

But since we are at it......

Betty White is older than sliced bread.
The Pyramids of Giza were built when wooly mammoths were still alive.
The fax machine was invented at the same time of the first Oregon trail migration.
Tiffany & Co jewelry was founded before Italy was a country.

Oh, and apparently the guillotine was still being used in France after many in this thread was born.

The telephone wasn't even invented before the Oregon trail migration, much less the fax machine.

 

[funksouljon]

The telephone wasn't even invented before the Oregon trail migration, much less the fax machine.

True, but the fax machine predating a phone is pretty hard to wrap your head around!!!


<and people still fax machines!>

 

[maddog69]

The telephone wasn't even invented before the Oregon trail migration, much less the fax machine.

NM

 

[GwinnettNole]

I'm 44 and can't believe it. If I look at how much I've changed in 20 years its crazy (when I graduated from FSU). From my political preferences to my interest in sports all has taken a dramatic change. I'm a believer in a high being (Christian) and that is comforting. But dang time doesn't slow down, does it?

I'd say the worst part of this is my kids are getting older and I'm just not prepared for them leaving for college, etc. Still have a ways before that but it will be before you know it

My mother and father are not doing well.. that is another sign of the inevitable, and will be tough for the family.

 

[Fijimn]

Yep - a lot more these days. Health wise - looking a lot closer at my biometrics and blood work. Before my 40s, always figured that it wouldn't take much to reverse course on weight, BP, damage done by my work/lifestyle. Now arrived at the conclusion that I have to work hard at my health to get healthy and live a healthier life for my daughter. Financial - always thought there was enough time and have a constant pretty good paycheck. Now I realize that--even for rainmakers--there will come a time that I won't make enough rain and i'll become dispensable. So my strategy has changed to plan for a "forced retirement" before i'm 60.

 

[Nole Lou]

I'm 44 and can't believe it. If I look at how much I've changed in 20 years its crazy (when I graduated from FSU). From my political preferences to my interest in sports all has taken a dramatic change. I'm a believer in a high being (Christian) and that is comforting. But dang time doesn't slow down, does it?

I'd say the worst part of this is my kids are getting older and I'm just not prepared for them leaving for college, etc. Still have a ways before that but it will be before you know it

My mother and father are not doing well.. that is another sign of the inevitable, and will be tough for the family.

Man, with my youngest going into high school this year...the fact that I'm not going to have kids around for the first time in decades is definitely starting to hit me hard. Spending a lot of time hoping this isn't my wife and I in an empty nest:

 

[Semiologist]

I think about it a lot.

Turning 40 this year, it’s the first time I’ve actually dreaded a birthday.

Another weird thing is that I’m more concerned about my health and taking care of myself now than I have ever been in my life. However, I’m taking less action at making sure I’m eating the right stuff and exercising regularly than I have ever have. It’s a combination of having two little ones and being old that makes it difficult. Also, not really caring as much about what we people think of me with my shirt off at beach kills motivation.

40 was easy. It was somewhere between 40 and 50 that the tires came off. Can't see up close. Hair migrates southward on the body. Old injuries pay back the deferred pain, with interest. Weight gains become semi-permanent. etc.

 

[goldmom]

Oh, brother. Insert roll eyes for the pity party.

Wanna know old? Ha! I got your "old" over here. My mind and spirit are stuck at 30, but I am fighting the physical battle every day. So far I'm in good health, but having to hit the gym 5x a week and spending money to keep my face looking good. Honestly, it's an ego thing.
Old is not for sissies.

 

[Nole Lou]

Here's the oddest thing I've experienced in the last year...assuming it's age, hopefully it's not a tumor.

For the first 30 years of driving a car, I would park to go into a store, and walk out and head in the general direction of my car. I'm not saying I never occasionally took a minute or two to find my car, but I always went at the very least to the general area, WITHOUT ever thinking about it. It never rose above my subconscious...never once (other than a sporting event or something) did I ever have to mentally register where I parked, or think which way to head when I left the store. I just did it like breathing, even if it was hours since I'd parked, like at the movies or something.

Now, in the last year, about half the time I walk out of a store, and literally don't have the foggiest idea of what direction to walk. It's disorienting for that previously automatic information to be missing...to have to intentionally call it up and have it not be there. I am going to have to start taking a mental note of where I park now, which is hard to remember after decades of not having to do so.

I don't love the extra ear hair or anything, but that's the most frustrating thing I've experienced.

 

[kc78]

I turn 40 in a few days, so yeah I'm thinking about it a lot more.

 

[GwinnettNole]

Man, with my youngest going into high school this year...the fact that I'm not going to have kids around for the first time in decades is definitely starting to hit me hard. Spending a lot of time hoping this isn't my wife and I in an empty nest:

Spot on. I mean my wife is my best friend but it’s been 15 years since my son was born. How many conversations, in that time, were not centered around our kids or our cats... lol.

It is a little nerve wracking...

 

[GwinnettNole]

Oh, brother. Insert roll eyes for the pity party.

Wanna know old? Ha! I got your "old" over here. My mind and spirit are stuck at 30, but I am fighting the physical battle every day. So far I'm in good health, but having to hit the gym 5x a week and spending money to keep my face looking good. Honestly, it's an ego thing.
Old is not for sissies.

Picture of face or not believing

 

[GwinnettNole]

Here's the oddest thing I've experienced in the last year...assuming it's age, hopefully it's not a tumor.

For the first 30 years of driving a car, I would park to go into a store, and walk out and head in the general direction of my car. I'm not saying I never occasionally took a minute or two to find my car, but I always went at the very least to the general area, WITHOUT ever thinking about it. It never rose above my subconscious...never once (other than a sporting event or something) did I ever have to mentally register where I parked, or think which way to head when I left the store. I just did it like breathing, even if it was hours since I'd parked, like at the movies or something.

Now, in the last year, about half the time I walk out of a store, and literally don't have the foggiest idea of what direction to walk. It's disorienting for that previously automatic information to be missing...to have to intentionally call it up and have it not be there. I am going to have to start taking a mental note of where I park now, which is hard to remember after decades of not having to do so.

I don't love the extra ear hair or anything, but that's the most frustrating thing I've experienced.

CTE kicking in...

 

[funksouljon]

Here's the oddest thing I've experienced in the last year...assuming it's age, hopefully it's not a tumor.

For the first 30 years of driving a car, I would park to go into a store, and walk out and head in the general direction of my car. I'm not saying I never occasionally took a minute or two to find my car, but I always went at the very least to the general area, WITHOUT ever thinking about it. It never rose above my subconscious...never once (other than a sporting event or something) did I ever have to mentally register where I parked, or think which way to head when I left the store. I just did it like breathing, even if it was hours since I'd parked, like at the movies or something.

Now, in the last year, about half the time I walk out of a store, and literally don't have the foggiest idea of what direction to walk. It's disorienting for that previously automatic information to be missing...to have to intentionally call it up and have it not be there. I am going to have to start taking a mental note of where I park now, which is hard to remember after decades of not having to do so.

I don't love the extra ear hair or anything, but that's the most frustrating thing I've experienced.

They make an app for that.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Glad to see I'm not alone!

This one really got me:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

 

[goldmom]

Picture of face or not believing

You can meet me in person at the Spring game

 

[billanole]

You can meet me in person at the Spring game

And a fantastic meeting that would be.... Hang tuff, goldmom. We are mostly all not so fast, cool, good looking, smart, suave, or debouner as once we were.
The thing is, we still got the Garnet and Gold background, which embodies spirit, strength, and goodness amongst all the other stuff in our lives.
Go Noles!!

 

[FSU_UCLA]

I have thought about age and mortality a lot for as long as I can remember. I actually notice it less the older I get.