What are some things that when you look at them make you feel old?

3 years ago by swiftie4life to c/asklemmy

Emphasis on "feel", you can be 20 years old and still have something that makes you realize "i've been on the planet for quite some time"

icky_mess 8 points 3 years ago

Mirrors. *sigh*

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sup 7 points 3 years ago

Old technology and thinking of how life was before the Internet usually makes me feel that way. It surprises me sometimes how far we've come.

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YourFavouriteNPC 6 points 3 years ago

Young people

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Warped 4 points 3 years ago

Seeing friends get older, have kids, and them growing up. Older tech. Old news stories. It all does very little to me. Until we reach music. I am a huge music lover, and relate music to so many things in my life. Many songs will trigger something, maybe the gig I was at, a relationship, a location, etc... That really gets me. In my head, I still think I'm in my mid-twenties or something like that. Putting memories into a historic timeline in my head is almost impossible, apparently this is related to ADHD related. Soon as a song comes on, I am transported. Also, my mind is pretty good at remembering details like the album it's from, artist, chart position, year, etc... when i struggle with retaining any other information.

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emstuff 3 points 3 years ago

cars (2006)

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BadSong 2 points 3 years ago

The 3rd one really made me feel old. I was like a toddler when the 1st cars came out and was MAD about lightning mcqueen. So to see him attacked and constantly called old really hit me personally.

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Wolpertinger 2 points 3 years ago

This comment makes me feel old.

More broadly speaking, these types of comments, where someone talks about being such and such age when X came out/happened/etc.

In this particular instance, I ignored the cars franchise altogether until my first was born in 2013. I was finishing up a degree that I took a bit too long to get in 2006.

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lvxferre 2 points 3 years ago

Malena, my Sicilian lemon tree. I've planted her from a seed, and she has a woody trunk already.

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blitzen 1 point 3 years ago

Ron Desantis. He certainly looks younger than many other candidates, but he still looks like a typical presidential candidate age. When I found out he graduated high school the same year as I, I've never felt more old.

Age ::: spoiler spoiler 44, ::: in case you're wondering.

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AlgonquinHawk 1 point 3 years ago

Cassette tapes. Found a friend that recorded some music on one and found it in his attic. Old feels.

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drwho 1 point 3 years ago

78 RPM records.

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GreyShuck 1 point 3 years ago

Museums - particularly local/folk museums.

As a kid my dad would drag me around them. I was born fairly late in his life, so he would be reminiscing about various things on display but I had no context for them and so no real interest. Maybe I would find a couple of the large items something to play with or on etc.

Later they started to be come more interesting, once I developed an interest in history and then they started to have a value as a resource on low/intermediate tech solutions to actual things I was doing. And then I started to notice items in the displays that my grandparents and then parents actually owned and used....

These days I am starting to find things on display that I used myself at the start of my working life.

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fernandu00 1 point 3 years ago

Physical pictures and albums..digital pictures are here for so long sometimes I forget we had to buy camera films and reveal pictures without knowing they'd be good

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SakamotoSan 1 point 3 years ago

Pornstars

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