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”
Mirrors. *sigh*
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.
Young people
cars (2006)
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.
Malena, my Sicilian lemon tree. I’ve planted her from a seed, and she has a woody trunk already.
Cassette tapes. Found a friend that recorded some music on one and found it in his attic. Old feels.
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
44,
in case you’re wondering.
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.
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.
78 RPM records.
