Big sigh. We're all getting older.

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2monkeysandafootball@reddit

Just turned 50, and most of my joints work as intended.

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DocSense@reddit

Yeah, so did mine at 50. Then at 52 when running to get to our car (it was raining) I felt a shooting pain in my hip. The year I tuned 56 I had could barely walk, had both hips replaced.

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Prestigious_Carpet28@reddit

I shed a few tears when my ortho told me I’ve worn away all the cartilage in my knees about a month ago. I liked having functional joints.

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Impossible-Concept87@reddit

that's been my story since age 48, gotta wait a decade for a knee replacement ,,,now that hasn't been fun

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New_Perception_7838@reddit

Almost 60 here too … talk at the table going to blood pressure, cardiovascular issues, and medication is a sign we all get older ;-) At least those who still are here.

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Ok_Entrepreneur_8509@reddit

We're older than we've ever been. And now we're even older. And now we're even older.

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Past-Magician2920@reddit

Gen X sucks but I wouldn't want to be in any other generation!

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Why?? That’s the generation firmly between pre-web/tech/smartphones and post. With the best music, coming of age movies, iconic sci-fi that basically created the genre, just to name a few cultural examples.

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mayhem1551@reddit

I went to my college alumni softball game and the current player said, ‘Ok, all of the 1900 graduates over here.’ 👀

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Petersens_Arm@reddit

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Aquaticflight@reddit

You nailed the mood. I can hear Godley & Crème’s ‘Cry’ in the background.

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OliveSmart@reddit

Man that video got so much play !

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gchance1@reddit

I post the video for Cry whenever I have a bad day.

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Annelid123@reddit

“The head and the heart Rico…the head and the heart”

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Aquaticflight@reddit

LMAO.

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dingatremel@reddit

That was an immense reference

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Affectionate_Bite813@reddit

Thank you for having taste beyond the obligatory Take On Me-where-has-the-time-gone- soundtrack-of our-lives crap!

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SharksLeafsFan@reddit

Great video!

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B-Town-MusicMan@reddit

"Talking about a heartbeat" What's that about pacemakers?

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Common-senseuser-58@reddit

😂😂

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SorrentoTaft@reddit

Better than the actual line "looking for a heart beat". Lol!

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Dependent-Stock-1857@reddit

Hey went to see a friend last week he had a t-shirt on that read , feels weird to be the same age as old people, wow did that hit home!!!!

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dragonfliesloveme@reddit

It goes so fast. My spouse shrugs it off and says You know, we hit the lottery by just being here. So i try to focus on that. I like birds and dragonflies now lol. Simple stuff that is beautiful and fascinating.

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txterryo@reddit

Yes! Remembering the ever growing number of friends who aren’t still here, every single day I’m thankful I am.

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SunshynePower@reddit

I started getting together with some friends from HS after I moved back to where I grew up. This is not a subject that comes up for us. We laugh about how hard we worked to look good in our teens and how it means shit now. I'll be attending my 35th in the fall (the 30th was covid cancelled) and I already know how many of those kids are going to be paranoid to look their best for this gathering . . . AT A LOCAL BAR. I have some wrinkles and some grey hair and I earned every single one of them and I'm proud of them. My Dad always said, "every day above ground is a good day" and he was so right. My kid brother made it to 40 before he passed away, so that was a horrible reminder to just embrace every single day and count it as a good day.

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lvbuckeye27@reddit

I'm 50, and I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

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ErinRedWolf@reddit

Yep, same. Maybe I’ll get my shit together someday. 😆

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Aggravating_Smile556@reddit

Omg i thought I was the only one! Boy I feel like a loser now. Homemaker and caretaker for 15 years finally divorced after 20, no financial backup family or friends. Wish I was 17 again, at least I still had friends.

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ShoppingEven4346@reddit

My 40th high school reunion coming up soon. Feels like it should be 25th or something, not 40 years!

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strait_lines@reddit

I haven’t been to one since my 20 year one. I just recall everyone looking much older than I thought they would. It made me feel like up to that point at least, I’d aged well.

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DisappointedDragon@reddit

My 40th is next month! Yeah, high school doesn’t seem that far away.

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Grand-Maintenance-72@reddit

40th this year also. As much partying that we did, there are some that will probably be surprised i made it to the 40th! Class of 85

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4hmmm@reddit

Class motto: Stay alive in '85. Fr

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buthowshesaid@reddit

I actually like this way better than mine: "Class of '89, so fine". I went to school with a lot of assholes.

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Sea_Part_1581@reddit

Aw DAMN!! Mines next year……

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DaisyJane1@reddit

Mine is too. Happened far too fast!

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YesHaveSome77@reddit

Baby Xer here, so I'm only rolling up to my 30th.

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bears5975@reddit

I just went to my 30th. It goes too fucking fast. 💩

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Lady_Phoenyx@reddit

And I'm in between you both at 35.

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bendar1347@reddit

It'll be like 20 people

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MajorLazy@reddit

It’s in the same place as when I graduated

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DisappointedDragon@reddit

🙂Mine was torn down about 20 years ago! Sort of freaks me out if I ever driveby there!

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Kattzoo@reddit

Wow. I hadn't done the math. Add me to the 40th list as well.

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Top_Revolution_723@reddit

Same!! I read 40 year reunion and thought "wow that person is really old". I did the math. Only 7 years until mine

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SummerBirdsong@reddit

5 years for mine.

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TRH100@reddit

Me too.

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Y3R0K@reddit

3 years for mine.

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DaisyJane1@reddit

1985 was a damn good year.

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Common-senseuser-58@reddit

‘84 was better!

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Jed308613@reddit

Hello classmate.

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Quix66@reddit

Mine was last year.

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Gloomy_Change_7553@reddit

We had a blast and agreed 1984 was only 10 years ago!

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Electronic_Exam_6452@reddit

42nd year for me.

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BuzzFabbs@reddit

Class of 1985 for the win!

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gchance1@reddit

We're two years away from the 40th over here.

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mehfinder@reddit

I joked that it was too damn soon to go to my 40th … and that was two years ago 😂

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RegularScientist7379@reddit

1985 here too! 40th this year in November. Hard to believe but grateful to be here to attend. Sadly, we lost many classmates way to soon.

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Cleopatrashouseboy@reddit

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GrumpySnarf@reddit

Do your friends post their colonoscopy journey on Facebook? Because that's what us cool kids do.

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Creepy_WaterYogi75@reddit

Try yoga mixed with tai chi. Start getting into an "asian squat ", its life changing. Support yourself until you can do it hands free. We are only as young as our spine. Growing old is a privilege, many do not get to experience 🧘‍♀️✌️☀️🌰🐿

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Cool-Group-9471@reddit

Glad you had such a good time. Yes it's flying by, or it goes by like molasses. I am a Gen Joneser, preferring your group here instead of Boomers who are actually too old for me to be in a club with. I did a 30th around the time we all luckily met up on Classmates. Remember them? It was a good turnout but I was too busy doing recreational push-ups so to speak, cuz I was in perimenopause and didn't know it and was extremely depressed. So naturally I started taking something that made me even more depressed. Luckily that was long ago. So me and my contemporaries went through 15 years of realizing what you guys are realizing now, time and aging, that it's gone too fast, and we in some ways have become the old crochety crew we blew off when we were younger. The more wise and experienced folk. I do notice though, some age or are older than others. In my head, I am still in my 40s. I kind of have a young mind. Despite my body kicking my ass. Would I trade it for the one I had over 20 years ago? You better believe it. We can see trouble from 50 yards seeing what's up with the younger today. We reminisced 15 years on fb. Which I no longer visit because it's a troll swamp. Enjoy your reminiscing kids

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Kajeke@reddit

Fellow Joneser who doesn't identify with boomers at all. There was a comment above that 50 wasn't old but 60 was definitely old. LOL. I'm past that point, and I still feel young! The mirror is a dirty liar though. I am fortunate that, although we had a scare last year with a friend, I have not lost any of my high school or college friends, everyone is doing great. Some of my peers at my employer have passed away, but very few and no one I was super close with. We are blessed to get to this point in life.

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SnooWoofers5115@reddit

I’m still looking out at the world with the eyes of that 17 year old, envying all the grown-ups that have all their lives together, thinking that’ll be me one day!! But it won’t. I won’t ever get my life together 😂 and my bones consistently remind me how long ago 17 was!!

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strumthebuilding@reddit

I’m still looking at the world with the wisdom of a 17 year old

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ImCaffeinated_Chris@reddit

I tell people all the time I'm just a 12 year old with income.

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73rd-virgin@reddit

I've got the income of a 12-year-old...and the mind of a 12-year-old.

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Kajeke@reddit

You're only young once, but you can be immature your entire life!

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Swoopert@reddit

We need a club! Not going to have the resources to do any of the things we fail to plan, but at least we know each other exist.

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LissyVee@reddit (OP)

I'm constantly on the lookout for someone more adulter than I am in almost every given situation. Sadly, the numbers are dwindling.

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tangledwire@reddit

Yep, suddenly you find yourself at the end of the line and that's it. It's all you.

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scramman@reddit

17? I still imagine myself as an innocent 5 year old playing with geese along a small creek in Colorado with summer sun beaming down and the smell of the fresh baked bread my mom was making in the old stone house we lived in. How did I get here?

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DeFiClark@reddit

Many of us are as old now as WW2 vets were when we were in high school. Totally bizarre to think we are as far from 1985 as 1945 was in 1985.

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Loud_Cockroach_3344@reddit

I am grateful for the privilege of growing older - lost one of my closest friends in HS. Think of him often, went by his grave last Christmas. Guy could play drums like Neil Peart in Rush. All the things I’ve gotten to enjoy across the past 40 years he never had a shot at - college & hijinks, career, marriage, having a family of my own, and yes- growing older and seeing my body start to say “not so fast, my friend” when I try to lift heavy items by myself or do some of the physical things I did 10, 20, 30, 40 yrs ago. So while the infirmities of age are indeed setting in on me, while I told my young adult kids recently “this is now your time - strike hard while the iron is hot - the Sun is still rising on you, while it is setting on me” - I will gladly accept those challenges as I think of my friend who never got the chance to experience any of these things.

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yobar@reddit

Same here. Lost a friend a few months after graduation. I think how his life would have been had he just said no to his sister and heroin. F\*ck you, Tina!

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Scout_66@reddit

Well said! My father died at 29 and my mother at 46. Now at 58, I never take for granted the privilege of getting older and all the experiences and memories that come with it.

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Impossible-Concept87@reddit

I'd still like someone to think Im sexy but that doesn't happen anymore

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MyNeighborsHateMe@reddit

I was visiting my folks a couple weeks ago. They still live in the same tiny town and are both in their 80s. At one point my dad started telling me all the people who have died over the last few years and said, "I've lived in this town my entire life, and I can count the people I know anymore on one hand." It's tough being one of the "immortals" as I refer to the longest lived people. I'm not sure if I want to be one.

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ekkthree@reddit

word

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yobar@reddit

I actually felt old a couple weeks ago when I was shopping at Walmart. It's about 6:30 in the morning and I'm heading to check out when I hear the opening guitar of Pink Floyd's Fearless playing over my head. I had to stop and make sure. Yup. PF at Wallyworld.

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kuzism@reddit

Readers in every room, broken readers saved for backups.

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strumthebuilding@reddit

All the way through my 40s I somehow convinced myself I was some version of “young.” Then right as 50 was about to hit me in the face I realized I jad been in denial. And then, all of a sudden, I was old.

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Impossible-Concept87@reddit

Dude 50 is NOT old, latest 50s almost 60 definitely is old

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WarriorNeedFoodBadly@reddit

Are you depressed over it? Because I sure feel that way sometimes.

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Impossible-Concept87@reddit

YES!!

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DisappointedDragon@reddit

I feel that way too sometimes, but maybe now is the time where we should start celebrating just still being here.

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LissyVee@reddit (OP)

Amen to that! We did a quiet headcount of those we've lost along the way, starting with a huge car crash in year 11. So many good friends gone, some to cancer, heart attacks, some to suicide, lots to car or motorbike crashes in our 20s.

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linuxgeekmama@reddit

I have bipolar, and I turned 50 this year. I consider every birthday to be a small achievement. I’m a bit surprised I made it this far.

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Big_Cryptographer_16@reddit

Exactly. I had a college roommate of 3 years and was my best friend during that time. We lost touch over the years but always figured we’d hang out again. I reconnected with some fraternity brothers a couple years ago and immediately asked about him only to find out he had died the year before at 49. Kicking myself now and he wasn’t the only one. Time flies but faster for some people. Celebrate what you have for sure and don’t wait to make the first move to reconnect if you’ve lost touch.

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Southtxranching@reddit

The thin mints of the class of 90 are now the double stuffed humans today.

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Animaleyz@reddit

You could have zoomed in

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splorp_evilbastard@reddit

I've worn glasses since I was 4 years old. My non-blurry range without my glasses currently runs from about 7" to 13" from my face. So, I can read and use my phone without glasses. That 6" range gets a little smaller every year.

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grahsam@reddit

Time gets away from everyone, somehow. We spend so much time trying to get to tomorrow that we forget about today.

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Ok-Bus-3239@reddit

I have been 29 for 22 years now. I don't know what you are talking about

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vanwhisky@reddit

Getting older but y’all still here and that’s a good thing.

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SFMattM@reddit

Isn't there some sort of agreement to not discuss age and the passing of time?

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Willing_Freedom_1067@reddit

35 years here (class of 1990). Unfortunately, most of my HS friends have passed into infinity. I’m one of the few remaining standing now, and I just… I look at the world around me and think, why me man? I’m alone out here. Then I realize I’ve always been “alone out here”. My parents have passed (dad in ‘19, mom in ‘24) and it was that moment that I realized - I’m not young anymore. My parents were the epitome of neglectful, but it still hit me like a freight train. Unfortunately I was one of the apathetic and that apathy has just grown worse over time, especially in the current climate. I’m in therapy. It helps.

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flamingweaselonastik@reddit

I'm a young GenX'er at pushing 47, and my trifocals are laughing at all of us.

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SheriffBartholomew@reddit

You're fortunate you can still do that. Half of my old friends are dead. I guess that's what happens when you're part of a wild and reckless group of thrill seekers.

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ElGrandeRojo67@reddit

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The further in you get , the faster it runs out.

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Backtothefuture1970@reddit

I keep asking my high-school friends every time I see them why they got so old.

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NegotiationOk4424@reddit

Ditch the old friends. Find younger friends

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4hmmm@reddit

Let us die young or let us live forever...!

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DaisyJane1@reddit

What year did y'all graduate? Class of '86 here.

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MyNeighborsHateMe@reddit

'92

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73rd-virgin@reddit

Class of 86.

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Taurusmoon66@reddit

1984, and I voted for Reagan in my first election. I can’t remember why.

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Acceptable-Mud623@reddit

Not all of us are getting older. Lost two friends this week. It is a privilege to get older.

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MyNeighborsHateMe@reddit

There were 15 other kids that I went K through 12th grade with. The first one of us died last September. So it begins...

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WinninRoam@reddit

I didn't think people actually did HS reunions in real life. Always seemed like one of those things common in movies that are uncommon in reality.

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HeftyResearch1719@reddit

Some of us go. 10 30 40 years. I wasn’t popular in HS but I figure it’s a bunch of people same age who might have some cool stories.

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GymHog@reddit

Wow you have 15 friends. What’s that like?

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StellaBella70@reddit

Seriously! I have roughly 20 or so people who I consider good acquaintances, but none who would drive me to an airport or stop by my wake. (Not that I'm having one. I told family not to claim my body - let the county deal with me.)

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GymHog@reddit

I mean I’ve got a wife of thirty years, aside from that maybe two other friends. My kids aren’t friends, they’re my kids.

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airbag11@reddit

2028 will be my 40th. I’m done with reunions. They are never what I want them to be!

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Prestigious_Carpet28@reddit

I quit going to the five-year reunions after the 20th. It took me that long realize that the only thing I had left in common with them was going to the same school at the same time.

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TheBklynGuy@reddit

I heard Goldfingers "Superman" last week, and it hit home. Especially; "So here I am Growing older all the time Looking older all the time Feeling younger in my mind."

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fnnkybutt@reddit

Gen Jones - my 40th was 4 years ago. I did not go. Nobody I really wanted to see ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Here4theShitShow2020@reddit

I used to travel back to my HS reunion, not until i realized that 90% of them were Trumpers. No thanks.

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SpecialistForward205@reddit

Class of 58 here. 50th was great fun, and looking forward to 70th and bragging about great-grandkids. Life has been full of surprises, many of them wonderful.

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fry-something@reddit

Inside every old person is a 17 year old wondering WTF HAPPENED

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manofmystry@reddit

I turned around and I was 50. I don't feel 61, but the world treats me like I am.

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fry-something@reddit

Yep. Suddenly invisible.

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manofmystry@reddit

I'm 6'3”/191cm tal and 210lbs/95kg. That's awfully large to be invisible, but I do seem to be. Weird.

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fry-something@reddit

It’s shocking for sure

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Barney-2U@reddit

Oh, the cruel irony of aging – one minute you're sneaking beers at a house party, the next you're passing around a phone like it's the Rosetta Stone, squinting like a group of confused owls. "Hold on, let me just... *adjusts glasses*... oh god, is that me???? The real tragedy? That photo's going on Facebook where it'll be instantly buried under ads for compression socks and "fun" colonoscopy memes. Time's a thief, but at least we're all getting robbed together. Cheers to still being young at heart (if not in prescription strength).

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Available_Image6792@reddit

60th last year. Not enough of us alive or in good health anymore to even have had one. Had a blast at my 50th though.

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Sasquatchasaurus@reddit

Beats the alternative!

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Aggravating_Smile556@reddit

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SuddenTest@reddit

I’m struggling so hard right now with this very concept. I guess I’m glad I’m not alone. Cheers everyone.

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Monalilica@reddit

Today I’m officially 57. A year older than my mom ever was allowed to be. I am grateful to make it this far. Every day I enjoy life to the fullest. The simple things though. The murder of crows that come to visit. Even with there young that scream for food🤣The bees, the garden , my partner… everything. Carpe Diem Gen X!❤️

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Rockchef@reddit

This is my life as well

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OpinionDry8223@reddit

I never spoke again to any of my HS friends or teachers after graduation day. I think the key to not feeling old is to let the old stuff go.

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nb6635@reddit

Speak for yourself, I’ve opted for regressing.

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whosthatgirl79@reddit

Same! I’m taking my midlife crisis seriously and enjoying it

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Darkling_Antiquarian@reddit

Nostalgia....A wound that will never heal,only worsening as time moves inexorably forward....Steven Hill - Hearts of Space radio....

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mike71diesel@reddit

Hey, I had my first glasses at 6. The mistress noticed I had problems reading the blackboard. And of of couse I was mocked for wearing glasses. Duh.

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QuirkyForever@reddit

I'd rather need glasses than be 17 again, Yuck. I was miserable at that age.

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UtahSalad66@reddit

❤️🤣🙌🏻

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Idaho_In_Uranus@reddit

Just got new glasses yesterday for the first time over 10 years. I need bifocals now. I feel your pain.

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Life_Transformed@reddit

Got you beat, I had to get cataract surgery before I turned 60. I paid up for the premium iol (lens) replacement so I don’t need any glasses anymore, near or far. Silver lining & something to look forward to if you want to get rid of that, there is a way!

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Redkneck35@reddit

Ya that happens

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Firm-Ad-6966@reddit

The ride going down the hill is a lot faster than going up.

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justmyusername2820@reddit

I’m a grandma 3 times over and my kids didn’t have kids until they were 24 and 32! I don’t know how this is possible

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Blondisms@reddit

It is amazing how 2015, 2005, and 1992 were all ten years ago.

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Mom-1234@reddit

About 15 years ago, my Dad said, “twenty years ago, when I was in the Army…..” I called him out and pointed out that he was an accountant, married with teenagers, twenty years ago. At that point, the Army 45 years ago. I thought it was hysterical that he kept saying 20 years ago. SHAME ON ME.

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regal_meagle@reddit

I wish I could upvote this a dozen more times.

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Alternative_Love_861@reddit

Life is terribly short and intolerably long

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SummerBirdsong@reddit

I have to have a pair of bifocals for doing any kind of reading or work at a table and a pair of single vision for walking and driving because the bifocals make me dizzy and screw with my depth perception.

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onamonapizza@reddit

Getting old isn't a bad thing. If you aren't getting older, something went wrong. Seasons don't fear the reaper.

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Few-Pineapple-5632@reddit

And if you posted it on Facebook, many of your classmates won’t recognize half the people in the picture. Include captions! Every time I sign onto FB, I see a post from someone and think “who the hell is that?”

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tommymat@reddit

There are a lot of times when shit happens I hear Blink singing “I guess this is growing up!” I don’t feel old or grown up but the lines on face and the people I have had to say good-bye to might say otherwise. Cherish the friends you still have and keep the good times rolling.

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DeeEmmJay@reddit

Weren't the 90's just 10 years ago? I swear they were! 😂

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gchance1@reddit

I just posted something similar in another thread. I just got together with ten other former classmates after maybe 12 years. One kept throwing out questions, one of which I swear was, how many meds are you on? We talked about wanting to retire, one of them is retired after 20 years as a firefighter. We talked about our GLP-1's, and when we're having colonoscopies next. We talked about who we've lost, teachers who somehow managed to still be around. And now I'm realizing you may be one of them. I did just skip your profile, I don't think it was you. But yeah your story is almost identical to mine.

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Titania_2016@reddit

Yeah, we are. But we're still here , that counts for something! In my case, I don't have 15 friends from high school that I would even contemplate being so in touch with. I have 2 that I am and one's my best friend from elementary school. Maybe 6 or 8 that I would want to be.

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Ambitious_Hand_2861@reddit

Honestly I've never been bothered by getting older. I've been a bit lucky and stayed healthy for the most part but the thing is there's only one option to stop aging so I'll take my slow march to the cane.

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gkcontra@reddit

Yep we are, but my takeaway is letting everyone see it before posting. Man I miss film cameras where you got what ya got. Nothing gets me more than taking a family pic and one person doesn't like it so we take it again, then another person doesn't like it. Good Times!! 😂

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Zigihogan-v2@reddit

Going to die soon too.

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OSUBucky@reddit

In digital light, Life and death dance, machines rise, Eternal the night.

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OSUBucky@reddit

In digital light, Life and death dance, machines rise, Eternal the night.

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Particular_Ticket_20@reddit

What struck me was having 15 friends from high school. I had 2 friends from hs. One died, the other stopped answering. The last reunion I had any info on went from "class of '87-Lets do this!!" to "scaling down, but Steve is hosting at his farm-Barn Party!!!" to "Steve's insurance said no alcohol and classmates only, No dates." It ended at "The reunion is invite only, basically Steve's clique from high school. Hope to see everyone at the next one!!!"

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Shark_Atl3201@reddit

Fuck it! I feel great about where I am right now. Live for today!!

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Tikimom@reddit

My favorite teacher In high school just passed at 95. Very sad and feeling rather old.

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mandoaz1971@reddit

Just realized this is the 35 anniversary for me, huh, never been to a reunion and haven’t seen any of them since I bugged out. 4/5 have found me recently. They all look old😂

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Brittney_1105@reddit

That’s exactly how I feel. I’m not or should I say I can’t be 55. My mind still says I’m in my 20s. I hate it😑

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cjkgt97@reddit

After about 10 PM at the Guns and Roses concert everyone seemed really tired.

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IndyElectronix@reddit

It just went so damn fast. I can no longer accurately judge the passage of time very well. For example, Like.. did that happen last year? Or two years ago? Oh really... just 9 mos ago 🤔

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Current_Poster@reddit

"I was 23 like last week, how the hell am I more than twice that today?" I hear ya.

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FormCheck655321@reddit

I follow my high school alumni website. Recently I noticed that the 2000 grads looked kinda old (balding, grey hair etc) and I thought “holy shit those people are muuuuch younger than me.”

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blue_no_red_ahhhhhhh@reddit

I’m so with you, lol.

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mpowellcsci@reddit

Class of 1983. College 1987. The 80's were unbelievable. But im still living the dream, but it might just be a dream.

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manofmystry@reddit

I love the conversations with friends where you compare maladies, and discuss what helps with sore joints.

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Empty_Nestor@reddit

I met an old friend from college (mid-90s) at the podiatrist’s office yesterday. My wife was with me, her husband was with her and we all talked out heart problems, surgeries, etc. As I was leaving I said to my friend: “Remember when we used to talk about our hopes and dreams and how drunk we were going to get that night?”

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spargel_gesicht@reddit

Ha, some college friends got together and the last one to show up said “I came in and said who are those old people?” And realized it was us. 😭

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brickbaterang@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/yhvsadxxybcf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=f2221919cee79b9e9eb066572fd0a94747600389

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Electrical-Let-6121@reddit

Glory days

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CrispyMongoose@reddit

My eyes, knock on wood, are still holding out and doing better than the average for sure. But I think we were all only 17 or so, until some point very recently.

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WelbyReddit@reddit

I am the opposite. I don't need glasses to read or close up, just for distance and driving. Don't feel bad. This is a time to be grateful you grew up before all this craziness and internet social media toxic shenanigans. There will Never be that generation again. Be thankful you got 15 old friends that can group up!!

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Newfie3@reddit

Agree. Just a short hop to retirement and we’re free!

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blacfd@reddit

There are only two options: get older or die

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cricket_bacon@reddit

> We were 17 only 5 minutes ago ... golden gods...

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pleasefixyourself@reddit

Counterpoint: We're all getting younger.

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Antmax@reddit

Yeah, I'm lucky that I haven't got any grey hair yet and wrinkles around the eyes are mostly from squinting. My mates are all wrinkly, grey and balding. Some look 25 years older than they are.

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