Things That Make You Feel Old...

Mulan, the first movie I saw in a theatre, is 19 years old.
Many of the film stars I grew up knowing are middle aged, older, or dead.
Kids born in 2004 are now teenagers
Many children don't know what a videotape is.


In some ways, I feel like I live in a time warp, even though I was only born in 1995. I'm behind the times. I guess I would be ideal for 1998.....

For me, it's usually remembering how the stuff that still feels fairly new and recent has already had a good chunk of time pass. Like earlier I watched Hellboy: The Golden Army and remembered it came out almost a decade ago.

Young people.

A calendar.

Being reminded that VHS tapes officially finally stopped being printed over a year ago. That especially makes me feel old. 

Not much. I've got all y'all senior citizens to keep myself feeling stripling

In class a few weeks ago my professor mentioned an event we had at school a few years back where some Tibetan monks came and made a sand mandala and did some other cool stuff. She said how it was kind of a long time ago so probably none of us even knew about it, and I said something about how I went to the event and it wasn't that long ago, it was probably like 2008 or so. That's when the rest of the class reminded me that they were in elementary/middle school in 2008. And I took the day off work to drive to the event.

Also in my first semester back in college our physics class was put into groups cause the classroom had tables that seated like 4-5 people. And I got into my group and they all just sat there without talking, so because I'm obnoxious and don't know how not talking works I started every morning by asking the Friendship Question of the Day and getting everyone to answer. It started with normal stuff like favorite animal/color/mattress brand, but the class was every day so eventually I had to get more creative, and one day I asked what Legends of the Hidden Temple team they would be on, and none of them had ever seen it.

I'm not even old, but being in school with people 4-6 years younger than you has a very strong aging effect so I'm basically an old man inches from death.

Then again I'm also going blind and have terrible joints, so maybe I'm actually 90.

In 9th grade, my lab partner in science was pregnant. Saw her the other day with the kid, who's like 12 now.

Feeling hipster for watching movies on VHS, when I really just never stopped.

Watching the Potter series all the way through.

When I watch pro wrestling and Goldberg just won the World Title...and I'm reminded that I was a big fan of that guy WHEN I WAS 11 FUCKING YEARS OLD. 

I had a conversation with a friend on Facebook and I realized that she invited me to her birthday party when I was 5 years old. I'm about to turn 29. 

The realization that movies like Jurassic Park, The Rock, Titanic and so on are now considered to be old