Things that make you realize you are getting older...

I have wax cooking 24/7 for this very reason. I hate those pesky ear and nose hairs.

 

I read a lot of your posts and you have actually got me thinking about my health, well you and one guy on a different forum. I rearranged my pool house last night and assembled a treadmill and an elliptical sears dropped off then spent about 10 minutes on the elliptical. The treadmill I think may be too much for my knees but the wife likes it. I worked really hard throughout my 20's and into my 30's. I figured I earned the right to sit on my ass now. However I have not earned the right to let my body fall apart from not using it. You know I can say for sure if you do a lot of sitting around after a while you feel like crap.

You probably didn't even know you were a mentsh.

 

I noticed today that Will Smith has grey hair.....I remember when he was just a Rapper, and not an actor yet......

 

37 days after I turned 40 (this year) I was hospitalized with diverticulitis. 2 months later I have a foot less large colon and 4 new belly buttons from the surgery.

Up until then I have never been sick a day in my life.

I felt old then, really for the first time ever

 

People born in 1992 (In a month, 1993) can now get a drivers license.

(Best of luck with the recovery Tommy!)

 

my testis continue to drop and I wonder at what point they'll reach my knees.

 

I was at a college basketball game and the cheerleaders looked like middle school girls............How did they begin to look so young?

Sigh!!!!!

 

Once you get them in a vise they stop dropping and just get squashed LOL

 

Eye sight for me. Although I haven't come to terms with it yet and still trying to fight it. When my optometrist told me I hated it. My eye sight had always been above average. I told her when I was flying I used to be able to spot other aircraft from a long way off. She laughed and told me I still would be able too but if I wanted to read the Sectional maps and not get lost I better wear the reading glasses.

 

Though I'm only 21, the past year and a half/two years have taught me to appreciate a lot more in life. Sadly I don't get as excited as I used to around Christmas.

 

The standard six inch drop on suits is now not standard for me. I always have to let out the pants a bit. There have been many times when my humble tailor has said to me, "But boss, there's just no more material left." I have furniture disease. Everyone knows this one: it's when your chest falls into your drawers.

 

Thinning hair, receding hair line, and balding.

And I'm not giving a hoot about many things in life.

 

The not so fresh prince

 

the fact that there is no one left at my high school that was there when i was

 

Watching my daughter's dance class dance to Pink Floyd The Wall hit pretty hard.

Getting my son to read the pill contents to me

 

The wife & I decided...hey, we haven't been bowling since we don't know when...I ended up in physical therapy for 6 months.


Don't you dare laugh while I try to get up off the floor. Stupids knees and hips...waiting for a coupon in the Sunday paper for a discount on new ones.

 

It's getting tougher to get off the couch now a days. I wonder if that comes with age or just laziness?

 

When you've gone from counting gray hairs to counting the black ones.

 

When you've gone from investing in your retirement to putting a red X on the calendar, marking the day.

 

When your friends that you graduated from high school with, have kids that are graduating next June.

 

When my father used to say "one day you will understand" - that day has come...and you know what, he is one wise old man.

 

All I can tell you is to exercise. My vision isn't what it used to be, either, particularly in low light while trying to read fine print. I am, however, in extremely good physical shape for a 40 year-old, have muscle definition of a 25 year-old and I do not tire very easily.

Hair started receding in my mid 30s. I just take clippers and shave it. I have some graying in my stubble - I like it that way. I also still meet younger women, although I could really care less about them.

RMX

 

When you see a cute girl in a movie, look up her name on IMDB and realize that the year she was born, is a year you remember doing something (like "oh that was the year I graduated high school!"). I feel really old when that happens.

When younger kids (early 20's) start to think of you as part of "the older crowd"

Random aches and pains

Seeing "young people" do things and thinking "they must be stupid to even think about doing that" (example: seeing a kid in a Camaro do a burnout from a light)

Having to be more responsible

Gray hair

More hair

Less hair

Discovering fun and exciting new "medical conditions" you have

Forgetting the names of things or people more easily