Just turned 74...welcome to my world...little has changed over the years with regards to preferences...don't care what anyone else thinks and nobody can offend me. Life has had its highs and lows but I'm comfortable where I'm at.
Back in the day, I listened to most of my music on the radio, and the DJs announced the title and artist before and after playing each song. It got harder to keep track of artists and songs when they stopped doing that. Keep taking care of your health, Shannon. I didn't do that, and now my biggest surprise/disappointment about aging is how I have to factor my physical issues/stamina into all my decisions. Camping trip with only porta-potties? Nope. Hike up Mt Etna? Nope, can't do that, either. My world is getting smaller and smaller, and it sucks.
The music thing is true. There was a study that showed that the music you listen to when you were in your 20s is the music you will most likely listen to for the rest of your life. It becomes hard for the brain to acquire a taste for new music after it has finished growing though not impossible.
I find the cyclical nature of art helps a lot with this. I was a huge fan of shoegaze in the 90's (Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive), and starting in the 2010's it came back in a big way (DIIV, Joy Formidable, The Drums). Things seem to have moved on again, but for a while there, I was feeling pretty hip.
Sounds like people with modern sports like the nhl, nba, nfl etc. they wanna sit and talk crap about the current sports leagues like they aren’t good even tho they’re wrong
My wife pointed out to me this guy about my age at a fast food outlet once. He was wearing sandals and his toenails were absolutely disgusting. It was like he'd never cut them in his life. I became a lot more aware of little intricacies like that. My ear hairs are non-existent because my wife will just lean over every time she sees one she plucks it. I have no chest hairs because early on in our marriage she would start to pluck them. At first it started just around my nipples but eventually she branced out to my entire chest. I no longer have chest hairs. I was plucked incessanlty for the first 10 years of our marriage. OObviously she has issuess with body hairs. I honestly felt at one point her nose hair plucking was a form of actual torture. I love my wife!!!
I’m 25 and I work on a college campus and feel so out of touch with coworkers/friends around 18-20 it feels so weird. I hear slang that sounds so weird to me and for example pop music artists sound so auto tuned that they sound like they’re crying lol. As well, you’re totally right about how time moves so fast, especially because I prefer to work close to full time and stay busy. The weeks/months blend together and I moved cross country when I was 21 and I’m about to move again and I’m shocked that it’s already been four years, the time doesn’t feel real, how quick life goes bye!
I’m about to be 25 and I also work with 18-21 year olds and I swear to god I already feel a generational gap, I don’t understand a word they say it’s so surreal
Another 25 year old here, and yea I actually noticed the gap way back when i was a teenager around 15- and it has not changed since. People just a couple years younger than me speak a whole different language.. maybe we are the cut-off ahah
before i met my wife, i HATED cooking... now, going on 10 years, i've found that cooking is an awesome stress reliever & can really put you into a zen-like state. plus, since we humans, as a species, HAVE to maintain sustenance, it's so rewarding to make something that not only you enjoy, but can bring joy to others as well w/ your cooking. having said that, if you haven't seen the movie "The Menu", i'd strongly suggest doing so, lol
3 years ago when my niece was 13, she looked at me and said "Uncle Eddie, you give the best hugs but you're not cool." I worked at Tower Records for 5 years and being amongst music, it was easy to keep track. Now I have to go to work, pay bills and more. I don't have nearly as much time to devote myself to listening to music. The pandemic really caused my mental health to go into a tailspin. I am getting better but still find that I reach for music that brings me comfort instead of anything that's new.
You will want to take more naps during the day. And in keeping with sleep, you will get up more times in the middle of the night to pee, and won’t go back to sleep. That is what I wish someone told me would happen when I got old.
If I don't trim my ear and nose hair, plus my eyebrows, I will start to resemble Andy Rooney (if you don't get the reference, you're probably too young). I've acquired the "old man walk" at age 53 precisely because I have not been exercising enough. I stopped caring about what's "in" and "out" and pop culture in general when I was in my early 30s, and not knowing the musical acts at award shows was the beginning of it. I would add a couple of things to the list. The first is new technology. I still have the mental capacity to learn how to use at least most of it, but not the desire. I was 37 when the smartphone was invented, and everything that I could do on my phone I already knew how to do on my laptop PC, except with a larger screen and keyboard. On days off when I don't leave the house, I sometimes don't look at my phone at all. The other is more serious: The tendency to think "everything was better in the past, so who is to blame for ruining our society/government/country?" I promised myself years ago that I would never become one of those old people who constantly complain about "the kids today," because that is the first step toward the "dark side." About half of my relatives who are my age or older are the most negative (and misinformed) people I know. They are constantly complaining about problems they think are new but aren't, are far less severe in actuality than they fear, or don't even exist. It's such a miserable way to view the world.
Here’s one: “Oh, I need to look that up!…let me get my iPad and bring up Google…..ok…now, what the heck was I going to look up??” Happens to me all the time. 😂
I would say get tested for Vitamin Defficiencies! I need daily B1, B12, Folic Acid, D3 (20,000iu/day), Zinc, I take synthetic B1 Benfotiamin which helps absorb Thiamine. Your supplements matter!
I'm 78 in exactly one month, so Yes! you could start a whole Aging Series as far as my opinion goes. I ran into Carnivore diet videos here on RUclips about a year and a half ago and thought I'd give it a try and that has been a most positive surprise for me, like finding out how good it was to get my driver's license as a teen. Everything else sucked for me then! Gas, if you stick to a meat-only diet, is GONE. There is none, zero. I lost a bit over 20 pounds without starving for one day. Your digestive system converts to meat no problem but fairly radical, and part of the burn-fat-not-sugar&carb conversion is, if your meat system gets hungry, it has trained itself to eat your own excess fat. Anyway, watch some Dr Ken Berry videos - a very relatable, entertaining guy. And there are others. Phew - long comment!
I'll be 29 in June and I'm already tuning out most of the junk on TV and social media. I'll have friends ask me if I have Discord to join their server and I'll respond with, "no, of course not". I'm sure the pandemic has done alot to people's metabolism across the globe because I swear I could fit into those jeans in 2019... All the things you point out seem fairly obvious. I imagine it's not so much that your musical tastes mellow out, but you're tastes in general are a product of the first 25ish years of your life, with tiny sprinklings of stuff from later in life.
I'm an old guy now and aging for me is just weird, you notice the changes in society and there not always good changes, as far as physically, keep moving, I feel 30 and I'm 63, my body will betray me eventually but I'm going out fighting. Good luck, go B's.
Whatever you listened to around age 15, during your formative years, will be with you forever. For me it was stuff like Megadeth, Iron Maiden, and GWAR. The big thing I picked up was jazz. That was in college thanks in no small part to Henry Rollins, and I think all the years of listening to Dave Mustaine's serpentine riffs loosened my ear. Nowadays, I have stuff like Cake, Primus, Morbid Angel, Beastie Boys, Bob Dylan, and John Coltrane with me at all times. On CD. I still like physical media.
How hard it is to make new friends. Everyone is busy, so it’s a real ask to hang out or spend time together. The internet helps, but like the media thing, when new games come out it’s hard to get everyone to play the same ones.
I don't have the same issues you have, but I'm on the wrong side of 60 and my issues are food allergies that set in in my mid 30's- peanuts, tomatoes, oranges, most soda pop and I started becoming lactose intolerant.
Big thing that I’ve noticed is how much more I see my parents in myself as I get older. When I have my hair short, I look almost identical to a younger version of my mom, and I probably enjoy long driving trips (as in 12 hrs/ day, more than once in a trip - I drove from St Louis to Vegas and back recently) more than I should, something I get from my dad.
I can confirm the looking/acting like your parents. I find myself picking up little habits my dad does, or I'll dislike something in a similar way It does sort of scare me a bit...
I heard a song the other day and said this is AWESOME! A new band! Song is 13 years old. Like what on earth was I doing in my life 13 years ago that I completely missed a song that was absolutely in my favorite style and everything. I just want to know how eyebrows decide that it's time. Wait for it... wait for it... OK YOU, GROW NOW. GRAB THAT PERSON. Like you were fine yesterday, what the heck?
Toenails and body hair are really just the body's way of erroneous distribution of protein. Less hair grows on my head, but I got hair growing at warp speed from my nose and ears. Meanwhile, the 3 smallest toes on each foot grow toenails way faster than the rest of my nails. There's also the daily "what's gonna be hurtin' today" question!
Regarding metabolism and weight thing, I actually reversed. Tended to weight gain in my youth, now the opposite. I stumbled on it through another aging related thing (?). Basically I developed a slight hernia which led to acid reflux. It was so terrible it forced me to eat at weird schedules. Essentially the muscle is weak morning and night so I now naturally want to eat in afternoon to no later than 7pm. I can literally eat just about anything in that time frame and I don’t gain unless it’s mid winter and I’m a total sloth. Looked it up and it’s actually a thing called intermittent fasting. For me it’s just normal routine now, to the point where I’m repulsed by breakfast and late eating, generally. Used to mind calories and all sorts of stuff that never held for long but now I don’t think about what I eat, just the time of day, and I maintain an even and normal weight. Oh and I never get reflux either and was told I’d have to take meds for life to keep it in check. Worth looking into.
I'm turning 39 this summer. For the last 8 years or so I try to make sure when I sneeze that I am in as 'optimal' body position as possible. If I just sneeze willy nilly I will hurt myself. Tweak my back or feel like two ribs switch places inside me. It can take me a week to recover from a poorly executed sneeze. So so many different things I never thought about.
I'm not really old, I turn 30 this year. I will say, I listen to more Heavy Metal music than I ever have and I was a huge metal head in high school! Glad that hasn't changed.
As I get older, anyone that drives slower than I do is a moron. Everyone that drives faster is a maniac tha should be kept off the roadways! I have found a deep appreciation for the statement, "Work Smarter, Not Harder!"
I lucked out in this regard: the music adjusted to me. 1990s-2000s me quietly liked techno (Daft Punk, Andrew Sega for video game soundtracks) and 1920s-50s music (Cab Calloway, Edith Piaf, Rat Pack, pre-rock blues and jazz). Somewhere around 2010 music combined that chocolate and peanut butter in electro swing (Parov Stelar, Caro Emerald, Caravan Palace). Lucky me. On point for the rest, THG.
I definitely found everything you said to be accurate, except music. My music taste is much more diverse now. As a big metal fan, I now love blues, jazz and country.
I especially like how changing weather will dictate how much pain I'm going to be in for the coming days. It's more accurate than any weather person on tv. Lol
The thing that weirds me out is that my house had all hardwood floors, and suddenly, my feet don't have the same grip as before. Maybe that's what the toenails are for? The hair thing is real. My head hair remains steadfast, but I've lost all of my arm and leg hair while my torso hair has gone crazy. I look like I'm wearing a leotard.
Entering my mid life. I hate the changes to injury recovery. It's either 3-4x longer than it used to take when I was younger... or they didn't even heal.
I relate to every single one. The treadmill killed me, I walked upstairs and just lied down, dead. lol . Musically I do listen to everything, I listen to what I like...from classic rock to new rock, to indie to folk, to funk pop, . Body hair, I need to get my back shaved from my wife if I plan on taking shirt off and strutting around...lol, I just don't bother anymore. Musically, I haven't changed. I still collect hockey sweaters, cards if I can get them at a wall mart, oh, my eyebrows grow longer odd hairs. wild this aging stuff. No, I do not like it, but what can I do? Turn cranky? no, I refuse that. maybe I might if I lose my mind, but then I would want outta here.
These other videos you put out are helping I just turn 40 had my first kidney passing at work went to hospital and found out I have fatty liver disease on the bright side I don't drink much so it easy to quit nut I can fell myself aging its quit sad lol
Oh and I have to mention this. Kids hear it, but they don’t really get it. Even in your twenties when you start to observe it, you’re still unprepared. Here is that cursed wisdom: time speeds up! I vividly recall as a kid wondering how life could be so agonizingly sloooooowwww. Days felt like forever. By my thirties, I started to notice the year going quite a bit faster. Mid fourties and I’m seriously scared. A year is like a month and a half as a kid. I’m not even joking. Talking with those older, yep, it just goes faster and faster, like an existential… errrr… exponential… ride into oblivion! 😅
The older I get the more I understand why my grandparents hated the cold weather so much. Everything hurts during winter. My music taste hasn’t changed and neither has my taste in tv/movies. I definitely don’t know what’s “in” anymore, my daughter in middle school said I should watch a RUclips video about Gen Z memes so I could figure it out. And time definitely goes by at a much more rapid pace the older I get. And stairs have become my moral enemy lol.
Shannon, the main purpose of the toes when you get older is to verify the location of the furniture. That is why the toenails get thicker. Otherwise you would bleed out on the way to getting aspirin to deal with the throbbing pain.
As I am about to turn 53 , I have found that most of this is true . But my taste in music has changed , but still no country music . I have gone from listening to heavy metal as a teen to now more 80's and 90's alternative . One of the few holdouts is Led Zeppelin . I will always listen to them .
Nosehair. Why does it grow so fast and so thick? My change of music has definitely expanded. I was very anti- hip-hop and rap, but now near 40 i find myself listening quite a bit of it.
When you age, especially as a man(I'm sure women endure this too), you lose hair where you want it and you gain hair where you don't. Also, amazes me how my body started falling apart when I hit 50. As for music, and this isn't the old man in me, todays music does suck. Today most music is corporate created and driven. Most singers, especially female singers, to me all sound the same. They all have the same tone and pitch. Pop singers today have teams of song writers. Can you imagine Lennon & McCartney using studio writers? And the biggest thing that amazes me in my older age is how thin skinned people are. I really wish society would grow a set.
@The Entertainment Guy - actually new research confirms that metabolism only starts slowing down at 60 years old. There are other factors that affect weight gain and loss ability like hormones
Music has definitely changed. It’s not very easy to find smaller independent artists who make music you love that you would never find the traditional ways.
Meh I feel like I am in limbo a little bit at 36, but that lovely feeling of "snap, crackle, pop" when I get out of bed reminds me that I am close to 40. Ugh.
Something that I wish I was warned about is going bald. I went bald in my twenties, and I was not mentally prepared for that at all. I always thought men went bald when they're like 55, not in their twenties. I thought wrong.
Ear hair, nose hair, eyebrows. Seems the hair on our heads moved. Opening childproof caps and zip lock bags are now more painful then falling off our bike as a kid. Seems our bodies shrink a bit, but the ears continue to grow.
I will let you in on a secret, new music mostly sucks so your cool. I just recently got into black metal and the genre is huge and diverse as far as content so I’m actually listening to metal that was released in the 90s but I never knew it back then. Also time seems to go by way faster these days
Discovering just how much we are at the mercy of entropy I think is part of what is described as "the wisdom of old age." One thing I never expected, as a man, is that I would also be woken up by having a hot flash. What's up with that?
Im 41 and my music taste still is the same but I am a lot more open minded to music. Still a huge Green Day Rancid Less Than Jake fan Chris Webby Cypress Hill Beastie Boys etc
You're only 17 lol you shouldn't be worried about that for another 17 years. Maybe even longer, just gotta have the right diet, work out, take care of yourself, etc.
Yeah unfortunately life goes in the opposite way. In my 20s I was on the top of the world and had the best time of my life. Now in my 50s I wake up saying life sucks! and it’s not getting any easier it’s more complicated complex and depressing.
Old age comes with a new soundtrack. Every physical movement will cause you to groan. Get out of a chair and you will grunt under your breath. Lifting something heavy and you will make noises of straining.
I mainly loved classical music and opera and especially country as a kid with Christmas music from all genres as a minor... Now all but a few country artists I listened to as a youth are either dead and buried or on the tail end of their musical careers being replaced by any no talent bum that thinks they can strum a guitar... One of those groups is C.W. McCall and the back up band lives on under a different name (Mannheim Steamroller)... With each passing Christmas album past Christmas In the Aire...I've hated too many of their selections to the point where if they released a new one...there'd be a total of zero I liked on the whole album... Johnny Mathis ruined one album by himself and on that one I think I only liked a whole three tracks... The Christmas Song album had only one track I liked...so that's where my fear comes from...diminishing likes on every single album... I rarely go to movies anymore due to my days as a movie reviewer and I had writer's block thinking of creatively slamming a whole cast and crew of a movie... Had Cats been there during my active period...I would have had a public service message... Please spay and neuter your cats...and actors that can't sing their way out of a paper bag...so they don't repeat what I just witnessed this litter box that filled itself passing off as a musical... Heck these actors would have sounded better BEING spayed and neutered on the screen... Watch our for the slipped discs in the back... Those could wind up causing major damage later on... I should know...I had a shattered L4 and a hairline fracture of the L5 fusion surgery...one to replace some bad hardware...and three cleansing surgeries on the same wound opening up twice... I hope that's the last of my surgeries... I'm still walking like a man no younger than 95...but I'm 39...
I know it sounds crazy, but just once - get a pedicure. One of my friends kept recommending it, I finally caved, and I have to say it's a big deal. It only takes about 45min. Then the next great thing is when you tell all your guy friends you had a pedicure, only to find out that like a third of them have been getting them too, but have been too embarrassed to admit it. Just try it once, I predict you won't regret it.
I am quite pleased about knowing less and less about who/what is "in".
Even at age 23 in my first job out of college... I just don't care that much anymore
Same. I like my old man heavy metal.
Just turned 74...welcome to my world...little has changed over the years with regards to preferences...don't care what anyone else thinks and nobody can offend me. Life has had its highs and lows but I'm comfortable where I'm at.
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love it
Respectful age. Amazing to hear
Back in the day, I listened to most of my music on the radio, and the DJs announced the title and artist before and after playing each song. It got harder to keep track of artists and songs when they stopped doing that. Keep taking care of your health, Shannon. I didn't do that, and now my biggest surprise/disappointment about aging is how I have to factor my physical issues/stamina into all my decisions. Camping trip with only porta-potties? Nope. Hike up Mt Etna? Nope, can't do that, either. My world is getting smaller and smaller, and it sucks.
The music thing is true. There was a study that showed that the music you listen to when you were in your 20s is the music you will most likely listen to for the rest of your life. It becomes hard for the brain to acquire a taste for new music after it has finished growing though not impossible.
That's what they say, but I still listen to stuff from when I was a little kid. But I grew up with The Beatles so.
I find the cyclical nature of art helps a lot with this. I was a huge fan of shoegaze in the 90's (Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive), and starting in the 2010's it came back in a big way (DIIV, Joy Formidable, The Drums). Things seem to have moved on again, but for a while there, I was feeling pretty hip.
Sounds like people with modern sports like the nhl, nba, nfl etc. they wanna sit and talk crap about the current sports leagues like they aren’t good even tho they’re wrong
Not true for me
My wife pointed out to me this guy about my age at a fast food outlet once. He was wearing sandals and his toenails were absolutely disgusting. It was like he'd never cut them in his life.
I became a lot more aware of little intricacies like that.
My ear hairs are non-existent because my wife will just lean over every time she sees one she plucks it.
I have no chest hairs because early on in our marriage she would start to pluck them. At first it started just around my nipples but eventually she branced out to my entire chest. I no longer have chest hairs.
I was plucked incessanlty for the first 10 years of our marriage. OObviously she has issuess with body hairs.
I honestly felt at one point her nose hair plucking was a form of actual torture.
I love my wife!!!
I’m 25 and I work on a college campus and feel so out of touch with coworkers/friends around 18-20 it feels so weird. I hear slang that sounds so weird to me and for example pop music artists sound so auto tuned that they sound like they’re crying lol.
As well, you’re totally right about how time moves so fast, especially because I prefer to work close to full time and stay busy. The weeks/months blend together and I moved cross country when I was 21 and I’m about to move again and I’m shocked that it’s already been four years, the time doesn’t feel real, how quick life goes bye!
I’m about to be 25 and I also work with 18-21 year olds and I swear to god I already feel a generational gap, I don’t understand a word they say it’s so surreal
Another 25 year old here, and yea I actually noticed the gap way back when i was a teenager around 15- and it has not changed since. People just a couple years younger than me speak a whole different language.. maybe we are the cut-off ahah
before i met my wife, i HATED cooking... now, going on 10 years, i've found that cooking is an awesome stress reliever & can really put you into a zen-like state. plus, since we humans, as a species, HAVE to maintain sustenance, it's so rewarding to make something that not only you enjoy, but can bring joy to others as well w/ your cooking. having said that, if you haven't seen the movie "The Menu", i'd strongly suggest doing so, lol
I love cooking, it's easy, then you can chill while someone else does the dishes.
3 years ago when my niece was 13, she looked at me and said "Uncle Eddie, you give the best hugs but you're not cool."
I worked at Tower Records for 5 years and being amongst music, it was easy to keep track. Now I have to go to work, pay bills and more. I don't have nearly as much time to devote myself to listening to music.
The pandemic really caused my mental health to go into a tailspin. I am getting better but still find that I reach for music that brings me comfort instead of anything that's new.
You will want to take more naps during the day. And in keeping with sleep, you will get up more times in the middle of the night to pee, and won’t go back to sleep. That is what I wish someone told me would happen when I got old.
“If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.”
― Red Green
If I don't trim my ear and nose hair, plus my eyebrows, I will start to resemble Andy Rooney (if you don't get the reference, you're probably too young). I've acquired the "old man walk" at age 53 precisely because I have not been exercising enough. I stopped caring about what's "in" and "out" and pop culture in general when I was in my early 30s, and not knowing the musical acts at award shows was the beginning of it.
I would add a couple of things to the list. The first is new technology. I still have the mental capacity to learn how to use at least most of it, but not the desire. I was 37 when the smartphone was invented, and everything that I could do on my phone I already knew how to do on my laptop PC, except with a larger screen and keyboard. On days off when I don't leave the house, I sometimes don't look at my phone at all.
The other is more serious: The tendency to think "everything was better in the past, so who is to blame for ruining our society/government/country?" I promised myself years ago that I would never become one of those old people who constantly complain about "the kids today," because that is the first step toward the "dark side." About half of my relatives who are my age or older are the most negative (and misinformed) people I know. They are constantly complaining about problems they think are new but aren't, are far less severe in actuality than they fear, or don't even exist. It's such a miserable way to view the world.
Didja ever notice how these young punks who ARE on your lawn NEVER slow down????
Here’s one: “Oh, I need to look that up!…let me get my iPad and bring up Google…..ok…now, what the heck was I going to look up??” Happens to me all the time. 😂
The tinnitus is driving me bonkers, getting worse as I get older. If you don't have it, you are doing well!
Try brown noice. It kinda gives a break from tinnitus. Kinda.
@@Viljapossu thank you.
I would say get tested for Vitamin Defficiencies! I need daily B1, B12, Folic Acid, D3 (20,000iu/day), Zinc, I take synthetic B1 Benfotiamin which helps absorb Thiamine. Your supplements matter!
The eyesight going is driving me nuts!
I'm 78 in exactly one month, so Yes! you could start a whole Aging Series as far as my opinion goes. I ran into Carnivore diet videos here on RUclips about a year and a half ago and thought I'd give it a try and that has been a most positive surprise for me, like finding out how good it was to get my driver's license as a teen. Everything else sucked for me then! Gas, if you stick to a meat-only diet, is GONE. There is none, zero. I lost a bit over 20 pounds without starving for one day. Your digestive system converts to meat no problem but fairly radical, and part of the burn-fat-not-sugar&carb conversion is, if your meat system gets hungry, it has trained itself to eat your own excess fat. Anyway, watch some Dr Ken Berry videos - a very relatable, entertaining guy. And there are others. Phew - long comment!
My favourite is when one knee suddenly decides it won't both bend and carry my weight at the same time. Usually on the stairs.
I'll be 29 in June and I'm already tuning out most of the junk on TV and social media. I'll have friends ask me if I have Discord to join their server and I'll respond with, "no, of course not".
I'm sure the pandemic has done alot to people's metabolism across the globe because I swear I could fit into those jeans in 2019...
All the things you point out seem fairly obvious. I imagine it's not so much that your musical tastes mellow out, but you're tastes in general are a product of the first 25ish years of your life, with tiny sprinklings of stuff from later in life.
I'm an old guy now and aging for me is just weird, you notice the changes in society and there not always good changes, as far as physically, keep moving, I feel 30 and I'm 63, my body will betray me eventually but I'm going out fighting. Good luck, go B's.
Amazing attitude to have
Whatever you listened to around age 15, during your formative years, will be with you forever. For me it was stuff like Megadeth, Iron Maiden, and GWAR. The big thing I picked up was jazz. That was in college thanks in no small part to Henry Rollins, and I think all the years of listening to Dave Mustaine's serpentine riffs loosened my ear. Nowadays, I have stuff like Cake, Primus, Morbid Angel, Beastie Boys, Bob Dylan, and John Coltrane with me at all times. On CD. I still like physical media.
If you saw what I have in my iTunes library you'd think I was insane.
I didn't even know Smashing Pumpkins came out with a new song.🤷🏽♀️
Right there with you Hockey Guy! Spot on, there should have been more of a warning for us!
How hard it is to make new friends. Everyone is busy, so it’s a real ask to hang out or spend time together. The internet helps, but like the media thing, when new games come out it’s hard to get everyone to play the same ones.
I don't have the same issues you have, but I'm on the wrong side of 60 and my issues are food allergies that set in in my mid 30's- peanuts, tomatoes, oranges, most soda pop and I started becoming lactose intolerant.
Big thing that I’ve noticed is how much more I see my parents in myself as I get older. When I have my hair short, I look almost identical to a younger version of my mom, and I probably enjoy long driving trips (as in 12 hrs/ day, more than once in a trip - I drove from St Louis to Vegas and back recently) more than I should, something I get from my dad.
I can confirm the looking/acting like your parents. I find myself picking up little habits my dad does, or I'll dislike something in a similar way
It does sort of scare me a bit...
I heard a song the other day and said this is AWESOME! A new band! Song is 13 years old. Like what on earth was I doing in my life 13 years ago that I completely missed a song that was absolutely in my favorite style and everything.
I just want to know how eyebrows decide that it's time. Wait for it... wait for it... OK YOU, GROW NOW. GRAB THAT PERSON. Like you were fine yesterday, what the heck?
This!
The random injuries from "sleeping wrong" or "getting up wrong."
More of these! As a 27 year old male. I love hearing experience/s of those who are older than I.
Great PSA!!!! Thank you for this. LOL at the amorous comment. Jennifer L is wonderful.
Time does go by faster...
Toenails and body hair are really just the body's way of erroneous distribution of protein. Less hair grows on my head, but I got hair growing at warp speed from my nose and ears. Meanwhile, the 3 smallest toes on each foot grow toenails way faster than the rest of my nails. There's also the daily "what's gonna be hurtin' today" question!
Regarding metabolism and weight thing, I actually reversed. Tended to weight gain in my youth, now the opposite. I stumbled on it through another aging related thing (?). Basically I developed a slight hernia which led to acid reflux. It was so terrible it forced me to eat at weird schedules.
Essentially the muscle is weak morning and night so I now naturally want to eat in afternoon to no later than 7pm. I can literally eat just about anything in that time frame and I don’t gain unless it’s mid winter and I’m a total sloth. Looked it up and it’s actually a thing called intermittent fasting.
For me it’s just normal routine now, to the point where I’m repulsed by breakfast and late eating, generally. Used to mind calories and all sorts of stuff that never held for long but now I don’t think about what I eat, just the time of day, and I maintain an even and normal weight. Oh and I never get reflux either and was told I’d have to take meds for life to keep it in check. Worth looking into.
brother you are a legend, your old man viewers see this and respect it.
This is going to be fun haha!
Also, I thought your shirt was Madonna with her album cover “True Blue” haha
I'm turning 39 this summer. For the last 8 years or so I try to make sure when I sneeze that I am in as 'optimal' body position as possible. If I just sneeze willy nilly I will hurt myself. Tweak my back or feel like two ribs switch places inside me. It can take me a week to recover from a poorly executed sneeze.
So so many different things I never thought about.
I'm not really old, I turn 30 this year. I will say, I listen to more Heavy Metal music than I ever have and I was a huge metal head in high school! Glad that hasn't changed.
As I get older, anyone that drives slower than I do is a moron. Everyone that drives faster is a maniac tha should be kept off the roadways!
I have found a deep appreciation for the statement, "Work Smarter, Not Harder!"
I grew up on country music, bluegrass and southern rock and don't see that changing anytime soon (will be 42 this year)
I didn't mind aging until I started having to shave my ear hair every 5 days or so. Soon as I hit mid 30's, ear hair city.
This is the Health class I wish I had in middle school
I lucked out in this regard: the music adjusted to me. 1990s-2000s me quietly liked techno (Daft Punk, Andrew Sega for video game soundtracks) and 1920s-50s music (Cab Calloway, Edith Piaf, Rat Pack, pre-rock blues and jazz).
Somewhere around 2010 music combined that chocolate and peanut butter in electro swing (Parov Stelar, Caro Emerald, Caravan Palace). Lucky me. On point for the rest, THG.
I definitely found everything you said to be accurate, except music. My music taste is much more diverse now. As a big metal fan, I now love blues, jazz and country.
I especially like how changing weather will dictate how much pain I'm going to be in for the coming days. It's more accurate than any weather person on tv. Lol
My hidden talent is that I can forget what I'm doing while I'm doing it.
It's great walking into a room and forgetting why you did.
@@NotTheHockeyGuy I’m in my 20s and that happens to me too lol
We need MuchMusic back. Totally agree.
The thing that weirds me out is that my house had all hardwood floors, and suddenly, my feet don't have the same grip as before. Maybe that's what the toenails are for?
The hair thing is real. My head hair remains steadfast, but I've lost all of my arm and leg hair while my torso hair has gone crazy. I look like I'm wearing a leotard.
Entering my mid life.
I hate the changes to injury recovery. It's either 3-4x longer than it used to take when I was younger... or they didn't even heal.
I relate to every single one. The treadmill killed me, I walked upstairs and just lied down, dead. lol . Musically I do listen to everything, I listen to what I like...from classic rock to new rock, to indie to folk, to funk pop, . Body hair, I need to get my back shaved from my wife if I plan on taking shirt off and strutting around...lol, I just don't bother anymore. Musically, I haven't changed. I still collect hockey sweaters, cards if I can get them at a wall mart, oh, my eyebrows grow longer odd hairs. wild this aging stuff. No, I do not like it, but what can I do? Turn cranky? no, I refuse that. maybe I might if I lose my mind, but then I would want outta here.
Excellent video.
As you get past 40, with each passing year the noises you make to stand up or sit down get louder😂😂
I've become an expert on moisturizing lotions in the last several years but still listen to Jimi Hendrix regularly.
RESPECT THE CLASSICS, MAN!
These other videos you put out are helping I just turn 40 had my first kidney passing at work went to hospital and found out I have fatty liver disease on the bright side I don't drink much so it easy to quit nut I can fell myself aging its quit sad lol
Oh and I have to mention this. Kids hear it, but they don’t really get it. Even in your twenties when you start to observe it, you’re still unprepared. Here is that cursed wisdom: time speeds up!
I vividly recall as a kid wondering how life could be so agonizingly sloooooowwww. Days felt like forever. By my thirties, I started to notice the year going quite a bit faster. Mid fourties and I’m seriously scared. A year is like a month and a half as a kid. I’m not even joking. Talking with those older, yep, it just goes faster and faster, like an existential… errrr… exponential… ride into oblivion! 😅
The grunting when standing up, and the knees popping when squatting down.
At 60 the hair in my nose and ears is growing faster than ever.
The older I get the more I understand why my grandparents hated the cold weather so much. Everything hurts during winter. My music taste hasn’t changed and neither has my taste in tv/movies. I definitely don’t know what’s “in” anymore, my daughter in middle school said I should watch a RUclips video about Gen Z memes so I could figure it out. And time definitely goes by at a much more rapid pace the older I get. And stairs have become my moral enemy lol.
Shannon, the main purpose of the toes when you get older is to verify the location of the furniture. That is why the toenails get thicker. Otherwise you would bleed out on the way to getting aspirin to deal with the throbbing pain.
i totally agree with you shannon
I'm 53 and live in Winnipeg. Our hair is just migrating south.
Playwright George Bernard Shaw, "Why is youth wasted on the young?"
As I am about to turn 53 , I have found that most of this is true . But my taste in music has changed , but still no country music . I have gone from listening to heavy metal as a teen to now more 80's and 90's alternative . One of the few holdouts is Led Zeppelin . I will always listen to them .
when your low hangers hit the toilet bowl water. didn't know this would be a issue in life
Nosehair. Why does it grow so fast and so thick? My change of music has definitely expanded. I was very anti- hip-hop and rap, but now near 40 i find myself listening quite a bit of it.
Like the fit today . Hat and shirt looks nice
When you age, especially as a man(I'm sure women endure this too), you lose hair where you want it and you gain hair where you don't. Also, amazes me how my body started falling apart when I hit 50. As for music, and this isn't the old man in me, todays music does suck. Today most music is corporate created and driven. Most singers, especially female singers, to me all sound the same. They all have the same tone and pitch. Pop singers today have teams of song writers. Can you imagine Lennon & McCartney using studio writers? And the biggest thing that amazes me in my older age is how thin skinned people are. I really wish society would grow a set.
I'm older and my music taste have never changed, never will I'll always like disco more than heavy Metal.
@The Entertainment Guy - actually new research confirms that metabolism only starts slowing down at 60 years old. There are other factors that affect weight gain and loss ability like hormones
Music has definitely changed. It’s not very easy to find smaller independent artists who make music you love that you would never find the traditional ways.
I have noticed that recovery time after exercise doubled after I turned 50
I agree if anything I’ve turned almost into a complete metal head now .. wasn’t like that 5-10 years ago re: music
The say your memory is the second thing to go...
Get clippers at a pet store and say they're for your dog. One advantage I find is the pleasure found in simply sitting in an easy chair.
Mid 40s sucks, knees, tinnitus, baldness, extra hair in other places, belly fat next day if i cheat on a meal even once...
You got hit with the bad genes stick
I'm balding, but hair shoots out of my ears and nose. WTH???
Meh I feel like I am in limbo a little bit at 36, but that lovely feeling of "snap, crackle, pop" when I get out of bed reminds me that I am close to 40. Ugh.
Just saw the title haven’t watched yet but this is awesome
Something that I wish I was warned about is going bald. I went bald in my twenties, and I was not mentally prepared for that at all. I always thought men went bald when they're like 55, not in their twenties. I thought wrong.
About preferences: that we don't change them is precisely a sign of old age. For the rest, at then end we die, isn't?
Ear hair, nose hair, eyebrows. Seems the hair on our heads moved. Opening childproof caps and zip lock bags are now more painful then falling off our bike as a kid. Seems our bodies shrink a bit, but the ears continue to grow.
Love your videos:)
Genuine LOL @ the last one.
9:44 but that's not soon enough
I will let you in on a secret, new music mostly sucks so your cool. I just recently got into black metal and the genre is huge and diverse as far as content so I’m actually listening to metal that was released in the 90s but I never knew it back then. Also time seems to go by way faster these days
I knew I was old when I heard Tiffany and Debbie Gibson on the oldies station
Discovering just how much we are at the mercy of entropy I think is part of what is described as "the wisdom of old age." One thing I never expected, as a man, is that I would also be woken up by having a hot flash. What's up with that?
It’s the thing where everywhere I go the first thing is to confirm where the washroom is
Im 41 and my music taste still is the same but I am a lot more open minded to music. Still a huge Green Day Rancid Less Than Jake fan Chris Webby Cypress Hill Beastie Boys etc
The eyesight seems to have gotten worse overnight,and where did this patch of hair come from on my lower back? 48 year old me.
As a 17 year old this is what I look forward to the least…
1. Memory degrading
2. Hearing
3. Metabolism
You're only 17 lol you shouldn't be worried about that for another 17 years. Maybe even longer, just gotta have the right diet, work out, take care of yourself, etc.
Yeah unfortunately life goes in the opposite way. In my 20s I was on the top of the world and had the best time of my life. Now in my 50s I wake up saying life sucks! and it’s not getting any easier it’s more complicated complex and depressing.
Old age comes with a new soundtrack. Every physical movement will cause you to groan. Get out of a chair and you will grunt under your breath. Lifting something heavy and you will make noises of straining.
I mainly loved classical music and opera and especially country as a kid with Christmas music from all genres as a minor... Now all but a few country artists I listened to as a youth are either dead and buried or on the tail end of their musical careers being replaced by any no talent bum that thinks they can strum a guitar...
One of those groups is C.W. McCall and the back up band lives on under a different name (Mannheim Steamroller)... With each passing Christmas album past Christmas In the Aire...I've hated too many of their selections to the point where if they released a new one...there'd be a total of zero I liked on the whole album... Johnny Mathis ruined one album by himself and on that one I think I only liked a whole three tracks... The Christmas Song album had only one track I liked...so that's where my fear comes from...diminishing likes on every single album...
I rarely go to movies anymore due to my days as a movie reviewer and I had writer's block thinking of creatively slamming a whole cast and crew of a movie... Had Cats been there during my active period...I would have had a public service message... Please spay and neuter your cats...and actors that can't sing their way out of a paper bag...so they don't repeat what I just witnessed this litter box that filled itself passing off as a musical... Heck these actors would have sounded better BEING spayed and neutered on the screen...
Watch our for the slipped discs in the back... Those could wind up causing major damage later on... I should know...I had a shattered L4 and a hairline fracture of the L5 fusion surgery...one to replace some bad hardware...and three cleansing surgeries on the same wound opening up twice... I hope that's the last of my surgeries... I'm still walking like a man no younger than 95...but I'm 39...
Don't worry, we'll keep you on live suport for the ages, you'll never gonna die and will witness as all craps out, get popcorn !!...
apologies thought I was subbed to this channel too and not just THG. corrected my grievous error.
Mother nature has taken a toll on me. I do have a old man walk. However, however, I'm 64 still a little good looking :)🤣
I know it sounds crazy, but just once - get a pedicure. One of my friends kept recommending it, I finally caved, and I have to say it's a big deal. It only takes about 45min. Then the next great thing is when you tell all your guy friends you had a pedicure, only to find out that like a third of them have been getting them too, but have been too embarrassed to admit it. Just try it once, I predict you won't regret it.
Entropy....embrace it because you can do Nothing to stop it!
Curating good habits.
And not being able to sleep.
Mornings keep getting more difficult
You are seriously the best 🤣
Hair in my ears. Why do I have so much hair in my ears? I cannot handle this amount of hair *in my ears.*
It's the bushy eyebrows that I can't stand (others, not me).