Getting Older

[eaglest]

It has finally struck me.

My work went out to lunch yesterday, and during that time a lot of them were talking about normal people adulting stuff that I sort of tune out, but politely nod to here and there (catch me in a conversation about Sci-Fi, Germany, art, trains, and I am totally into it). One of my coworkers said something along the lines of

"I'm 38....I don't know if I want to do that now." 

I remember thinking to myself, gosh, when I turn that age, I hope I'm not a total adult! I'm not ready yet! Then I froze. 

I am 37 years old.

Thirty-fucking-seven.

When she said 38, it felt like a decade from now.

Once I hit 30, I've never felt my actual age and have always had the pleasure of working with Millennials and Baby Boomers (working Baby Boomers are nice people, btw. They tend to relive their younger years). Why I never worked with vast sums of Generation X, aside from my military days when we were all in our early 20s, I don't know. It's like as soon as they hit 25, they all disappeared. 

My current job is full of Generation X (they are wonderful people; they just love normal adulting stuff), so now my age and the fact that I'm getting older is in my face. I can't even relate to current fashion anymore. I'm sorry, but spandex and bland croptops are ugly. 

I don't know the point of this post, to be honest. I guess it's finally hit me that I am 37, not 25. 

Fellow Generation Xers, how do you feel?

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[mr_picard]

34-year-old here. I feel either like 80 or 20, but never like 34. I have extreme nostalgia (I cling to my Game Boy, my SNES, my teenage days, 90s music, etc) and at the same time I'm like "kids these days, get off my lawn". I don't even know. I think of my school days and am like "ah, that was like 5 years ago" and then reality hits me and tells me it was more like TWENTY years ago.

I can absolutely relate to not being able to relate to others my age, though. They all have kids and families of their own and do adult stuff and here I am with my part time job in IT and my Playstation 4 and my love for a fictional character. It's like they all grew up at some point while I did not.