What surprised you most about growing older?
Posted May 3, 2017, 9:15 AM UTC
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That you never stop feeling like you did when you were around 7 years old. I guess that is the age when most people become self aware and that is your true self. That and that I stopped caring what other people think. What a relief.
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It's 17 for me.
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Happy Birthday
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About the same for me.
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Cocaine is a lot more common than I thought
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And the people who use in the most are the ones you didn't expect to
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But the funny part is the people you thought do coke also do coke.
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My eyes getting worse from being brilliant, and it being because I spend so long starting at screens.
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Stop being so damn brilliant then!
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The speed. Life just seems to accelerate all the time.
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It's a percentage thing. If you are 5, 1 year is 20% of your life, so it has huge significance. But when you are 50 a year is only 2% of your life, so it has very little significance.
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It doesnt really get any better, its not much different, its just more of the same.
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I dunno, mid 30s is pretty awesome.
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yeah that was good.
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The amount of people who end up losing contact with you
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That my thoughts haven't reall changed much
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I didn't think I would like it, but I really do.
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It is nowhere near as fun as I thought it would be.
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The pain was a surprise
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'Wear and tear' aside, if you are in reasonably good health it can be awesome, (as the youngn say) !
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aches and pains...now routine.