“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread

Despite access to thousands of people’s life experiences, we tend to not really understand something until it happens to us. There is really no proper substitute for just living through something, but the magic of the internet allows us to at least try.
Someone asked “What’s a truth about aging that no one prepared you for?” and netizens shared the surprising examples. So get comfortable as you read through, upvote your favorite stories and be sure to share your own experiences, ideas and thoughts in the comments section below.

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread I’m 61 and sometimes I feel like this world is not for me anymore. I feel almost like an imposter. For example, I can’t find clothes I like that fit correctly, tv is abhorrent, only old music sounds pleasant, shoes are uncomfortable, I don’t recognize most celebrities or famous people in the news or tabloids, and I don’t understand the need for most new and supposedly exciting products.

I’m an educated person, I still work and have an active life. I’m not a recluse. But a little at a time, I feel the world is moving on without me. I finally understand why, in her final years, my mother only watched movies from the 1950s and reminisced about the past more than she talked about the present. Her world was long gone.

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread The world becomes more beautiful and people become less necessary.

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread How much I don’t give a f**k anymore! In a good way.

MotherOfMagpies23 , Helena Lopes / Pexels Report

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread Your body really does just start hurting out of nowhere.

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread You will realize that you hate planning meals and making food every single day. It's boring and to easy to fall into monotony. But you have to make lunch again and then plan for dinner again then make dinner again and what do you want to eat tomorrow so you plan for breakfast tomorrow and get up and make breakfast again and then plan for lunch again.....

I am so tired of planning and making food.

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread Just how horrid menopause is and how little the medical community cares about how much you're suffering.

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread How your mind stays young while your body starts to slow down. You still feel like the same person you’ve always been but suddenly you notice little things changing.

Kremidas:

When I turned 40 I was asked by a younger person what that felt like. I told them I just feel like a 27 year old who has been hanging around and doing stuff for 13 years.

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StrangeOne 2 months ago (edited)

Repetitive movements, over-exertion, pushing your body to it's limits catch up to you in seemingly small ways that end up with big problems, such as physiotherapy and surgeries. It could be wearing the wrong size, wrong fitted shoes for years. Trying to crack your back by twisting around. To an untreated issue you've been holding off forever. Take care of yourself now so you can enjoy a good retirement later.

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keyboardtek 2 months ago

One recommendation: swimming. No joint impact, works every muscle, negates the bad effects of gravity on one's spine, no sweating involved, the best aerobic exercise over all, and fun.

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UncleJohn3000 2 months ago

I hopped on a city bus and a guy immediately jumped up and guided me into his former seat. "How nice," I thought. "I do that when I see someone old and tired looking. ... ... Oh. Ow."

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Lowrider 56 2 months ago

I've been working construction my whole working life. Outside in the blistering heat, freezing cold, pushing my body to its limits. Everything hurts now. I can no longer take the heat,this past summer was the worst I've ever been thru and in the winter Everything hurts even more than normally.

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Teresa Wright 2 months ago

I really get this one!!! In my head I'm 28, my body is 54!

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Papa 2 months ago

I think I'd rather my body slow down than my mind. My mother is surviving from cognitive decline that send to be accelerating. I don't want to do that.

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Janus Preez 2 months ago

Like your teeth starting to fall out

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread Your friends start to die. It's something I never thought about.

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread Doors start closing once you reach a certain age.

Frozboz:

Ageism is real. I just turned 50 and am in a young person's career (software development). I feel how hiring managers look at me when asked to turn my camera on, during an interview that was going very well and suddenly it's "we'll get back to you".

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread Time f*****g flies.

nor_cal_woolgrower:

The days are long but the years fly by.

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#11

“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread How much time you wasted in your life trying to make others like you.

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#12

“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread Time for the hard truth.

One day, and yes it will happen to you, you will see a box... and you won't just throw it away because IT'S A REALLY USEFUL BOX.

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#13

“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread Adults aren't real. At least not in the way they're viewed when you're a kid.

When you're a kid you can't wait to "grow up" and then you do and you're still you, just older. That voice inside your head doesn't change, but what you see in the mirror does. Only now you're just older and saddled with bills and stress and all of life's "surprises".

On top of this, everyone is winging it. Absolutely everyone. Because the idea of order and a civilized society is an illusion. We're all playing by made up rules and making imaginary money and all the rest of it. A one dollar bill costs just as much to print as a hundred dollar bill. Hell, ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR BILLS used to be a thing (not in circulation, but they still represented their face value). Same principle applies.

In short, everyone is just doing whatever until we die.

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#14

I'd just turned 40 and wasn't happy about it when I happened to talk to a couple in their 80s. Oh 40 they said, eyes misting up. What I wouldn't give to be 40 again. Made me feel better and now that I'm 60 I'm beginning to see their point of view.

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#15

“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread You start to realize the older you get that the end is closer than the beginning and you still feel like you have so much more to do.

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread It’s really lonely being an adult. I mean you have friends and co workers etc but it’s just incredibly lonely because you only ever have surface level conversations with most people.

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread The fatigue.

Resistant-Insomnia:

I haven't felt rested in over ten years. Always tired. The moment I open my eyes I'm exhausted.

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#18

How much it hurts to fall.

I fell off the roof of a house as a kid and just got up and walked away.

Now I'm careful when stepping off of a tall curb...

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#19

“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread Hair grows where you don't want it and falls out where you wanted it.

MntEverest77 , Ghassan Alkhatib / Pexels Report

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#20

“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread Things that seemed so important when you were younger, really are not important.

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#21

“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread No one prepared me for how much energy and time it takes to maintain everything—like health, relationships, and just staying organized. It’s way more work than I expected!

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread It will hit you unexpectedly, you think you're still young but your body just won't cooperate and will show some signs.

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread It's not just you who is getting old.

Your parents are getting even older.

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread Remember when you were younger and you'd ask your Dad: "What's wrong?" And he'd say: "Idk, I must've slept funny."

That's you now.

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread The point where you start evaluating friendships and find that most friendships are merely transactional. I've dropped a lot of "friends".

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Waking up at least twice a night to pee.

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Your face looks older than your body, your soul feels younger than your mind ...

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#28

That it seems to happen overnight.
I was young the day before yesterday.
I'm turning 60 in two months.
WTF.

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#29

“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread When you get a flashback of a good memory and you realize that was over 10 years ago.

Bonschenverwerter:

I saw a former classmate the other day. Did the maths and realized I hadn't seen them in about 20 years. I'm only 35.

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#30

Healthy living is just one part of living longer. Genetics and environmental influences are the two other puzzle pieces.

Healthy living only gets you so far. The last three funerals I went to were for people in really amazing shape before their illness/death. Cancer, cancer, heart attack.

Absolutely, do all you can, but denial of mortality isn't helpful as you age.

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#31

I started to appreciate lonelines and peace. Priceless..

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#32

Household appliances start getting really exciting. Had a vacuum delivered a couple of months ago, it arrived while we had dinner guests and everyone was super excited lol.

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#33

I'm middle aged and a funny thing is the way younger people get self-conscious or apologize when there is no need. For example, they will apologize for swearing around me or mentioning something like (gasp) drinking, or d***s, or sleeping around. I think it's funny. Why would being on earth longer make me easier to scandalize? I've seen and done things that would shock them, lol, but to them I'm a very proper looking classy older lady.

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“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread If you choose not to have kids, you may end up losing your friends. I turn 40 this year, and my partner and I don't see many folks these days. Parents like to hang out with other parents. And I don't have a grudge, I totally see the value for playdates, etc. But it can be a little lonely.

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Everybody thinks you're respectable if you keep a rose garden and a vegetable garden...

...no matter what you used to do at Burning Man.

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What do you think ?

Aubrie Allen 2 months ago

It's sad. Your folks get old and can pass at any moment. My dad passed suddenly 3 days ago. It's hard.

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Seonag Udell 2 months ago

Sorry for your loss

Lame Llama 2 months ago

I'm so sorry for your loss.

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Around the time I was writing my condolences to you, my father passed away. He died this morning in his sleep

Multa Nocte 2 months ago

Sorry for your loss, Aubrie.

You spend your entire life fighting against the war culture, championing social causes, championing women's rights, championing gender rights, championing environmental causes, and then you come to Bored Panda and have people call you a Boomer in an ugly way.

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Lawrence 2 months ago

Keep fighting the good fights. And don't give energy to ugliness spewed by internet randos.

Gregory Hansen 2 months ago

The secret to youth is NOT letting that number define you. I'll be 60 next month. I have a skateboard, I listen to Slayer loud as hell. The first steps ARE like Forrest Gump with the leg braces on, but then I can still fly pretty good. Just do what you do and stop worrying about the number. It's NOT who you are. My kids tell people I'm the real Peter Pan. The most difficult part is caring. I put on weight, I need to drop it off, but mehhh, whatever - is a the beginning of the downturn. If you can avoid that procrastination, keep your mind and body healthy and just live your life, you'll be fine

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Batwench Premium 2 months ago

One thing I have learnt, on a very positive note, is that you really do run out of f*cks to give. It is very liberating.

JudithW 2 months ago

When you realize you’ve lived longer than your mother and/or father did.

geezeronthehill 2 months ago

A lifetime supply of some random item doesn't have to take as much space as it used to.

Tamra 2 months ago

I'm having a real problem with aging. I mean, all of it, it's just so overwhelming. I know I can't change it, it happens to us all, but it often makes me feel anxious and afraid. Don't really know where I was going with all that, but it's the first time I've acknowledged it out loud, so to speak.

FluffButt Central 2 months ago

My HS 40th reunion is in a month. In my head, we are all still girls. It went so fast.

marianne eliza 2 months ago

A modern lifetime in the USA told by the cars we drive. 16=almost anything. 21=fast, sporty, eye catching. 30=minivan. 50=fast, sporty eye-catching. 60=back to minivan to haul around your elderly parents and their wheelchairs/walkers to doctor appointments and what not. Right now, I don't know what comes next. I just know that cars low to the ground are out. My knees.

Harry Logan 2 months ago

From what I read; all is true. Death is part of living. If one lives long enough, something is going to get you. I never thought about my body dying from within. My wife lost interest in me after 52 years (and 2 retirements) of marriage. Use it or lose it is very true. I have survived a heart attack, lung cancer, and 3 strokes in the last 2 years. Don't expect this old man to learn how to work the ball and chain (mobile phone). Death will be a new adventure.

“It Will Happen To You”: 35 Unexpected Parts Of Aging, As Shared In This Viral Thread

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