I used to think that age equated to percentage of life lived, thus I thought that most people live to close around 100.
But it also made me think that people only get old when they’re like 80.

I mean like actually “old”. The “old” adults were referring to. At that age I considered those 14/15 year old 9th graders old, just a bit different “old”.

  • Hikermick@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Years ago my dad and I were working on something and he stood up after having been kneeling on the ground. He made a series of moans and grunts on the way up and I asked “Dad how old are you?”. “Thirty” he said. After that I thought life was over after thirty. Boy, was I wrong. Also I’ve been making the same groans when I stand up for the past twenty years regardless if something hurts or not