On feeling old
Getting old is seeing other people discover as new what is, for you, already a distant memory.
Just today:
- Pseudosingleton (re)discovered that your boss is an asshole and that text is not supposed to be a conversational medium in Stop anthropomorphizing the machine
- Beatrice (beautiful name) (re)discovered the music album is the way to experience music in the music album can help combat AI
Iām sure they knew it already too, this is no shade on them, but for me the whole (re)discovery is in itself a distant memory, it first makes me chuckle reading about it again and then makes me look out in the distance, feeling my slight smile slowly vanishing from my face and set into a serious case of āresting bitch faceā.
That, THAT, is what feeling old itās like, sometimes.