These are all things that will make you feel old after 40

Whatever you do, do not send Texto to a Teen Emojis.


You have heard the saying: "You are only as old as you feel." But no matter how your heart is checked, how muchyour skin Look, and how much gray you have, the truth of matter is, in your forties, you probably can not decipher a conversation of text between teens these days and these two glasses of wine strike you much stronger than in your 20th.

Althoughto get old Does any of these things you simply can not avoid, you are not obliged to recall it constantly. Here are 40 things you should never do if you areMore than 40 years And want to stay in a younger head space. And for more things that will prevent you from age gradiently,These are all argot terms that you are too old to use after 40.

1
Sleep on the floor or on a sofa

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Any non-bed surface that you temporarily use as a bed is not going to make your spine. "Oh, it'll be fine," Tell you. "I have already slept on many floors." The word "before" is very important in this sentence. If "before" means "in my 20s", your body over 40 is for a brutal awakening. And you should probably update your look with these20 style tips for people over 40, according to fashion experts.

2
Watching videos of children reacting to old technology

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Watch children try tomake sense of a walk Is both odd and also a weird reminder How far the world has come since you were a child and a thought technology could not get better.

3
Self-like

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The selfies come effortlessly for young people. They instinctively know the most flattering angles and the perfect lighting and how to catch their best. But a 40-year-old child trying to take a selfie still manages to get on strange angles with some extra rides, looking for older years. And if you are looking for this special person, checkThe biggest secret that no one tells you to attend more than 40 years.

4
Wear mom or dad jeans

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The jeans are supposed to be comfortable, but when you reach 40, it is too easy to gravitate to jeans that announce your age just by the way they match. If they are at high waist, merged and cropped at the ankle, you can dress inadvertently in a pair of good faith.SNL-approved Mom-or dad-jeans.

5
Binge-watch the last show of Netflix Hit

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Do you know what it looks like to be on your fifth hour of television and think: "Only six hours more to go?" Of course, you can move to the end of a series, but during a week. You value late gratification and sleep in the Middle Ages, which means binging is not for you. And for more stars that are older than you think, check40 celebrities that you will not believe exceed 40.

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Correct someone's grammar

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Say someone, without solicited, that "it's"you are beautiful, 'Not' Your '' 'is something that only one figure of authority would do. Do not be surprised when they start rolling their eyes and saying, "Maybe, daddy".

7
Try to call someone on the phone

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So much communication these days is done by texts and emails. So, when you ask someone to talk to someone on the phone - or even worse, call them without warning (then leave a long message) -You can remind you that you are the "old person" of your social circle. And if things felt a stale with your partner, checkMore than 40 years? Here's how to spice up your relationship.

8
See your favorite concert artist

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You may be ready to see the musician you grew up loving a little more gray and wrinkled, but the real surprise will be the quality of the public of gray and crumpled people.

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To say things like: "Well, it was not used like that ..."

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Complain that the world does not look like exactly to you remember and that noting that everything was good how it was before young people went and that everything ruined is essentially like saying, "Do you just want to make sure That everyone here knows that I am older and wiser. "And for more useful tips delivered in your inbox,Sign up for our daily newsletter.

10
Become obsessed with how much "like" you have on social media

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Count your "tastes" onFacebook Or Instagram is not worrying about yourself and itself, but there will be a moment when you catch yourself do it in the middle of a day of work, and you will be seized by the existential panic that you realize, " I am a 40-year old year acting as a teenager! "

11
Spend too much time watching a magnifying mirror

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There is nothing that will surprise you pleasantly in this mirror. Just stay with the regular ole mirror behind her.

12
Eat an entire pizza by yourself

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Eating an entire pie in one session - and we are all there, can be a gut-bustster when you are young and reasonable. But at age 40, commit the mistake of eating an entire pizza by yourself can let you feel like you have just swallowing a pillow filled with sauce.

13
Taffy eat

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You liked this as a child, but at your age, Taffy just drive to painful attics and a sticky feeling in the mouth that never seriously,never-S'en go. Two weeks later, you will always think: "Did I drink an Elmer glue group? What's going on there?"

14
Dancing in the aisles of a grocery store because an old healing song plays

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You are lost in your own world, plunged into the nostalgic melody of "boys do not cry" while your body unconsciously reproduces the exact dance, you have perfected to your ball ball junior. Suddenly, you realize that everyone in the grocery store looks at you, with half-smiles and bemmed expressions that seem to say, "Awww, looks at this old adorable man dancing to this old song."

15
Try to get the group together

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Call your old comrades and see if they are more and more a glory shot more than life remembers. You can have the same chemistry you made like young rockers, but you may not have the same stamina. In addition, you will probably need to end your concerts early because everyone works in the morning and that the drummer must lead his four-year-old child to Preschool. Oh, like times have changed! And for more great life tips on 40, here is here40 label errors you are too old to do after 40 years.

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Go to rock festivals

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Festivals like Bonnaroo, Pitchfork and Lollapalooza always sound like great ideas theories. But then you arrive there, and these are all endless lines and porta-potties and beer too expensive. Standing on your feet all day around strangers invading your personal space is the game of a young person.

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Chip

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Four hours ofto sleep or less? It could have been well when you were in your teens or 20 years. But try something like that now, and you will have a brutal reminder that your sleep bank does not look like a current account with the discovery protection. You need a solid eight hours or brain and your body will revolt against you.

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Stretch

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Heats up before a workout is not just something for professional athletes. As an aging of your muscles, they need more preparation for intense exercise. Stretching improves blood flow to your muscles, making them less likely to tear or twist during your workout and opens your blood capillaries, helping your muscles to operate at their best. If you do not deduce at least a few minutes stretching before each workout, your muscles flew and agonizing will punish you for that tomorrow.

19
Googling your symptoms

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As a general rule, googling symptoms are a bad idea. Falling into an anxiety hole of the disease is not going to make you feel better (or younger). If you have disturbing symptoms, consult a doctor. Do not look for evidence on message tips that your days are numbered.

20
Play in the park with toddlers

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Keeping with a front of batch it shiher to through the ambows and tubes, like a spider monkey, is difficult for anyone. But the more you get, the more difficult it becomes. You do not want to sit down and join other parents or grandparents on a park bench, but everything in your thrilling and monitored body begins for that.

21
Tell a "nice being, please rewind" joke

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Unless you live when Blockbuster was the only way to see the latest news from your home's privacy, no one will appreciate a humorous reference to "be kind, please rewind." And when they go to you with clothes expressions, your attempts to explain why this is so funny, which implies a detailed explanation of how the VHS bands worked and what "rewinding" is, you are inevitably going to have the 'impression of explaining old history with cave drawings.

22
WatchingFriends rebroadcast

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It can be fun to reviewThis sensation-good-sitcomFrom six New York friends from the 90s and first autonomous ... until you start to note how much the world has changed since the show first broadcast in 1994. Nobody dresses this way, Or has these haircuts. And most plots would be quite different from these days because everyone would communicate with text. Realizing how much your favorite ACIFOM and your favorite Sitcom can lead to the inevitable conclusion that you must also be old and obsolete.

23
Grow your beard

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If it's been a few years since you've grew up your hair, prepare yourself at some unexpected gray hair - probably aparcel Gray hairs. If your last beard has made you look likeGerard ButlerYou might simply be shocked to discover that your current beard recalls more Gandalf gray.

24
Wearing uncomfortable shoes

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People aged 20 and even 30 years will undergo all kinds of foot abuse in the name of fashion, but these types of sacrifices seem less justifiable more justifiable than you get. Do you really consider how your shoes are ready to submit your heels to medieval torture? (Yeah, we did not think it.)

25
Puppy

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Puppies are cute, but they are also a lot of work. They must be trained at home and gave a lot of exercises, which invariably involve running around a dog park and shouting: "No, no! Rocky, Take it from your mouth now! Bad. Dog." As a young, having a dog can be a challenging character challenge. But at 40 or more, just add another responsibility to an already exhausting calendar. Yes, the harasses are great. Then your puppy starts running and running and running ...

26
Try to use emojis in a text conversation

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There are currently 2,823 differentemojis In high traffic, according to the Unicode standard. And 230 of them were created in 2019. Try to follow what Emojis really mean and how to use it properly is a full-time job. And the only people with this kind of free time are children who live without renting with their parents. Do not risk becoming the old person who sends aEGBINEPLANT EMOJI thinking he talks about aubergines.

27
Watch MTV

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Back to MTV after a long absence, it's like returning to a shopping center that you frequented in your youth. It is especially deserted, with the exception of some teenagers with baggy and too much tattoos that think they are hilarious. That's what MTV is now.

28
Help a friend to move

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Carrying a sofa rising four stair flights because a friend is too cheap to pay movers and it promised to pay you with beer and a pizza looks like a bad idea even when you are young. But the unloading of a U-Haul full of boxes and furniture will ruin all your week in the quarantine of your forties. Your body is no longer designed to transport a mattress to the top of a five-storey walk.

29
Listen to new music

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Some people will always be open to the discovery of new artists and hearing a new music. But most of us reach 40 and our musical tastes stop evolving. We love what we love, and there is nothing wrong with that.

30
Go to a party that starts at 9 o'clock.

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There is no point in lying to you and claiming a 9 m. Start time for a party seems reasonable in any way. Maybe it was when you were younger and all celebration deserves to be frequented would be raging "until dawn. But it's time to deal with facts that 9 m. It looks like More at a good hour to slip into the pajamas and watch Netflix rather than leave the house for the evening.

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WidespreadSaturday Night Live One-Liners from the end of the 70s

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If you think to announce to a crowd "we are two wild guys and crazy" is a sure way to have a big laugh, you can be an unpleasant surprise. And you will not make you much better if you commit yourself in the 80s or '90SNL Comedy territory either. Lines like "you look atmahavelous"or" Makin 'copies "have lost their cultural cache and will only serve to make you feel like afossil.

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Drag

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Spoiler Alert: The clientele of sports bars is usually not average age professionals. They are young guys in the sports jerseys called mutually "Broham" and giving yourself to High-Fives. There is nothing wrong with getting from beer pitchers and shovel in hot wing plates while watching your favorite team, but doing the company of people who are still trying to know what's most of them Maybe is more the crowd for you.

33
Have boozy brunches

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A bloody marie? Sure no problem! A bouquet of mimosas followed by a mule or two mules of Moscow, then shots of Jagermeister for the road? You are going to wake up as you feel like a Gargile sawdust before being trampled by a herd of angry buffaloes.

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Watch the old friends of the school on facebook

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If you have not seen your old high school friends for decades and think you thinkFacebook It's a great way to see what their life looks like today, you may want to reconsider this impulse. They will not be so young as you remember. And the horrible evidence that your old friends of the high school are, in fact, growing, greatly older will lead you to a reality of traumatization even more: it can only say thatyou are beautiful Aging too!

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Read comments

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Rule # 1: Do not do it. The Comments section is where all the negativity on the Internet lives. It will make you sad and confused about why the culture of youth has become so nasty. And then you will turn into one of these grilled older people who sneer in children, assume the worst of them and MauxoirClint Eastwood-Isms like "get out of my lawn!" It is a cynic cycle and despair that you should avoid as the plague.

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Watch YouTube 20 years to play video games

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Wait, so get this right, a guy named "Pewiepie" didmillions Just saving to play video games and making intelligent Alecky comments? It's one thing now? A young age of 40 looking youtube celebrities - likeDantdm WhereCaptain-The is unable to mask their contempt and confusion, especially if it's more than 40 years old know how much "stars"gross in a year.

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Attempt to dance in Dubstep

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Even if you were considered a talented dancer in the day, what dance music in your youth has changed considerably in recent years. You may have impressed the crowd of your niece's wedding with your killer robot movements, but DubStep is an entirely different league.

38
Print your movie or your travel tickets

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We understand the feeling. You just want to be prepared in case your phone dies or you can not find a solid WiFi signal. But be ready for people to mock you accordingly.

39
Have too much information about the weather

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Having a general sense of what the weather will be like today is one thing. Have a time forecast at the time of the changing temperature - including exactly when you need an umbrella and / or a bright jacket - is a behavior that does not happen almost never in people under 30 years. If someone asks you, "What is the temperature outside? "And you are like," Well, it depends. Let me open my three weather apps and I'll see if I can get a consensus, "they will make assumptions about your age.

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Go to Amadou

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Remember that this scene inStars wars Where Obi-Wan Kenobi uses a Jedi Spirit Tour on Storm Troops and says, "These are not the droids you are looking for?" Yes, think of this quote at any time that you are even tempted to check the amadou. This is not the app for you. Instead, tryone of those.


Categories: Smarter Living
Tags: aging / Over 40
By: bel-banta
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