{"id":296,"date":"2021-07-12T21:48:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2021-07-12T21:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:48:47","slug":"things-that-have-in-recent-memory-made-me-feel-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/things-that-have-in-recent-memory-made-me-feel-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that have, in recent memory, made me feel old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In no particular order:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Buying a set of canisters intended to reorganize my pantry. On purpose. This was the first tangible object I bought for myself that was not food in&#8230;longer than I really care to think about.<\/li><li>Thinking about my favorite roleplaying campaign I&#8217;ve ever been involved in, and realizing it began 13 years ago.<\/li><li>Having a hard time finding someone to watch Rear Window with me, because it is old.<\/li><li>Having a hard time finding a text-based guide for a game I was playing, and realizing that this is because everyone and their dog is doing things on YouTube now.<\/li><li>Listening to a podcast episode about this year&#8217;s &#8220;summer jams&#8221; and having the disconcerting sensation that a lot of the music wasn&#8217;t <strong>for <\/strong>me (though there was certainly a good bit that I liked!)<\/li><li>Largely not being on social media, and being okay with that.<\/li><li>Sitting down to write here, being fully aware that a substantial portion of the world does not read anything larger than a tweet.<\/li><li>Feeling like fonts with serifs are okay, actually.<\/li><li>A sense of passionate objection to microtransactions in games, especially games one has already purchased.<\/li><li>Simultaneous appreciation for streaming services and discomfort with the idea of never actually owning anything.<\/li><li>Listening to my husband talk about some potential new hires.<\/li><li>Eating some just-barely-cooked vegetables and finding them weirdly delicious.<\/li><li>Gathering for dinner with friends and reflecting that actually everyone was talking about management problems now instead of the sort of work problems I remember from some decades ago.<\/li><li>Being reminded that I should consider doing some estate planning activities.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The funny thing here here is that, as I have said before, no matter how long my body has been active upon this earth, all of the selves I have been are present in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The little girl who made of a rocking-horse Christmas ornament a little adventure all round the tree, only to cringe in shame and clam up when she realized her father was videotaping her is still here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So is the teenager who just didn&#8217;t get why her friends were going on about romantic movies all the time and kept a kind of exchange diary with her then-bestie that probably contained some deeply cringey adventure fiction (but was great for maintaining her sanity.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So is the college student who stayed at the computer labs until they closed, went for chicken strips once a week at a dive-y student bar, and somehow gained a reputation for being the Person Who Knew Things About Books Or Mythology.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am simultaneously all of those people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a way, age is really just a sign that one has accumulated a large number of selves; that one has become many. Some day (hopefully) there will be many of me here indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s funny to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In no particular order: Buying a set of canisters intended to reorganize my pantry. On purpose. This was the first tangible object I bought for myself that was not food in&#8230;longer than I really care to think about. Thinking about my favorite roleplaying campaign I&#8217;ve ever been involved in, and realizing it began 13 years &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/things-that-have-in-recent-memory-made-me-feel-old\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things that have, in recent memory, made me feel old&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}