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So as I was getting ready for work today, an idea popped into my head as to a post topic I could write on. This post idea comes at a relatively good time seeing how my birthday was a couple of weeks ago. With gaining another year, I felt like writing a post on signs that you’re getting older. Most of these are from personal experience, so hopefully you’ll find some humor in what I’m writing.

1. You spend more time and money taking care of your home than you do yourself. Since owning a home, I now find myself spending more time and money for my home than I do for myself. When you’re young, you want to spend money on primarily yourself. You don’t have to worry about maintence for your home since your parents always took care of that. However, when you get older and get your own place, you begin to have to spend both time and money to keep things in order. Getting your yard to look nice becomes weekly event that constantly needs attention. You don’t want to be the only neighbor to have brown grass and weeds as high as your knees.

2. A Night out on the town ends at 9 instead of starting at 9. When you’re in college, nothing really starts until after 9PM at night. However, the older you get, the more you find yourself ending your night early so that you can get yourself to sleep. I’ve also found that I also can no longer sleep in, and that I naturally wake up earlier and earlier. On the rare occasion that I do end up staying up past midnight, I find myself really tired and just waiting to go back home to go to sleep.

3. Loud music and noises begin to annoy you. This one I find myself more and more being annoyed with. It begins to really bother me when there’s a loud noise/music going on in the same room that I’m in. When I was younger, this wasn’t such a big deal, however nowadays I just enjoy my peace and quiet.

4. You begin to realize that you’re now older than the sports stars you cheer for. When you’re young, you look up to sports stars because they’re a star! However, when you get older, you begin to realize that “Hey, I’m older than Lebron James and can’t play basketball for the life of me” This is when you get sad and realize that you’re old. Instead of thinking “I’ll be a football star when I’m older” you start thinking, “If my back and knees were better I could do what they do” This can also apply to movie or music stars, take your pick.

5. You realize you have no idea who’s “popular” on the music scene. I was never really big on music. Never having really bought any CDs. Even so, I was still at least current on who was considered “Big” at the time when I was growing up. Nowadays, I’ll turn on the radio and have no idea who’s even singing the song. This one time, while I was watching American Idol, they had Flo Rider on as a singer. Not knowing who he was, I thought his name was pronounced “Florida” only to find out that it was “Flow Rider”… oops

6. It takes longer for your body to recover. When I was younger, I used to play soccer and have no problems playing 3 or 4 games during a weekend. I could run around and not get sore, and not have to worry about any health issues. Now as I’m older, I get sore just trying to pull weeds out of the ground. I also have to watch out how I lift things so as to not hurt my back. Maybe I should try to get back into shape…

7. You keep saying “When I was younger…” In working with a youth group of kids ranging from 12-18, I find myself constantly saying phrases that reference how old I am now. I’ll tell them about how things used to be when I was younger, or how I used to do things when I was younger. The phrase just comes out more and more, and I’m only 27! You definitely know you’re old when you start telling others about what you were doing when you were younger.

Well, here are 7 signs that you’re getting old! I find myself going through all of these. While I know I’m not that old yet, I’ve already passed the quarter century mark. I’ll definitely know I’m old when I find myself having spent more years out of school than in school. I still have a few more years before that becomes true.