Why Pride & Prejudice Makes Me Feel Old
Added 2024-12-06 10:28:38 +0000 UTCOH, MR. BENNET! (sobs dramatically)
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Middle age is when you've been in your job longer than your co-worker have been alive. Old age is when you've been in the job longer than their parents have been alive. I'm approaching that goal.
Fenrir Wolfganger
2024-12-06 21:47:06 +0000 UTCThat's why Daleks travel in their casings unlike stupid humans.
Fenrir Wolfganger
2024-12-06 21:44:05 +0000 UTCheh, at 45 I'll thank my male privilege that continuing to act like a preteen most of the time isn't entirely out of the the expected range of behavior.
Brice Moss
2024-12-06 20:00:55 +0000 UTCCongratulations on surviving long enough to be parental age! In their day that was not guaranteed, and you stood a much higher chance of dying in childbirth if you became a parent.
Allan West
2024-12-06 18:17:23 +0000 UTCWhen I was in my 30s I was talking to my mom and learned that my grandmother (her mom) was born when my great grandmother was only 16. She had been married for several years at that point. And the idea that in my mid 30s I could theoretically have had a college aged child if that culture had continued was pretty upsetting. By comparison sliding into middle age does make me wish I’d had kids a little earlier but mostly I’m thankful that I had an adult life before I became a parent.
Eva Schiffer
2024-12-06 16:23:40 +0000 UTCThis sounds like something that Caroline already covered in the first episode of the shorts tho 😁
Jesse Thompson
2024-12-06 13:28:35 +0000 UTCOw. Now I feel old too. Thanks for sharing? (I will console myself with the thought that personality will stay closer to the [older] Bennet sisters than Mrs. Bennet. Or so I hope.)
Cassandra
2024-12-06 13:25:18 +0000 UTCThe first time I started thinking that my father was getting old was when I got married. Dad was 55 at the time. When I reached that milestone (10+ years ago), was the first time I started thinking that I was getting old. Dad lived another 40 years after our marriage.
Mark Hammer
2024-12-06 13:23:08 +0000 UTCYes, I was thinking about ingenue roles a few days ago, and remembering a Ewan McGregor interview where he realized he was being offered father roles instead of romantic leads! It's a sobering thought when, on the inside, we all tend to feel like we are at our optimal age, whatever that may be.
Ann Brookens
2024-12-06 13:09:36 +0000 UTCWait until you hit the half-century mark! (Actually, not so bad. My hair's turning a lovely silver and thanks to Dad's genes and no great liking for the sun, my skin's still in good shape. It's just my joints telling me I'm no spring chicken.)
Aimee King
2024-12-06 10:53:32 +0000 UTCWait until you're older than Danny Glover when he started being "too old for this $#!t" [41] or older than Patrick Stewart when he started playing Jean-Luc Picard for S01 of TNG [46] or older than Methuselah. Daleks can live a long time, and we'd feel it in our knees, if we had knees.
Ekij
2024-12-06 10:37:28 +0000 UTC
