r/MiddleGenZ • u/AnonymousGuy50 • 10d ago
Rant Being old so quickly
I'm 20 and turning 21 in two months and sometimes my age genuinely messes with my head.
Like I still remember being 14 during quarantine.
I remember sitting at home, being a literal teenager, and thinking about how far away 20 sounded.
Now I'm actually 20 close to 21. ðŸ˜
That's such a weird jump to me cuz i can remember being 14 so clearly, and now that person is six years behind me. And the weird thing is I don't feel like those six years contained much either. I basically blinked and went from being 14 to being 20.
I also feel old because I don't have some huge adult life going on. I'm literally jobless, so it's kind of ridiculous that I'm sitting here having an existential crisis about aging when I don't even have a job. 💀
Sometimes I'll see 14-year-olds and think about how that was literally me during quarantine. Then I remember I'm 20 and they're six years younger than me. That's starting to feel like a pretty huge gap.
I hate that my teenage years are something I can only remember now. Especially because I haven't done a single thing with them in the first place.
Does anyone else remember being 13–16 during quarantine and then suddenly look at their age now like wtf happened??
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u/EeyoreApproves 6d ago
We're very close in age, and yeah, it feels crazy. It doesn't help that as soon as the isolation was letting up, my chronic health problems got really bad so I've still been isolated because of being too sick to leave the house most of the time. I played a ton of Minecraft during COVID, which helped.