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How to Tell You’re Old

Posted on 2009 under Musings

I know that aging is a part of life and that we all go through it, but it always takes a small inconsequential moment to make you realize just how far away from your twenties you are. It never really hit me till this week. I was watching CNN Headline News and saw a story about the house from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (the one where the car goes out the second story window) is being sold, and the announcer called the film a classic. A classic? No, a classic film is Casablanca or The Searchers. Ferris Bueller is only about twenty-four years old……which technically would put it in classic territory. It’s depressing when you realize the things you enjoyed in college are new considered to be so old they are classic. What’s even more depressing, I’m listening to the local oldies station because they now play Robert Plant and Bruce Springsteen. I know I”m not hip and with it anymore (to be honest I never really was) but I never really felt like I had been passed by till now. Is this what a mid-life crisis feels like? If so I’m not about to go out and find a woman half my age to prove I still got it, my wife would kill me.

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Neal said

June 1 2009 @ 9:11 am

I remember as a kid in the early 70s watching Humphrey Bogart movies from the late 40s and thinking they were old classics even though they were no older back then than “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is today. I think so much changed during the 50s and 60s, that our parents’ world seemed much farther away from us than the 80s seem to us now. I know the fact that we lived through the 80s makes a difference, but I still don’t think the 80s look all that drastically different from today; at least not in the same way that the 40s looked compared to the 70s.
joe said

June 14 2009 @ 4:28 pm

fab movie though rape scene totally unessesary