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God damn you're old, I'm class of 2000 and I'm only 41.

Represent!

We're the reason we're called millennials in the first place. Graduating class of the new millennium!

So you're that Y2K everyone was afraid of?

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Is that like graduation from high school at 18yo, for the non-americans in the audience?

Ditto.

If you ever re-watch Milo and Otis, you'll be traumatized at how many puppies or kittens they probably went through.

I love the idea that my reality keeps others up at night. Also class of 2000.

Critical hit.

In a few years you'll think of how young you were when this 18 year old told you you could be their dad instead of grandpa like you'll be told in those few years.

Time scares me. I fear it.

Having. A babyface is kinda weird. 20 year olds talk to me like i had any idea what they are talking about. I'm always like: haha yeah no, i'm actually old.
The other day i was standing in line and there was a family behind me. The mom did some Smalltalk with me and just for the fact that they had kids, i talked to her like i would to an old person. Like she was giving me some weird advice for some reason. Then i put one and one together and realised that they had a child when they were 20 and he was now 10-ish and they are actually 10 years younger than me.

Kid wasn't even born when 9/11 happened.

our parents felt the same thing

Your dad simultaneously saw you as the baby who slept securely in his arms, the child he saw through junior school, the teen who he tried to help steer past his own mistakes and the adult he wistfully spoke of with pride

Imagine how good he must feel to know that you remember him this way.

Condolences for your dad. 42 here, my dad is showing his age majorly now.

Looking back I know I lived every single hour but huge leaps of time are just gone. Like, entire jobs I worked for years I have maybe a half dozen memories. On top of that our work product is gone, the company is gone, the building is gone, the entire industry is changed... it's like it was all a dream. I definitely understand the old man looking at a city and saying, "this was all orchards". I used to think it was a wistful phrase, but it's also an expression of disbelief. When we were embedded it all seemed so important. But it all shuffled off with zero fanfare. It really changes how you experience life, and that's how I "feel old".

I lost my last grandparent this Easter. She was much younger then my other grandparents. The 3 of them would be over 120 years old now. I'm a millenial, I'm 40.

Yes. And our back tells us sometimes.

Turning 43 this year if you take the common 1981 as the cut-off.

Don't forget how we killed like fucking everything.

A badge I wear with pride.

It's not really a shocker when you get reminded every year.

Aka Xennials