For me, I remember I was probably about 23 years old. I was picking some things up at the grocery store. I went to the cashier to check out. Cashier was likely in her teenage years, probably in high school. She looks at my hoodie and goes “Oh, Anderson (where I went to highschool)… cool! Did you used to go to school there… do you work there…or?” And I paused for a second and was like “oh…yeah… I used to go to school there.” Two things hit me at once. 1. I realized… I guess it is a bit odd to be wearing around my high school sport hoodie at age 23. To me, it was just one of my jackets. It’s not that I was trying to pretend I was in highschool or something. I guess it was sheer laziness in not updating my wardrobe 😂. And 2. Implicit in the cashier’s line of questioning she was basically saying “you definitely don’t look like a high school student”. And again, it’s not that I consciously thought of myself as looking like a high school student. I just thought of myself as broadly a young person, but it was the first moment where an even younger person let me know (implicitly) that they see me as outside their strata of youth. What moment do you remember having that reminded you that you aren’t as young as you once were? submitted by /u/Jaaacksonnn
Originally posted by u/Jaaacksonnn on r/AskMen