I used to think that age equated to percentage of life lived, thus I thought that most people live to close around 100.
But it also made me think that people only get old when they’re like 80.

I mean like actually “old”. The “old” adults were referring to. At that age I considered those 14/15 year old 9th graders old, just a bit different “old”.

  • Golfnbrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    When I was in grade school in the 60s, we had a math problem… “how old will you be in the year 2000?” I calculated 42 and thought “OMG, I’ll be nearly dead by then”…

      • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I was pretty young in the 60’s but I always think that I’d going back to that time. Even if I could bring a laptop with me, I could use it to compile local applications but can’t use it for any communications.