#26

This but the social bit reversed

#27

Physically - less hair, but more or less the same shape and weight. Fitter now than I ever was in my teens and 20s thanks to cycling

I went through a period in my 20s when I felt a bit adrift and didn’t know who I was - think it was due to early marriage and fatherhood, i kind of put myself aside and the focus was my family.

I’ve gone the other way now - I have a very strong sense of identity. Unfortunately part of my identity also involves some shakey mental health which I think can be traced back directly to my divorce.

I’m still fairly rubbish with money - but I’m earning more so it doesn’t show as much. I would be pretty buggered if I lost my job though.

#28

Yeah, mainly related to big life changes - eg going to university and then moving to London.

Each one made me be less shy and more able to think and act critically/self-critically. Finally growing out of teenage/20s acne slowly chipped away at the reasons I used to hide away and try to be ignored, too.

Politically, I seem to have become more left-wing the older I am and (I think) the better read and informed I have become.

I have also got a bit more podgy around the belly, and slower in general. Plus I’m getting a little bald patch. Might have to shave my head totally soon.

#29

I’m a baller

#30

Less lager, more ale.

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#32

Like Epimer I’ve become more and more left wing.

I also think I’ve got more confident and self-assured. I think generally the older I’ve got the more I realise that tonnes of people are just busking it so I’m not so intimidated. I also care less about what other people think of me. All of this is good, but at the same time, I’ve also become more aware of my own limitations, and my failures to address them, so that’s been discouraging.

I’m much, much fatter too.

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#33

used to drink a lot of cider and now i don’t

#34

Yes

On the downside I’ve become riddled with depression and anxiety issues which have dogged me in the past 5 years or so in particular. But on the upside I’ve become a hell of a lot more understanding and judgemental. I was an arrogant volitle little shit that would say some of the worst things when i was in my late teens/early 20s

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#35

I’m not sure I look like this any more tbh…

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#36

Less introverted, more confident. Also reckon I’ve gotten better looking with each passing year - not sure how long that trend is going to last, mind.

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#37

yeah heres me at school

#39

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#40

Exactly this ^^^

Just sit back and watch the weight drop off.

#41

Still a bellend. Just can’t work out if I’m more of a bellend or less.

#43

Everyone’s honest eventually

#44

I hate the world increasingly as I get older. I try to hide it to strangers though. Mostly.

#46

He’s also got a girl who looks good and he calls her.

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#48

In a lot of ways (coming out, cutting my hair, a little bit more confident, some more friends, moved, speak better Spanish) but I’m essentially the same person.

#49

I had the same. At 14-years-old I could get served in a pub or off licence with no problem. But now everyone thinks I’m younger than I am.

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#50

Ah this is a nice thread.

BUT

I have definitely become much less compassionate and it’s getting me down. I used to feel actual bodily empathy for other people’s suffering and feelings but now I literally have to force myself to feel in a physically way, like in my mind I know something is sad for e.g but I don’t actually FEEL it anymore…

I’m wondering if this corresponds with my increasing use of technology?