Time marches on

[finneco]

I found a gray hair while giving myself yet another haircut this morning and did a little cheer. (If this addiction to scissors doesn't stop, I'll be bald in a few months.) My mother started turning gray when she was 16, so 25 doesn't seem like a bad time to notice a beginning. I have a theory that I was always meant to be middle aged, or older,

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[metawidget]

Grey hairs and hearing getting a bit worse, that's my venerability profile :)

You've got glasses, I think you're ahead. Are you TA-ing anywhere? There's somewhere you can leverage your venerability...

[finneco]

sadly no, though I have been tutoring in music. Of course, the veneration is messed up when your student is older by at least a factor of 2.

[timetravel]

i keep finding gray hairs; it's a bit depressing at 24! (but, like you said, my dad started graying at 12 so this is an improvement over that at least!)

[finneco]

Celebrate it! you have so much live cred it is popping up around your ears!

[platypus_herder]

Whippersnappers.

My mother has been gleefully yanking white hairs out of my head for over a decade already.

Not that she credits me with any greater sagacity as a result.

[finneco]

That's because she keeps removing them, limiting your accumulation of hard earned life lessons by stunting their establishment in your scalp. I think she is trying to monopolise on the aged insight market by keeping your head "in the dark".