I think Mother Nature purposely designed that our near vision decreases just as face wrinkles appear. Thus we see a soft filter version of ourselves in the mirror which is kind of nice. 
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My husband was diagnosed with shingles when he was 40, the same day our 9-week-old baby was hospitalized for RSV. We got the first vaccine, then the second better one, as soon as they came out.
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I was probably also in my 40’s when I got shingles. It is a lousy disease, and in my case might have been triggered by multiple long trips back to back and the resulting jet lag. I definitely recommend the shingles vaccine for anyone who might have gotten chicken pox as a child.
My case of chicken pox as a child was very, very mild. I barely knew that I had it, and probably would have not even noticed it if I did not have two siblings with chicken pox at the same time. Shingles in comparison can be way worse, but I don’t see it as a sign of “getting old”.
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I think my husband’s case of shingles was due to stress - he’d been unexpectedly laid off four days before our middle child was born and hadn’t found work nine weeks later. I had gone back to work sooner than I wanted to after our son’s birth to help make ends meet. We also had a two-year-old at the time. So much stress!
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It is awful! I have had it twice. Very painful.
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I had shingles in my 30s, but it was just a slightly itchy rash.
Some relatives did get it at various ages and had initial misdiagnosis before the rash revealed that it was shingles.
I did get the Shingrix vaccine later.
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You know you’re getting old when people younger than you look old.
I was talking to an old lady in the store the other day and she disclosed she was born a year after me. Lucky me, my wife is about the same age as she is, but looks a good 15 years younger.
The blue hair didn’t help.
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This always freaks me out. I worked with a woman that was the same age as my Mom. My Mom looks great for her age but this lady looked about 20 years older (rough life is my thought).
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This may have been mentioned previously…
When you are filling out a form on your phone and you have to scroll down to the year you were born…and scroll, and scroll, and scroll…!
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LOL - when I feel that way, it makes me glad that my Dad (1927) is not doing any online forms like that.
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When your co workers are younger than your children
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when you know the latest music /fashion/ lingo only because your children told you about it.
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when your children talk to each other about you the way you talk to your siblings about your mom.
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You go to book tickets to hear Judy Collins and you realize she is 85 years old!!!
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You are driving past a music venue advertising an upcoming show by Steve Miller and then see that it says “sponsored by AARP”.
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You know the right question in Jeopardy when none of the contestants do because they’re too young.
Last night, they didn’t know Hall and Oates!
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When the musicians that helped define an era are dropping like flies. The last surviving member of the Moody Blues just died!
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We moved here in 2015 and went to see Judy Collins at the county fair - on the Senior Stage!
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You know you’re getting old when this makes you sad but also happy:
Original
Extended from Days of Future Past
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Wow, how many times did I listen to that album. Especially loved Tuesday Afternoon.
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I believe Hall and Oates had such a falling out that they both have restraining orders on each other!