oldfags when did you hit the wall? Was it a gradual thing or did you just one day realise you looked old

>>81670589 (OP)
28 yo person here, it was gradual

I get surprised when I look in the mirror and some old cunt looks back at me

28yo. I remember looking at myself when I was 23 and seeing all the aging marks and such. It was brutal. I now look like I'm 35

>>81670589 (OP)
I'm gonna say like 33, got some gray hairs and don't really look young anymore. I used to be able to pass as early 20s and now I can't. I also have more aches and pains.

>>81670589 (OP)
i'm confused actually

i'm 27
when i walk with my dad, folks would ask if we're brothers
when i walk with my mom, folks would ask if we're married
BUT
when i talk to guys/girls, they all say the same thing - that i look younger than my supposed age, most assumed i was in my early 20's

It's a long slow decline. Glory days I guess we're around 25-28? It's not like it was ever my looks that pulled weight though, that's just when I had the most unrealized potential and was working the hardest. I was never as unhappy as I was from 13-25. Women have usually made my life worse and not better. As much as it's a meme I think the lack of teen love really fucked me up, I am a romantic at heart and reformed party girls alienate me. It was over at 12 in one sense, and in another sense it's never really over. But I will never ascend to normie happiness. I need to plunge deeper to find any way out. My life will not be a cute family and wife and happy cozy home. I need to find some other way to give myself meaning and purpose. It's been on my mind a lot lately.