When you get older: a list of unpleasant things When I was a child I wish I could be older, it's always like this: you want something that you don't have and when you get it, you are not so happy as you thought. This could happen when you grow up. I thought being older could mean: doing more things, being more independent, being wiser, happily engaged (not to my cat) and a lot of exciting things! Well, surprise. It's not always like that. A list of unpleasant things about getting older (just my experience, I hope your things are going better): 1. The first thing you look at in a guy is if he has a wedding ring (just because you can't check his criminal report) because, as we said, the best have already been taken; 2. You need to be careful about what you eat: fat loves your body as you love chocolate; 3. and so, you have to do exercise if you don't want to have problem with your breath every time you take a step (remember the song “every breath you take”? could have been sung by a doctor in this case); 4. You stop smiling properly because of bags under your eyes; 5. your mantra for the weekend is “Too many things to do, too little money in my pockets”. 6. You have to relation with other people all the time; 7 you are going to lose your memory soon 8. What did you say? 9. Your sight and its stupid jokes: a tree that is dancing because of the wind could be a happy woman with a fancy dress who is waving at you (when you don't have your glasses on because you broke them and you tried to fix the situation with glue); 10. You start doing boring things but the big problem is that you think there are funny! 11. Your humour could change and your trend topic could be random complaints and work (or both in the same sentence), ; 12. You keep making bad decisions (just look at the number 9 of this list..); 13. science says we are made up of 70% water, my mind says “you are made of 70% anxiety and 30% pizza”. 14. too many pressure from society and your family: when you are a child, you have just to eat vegetables, not go to bed late and do your homework; when you grow up, society wants you to have a permanent job if you want your own house (so a loan agreement), pay bills and get married with children. So, at the end, being older is not so exciting as I thought. I remember when I complained about school, my parents always told me "you will see when you grow up". They were so right! The only advice I can give to myself and other people is, like a picture I saw on Facebook, "Don't grow up, it's a trap".