When people begin a comment with, "The older I get," I prepare to flee. If they really start getting into whatever they were about to say, then I can relax and sit back, confident the conversation will not circle back to the subject of age, as it started. The subject will become an end in itself, especially since the opening comment is superfluous and even pointless.
Why not start with, "I now realize" or, "Here's something I was never aware of until the last few years." OR why not just make the comment without any preface? How is it relevant? Does anyone really think others care when a thought originated? If a five-year-old said, "The older I get, the more I realize pooping in the toilet is much more sanitary," would it surprise anyone to know the child made this observation now rather than while in diapers? Now if an infant said that it would be relevant, but more than that it would be shocking as infants generally don't say words in general.
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