Mid 20s on the decline

I'm 24 years old. For a while now I have felt like I am no longer able to do the things I used to be able to do. I have slowly gotten worse at everything I used to be good at. I go on my Xbox and I'm nowhere near as good at that as I used to be. I play the piano and it takes me a lot longer to learn than it used to. Im not as strong or agile as I used to be. I don't last as long in bed with my girlfriend as I did when I was around 20. My reactions I feel have gotten slower. My learning curve for everything has gotten slower I don't pick things up mentally as quickly as I used to. I feel like these things should occur in my 40s to 50s. Not now in my mid 20s. Has this occurred to anybody else or do I have a problem? Is this normal?

Yes it's normal 6
No it's not normal at such a young age 12
You may have a problem 6
I experienced the same 5
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  • SkullsNRoses

    Perhaps you are not as fast a learner at piano as you have less time to practice it than you used to? Are you able to excercise to the same extent that you were in your teens? I feel like this probably isn’t you breaking down as a person but your lifestyle changing.

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  • howaminotmyself

    hahahaha....no worries kid, you will adjust by the time you enter your thirties and then a whole new set of realities will hit you in your 40's. I imagine this cycle repeats itself every decade. I guess the bigger question is how much time has passed since you regularly did the things you feel are declining. Do you play piano every day? Are you working your body to be agile every day? If you don't keep exercising your body and brain it will naturally decline.

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  • LloydAsher

    This is why learning a language becomes harder as you age. At the age of 10 you are the apex of learning new things. Of course you spend that time learning the fundamentals of everything from then on through highschool. You are simply losing the quick ability to learn. That's not a problem If you are in a field that is your career or you have a intrest into something else. All the auxiliary learning is starting to fade that's it.

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  • Tealights

    Change like that should be so gradual that you hardly notice. Please go visit a doctor.

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  • Protagoras

    Lol, 24... wouldn't worry about your age dude. Are you drinking/smoking a lot? Are you exercising enough? Eating healthy? Getting enough sleep? Is your mental health okay? Those are things I would ask myself first before feeling "old" at 24...

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  • Doesnormalmatter

    You might be overthinking it, but it also does sound like it is not a common thing.

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  • leggs91200

    Probably just adjusting to being in the adult world where things basically suck.
    Most of life is drudgery. You are either working or someone is on your ass about getting a full time job and doing all those adult things.
    I always said that sometime between age 18 and maybe 22 is when we get the reality slap. That slap is when we finally figure out we are no longer a kid and are adults. It kind of hits hard and sudden. It doesn't happen the day we graduate high school or turn 18, but soon after.

    So unless you have started using drugs or alcohol on a regular basis, it is just growing up. It is hard to enjoy life or have as much fun doing anything when that reality hits.

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  • raisinbran

    You're gonna die soon, it's a brain aneurysm.

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    • leggs91200

      Yeah that's probably it exactly.

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  • TheBlindInquisitor

    I'm 25 and I feel the same as I did when I was 19. But everyone functions/ages differently maybe it's your diet maybe it's something that is stressing you it could be a long list of things.

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  • McBean

    You are becoming a vegetable. Get out of your basement and play with the big dogs.

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  • brutus

    Do u have any diseases? Do u do any drugs or take any meds?

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  • perfectxsilence

    Lol 24 and thinking you're 70.. damn if this is for real, you might have a neurological condition because what you say isn't normal.

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    • TheBlindInquisitor

      I thought the same thing.

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