Title text:
“Want to feel old?” “Yes.”
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3172/
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For those who may not know, Randall Munroe is the author of XKCD.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Munroe :
In October 2010, Munroe’s fiancée was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer; there had been no prior family history.[51][52] The emotional effect of her illness was referenced in the comic panel “Emotion”, published 18 months later in April 2012.[53] In September 2011, he announced that they had married.[54] In November 2012, Munroe published a comic entitled “Two Years”, reflecting on their relationship since his wife’s breast cancer diagnosis.[55] He revisited the subject in December 2017 with a comic entitled “Seven Years”[56], in November 2020 in a comic entitled “Ten Years”[57], and again in November 2025 in a comic entitled “Fifteen Years”.[58]
I’ve been a fan of xkcd for almost 15 years myself. Randall seems like such a genuinely great person and I cry with the happies a little bit every time there’s another comic on how long they’ve had together after the diagnosis.
I’m not crying, you’re crying! Shut up!
I remember the first one. I cried. I cry at every one of these.
I still remember the first one
Glad to hear everything is fine
I used to be afraid of getting old, but I like this perspective. It’s not something to look forward to, but something to be proud of.
Heartbreaking.
And imagine that we could reverse aging, so even those joints would not hurt. With more investments into biogerontology we could do that. Please, consider signing up the #DublinLongevityDeclaration to request more funds to such research 👇 https://dublinlongevitydeclaration.org/
