I somehow developed this “ability” where objects in close physical proximity to me would age rapidly and/or combust. This was particularly unfortunate when it happened to friends and family. No one seemed to know how or why this happened. With a lot of effort, I got the affect partially under control; I could suppress it for a while, but a backlog built up, so that when I stopped suppressing it things near me were affected even more.
With practice at controlling it, I eventually was even able to reverse it, so that items near me grew younger, but this built up even more of a backlog that I had to release later.