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Today 30 is still young, and 40 isn't middle age any longer. Middle age doesn't really start till you're 50.
You're still a kid, get over it.
I am 27. I feel older though. I have two kids. Stable family. Don't party much. I think I am bit boring but in a good way. My favorite thing is my family. I don't get people who are scared of hitting 30. Perhaps it is more for people who haven't settled down yet. The clock is ticking. For me I am not bothered. > I can party until 10am and drink all night without getting a hangover (I would puke all the time when I wa…
27 with kids! 2x! Man...
I am 27. I feel older though. I have two kids. Stable family. Don't party much. I think I am bit boring but in a good way. My favorite thing is my family. I don't get people who are scared of hitting 30. Perhaps it is more for people who haven't settled down yet. The clock is ticking. For me I am not bothered. > I can party until 10am and drink all night without getting a hangover (I would puke all the time when I wa…
Yeah I felt the same at 27. But then... you don't hit 30, 30 hits you. I'm not kidding.
I have a friend who's two years older than me. We were roommates in college and I remember him telling me about how your body starts falling apart once you hit 20. Then "once you hit the real world and have to get a real job that college metabolism of yours will shut down and you'll pack on the pounds like everybody else." Then "just wait 'til you're 25 like me and your hair starts falling out". Then "When 30 hits an…
You're welcome.
There was a series of AskMeFi threads that were much more interesting than either the post or the comments here:
Op does not have kids yet.
Now you're making assumptions.
Our society/culture has a very narrow definition of youth: if you are older than 25, you are "getting old" or "past your prime" in the eyes of the people that are close to your age. Hell, if you are between 21 and 25 those that are three years younger than you might very well refer to you as "old". It's as if as soon as you can't chow down chocolate icecream for breakfast every day without feeling lethargic and gaining weight, or drink a bottle of vodka one night and get up the next day and run a half marathon you're "getting old".
It's like you have a hot second from the time you are legally your own person and can make your own decisions until suddenly you are "getting old" and you are supposed to spend the rest of your life regretting all the things you didn't do "in your youth" because you are 27 and your brow is slightly furrowed... what the hell?
(But I'm in my mid twenties myself so I don't know how it is to turn 30, 40... take what I say with a grain of salt)
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:( My sympathies dude. I prescribe more of what you like and less of what you hate, if that's possible. I'm 41 too, and that's what works for me. That and trying not to think about it
turning 40 sooner or later as well, for me a wakeup call did change a lot. changed job, workout again, walking whenever i can, avoiding sugar, being realistic about death, losing fears, etc.. sometimes i wonder, though, where the last ten years went... so, good luck everyone.