I'm thirty now. I feel better than ever tbh. Happy to have left the 20s bullshit behind.
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ive been old since i was 19
Fun story. I was working at a fiberglass boat factory at 18. The day of my 19th birthday I was leaned over a pan mold (think the floor of the inside of the boat kinda) and stood up to stretch my back because it was killing me. My supervisor joked that you don't get a spine til you're at least 19.
Funny enough he didn't know it was my birthday, just that I was a baby.
Now I'm 32 with a bad knee I feel old every goddamn day.
Actually yes you do.
One day i was young, then the next day i woke up and i was old. You can’t explain that.
I was young and then my knee made a funny sound and then I was old.
I was yound and then i got arrested 18 times. And then i started drinking. And i got old. Then i started surfing and got young again. Now my body is getting fatter and injuries are hobbling my surfing just when i am getting really good. And so again i become old. Maybe i will have a third young act in this life. Most likely not. Goodbye cruel world!
My favorite Madeline Pendleton rant is the one about how “you look so good for your age” is not a compliment. She’s in her late 30’s. She looks good and is almost 40. She does not look 22. You don’t have to be 22 to be attractive. And our culture’s association between young age and attractiveness is creepy af. Or at the very least, the threshold being so low is creepy af.
Creepy and a blueprint for decades of misery. Whole reason I made this post was because I'm tired of seeing people act like they're obsolete the second they hit 30, like they're no longer attractive or able to do new things or take on challenges they couldn't accomplish when they were younger.
Inventing a reality within their own mind where the society of Logan's Run unironically had merit.
Pro-tip: you don't have to be retired to join the AARP. You can join and get the bennies at any age.
til you go gay from being "young" to being "old"
i started turning gray around 19 and that was a long time ago
I think the memes are a consequence of the confusion of the people reaching or nearing thirty. They realize they're no longer 'young' and try to find a new identity by trying to appeal to their peers. But since all their peers are algorithmically suggested all they can think of is 'hello fellow old people how about those knees eh?'
To those younger than you, you're old. To those older than you, you're young.
Its the weirdest shit that hasn't stopped being weird to me since I was a teenager 25 years ago.
The way people talk about when they turned 30 honestly makes it terrifying to us younger folk, which is pretty weird when you consider that 30 is actually still a pretty young age compared to the 80-90 years that you can get nowadays (and who knows how much is possible by the time we're all seniors).
Thinking about it in terms of being "young" or "old" has always been a pretty toxic concept to me. Everyone matures physically and mentally at different rates in countless different directions throughout their lives. Just think of yourself as an "adult" and don't slap artificial limitations on yourself, because doing so is kind of a tragedy.
And lamenting growing older sucks even more, when you consider that a lot of people don't get the privilege.