I’m turning 30 tomorrow, and in my mind, it feels like such a huge milestone. I know, logically, that 30 isn’t old by any stretch of the imagination, but for some reason, it feels like youth is officially over. I’m curious how you felt about it.
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24 then, 30 now…
Stay active, folks. Motion is lotion for your bones and joints.
You know when you’re a kid and you see all these TV shows and movies about High School and then when you get to High School you realize it was all bullshit?
Yeah, turning 30 is a lot like that.
Speaking of tv, it is weird when you get to around 30-40 and realize the majority of people on shows and in films are now younger than you. All those young adults that always looked like grown-ups, you realize how they’re practically babies.
It almost applies to everything I guess, not just media, once you’re at the mid-ages. But it’s especially striking there, because you keep watching those same shows and movies from time to time. The actors don’t age, but your perception of them changes.
I’m having a hard time with the fact that a couple of Supreme Court justices are younger than me. :)
I had generally always been the young person at my job. But we have a position open and people fresh out of school have been applying and interviewing. I’m no longer the “baby” at work. I’m fucking old. :'(
It was really a shock to me because I never thought people in their early 20s looked all that different to me until some of them came in.
depends when you graduate, some people graduate pretty late 20s because of thier schools curriculum is is horrendeously unkind to students, so people ended up getting delayed and graduating later, and people graduating at 22, looks like they just came out of HS.
35 felt more weird
at 30, it just felt like being at the end of my 20s not really being in my 30s
Same. Mid-30s was also the time where I truly felt my body starting to decline, since most people’s physical peak is between late 20s and early 30s
i think the realization sets in that you are almost midlife, or 40 by 35. thats usually when some peoples mid-life crisis starts to surface. there was a ds9 episode where bashir was lamenting how hes turning 30ish and he was getting quite old and the line follows with its a “march to middle age” so bashir was worried about getting into a midlife crisis, but garak said age is a sign of power/authority in his species, so it might cultural differences.
At least for me, turning 30 felt liberating in a sense. You’re not really described as young anymore, and expectations of you are different.
I still care about social issues but I don’t feel pressured to be militant about them, and even if someone tried to exert that pressure I wouldn’t care. I can just say I’m tired if I don’t wanna do something and that’s considered a valid reason.
Dating? So much less pressure. I know who I am and what I want, as do others in their 30s. You figure out if you’re a good match pretty quickly.
Sure, it takes longer to bounce back from injuries, hangovers, etc and the simple act of getting up makes more snaps, crackles, and pops than a bowl of Rice Krispies. But overall it feels like I can live my life the way I want to and nobody cares. And that is a good feeling.
News are still talking about how “millenial children are killing the diamond industry.”
they are starting to shift the blame to genz now.
Not as bad as I did when I turned 40.
I didn’t feel any different. 30 and your early 30’s are like the extended edition of your 20s. Turning 35, well that hurt. That is the entry to your late 30s, which is really the opening segment of your 40s. So you jump from 20’s to 40’s when you turn 35. Two decades of aging in a single day. Ouch ;).
Yeah 35 was when the mortality set in, just like my big brother told me it would.
ppl stop setting milestones where aging starts to ‘actually’ suck You’re just making more anxiety for folks–I know you’re fully correct but the truth stings too much lol
Your 30’s is like your 20’s but with more money. And hopefully better decisions.
And more understanding and acceptance of who you are and what you want/need.
30s is really a great time. Around 35 is when your body will start telling you about all those times you didn’t take care of yourself, so stay fit and eat right and you should be having the time of your life for the next 20 years.
Christ on a bike, chill! 30 is nothing.
Now I’m in my mid 50s and everything is starting to fall off, droop uncontrollably, or ache miserably. I’d happily go back to 30 again.
The worst part of getting “old” is that other people think you’re getting old. And the jokes about it, too. I’m generally physically healthy on account of gym and my bicycle, and I probably feel better now than when I was 25. Sorry I have wrinkles from laughing and smiling so much over the last few decades, society. Jeez
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Can confirm: I’m in shape, I act like a teenager, I’m socially active, I know memes and shit. And still i started getting some “hey grandpa” treatment sometimes. Hey, I just want to live and have fun!
30 was the beginning of my youth. I became more emotionaly mature, physicaly mature, I had a decade of adult experiences to reference. I wasn’t the new kid, I was the functional adult. I became more me in my 30’s. I really enjoyed the good parts. Then I turned 40… I’ll let you know how that goes
Happy Birthday. I wouldn’t say “youth is officially over” at 30. But over the decade you will certainly get a sense of it “wrapping up”.
Have fun.
Turning 30 in about 2 months. Feel like I haven’t figured myself out enough yet and that I’m running out of time.
Don’t fret, you’ve got decades more to not figure yourself out!
Im still figuring myself out, but im getting better at it too. It’s weird, there is a coalescence of sorts that happens
I freaked out. My youth was very important to me, realized I only had one shot at it, was determined to party down and use it, appreciate it. And I did just that. 30 sounded impossibly old at 21.
Friend took me to the titty bar and asked all the dancers how old they thought I was. Anywhere from 21-24 was the guess range. Neat! Gone to the clubs every decade since. At 40, about passed out we left, gf had to almost carry me to the car. 50 saw me with another gf who pointed out the girl most my type eyeing me. She came and sat with us and we had a blast. Strip clubs are a very different experience when you bring a date! Can’t see my current wife allowing that when I hit 60. :( She mad jealous and a room full of nearly naked, hot young bodies would drive her to a frenzy.
Anyway, yes! I felt youth was officially over, exactly as you! Didn’t feel like I was a real man until 30 when I was a cable guy, doing “man” work for once. And I did grow up quite a bit in those couple of years.
Looking back, nah, “young” isn’t over till 40. Even at 50 I was having the time of my life and mature enough to navigate it. Don’t get fat, or lose what ya got, keep active, your body will be just fine unless you hit some really bad luck. Another weird thing, if you’re a man, you’ll likely get far more handsome, even into your 50s. For women, I dunno, they have a certain je ne sais quoi as they age. Maybe it’s poise and class and wisdom all rolled up? Women in their 40s, if they didn’t let themselves OK, are probably peak sexy. Really! My wife’s 54 and mostly has the body of a 20-something. Asian genes, maybe that’s cheating. :)
Droppin knowledge, fam. I feel like I’m at a barbeque and we’re all sitting around shooting the breeze.
Weird, mostly. I’d spent most of my life up until that point planning to be dead by thirty. Obviously, didn’t pan out. Now it’s just a stark reminder of how long life is.
