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My bet on why people don't identify with that anymore is shifting social expectations and economy leading to having kids way later than in their day.
Which... I love my kids, wouldn't trade 'em for anything. But they can definitely make you feel old both by just watching them age and the extra responsibility reducing the freedom/spontaneity you might have had more of earlier in your youth. If you had kids in your early 20s, this starts earlier. If you don't start until your 30s, you're probably already starting to settle a bit anyway just from being more established in a career and such.
I'd also be curious to know rates of messing around with harder drugs and drinking and such. My sense is those have gone down, and that kind of thing can be hard on your body.
Just spit balling here.
Oh yeah well wait till youβre 40!
I thought I would have my own place and have settled down by my 30s... hasn't happened yet... so...
Because you hit the magic doom number and then the world doesn't come to an end.
No see the device over there?
You're not old till you're 50. Your 50s are puberty in reverse.
Does your weiner get little again?
Yep. And it takes a pill to make it big again.
My egg cracked a few weeks after I turned 29. My 30s are gonna be an interesting time for sure, but I can actually imagine a future for myself now!
We'll have a bright future, but we'll also have to fight for it
Very little of my life was worth living until I was in my 30s. It was specifically due to changing societal attitudes towards homosexuality that allowed me to finally live in peace.
I'm 40. I feel like my life is over. My career was destroyed by Trump and all this AI bullshit. I fear becoming an old man and not being able to afford basic life essentials.
same boat
My career is ok but my body is falling apart.
I just got a job as a mailman. Time to grab whatever career is left.
I was still βyoungβ in my 30s. Really better than my 20s even. Great time.
Then you hit 40 and things getβ¦ interesting. Thatβs when I started to feel old.
Age 10-20 was miserable. Hormones. Parents. Bullies in high school. Difficult to find work. College struggle and debt.
Age 20-30 was better but still shit. Welfare. Homelessness. Police harassment. Juggling three jobs to pay rent.
Age 30-40 was so much better. Life was in order. Wife and I both leveled up our education and got a career. Traveled for the first time (Hawaii then Japan). Had kids.
Age 40 - life is getting better. Feels like the best days still happening.
I'm 35. Still waiting for life to stop being miserable. No hope in sight.
i had so much hope in my 20s. now in my 30s it's gone
20s, a lot of fun but broke as shit
30s a lot of fun and actually had money for things
40s not as much fun and back to broke. Covid really fucked shit up
20s-30s: Time & energy, but no money.
60s-70s: Money & time, but no energy.
40-50s: Not enough of any of them.
im in my 30s i dont feel like i have any time, energy, or money
I've found eating a rich person helps a lot.
Give up on money and you can use your time to sleep β¦ which can make energy.
Worst case scenario you get some serious sleepies in
Me discovering most of my hobbies IN my 30s: 
Orly ?
Yet but also: don't blink too quickly...
You donβt want to dry out those tear ducts and go on empty when you turn 60!
This is how it was for me. No societal expectation to care about things anymore. Donβt wanna go somewhere? Say you donβt feel like it or that youβre tired and boom, done. Nobody looks twice at you, which I suppose could feel devastating for some. For me it felt liberating.
Counterpoint: My back hurts.
You should get that taken care of. An occasional twinge now and then is normal, but constant pain? In your thirties? That ain't standard. In your forties, I could believe - although it still wouldn't be standard. But your back should still be in relatively good nick in your thirties, unless you lift heavy things for a living. In your thirties a backache should be nothing a good night's sleep, a nice stretch, and a long leisurely walk can't fix.
Unless... you DO lift with your knees, right? When you need to lift something? And keep your back straight and chin up while doing so? People don't constantly say to do that just for shits and giggles - it's universally good advice.
Try powerlifting.
very much not my experience :(
You can get peanut butter that's just made of peanuts. And then you put that on toast.
Also add this to pasta
Skill issue: do better. (Referring to the parents that gave little her this advice.)
Life before 30 is great
Life after 30 is also great
Life is great.
Hey don't bring your positivity around here, I was just about to feel sorry for myself and blame my misgivings on stuff that isn't me.
Yeah, I have enjoyed all the ages so far for different reasons but it has basically been the same for the last couple of decades other than whatever I have going on at the time. Like getting married, having a kid, changes in work and the rest were all big and important life changing things, but it has been a mix of mostly good and a little bad for almost 5 decades and I'm good with that.
The only place I've ever seen the idea of people in their 30s being "old" is in the internet. Is this some american thing too?
best guess is there's some kind of prevailing notion that when you're not young any more, you're old, which those nearing their 30s dread while 30 pluses refuse to accept they're middle aged
I think the number thirty is being blamed, not because your life is actually "over" when you turn thirty, but because that TENDS to be roughly the age most people start having kids, and having kids certainly DOES cause major changes in lifestyle.
Can't say I know shit about it, but my folks in the 80s watched a show called thirtysomethings, a sitcom, don't watch it. Not my problem.