• Malfeasant@lemmy.world
    15·
    16 days ago

    I’m a 51 year old (as of today) and I feel like I’m 25, and when I talk to people… Wait, I don’t talk to people…

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    16 days ago

    Trolling all my friends who were born after 9/11 by showing them clips from “Love, Actually” and talking about how easy it was to get through airport security.

    • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world
      3·
      16 days ago

      Speaking as someone whose in their mid 40’s, no you don’t have a 40 year old body, you only think you do. When you actually get there you’ll realize how wrong you’ve been.

      • kamenlady@lemmy.world
        3·
        16 days ago

        Oh, from 40 on upwards there are so much “oh shit” moments. The fuck around phase is over and the find out, final, phase starts.

        “Told you so” also starts trending among friend circles.

  • darthelmet@lemmy.world
    7·
    16 days ago

    Something similar has been hitting me recently. I’m 30. So I was born is the last millennium, but you know, not by a lot. Most of my life has been the 20XXs. But even though it’s been 26 years of that, it just all feels so recent. Like it’s hard for me to call anything that happened after 2000 “old” because… old was last century/millennium. “That can’t be old, it happened just a few years ago!” Checks when it happened: 2012, 14 years ago…

    Thinking about how we perceive the time we live through is weird. When you think about it, the lives of everyone alive today has been radically different than the vast majority of human history. There were times when things might not meaningfully change in your whole lifetime, maybe even several generations of people living the same way. Post-industrial revolution everything has happened so fast. Tech and culture changes so often that we conceptualize each decade in the 20th/21st century as being it’s own thing. (Obviously that wasn’t entirely the case, there’s all sorts of bleed over, but I’m just talking about how we think about it.) We talk about almost any other time in our history in terms of centuries and some key historical turning points.

    I have now written way too much for a comment on a shitpost. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    3·
    16 days ago

    I feel a normal number of years old same as I always have. 23 was once too old, then it was normal, but these days I understand it’s quite young.

  • OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world
    2·
    16 days ago

    I turned 37 and realised ive already become the grumpy old man down the road that i told myself i would never turn into when i was a kid. But honestly, WHAT IS WITH THE YOUTH OF TODAY!?

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
    1·
    16 days ago

    Whats the cut off though? Im early 40’s along with most of my friends within 5 years up or down. We do have some other friends that are mid 30s and they are and have always been just like us as far back as i can remember. Im sure if i saw a 25 year old it would be much different but i do wonder what the cut off is.