Realistically, very little actually happens “fast” in my life. For me, things are more like the concept of punctuated equilibrium. Stretch of sameness, sudden life altering changes coming fast and heavy. Get used to the change. Stretch of sameness for another while. Sudden life altering changes coming fast and heavy again. Reduce. Reuse. Rinse. Recycle. Repeat.
Looking back, those stretches of sameness when life was relatively peaceful, calm, safe, etc tend to melt into each other, mentally compressed, then archived. Those sudden changes grow and balloon, warping my memories of the past, taking over seeming like they just kept coming. To the point where, it’s like just yesterday I was starting college.
But then on top of that, life just gets more and more complicated without even necessarily trying. Harder and harder and harder. Best of plans, greatest of hopes. Smashed to pieces. Most of it, I didn’t make complicated or intentionally bring upon myself. Much of it, in fact, was unavoidable even if it was predictable. And it keeps coming.
Gen x’er here, weren’t y’all like starting things in 1981…wouldn’t that make you comingup on a different decade? (I’ll take my rotten tomatoes now, high velocity please)
I was like, why the hell am I chasing millenials
My father referred to me as ‘almost 40’ the other day, which I deemed rude so I called him ‘almost 60’, which he also deemed rude.
My parents started referring to me as “middle-aged” when I was like 35 specifically because they knew it would drive me nuts. And with the current trajectory of American life expectancy, the math might actually bear them out.
Nah, man, engage your spite, live to 100, curse them as you die. I believe in you.
Oldest end of gen z, staring down the barrel of 30. Low key excited but still a lot to process lmao
40 has already caught me, but its OK because I still kick ass.
Fist time I got an AARP flyer in the mail I wanted to punch the mailman.
But your doctor warned you about overexerting yourself like that, right?
Turned 40 last week, just got mine. Definite WTF moment for me
Where is the button in Lemmy for flagging posts as “false and misleading”?
Millennials typically are defined as being born between 1981 and 1996.
Like it or not, 1981 was 45 years ago. Modern Times (1936) is nearer in time to The Empire Strikes Back (1980) than The Empire Strikes back is to 2026.
(but, oh boy, was it fun!)
I remember when I felt invincible, like the world is my oyster. It felt like yesterday. Even though I didn’t achieve everything that I hoped, I’m glad I was raised to just enjoy the journey.
Old meme, already 40.
Brag much? Look you Mr. Maturity. I just exited my mid 30s, anow had to transition into calling myself late 30s.
Don’t worry time flies from that point on and then you die.
I be 44 this year! Just after my third lower back surgery
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Everyone saying this is too late. We are Xennials not Millenials.
By the same article you posted, this is 3 years late. That fucker is already on the car and climbing towards the rest of us
The Oregon Trail generation!
Missed out on that one by a couple years unfortunately, though I feel more of a connection to those who had a pre-digital childhood like myself than I do to the iPad babies of today.
Yeah, that sweet spot in timeline between analog and digital.
Was looking for this comment, thanks!
Most of the Millenials I know have even already the scary 50 approaching from behind.
But that’s some kind of observation bias, as I am GenX and interestingly know almost no people born between 1990 and 2000.
But I know a bunch of GenZ again who currently look like deer with big, wide open eyes at the approaching headlights of the “30” truck, which imho is much worse than the 40…
I … know almost no people born between 1990 and 2000.
But I know a bunch of GenZ … approaching … 30
How are both of these true
I am now working at a place in our company that is prime starting point for a lot of university graduates. Most of them were born around 2000 and are now in their mid- to end twenties.
So correct, I also know a couple of people born slightly before 2000, did some slight rounding there.
Most people you know are not “millennials”, 1976 is not even close to a millennial birthdate lmfao
At some point, every person born in the 20th century while be classified as a millennial.
Most people you know are not “millennials”
Where did I say that?
I only stated that the Millennials I know are of the pre-1990 type, and these totally exist.
(Hello, my beloved Millennial-wife, if you happen to read this! :-) )
Hell no. 30 was just the “oh I’m a real adult now” realisation. 40 is middle age.
Yeah 30s were like “oh I’ve got people that depend on me now so I can’t just fuck off and do whatever I want all day.”
40s are like “Oh shit, why does this hurt? It’s permanent?!”
Well now at least you can say you know of me, I have 4 years left before 40.
Those of us in the second half of millennial aren’t that different than the first half, the biggest difference is things like YouTube and Facebook were high school things for us instead of college things.
I have 4 years left before 40.
Plenty of time, you are mid 30s still. No reason to panic. ;-)
As Gen-X, I can confirm that 30 is far more traumatic than 40.
As Gen-X, I can confirm that 30 is far more traumatic than 40.
I totally agree.
When turning 40, I had much to much going on (family stuff really taking up speed, buying own flat,…) that I didn’t give a shit.
30 on the other hand, with me still without a long-term partnership and just continuing living my old student bachelor’s life, felt like a huge thing, triggering profound eleventh-hour-panic.
I think that the dates have shifted as typical family foundation has moved from the late teens or early twenties to around 30.
This also means that 50 might be the new 40 (A fact that I can confirm by now), marking a new phase in life as 40 maybe did in former times.I remember seeing a research thing showing that mid to late 20s was the average time people started to get married. But keep in mind, that’s average. And as soon as you’re any flavor of queer or there’s conflict near you (like war) throw those numbers out the window.
Yes, especially wars also tend to seriously disturb family planning.
My grandparents all were around 30 on my fathers side and even older on my mothers side when they became parents.
Reason for that: WWII happened…Before and after the wars, numbers were significantly different. My mother was nineteen when I was born in the mid 70s. But that also was around the time when that started to change in our country, triggered by the more widespread availability of contraceptives and an increase of women’s education level.
The problem is the extra air growing in weird places.
Found a strange, single, long hair growing off my chin the other day. I’m a woman in my mid-30s with no tendencies toward facial hair whatsoever.
It reminded me of when I was working in a nursing home, and such hairs would just appear, already over an inch long, on patients’ faces. It was as if they sprouted overnight.
It was a disturbing moment to find one on myself. But hey, it was still my natural color and the length made it easy to pluck. So, can’t complain. Yet.
I’ve noticed there’s a thing where our brains filter out fine details, especially in mirrors. When I have a lot of time to pluck and want to try to get everything, you can sway left-right in the mirror to try to add a kind of dither, visually, and that helps see stuff you wouldn’t, otherwise. However, knowing this is terrifying because then you start seeing all kinds of stuff that other people probably see that you normally don’t and now I wanna die. So, use this knowledge with caution.
That’s my theory for old people with sudden face hair. Not that it grows, but it’s hard to see.
Extra AIR?!
Sounds horrifying!
That’s just the bloating in your stomach.
When you turn 30, you develop this incredibly urge to start eating lots of beans, commonly marking the transition to being an old man with the obligatory old man habits.Imagining the entire populace becoming old men
Shudders…
As someone living in a country with an increasing overaging problem (current birthrate per woman: 1,35 children…), I see this happening in realtime, and I can tell you it is really not a good thing.
Already there, would not recommend. The only prize is unending joint pain.
I was gonna say. We’re all in the back seat of a car because you’re not running from that thing with knees that old.
Lucky! I got chronic nerve pain at 40. Good excuse to smoke pot, tho
My wife and I joke that once you hit 40, a random 40s ailment just just assigned to you. Well, just one if you’re lucky. I got assigned some nerve pain myself.
I got diabetes…
Don’t forget the sudden need for “readers”.
And the need for “progressives” for the nerds who already had their distance vision murdered by genetics and books.
For the Z’ers, “books” are stacks of paper, typically glued together on one side, with a single audiobook or podcast transcribed onto them and displayed in a fixed font.
I just turned 41, fuck you for accuracy…
