Happy birthday! I remember turning 25 and feeling so old. Now I'm in my thirties and it rules. Well, the world sucks, but on a personal level, don't sweat it. You've got plenty to enjoy now and plenty to look forward to.

I would give my left nut to be 25

You're practically in your grave at this point

I'm in my 40s and each decade of my life has been better than the last. You live and learn. You make mistakes. You grow. You can use that experience to make your quality of life better.

Cut out toxic people, start an exercise routine, learn how to cook good meals, practice your time management skills. Not that I haven't wasted most of today watching AEW, but I did some sprints this morning so I'm resting.

I dont want to be 35, but here we are buddy.

I would do anything to be 25 again

ayo. old head here.

At 29. I had a pact with myself to kill myself before my 40th birthday.

I'm 43 this year.

If you take one piece of advice away: life is always worth living, there's always a tomorrow, no matter how bad you feel that feeling is not forever and things can change and you can change them.

I have struggles, doubts, frustrations, rages, disappointments, set backs, failures and, indeed, depression. But I lived. And even today I had a bad moment, I was feeling super low - but this evening I had a wonderful time with some friends and came home to my wife who I adore.

You made it to 25 and I knew a few people who didn't when I was 25. Now I'm forty fewer people have made it with me.

I miss them but we get to see what's next. You get to see what's next.

Enjoy being 25, 26, and beyond

My lot passed around an antique sword cane - when you hit 25, it was yours till the next 25. Wonder who got stuck with it? (Sorry.)
Am 75 now, btw, shooting for the full century.

Nah, the real tragedy is turning 27, that's when you no longer get discounted rates on the speed train here in Germany 🥺 Gotta ride around as much as I can before it's over for me in October.

Happy finally-considered-an-adult-by-car-insurance-and-rental-companies day!

I'm sorry you don't want to be 25. In my experience, 30 is far better, so just hang on and do your best 🤗

I'd love to be 25 again. Wanna swap?

Congratulations, you're one quarter of a century old now.

But now you can rent a car in the United States! Unfortunately you have to be in the United States to do it

Trade ya

Don't worry too much, it's only for a year

Pretend that yesterday you were 40 and you just woke up this morning 25 again. Imagine how young, energetic, hopeful you'll feel being back in your young body again. Go for a run.

Happy birthday! You don't need to enjoy your birthdays. I didn't for years. But you made it and keep your head up my dude/dudette!

It's fine, you won't be for very long.

25 was good, insurance costs often go down, you're more likely to now be seen as a responsible adult by default. Your body is probably not rapidly deteriorating.

The best I have for you all at that age is, you're probably not feeling a effects of age yet, you can probably still party and most of your friends aren't married with children so you probably still have people to party with.

30's you recover more slowly, your friends start getting sparse as they start their own families.

40's you have to work to not fall to sloth, energy isn't a given, you have to schedule to get time with your friends

50's you need to start being careful about how you do things. your friends have grown children, if you don't do body maintenance you will fall into disrepair and it's hard AF to get out of that. Many people find stuff they used to enjoy eating now causes them discomfort. Your knees, back, ankles might pop when you get out of bed or occasionally when you go up steps

Well, the years start comin' and they don't stop comin'.

Well I'm more than 25+25 and would not want to be 25 either but don't worry, it will only last a year. Just hang on.

Happy birthday!! 🎁🎂🎈🎉

You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older.

Swap you?

Happy birthday! Don't worry you'll be 35 before you know it :D

Twenties are hard. Looking back, sure I would live them again with the knowledge I have now. But never again without this knowledge. This knowledge exists because I lived through my twenties, and they were hard.

How old do you wanna be?

Happy belatedbirthday, @CaffeineTwo@piefed.world !

25-30 were some of my favorite years. I wish you success, health, and great memories to come.

My sweet summer child. It just gets worse

Genuinely disappointed at the lack of prime numbers in my future, why would prime number theorem do us dirty like this??

It's better than the alternative

It won't last.

First time?

Don't worry friend, in the blink of an eye you'll be saying the same thing about 30.

Besides 25 is a great time. You're likely early in your career so you've got plenty of choices still to make and probably not that much tying you down, and you've likely still got plenty of healthy years left with your body, especially if you put in the work and keep it fit.

I'm 57. Fuck off, all of you. Lol

25 years and my life is still trying to get up that great big hill of hope for a destination...

25 is a breeze, enjoy your time! Trust, it gets better and better. (The aging part at least, not so sure about the world part lol)

Happy birthday and don't cry when 30 comes

For most people, their peak physical potential is between 25-35.

And peak mental potential is older than that

Enjoy

It's a great age. It's also a great time to start building good habits. If I could go back, I would have spent so much more time developing better sleep and workout habits. Lack of sleep and working out has absolutely wrecked me.

But why! It only gets better and better from here!

I feel for you, I’m 54 and I wouldn’t want to be 25 again.

Even if getting old sucks ass, it beats the hell out of the alternative.

Hey, think of it this way, you still have SO much to discover for the first time. Take it from and old fart, really get to know yourself, be ok with yourself. Don't take shit from anyone.

And if you have someone special in your life, make every moment count. Are we happy? Healthy? Stable? Ok let's not argue about which movie we'll watch who gives a shit anyway.

I wish you all the best dear stranger, grab life by the horns because before you know it it'll pass you by just like that.

I cast: become 35 year old!

I'd say it gets better but that hasn't been my experience so far.

Am 27 lol.
Welcome soon to my club :p

Speed jive, don't want to stay alive when you're 25

There is only one way stop growing older I'm afraid

My grandma always said 'getting old is fun. Being old is not.' And 'I guess it beats the alternative' and a legendary 'folks I'm getting old' at the ripe old age of 98. My immediate response was 'well that took you a while then'

Anyway, you're 25, you'll be fine, also happy birthday!

ahh don't worry too much about it. those are the longest years of your adulthood.

Make the most of being a 20something.

I do

Ok Boomer /s

Better than aging backwards. Benjamin Button disease takes far too many lives.