Me: "I'm 4X years old, I have my whole life ahead of me."
News: "Another 40-something person with enough money to definitely have done something about their health issues dies of something terrible that their body did to them."
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The Real World
A 29 year old is barely an adult. They've never really faced any hardships. They still turn to mom and dad for advice on any major decision. They diet is mostly products that advertise during kids' cartoons. They haven't saved a cent towards retirement, have no investments, and half their furniture is stuff they grabbed from the side of the road while they were in college / university.
The Sports World
The 21 year old rookie asks for advice from the wisest person they know, their 29 year old teammate.
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Yeah I am basically a corpse at this point.
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One of the fun things about being in your 40s is that, as long as you're taking good care of yourself, you don't feel THAT old, but the only way you'll be considered young is by dying within the next 10-20 years 😄
❌ "He's still young, only 43"
✅ "He was so young, only 53"
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From my school group, were all now vintage, some have effectively lived "older person" mentality since turning 30. For completely unscientific observations, they also appear physically older too.
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As someone interested in e-sports, it's a bit harsh to see the top players agree that 20-25 is way too old to be good.
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Saw someone making a "bricked up" joke on YouTube the other day and a reply saying "that used to mean you had constipation, who though it was a good idea to change that to having a boner?" and one reply to that was "I have literally never heard bricked used in that way, you must be like 30 or something."
And that made me weirdly irritated. It's written like being 30 is wrong because of how "old" it is. Not once in my life, even as a kid, did I see it like that. And not just for 30 year olds but for any age, like being some age is somehow bad or something to be ashamed about. It's such a shitty view.
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Realizing this was probably the last Winter Olympics where I’ll be younger than any of the hockey players was a fun thought.
Diana Nyad was 64 years old when she swam 110 miles from Cuba to the USA without a shark cage.
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Fernando Alonso is always going to be in F1.
Warning: bragging
In my 20s I made a series of life choices that locked me into cycling and taking the train for decades. It was for the environment, but now in my 40s I'm apparently still very healthy.
Takeaway: Sitting in the car for hours every day is bad for people. Public transit costs time in the short term but saves time (and money) in the long term.
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