• gray@lemmy.ml
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    It’s an arbitrary milestone. For me, I stopped worrying about money around 32.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Finally got my crap together. Career taking off, got rid of my toxic relationships, adopted several cats, getting into really good shape.

  • AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I’m in my 40s and, uhhhh…

    Depending on how you’ve played your cards the best part is that you’ve ditched your shitty “friends” and have your 5 or less close friends now.

    You’ve solidified the music you like. The books you care to read.

    • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.ml
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      I’m 25 and still sorting out the books I care to read. I’m overwhelmed with choice, particularly interesting works in genres that I don’t find much joy in.

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    Every year is my favorite year. Currently 55. Only reason to go back would be to undo stupid shit i said/did.

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    This is a morbid take but it applies to me right now.

    After 30 or 30s rather, you are in a position of your life where you can look back at everything that has lead up to your life at its current point. If you decide that your life hasn’t been as fruitful as you wanted it to be, you’ve endured a lot of shortcomings, you’ve taken a lot of shit on the chin, you’re not looking forward to growing old where anything and everything will take advantage of you. I can’t blame a single person who decided to call it a wrap, if you know what I mean.

    I plan on going on a little more further but there will be a stage in my life where I’ve got nothing to both look forward to and nothing worth of merit that had made my life completely worthwhile, where I’d just call it right then and there.

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      Yeah I can see that, I’ve been in that space. Ultimately at some point I decided if I was done, why not insteadtry doing something drastic like cutting all ties and trying to travel the world by any means necessary, just starting over and getting all the living I can done, you know?

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    16 hours ago

    I once heard someone say:

    “My teens were my body’s puberty, my twenties were my mind’s puberty. By my thirties I started to have a handle on things.”

    That has really stuck with me. I’ve loved my thirties!

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    13 hours ago

    a few years in my thirties was my best time of life. Was able to afford living near the city which was also near my work. I don’t think that has to do with age though as much as stable employment.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      tbf the stereotype of young people being happier and more active and carefree has to do with the societal expectations involved with the age too, at least on my experience.

      i don’t think anything says we couldn’t ease up as a society with trying to make everyone miserable for a change.

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    18 hours ago

    You start to form genuine opinions on topics, not just parroting tidbits back to people.

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    15 hours ago

    For me it was when everything professionally and personally started taking off.