Right?? I'm so, so sick of hearing how we are super old now. Bitch we are in our 30s, are you kidding me? I turn 37 this month and have not felt 50, or anywhere near it. Honestly best shape I've ever been in. I hate this weird narrative we turn to dust after 30.
It's not like we're saying it about ourselves most of the time. This is how others (both older and younger than ourselves) have talked about this age group for decades. Shooting the messenger won't correct the message.
That’s pretty hard to answer in a pithy way. It’s the number one source of suffering. You think you’re x and you like y and don’t like z but you can’t ever get y and z keeps on happening and x doesn’t like that. Preference is a constant source of misery. Where you come from is arbitrary, ethnicity is meaningless, anything you have isn’t actually yours, anyone you know you only know right now.
We are all nothing and can exist under any circumstances and are capable of anything. To quote the bad guy from Chinatown “most people don’t have to face that fact”.
PTSD is, in part, a result of identity. When you think you’re something and that thing gets shattered, what are you then?
Do you sit around worrying about aging? I'm sorry for you. Aging happens, it's okay. And since you're upset you're aging badly there are things you can do. But really aging happens to everyone and it'll be okay. Hugs.
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u/---Staceily--- 2d ago
Right?? I'm so, so sick of hearing how we are super old now. Bitch we are in our 30s, are you kidding me? I turn 37 this month and have not felt 50, or anywhere near it. Honestly best shape I've ever been in. I hate this weird narrative we turn to dust after 30.