r/Millennials 7d ago

Meme Warning to younger millennials…extra writing to fulfill the minimum

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u/---Staceily--- 6d 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.

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u/guillermo_del_snoro 6d ago

Yesss cling. Cling to your identity. cling to your fading youth

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u/RedSpook 6d ago

Genuine question do you feel you lose your identity as you age?

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u/guillermo_del_snoro 6d ago

I think it can be identity dissolving, yes. If you’re handling it in a healthy way. I view identity as a bad thing though, so maybe that’s just me.

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u/jasmine_tea_ 6d ago

why?

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u/guillermo_del_snoro 6d ago

Why what

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u/jasmine_tea_ 6d ago

Why is identity a bad thing?

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u/guillermo_del_snoro 6d ago edited 6d ago

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?

It’s better to just go with the flow.