3 more months!! I’m excited! Aging is a privilege!
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40? The oldest millenials are turning 45 this year.
Reminder that your generation contains all the best and worst of humanity, like other generations, and is not a like collective.
I'm gen Z and I'm less than two years from thirty. The years do keep coming, and they do not stop.
Leading up to my recent 40th, I went on a little tour of contacting people to tie up loose ends/seek closure where it was lacking. It was really helpful, even though at least one person worried I was planning to kill myself.
Gen x'er here, weren't y'all like starting things in 1981....wouldn't that make you comingup on a different decade? (I'll take my rotten tomatoes now, high velocity please)
Realistically, very little actually happens "fast" in my life. For me, things are more like the concept of punctuated equilibrium. Stretch of sameness, sudden life altering changes coming fast and heavy. Get used to the change. Stretch of sameness for another while. Sudden life altering changes coming fast and heavy again. Reduce. Reuse. Rinse. Recycle. Repeat.
Looking back, those stretches of sameness when life was relatively peaceful, calm, safe, etc tend to melt into each other, mentally compressed, then archived. Those sudden changes grow and balloon, warping my memories of the past, taking over seeming like they just kept coming. To the point where, it's like just yesterday I was starting college.
But then on top of that, life just gets more and more complicated without even necessarily trying. Harder and harder and harder. Best of plans, greatest of hopes. Smashed to pieces. Most of it, I didn't make complicated or intentionally bring upon myself. Much of it, in fact, was unavoidable even if it was predictable. And it keeps coming.
I was like, why the hell am I chasing millenials
My father referred to me as 'almost 40' the other day, which I deemed rude so I called him 'almost 60', which he also deemed rude.
My parents started referring to me as "middle-aged" when I was like 35 specifically because they knew it would drive me nuts. And with the current trajectory of American life expectancy, the math might actually bear them out.
My family lives for freaking ever i won't "middle aged" until my 48th
Nah, man, engage your spite, live to 100, curse them as you die. I believe in you.
Oldest end of gen z, staring down the barrel of 30. Low key excited but still a lot to process lmao
40 has already caught me, but its OK because I still kick ass.
Fist time I got an AARP flyer in the mail I wanted to punch the mailman.
But your doctor warned you about overexerting yourself like that, right?
Turned 40 last week, just got mine. Definite WTF moment for me
Where is the button in Lemmy for flagging posts as "false and misleading"?
Millennials typically are defined as being born between 1981 and 1996.
Like it or not, 1981 was 45 years ago. Modern Times (1936) is nearer in time to The Empire Strikes Back (1980) than The Empire Strikes back is to 2026.
1981 may have been 45 years ago, but 1988 - the year I was born in - was only 30 years ago. I don't make the rules[^1].
[^1]: That was a lie. I did make that rule.
I remember when I felt invincible, like the world is my oyster. It felt like yesterday. Even though I didn't achieve everything that I hoped, I'm glad I was raised to just enjoy the journey.
Old meme, already 40.
Brag much? Look you Mr. Maturity. I just exited my mid 30s, anow had to transition into calling myself late 30s.
Don't worry time flies from that point on and then you die.
I be 44 this year! Just after my third lower back surgery
Damn, I'm scared to consider one.
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(but, oh boy, was it fun!)
Best thing about being genx, we're psychologically incapable of giving a shit
Most of the Millenials I know have even already the scary 50 approaching from behind.
But that's some kind of observation bias, as I am GenX and interestingly know almost no people born between 1990 and 2000.
But I know a bunch of GenZ again who currently look like deer with big, wide open eyes at the approaching headlights of the "30" truck, which imho is much worse than the 40...
I ... know almost no people born between 1990 and 2000.
But I know a bunch of GenZ ... approaching ... 30
How are both of these true
I am now working at a place in our company that is prime starting point for a lot of university graduates. Most of them were born around 2000 and are now in their mid- to end twenties.
So correct, I also know a couple of people born slightly before 2000, did some slight rounding there.
Most people you know are not "millennials", 1976 is not even close to a millennial birthdate lmfao
At some point, every person born in the 20th century while be classified as a millennial.
Most people you know are not “millennials”
Where did I say that?
I only stated that the Millennials I know are of the pre-1990 type, and these totally exist.
(Hello, my beloved Millennial-wife, if you happen to read this! :-) )
Hell no. 30 was just the "oh I'm a real adult now" realisation. 40 is middle age.
Yeah 30s were like "oh I've got people that depend on me now so I can't just fuck off and do whatever I want all day."
40s are like "Oh shit, why does this hurt? It's permanent?!"
Well now at least you can say you know of me, I have 4 years left before 40.
Those of us in the second half of millennial aren’t that different than the first half, the biggest difference is things like YouTube and Facebook were high school things for us instead of college things.
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Already there, would not recommend. The only prize is unending joint pain.
I was gonna say. We're all in the back seat of a car because you're not running from that thing with knees that old.
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I just turned 41, fuck you for accuracy....
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