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Life comes at you fast (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by [M] to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 40 points 4 months ago (22 children)

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...

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    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! :-) )

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    As Gen-X, I can confirm that 30 is far more traumatic than 40.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    As Gen-X, I can confirm that 30 is far more traumatic than 40.

    I totally agree.

    When turning 40, I had much to much going on (family stuff really taking up speed, buying own flat,...) that I didn't give a shit.

    30 on the other hand, with me still without a long-term partnership and just continuing living my old student bachelor's life, felt like a huge thing, triggering profound eleventh-hour-panic.

    I think that the dates have shifted as typical family foundation has moved from the late teens or early twenties to around 30.
    This also means that 50 might be the new 40 (A fact that I can confirm by now), marking a new phase in life as 40 maybe did in former times.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I remember seeing a research thing showing that mid to late 20s was the average time people started to get married. But keep in mind, that's average. And as soon as you're any flavor of queer or there's conflict near you (like war) throw those numbers out the window.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Yes, especially wars also tend to seriously disturb family planning.

    My grandparents all were around 30 on my fathers side and even older on my mothers side when they became parents.
    Reason for that: WWII happened...

    Before and after the wars, numbers were significantly different. My mother was nineteen when I was born in the mid 70s. But that also was around the time when that started to change in our country, triggered by the more widespread availability of contraceptives and an increase of women's education level.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    The problem is the extra air growing in weird places.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    Extra AIR?!

    Sounds horrifying!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That's just the bloating in your stomach.
    When you turn 30, you develop this incredibly urge to start eating lots of beans, commonly marking the transition to being an old man with the obligatory old man habits.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Found a strange, single, long hair growing off my chin the other day. I’m a woman in my mid-30s with no tendencies toward facial hair whatsoever.

    It reminded me of when I was working in a nursing home, and such hairs would just appear, already over an inch long, on patients’ faces. It was as if they sprouted overnight.

    It was a disturbing moment to find one on myself. But hey, it was still my natural color and the length made it easy to pluck. So, can’t complain. Yet.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    I've noticed there's a thing where our brains filter out fine details, especially in mirrors. When I have a lot of time to pluck and want to try to get everything, you can sway left-right in the mirror to try to add a kind of dither, visually, and that helps see stuff you wouldn't, otherwise. However, knowing this is terrifying because then you start seeing all kinds of stuff that other people probably see that you normally don't and now I wanna die. So, use this knowledge with caution.

    That's my theory for old people with sudden face hair. Not that it grows, but it's hard to see.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    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.

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