People Over 30 Years Old Share Which Things They Didn’t Believe About Aging Turned Out To Be True
As much as advertising would have you believe that when you turn 30, you quit interacting with anybody other than your government-issued spouse and your hobbies narrow to leisurely jogging or preparing months in advance to do taxes, most people find that not much actually changes when they enter the new decade. Or so they think. In this thread on Twitter, people are revealing that while not all the ominous warnings they heard about aging are true, there are some of them that are, and they start early.
Here are some observations from people who are just reaching the big 3-0 and finding out what it has to offer, like the fact that even if you still feel like a teenage imposter in an adult suit, talking to an actual teenager will make you feel like your cultural literacy is a distant memory. Meanwhile, people who have been there and done that have some wisdom (and TMI) to impart.
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This is such a good thing. I totally don't give a f**k and I cannot believe now what made me uncomfortable and how I cared about every stupid s**t in youth.
Hahaha absolutely! When did I replace the washing machine was it last year or 8 years ago? The concept of time is relative!
Until now, studies have overwhelmingly shown that in old age, people look back on their 30s as being the best decade of their lives, with various studies trying to estimate the optimal year at 33, 35 and 38.
This trend might be thrown off now that the generation in their 30s, or getting there in the next few years, are millennials, many of whom would laugh at the idea of the financial stability and positive work-life balance that earlier generations cite as the foundation that allowed them to spend their 30s on what they truly enjoyed.
I find it's come full circle, and the genre I enjoy - heavy metal - is thriving with amazing new bands and sounds.
You start to feel pain in places you didn’t know you could.
There is one thing that seems to be a universal experience after making it several decades into life, and that’s being baffled that people who were in diapers when you were in high school are now old enough to drive, vote, and call the music you listened to as a teen “oldies.” And if that makes you want to drink to forget, you had better think twice, unless you want to be glued to your bed for two days.
So very true. Doesn’t help that shops have already brought in Easter eggs and hot cross buns.
Kids commiting the same mistakes we did. Telling them not to do it only "encourages" them.
Vintage is a great word until your own youth is in that category.
At least you could finish it. You are half way dead during eating once you reach 40.
The last 7 or 8 years I have really enjoyed it getting dark in the winter. Come 6 pm "it's dark kids, bedtime!" And we all pile up early and watch Netflix or read. I hate it when it's still sunny at 8 pm.
I've been worrying about this since elementary school LOL so I'm prepared. However, doctors are getting younger and cops too. I was a little shaken when being pulled over one day, and when the cop came up to my window, I calmed down since he looked like he was 12. But he was very nice to an old lady. If only he knew.
I have to call my cell phone number on my landline phone just to locate it....only to realize it is as actually laying next to me...dear lord.
Background music on tv that you have to turn down and dialogue which you have to keep turning up. WHY? I'm not sure that's entirely my ears at fault.
same! i was always like "why are people putting on moisturizer all the time?" and now i keep a spare bottle in my desk at work
My husband loves saying " I can't even remember what I had for breakfast, now you want me to remember things from way back?"
We in our 30s shouldn't complain yet either. People in their 60s would laugh at our minor 'aging' complaints compared to their far more serious ones.
And this serious effect on health when you can't sleep one night for some reason (travel, work or smth). In youth - nah, nothing. Now - feeling like I would surely die, week of worst health issues...
And every 10 years or so I look back and think how stupid I was 10 years ago. I don't care much what people think of me any more, other than being honest & having integrity, and that's really freeing. I'll get on the dance floor by myself - I can just be the crazy old lady & not worry about being cool.
I don't know who many people are in the gossip columns now. Although, unfortunately, I know more about the Kardashians than I'd like to without even trying.
Oh this! I got an invitation for an art show opening that started at 9:00 PM. I was like, "It *starts* at 9:00 PM on Tuesday? No way, maybe if *ended* at 9, I would consider going, but I have to have my make up off and my jammies on no later than 9:30 or I can't function the next day."
When I was looking for used cars, I kept thinking, 2009 is not too bad, and then I realized it's an 11-year-old car!
The first time I heard smells like teen spirit on the classic rock station I wanted to cry. Things got real that day.
But the apple cider vinegar thing has been a godsend to me. I can't eat like I'm 12, but I digest a lot better than I did 10 years ago.
In my mid-30's, I remember pulling my eyelid up to do my make-up & it just STAYED that way until I pulled it down. I was horrified.
I'm 40... I almost made it to 12 on New Years eve this year!! 11:30 I was done!...sad
Although I see a lot more variety that is acceptable today, probably depending on your "type." When I was younger, everyone was wearing the same thing.
My 22 yr old son is so full of that youthful bravado and "know it all"ness. I am constantly so embarrassed for him. He corrects me all the time for saying words that he doesn't recognize. "That's not a real word Mom". I'm thinking, "In two decades you haven't heard all the words yet. Heck in five decades I sure haven't".
I was born in '84, so '90-'00 - that was like 100 years. '01-'10 - that felt like maybe 15 years. '11- now - that was a day right? Maybe a few days?
No idea what pedialyte is but I get the gist. I remember when (OMG I just said that) I could drink until the early hours and get up for overtime on a Saturday morning. These days I know a 48 hour recovery period is the minimum.
I employed someone born in 2000 last year. Also, just had a client who was born in 2000 that has a mortgage and a child (I'm a financial adviser). Made me feel proper old.
Let me add to the list "putting your hands out of your pockets when climbing a set of stairs in case you trip and fall down" 😂
People, what is wrong with you? 30 something is very, very young person. I am 47 now and this could maybe apply to me or even older persons. When I was in 30s I was a baby, looking great and feeling mostly great, even though I live in quite sh**y country and my life wasn't and isn't exactly a fairytale. True problems and changes start (and only start) after 40-42, in some people even later.
This is a SENSATIONAL time to be OLD! I don't have to 'find myself', I know who I am. I know a lot of things from EXPERIENCE instead of reading about someone else's. It's easy to acquire old technology and cheaper! I know history from BEING THERE! I heard the original bands who played what is now GOLDEN OLDIES. I can sleep any time, don't have to have the latest anything. As an older women, guys are hitting on me all the time. I can mess with people and they forgive me for being OLD! Use this valuable time for fun, dump the haters, you don't even have to talk to or visit family anymore. And I spend my holidays where I want. Geez, hang onto this golden time! Make up stuff . . . younger people actually believe me when I tell them I dated Eric Clapton! My trick knee? I tell kids it's a cheerleader injury -- didn't know she'd go that far when I KICKED HER! Now is the time to mess with EVERYBODY and excuse yourself with OLD AGE!
Those kiddos thinking they changed that much at 35... 51 yo here and I can tell some things to you kiddos. Nah, I don't care.
Sitting at a bus stop on my way home from work reading this. (7:30 pm) Watching 10 "kids" taking a bus to at party, with two litres of vodka for tonight's party. Thinking "Thank God I can go home, have a cup of tea, and go to bed early.
I work in an office. Our servers were down the other day. One of my coworkers needed to send a document, I told her to fax it. She looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Apparently she had no idea the copier she's been using for over a year was also a fax machine. God I felt old.
I remember the last time I slept on the floor. I was about 30 and when I woke up it felt like someone crept in and thoroughly beat me with bat overnight.
I am 41. I just found a 1/2 inch WHITE hair growing out of the bottom of my chin while I was putting on my makeup this morning. Officially. Old. I never thought the facial hair on women (when you get older) thing would happen to me! :(
Thinking about dating. Men my age, though? They look like old men. How'd that happen? XD
Fellow pandas I just turned 36, so I feel these pains, BUT remember we're far from decrepit yet and must challenge ourselves to do young-ish things, while having the life experience to now keep our s**t together. I've done a 5k, did pretty well, and saw 60-something men & women run respectable times. I've met powerlifters, men and women, in their 50s, who teem w/ strength. You can't be an idealist at all now? Idealistic political movements like civil rights in the '60s had frontline participants who were far older and grayer than us. Oliver Sacks said he still loved learning new things when he was 81 and an acclaimed neuroscientist & author. I've seen 50-somethings socializing at dinner parties 'til 5 am. So, on occasion, have a damn Red Bull and stay at the party a little more. Do your stretches, go for a jog, push through some push ups or planks or whatever exercise. Read another great book. Help someone who needs your help. Stand up for something.
Resenting those 40+ for looking down upon us as young adults, as though we weren't worthy of respect. Now, teaching junior doctors and realising what a bunch of ill mannered brats they are. While once upon a time parenthood was threatening, the idea that I'm now old enough to be their father and can put them firmly back in their boxes feels somewhat empowering.
Betty White turned 98 TODAY 1/17/20. I know she could give us a great spiel on aging. *love you Betty!*
Well I’m a teenager. I’d rather listen to most old music then the newer stuff. I don’t know anything about tech items. I really do stand out from my friends. I love moisturizer. My back usually hurts from the workouts I do (if you can count that as an “old person” trait) man I guess I’m 30
I can't flip over a page in a book without licking my finger anymore. It used to be gross when I see other does it, but now I had to do it and really don't care how other feel.
When I was in Gr7, we did an English poem.I only remember this one line. Being Afrikaans this really got stuck in my mind. "And when I am old, something like 25 or 26..." I am 40 years old now. 25 was the best time of my life!
Eating anything fatty and realizing that your body doesn’t digest that s**t anymore, but instead, it spreads it evenly across your hips. I have to say though, the aches and pains are the worst. I never thought bending over and picking something off the floor would be such a chore.
Oh, y'all darling baby thirty-somethings. Babies -- y'all ain't old. Y'all are barely closing in on middle-age. Come back to me when you hit 50 and tell me how things are. (Especially you women, after you hit menopause. Then it's REALLY "WTF?????")
I love it when young people assume you know nothing about gaming cause your old. Newsflash.......my generation invented gaming culture, and I'll be playing until I die.
I am getting sick and tired of seeing ugly f*****g apeknuckle on every damned page.
My aging complaint: why do they play music so loud in restaurants? I feel like I used to enjoy conversing without having to shout.
"When am I going to sit on my balls?" "You asked for my ID? Are you joking?" "If I go to bed now, maybe I can actually get 8 hours of sleep for once." "I blinked, how the hell is it already June?" "Holy c**p, that car nearly hit me! I need to watch where I'm going." "I don't remember ever being this cold when I was a kid." "I wouldn't have believed I was this old, but then I remembered all the c**p I've lived through."
Adding: Sending the kids to school knowing that they will come home from that petri dish of a place with a runny nose and give you a cold that knocks you on your A$$ for a month, a cough that lasts 100 days, and no sick days left at work to take. Kids are better in two days of sniffles while never slowing down, you get cement in your joints and can barely breathe for month.
When I was 19, I found this really nice black 1950s overcoat for about 10 bucks in a second-hand charity shop. I still wear it, I still get compliments for it, and nowadays I even tell people how long I have been the proud owner of it, 43 years! The best buy ever, I just wish that my hands had kept up that well.
I'm so sick of this "30 is old" b******t. At 30, you are anything but old.
Had a cell phone die once during an upgrade took it in the get replaced and since I'm over 40, the worker assumed I didn't know about technology. I'm a systems engineer for a massive company.
Definitely "the young people in tech stores" thing. I let one of those employees in the computer department ramble once(I was shopping for a laptop) until he said something that was wrong and, I corrected him and explained how it really worked. His expression was priceless. Been in IT for 25 years, write code, and I'm a proud tech geek.
Trust me, by the time you're my age you'll realize 30 is still baby stage.... almost pathetic.
I'm 62 and have never been on Twitter. Over 30? Wait and see! I was in the tech industry in my 30's. Job discrimination begins at 35. Hide and watch.
I used to think that reading glasses were a daft idea, now I can not only not function without them to hand, I even have the chain around the neck (at work) so I don't put them down somewhere and lose them .
When you're 18, you're sure you'll be dead by 25 . Not from suicide or accident, from old age...
55 and already had a knee replaced. And wth happened around 45 that I put on weight
Paying very close attention to HOW I get up off the floor. I'm only 36 but I used to break horses so yeah, there's been some abuse. If I don't get up in exactly the right way, my c**p knee will pop loudly and hurt like hell for 2 or 3 days. For perspective, I was a toddler teacher at a preschool when I was in my 20's and popped up and down off the floor dozens of times in an 8 hour period and never gave it a second's thought.
How about how disgusted we were as teenagers to hear our parents talking about medical maladies all day. Now I see it as kind of a contest between me and my husband. Who's got the more painful knee, worst constipation, worst raging heartburn. I used to laugh hearing David Alan Grier's old man character shout out a random "My feet smell like garlic!" Now I realize, "OMG..that's me!!"
There's a f**k-ton of these that I can relate to to some degree and I'm not thirty yet. I feel like weird generalizations are being made or I'm just insanely unhealthy and nobody's telling me.
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I employed someone born in 2000 last year. Also, just had a client who was born in 2000 that has a mortgage and a child (I'm a financial adviser). Made me feel proper old.
Let me add to the list "putting your hands out of your pockets when climbing a set of stairs in case you trip and fall down" 😂
People, what is wrong with you? 30 something is very, very young person. I am 47 now and this could maybe apply to me or even older persons. When I was in 30s I was a baby, looking great and feeling mostly great, even though I live in quite sh**y country and my life wasn't and isn't exactly a fairytale. True problems and changes start (and only start) after 40-42, in some people even later.
This is a SENSATIONAL time to be OLD! I don't have to 'find myself', I know who I am. I know a lot of things from EXPERIENCE instead of reading about someone else's. It's easy to acquire old technology and cheaper! I know history from BEING THERE! I heard the original bands who played what is now GOLDEN OLDIES. I can sleep any time, don't have to have the latest anything. As an older women, guys are hitting on me all the time. I can mess with people and they forgive me for being OLD! Use this valuable time for fun, dump the haters, you don't even have to talk to or visit family anymore. And I spend my holidays where I want. Geez, hang onto this golden time! Make up stuff . . . younger people actually believe me when I tell them I dated Eric Clapton! My trick knee? I tell kids it's a cheerleader injury -- didn't know she'd go that far when I KICKED HER! Now is the time to mess with EVERYBODY and excuse yourself with OLD AGE!
Those kiddos thinking they changed that much at 35... 51 yo here and I can tell some things to you kiddos. Nah, I don't care.
Sitting at a bus stop on my way home from work reading this. (7:30 pm) Watching 10 "kids" taking a bus to at party, with two litres of vodka for tonight's party. Thinking "Thank God I can go home, have a cup of tea, and go to bed early.
I work in an office. Our servers were down the other day. One of my coworkers needed to send a document, I told her to fax it. She looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Apparently she had no idea the copier she's been using for over a year was also a fax machine. God I felt old.
I remember the last time I slept on the floor. I was about 30 and when I woke up it felt like someone crept in and thoroughly beat me with bat overnight.
I am 41. I just found a 1/2 inch WHITE hair growing out of the bottom of my chin while I was putting on my makeup this morning. Officially. Old. I never thought the facial hair on women (when you get older) thing would happen to me! :(
Thinking about dating. Men my age, though? They look like old men. How'd that happen? XD
Fellow pandas I just turned 36, so I feel these pains, BUT remember we're far from decrepit yet and must challenge ourselves to do young-ish things, while having the life experience to now keep our s**t together. I've done a 5k, did pretty well, and saw 60-something men & women run respectable times. I've met powerlifters, men and women, in their 50s, who teem w/ strength. You can't be an idealist at all now? Idealistic political movements like civil rights in the '60s had frontline participants who were far older and grayer than us. Oliver Sacks said he still loved learning new things when he was 81 and an acclaimed neuroscientist & author. I've seen 50-somethings socializing at dinner parties 'til 5 am. So, on occasion, have a damn Red Bull and stay at the party a little more. Do your stretches, go for a jog, push through some push ups or planks or whatever exercise. Read another great book. Help someone who needs your help. Stand up for something.
Resenting those 40+ for looking down upon us as young adults, as though we weren't worthy of respect. Now, teaching junior doctors and realising what a bunch of ill mannered brats they are. While once upon a time parenthood was threatening, the idea that I'm now old enough to be their father and can put them firmly back in their boxes feels somewhat empowering.
Betty White turned 98 TODAY 1/17/20. I know she could give us a great spiel on aging. *love you Betty!*
Well I’m a teenager. I’d rather listen to most old music then the newer stuff. I don’t know anything about tech items. I really do stand out from my friends. I love moisturizer. My back usually hurts from the workouts I do (if you can count that as an “old person” trait) man I guess I’m 30
I can't flip over a page in a book without licking my finger anymore. It used to be gross when I see other does it, but now I had to do it and really don't care how other feel.
When I was in Gr7, we did an English poem.I only remember this one line. Being Afrikaans this really got stuck in my mind. "And when I am old, something like 25 or 26..." I am 40 years old now. 25 was the best time of my life!
Eating anything fatty and realizing that your body doesn’t digest that s**t anymore, but instead, it spreads it evenly across your hips. I have to say though, the aches and pains are the worst. I never thought bending over and picking something off the floor would be such a chore.
Oh, y'all darling baby thirty-somethings. Babies -- y'all ain't old. Y'all are barely closing in on middle-age. Come back to me when you hit 50 and tell me how things are. (Especially you women, after you hit menopause. Then it's REALLY "WTF?????")
I love it when young people assume you know nothing about gaming cause your old. Newsflash.......my generation invented gaming culture, and I'll be playing until I die.
I am getting sick and tired of seeing ugly f*****g apeknuckle on every damned page.
My aging complaint: why do they play music so loud in restaurants? I feel like I used to enjoy conversing without having to shout.
"When am I going to sit on my balls?" "You asked for my ID? Are you joking?" "If I go to bed now, maybe I can actually get 8 hours of sleep for once." "I blinked, how the hell is it already June?" "Holy c**p, that car nearly hit me! I need to watch where I'm going." "I don't remember ever being this cold when I was a kid." "I wouldn't have believed I was this old, but then I remembered all the c**p I've lived through."
Adding: Sending the kids to school knowing that they will come home from that petri dish of a place with a runny nose and give you a cold that knocks you on your A$$ for a month, a cough that lasts 100 days, and no sick days left at work to take. Kids are better in two days of sniffles while never slowing down, you get cement in your joints and can barely breathe for month.
When I was 19, I found this really nice black 1950s overcoat for about 10 bucks in a second-hand charity shop. I still wear it, I still get compliments for it, and nowadays I even tell people how long I have been the proud owner of it, 43 years! The best buy ever, I just wish that my hands had kept up that well.
I'm so sick of this "30 is old" b******t. At 30, you are anything but old.
Had a cell phone die once during an upgrade took it in the get replaced and since I'm over 40, the worker assumed I didn't know about technology. I'm a systems engineer for a massive company.
Definitely "the young people in tech stores" thing. I let one of those employees in the computer department ramble once(I was shopping for a laptop) until he said something that was wrong and, I corrected him and explained how it really worked. His expression was priceless. Been in IT for 25 years, write code, and I'm a proud tech geek.
Trust me, by the time you're my age you'll realize 30 is still baby stage.... almost pathetic.
I'm 62 and have never been on Twitter. Over 30? Wait and see! I was in the tech industry in my 30's. Job discrimination begins at 35. Hide and watch.
I used to think that reading glasses were a daft idea, now I can not only not function without them to hand, I even have the chain around the neck (at work) so I don't put them down somewhere and lose them .
When you're 18, you're sure you'll be dead by 25 . Not from suicide or accident, from old age...
55 and already had a knee replaced. And wth happened around 45 that I put on weight
Paying very close attention to HOW I get up off the floor. I'm only 36 but I used to break horses so yeah, there's been some abuse. If I don't get up in exactly the right way, my c**p knee will pop loudly and hurt like hell for 2 or 3 days. For perspective, I was a toddler teacher at a preschool when I was in my 20's and popped up and down off the floor dozens of times in an 8 hour period and never gave it a second's thought.
How about how disgusted we were as teenagers to hear our parents talking about medical maladies all day. Now I see it as kind of a contest between me and my husband. Who's got the more painful knee, worst constipation, worst raging heartburn. I used to laugh hearing David Alan Grier's old man character shout out a random "My feet smell like garlic!" Now I realize, "OMG..that's me!!"
There's a f**k-ton of these that I can relate to to some degree and I'm not thirty yet. I feel like weird generalizations are being made or I'm just insanely unhealthy and nobody's telling me.
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