I'm turning 29 soon... any old men or old women can relate or nah... I can cope until I turn 30 I guess...
32 here. Sometime after I turned 30 I realized that nowadays, your 20s are basically your adolescence. People's life expectancy used to be about my age. Can you imagine? I feel like I'm just actually getting to know who I am. Somewhere around 25 something changed pretty drastically on a mental level, but around 30 something changed on a spiritual level. I don't fear aging or death the same way I used to anymore. There are people who are 21 who have lived all the life they're ever going to live, and are just sticking around - there are people at 50something who are just getting started. None of this shit is linear, god has a plan for all of us. If you stop looking for the lessons, life stops. If you search, you live forever. Change is the name of the game.
>>84814965chickn is kind of a bimbo so your words might be wasted on her, she only understands sex and a good dicking
>>84814965So true oomfie..you're so right... Time is a illusion we can self improve at any age>>84814977Kind of true tho
>>84814977someday that'll probably change too>>84815007I don't even really know if I believe in "self improvement" anymore. I spent a lot of my late 20s chasing that. It was actually very destructive, I paid a lot for very little. I think striving and willfulness are just more ways of letting life pass you by. You trade all the potential of the current moment for potential in the future; the future doesn't actually exist in a way that matters to us. Nature does most of the job, it's self corrective. That isn't to say delayed gratification is bad, though, or that you should always chase momentary pleasures. It's more to say that momentary pleasures will almost always make you feel worse later on. I think it's honestly more important to recognize these ebb and flow of these things than to always be charging forward.
>>84815115You're so smart omg you should work as a teacher in uni I can tell how you articulate your words
>>84815115doesn't life feel stagnant when you don't improve? I can see the failure that self improvement leads to, improvement exists in a vacuum, but what's the alternative? Be aware of the ebbs, then what?
>>84815168You just have to know how to do both. There are seasons in life. A lot of the time, people try to farm in the winter and then wonder why nothing grows. Reflection and orientation is just as important as acting. Imagine you're lost in the woods and never stop to get your bearings. You'll walk a lot in circles. I'm not saying never walk, never farm, never prepare - but our society equates doing those things with living, when they're often the things that keep you from doing so.
>>84815268>Imagine you're lost in the woods and never stop to get your bearings.Would you say life is to you about continuous change, and then constant reinterpretations of your living and your direction?
Chickn do you believe in God?Like Jesus Christ who died on the cross and then rose again and wanted to save your life from an eternity of torment?
>>84815930I want to believe in God.But I don't really.My parents made me go to church all the time when I was a little girl and even put me in the church class? Sunday school I believe.
>>84815748To some degree, yes. There are obviously people who do the same thing for years on end, or don't really doubt their place in the world or what they're here to do, some people who know their mission or find it with time, some people who go against the grain because they're meant to, etc - but even within all those things, there's so much adaptation that needs to take place. Life is change, even death is change. No way around it. I don't necessarily think it's the goal of life or anything, though. It's just the medium.
>>84816045The church school isn't really good at teaching about God because of many reasons, but He does exist and wants to be with you and for you to stop being a slave to sin and live a clean life.
>>84814871Getting old sucks ass...I am only 31, and I already feel like a dead man.Mainly, I just miss being hopeful about the future and feeling like I had my whole life ahead.Scientists should spend more time trying to bring more quality of life to the people (like a way for youth to last longer) instead of putting so much effort into prolonging life (as if living past 65 had any value).
>>84814871I am 50 and I think you are so mature for your age. What are you wearing.
>>84814965>your 20s are basically your adolescenceLolLmao even
>>84814871You become an adult at the age of 33.3333~, that is 33 years, 121 days and 16 hours. I've got quite a way to go yet, dearie.
I turned 30 last year, don't really care. have been checked out of dating for like three years now, got a job I really love, a lot of video games to play, plenty of online and offline friends. life is good
>>84814965Classically we've always culturally believed that "adulthood begins with the first steps of acquiring wisdom after 33 years."Now we know this is because the brain isn't even fully physically developed until >27 years, and that you need experience using it in life for some years (+6) before you have any chance to earn what we call the wisdom of adulthood.We pick numbers like >16 or >18 and >21 as a legal minimus, a limit where "below this age the risk is not worth it." It doesn't mean you can turn 21 and be entirely capable of deciding if you should drink. It isn't saying you can turn 18 and be able to decide whether you should share nudes of yourself online or do porn and whatever. All it means is that this is the threshold where legally the law says "okay, well, good job making it this far but from this point on you're on your own, kid."As you get older you'll start to understand what I'm talking about.>t:42
>>84817096>Lol>Lmao even"At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three."- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
>>84816624Plenty of people that are healthy long past 65 you fucking retard, and reversing aging for indefinite lifespans is a goal that a surprising amount of progress has been made on. In March clinical trial results were published where in a group of 150 people aged 70-85, 1/3 had their strength and stamina improved so much that they were no longer considered frail.
>>84818211Hilarious. Let him experience the known hits to functionality at 33, 42 and 65. Just wait, one day you'll have jock itch for absolutely no god damn reason apart from that your fucking immune system can't deal with 20% polyester anymore even if you shower twice a day.How is it?>FUCKING BRUTAL.
>>84814965>People's life expectancy used to be about my age.That's false, you're confusing the mean life versus median. Mean is the average, so if a lot of newborns die (like in Texas) it throws the average off by a ton. That's because 0.2+0.1+0.001+0.001+0.01+0.1+100 / 7 = 14.344~, but for the one guy who lived instead of dying at or just after birth he made it to 100. So the median for surviving to adulthood would be 100, but the mean would be 14.344.
Basically you need to really be aware of precisely what you're averaging. Should we count kids who never make it past one year of age? Maybe not even then. Should we count people who do not make it to say, 15? Maybe. So depending upon how we remove outliers (kids who insta-kill themselves along with their mothers because of being inbred and from Texas instead of aborted) the numbers we get will be radically different.By manipulating the data like this, averages are the #1 way people fucking lie about things. It's called a "lie by omission" and it is the WORST KIND OF LIE.
