What is the deal with people acting as if 30 is old? Am I the only one approaching that age that feels like my life has just begun?
I see a lot of things, especially on social media sites like Reddit, suggesting that 30 is old and basically when you reach a steep and steady physical decline, both in terms of health/fitness and looks. They are absolutely obsessed with the "aging" that comes with being 30, making comments about 30-year-old actresses having "aged gracefully" as if they're decades older than they really are (and as if it's impossible to still look good after 20), that women "lose their value" after 30 (I'm guessing this is some incel bullshit), and basically make it sound like you turn into an old hag on midnight of your 30th birthday. There is also so much melodramatic nonsense about your life practically being over by 30. I also have friends in real life who are convinced that they are old because they're nearly 30. WTH is with this?
I'm 29 and I feel like my life is just beginning. I had a rough adolescence and early 20s, so I'm more than happy to have that out of the way and do not see those as "the good old days" or wish for them back at all. I cannot get behind this idea that those are supposed to be our "glory years" and that it's all downhill from there. I find it utterly ridiculous, TBH. To me, those years were full of youthful stupidity, naivety/being too impressionable for my own good, and extreme self-consciousness, and they were the "growing pains" years. I feel like my mid-20s onward have been so much better, like things have "clicked" and I'm a much better version of myself, and so much more comfortable with who I am and self-assured. I feel like I'm at the stage of life where I can really take the bull by the horns now. I also do not feel physically old by any stretch of the imagination, and do not feel like I look much different than I did 10ish years ago. If anything, I feel like I've improved physically, both in terms of fitness and looks, not the other way around.
What has your experience with your 30s been like, and why do you think there seems to be some weird belief that 30 is old?
I'm 29 and I feel like my life is just beginning. I had a rough adolescence and early 20s, so I'm more than happy to have that out of the way and do not see those as "the good old days" or wish for them back at all. I cannot get behind this idea that those are supposed to be our "glory years" and that it's all downhill from there. I find it utterly ridiculous, TBH. To me, those years were full of youthful stupidity, naivety/being too impressionable for my own good, and extreme self-consciousness, and they were the "growing pains" years. I feel like my mid-20s onward have been so much better, like things have "clicked" and I'm a much better version of myself, and so much more comfortable with who I am and self-assured. I feel like I'm at the stage of life where I can really take the bull by the horns now. I also do not feel physically old by any stretch of the imagination, and do not feel like I look much different than I did 10ish years ago. If anything, I feel like I've improved physically, both in terms of fitness and looks, not the other way around.
What has your experience with your 30s been like, and why do you think there seems to be some weird belief that 30 is old?
26-30, F
