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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean, at that points it’s just another day. Source: am 42

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• cloudless@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A birthday is just a day, just like the day before and the day after. There is nothing that dramatically changes overnight except for the number.

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  • oneser@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hard disagree. There is a day (obviously your 37th birthday) where things are never the same as they were before.

    After this day the accelerator of aging is firmly pressed into the (pelvic) floor, and kept there by your locked up knee.

    It is futile to deny.

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    • oneser@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I must add that the only known, but temporary (35 minutes), cure to this is a motor vehicle with > 300 bhp.

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• tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Being 37 is better than dying at 23.

  One should aim to be old and decrepit. Beats the alternative.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Young and crepit?

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  • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Getting old sucks, it’s only preferable because the alternative sucks worse.

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    • thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Releasing a couple banger albums and dying on a cross of your own self-destruction by age 33?

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ah, such are the decisions on the road of life.

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  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not too old though. I’ve seen too many people over 85 in my family slowly fade and it’s not pretty. I’d opt for the “one and done” if possible.

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• rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s better than the alternative.

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• MercuryGenisus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m pushing numbers like that. And I have to say, when I really stop and think about it, my life just keeps getting better. I keep getting better. My mind is better. My attitude is better.

  I think about death a lot, but I also think about life a lot. Its easy to think back and say “if only I could go back” forgetting that who you are now and who you were then are completely different. We wish we had more time to be young and wise, but usually you have to pick one out the other.

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  • sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Same thing. I have gotten so much better at dealing with life. Honestly being older is easy

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• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Enjoy it. Am almost 60 and would love to be 37 again.

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• KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  37 was one of my better years. I had disposable income to go do whatever stupid hijinks I could think of. I did start seeing less of my friends who had started families. But I also switched jobs to do new interesting things. We did lots of concerts, community events, I took photography classes. It was great. I enjoyed my thirties.

  My forties have been very rough though. And that could just be from coincidence of life events happening. I’m actually looking forward to 50. I am hoping my 50s are like my 30s, just a tad slower. And my friends are coming back on the radar as their kids are leaving for college.

  I used to get somewhat concerned about the remaining time I have left, but I must have somehow come to terms with it. I look back on the last 25 years and think of all that has happened. It feels like both just yesterday and “damn, that was forever ago”. The next 25 may feel just as long and be just as full. I’m ok with that. I’m just trying to enjoy the ride.

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• TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I thought I was 37 before the gal I’m seeing learned my bday and told me I’m 38. Then I turned 39 a couple of months later, so I aged 3 years in a few months. It’s just a number, and gray facial hair looks great.

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The same way I handled being 36 and 38, and every other age.
  It’s only a crisis if you make it a crisis. If you have a nice life be happy about it.

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• salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  37 was a fun year because I got to spend it quoting Monty Python: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyZaUwG50zI

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  • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Dennis is one of those (fictional) people who I clearly remember being much younger than, briefly being the same age as, and now being much older than. The two main others are Gordon Freeman (27) and Homer Simpson (under 40).

    Now if only my mental age had kept up...

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• nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s all relative. I remember turning 25 and thinking i was old. Then 30 and thought the world was over. A decade later I’m still here and just tell myself I’m not 50 yet. The point is as this “friend” of yours ages, what is considered old will age with him.

  Now get off my lawn 😉

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• yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m in a much better place at 43 than 33. My finances are better, my kids are older and much less maintenance. I have way more free time now. I remember fighting for 30min one or twice a week to game for a little bit and feeling guilty after (had 4 kids under 10). Now? I game almost every day if I want. I actually get a little bored sometimes. It’s luxurious. My body doesn’t feel much different either. Bit slower healing, but I love my 40s. Don’t make me go back.

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  • sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Do you regret your thirties? Or would you do it the same again?

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Luckily 30's is where you start to experience age stuff so you are already past 7 years of the new normal. Unfortunately it continues on like that and by late 40's you sorta used to taking into account your capabilities as you do things and actually adjust to the new normal.

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• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “A friend”, huh?

  I’ll let you him know when I figure it out.

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• PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Make him watch this Veritasium video: youtu.be/d6iQrh2TK98

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sounds like he’s winning

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  • WaffleWarrior@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In a sense he is winning but the weight of the world on his shoulders prevents him from being able to stop and admire The View.

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  37 is one third of 111 and you can call that “old”… but it’s also a funny number :)

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• alquicksilver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think that’s the age I’ll turn next, but I kinda stopped remembering/caring once I hit 30. My advice is to not remember how old you are so that you have to do math to figure it out; that should discourage your friend from being bothered by how old he is. Instead, he can be bothered by the fact that he can never remember his own age. ;P

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• Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thanks to denial, I’m immortal!

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• cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  37 was the year I started planning my retirement. At 38, I officially retired. I started growing a beard and was surprised to find a white patch to one side on my chin.

  Now at 41, my entire chin has turned white and I have salt-and-pepper hair throughout my beard and head hair.

  37 truly is a magical age.

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  • WaffleWarrior@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Retirement? Bro my friend is going to be a 65 yr old Walmart greeter at the route things are going

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    • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No need to worry about retirement, most of us will die in the climate wars anyway.

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You handle it by not worrying about it, and living every day to the fullest. Nobody knows how long they have. Why spend it fretting? .

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