Age 10-20 was miserable. Hormones. Parents. Bullies in high school. Difficult to find work. College struggle and debt.
Age 20-30 was better but still shit. Welfare. Homelessness. Police harassment. Juggling three jobs to pay rent.
Age 30-40 was so much better. Life was in order. Wife and I both leveled up our education and got a career. Traveled for the first time (Hawaii then Japan). Had kids.
Age 40 - life is getting better. Feels like the best days still happening.
I'm 35. Still waiting for life to stop being miserable. No hope in sight.
i had so much hope in my 20s. now in my 30s it's gone
Yet but also: don't blink too quickly...
You don’t want to dry out those tear ducts and go on empty when you turn 60!
20s-30s: Time & energy, but no money.
60s-70s: Money & time, but no energy.
40-50s: Not enough of any of them.
im in my 30s i dont feel like i have any time, energy, or money
I've found eating a rich person helps a lot.
Give up on money and you can use your time to sleep … which can make energy.
Worst case scenario you get some serious sleepies in
I'm 40. I feel like my life is over. My career was destroyed by Trump and all this AI bullshit. I fear becoming an old man and not being able to afford basic life essentials.
same boat
My career is ok but my body is falling apart.
This is how it was for me. No societal expectation to care about things anymore. Don’t wanna go somewhere? Say you don’t feel like it or that you’re tired and boom, done. Nobody looks twice at you, which I suppose could feel devastating for some. For me it felt liberating.
Very little of my life was worth living until I was in my 30s. It was specifically due to changing societal attitudes towards homosexuality that allowed me to finally live in peace.
Life before 30 is great
Life after 30 is also great
Life is great.
Hey don't bring your positivity around here, I was just about to feel sorry for myself and blame my misgivings on stuff that isn't me.
Counterpoint: My back hurts.
You should get that taken care of. An occasional twinge now and then is normal, but constant pain? In your thirties? That ain't standard. In your forties, I could believe - although it still wouldn't be standard. But your back should still be in relatively good nick in your thirties, unless you lift heavy things for a living. In your thirties a backache should be nothing a good night's sleep, a nice stretch, and a long leisurely walk can't fix.
Unless... you DO lift with your knees, right? When you need to lift something? And keep your back straight and chin up while doing so? People don't constantly say to do that just for shits and giggles - it's universally good advice.
I really relate to this comic. I didn't like being a child that much, and I feel alienated a lot on the internet by people constantly wishing they could go back to having no responsibilities. I really, really like being able to control my own destiny and decide what I wanna do, even though it comes with increased pressures and responsibilities.
Hell yes to this. Childhood, Highschool, and even in to college were some of the worst years of my life. I never want to repeat them. Sometimes I fantasize about what it would have been like to be "normal", but I love who I am now and l do not want to give that up or go back.
Midtwenties and it feels over in a lot of ways. The majority of friends I've made growing up or in college are gone. People have spread out and started focusing on their own lives. Even people that I only ever knew online have began moving on.
In a lot of ways this has been fine because I've just turned inward and started focusing on myself too, started being selfish about what I want. I miss seeing a lot of my friends in person rather than random texts or seeing their stories on snap.
It's very confusing at times because I enjoy being able to do whatever I want when I want without consulting anyone but I also miss having people to do things with.
Let people go. You cant hold onto them forever, even in the best of cases. I have people who i consider my best friends that I haven't seen in years. Maybe never again.
The river of life has many branches, we just floated down different ones. Dont take it personally.
I've let go of them but the issue is finding new people to replace them.
Accept lamer people like work colleagues and such.
My egg cracked a few weeks after I turned 29. My 30s are gonna be an interesting time for sure, but I can actually imagine a future for myself now!
20s, a lot of fun but broke as shit
30s a lot of fun and actually had money for things
40s not as much fun and back to broke. Covid really fucked shit up
My bet on why people don't identify with that anymore is shifting social expectations and economy leading to having kids way later than in their day.
Which... I love my kids, wouldn't trade 'em for anything. But they can definitely make you feel old both by just watching them age and the extra responsibility reducing the freedom/spontaneity you might have had more of earlier in your youth. If you had kids in your early 20s, this starts earlier. If you don't start until your 30s, you're probably already starting to settle a bit anyway just from being more established in a career and such.
I'd also be curious to know rates of messing around with harder drugs and drinking and such. My sense is those have gone down, and that kind of thing can be hard on your body.
Just spit balling here.
Anyone who yearns for their life as child has developmental issues. I'm not trying to say that as a sick burn, I think it's honestly sad and source of suffering for some people.
I was still “young” in my 30s. Really better than my 20s even. Great time.
Then you hit 40 and things get… interesting. That’s when I started to feel old.
I literally found my purpose in my 30s. Nothing was meaningful nor worthwhile in my 20s
I thought I would have my own place and have settled down by my 30s... hasn't happened yet... so...
Glad to know she's still active. I miss her in webtoons
ITT: a bunch of “miserable” people who are way too comfortable and happy with their lives to fight back against what they claim is making them so (performatively) “miserable”
There's still pleanty of fun and meaningful things I can do in my 30s
Well, that really varies from person to person, doesn't it?
My 30s were worse than my 20s.
Having to work full-time sucks.
It might be different for people who love their job or for those who are rich enough not to worry about work at all, but for me, the time when I had to work full-time was more or less the end of the 'good times'.
Wait! You didn’t have to work full time in your 20’s? I’ve been working full time since I was 21
My 30s might have been more awesome if I hadn't reset my life/career every 4-5 years. I'd have been super bored and miserable in a different way if I'd stayed the course, but I'd have more money to waste on synthesizers in my big empty house, I guess.
You can get peanut butter that's just made of peanuts. And then you put that on toast.
The only place I've ever seen the idea of people in their 30s being "old" is in the internet. Is this some american thing too?
best guess is there's some kind of prevailing notion that when you're not young any more, you're old, which those nearing their 30s dread while 30 pluses refuse to accept they're middle aged
I think the number thirty is being blamed, not because your life is actually "over" when you turn thirty, but because that TENDS to be roughly the age most people start having kids, and having kids certainly DOES cause major changes in lifestyle.
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