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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

35 is rough. I’m starting to understand the whole “mid life crisis” thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

48 here big dawg - the hits just keep on coming (good with the bad, too)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

53 checking in 🙂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, 30 is a blip, but I remember 35 felt like the first time that my 30s really hit home - that the years would just keep coming.

This is a bit male centric, but Neal Stephenson had a good line about this feeling in Snow Crash:

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. if my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

The process of getting old is bit like getting farther and farther away from that point. And maturity is what you do with that feeling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Man that’s exactly how it feels. I read snow crash when I was like 16 or something and that totally didn’t even register with me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I still don't understand the mid life crisis thing, but then again I never had a life

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I've just had crisis when 28, lol. Don't remind me.