• Barbecue Cowboy
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    2823 days ago

    At some point you’ll be talking to someone a lot younger than you and realize that somehow they’re still an adult and then immediately after they’ll do something incredibly immature. Will make that top line will drop so fast.

      • nfh
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        423 days ago

        The state of being old is a whole bunch of things that correlate with chronological age, but unless you know someone moving at relativistic speeds, chronological age is the only one we all move through at the same rate.

        If you can hold on to the good bits of youth, like open-mindedness, and grow along dimensions like maturity, maybe youth doesn’t need to be wasted on the young.

  • DreamButt
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    1523 days ago

    Nah son, I’m old. I walked down the stairs wrong and my back was hurting for ten minutes

  • Hegar
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    1123 days ago

    I don’t think this graph is accurate - the lines shouldn’t be so perfectly parallel.

    The older I get, the greater the distance between my age and “old” age. When I was 12, 15 seemed old. At 42, 75 seems old.

  • @jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    1023 days ago

    My wife is a few months older than me. She doesn’t seem to appreciate that I call her old as hell on her birthdays.

      • @jballs@sh.itjust.works
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        923 days ago

        She also does not appreciate whenever I play Your Love by The Outfield just so I can sing the lyric:

        🎶You know I like my girls a little bit older 🎶

  • stebo
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    623 days ago

    wdym? for me the lines crossed when I was 20. I’m ancient now.

    • @sga@lemmings.world
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      223 days ago

      could you bother to share some tips, like the perfect brand to get the anti aging vaccines from, or that super duper bone density improvement kit. The brands i have been looking at at really expensive, the last one i tried was asking 127 quintillion, plus taxes. PLUS TAXES! those cheapskates

  • @Demdaru@lemmy.world
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    423 days ago

    As a teen came to conclusion age is just a number and this still holds. Met smarter, more conscious teens than most of the adults I know and met more childish and dumb adults than most of the teens. The only thing word “adult” connects with for me is conforming with what others expect of you at the cost of your own happiness

    Screw that. Gonna frolick in grass, learn new shit, do sports or jump into puddless and see how far I can make them splash ;p

  • spicy pancake
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    423 days ago

    i’ve simultaneously feel like an idiot baby and a cranky old woman since i was 14 please tell me it gets better

  • Franklin
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    23 days ago

    I always tell people I’ve been 65 since I was 20

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    23 days ago

    I wanna know how I’ve managed to not age as much as every other 40 year old person I’ve ever met. I look the same as I did in high school, with just a bit of gray in my beard and sideburns. I look younger than pictures of my own father from when he was in his 30’s.

    • spicy pancake
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      223 days ago

      an absolute shit ton of it is sun exposure and stress (with a healthy helping of genetics nobody has any control over cuz fuck u lol)