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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I used to think this. I was in my late 20s but still felt like a teenager in my head.

At some point in the last few years, after I crossed into my early 30s, I realized that wasn't true anymore. I don't feel like a teenager, I just feel like a 20 something now. Which is still incorrect but there's definitely been a shift.

Maybe it stopped because when I'm around teenagers, I realize how much distance I feel from them. Not in a "kids these days" way, just in a general sense. A feeling like "...oh...I'm not like this anymore. I remember being like this, I still kind of am, but I haven't really been like this in a while." The juxtaposition is so evident that my unconscious self-perception can't maintain the denial.

I certainly don't feel my age, but my "internal age" (so to speak) has progressed a bit. I guess it's a sliding scale.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm in my sixth decade. It's not bad. Finally not giving any fucks at all. It's a sliding scale.

Being Gen X is pretty good.

Enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same for me. I don't sweat the small stuff anymore, and fairly much everything is small stuff now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you! May yours be peaceful, prosperous and as long as you fancy

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

That's a melodious turn of phrase. Thank-you.