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[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah they converge. OP should understand after about the third time they wake up and their back hurts for no reason.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

That convergence line is absolutely vertical

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

I was old before my 20's

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yup, that's me. I work w/ people 10+ years younger than me. I think I'm old.

[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

But at the same time, they converge too. I feel way older than I thought I'd do at my age (35).

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

It's a log chart

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope you're frequently making jokes about how you're into older women.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week 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 🎶

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I'm so happy the lines are converging for me, my age is finally starting to catch up to my hair line and color

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you're going to live in a world with only young people I see

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As long as there's one person older than me, I'm still young.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Ha I like that

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My plan is to live forever. So far, so good.

[–] sga@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

Eating garbage and not exercising has worked so far for me, YMMV.

[–] bpev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

haven't died once yet!

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] kubica@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Crazy how nature do that.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

...when i turned thirty, i was a grownup, and people started treating me like one: grownups are f*cking old and their lives are over...

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week 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

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week 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@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] caboose2006@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

That line crossed for me years ago. I think at 25

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week 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)

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Meh.

Bah!

Pfft.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'm the complete opposite, I'm an old man. I've been an old man for about 8 years now I'm almost 40. My friends either disagree with me or piss them off (if they're older than me) when I say, "I'm old".

[–] Galapagon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I keep asking my friends when they're going to bingo at the senior center. We're barley in our 30s