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It doesn't get any better at 40 (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] CorruptCheesecake@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I'm 28 and I feel ancient. I wish I could start over in life, but I can't. I wasted my teens/20s and now, right when the long painful shitty grind until death is about to start, I still don't have shit, have accomplished nothing, never traveled or dated or moved out or got a degree or hit any of the typical milestones and am an unlikeable, crazy, unemployable pathetic loser everyone's forgotten about. Being born as this specific idiot person that I am is the worst thing that has ever happened to me.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

You'll always feel old, and you'll always look back at yourself a decade prior and marvel at what a fool you were for feeling old back then when you were really so, so young. This is a universal experience.

I didn't really get going on anything until my mid 30s. I just cleaned floors and answered phones. Ended up meeting another late bloomer. We both graduated from mid college programs at the end of our 30s, and now we're both limping through our "careers" in our 40s.

Yeah it might have been better if we started earlier but we didn't. And I sure as fuck look back at myself at 30 thinking how even with 000 to show for it I was still young and full of future, even if I felt like an ancient loser.

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

this is only true if you dont do anything with your life but just sit down in one spot all day and all night. im 38 and i feel find inside and out.

[–] bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

Muscle strength-focused workout. This is the way. Sitting all day is the death of your spine. Work out with weights, stronger muscles will save you

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Air squats. Do them.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't because I'm past 40

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

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

At least for flexibility and balance. They're a nothing burger for strength, but strength can only come after your body can actually move without hurting itself.

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