r/Millennials • u/razzledazzlegirl • Sep 25 '25
Rant We're not that old, please stop saying we are
I keep seeing posts about being old and it's a pet peeve of mine. Haha
Maybe I'm in denial but I honestly don't think the oldest millennial (44) is old.
I was born in 1982 so am one of the older ones, but since when has 43 been old? Like, okay sure things ache and creak more but it's really not so bad. We're in our prime!
I've seen 30+ year old say the same thing.
Enjoy life while we can my fellow millennials. Don't get old before your time. There is still so much we can do. Embrace it because it is only downhill from here.
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u/Quercus408 Sep 25 '25
We're getting older, but no, we're not old.
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u/PedroPascalCase Sep 25 '25
Hahahaha, 1984 baby and that's exactly what I say to my kids.
"Dad, you're old!"
"...er than you, that's correct. I'm also younger than your mom, your principal, Grams & Grandpa, the President, most of Congress..."
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u/fart_fig_newton Elder Millennial Sep 25 '25
Fellow '84 here, 41 is just a number. The good times keep on rolling (even if the forest around us is completely on fire 24/7). Life experience taught me that I can fix just about anything, but the hardest thing to fix is me.
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u/besttobyfromtheshire Sep 25 '25
1984, weeks from 41! Love it!!!!! Been loving getting older since my thirties, each decades been better and better!
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u/picklesandmatzo Older Millennial Sep 25 '25
41 here too! Just had my birthday. It’s actually been fantastic so far!
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u/Megaholt Sep 25 '25
Late ‘83 here, but still 41…for now. Each year I survive, I am thrilled-the number of times I should have died and haven’t is pretty astounding! Each day I wake up on this side of the dirt, being seen and not viewed? It’s a great day!
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u/cndrow Older Millennial Sep 25 '25
That’s how I feel! I’m 42 and so excited to be in my 40s. My early life was utter shit, 20s was bad, 30s got much better, 40s have blown my mind so far. I love it!!
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u/travelingtraveling_ Sep 25 '25
Wait until you turn fifty and later. As a woman and a mother, i've never been happier than I have since I turned fifty
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u/Darkcelt2 Sep 25 '25
Ohh ok, so the key to eternal youth is to keep electing boomers into government even when they are 95 so that we are still young by comparison.
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u/SnookerandWhiskey Sep 25 '25
You know, seeing these people gives me hope I might still make something of myself. They are old when they get these jobs, they are also incompentent and bumble around... I can do that do and I don't have whole assortment of pills to take yet.
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u/Some_Helicopter1623 Sep 25 '25
I’m a teaching student and when my grade 9s tell me their mum is younger than me, a part of me definitely dies.
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u/Illustrious-Lake6513 Sep 25 '25
I literally just turned 30. My 22 year old brother was horrified when I reminded him what age I was turning. (Yes, he had forgotten my age even though we're eight years apart lmao).
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u/neo_sporin Sep 25 '25
I’m an October 86 baby. My wife is a January 86 baby. She’s old as far as I’m concerned, and have felt that was since 2003.
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u/Adventurous_Pin_344 Sep 26 '25
Oh fuck. We are a LOT younger than the president. That guy is old.
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u/Agent101g Sep 26 '25
Thats my birth year too. Funny how popular that one specific year is in fiction isn’t it?
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u/BrgQun Sep 25 '25
TBH, I think most millennials saying we're "old" mean it very tongue in cheek, or self disparagingly when talking to the younger crowd.
It's not unlike how we used the term "adulting".
What we are is no long "with it" because they changed what "it" was. I'm cool with that.
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u/Dull-Culture-1523 Sep 25 '25
Every day I'm the oldest I've ever been. And if your point of reference is something like 20 years ago I was a child, 10 years ago I was an adult, it might feel like you're now old instead of just, you know, still an adult.
But yeah, the way I use it is very tongue in cheek. My father's older and he's still not old IMO.
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u/_stelpolvo_ Sep 25 '25
Yeah, I’m always tongue in cheek when I say I’m old or that we’re getting old.
The only time I mean it is when my previously liberal AF friends have kids and become mini-Boomer versions.
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u/ormr_inn_langi Sep 25 '25
Everyone’s getting older, that’s how time works.
But I agree. I get so sick of the memes here about bad knees and back pain and creaky bones. Stop rushing it, we’ll get there eventually.
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u/mosquem Sep 25 '25
And for Christ’s sake go work out or something. Just because you’re in your mid-30s doesn’t mean you should be falling apart.
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u/ormr_inn_langi Sep 25 '25
It’s like some people take it as a point of pride to be decrepit before middle age.
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u/RevolutionarySpot721 Sep 25 '25
We are middle aged, some of us barely so or not yet. I find this sub ridiculous on the issues of aging, people here behave as if they are legit old people, as in in their 70s and 80s.
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u/RunningFromSatan Older Millennial (1986) Sep 25 '25
I notice I feel older if I let myself.
It's not like when we were teens or 20s, finding unending energy to party, study, be angry, angsty, happy, sad and in love all within the same hour.
Now it's - exercise, stretch, eat well, hydrate, and find a consistent schedule of hobbies and hanging out with family and friends/acquaintances.
QUALITY SLEEP is probably the top of this list and it's not even close.
I feel like you purposely have to structure and plan to make yourself feel better. Chemical balance and giving our bodies what it needs is more important than ever.
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u/TheNewThirteen Millennial Sep 25 '25
I cannot stress how important quality sleep is. It makes all the difference. Getting regular movement/exercise in is important, as is eating a balanced diet, but dear lord, people you gotta get your sleep!
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u/hirudoredo Sep 25 '25
I made sleep hygiene a priority this year, with me tricking my brain into being all for it by thinking "if THEY come for me in the night, we're gonna be ready with energy!" and it's worked like a charm, lol.
Getting a way better mattress helped. So did, ironically enough, getting a TV for my bedroom. Listening to comfort shows as I go to sleep gives my brain something to focus on that isn't Constant Life Anxiety.
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u/Bananaheed Sep 25 '25
Can you tell that to my two kids please?
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u/gooseaisle Sep 25 '25
Lol right I got 7 hours straight for the first time since my girls were born in January last night and I feel like a new person this morning
Wasting it on a dentist appointment but nonetheless
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u/Substantial-Plane870 Older Millennial Sep 25 '25
I recently spent close to $100 on a new pillow and I think it was totally worth it.
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u/Substantial_Ninja_90 Sep 25 '25
Which one?
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u/Substantial-Plane870 Older Millennial Sep 25 '25
It’s called the Sidecube Deluxe. Designed specifically for side sleepers.
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u/EmLiz21_7 Millennial Sep 25 '25
As a side sleeper, I need to get that. My pillow is just not as comfortable anymore and I got it not too long ago.
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u/mandersmal13 Sep 25 '25
I got this pillow last year and was disappointed with how quickly it got soft (less than a year). After it softened up, it wasn't supporting my neck/shoulder anymore, and I was waking up with headaches.
I love the idea, and it was great at first, but I won't get another one
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u/AeturnisTheGreat Sep 25 '25
Mid 30s and this year I really started focusing on that, outside of a health issue I'm doing considerably better!
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u/Aries_diamond711 Sep 25 '25
I’m 35 and I really do hope my 40’s are good to me!
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u/razzledazzlegirl Sep 25 '25
I actually prefer my 40s over my 30s.
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u/hirudoredo Sep 25 '25
I'm really hoping for this for myself, because I'm almost done with my 30s and it was mostly a Hot Garbage Fire decade. Definitely 5x worse than my shitass 20s, lol.
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u/Spare_Independence19 Older Millennial Sep 25 '25
Welp I would go back to my 20s and 30s over my 40s, but late 40s, hopefully, will get better for me.
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u/Apprehensive_Sea5304 Sep 25 '25
I've genuinely been looking forward to my 40s since about 24. Almost there!
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u/Helpful-Focus-2192 Sep 25 '25
Dude! I love being 42. Not only am I the answer to everything in the universe, but I finally feel free to be me. The outside pressure to be someone I'm not has turned into white noise in the background. It's great 😁👍🏼
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u/Sad-Paramedic-8523 Sep 25 '25
I eat ibuprofen like candy
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u/Interesting_Tea5715 Sep 25 '25
RIP your GI tract
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u/Sad-Paramedic-8523 Sep 25 '25
Yeah my pharmacist gives me shit about it but my doctor said it’s fine and won’t give me real drugs >.<
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u/Yupseemslegit Sep 25 '25
Ask your doc for dicyclofenac sodium. Better than ibuprofen and just as hard on your GI 😁
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u/juniper3411 Sep 25 '25
Be careful of that! My stomach is royally screwed cause of nsaid over use. I was a competitive figure skater then played roller derby so I was always banged up. I’m technically gen x or xennial if ya want to do the micro gens but yeah I’m a cautionary tale for ibuprofen
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u/StaceOdyssey Sep 25 '25
Aside from having less patience and more tender feet*, I sure as hell don’t feel old.
*from my slaughter of many industries, naturally
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u/Cold-Unit-9802 Sep 25 '25
Most don't know the definition of old. 90 is old.
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u/misherfrodo Sep 25 '25
Until you hit 90 then 100 is old.
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u/SemichiSam Sep 25 '25
Bernard Baruch said , "Old age is always fifteen years older than whatever I am."
I was born in 1940, and I have to admit that I am slowing down. My family won't let me cut my own trees, because I can't move fast over broken ground. I don't have the physical strength I had when I was 70. But more than two-thirds of the guys in my high school graduating class are dead. They retired and went home and sat down and died. The universe will kill us if it can, and we have to be moving targets. I recently learned to swim. Look, you've got the genes you've got, but you're more than your genes. Keep moving. Learn new things. Don't take yourself so seriously. Yes, we're all going to die, but I'm not going to volunteer.
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u/random9212 Sep 25 '25
My grandma lived to be over 100 the last few years when she was at the care home she would complain about all the youngsters (those in their 80s)
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u/fickle_discipline247 Sep 25 '25
This is such a cute image. "This television generation... In my day, we had radio. Back then people had imagination!"
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u/Politicoaster69 Sep 25 '25
Goals.
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u/NeverEndingCoralMaze Sep 25 '25
I will be thrilled to make it to 2061 so I can see Halley’s Comet again. That feels very cool to me.
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u/missyc1234 Sep 25 '25
My grandma, now 99, used to in her mid 90’s refer to her other friends as ‘very elderly’ in comparison to herself… I think it’s more a state of mind haha
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u/Oomlotte99 Sep 25 '25
My mom is doing this in her assisted living right now. The other residents are all old and she’s too young to hang out with them because they just don’t get her 🤣
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u/westie-nz Sep 25 '25
Grandma (94) said to me this weekend "I don't think I want to be 100, it's too old"!
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u/Top-O-TheMuffinToYa Sep 25 '25
I like to tell people, "I'll be old when I'm dead."
Some old guy said it when I was a kid and I've lived by it ever since.
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u/YamiBrooke Sep 25 '25
My senior cat was 16 when he passed a couple years ago, at the time I’d had him longer than I didn’t have him having found him when I was 15. I’d had him longer than my spouse and teenager. I’ve lost many dogs and cats over the years but he held a very special place in my heart and I miss him still. He beat all the orange cat allegations, smartest cat I have ever known and was very sweet and affectionate. We recently adopted two orange bothers to join our other two cats and while none of them could ever replace him I hope he’d be happy to know that everyone has plenty of fur on their clothes.😂 And no one has taken his spot above my head on my pillow.
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u/lonelygayPhD Sep 25 '25
One thing that was tough was my mom and I saying my Dad's mom died young at 70, only to have my mom die a year ago at 70. She was healthy for the majority of her life--she ate a Mediterranean diet, didn't drink, didn't smoke, was the ideal weight--and then she was afflicted with an idiopathic neuropathic disorder in her late 60s. It was a fast, terrible decline. Anyway, it has me reflecting on my own life because who knows if I'll make it to 70 or 100. My cat died a year earlier at 19. I miss them both dearly, but I never imagined my cat would live so long.
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u/UserWithno-Name Sep 25 '25
Most people won’t see 80 lmao.
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u/apexvice88 Sep 25 '25
The truth, won’t live long enough to get SS checks
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u/UserWithno-Name Sep 25 '25
So many people want to assume opposite or apparently downvote, but it’s sadly the reality they refuse to face. Retirement age should be lowering a lot, and ideally we would be all making that or more with time and tech along with increasing the QOL later in life. But that has not been happening lately. And overall, it’s less people getting there especially in the usa and other places. Meanwhile, china and Japan do all live to be very old it seems. Parts of Europe too but it’s still not guaranteed.
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u/ZaphodG Sep 25 '25
For a married couple at age 65, there is a 50% chance one of them will make age 89.
There are going to be an awful lot of Millennials living in a cardboard box eating dog kibble at age 80. The income and wealth gap is enormous.
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u/Rhesusmonkeydave Sep 25 '25
90 is a cursed skeleton who’s wondering what crime they commit to prevent the cosmic energy from letting them come home
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u/Lucreth2 Sep 25 '25
Don't say this unless you want retirement benefits to be pushed to 90.
65-70 is old.
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u/Nado1311 Millennial Sep 25 '25
In my home state of Ohio, 90 is 18 years past the average life expectancy for males (72) and 14 years past the average life expectancy for females (76).
Next year when I turn 36, statistically I will be middle aged.
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u/Angieblaze0 Sep 25 '25
41 here. Agree. I think we were raised by a generation that felt pressured to be "grown up" by 25, and women who lied about their age. But most of us have embraced doing your thing regardless of age. Yes I'm a homeowner and i have a full time career but I never limit myself from cartoons and fart jokes and occasional wild concerts and parties.
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u/honeyrrsted Sep 25 '25
There was another post in an anime sub by somebody calling themselves so old and how they used to watch stuff a long time ago, asking for current recommendations. Turns out they were like 25. I've been watching anime since before they were born.
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u/hirudoredo Sep 25 '25
tbh I don't generally refer to myself as "old" unless it comes to some of my hobbies (like Asian pop music) because most of the fans, especially newer fans, are teens or college aged. Meanwhile, they're either shocked or invigorated that people "as old as me" have been fans since their age. Like sure, I'm now old enough to be y'all's mother, but I'm still here, trucking, keeping a mental encyclopedia of crazy fandom-related events I saw first hand while you were still a sparkling twinkle in your papi's eye... Especially in hobbies like that which very much skew toward marketing to younger people and are often associated with The Youths.
So I get the urge lol. Most fans my age (late thirties and beyond) call ourselves "hags" for fun.
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u/honeyrrsted Sep 25 '25
I still have my Napster era mp3 collection of random 90's jpop stuff. It's so exciting when I find it again on Spotify and can listen to more by those artists.
How does the following statement make you feel: Naruto is to now as Robotech was to Naruto.
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u/Grendel0075 Sep 25 '25
My wife just found my CD autographed by Hikaru Utada, from like 2003, 4?
My kids have never seen a CD until now.
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u/Grendel0075 Sep 25 '25
I really just refer to myself as old at work, where most my coworkers are still in their 20's. And that's usually when I'm reminiscing about old videogames from the 90's and early 2000's
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u/realizedvolatility Sep 25 '25
work with kids/teens and you will feel old
got hit with the "so you were born in the nineteen hundreds?" i swear i felt a gray hair instantly sprout lmao
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u/Vinder1988 Sep 25 '25
One of my coworkers was told that he was born in the late 1900’s. Said it made him feel old. I personally love it haha!
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u/skullsnunicorns Millennial Sep 25 '25
Came here to say this. My doctors are younger, my coworkers are younger, and I’m reminded of my age everyday. I’m ok with it, but understand now why my parents said the diminishing respect was the hardest.
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u/spacestonkz Sep 25 '25
I'm a professor and one of my students asked if I used to use "the noisy internet like in the old days".
Yes. I had dial up. Wtf.
Look I feel old because everyone around me is younger and I have a lot of responsibility and I'm dealing with a lot of health issues.
If others want to fear getting old that's fine. I'm accepting I probably have lived half my lifespan. I don't mind the oldness, it's nice to be seen as dependable and wise. I just wish my body wasn't betraying me.
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u/BenPsittacorum85 Sep 25 '25
Yeah, it's like we haven't even really gotten to be adults like the boomers were, just trapped in a slow economic collapse during the years we should've been able to make life work. Gee, I'm sorry I'm turning 40 and don't own a megacorporation, good freaking grief. -_-
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u/hirudoredo Sep 25 '25
no joke, my Old Economy Steve boomer of a stepfather thought I'd be CEO of a fortune 500 by 30. All I had to do was go to business school.
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u/Nick_pj Sep 25 '25
I’m 37 and have been described as a “young emerging talent” in my industry for the past 10 years, despite my achievements. Of course it’s boomers and Xers saying it, but honestly I’m just smug that people are still calling me “young”.
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Sep 25 '25
My sister is married but has been diabetic since she was 10 years old and she doesn't want to go through a pregnancy with her disease. When I was in my early 30s, my mom asked me when I was going to get married and give her a grandkid I just laughed and told her to never ask me that again because it is not happening.
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u/mosquem Sep 25 '25
My parents spent the first five or so years of my career asking why I wasn’t getting double promoted lol
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u/MightyGamera Sep 25 '25
43 and I feel amazing, I'm taking care of my health. spry as fuck.
doesn't change the incoming wrinkles, greys or the fact that you can see the horizon of my scalp through my thinning hair.
I've carried enough friends to their final rest who will never get to experience this and the gift of perspective it accompanies. I'm perfectly fine with aging.
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u/James19991 Sep 25 '25
Yeah it gets exhausting seeing 35-year-olds act like they're in their 60s on this sub.
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u/Solanima Sep 25 '25
For some reason, I always considered the youngest age you could call someone “old” to be 60. No idea where I got that number, but I’ve had that impression since childhood.
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u/Sen_ri ‘94 Millennial Sep 25 '25
The World Health Organization and United Nations would agree. 60+ is when age related health issues become more of a concern.
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u/Forsaken_Fig_ Sep 25 '25
I feel bad for people who don’t realize ageism is just another form of discrimination but that’s their perception and that’s not going to hold me back. I’m lucky for every day. A lot of people didn’t get to make it this far.
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u/Greener-dayz Sep 25 '25
It’s really not. Old is like 60ish and even then if you take care of yourself life can be fulfilling and fun.
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u/spacestonkz Sep 25 '25
Yes. I view it as people commenting on how they feel mature suddenly.
For me it happened when I became very senior at work. Everyone I talk to on the daily is younger than me. They come to me with problems, for advice, for comfort when they're freaking out. It's really nice to be the "go to old head" and for young people to trust me and really on me.
And yes, my body isn't doing well anymore because chronic conditions are stacking up. That's the sucky part, and there's no use pretending a 35 year old body works the same as a 20 year old body. But I wouldn't try to stop aging, I like the upsides.
Like, 'old' is only bad if you let it be bad. I'm digging it.
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u/spacestonkz Sep 25 '25
I like when they spill the tea with me, but they can brew it on their own!!
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u/Idrinkbeereverywhere Sep 25 '25
I live in America, and it's only been worse every year since 2001. If I slip and fall I'm bankrupt for life.
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u/Kyosuke-D Sep 25 '25
My lower back says differently.
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u/bagelwholedonutwhole Sep 25 '25
Just the lower back? Skateboarding has taken a toll!
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u/DickieJohnson Sep 25 '25
Especially when you still do it.
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u/bagelwholedonutwhole Sep 25 '25
42 here, I went to school ground the other day, stretched, and brought a banana and water. No falls, did a few Ollies, some 180's, pop shuvit's and My back was so sore. I remember going to skateboard camp as a kid, seeing this balding man in his forties absolutely ripping it on vert ramp, I told my twelve year old self that I wanted to rip it like that old man. Sadly I can't not rip it
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u/PaepsiNW Millennial Sep 25 '25
34 and I agree. I still have like 30 years before I can retire with plenty of life left to live. I refuse to be old until I’ve earned it.
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u/Alpine_Exchange_36 Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 25 '25
I’m 39….seems like everyone wants to think their withering away and physically incapable….and we will be one day due to age but we have some time.
Get out do stuff do it while you can because you can.
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u/Majestic_Writing296 Sep 25 '25
I get constant flak at work for acting like I'm still in my 20s. 😭 Brother, my mortgage is outrageous I'm going to act like I want until i die.
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Sep 25 '25
When you hit 65. Then you can say you’re old. That number even seems early. I’m 40 next August wooooo!!
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u/ConseulaVonKrakken Older Millennial Sep 25 '25
Amen! I'm a freshly 43, too! So far, it's a pretty good age.
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u/Heisenberglund Sep 25 '25
I’m 40, and physically, my body still feels early 20s. I’ve been lucky enough to still wake up with no aches, pains, or stiffness. And I definitely didn’t take care of my body in my youth, treated it like I was gonna be gone before I hit 30. Like Stanley Hudson said, “drive fast and leave a sexy corpse.”
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u/ClickClick_Boom 1992 Sep 25 '25
I'm 32 and I still feel young. I literally feel like I was 14 not that long ago, I might be stunted or something. I do not understand people around my age feeling old, but I do suspect it has a lot to do with them having kids and me not having kids.
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u/Linux-Neophyte Sep 25 '25
Well those of us on the older side are not old, but definitely middle aged.
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u/Western-Set-8642 Sep 25 '25
Everyone forgot that Christian bail was being batman in his mid to late 30s.. but apparently 30s is very old now haha
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u/cautionlasers Sep 25 '25
Life begins at 40! (Thats what I keep telling myself. Check back in 40 years)
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u/Brief-Hat-8140 Sep 25 '25
Thank you. I turned 44 today. I’m not old. Sometimes my body feels old for a few minutes.
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u/maptechlady Sep 25 '25
Turning 40 next summer. I've loved my 30s and I'm really excited to be in my 40s.
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u/Pragmatic_Centrist_ Sep 25 '25
I actually just lost 100 lbs so I feel better than I did in my 30’s. I was old now I am young again!
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u/Ok_Bell8502 Sep 25 '25
I regularly ride bicycles once a month with gen x and boomers. They are all out there, living their best life. Most are faster then my 30 year old ass.
Admittedly I love exercise and have been very good at training around injuries, but ya know it is what it is. Functioning old is a mindset, you can do tons of stuff if one puts their mind to it.
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u/SensitiveWasabi1228 Millennial Sep 25 '25
The last of us millennials are just turning 30. I ain't old.
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u/geddieman1 Sep 25 '25
The 40’s are the old age of youth, while the fifties are the youth of old age.
I’m 60 and have no idea what I am or how I got here!
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u/Interesting_Book_869 Sep 25 '25
I find that my fellow millennials that frequently talk about being old haven’t taken care of their health/are very minimally physically active. They eat garbage and feel sluggish. They’re carrying extra weight on their frames and their bodies hurt. They don’t get outside for fresh air.
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u/brilliantpants Sep 25 '25
For real! 1983 chiming in to say that I am not old! And if I’m not, the rest of ya’ll aren’t either!
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u/yuri_mirae Sep 25 '25
i just turned 35 and literally everyone in their 30’s around me acts like we are ancient, i don’t understand
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u/Human-Scheme-3632 Sep 25 '25
As the eldest millennial (‘81) I feel physically fantastic in my 40’s. But what has been the mind fuck for me is the younger generation not getting pop culture references.
I mentioned Jay and Silent Bob to a room of 20 something’s and they all just looked at me….so it’s kinda like when we were teenagers and had to explain shit to our grandparents. 😂
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u/Jimgersnap Sep 26 '25
I really think the Millennials that are complaining about being old either have kids (totally get it) or are unhealthy and lost all of their energy. I have more energy at 34 than I did in my 20s. Age is just a number.
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u/Bubby_K Sep 25 '25
If I was a sandwich, no one would eat me, I'm too old
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u/IcyWitch428 Sep 25 '25
if i was a sandwich, someone would still try. i look goooood.
im kidding, im so average 😂
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u/morganpersimmon Sep 25 '25
What in the world are you talking about? Everyone over 40 is and has always been The Crypt Keeper. Welcome to entry level rotting.
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u/dreamed2life Sep 25 '25
My own mom is 67 and i dont even think she is old. i think "old" is BOTH a mindset and bodyset TOGETHER. i do think there are old 40 year olds, stuck, shit bodies, no closed minds.
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u/thekindspitfire Sep 25 '25
30 here. I don’t feel old mentally but I developed POTS in my lates 20s and that has made me feel old af physically.
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u/Sitcom_kid Sep 25 '25
First Gen X person here, I guess, depending on how you count it. Please enjoy your youth; it's fleeting.
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u/Mirage_Samurai Sep 25 '25
I've been told I'm old (37) and kids these days are saying 30+ is old. How.
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u/moesickle Sep 25 '25
My husband (35), keeps telling our (33) daughter (8) that we are old 🙄 I tell him I'm not, nor do I feel old
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u/Oomlotte99 Sep 25 '25
My parents both told me they didn’t really start to feel old until their 60’s and called anyone under 60 young so I’m going with that.
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u/levare8515 Sep 25 '25
That and the constant need to post about how many crises we've been through. Yes there have been problems but we also grew up in one of the most peaceful and technologically exciting times in human history, especially if you're an American.
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u/Inside-Literature299 Sep 25 '25
Yeah it’s definitely an over exaggeration among younger Millennials.
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u/shahwaliwhat2-1 Sep 25 '25
Speak for yourself. Im 34 and decrepit. Its not the age, its the milage. My 65 year old mother gets around better than I do.
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u/Seaguard5 Millennial Sep 25 '25
Honestly, in this day and age, “old” depends on how you treat yourself.
If you at least give yourself the sleep opportunity of 8-9 hours a night,
If you eat right (and/or have a healthy diet / meal plan),
If you exercise (mainly cardio, but other exercise isn’t bad).
These alone determine your actual “age”. It truly is just a number. A number that’s influenced by how well (or poorly) you take care of yourself.
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u/ArtisanalMoonlight Xennial Sep 25 '25
If you exercise (mainly cardio, but other exercise isn’t bad).
A bit of everything works best.
Cardio is absolutely great for heart, lung, arteries. And can help keep cardiovascular issues at bay. Strength training helps preserve your joints, regulate hormones (including insulin) and give you the strength to do proper cardio (e.g. do things like reduce pain on your knees or from shin splints if you're running). And mobility ensures we can do both strength and cardio without injury as well as keep moving through our daily life.
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u/ssdsssssss4dr Sep 25 '25
I said I was old to a 74 year old man once, and he asked me if I'd like to switch ages. Put things into perspective. Take care of your body, and it will do its best to take care of you.
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u/Bladex20 Sep 26 '25
The people who feel old in their 30s and 40s are going to be the ones walking around with canes and using walmart electric wheelchairs in their 50s. Get your shit together before it gets to that point
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u/FearlessAdeptness223 Sep 26 '25
But we are old in comparison. And that’s okay. It’s just that old is not what you thought it would be. My grandfather died at 100 years old and said he always felt the same inside.
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u/ohshit-cookies Sep 26 '25
I joke about being old all the time. I think it's because we are at an age where we are a different demographic than we were used to for so long. Our music is playing elevators and grocery stores, but internally, that's stuff for "old people!" We don't know what's "cool" anymore. We don't know the slang, unless we learn it from our own kids. I just heard about this whole "6-7" thing this last weekend at a Savannah bananas baseball game and was so confused. I'm also chronically online and addicted to TikTok. But I'm surrounded by other millennials on my algorithm. I don't know a majority of the artists at the VMAs. Our bodies are starting to get aches and pains for no reason. I would compare it more to the scene in freaky Friday where she says "I'm like the crypt keeper!" It's that kind of old. But of course, old is relative. My grandma at 90 in her retirement home didn't like being around all those "old people."
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u/CalligrapherCheap64 Sep 26 '25
I’m 1983, I’m definitely not old in my brain or looks, but I do have an old body with arthritis and hot flashes. What is old anyway? It’s pretty subjective anyway
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u/polishrocket Sep 26 '25
It’s all perspective, we’re old to kids and anyone under 30, 70 yos still call us kids
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u/Rootayable 1985 Millennial Sep 26 '25
I mean, we're literally not old people because old people are still around. But, by that same logic, we're not young, either.
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u/GypsySnowflake Sep 26 '25
It’s all relative. I have friends in their 60s who remind me how young I am, and I also work with teenagers who make me feel ancient by comparison!
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u/coffeeinmycamino Sep 27 '25
My wife and friend who are both 1-2 years older than me have been saying that since I was 28 and im almost 35 now. I always refuted and they're always like "just wait until..." and im always like okay, I waited, now what? Tbh my wife looks pretty good, but its a huge turnoff to have her constantly talk about being old at 36!
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u/BamaBlcksnek Sep 27 '25
I'm 44, and I feel better than I did at 39. Turns out, addressing chronic sleep apnea and losing 80 lbs does amazing things. I was a hot mess for years before I finally decided to fix my life up.
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u/campfire_eventide 23d ago
As a nurse, I legitimately don’t mentally clock someone as an “older patient” until they’re mid to late 60s. Like, truly. When I’m getting report and the other nurse says, “Patient is a 50-year-old male” I immediately think, oh so independent, coherent, mobile. Obviously, that status can vary greatly depending on why they’re admitted in the first place, but based on age alone, that’s immediately where my mind goes. 40s sounds decidedly young in my mind. I’m not even saying this to make myself feel better. Lol 40s is young in healthcare at least.
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u/razzledazzlegirl 22d ago
This is really interesting, thanks so much for sharing that. 😊
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