I think the number thirty is being blamed, not because your life is actually “over” when you turn thirty, but because that TENDS to be roughly the age most people start having kids, and having kids certainly DOES cause major changes in lifestyle.
I’d say the other part of it is around age 30 is when sustained unhealthy lifestyle choices can start biting. It’s not when they kill you, but it’s when life starts to give you those warning signs that you should probably do something about that before it gets worse
best guess is there’s some kind of prevailing notion that when you’re not young any more, you’re old, which those nearing their 30s dread while 30 pluses refuse to accept they’re middle aged
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The only place I’ve ever seen the idea of people in their 30s being “old” is in the internet. Is this some american thing too?
I think the number thirty is being blamed, not because your life is actually “over” when you turn thirty, but because that TENDS to be roughly the age most people start having kids, and having kids certainly DOES cause major changes in lifestyle.
I’d say the other part of it is around age 30 is when sustained unhealthy lifestyle choices can start biting. It’s not when they kill you, but it’s when life starts to give you those warning signs that you should probably do something about that before it gets worse
best guess is there’s some kind of prevailing notion that when you’re not young any more, you’re old, which those nearing their 30s dread while 30 pluses refuse to accept they’re middle aged
Well Americans don’t have good health care and have to constantly worry/ think about money so…
Can’t say I know shit about it, but my folks in the 80s watched a show called thirtysomethings, a sitcom, don’t watch it. Not my problem.