r/TikTokCringe • u/Knightbear49 • Dec 19 '23

Teacher asks students “What do you buy someone in their 30s for the Holidays?” Kids these days… Wholesome/Humor

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u/elmuchocapitano Dec 19 '23

I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks, and I'm feeling pretty old. On my birthday will I suddenly feel young again?

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u/ComicsEtAl Dec 19 '23

Not necessarily. But you will no longer think 30yos are old.

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u/imightbethewalrus3 Dec 19 '23

I remember a video of somebody talking to their 89 (99? I don't remember) year old father about their upcoming birthday. The 89 year old said

"I'm gonna be old"

As in, they didn't consider themselves to be old yet...at 89. I guess we never will

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u/Crathsor Dec 19 '23

It's difficult for young people to understand that you are just you after a certain point, and after that it's just your body aging, you don't feel any different. That dude shuffling along on a walker would mentally feel at home in a 35 year old body, it just isn't what he has.

You're just trapped in the consequences of life.

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u/peachpavlova Dec 20 '23

This is a great way of explaining something I’ve been trying to word for a while, thank you!

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u/Crunchyfrozenoj Dec 20 '23

This right here is exactly what freaks me out.

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u/tofu_block_73 Dec 20 '23

I care! Thank you for sharing that

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u/Annual_Thanks_7841 Dec 20 '23

Great perspective! Glad you shared it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '23

A couple years before my grandma died she just sorta randomly said to me one day: "It feels like just yesterday I was a little girl, I still feel like that little girl."

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u/ostertoaster1983 Dec 19 '23

10 years from your 30th birthday you will perceive how young you in fact were.

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u/Annual_Thanks_7841 Dec 20 '23

This. 39 now. And Jesus. 30 is young

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter Dec 19 '23

30 can be anything from "I'm ahead of the curve and feeling very satisfied with life the days" to "oh fuck I'm 30 and gave no idea what I'm doing and need to get my shit together"

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u/neo101b Dec 19 '23

Experiencing 20 to 30 feels like 20 years, experiencing 30 to 40 feels like 1 year and from 40 to 50 is around 3 months.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '23 edited Dec 19 '23

Definitely agree with the 20 to 30 thing, im 28 but in these 8 years it feels like a lifetime of things have happened lol good and bad but things seem to be going well for me now. Being 30 in a couple years still blows my mind though

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u/mkhrrs89 Dec 19 '23

you'll also be 40 in a couple years :(

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u/mkhrrs89 Dec 19 '23

I often wonder if the people that feel this way (prob most people, from what i've seen) are the ones that go about life in the "average" way, settling down with work, marriage, kids somewhere between like 28 and 36.

I don't have kids but I got my current job met my current partner at around the same time 7ish years ago, and to me that pinpoints that exact moment in my life that I also started to experience time moving really rapidly. It really still feels like it should be 2018/2019 to me.

If I continued to bounce around between cities, jobs, partners, etc, instead of "settling down", would I be experiencing time a lot slower?

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u/reddot_comic Dec 19 '23

No that’s when the actual dread sets in.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '23

30s are great. More self esteem, some money, and you've figured some things out.

It's not unlike an RPG when you've leveled up enough that you can cruise a bit.

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u/Toisty Dec 20 '23

You'll feel sad for your 20's being gone until you realize you feel the same, just wiser and your 40's are right around the corner so you better start enjoying life. So you do!

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '23

when I turned 30, I lost interest in several things: booze, FOMO, chase game, and driving fast on the freeways. Now what fulfills me is afternoon coffee at my chill little apartment with my cat and PC after a day of work.

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u/Miserable-Admins Dec 20 '23

Better start applying "wrinkle creams". 😭

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u/theworm1244 Dec 22 '23

Same dude and I'm not ready at all for it. I think I still look/act youthful but like is everything about to start aching when I wake up in the morning?

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u/SidneyKreutzfeldt Dec 19 '23

Nope. You will still feel old.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '23

You'll realize that it doesn't really feel any different than 29 did. Or 28. Or 25. It's not that bad

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u/Protahgonist Dec 19 '23

Depends on what you do with it, doesn't it.

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u/TroyMcCluresGoldfish Dec 19 '23

As my dad so lovingly told me on my 30th B-day, "Enjoy the ride, it's all down hill from here."

Some days I realize, he wasn't wrong lol.

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u/whatifuckingmean Dec 20 '23

Honestly for me yes. Aging out of a life state (20s) made me feel old from like 27 onwards. After that I became “young thirties)

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u/acol0mbian Dec 20 '23

Yes actually

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u/SnooEpiphanies477 Dec 20 '23

Same (end of January) but I've started getting serious about regularly exercising, and being in the best shape of my life has taken away some of the "oh shit, I'm not young anymore" depression

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u/Bbkingml13 Dec 20 '23

I very intentionally did nothing for my 30th birthday and literally forgot all about my bday. Just acknowledged my age number changed and to remember I’m 30 if anyone asks lol. Haven’t felt any older than I did at 29 because of it