Is 30 old?

DMA's said:
Was my 30th birthday yesterday and I have woken up today feeling as though my best days are behind me. I am married and have 2 boys (6 and 2) and we run our own business so Im not worried in that respect. My wife keeps telling me how old 30 is (she is only 27) and it is has got me thinking.

Can anyone please reassure me that life is just beginning at 30!!
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Mate I’m 50 at the end of this year and my (post uni) life didn’t really start until I was 30. I think it’s the first birthday when you actually begin to consider your mortality so it’s probably natural you feel the way you do. I spent a lot of my 30’s travelling with work, buying a house, and pretty much focussing on the job. I still consider anyone below 40 as young....you’ve still got loads of time but you should consider how you intend to spend the next decade, what you want to achieve for you and your family.
 
DMA's said:
Was my 30th birthday yesterday and I have woken up today feeling as though my best days are behind me. I am married and have 2 boys (6 and 2) and we run our own business so Im not worried in that respect. My wife keeps telling me how old 30 is (she is only 27) and it is has got me thinking.

Can anyone please reassure me that life is just beginning at 30!!
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Sadly, physiologically, it is, you’re on a downward spiral, your body loses around a million cells A DAY, which are never replaced.
On the plus side, ‘old’ is always 10 years older than me, so ‘old’ is considered to be about 66.
 
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DMA's said:
Was my 30th birthday yesterday and I have woken up today feeling as though my best days are behind me. I am married and have 2 boys (6 and 2) and we run our own business so Im not worried in that respect. My wife keeps telling me how old 30 is (she is only 27) and it is has got me thinking.

Can anyone please reassure me that life is just beginning at 30!!
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You've only just started your best years, mate.

Although we go through puberty in our early teens, and finish growing physically in our late teens; human brains don’t finish their development until we turn 25.

www.businessinsider.com

The age your brain matures at everything — it isn't even fully developed until age 25

Neuroscientists are confirming what car rental places already knew — the brain doesn't fully mature until age 25.
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The first 25 years are when we grow up. The next 25 years are the prime of our life.

As well as not having fully developed as a human until our mid 20s, we also know fuck all! We haven’t experienced everything and had the time to life evaluate it yet. That all comes as we develop through our prime years.

You’re also wiser, calmer, cooler as we develop through our prime compared to our 20s. You look at people in their 20s and realise how daft they act and how much shit they chat because they know so little as they haven’t lived their experiences yet.

We also haven’t got much money in our 20s. As we enter our 30s we start to earn some proper money and set yourself up for your prime years.

In our prime years we become much less insecure about ourselves. We care less about what other people think about us. We’ve lived the experiences of knowing what’s cool, what’s not, what we like, what we don’t, we’ve built resilience from good/bad experiences and lived through the other side of it all. As you progress through your prime years you’ll look at people in their 20s and notice how insecure they all are; always looking for positive reinforcement.

Our prime years are also a time where we can actually get in better physical shape. We aren’t out on the piss from Thursday to Sunday every week and need Monday to Wednesday to recover. We have the time through the week and actually do some exercise and eat well… and then still go out every Saturday! If you look after yourself properly, you’ll look at least ten years younger than your friends who don’t, as you all age.

I turn 40 next week and I’m happier, healthier, in better shape, in a better life situation, more confident and less insecure than I was ten years ago. Even just little things, like, I’ve had more time to listen to a much wider scope of music and I have much better music taste than I did ten years ago.

Also better looking, higher calibre women prefer men in their prime years compared to their 20s. When you’re a daft, skint, beer-addling 20something you don’t get anywhere near the calibre of women you do as you get older!
 
DMA's said:
Was my 30th birthday yesterday and I have woken up today feeling as though my best days are behind me. I am married and have 2 boys (6 and 2) and we run our own business so Im not worried in that respect. My wife keeps telling me how old 30 is (she is only 27) and it is has got me thinking.

Can anyone please reassure me that life is just beginning at 30!!
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I remember having a bit of a crisis like this about turning 30. All I can say is you are nowhere near as old and fucked as you will be at 40,50 or certainly 60. Enjoy it - it's only a day past your 20's. Probably time to stop shagging teenagers though ....
 
DMA's said:
Was my 30th birthday yesterday and I have woken up today feeling as though my best days are behind me. I am married and have 2 boys (6 and 2) and we run our own business so Im not worried in that respect. My wife keeps telling me how old 30 is (she is only 27) and it is has got me thinking.

Can anyone please reassure me that life is just beginning at 30!!
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Past it mate it’s all down hill from now on
 
DMA's said:
Was my 30th birthday yesterday and I have woken up today feeling as though my best days are behind me. I am married and have 2 boys (6 and 2) and we run our own business so Im not worried in that respect. My wife keeps telling me how old 30 is (she is only 27) and it is has got me thinking.

Can anyone please reassure me that life is just beginning at 30!!
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Can't say it bothered me when I was 30, I'll ask my great grandson when I see him what he thought when he recently hit the same age.
 
I'm 34, overweight, have a job in the NHS that's stressful as fuck and 2 young kids.

I feel old (and that's no disrespect meant to anyone older)... I need to sort my fucking life out coz there's no way I can carry on with the way it's going...

New job, lose some weight and start enjoying the more important things...

Suppose I can't change the fact that I'm about 10 years older than most of the other parents when picking my kid up from school though.
 
I had my first child at 30. 26 years later I am still doing the same things I did back then and don't feel any different mentally. Physically is a different matter - bad back, bad knees, bad eyes etc. I do think about how long I have got left though with both my mum and dad going early. Back to the original question, I didn't think that I was old at 30.
 
All depends on your frame of reference I suppose. George Harrison was 28 when the Beatles broke up and Johnny Marr was 24 when The Smiths ended.

Then again, Samuel L Jackson was 41 when he got his break in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever and Tolkein was 45 when The Hobbit was published.
 
Im 30 in June ffs... feel like 25 to 30 has flown in (prob due to covid) but yeah loads of life ahead of us all. I have a mortgage, engaged, good job but no kids yet...some best mates have the same but a few kids under 5..and some mates still at home with no partners or kids! no measuring stick!
 
DMA's said:
Was my 30th birthday yesterday and I have woken up today feeling as though my best days are behind me. I am married and have 2 boys (6 and 2) and we run our own business so Im not worried in that respect. My wife keeps telling me how old 30 is (she is only 27) and it is has got me thinking.

Can anyone please reassure me that life is just beginning at 30!!
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So you're worried that you're still alive? There's only two options, mate - you either get older or you die.
 
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