For me, it was the year I turned 22. At that point I was older than both parents when they had me. I realized how incompetent i was, and how little life I had lived, completely incapable of raising a human. My parents sacrificed a shit load just for me to be alive, and did their best in the time they were born into, and all the external forces at work on a young mind, and the choices at hand. I still don't have kids lol.
re: 22 - totally agree, we waited another decade and I think were just barely ready even then. I have peers that had kids at 18 and they're graduating college, that blows my mind.
21 Comments
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 3y
That one's already come and gone lol
gezginorman@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
for me too. we're this century's people now
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
So it was destined
Tessellecta@feddit.nl · 16 pts · 3y
As someone born in 2000: No cause that day will not come.
bigkix@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 3y
Year 2000 is 20th century. 21st century started on January 1st, 2001.
alvvayson@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
I know this, yet I still celebrated the new century/Millenium with the rest of humanity on Jan 1st, 2000.
It's just aesthetically more pleasing to conveniently ignore the technicality.
Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 3y
i don't like that, so i will forget i ever read it
BurnedOliveTree@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Well, technically this was still the XX century
Dmian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
the_kalash@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
SpaceCadet@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
sheogorath@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Fuck you for making me having an existential crisis right now.
NABDad@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
32 was a birthday I looked forward to. It was the point where I had known my wife for half of my life.
For some reason, 48 didn't seem significant.
MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
For me, it was the year I turned 22. At that point I was older than both parents when they had me. I realized how incompetent i was, and how little life I had lived, completely incapable of raising a human. My parents sacrificed a shit load just for me to be alive, and did their best in the time they were born into, and all the external forces at work on a young mind, and the choices at hand. I still don't have kids lol.
Bluebanrigh@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 3y
I don't know how long ago that was for you, but I hope you don't feel like that anymore.
FWIW 22 seems awful young to be having kids.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
re: 22 - totally agree, we waited another decade and I think were just barely ready even then. I have peers that had kids at 18 and they're graduating college, that blows my mind.
psud@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
My ex and I were 22 when we had ours. There's good and bad to it
sheogorath@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
If you have the economic capacity, I'd say go for it.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y
I'd be over 180.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 3y
You were born in 1910?
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y
No, early 2000s
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
whoa interesting observation. I'm coming up on this, if I read right. Born in 76 - so 24 years before and after....
Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 3y
61 for me....if I can remember this
Dmian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
cdf12345@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
My birthday a few years ago, I realized I had lived exactly half of my life before 9/11 and half after 9/11.
Then I got depressed because from that point forward, the majority of my existence would be in a post 9/11 world.