Happy birthday! I remember turning 25 and feeling so old. Now I'm in my thirties and it rules. Well, the world sucks, but on a personal level, don't sweat it. You've got plenty to enjoy now and plenty to look forward to.
30s. Those were the fun years. Am 61 now and NGL, once you hit 50 and get gray and wrinkles.. you find that people will give you even less shit. Which is amazing! Some say that it's the aches and pains that come of age that suck the most, but I've always been a bit on the clumsy side with a high pain threshold, so it's been a constant since I was a teenager.
Yeah that was my vampire age - like if I could have stayed any age, 45 was it. Looked so good, felt so good. Sex drive like a teenager (maybe nature trying to make me reproduce before menopause?). I do think that may be the physical peak. Like, I still feel really good but 45 was it.
I'm in my 40s and each decade of my life has been better than the last. You live and learn. You make mistakes. You grow. You can use that experience to make your quality of life better.
Cut out toxic people, start an exercise routine, learn how to cook good meals, practice your time management skills. Not that I haven't wasted most of today watching AEW, but I did some sprints this morning so I'm resting.
At 29. I had a pact with myself to kill myself before my 40th birthday.
I'm 43 this year.
If you take one piece of advice away: life is always worth living, there's always a tomorrow, no matter how bad you feel that feeling is not forever and things can change and you can change them.
I have struggles, doubts, frustrations, rages, disappointments, set backs, failures and, indeed, depression. But I lived. And even today I had a bad moment, I was feeling super low - but this evening I had a wonderful time with some friends and came home to my wife who I adore.
You made it to 25 and I knew a few people who didn't when I was 25. Now I'm forty fewer people have made it with me.
I miss them but we get to see what's next. You get to see what's next.
43 this year too. 42 was a wild ride and 43 isn't shaping up to be any less crazy.
If I could offer only one piece of advice, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists, where as the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
And no, there was no copying, nor pasting involved, I just remember that "song" very well. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it may be worth looking up, because as I've gotten older, the advice in that "song" has only become more accurate, more true, and hit home a whole lot harder year after year.
My lot passed around an antique sword cane - when you hit 25, it was yours till the next 25. Wonder who got stuck with it? (Sorry.)
Am 75 now, btw, shooting for the full century.
Nah, the real tragedy is turning 27, that's when you no longer get discounted rates on the speed train here in Germany 🥺 Gotta ride around as much as I can before it's over for me in October.
Pretend that yesterday you were 40 and you just woke up this morning 25 again. Imagine how young, energetic, hopeful you'll feel being back in your young body again. Go for a run.
25 was good, insurance costs often go down, you're more likely to now be seen as a responsible adult by default. Your body is probably not rapidly deteriorating.
The best I have for you all at that age is, you're probably not feeling a effects of age yet, you can probably still party and most of your friends aren't married with children so you probably still have people to party with.
30's you recover more slowly, your friends start getting sparse as they start their own families.
40's you have to work to not fall to sloth, energy isn't a given, you have to schedule to get time with your friends
50's you need to start being careful about how you do things. your friends have grown children, if you don't do body maintenance you will fall into disrepair and it's hard AF to get out of that. Many people find stuff they used to enjoy eating now causes them discomfort. Your knees, back, ankles might pop when you get out of bed or occasionally when you go up steps
Twenties are hard. Looking back, sure I would live them again with the knowledge I have now. But never again without this knowledge. This knowledge exists because I lived through my twenties, and they were hard.
It's a great age. It's also a great time to start building good habits. If I could go back, I would have spent so much more time developing better sleep and workout habits. Lack of sleep and working out has absolutely wrecked me.
Don't worry friend, in the blink of an eye you'll be saying the same thing about 30.
Besides 25 is a great time. You're likely early in your career so you've got plenty of choices still to make and probably not that much tying you down, and you've likely still got plenty of healthy years left with your body, especially if you put in the work and keep it fit.
There is only one way stop growing older I'm afraid
My grandma always said 'getting old is fun. Being old is not.' And 'I guess it beats the alternative' and a legendary 'folks I'm getting old' at the ripe old age of 98. My immediate response was 'well that took you a while then'
Anyway, you're 25, you'll be fine, also happy birthday!
Hey, think of it this way, you still have SO much to discover for the first time. Take it from and old fart, really get to know yourself, be ok with yourself. Don't take shit from anyone.
And if you have someone special in your life, make every moment count. Are we happy? Healthy? Stable? Ok let's not argue about which movie we'll watch who gives a shit anyway.
I wish you all the best dear stranger, grab life by the horns because before you know it it'll pass you by just like that.
114 Comments
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works · 84 pts · 19d
Happy birthday! I remember turning 25 and feeling so old. Now I'm in my thirties and it rules. Well, the world sucks, but on a personal level, don't sweat it. You've got plenty to enjoy now and plenty to look forward to.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 19d
30s. Those were the fun years. Am 61 now and NGL, once you hit 50 and get gray and wrinkles.. you find that people will give you even less shit. Which is amazing! Some say that it's the aches and pains that come of age that suck the most, but I've always been a bit on the clumsy side with a high pain threshold, so it's been a constant since I was a teenager.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 19d
The only thing that changes in your 30s is that you stop giving a fuck, but that changes everything.
protist@retrofed.com · 8 pts · 19d
I'm in my mid-40s, and I feel like peak me (so far)
RBWells@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
Yeah that was my vampire age - like if I could have stayed any age, 45 was it. Looked so good, felt so good. Sex drive like a teenager (maybe nature trying to make me reproduce before menopause?). I do think that may be the physical peak. Like, I still feel really good but 45 was it.
teslasdisciple@lemmy.ca · 65 pts · 19d
I would give my left nut to be 25
Janx@piefed.social · 66 pts · 19d
I would also trade this guy's nut to be 25 again!
EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 19d
I’d collect left nuts like a 🐿️ to be only 25!
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18d
I also choose this guys dead wife
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 19d
.........ok, but now I'm curious. Who is this time lord who offers time travel in exchange for testicles?
Maiq@piefed.zip · 21 pts · 19d
Dr. Whosticles.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 19d
Back in my day, the exchange rate was 100 foreskins per miracle. Not sure what that is in testicles.
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19d
So that's why Christians want to take our foreskins so badly!
teslasdisciple@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 19d
Oh wait, this isn't Craigslist, my bad
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 19d
I think the problem is that the timelords don't take left testicles.
Catma@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19d
What about the right one?
teslasdisciple@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 19d
The right one is bigger so it's more valuable
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 18d
and now I just read up all about deez nuts
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 19d
Maybe there is no right testicle and it's just two left testicles?
orenj@leminal.space · 2 pts · 19d
cronos, probably. I wouldn't bargain with him, he's known to eat more than just a nut.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 19d
I would trade my middle nut to be 25
mountainRadish@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18d
Why not the right one?
lena@gregtech.eu · 2 pts · 18d
Yeah, it's only right!
lena@gregtech.eu · 31 pts · 19d
You're practically in your grave at this point
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 19d
I'm in my 40s and each decade of my life has been better than the last. You live and learn. You make mistakes. You grow. You can use that experience to make your quality of life better.
Cut out toxic people, start an exercise routine, learn how to cook good meals, practice your time management skills. Not that I haven't wasted most of today watching AEW, but I did some sprints this morning so I'm resting.
Siegfried@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 19d
I dont want to be 35, but here we are buddy.
Snailpope@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 19d
Oh what I would give to be 35 again, when you're 36 like I am you'll understand how good you have it
TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 19d
36? Luxury! When you reach 37 like I am you'll really understand how good you have it.
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 19d
37? Ha! I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago. I was there the day the strength of men failed.
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online · 17 pts · 19d
I would do anything to be 25 again
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 19d
I'd have so many more ideas on how to fuck up my life.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18d
I can make you feel 25 again?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 18d
ayo. old head here.
At 29. I had a pact with myself to kill myself before my 40th birthday.
I'm 43 this year.
If you take one piece of advice away: life is always worth living, there's always a tomorrow, no matter how bad you feel that feeling is not forever and things can change and you can change them.
I have struggles, doubts, frustrations, rages, disappointments, set backs, failures and, indeed, depression. But I lived. And even today I had a bad moment, I was feeling super low - but this evening I had a wonderful time with some friends and came home to my wife who I adore.
You made it to 25 and I knew a few people who didn't when I was 25. Now I'm forty fewer people have made it with me.
I miss them but we get to see what's next. You get to see what's next.
Enjoy being 25, 26, and beyond
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 18d
43 this year too. 42 was a wild ride and 43 isn't shaping up to be any less crazy.
If I could offer only one piece of advice, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists, where as the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
And no, there was no copying, nor pasting involved, I just remember that "song" very well. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it may be worth looking up, because as I've gotten older, the advice in that "song" has only become more accurate, more true, and hit home a whole lot harder year after year.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 18d
What song?
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 16d
it's called "Everybody's Free"
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 17d
The Sunscreen Song. it was a hit in the late 90s / early 00s
dingus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
I'm glad you're still here and thank you so much for the words of advice/encouragement.
doodahjones@piefed.social · 13 pts · 19d
My lot passed around an antique sword cane - when you hit 25, it was yours till the next 25. Wonder who got stuck with it? (Sorry.)
Am 75 now, btw, shooting for the full century.
python@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 19d
Nah, the real tragedy is turning 27, that's when you no longer get discounted rates on the speed train here in Germany 🥺 Gotta ride around as much as I can before it's over for me in October.
chocrates@piefed.world · 11 pts · 19d
My sweet summer child. It just gets worse
protist@retrofed.com · 14 pts · 19d
I really disagree with this. Except the child part, 25 year olds are basically children whose brains have just finished maturing
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 10 pts · 18d
first time?
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 18d
Are we supposed to get a second time through our 20s? If so, I got ripped off man.
zxqwas@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 19d
Congratulations, you're one quarter of a century old now.
luthis@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 19d
Only in base 10 though.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 19d
I'd love to be 25 again. Wanna swap?
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 18d
Happy finally-considered-an-adult-by-car-insurance-and-rental-companies day!
I'm sorry you don't want to be 25. In my experience, 30 is far better, so just hang on and do your best 🤗
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 7 pts · 19d
Oh honey...
it's just one day, and then you will be 25 years and a day, and two days,...
Anyway have a great Day of Honor and lots of cake :)
OozingPositron@feddit.cl · 1 pts · 18d
TIL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Honor_(Neo-Nazi_rally)
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 18d
thats really not what I meant at all...
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 19d
But now you can rent a car in the United States! Unfortunately you have to be in the United States to do it
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 19d
I mean.....you could rent a car, and drive to canada.
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19d
Or Mexico
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 18d
Don't worry too much, it's only for a year
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 19d
Trade ya
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app · 6 pts · 19d
Well, the years start comin' and they don't stop comin'.
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19d
Best fed to the rules and hit the ground running
Vespair@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 19d
Pretend that yesterday you were 40 and you just woke up this morning 25 again. Imagine how young, energetic, hopeful you'll feel being back in your young body again. Go for a run.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 19d
Happy birthday! You don't need to enjoy your birthdays. I didn't for years. But you made it and keep your head up my dude/dudette!
GarboDog@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 19d
Happy birthday!! 🎁🎂🎈🎉
Triumph@fedia.io · 6 pts · 19d
You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older.
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d
TIME!
rumba@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 17d
25 was good, insurance costs often go down, you're more likely to now be seen as a responsible adult by default. Your body is probably not rapidly deteriorating.
The best I have for you all at that age is, you're probably not feeling a effects of age yet, you can probably still party and most of your friends aren't married with children so you probably still have people to party with.
30's you recover more slowly, your friends start getting sparse as they start their own families.
40's you have to work to not fall to sloth, energy isn't a given, you have to schedule to get time with your friends
50's you need to start being careful about how you do things. your friends have grown children, if you don't do body maintenance you will fall into disrepair and it's hard AF to get out of that. Many people find stuff they used to enjoy eating now causes them discomfort. Your knees, back, ankles might pop when you get out of bed or occasionally when you go up steps
RBWells@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 18d
Well I'm more than 25+25 and would not want to be 25 either but don't worry, it will only last a year. Just hang on.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 18d
It's fine, you won't be for very long.
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 19d
FluidBeef@quokk.au · 4 pts · 18d
Swap you?
Sparrow_1029@programming.dev · 4 pts · 19d
How old do you wanna be?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 19d
125
trijste@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 19d
Twenties are hard. Looking back, sure I would live them again with the knowledge I have now. But never again without this knowledge. This knowledge exists because I lived through my twenties, and they were hard.
kinther@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18d
Happy belatedbirthday, @CaffeineTwo@piefed.world !
25-30 were some of my favorite years. I wish you success, health, and great memories to come.
nycvin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18d
It's better than the alternative
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18d
Happy birthday! Don't worry you'll be 35 before you know it :D
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18d
I actually am enjoying my 30s more than my 20s. But your mileage may vary.
Aneb@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18d
I'm about to turn 27 in 4 months so facts
cley_faye@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18d
It won't last.
vapordays@leminal.space · 3 pts · 18d
For most people, their peak physical potential is between 25-35.
And peak mental potential is older than that
Enjoy
jlow@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 19d
But why! It only gets better and better from here!
Alteon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
It's a great age. It's also a great time to start building good habits. If I could go back, I would have spent so much more time developing better sleep and workout habits. Lack of sleep and working out has absolutely wrecked me.
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io · 3 pts · 19d
Don't worry friend, in the blink of an eye you'll be saying the same thing about 30.
Besides 25 is a great time. You're likely early in your career so you've got plenty of choices still to make and probably not that much tying you down, and you've likely still got plenty of healthy years left with your body, especially if you put in the work and keep it fit.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18d
25 years and my life is still trying to get up that great big hill of hope for a destination...
25 is a breeze, enjoy your time! Trust, it gets better and better. (The aging part at least, not so sure about the world part lol)
Psiczar@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 19d
I feel for you, I’m 54 and I wouldn’t want to be 25 again.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 19d
25 to 35 was the best time of my life. I'd do it again.
Generica@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d
I'm 57. Fuck off, all of you. Lol
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19d
Don't worry. They'll catch up with us eventually.
And everything will be on fire.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 18d
Happy birthday and don't cry when 30 comes
osanna@lemmy.vg · 2 pts · 18d
I’m nearly 40. What do I win?
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 18d
Aches and pains! Enjoy!
hedge_lord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d
Genuinely disappointed at the lack of prime numbers in my future, why would prime number theorem do us dirty like this??
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 19d
Uh what age did you hit? 113?
Zuriz@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 18d
I am very pleased to inform you that 2027 is next year.
hedge_lord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18d
We are so back
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18d
There is only one way stop growing older I'm afraid
My grandma always said 'getting old is fun. Being old is not.' And 'I guess it beats the alternative' and a legendary 'folks I'm getting old' at the ripe old age of 98. My immediate response was 'well that took you a while then'
Anyway, you're 25, you'll be fine, also happy birthday!
Tiral@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18d
Ok Boomer /s
db2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19d
I'd say it gets better but that hasn't been my experience so far.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 2 pts · 17d
Hey, think of it this way, you still have SO much to discover for the first time. Take it from and old fart, really get to know yourself, be ok with yourself. Don't take shit from anyone.
And if you have someone special in your life, make every moment count. Are we happy? Healthy? Stable? Ok let's not argue about which movie we'll watch who gives a shit anyway.
I wish you all the best dear stranger, grab life by the horns because before you know it it'll pass you by just like that.
orenj@leminal.space · 2 pts · 19d
ahh don't worry too much about it. those are the longest years of your adulthood.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 18d
Am 27 lol.
Welcome soon to my club :p
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18d
I cast: become 35 year old!
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 18d
First time?
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
I do
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 17d
Even if getting old sucks ass, it beats the hell out of the alternative.
s@piefed.world · 2 pts · 19d
Speed jive, don't want to stay alive when you're 25
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18d
Make the most of being a 20something.
Mac@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 19d
RIP
Oh, i mean, uh... Happy birthday
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18d
Better than aging backwards. Benjamin Button disease takes far too many lives.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18d
Happy birthday!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 19d
depends where you are right now, earning a degree, have a job? graduated but not able to find one?
gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 19d
I'm 25! It's about a terrible as you imagine.
toynbee@piefed.social · 1 pts · 19d
But now you can rent a car in the US!
Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18d
Happy birthday!!!
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18d
You're in the prime of your life. This is where your life begins. Enjoy the ever living fuck out of it.
VictoriaAScharleau@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18d
I, too, cried.
I decided to turn 24 the next year.
tigermountain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18d
Time to grow up!