Day 7 post turning 30:

I can feel the boomer mentality kicking in at full strength.
I find myself talking to people about how 90's music was so great and kids these days won't get to appreciate it.
I see so many people with jobs who are significantly younger than me.
I sleep a couple hours more than I used to.
I live a routine life which is how I don't feel time passing by me.
I hear a voice inside my head telling me to quit gym because i am gonna grow weak anyway. Also, it would help with my productivity.

hmm, on the last . : I spend about 3h per day in exercises ( mostly walks in the forest ) and I can do some extra work in that time, but my health is w/ higher prio than job productivity ;)

@We3D Out of discipline I won't quit gym. I can't break a habit of 8 years.

This voice should fade away sometime soon. If it doesn't maybe I would substitute my exercise by say cycling or hiking.

Year 2 after turning 30, still wondering: 20 or 30 what difference does it make? As long as you have your health and energy then all is good

- music: ironically, most of the new songs I hear on the radio today are remakes of Gigi D'Agostino, DHT, and others who were popular in our childhood/teenage days [199x/200x]

- jobs: good. Imagine them spongering, living off taxes or stealing. I actually enjoy knowing these kids are doing smth constructive rather than being parasites.

- sleep: that has changed oh so many times in my life. Don't blame the 30s for that.

- routine: yepp, that's what the routines do. Try and get out of it for a week or so, feel the taste of life before you find yourself shopping for coffins.

- gym: that's up to you. I try to avoid activities that I don't enjoy doing. Some people enjoy gym. If that's you -- go for it! But if you're only going there to build your body and grow muscles - ... IDK, I don't see a point. Muscles will degrade anyway and.. you know... YAGNI :) I prefer having long strolls in nature (~7-10km) every now and then.

whatever you build will become food for entropy.

but 90s music IS great

already in my 40's.

20's (25+) , 30's, 40's all the same. Except my back hurts just from being alive. And if I'm awake after midnight it'll take me two days to recover.

"A little pork won't hurt"

"A little alcohol won't hurt"

Those "little things" will add up in the end. Take care of yourselves guys. You can't bring back time and I'm realizing that now. There is no work-life balance. There's only life. One life.

@Nanos takes longer to scroll to your DOB year in online forms though, right?

Happy Birthday!

Not to mention us growing up free from pedophiles, groomers, CRT indoctrination bullshit...

NGL music was better before. And I still hold dear to many movies from the 80s, 90s and early 20s.

I don't think we will ever have (for example) a series of amazing metal bands as we did before. I am not going to say that everything is doo doo now a days, but they did feel more epic before.

I am also somewhat inclined to believe that we have exhausted videogaming authentic sh and have resorted to an era of "if it ain't an FPS, then it ain't good"

@jassole unless you were a british kid in the 80's.

@jassole a pedophile targeted me when I was in scouts. The scout troop rooted him out. That was in the 90s. So this is not a new problem. It has been going on for many decades. My guess is it goes back many centuries.

I'm part of kids these days and love older music, we aren't all forsaken