No you’re a fresh adult by then. Your frontal lobe doesn’t mature til around 26. If you’re in your early 20s you’re literally just a juvenile human adult and the thing you think is “getting old” is actually maturing in the first memorable life shift you have after puberty.
The reason society pushes you to think that your prime is in your early 20s is because you are a ripe mix of “able to buy things” and “highly susceptible to manipulation” because you are both legally deemed an adult at 18 but also quite close to childhood (reminder: teens are children).
Capitalism loves how easy it is to whip you into a fervor over your identity and aim that at consumerism. At no other time in your life will you be so irresponsible (this is not a dig, you shouldn’t be expected to be super responsible at this stage), unprotected, manipulable by peer pressure, impressionable and impulsive. It tells you that being alive is a out being young and youth dies at 25 so you’d better hurry up and do all that cool stuff right now! Quick! Incidentally it all costs money! But hurry up and exhaust yourself before you’re too old!
….too old to fall for their shit anymore. That’s what they mean by “old”. Older. Wiser.
God, willing, your lifespan goes way beyond 30. You’re just getting started and they’re trying to convince you it’s over before you’re experienced enough to see through the bullshit.
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