The reason why millennials and gen z think that 30 is ‘old’ and that we may as well crawl up and die by the time we hit that age is because the vast majority of us have spent our teenage years and adulthoods, even some of our childhoods, convinced that we would kill ourselves by the time we turned 18 — no later than 25 — because we are the first generations to have to deal with so much of the damage and aftermath that the previous generations left for us. Plus, we are the part of the first generations to now have to adjust our nature as human beings to revolve around that of technology, and we have been constantly bombarded with all of the tragedies around the world all at once and with no hope in sight, upon the other devastating consequences of our world and civilization as a whole.
This has all left us hopeless, apathetic, depressed, and suicidal as fuck. So we’ve always had this, “fuck it, I’m not gonna live to see 25 or 30 anyway, because this world is so miserable that I’ll be dead by then. Either by suicide, or global warming, or a nuclear war, a drug overdose, or getting killed by the police,” and so on and so forth.
But what we didn’t realize is that the vast majority of human beings can’t actually bring ourselves to commit suicide, because the most basic human instinct is to survive, no matter how much we want to die or don’t even see the point in living in such a shit world that always seems to be ending with every single news update and trending hashtag. And, while our planet is surely suffering immensely from shit like global warming and wars and shit, capitalism is so fucking ruthless that it’s made us all just normalize this shit so that we can continue to work our lives away in the midst of all of this disaster and tragedy.
So when ‘kids these days’ say something stupid about how age 30 and older literally may as well be ancient, it’s because we sincerely spent our entire lives thinking that we were gonna die by the time we reached this age. And when we do reach this age, we feel like we’ve not only wasted so much of our lives because we thought that our clocks only had but a fraction of the time that we naturally do and were ticking down fast, but whatever time that we still do have on this earth is very little — given that middle age for humans is technically age 37, if we’re lucky.
And on top of that, we’re taught, like everyone else, that we may as well have no value in life if we haven’t accomplished certain things by certain ages. But how can we be expected to move out in our early 20’s, marry and have kids by our late 20’s/early 30’s, get a mortgage, finish school, and have your entire career and shit in order in a ‘timely manner’ when you deadass thought that you’d be blowing your brain matter all over your walls by the time you hit 18 — ever since you were 8?
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