It's coming.

I dreamed how great I could achieve, but found out I am an ordinary person and it’s hard to manage my life. Now I admit how mediocre I am.

Turning 35 this year

Shh! Quiet everyone!
...
I can almost make out the words...

It's been going down hill since I turned 25. I'm just closer to the end of the ride now.

We all age and die. What matters is what we do with our lives.
- I'm fine with dying, eventually. It's aging I don't want to go through.
  
  You find different things in the different decades of life, or so is my experience.
  Brush your teeth and don't burn yourself out at work is my recommendations, cheers!
  
  I’m pretty sure it’s the dying you dont want to go through, unless it’s rather quick.
- I typed up a complete rant about how i wasted away so much time to work, trying to obtain an income that's capable of getting me a house.
  But now is the time to focus on what IS positive at the moment, like how i'm still happily together with the wife.
  If i let the negavtives of the past take control, i'll just stumble down a deep hole again and i don't want that.
- I used part of my life to read this comment, then write a response to it, and I'm not happy about it.
- I used it to make a meme.
- The alternative is worse you know.

Turned 40 this past week. Was just bemoaning that most of my company don't get the :holdontoyourbutts: Samuel L Jackson emoji in slack and now this.

I’ve already got the Sunday blues. And I don’t have the money to cope with a midlife crisis.
Thanks.

oh god oh fuck

Did an AI try to recreate this image?
- I think you're right. Aside from screenshots showing it looks wrong, here's the actual scene: https://youtu.be/yZszK_M_9_Y
  It's not there, unless I'm missing it.
- A couple of comments are suggesting that, but I remember this scene and just assumed it was a weird still from the movie.
  I'm confused why someone would've recreated it, or modified part of it with AI, but it's possible.

Maybe I should have a child or buy a house by 40. Idk.
- If you say so

Turned 40 last month and to be honest I'm kinda struggling with depression right now
- This is going to sound stupid, but during college, I took a lot of different types of math and history classes.
  As humans, we invented years, and ages. Then we made milestones for what they represented. We said, there are 7 days in the week. We said, there are 52 weeks in a year. Some other BS happen and then culturally we said things like by age 30, you should be married. By age 40, you should have a family.
  But imagine if we actually made a week 10 days? Or there's 30 weeks in a year? Suddenly, this is all BS numbers. Back to culturally, why is 30 a specific number? Or 40? Or any of these numbers?
  For me, 40 is just a made-up number. It means nothing. The expectations around the number, bullshit. My friend is 55, and we went bar hopping. I hung out with a 70 and played Frisbee. I pitched go-karts and dressing up like Mario Kart to my 60yo neighbors.
  Just made up numbers.
  Of course, don't get weird and and try to shoehorn underage relationships. That's not the intent here.
  
  Sure, to an individual, the milestones seem stupid but they're the common milestones the average reach. Most people by 30 are married. Most by 40 have an established career and family. But to agree, who cares? We have one life and there's plenty of worry's to go around, so don't add keeping up with the Jones to the list.
- Time for a mid life crisis then
  
  Wish I could afford a midlife crisis
- At 38, 2 walks a day is helping, but I'm bouncing between anxiety and depressive symptoms. It beats drinking or meds!
  Working out is also helping, but not as much as the sunshine. Good luck, fellow old fart :).
- You age a day everyday, how you choose to group those ~14600 is up to you.
- Have you considered eating an entire large pizza and drinking a case of beer about it?
  
  That just sounds like a Tuesday

Why would someone make this using AI when a still from the actual movie would have worked just fine?
- Because using AI for even the most trivial tasks to accomplish the same thing quicker and far worse quality is the latest thing.
  
  I think it took like 10 minutes, 5 of which was loading the movie up and finding the right shot. How quickly does AI do it?
- It’s a useful way to dodge automated copyright flagging systems if you’re trying to churn out meme page content and crosspost it on many platforms.
  
  So you're saying AI image generation is encouraged by the copyright system?
- I was wondering why it looked off. The skin has this "plastic wrap" sheen to it that every AI-generated human seems to have, and the raptor looks like a giant plastic toy.
- Funny how everybody supports freedom of choice - but only for the right choices.
  Also wouldn't posting a still from the movie without permission be "stealing"? Moral purity is so complicated now.
  
  Freedom of choice does not preclude you from being called out for making shitty choices dumb dumb.
  Posting a photo is not stealing, what dumb takes you have friend. Look up ‘fair use’ and that should help you understand that.
  Also, just, idk, what even is this argument? Choices can’t be made in a vacuum and choices can’t be forced on people are not antithetical to shitty choices being shitty choices.

As someone who died at 28, spent six months in ICU fighting my way, I’m SO excited for 40! Growing old is a privilege, not everyone gets to
- I doubt you'll live to be 40!, but good luck all the same.
- Yeah I never expected to even reach thirty with my self-destructing body and ever worsening mental health. Every year towards fourty is quite the achievement
  
  That's how I'm trying to see it... age is a gift not everyone gets
- Born in 1989. Whenever an older person says, “never get old!” I always say, “it’s better than the alternative!”
- Well la dee da lease on life, some of us have joint problems and it's going to get worse
  
  joint problems?

I'm ready.

As an 80s kid, hitting 40 was the best thing that ever happened to me. Shit that used to matter suddenly doesn't, like you flipped a lightswitch. You get new superpowers, and they're all bitchy. I recommend it to everyone.
- I remember a survey done years ago that people say 30s and 40s are the best years of their lives.
  
  that was probably years ago
- Seriously, I'm 41 and over the last year I've slowed slipped into fuck it mode. Don't get me wrong, I still have plenty of things I care about, but so many little things I've just stopped caring about and my life is so much more relaxed because of it. It's amazing what hitting 40 can do to your mindset.
  
  Do you have examples of things you don't pay as much mind to anymore? I am having a hard time picturing that from just the two comments.
- Girl, yes!!

Doesn't scare me, cancer does.

Fuck you OP. I still have 2.5 years. Don't remind me

Shut up

80s kid here: it's not that bad and mostly what you decide to make out of it. still playing magic the gathering, minecraft and irl boardgames :)
- 80s kids play Minecraft? I was almost 30 when that was released and definitely missed that boat
  
  the boat is still here. get on it?
  or luanti
  
  I started playing it late 20s. It really is a game anyone can enjoy. Particularly the Java version with modpacks (some of these modpacks are probably actually unplayable by children because of how complicated and technical they are).
- As one 80s band might put it.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

a kid born in the 90s or someone who was a kid in the 90s (born in the 80s)
- I've always considered it the latter.
  
  Same. It's about 90s culture, isn't it? I was born in the early 90s, I didn't consciously experience a lot of 90s things. My formative years were the 00s, therefore I'm not a 90s kid.
  
  I thought it was about having almost 100 baby goats
- I'm already 43 so I guess someone born in the 90s
- Fun fact: if you were born before 1990, your birthday is closer to West Germany becoming a sovereign country than it is to today.

Too late

Downvoted for using generative AI
- Witch hunter

I was a kid and an adult in the 90s, this is so confusing 😅
- Kid in the 1890's, adult in the 1990's? 🤔
  
  Pretty young by vampire standards, thb.

Now would probably be a good time to start stretching before bed and warming up in the morning.
- Exercise, cut the sugar, drink water, sleep, orgasm.
  
  Instructions unclear, now I’m wet and sticky and banned from the gym
  
  But how?

How do I express anger via upvote?
- Make a channel for angry upvotes

The dreaded event happens in 8 days for me.... Its so close, I can hear it around the corner.
- That's just the sound of you getting up from a seat. Every seat. Forever.
- I feel you bro
- Just remember to appreciate what you've got at every milestone. Fucking 40 will seem like being born anew one day hence.