I'm 28 and am experiencing a version of this idea. I'm much wiser and fitter than I was at 20, but I look much older and uglier and my age (the number) is ticking up. I see how this creates an identity crisis for people.
I'm 28 and am experiencing a version of this idea. I'm much wiser and fitter than I was at 20, but I look much older and uglier and my age (the number) is ticking up. I see how this creates an identity crisis for people.
Troll or not? I can't tell. You get a 5/10 right off the bat for that.
It has nothing to do with vanity. It's about heading in one direction the first half of your life and finding half way through that you aren't where you want to be.
This a serious post
Semaphore Slim wrote:
This a serious post
You won't know until you're there. You have to know what it's like to know without a doubt, no way to rationalize to yourself that you are past the "best you'll ever be" physically. Not necessarily as it regards running, but just everything. What is left is your own mortality getting closer one day at a time.
At that point, you will wonder if you did enough and did the thing(s) that you meant to do. And the clock will be ticking loud, and you'll wonder if there is still time, and you'll wonder how do I do it with [a career / wife / kids].
A better way to say it...is the point where you know that you're closer to the day you die than the day you were born. The world looks very different through those eyes.
Mid life crisis for milleniaks is 30 lol
In my day it was 40-45.
Lay off the muscle milk ryan hall
We live for just these 20 years
Do we have to die for the 50 more?
- David Bowie
Fvck off, Jamin King.
Johnny Mayor called it a quarter life crisis.
My crisis came on my 31st birthday when I woke up in my bed living in my mother's house, realized I'd never get back together with the love of my life because of what we'd done to each other over the course of years, was aware that I hadn't had a real LTR in years, had zero prospects, my friends had all move/married/kidded and I had to leave for a job that I hated but paid very well - too well to leave. It was a combination of paralysis, depression and hopelessness.
When Crete hits the fan wrote:
Johnny Mayor called it a quarter life crisis
Do millennials who use this term expect to live to age 120 +/-?
How do you look uglier at 28? That's ridiculous unless you're an alcoholic and smoke a ton. Balding is no excuse. Tons of guys kill it bald and in good shape. Especially in Europe.
Don't worry, Jamin! You're always a qt to me
Hardloper wrote:
When Crete hits the fan wrote:
Johnny Mayor called it a quarter life crisis
Do millennials who use this term expect to live to age 120 +/-?
For those who don't know, he means John Mayer the musician. Hardloper, do you not expect millennials to live to 120+?
At 28 I was just getting started. Just finished grad school at the time. I had my MLC at around 44 or 45
Swaglord wrote:
How do you look uglier at 28? That's ridiculous unless you're an alcoholic and smoke a ton. Balding is no excuse. Tons of guys kill it bald and in good shape. Especially in Europe.
Swaglord is one of my favorite poster on the boards.
If you are having a mid-life crisis at 28, then you peaked far too early.
Head for the hills when Jamin says "this is a serious post".
Every day is a crisis for Jamin. At least, he is amusing and mostly harmless. I hope no women come forward and claim he posted inappropriate training advice on some niche running site on the cybernet.
MUGA
29 here. Don’t know about the midlife crisis thing but I definitely understand why people drink now. ??????
There’s a thing called imposter syndrome that’s real. That usually explains the midlife crisis feeling.
Semaphore Slim wrote:
I'm 28 and am experiencing a version of this idea. I'm much wiser and fitter than I was at 20.
Wow. I mean, seriously wow.