What does being 30 or whatever feel like?

[MakeDigitalLove]

Turning 30 this year has not made me feel any different, personally I wasn't dreading it either. And I will never understand why people dread getting older. People let their age define them and it scares them. The only thing that comes with age is what you bring with it, outside of health issues that can occur because of age there is nothing to worry about when it comes to it.

 

[Kyanimal]

I remember that film very well.....the food factor would make me vomit...

Soylent Green

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

The movie that is from is "Logan's Run" (not "Soylent Green"). And, given Noah's partner's name, perhaps purposefully meant to be appropriate to this thread.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/?ref_=nv_sr_1

If you've not seen "Logan's Run", I would HIGHLY recommend it! It's core premise does relate to aging, particularly becoming 30, in Logan's fictional world.

Now for Real Life ...

I'm convinced that most guy's "Inner Image" solidifies when we're in our mid to late 20s. Unless I do something Really stupid, like look in a mirror, or try to skip a few stairs, it's my 20-something "Self" that is interacting with The World (even now).

If I last long enough, I'll be 65 in October.

30 is a mere "glitch". It doesn't even qualify as a "speed bump".

I'm particularly impressed with eastofeden's posts on this subject. I hadn't fully accepted my being gay, let alone knowing anything about "the gay world", until I hit 30. And, what a Start that proved to be!

Noah, you're still just a "Pup"! Just wait 'til you discover what it's like to "Dog" It!

Of course ... in all cases ... No Matter What ...

Keep Smilin'!!
Chaz

 

[TheLoveableLoner]

30s are awesome!

Honestly, going in, it didn't feel that different than your 20s. There's no immediate change one feels right away.

I didn't start to feel older based on a number. I felt older when I noticed how much more often I'd think of "the good old days," or focus on great memories. Or spend time thinking of how different I am now than who I used to be. And there are bodily changes. A night out partying costs much more in terms of recovery time than it did in my early twenties. Stuff like that.

I take pride in my age, though. When your in your 30s, sometimes your priorities in life tend to reveal themselves. I appreciate the time I spend with good friends so much more now versus then. The "little things" are just amazing.

I started feeling this way around 32/33.

Don't freak out. As others have said, growing old is better than the alternative.

 

[gsdx]

And I will never understand why people dread getting older.

I don't think it's a matter of growing older as much as it is the realisation that half their life is over.

 

[backagain]

I suppose it is like number 1.. Focus on a number and it becomes true.

 

[72-Jay]

Enjoy your youth while you have it. Don't just sit around the house and waste it doing nothing like i did
Getting old sucks, its all downhill from the point you reach 30.

In my later 20's there were times I wondered if I'd even make 30
it came and went
In my 30's I truly wondered if I'd even make 40
somehow it too came and went
Now in my 40's, I doubt I'll make 50

I'll say again Getting old sucks...

 

[otters]

The movie that is from is "Logan's Run" (not "Soylent Green"). And, given Noah's partner's name, perhaps purposefully meant to be appropriate to this thread.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/?ref_=nv_sr_1

If you've not seen "Logan's Run", I would HIGHLY recommend it! It's core premise does relate to aging, particularly becoming 30, in Logan's fictional world.

Exactly Chaz

 

[mbamike]

Feels the same as being 29 or 31. Don't be concerned so much as the number of years you have lived, but on the quality of the life you are living. Take care of your health, then your health will take care of you later in life.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Sometimes as you get older, you feel like life takes away more than it gives you... like you're being stalked in one of those horror movies.
You get up each day wondering how many days you have left as you see one by one, everyone around you vanishing. Grandparents. Aunts. Uncles. Loved ones. Coworkers. Neighbors. Friends. You constantly try to stay one step ahead, never knowing where death might pop out. On the news daily is death. Death. And more Death. Shut the closet door. Don't go in the basement. Don't go in the woods. Don't leave the back door unlocked. Don't trip and fall... it's going to get you sooner or later. You can't run from it. You can't hide from it.

 

[Vannie]

*squeals with horror*

 

[dpnice]

The truth is it is the beginning of the end; everything is downhill from then on.

The aches and the pains, the illnesses; the loss of sexual appetite; being ignored in the bars and on grindr; your body falling into ruin scaring you each time you look in the mirror; knowing that you will spend the rest of your life alone.

Does there seem any point in going on after 30? Well actually there is. It gives you time to rectify all those mistakes you made in your life. You have the time to start on a new pathway if you so desire. You become desirable to a whole new group of people. You have the time to widen your interests and build up new experiences. You should have the time to finally come to love yourself and realise that everything in life is worthwhile and joy and happiness can be found in many forms and in many ways.

 

[JerryPic]

I feel so sorry for you OP. Try to find a retired jew to marry you. Oh you poor man.

 

[IamNoah]

Borg I don't have anxiety around mortality. Though I am an atheist I was raised in a billion man death cult, the Roman Catholic Church, my own death is something I contemplate with something between delight and morbid curiosity, but the idea that I might outlive Logan or my brothers, the knowledge that I will outlive my grandparents this actually does seem to me to be a kind of vicious assholery on the part of the Universe.

 

[IamNoah]

The truth is it is the beginning of the end; everything is downhill from then on.

The aches and the pains, the illnesses; the loss of sexual appetite; being ignored in the bars and on grindr; your body falling into ruin scaring you each time you look in the mirror; knowing that you will spend the rest of your life alone.

Does there seem any point in going on after 30? Well actually there is. It gives you time to rectify all those mistakes you made in your life. You have the time to start on a new pathway if you so desire. You become desirable to a whole new group of people. You have the time to widen your interests and build up new experiences. You should have the time to finally come to love yourself and realise that everything in life is worthwhile and joy and happiness can be found in many forms and in many ways.

I do not think life is pointless at any age, I am merely curious as to how it will be different as I age. Life is fraught and complicated enough right now. What it might be like in five years, or twenty, or sixty is a subject of interest to me.

 

[IamNoah]

I feel so sorry for you OP. Try to find a retired jew to marry you. Oh you poor man.

My husband might object.

 

[sixthson]

I do not think life is pointless at any age, I am merely curious as to how it will be different as I age. Life is fraught and complicated enough right now. What it might be like in five years, or twenty, or sixty is a subject of interest to me.

Has it meant nothing to you that so many guys here have told you that life is great after 30? I know you mentioned your color and aging, but life is what you make it.

 

[G-Lexington]

If all you have to offer the world is "well, I haven't started falling apart yet", then yeah, getting older is going to be pretty depressing. I'd like to think I have more to offer the world than a young flexible body.

Lex

 

[IamNoah]

Has it meant nothing to you that so many guys here have told you that life is great after 30? I know you mentioned your color and aging, but life is what you make it.

Because I have received a number of thoughtful responses all conversation/wondering should cease?

 

[sixthson]

Yes

 

[72-Jay]

If all you have to offer the world is "well, I haven't started falling apart yet", then yeah, getting older is going to be pretty depressing.

Ofcourse when you are old and falling apart then there really ain't much to offer the world..
Pretty much how I see it.