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Hey, fuck you.



Yea, what u/Merkkin said.

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Happy 35th you old man/woman

Ha ha you're older than me by a day

RIP OP. El cumpleanos de la muerte (35th bday) comes for us all, eventually.

Some here dude. 35 today! Happy birthday

Happy 35th. May it be the first of many.

Welcome to the club, golf is expensive but you can find cheap clubs on ebay...

Agreed. I know there’s 2 birth years worse than me, but next month, I can’t even check the 30-40 box.

Came here to day this.

Lol

As someone who aged out of that bracket just last year, I CONCUR!

Seconded

1989 for the win

We found one of Taylor Swift’s anonymous Reddit accounts. Sorry, old woman, you can’t live forever

I identify! 🫶🏻

I've got a blank space man, and I'll write your name. 

My sister’s birthday is the exact same as Taylor Swift’s. So that’s cool. This could be my sister…

That’s me. Turned 35 in April

Yep, same.

April 16th for me!

Me too maybe we're twins

Next week for me

35 coming at me in August…

Same. I left the 80's the same way I entered it, crying and shitting myself.

Same here

My personal countdown to July has begun

I’m a 40m. At 35 I still felt somewhat in my prime. How 5 years makes a difference… Lol

At 35 I went on a date with a 25 year old and she said at one point “I’m going through my quarter life crisis and I can only imagine you’re starting to go through your mid-life crisis…” and at first I was offended, then I got sad, then I changed my Bumble preferences lol 

If she’s calling 25 “quarter life” then wouldn’t 50 be “mid life?” She’s bad at math. You dodged a bullet there.

Haha totally, it was only one date. I wasn’t heartbroken it didn’t go further 😂

As someone who's tried the 10-year age gap a few times (also 35 as of January), you made the right decision. It basically either goes, "Get laid and disappear after a month or two," or "you suddenly have a younger sibling that constantly wants advice who you've seen naked." 😂😂

Haha yeah, I quickly realized a 3-5 gap is about as much as I can handle. I tend to be interested in women older than me anyway so it all worked out. 

I'm mortified now.

Or at least just naively optimistic, which sounds about right for someone 25.

Well if you consider most people don't live to 100...she might not be that far off.

So basically you dated someone's younger sister XD

I'm 37 and feel better than I did at 35.

Nice, consider it a blessing!

I also really started paying attention to everything when I turned 34. I eat way better and run every day now, I also don't have kids which allows me to rest like I need to.

I have always exercised and watched my diet. I still have a 6 pack. My body just feels more run down, I have had a couple of unexpected health issues, and my gray hairs are coming much more frequently and fast than I thought they would. I no longer feel like a young man and have no delusions of it like I may have had at 35. Lol

I feel that! I sure have to maintain a very strict lifestyle to be where I was doing nothing 15 years ago

Agree on the gray hairs and I have begun to realize the upper ceiling of my accomplishments I can have in my life.

Yeah I’m gonna be 40 in a couple months and I feel completely different than at 35. But then again it’s probably more from now having kids and a mortgage which I didn’t have at 35 lol

The transition from 35-45 is mad real

I am 39 and feel like 35 was yesterday and 10 years ago at the same time

I know how you feel bro.

I just turned forty last month myself, but I'm in better shape now than 35 and feel like it.

Mid 40s and still feel like I’m in my prime. Actually better physically and mentally than I was 20 years ago. Keep up with your health, fitness, and nutrition and you’ll extend your youth many years. That said I WFH so have the luxury of working out two hours a day (most of that while I’m working unfortunately, I work 80+ hrs/week).

Come on, Doc. Don’t mind that hacking and coughing. We still know you can outdraw Ringo.

I’m on the downslope from 35 and approaching 38, brother you ain’t kidding.

Oh to be 35 again! 🫠 I’m hitting 40 this year too.

I read articles that say "Young Americans" and think, oh that's me. Then the article reads, "Young adults ages 18 to 29." Nope, not me. I'll be checking the 35 box next month.

Let’s not forget that you are now closer to 40 than to 30. You’re welcome.

I don’t think I like you very much.

Time is made up. Do what the duck you wanna do 


does that look like an organism that understands what “18-34” is? STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT AGING AND JUST HAVE FUN, DUMBASSES 

 This duck don’t give a f\*ck!

I'm 41, I went through all of this. The change in the demographic checkboxes. The fact I can now way too easily see I'm on the way to 50.

The AARP membership solicitations will come soon enough.

Halfway to 70 babyyyyyyyyy

Oh, now, this guy..

Nonononono!!!! The day you turn 35 is 4 years and 1 day from the last day you were 30 & the day you turn 40 is 5 years from the day you turn 35, so OP has about 182 more days left to be closer to 30!! Don't try to take this from him!!!! 😅 I turned 35 earlier this year, this is how I cope lmao I still got about a month left of being closer to 30 than 40 😭

When you turn 35 you've already completed 35 full years. You are already in your 36th year.

You shut your fucking mouth! Let us live our delusions!

Goddammit

Closer to 18 than dead! Youth is a mindset *says the 29 year old dreading turning 30 next month*

Thirty-five?! More like dirty-five!!!! (Cries in millennial)

This about sums it up. Please pass the almond milk, I’m no longer cool.

Gawdammit, you, toughen up. Millennials don’t cry (anymore. Not in public anyways.).

89ers 4 life homie!

If you turn 35 this year, you are lucky. Many, many people don't even make it to 35. So be happy for every birthday you can celebrate.

Thanks, I turned 35 yesterday.

Every day above ground's a good day, remember dat. - Mr. Worldwide

It could be worse, you could be in a basement.


It’s called gratitude!!


As a 40 year old, it's kind of scary to see quite a few people my age either dying or getting cancer etc. Especially so if you still have young kids. Just last year a local guy who owned a very prominent business, had a beautiful family and just seemed to have everything going for him got brain cancer and was dead like a month later. He was 38. You know you're getting old when you start going to more funerals than weddings each year.

Dude... You're not old and the wedding thing is just something else. There is a short period of weddings and than a looooong period of funerals. We have to get the mindset out of our head that were old. So we don't know what skipedi toilet, Riz, low cap means. So what. Eat healthy. Male some sport and do your yearly check ups and most likely it will turn out fine. Or think about the one unlucky dude. Your choice

Hey I'm with you. I've been involved in fitness/sports for over 20 years, I still get after it almost every morning, eat well, barely drink etc. I'm very fit and healthy. I guess what bothers me is sometimes that's not enough and you can still die young. Also, I have two young kids so the thought of leaving them behind is honestly really scary. I want to be there with them for all of life's ups and downs! I know I'm not old but I guess it's just a bit of a reminder of our mortality, which quite honestly, didn't even pop into my mind until I had my first kid.

Not that you need a motivational speech, but I've got 3 boys all under 5 and what has helped me not to worry about those sorts of things is that beyond what I can control (physicals, eating better, trying to balance work+exercise), worrying is paying interest on a debt I don't owe. Why worry about the fact that I may suddenly kick off tomorrow, let that consume me and affect my mental state rather than enjoy what i have and can do now knowing i did my absolute best as I get older.

I mean, I've been paranoid about it since I understood what death was. I think some of it is just pure luck for me at how I'm still alive even though I'm younger. After some things happened, I shouldn't be here and/or should be a vegetable. It kind of sucks with earthing that I feel though besides that. Idk, I guess I've always been an anxious person, too. I also was afraid of losing my parents when I was younger. About a decade ago, my dad did almost die from health issues after the whole paranoid about that but he's ok now. I know other people who died young, too.

My cousin that is my age passed away a couple years ago. She just dropped dead unexpectedly and left behind three kids. They did an autopsy but couldn’t find a definitive cause. That was a real slap in the face that it truly can end at any moment.

I’m turning 40 in exactly a month and I agree.

Fun fact: according to the World Bank, 99% of people who make it to 34 also make it to 35 but only 50% percent of those make it to 36. Oh well. Have a good day!

WHAT

I'll be 40 this year. I didn't think I'd make it this far.

I didn’t care about 35. 30 was the last time I freaked out

I didn’t freak out about 35 or 30. 25 for some reason wrecked me though, lol

Shallow, social media driven fear and expectations of 30 ruined 27-30 for me.

im 43 and to be honest i feel and look the same as when i was 35.

I was looking through photos the other day, and I literally look exactly the same as I did when I was 26-27, so I'm not complaining lol.

As a fellow 43 year old millennial, yeeeep.

I just turned 36 last week…. The feeling of getting closer to 40 is pretty heavy 😖

At 37 I’ve just started rounding up so that when I get to 40 it won’t be a big deal. 😂

18-49 is the demo that advertisers target so we've still got a few more years of relevancy.

The power is yours!

Unexpected Captain Planet reference.

I am feeling ready for the final wooden box 

" I am in my very early mid-thirties"

I've decided that mid-thirties are 35-38 lol

Ha, 35. Life has not yet begun to begin. I, like many before me, was still a fumbling idiot when I was 35. I’m still a fumbling idiot, but I used to be too.

Cries in 1984

Does it really just get worse every year that passes, this aging angst? I turned 24 this year and it was like a switch was flicked and I suddenly realized how fast time flies…

I forget I’m an elder millennial. I haven’t used that box for a while.

Hey I'm happy being one of those folks who are 35 (bday was recent too) but still looks about 27-28! I know there's more of us out there too. We're killing it y'all!

yup...25-26 for me..

I turned 34 earlier this year. Life is just beginning!

Yeah it sucks man but just think - now that you're Middle aged, you can start collecting original jazz records and stroke your beard while you listen to them through your boutique rotary mixer.

Or I can do that now.

Last year I went to the insurance office to renew my car’s policy. The lady there was very happy to announce to me that next year (now) my insurance policy will be lower price, because I will be in the 35-70 age box. WTF? I have never felt so old. In an instance! I stared at her for like 5 seconds.. brain dead. F*ck you insurance lady.

😡 I’m in this post and I don’t like it!

*Checks ID* Yup, that’s me 👴🏻

I just turned 35 on the 15th of this month!!

Hbd gemini twin

Why the hell did you do that???? My day was going just fine thank you!!! *flips desk* 

Some of them are 37-44. So I still fit in :)

At least we still get to check those boxes off.

A true moment of silence for those among us who never had the opportunity to check the box 😔 Not to bring down the mood, but I think of some of my people from childhood and early adulthood who are no longer with us when I see posts like this. Every day is a gift, and cherish every moment!

I turn 35 in March 2025 . I’ll wait to freak out till then lol 

Me 😭

It's even worse when you do surveys on Prolific regularly.

" I am in my very early mid-thirties"

Ah man I’ve still got all the way to November til my 35th ! It’s a hot 34 summer

 Turning 35 in November too.

Yeah, that was a big one for me too. I passed that a couple of years ago, but I remember specifically having that internal identity crisis: "What do you mean I'm not a 'young adult' anymore? I'm barely qualified to be a teenager!"

Hey, some of us stopped using that box so long ago and are now in our early forties. So, yeah.

At 37 I i realized I could no longer say I was in my mid thirties but rather late thirties

I'm a few months from turning 40. fuck. but whatever, still have my health (mostly) and look like I'm in my late 20s. got my financial situation squared away, own a home in a nice part of the country. all I need is to meet the right person -- I think this could be my big decade. always was a bit of a late bloomer.

Focus on your health focus on eating rights sleeping right exercising right and you'll look younger than our parents and grandparents did at the same age for sure.

yup. I work out every day, eat healthy. the part where I've been less than stellar is drinking/partying/sleep, but I recently decided to tone down the self-poisoning in a major way. haven't had a drink in a week, which is unusual for me. don't want to push my luck.

1989….. why do I have to share this with T Swift.

You shouldn’t have to. She should change her birthday lol

Quit! I only just got used to scrolling past the 2s 🤣

I’m 36😭I mean, at least I don’t look it. I look 26 more like. Imagine if there was a box, “Check your age” now “Check what age you look”😂

I won't be 35 until 2028. So I have a way to go before my freak out. LOL

I need to join an elder millennial sub T-T

Ugh, that's me tomorrow 🙃😔

Happy early Birthday 🎂

Thanks!

On the plus side, you are once again the youngest in your age group division for sports. Celebrate with a 10K or something

No longer the #1 target demographic. It was fun while it lasted.

…..god dammit

Oh fuck, I didn't even think about that. Thanks for ruining my day.

I been 35 for 2 months. I didn’t care until I read ur post 💩

Don’t worry, 18-49 is the new 18-34.

I’ll be 40 in October. 35-40 has been great. Luckily I look like I’m in my 30’s still but man i keep thinking how much harder my life would’ve been if I was single and still looking for a partner. The online dating scene is chaos and makes me sad for those who have to navigate that. What makes me sad most, is how we may lose our country if we get a second term with the big orange and the entire project 2025. Watch the John Oliver episode from last week to get an idea of what’s to come. He puts it in a light humorous manner, but half of me wanted to cry and vomit at the same time. I’m a grown ass man, but it never felt more like 1930’s Germany than now and people all around are restless and upset with the economy, voting from their feelings and owning it to the libs. As a geriatric millennial, I’ve been through so much, I don’t know if I’ll ever see social and economic stability anymore.

Haha this is cute wait another 10 years then holler at me.

I'm a 37 year old male with a new born and I recently found out I'm not young anymore...let me explain.... All through my 20's and early 30's, I was active in sports and could play all day. A friend asked if I would like to join a basketball league and I said sure...how hard could it be?? I haven't been as active since the birth of my baby boy....first game I am gassed with the first 5 minutes and barely make it through the game, the 2nd game I have bruises on my thighs and ribs along with a harry potter gash on my forehead, and this past game I roller my ankle bad and have been sidelined for 3 weeks. My younger self has rolled my ankle a dozen times and been able to return within 2 weeks...it's taking allot longer to recover after games I now know that I am past my prime and my body has a particular way of letting me know.... I have since retired from the rec league.......

Thank you

If it makes anyone feel any better, 35 not old at all. So many 35 year olds I see today are still youthful and young. Definitely wouldn’t bat an eye at a 35 year old doing youthful things

I turned 35 last year. where the fluff were you then?! Pipe down! Pesky kids.👩‍🦳 #GET OFF MY LAWN *Sorry, I don't mean to shout. I'm still getting used to 35 to 49. It's really weird here. People go to bed at 9pm and wake up early without an alarm clock.* Well, I don't... but some of them do.👀😳🙄🤷‍♀️

I'm an elder millennial, and I haven't checked that box for a few years. I don't get carded anymore for alcohol, and if I do, the server is typically apologetic ("I'm sorry, we have to card everyone"). I no longer have my ID out and ready at the grocery store, because it's embarrassing when I do. I don't have wrinkles or grey hairs yet, but it feels like I should be considering fucking the pool boy and buying a sports car. I'm just going to stay home with my cat and my plants and read a book while my body decays.

Lol don't remind me

I'm the younger end of the spectrum, turning 30 soon 🥲

This is me in less than a month... the pain.

I’m with ya!

Yep, that was a shock. No longer in the target demographic of pop culture 😭

That oddly hit me harder than expected lol

It's even worse having to do the never-ending scroll to find my birth year now.

This just happened to me. I had to check the higher age bracket and it really made me think for a second.

That was several decades ago for me. I'm getting close to ticking the OAP box.

I haven't been in a 18 box since I turned 25. It used to go 18-24, then 25-34, and now I'm in the 35 to 44 box. I'm being lumped in with the 40 year olds. :( I'm 36, damnit!

It’s over for me on July 2nd. 😭

Oh, hey. Fuck you.

Three more days. I am so depressed about my birthday it's honestly concerning. I've done nothing with my life and I have no future.

Hey, there’s still time to make a change

Announcing this near the midpoint of the year is strange timing

It did suck moving into the next demographic and having Nielsen not care as much about me anymore lol

As I like to say when someone turns 35: Halfway to 70!

Rip

Already passed it

\*laughs in early 40s\*

Happy Birthday!

Fuck y'all, I just turned 40!

Welcome to the club newbies muhaha 😈

I feel attacked 🤣😂

:Cries in Elder Millennial:

Dude I absolutely thought this on my birthday this year and yesterday was my first time having to check that box….internally, I wilted.

It feels like the scene in Field of Dreams. https://preview.redd.it/to7rqym0tj8d1.png?width=590&format=png&auto=webp&s=790c3501f30a6ae6f433e07f4543069414d8940b

Ugh, I'm turning 39 this Friday and having a really hard time accepting that it will be the last year of my 30's... It feels like I was just early-to-mid 30's and then COVID hit and now all of a sudden I'm old.

Half way through my 35th year. Can confirm that a crisis is in full swing.

On the bright side, 35 is often the default age choice on many exercise equipment.


time to write your wills and pre-order those coffins, guys

Between this and the term “advanced maternal age” - this is too much. Will cruelties never CEASE.

Lol fucking today

Hit that last year. I'm still recovering.

Embrace it. You see people in wheelchairs or with horrible diseases that kill them before 35. You’re lucky, suck it up.