Do I count as middle-aged now? No, seriously. - ThreadSky

easterncoyote.bsky.social • 15 days ago

Do I count as middle-aged now?

No, seriously.

Reposted from J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🌿

It’s my birthday, and I’ll scream if I want to.

39 times around the sun. Damn.

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I marked it from the age at which I was half the age of my longest-lived relative. Great grandma made it to 105.

(Hilariously, I accidentally hit caps lock when I started typing so I was *very nearly* demoing the classic Old Person On The Internet stereotype)

shinybluething.bsky.social•15 days ago

Corollary: Everyone under 30 is a child, now.

Baby Hobbitses.

shawnellis.bsky.social•15 days ago

Gay: Yes.
Bi: on the verge.
Straight: not yet.
🤷🏻‍♂️

cobaltsiren.bsky.social•15 days ago

Next year! Don’t worry, it’s not that bad tbh

zja.bsky.social•12 days ago

Apparently yes. I still just say my age though. I'm not ready to say I'm middle age even if my body is screaming at me that I am now I've hit 40.

shinydan.bsky.social•15 days ago

It's a label. Only if you want to. I'm 50 and despite my health issues, I don't feel middle-aged at all.

miladymigraine.bsky.social•15 days ago

Nope. You’re a baby. Get off my lawn *shakes cane*

anilea.bsky.social•15 days ago

Nope. I refuse to acknowledge it, too😹

cybersphynx.bsky.social•15 days ago

No. 39 is young. If 39 is middleaged I am positively ancient at 66 and I don't feel ancient.

ericmalcolm.bsky.social•15 days ago

Happy birthday. You're almost at the point/age where I am. I sometimes have to ask my wife how old I am, I seriously don't remember, I lost track after like 32 or 33.

drfeinics.com•15 days ago

LOL! You are a babe in the woods still. Happy birthday!

imajjami.bsky.social•15 days ago

Google says you have another year.

imajjami.bsky.social•15 days ago

Eh, 45 is where I draw the line, but middle-aged is as middle- aged does.

histoirb.bsky.social•15 days ago

Happy birthday 🥳…and nope, not yet 😊

chronically-online.bsky.social•15 days ago

no, my kid is 39 , so NOPE, no way , na!

leelantry.bsky.social•15 days ago

You can if you want to!
Its greatly freeing. Even better than 20s vs being a teenager.

camstonefaux.bsky.social•15 days ago

No.
If you have to ask, you’re not. You just know.

selfstyledsiren.bsky.social•15 days ago

Well, I have had this exchange from Postcards from the Edge stuck in my head for years, I'm afraid:
Meryl: Ma, I'm middle-aged.
Shirley: Dear, *I'm* middle-aged.
Meryl: Really. And how many 120-year-old women do *you* know?

selfstyledsiren.bsky.social•15 days ago

That said, middle age is great. Relish your ability to win arguments based on life experience alone. 💙 And happy birthday!

eperryinsights.bsky.social•15 days ago

I don’t think so. 39 is only 14 years into your adult brain. You’ve still got a lot of living, learning, growing, synthesizing and paying it forward and backward ahead of you. Enjoy every moment of the ride!

cjacobs001.bsky.social•6 days ago

Average age to live, minus your current age = ? now where on the timeline (0 to average age) does that fit? Middle going higher?

chrisltd.bsky.social•15 days ago

meladroite.bsky.social•15 days ago

As someone turning 39 this year, I refuse lol

coffeego.bsky.social•15 days ago

I will be turning 50 in December, and one day you, too, will be thinking that you were so young and vital at just 39. So I say, enjoy!

Also, can I have some of your youthful blood?

meladroite.bsky.social•15 days ago

Turning 38 was a weird one for me, for Mom reasons, but I've made it most of the way through it so far, so it's YOLO from here on out haha :)

coffeego.bsky.social•15 days ago

I hear you, really. My father died suddenly at 36 on Christmas Eve (my fifth birthday) and it was very strange to cross that age myself. But I’ve done so much work on myself since that I feel a lot better mentally and physically now than I did then. The main difference now is my bedtime is 9:30 pm!

meladroite.bsky.social•15 days ago

The lead-up to this last bday was worse than anything! this year has been fine and I'm generally okay. With some great highs and some pits of despair thrown in for good measure.

meladroite.bsky.social•15 days ago

(And your bedtime is later than mine!)

nothingsprings.bsky.social•15 days ago

39 also. The crisis is on going, I just happened to reach midlife

xiphosb4.bsky.social•15 days ago

Not quite.

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