• RBWells@lemmy.world
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    27 minutes ago

    Well I’m more than 25+25 and would not want to be 25 either but don’t worry, it will only last a year. Just hang on.

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    44 minutes ago

    ayo. old head here.

    At 29. I had a pact with myself to kill myself before my 40th birthday.

    I’m 43 this year.

    If you take one piece of advice away: life is always worth living, there’s always a tomorrow, no matter how bad you feel that feeling is not forever and things can change and you can change them.

    I have struggles, doubts, frustrations, rages, disappointments, set backs, failures and, indeed, depression. But I lived. And even today I had a bad moment, I was feeling super low - but this evening I had a wonderful time with some friends and came home to my wife who I adore.

    You made it to 25 and I knew a few people who didn’t when I was 25. Now I’m forty fewer people have made it with me.

    I miss them but we get to see what’s next. You get to see what’s next.

    Enjoy being 25, 26, and beyond

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      43 this year too. 42 was a wild ride and 43 isn’t shaping up to be any less crazy.

      If I could offer only one piece of advice, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists, where as the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

      And no, there was no copying, nor pasting involved, I just remember that “song” very well. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it may be worth looking up, because as I’ve gotten older, the advice in that “song” has only become more accurate, more true, and hit home a whole lot harder year after year.

  • vapordays@leminal.space
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    1 hour ago

    For most people, their peak physical potential is between 25-35.

    And peak mental potential is older than that

    Enjoy

  • itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    There is only one way stop growing older I’m afraid

    My grandma always said ‘getting old is fun. Being old is not.’ And ‘I guess it beats the alternative’ and a legendary ‘folks I’m getting old’ at the ripe old age of 98. My immediate response was ‘well that took you a while then’

    Anyway, you’re 25, you’ll be fine, also happy birthday!