I am 30 years old and just started taking my finance together. Before i use to buy things that i don’t need like all latest stuff but now i realised i don’t need all that.
How does life feel once you’ve hit 40?
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I am 30 years old and just started taking my finance together. Before i use to buy things that i don’t need like all latest stuff but now i realised i don’t need all that.
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I guess it’s different for each one. I made a good plan where younger and have a lot of money now that allow me to have many holidays l, but a lot of expensive things that I don’t need and eat out.
Shitty. Less days ahead than behind and it’s all gonna suck.
See how you feel now? Same as that, but 10 years later.
These “Milestone birthdays” people always bang on about are fucking meaningless. It’s like losing your virginity, you expect that the world is going to be an entirely different place after but all that happens is you now know what it feels like inside a vagina.
Waking up aged 40 is exactly the same as waking up the day before when you were 39. Don’t worry about it, nothing changes.
Not fourty but following the comments on this post
The only thing I’ll say about your 30s is that they will fly by incredibly fast. Way, way faster than your 20s. It felt like yesterday when I was turning 30. Now I’ll be 46 this year.
Once, life was downhill with a tailwind and a buzz. Now it’s wading through pudding. Sugar-free pudding, because your cholesterol’s high.
Your eyes go first. One day you’re reading a label like a person. The next, you’re holding it at arm’s length like a pirate squinting at a cursed map.
Motivation slips out the back door. Things you used to love start sounding like errands. “Breakfast tacos with friends” turns into “traffic, calories, heartburn.” Video games lose their magic. That little guy on screen isn’t you slaying dragons — he’s pixels. And you need to update your Google Drive with business-related write-offs for your side hustle LLC.
Responsibilities pile up like laundry nobody’s folding. You stay at a job because now you have people who need you to. The new hires are younger, cheaper, and somehow already tired. Parents get older and knees get louder. You start googling wills and best caulk for damp areas.
And one day it hits you: You’re a crucial part of a very dumb machine you slowly built with your own bare hands. If you break, the marble doesn’t roll, the balloon doesn’t pop, the boot doesn’t kick the little green soldier onto the lever. Everything just sits there, stuck, waiting, looking ridiculous to the young and uninitiated.
But you see things coming now. You know exactly what happens if you ignore that crack by the shower: mold, repairs, rage, and more seller concessions. You glance at a neighbor with a new BMW in the garage, his mother-in-law’s Subaru by the curb, and a dead lawn, and know exactly how that movie ends.
You realize vacations were never about gawking at old statues in marble fountains. They’re about sitting on a hotel bed with the right person, tasting a bag of various snacks from exotic grocery stores, and laughing for as long as life lets you.
Getting old isn’t terrible. It’s just maintenance. Relentless, necessary maintenance.
Ummm shit just starts going down hill body wise
My life wasn’t that great until I hit about 45. After 50 has definitely been the best times of my life. Currently 62M.