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You know what I find really annoying? Being told 'you'll understand when you're older' or 'just wait until you're my age' as if I'm not already old enough to build a constructive thought.
I don't need to have a fully developed brain or a master's to understand what's wrong with a freshly eighteen year old to begin sw and immediately begin to gain money from a waiting audience. How overeating is disordered but isn't as talked about as much it should be, how wrinkles are beautiful and a testament but feared due to society's pressure of staying young. How you should always hold your partners accountable and how wrong it is for parents pushing their older children to raise their younger ones.
I could keep going but you all get the point.
Moral of the story don't be quick to dismiss someone's thoughts or reasoning solely based on age.
Jul 10, 2025
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🥛"gen z is aging like milk!" "gen z is a bunch of snowflakes!" "gen z is trying to cancel eminem!" pleaseeeee, anyone who actually generalizes an entire group of people based on them being born within a 15 year span of each other, go outside immediately. interact with people offline. I'm begging you.
specifically so tired of this "gen z is aging like milk!" conversation where the comments just turn into a circlejerk of people being like "I'm 57 and look like a 16 year old actually haha these gen z kids look even older than me!" and that belief being affirmed by others saying the same thing in their own comments. I would say most people probably look their age. some look younger and some look older due to environmental or genetic factors, and that's okay. its okay to age prematurely, it's also okay to look middle aged when you're middle aged. I don't look like a teenager anymore because I'm not a teenager, and I would not want to look like a teenager lol
the whole conversation just reeks of projecting your insecurities around aging onto others. and I don't mean anyone who has been told that they look young is insecure because there are people that do of course, but the ones that try to put people down to make themselves feel better need to get a grip
anyway, rant over. just be happy to be gifted life and the privilege to age, not everyone gets to. we are all living on this beautiful planet together just trying to survive. cut the person who maybe has some premature aging some slack, they might be going through something causing it. just be more empathetic, we need it in the world right now 🫶
specifically so tired of this "gen z is aging like milk!" conversation where the comments just turn into a circlejerk of people being like "I'm 57 and look like a 16 year old actually haha these gen z kids look even older than me!" and that belief being affirmed by others saying the same thing in their own comments. I would say most people probably look their age. some look younger and some look older due to environmental or genetic factors, and that's okay. its okay to age prematurely, it's also okay to look middle aged when you're middle aged. I don't look like a teenager anymore because I'm not a teenager, and I would not want to look like a teenager lol
the whole conversation just reeks of projecting your insecurities around aging onto others. and I don't mean anyone who has been told that they look young is insecure because there are people that do of course, but the ones that try to put people down to make themselves feel better need to get a grip
anyway, rant over. just be happy to be gifted life and the privilege to age, not everyone gets to. we are all living on this beautiful planet together just trying to survive. cut the person who maybe has some premature aging some slack, they might be going through something causing it. just be more empathetic, we need it in the world right now 🫶
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🕰i just feel like me. i felt old when i was like 22-24 but now at 27 i’m just like wow i haven’t been alive that long and actual old people just see me as a 20-something. also like yeah while i guess you get more mature with more life experience, your brain still feels the same somehow (maybe bc maturity isn’t linear or a truly measurable metric). i get why people begin to lose touch with things as they get older not bc they’re too old to understand but it’s like what use do i have knowing what cultural signifiers will get me approval from a 10, 15 or even 20 year old? i don’t even care what my peers think.
i used to have an obsession with mustaches and bacon in middle school and said shit like “rawr means i love you in dinosaur xD” like i have no place judging the new stuff that the kids are saying today.
i used to have an obsession with mustaches and bacon in middle school and said shit like “rawr means i love you in dinosaur xD” like i have no place judging the new stuff that the kids are saying today.
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🤷i know 20 is young and i blend in with my younger friends a little and since i have a youthful appearance it shocks people to hear im older than they are . ive always felt a touch ahead and way more behind. my life has honestly from my teen years felt like a messy blur and i think the internet is honestly to blame for that. but aging isn’t scary to me, it just is. and honestly can’t wait to be 21. i think gen alpha culture is also largely passed down and sometimes curated by gen z idk. gen alpha is like babies to me. idk i don’t feel old and maybe i can inpart some wisdom to the little alphas to go the hell outside. seriously. there’s a capitalistic market on your attention span but you still have control. ramble idk. i still have much to go and experience
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I think that their story is overshadowed by other greek love (if you can even call some that) stories like Orpheus and Eurydice, Hades and Persephone, and Aphrodite and Adonis. I analyzed this piece for my art class in the first semester of junior year and am still working on it for a study; it's cool actually how something that takes seconds to admire can take hours to gain insight. Greek myths I think prove that there's a bit of human in everyone; forgiveness and redemption, power and betrayal, love and hate.
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Whenever I pass by a pair of baby shoes at the store I wonder what my life will be like ten years from now. Funny that it sounds bizarre to love something that doesn't exist yet I am enamored with my future children.
I like to think that maybe love is there, just in the unborn.
Loving someone is never a waste, and the thought of loving him for the rest of my life definitely gives me the drive to work hard; if it means that my back will ache as I hunch over my desk to illustrate or animate I will bear through it with a smile. I really want to pursue art, it makes me happy and I have so many ideas.
Maybe one day I'll meet with my highschool best friend, and we will sit and chat for hours at a café. She will tell me the trajectory of her life while I show her my current work in progress and explain that love did prevail. I'll tell her about my engineer who works hard, and the two little darlings, all of which occupy my heart.
There's an idea that you shouldn't expect things to happen because life is a roller-coaster, yet I know I can accomplish my dreams with time. You shouldn't be afraid of dying, you should be afraid of not living. Why live in fear when you only live once?