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Or maybe you will die tomorrow.
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Listen, Ian, it's not *time* that's supposed to thicken when you kiss a girl. (And, if she asks, just tell her that it's "friend inches long.")
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Like I said last time you wrote this, your thirties are fun. It's your forties that'll fucking kill you.
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"I had no idea he was 40, I just thought he liked Bob Seger a lot."

Gold.
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The biggest change when you turn 30 is that being reminded when anything happened makes you momentarily feel old. Wow, was Inception really four years ago? College Dropout was ten years ago? Live's "Throwing Copper" was really twenty years ago? Ian Karmel was THIRTY fucking years ago?

Man, I'm getting old.
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Another mullenial coming of age...ha ha ha!!! Welcome to adulthood loser! Lookin a little long in the tooth. A very reflective piece here. So will you be coming out of retirement?
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Well, if one is to compare ones' life to a bell-curve, the decline doesn't really begin till 36.
So, you got that going for you.
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Why would a forty year old like Bob Seger? That doesn't make sense. Did you mean Radiohead?
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30 was when my life started to bloom. My 30s were when I started to realize what I really wanted, and know how to go about getting it. The 30s are when your life turns awesome. Happy Birthday, Ian.
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Everyone likes Bob Seger. That's just science.
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30 years ago when you were born, 30 yr olds didn't have room mates or live with their parents. They had jobs, houses, kids, careers ect... You can rest easy because todays expectations of a 30 yr old are pretty minimal.
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^ Don't be an asshole. The economic opportunities are demonstrably worse today than in 1984. "Kids today are lazy" has always been bullshit.

--a 44 year-old
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Another privileged white guy reflects on how juvenile society permits him to be in the social sandbox while the less fortunate have to grow the fuck up and know it's nothing profound or expected, they have to do it to survive. Keep taking those baby steps, Ian!
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"The economic opportunities are demonstrably worse today than in 1984. "
That's the point, hence the lower expectations. When i turned 30, all the opportunities the boomers enjoyed were long dried up, but the expectations were still the same.

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