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what-even-is-thiss:

sandersstudies:

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randomslasher:

scumtrout:

fun fact about aging: you don\u2019t perceive yourself as being older but you perceive young people as being younger. today I was in a zoom meeting with a bunch of young men and I kept thinking \u2018who put beards on these children\u2019.

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Correct. High school kids are WAY younger than I was when I was in high school. So are college kids. When I was in high school and college we were full grown adults. But now that I\u2019m almost 40 the high school and college age kids are actually babies. It\u2019s crazy how that happens.\u00a0

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I remember when I was in middle school I would hear my dad calling college students and 20-something employees \u201ckid,\u201d as in \u201coh yeah this kid that just started in marketing is really talented,\u201d or \u201cthe Johnsons\u2019 son is a really nice kid\u201d talking about like a 22-year-old and at the time I was like \u201cwhat haha those aren\u2019t kids those are clearly adults\u201d

And now I\u2019m a 24-year-old who sees my 18-year-old coworker as a baby and I\u2019m like ah. I think I am coming to an understanding.

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Everyone on planet earth currently is the oldest and most mature that they\u2019ve ever been. And they always will be.

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