This is a thread for ILXors in their 30's!!! yo yo yo breakdancing etc...

I share that only because finding a physical activity that you like to do seems key, to me

After my manager shared a picture of herself in 2007 and joked that we could think about where we were at that time (I was 20), I realized that I barely have any pictures of myself from my university years (I searched and found like 5-10 in my archives). There are a few trips with friends where I was clearly avoiding cameras, and trips on my own where I was snapping pictures of anything but myself, so there's a 5-year black-out from the last family pictures to my first relationship in 2010.

Otherwise, reading the conversation in the ILXORs in their 50s thread made me realize how good of an idea it was to marry in 2019 and have a kid in 2022, it's definitely a much better position to watch the world burn and start having grey hair.

It's similar for me, but for technical reasons: any CD-Rs or memory cards containing digital photos from 2002-2011 vanished between apartment moves at least a decade ago, and I've long forgotten any early Photobucket or Flickr accounts I registered for when those debuted. Not that I took a lot of photos anyway, and smart phones came long too late to develop a selfie or reflexive photo-taking habit. Still, it was odd when my partner asked what I was like in high school, and I realized I didn't have a single photo to show her.

That's a good point, the way of archiving photos has changed massively. I'm still attached to hard disks, even print pictures to put them in albums, while the cloud gives me whiffs of data being potentially wiped out (all very irrational).

Another thing related to the above that I have caught myself doing a bit more recently is to actively try to remember and visualize specific moments of my childhood / youth. I'm looking for flashes, or to remember how I felt, all from the concern that it's becoming hazy.

There might be few posters in their 30s left around here, but no reason that aging is reduced to colonoscopies and other picturesque experiences at the doctor :) For that matter, I haven't seen my doctor the whole year, it's good to be back to a state of prolonged healthiness.

Still have one year left! I legit believed I was turning 40 next year until very recently. Managed the same trick on my 29th as well! It's great, feel like I got a bonus year.

Is there a thread for ilxors in their 40's? A few days away and it's looking like my first order of business as a 40-year-old is gonna be scheduling a prostate exam 😳
Had a blood panel last week, A1C is 5.4 and cholestrol is off the charts. That was a real surprise.
When I had a worrying chest scan 9 months ago, the Yijing gave me the image of plugging a leaky old boat and suggested that I wouldn't be able to relax my vigilance anytime soon. oh, right- this isn't just about my lungs. Welcome to the new normal, get used to it. Gotta be much more careful from now on, and don't slip up.
In light of this, all that "age us just a number" stuff feels like a crock. Sucks not being young anymore LOL

This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

"forties" spelled out, got it. TY

see ya, thread for ilxors in their 30's

You can always come back as an elder dispensing unsolicited wisdom.

i'll leave that to the wise.