Thursday, November 20, 2014

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

Because everything changes. Everything. posted on Nov. 17, 2014, at 2:02 p.m.

1. Friendship:

At 18: Your friends will be your BFFs, no doubt about it.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 25: You’ve lost some along the way, but you have at least 10 to go out dancing with.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 30: You count them with one hand, but they are basically family.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

2. The relationship with your body:

At 18: You can eat pretty much anything without worrying too much.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 25: You’re the bomb.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 30: They were right, everything falls.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

3. Work:

At 18: You can’t wait to finish school and get a full-time job.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 25: You start to build your career.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 30: It’s where you spend most of your day. Including weekends.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

4. Relationships:

At 18: You still believe that love is forever.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 25: You’ve had your heart broken at least once.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 30: Love? What love? You just want someone to help you live through the winter.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

5. Traveling:

At 18: You go wherever your buddies go and sleep anywhere.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 25: You want to explore the world and everything has to be an adventure.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 30: You need the beach, a comfortable hotel, and a mojito in hand.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

6. Exercise:

At 18: You have all the energy in the world for it.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 25: You do it to stay in shape.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 30: You pay for the gym every month but haven’t actually been in it for the past two years.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

7. Your place:

At 18: You still live with your parents and your room is your hideaway from the world.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 25: You live with your best friend and share leftovers all the time.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 30: You get to run around your apartment naked without anyone freaking out.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

8. Babies:

At 18: Aww, cute.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 25: Your friends start reproducing and you want nothing to do with that.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 30: Your biological clock won’t shut the fuck up.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

9. Alcohol:

At 18: The more, the better.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 25: You get drunk on special occasions.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 30: It’s your best friend.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

10. The relationship with your parents:

At 18: You fight with them all the time. They just don’t get you.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 25: You call them before any important decision.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old

At 30: You are turning into them.

10 Ways Life Is Different At 18, 25, And 30 Years Old
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/conzpreti/ways-life-is-different-at-18-25-and-30-years-old

For example, I realized at age 21 or 22 that I could no longer sleep on a pile of rocks in a sleeping bag without a tent or air mattress on the ground while it was snowing and walk right without being in incredible pain the next day.

At age 32 I realized I was a Dad and a married person and I never likely would know who I was separate from my family ever again. This at age 18 would be a reason to kill myself. But at 32 I was happy and okay with it because I was more mature and older by then.

By the way, statistically, 33 is the physically happiest you ever get to be in life.

However, I think for me my favorite time of life has actually been since I was 50 and almost died. Physically, in some ways it is better than any other time of my life because I keep having fun exercising in beautiful places.(skiing, mountain climbing, hiking with my dogs or friends or both, riding my dualsport motorcycle, traveling around the world.  Being forced to retire because I would have died otherwise was one of the best things (in the long run) that ever happened to me in my life. 

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