I had this exact same thought recently and it scared the fuck out of me for some reason. Probably the thought of being forever alone. Then I realized its not that big of a deal but an interesting thought nontheless.
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2024
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I'm right here π
I'm too high for this.
What about the amount of single moms in my area?
That number still remains at zero.
It can go up on a day where more people one year younger than you have birthdays than people your age have birthdays or die.
I see "your age" similar to the dating pool. It grows the older you get. When I was young my brother and his friends were incredibly old. But nowadays they are "my age". I mean, my wife was literally born four days after my brother. That alone increased "my age".
And when I look at the other parents I meet at my kid's schools "my age" is an even bigger group. Add hobbies to that and it's off the chart.
The people within your βage bubbleβ definitely continues to grow until you are roughly in your mid 40s. But then it really does just drop off hard and fast after that. Thereβs things you can do that also cause it to swing wildly.
Move to Boston - itβs the largest concentration of 20 year olds in the world per capita. Nobody exists over the age of 30 until you are 5 suburbs out of town. So if you are under 30 you just artificially spiked your age bubble up to probably your lifetime peak. If you are over 30 you just prematurely fell off a people my age cliff.
Move to Florida - dead opposite problem.
Oh yeah that's true as well. Like it's more accepted when a 60 year old dates a 50 year old than when a 30 year old dates a 20 year old. It's the same gap, but more frequently seen. That's the thing with cumulative numbers!! The more they go up the smaller the ll% difference in
Finally, a banger shower thought. But now I've got an existencial crisis lol.
It's okay. We're only running out of time. ALL of us β ALWAYS β hurtling through space at ~30km/s around a fireball that's burned for billions of years, on a spaceship that materialized out of the remanence of exploding fireballs, which materialized out of nothingness.
Believe it or not. A banger shower thought was an inevitability.
We're basically the universe waking up to itself after 13 billion years of a chaos bender and going "What the fuck!?! I'm on a fucking rock? In the middle of fucking nowhere? ... I can't believe I've done this to myself!
I mean this makes sense. Itβs not unlike trying to grow your hair long. If one falls out itβs not like the new growth is going to be that long immediately.
So if someone my age dies, itβs not like a new 53 yo dude just pops into existence.
But yes still kinda depressing
Momento mori
When you see those Veterans' Day parades and a tiny number of WW2 and Korea vets marching...
People change big time all the time.
Yeah, but today is always the first day of the rest of your life.
Or the last.
We're at peak [insert your age here]
Debatable, considering that with relativity and all one might age slower, thus pushing into a lower age braked.
Disclaimer a: Great shower thought! Disclaimer b: I am really bad a physics, make me rip if needed.
I was thinking the same thing, like, "Only because we aren't traveling the stars yet."
Meanwhile, your life expectancy is going up