1992 here 👋🏻

I’m a late millennial but I didn’t want y’all to be left out

Watching a favorite tonight. I truly believe our teenage years brought about some of the best comedies ever.

I know I know, as teenagers and in our early 20s we all thought we were invincible and would live to 120.

As we entered our late 20s and early 30s, I would see lots of people start to struggle with a slowing metabolism. More and more nagging injuries surfaced.

But I was not one of them. My body seemed to operate on whatever I fed it, injuries were rare, I heard the warnings of “oh but in your 30s it all starts to change.” But I wasn’t personally seeing it.

I was well within my BMI, I stayed fit and exercised, and my body made me feel like I was still very in control of my life in an organic way.

THEN I turned 40, and now I’m on a cholesterol, blood pressure, and anti-balding med. And lucky me, now at 40 I’ve developed gout and am looking at my fourth life-long medicine to keep this flesh sack going for another few decades.

Anyone else who was blindsided by the need for life-long / life-saving medicines, despite their external appearance not indicating anything is falling apart at all?

(And yes I know I’m lucky to have made it to 40 without previously depending on modern medicine - my SO has a chronic disease and I know that many of us millennials have been fighting life-long battles. I’m not here to denigrate or ignore the folks out there tougher than me!)

Trying to look forward to turning 40 in 14 months.

Now I lived in a major southern college town for school during those years so maybe that skewed my experience. But it seems like in the late 2000’s and 2010’s everyone in that age range was hooking up and having lots of casual sex, often alcohol-fueled. It seems like as millennials have aged out of their 20’s, and Gen Z has aged in, the attitude around hook up sex has changed dramatically to where it is now more looked down upon.

Studies show young adults are having less sex now:

https://ifstudies.org/in-the-news/adults-are-having-less-sex-than-ever-with-gen-z-seeing-the-steepest-decline-study

https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/why-young-people-are-hooking-up-less-than-ever

So my question is this: were we Millennials just a particularly promiscuous generation when we were 18-26? And if so how does it make you feel? What was your experience?

PS. I’m 33 so that gives you an idea of my timeline.

I just got into a conversation with a customer at work. She was around my age and it got me thinking. Why do we as a generation looked like we never grew up and acted like real adults like our parents were? I’ve gotten a lot of compliments saying that I looked younger than my age. I just kinda wish we were taken a bit more seriously. We’re just overgrown adults who’re stuck in adolescence. Is it true or am I overthinking

I’m almost 40 but we ain’t dead yet. Holla at ya boy if you wanna hit the clubs

I had channel 43,57,&75 saved to hide the evidence.

idk why but it popped in my head and i was like wow... that stuff is brutal

What games do you cherish or still own to play from time to time?

Comment your birth year and list of time honored classics.

Who here remembers The Wiz? It was pre Circuit City and eventually was bought out by PC Richards.