I will be thirty next week.

Quit yer bitchin and get your ticket punched, Fraulein.

22 & 2 hot 2 b believed OP?

You need therapy buddy.

Time to grow up, toots.

NOBOBY likes a 30 something guy with Peter Pan Syndrome.

Turning 30 was hard. It produced a lot of anxiety. A lot. But turning 40 was easy, and 50 was actually pretty amazing. Looking forward to 60. Come on in, baby, it's fine.

[quote]I want to be in my twenties.

You can't always get what you want.

You get what you need.

OP, I will be thirsty next week.

You are way older than that Erna.

Nothing to be depressed about. My teenage years and twenties were years full of angst, coming out issues and typical growing up problems. It was actually my thirties when I started working on my dreams. Quit my job, moved to another country, became the person I wanted to be, well, for the most part. I can honestly claim that I became happier with every decade.

Oh dear sweetie, just wait till you see what 40 brings!

Life is very short and then you will wither and die.

Your 20's are only a brief moment in your life, IF you even live that long.

As each decade of your life passes, the perceived time that it takes will be shorter and shorter, until finally decades will pass like years used to.

An example would be that your entire 60's will seem to pass as fast as 3 years passed while you were in your teens.

But remember that the 30's are almost as good as the 20's. It is the 40s you need to worry about. That why there is the saying and title of a song, "39 and holding".

I turn 34 next week and the last few years have been the best, I’ve finally started getting my crippling anxiety and lifelong depression under control. Being “young” sucks. It’s all an elaborate marketing campaign. You have to become comfortable with aging. It happens every single year until this life is over.

Sweetie, get a real problem

JFC, you get more insufferable with each new thread you start.

Whiny, cloying, and solipsistic, every fucking time.

Report back in 40 years, hon. You'll have a lot to say, believe me.

30 is the new 20 bitch.

Enjoy you last few days of being a twenty something and get over it. Soon you'll whine about not being thirty anymore.

Didnt you say in another thread that you are a virgin? If you are a virgin and 30 you are a real loser.

When I turned 30 ( I am 31 now) I was totally fine. In fact, I was proud. I had my dream job, made 6 figures for the first time in my career, and got engaged. Plus have plenty if friends and hobbies.

Maybe you are just a loser, GGG? Or autistic?

On the plus side, there are so many men that have zero interest in you and anything you have to say while you were under thirty.

OP, believe it or not, this is the best time in your life. You’ll be settled, responsible and stable. Your handsomeness and sexiness are at its peak. This is the time of your life and make the most of it.

Don’t forget a racist and a fake, r15.

30 is quite young still. But be a little bit less of a loser, try to turn your life around.

Should I kill myself?

Yes r25

There we go again, GGG, there we go again. Seek mental help ASAP if you’re suicidal. It’s fully covered by your German health insurance. But don’t seek help on a message board designated for bitching.

As for R15, I would have coffee with you.

Anyone who identifies as "the young one" will be in their forties before they know it

In ten years you’ll be wishing you could be 30.

Does the fact that you look like you're 43 help, you dullard?

Good God OP, I have shoes older than you. Get over it.

Guess what OP - the 30s are a blur. You will be 40 before you know it!!

I love my 30s.

Yes, my 20s were more fun, fresh, sexually exciting and boy was I spoiled. There seemed to be so many possibilities. But I was also miserable and extremely insecure and my relationships were shallow. All my jobs in my 20s sucked as well.

Now, I’m no longer as hip. Things aren’t as fresh and new. But I also now have a great career (literally got this job at 30). I’m no longer as attractive to the hot gays but now I have a loving boyfriend I can count on. And the hot gays weren’t worth a second fuck anyway. In my 20s I totally bought into the scene and looking back, I wanna slap my younger self, lol.

I think that one's 30s can be way better than one's 20s. In your 20s you make stupid mistakes and have to pay for them. In your 30s you enjoy the benefits of your wisdom, and if you take good care of yourself, you can still look as good, if not better.

The thirties are great.

You are still young, but no longer stupid!

Enjoy, OP.

I thought I’d be mysteriously rich by 30 working as an accountant - like, “Here, anonymous drone, it’s your turn to have all the money!”

That’s when I acknowledged I’m an idiot. It helps explain so much, OP.

Unfortunately it's going to fly from here. From 30 onwards it rapidly accelerates; at 35 you'll be wondering how it happened when you felt 30 yesterday. Sounds cynical, but my point is that there's no sense in freaking out about the # 30 when the following years will go by at hyperspeed. The biggest smack in the face is when major events become old news when they felt recent, or when the children of friends are suddenly graduating HS. You'll see soon enough. That's just what happens as you age because life is pretty monotonous, (go to work, pay bills, eat, shit, maybe sex) you just lose track of time.

Not all is lost. Just because society is now youth obsessed, doesn't mean 30 is "old". Your 30s can even be the best years of your life, since you're old enough to know better, but young enough to still have fun.

[quote]your entire 60's will seem to pass as fast as 3 years passed while you were in your teens

But only if you go through them blackout drunk.

R38 unfortunately that person is right though, as much as people try to avoid the uncomfortable reality of aging.

It's a shame all this sage advice being offered in this thread is being wasted on GGG.

-30/10

Leaving OP's mental age as -20. He won't send pictures, so we have no idea what he looks like (and that's because we know he's an EST) but a negative number sounds right given the quality of his posts.

Your life is over unless you're willing to assume of the role of Captain von Trapp at dinner theaters.

I'll be 60 next month. Want to trade places? I thought not.

My 20s were filled with self-doubt and a lot of anxiety about where my life was heading. My 30s were actually pretty wonderful and brought many good things into my life.

Thank you for some of your kind words. I want to have gay friends. And I so would love to go on a date in America with a nice, older American man knowledgeable in so many things. We could hold hands, look into each other's eyes and I could tell him all about life in rural Bavaria!

Here is my mail: channelcriterion.1@gmail.com