Where are they

[MLA]

As I watch the last few weeks of my thirties come to an end, thirty seems young.  A lot happens in your thirties.  For me anyway.

['andersom']

Do people consider thirties young?

When I was five, I thought someone around thirty was really, really old.

The answer to your question could be a matter of perspective.

Wasn't thinking of perspective, but rather average life expectancy. Would consider people 30-50 middle aged. 40 is considered over the hill for a reason.

Do people consider thirties young?

I do!

Did you count yourself as among the youth when in your thirties?

Past twenty I did not have a big opinion on old or young ages any more.

A friend of mine, way in his nineties, said that he had thought he had been old earlier in life, but when he hit 80, he considered himself old. Everything under 80 was young to him. That watershed did not change for him when he grew older. To him I'm a really young whippersnapper.

[Jack]

As I watch the last few weeks of my thirties come to an end, thirty seems young.  A lot happens in your thirties.  For me anyway.

Does it seem young now that it's almost over, or did you actually relate to and consider people in their early twenties to be your peers while in your thirties?

Past twenty I did not have a big opinion on old or young ages any more.

A friend of mine, way in his nineties, said that he had thought he had been old earlier in life, but when he hit 80, he considered himself old. Everything under 80 was young to him. That watershed did not change for him when he grew older. To him I'm a really young whippersnapper.

Don't really think that sort of perspective can have much meaning. Saying anyone younger than me is young, and anyone older than me is old, allows no meaning for the words. If perspective is relevant, then it would be personal perspective. Can't imagine many people in their thirties count themselves among the youth.

['andersom']

Past twenty I did not have a big opinion on old or young ages any more.

A friend of mine, way in his nineties, said that he had thought he had been old earlier in life, but when he hit 80, he considered himself old. Everything under 80 was young to him. That watershed did not change for him when he grew older. To him I'm a really young whippersnapper.

Don't really think that sort of perspective can have much meaning. Saying anyone younger than me is young, and anyone older than me is old, allows no meaning for the words. If perspective is relevant, then it would be personal perspective. Can't imagine many people in their thirties count themselves among the youth.

For him there was the observation that age related problems became very real after 80. He saw that among friends, and noticed it himself. So a perspective based on existing as a person without procreative needs.
 
Think that has changed perspective on age a lot. A few generations back you had to procreate between twenty and forty/thirtyfive, after that you were fit to be a grandparent, if still alive. Now people are productive in other ways than getting children for most of their lives. Age gets a different meaning.

Do people in their thirties see themselves among youth? Lots of them do, I think. The "harden the fuck up" and the "grow up" is way less impressive than the lure of eternal youth. Forever young. Music, clothes, facelift, beauty products.

The "oudere jongere" (elderly youth) is disappearing.

Here's a wannabe elderly young person for you from the eighties. (satire)

["couldbecousin"]

Do people consider thirties young?

  When they get old enough, yes they do. 

[MLA]

As I watch the last few weeks of my thirties come to an end, thirty seems young.  A lot happens in your thirties.  For me anyway.

Does it seem young now that it's almost over, or did you actually relate to and consider people in their early twenties to be your peers while in your thirties?

I'm a spazz.  I don't really have peers.  As a kid I always hung out with adults.

[ZEGH8578]

As a kid I always hung out with adults.

D:

[Jack]

As I watch the last few weeks of my thirties come to an end, thirty seems young.  A lot happens in your thirties.  For me anyway.

Does it seem young now that it's almost over, or did you actually relate to and consider people in their early twenties to be your peers while in your thirties?

I'm a spazz.  I don't really have peers.  As a kid I always hung out with adults.

Peers are people considered as equals. Hanging out with them isn't required for that.

[Jack]

Do people in their thirties see themselves among youth? Lots of them do, I think.

Thinking they don't. If people in their thirties haven't yet learned how to adult, then they might think of themselves as young, but they're viewed by others as a man-child or something like that. That's because they aren't young.

[ZEGH8578]

It's often a bit more complex than being-or-not-being adult. Most people I know regard themselves as... who they always was (the kid they originally were), with a lot more wear and tear and responsabilities

but at the same time, anyone younger is seen as "a kid". I see people in their 20s as "kids" often, and its only a decade below me.

[Jack]

It's often a bit more complex than being-or-not-being adult. Most people I know regard themselves as... who they always was (the kid they originally were), with a lot more wear and tear and responsabilities

but at the same time, anyone younger is seen as "a kid". I see people in their 20s as "kids" often, and its only a decade below me.

Thinking life expectancy has more to do with the meaning of the words, young, middle aged, and old, but the topic insisted on the consideration of perspective, so am discussing personal perspective even though not really finding it to be relevant. How old were you when you began referencing yourself as a man?

[renaeden]

40 over the hill? Dang, I am there next year.

Most of my classmates are young enough to be my children.

["couldbecousin"]

  I am 50, look early-30ish in soft light, and sometimes behave with the discipline of a five-year-old. 

[Jack]

40 over the hill?

Over the hill doesn't mean old, but rather past peak.

[Yuri Bezmenov]

40 over the hill?

Over the hill doesn't mean old, but rather past peak.

Already feeling that.    What a drag it is, getting old.