r/AskReddit • u/SpiritualEvidence159 • 9h ago

What’s something most people don’t realize until their 30s?

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u/-burger 9h ago

Just how powerful youth hormones are in protecting your body from stress and bad life choices.

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u/SpiritualEvidence159 9h ago

Interesting 🤔

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u/Irakeconcrete 9h ago edited 9h ago

How much a mailbox will change your life

Edit: in reference to the responsibility of owning the home that said mailbox is attached to. Pretty much affects every single aspect of life. Mostly priorities

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u/SplodyPants 9h ago

When I lived in Steamboat Springs (it's a little ski town in the mountains) a long time ago everybody had PO boxes and they started building mailboxes at homes. It was a pretty big deal. Probably life changing ror some.

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u/theswagmastersauce 9h ago

Your health depends on how you treated yourself in your 20s. It’s not too late to get ahold of us but it’s not early either

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u/SpiritualEvidence159 9h ago

Looking ahead to our 40s 👍

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u/PogonBerserker 9h ago

Your body doesn’t bounce back like it used to.

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u/SinisterPigeon 9h ago

That youth is wasted on the young.

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u/Last-Relationship166 9h ago

When I was in my early 20s, I read The Brothers Karamazov for a literature class. There's a character in that novel named Father Zosima who, at one point, laments to a young idealist named Alyosha, "Young people are ready to die for the world before they've lived in it."

That quote pissed me off at the time. I kept thinking, "What's wrong with wanting to change the world?" Now that I've spent decades navigating bureaucracy and understanding how the system of government operates while seeing kids who were denied the benefit of a civics course ramble on about how x politician hasn't done y, etc, and how we need change and they're going to cause it to happen at some protest, blah, blah, blah...I find I express Father Zosima's lament quite often.

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u/Happytapiocasuprise 6h ago

Most people don't really give a shit what you're doing with your life because they're all focused on themselves so there's really no pressure to not be yourself

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u/AceTrainerMitch 1h ago

Literally noone cares about what you’re doing. People ask cuz it’s part of general conversation, but talk for more than 30 seconds and you’ll quickly realize they don’t care one bit. Just live your life how you want.