12 Things Only 30-Year-Olds Will Understand

If you panic just thinking you will soon turn 30 and be called? Aunt? by unknown children, we have good news: getting older also means you will be wiser.

If that doesn't seem like much advantage, don't worry: this is just another fact that only those who are past this age will understand. Check out the list of other things we only realize after 30 years:

1. Do you detect the? Thieves? of energy miles away

If at 20 you have found out how to get rid of emotional vampires, after 30 your skills hone and you are able to recognize them before you are involved in a friendship or love relationship. This is because, by this time in your life, you already know that it is no use wasting time with people who are not compatible with you.


2. Being alone is a blessing

Before, you could not miss any outings with friends and did everything to spend as much time as possible full of people around. After 30, however, you find that being alone is all you need after a busy day. It does not mean that you will no longer leave home, but rather that you feel good in your own company.

3. Are the new ones sensational? and alright

Suddenly you will realize that all celebrities are younger than you, whether on television, music or sports. At first you may feel a little defeated for not having earned money and fame, but then you simply accept that Marília Mendonça is 22 and happy because the young people are doing well.

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4. You finally find out who you are

As a teenager, you begin to realize that you are a unique human being, but hormones don't let you think about much. At age 20, you start paying attention to who you are, but it's only after 30 that you discover that That It is you, with all your characteristics, and that your essence does not change depending on your mood.

5. Unfortunate Opinion of Others

Precisely by assuming the identity you have forged in recent years, you can finally care less about the opinions of others. From this point on, you will no longer think about how to answer that indirect on Facebook, because it probably won't even reach you, since you don't waste any more time investigating what other people think.

6. Your new motto:? Let life take me?

As a teenager, it is normal to think that you are the most suffering person on earth, and at the age of 20, it is also normal to think that everyone is better than you, whether in personal or professional life.


When you get past 30, though, do you realize that a lot of people are as lost as you? and it's even comforting to realize that you can survive without detailed planning for every area of ​​your life.

7. The? Adult things? start to make more sense

Tasks that involve money and contracts, such as filing your tax return, arranging your bill payments, and car insurance, become much clearer in your head. It's as if you unlock a new skill set for dealing with finance and paperwork.

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8. Existential crises grow with age

In your early thirties, you realize that your twenties were just a break between the existential crises of a teenager and the existential crises of an adult woman. Now you no longer suffer thinking that no one likes you, but thinking that it is past time to have children or that you should spend more time with your parents while they are here. Worse yet, you suffer because you realize that you will not live forever either.

9. Your decisions weigh more heavily.

If you used to switch colleges more easily and didn't think twice about engaging in a relationship, because you were even expected to make mistakes, you now feel a lot more pressure to make good decisions. Not only are the people around you, but you hope to choose just the right way yourself. this time, because it feels like we don't have time to go back.

10. Did you learn anything from your mistakes?

Although the decisions seem to weigh a lot more, fortunately you have gained the experience to make much better choices than before, as you have made a lot of mistakes when you were younger and they will do something. Camping with boy and the football crowd during New Year's Eve in a forest far from civilization, for example, is something you'll only do once in a lifetime.

11. Stuffing up isn't that cool anymore

Not only are we talking about dryness, which really gets worse after 30, but the feeling of being uninhibited and out of control due to alcohol is no longer so satisfying.

Now you're much safer about yourself and you no longer need drinks to do what you really want, and avoid situations that make you make the wrong decisions as they weigh more. Not that you'll never want to have a beer or wine again, but going out to fill your face is no longer your life goal.

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12. You care more about who you deserve

Now that you are more mature, you will feel and be more accountable to your parents, close friends, and other loved ones as you become better able to see when they need support. And if there's one good thing about this 30-plus story, it's that you have more resources to help them, either emotionally or financially.

When we are younger, turning 30 seems to be the legitimate "beginning of the end". But our experience also increases, so we understand that getting older isn't necessarily bad? It's just the way things are, and now you have enough wisdom to understand that.

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