I have another question for you all. I am 35. Still wear the same pants I wore back near the end of high school. Still look the same as I did a decade prior. Got a couple grey hairs in my chest fur… And that is it. Everyone told me I would be in pain in my thirties and wouldn’t want to do anything, but I have just much energy as I did when I was a kid. I don’t look or feel any different from when I was in my late twenties.
I go out with several buddies, some with kids, some without. Same deal. They haven't slowed down at all. We have discussed this a few times bar hopping. Brought it up to some old men in their fifties who... Honestly, I wouldn't have guessed they were in their fifties. Forties tops. Blew my mind, the way they drink and party.
My question is… Why is this an American myth? Feminists being resentful of men aging gracefully? The r select being angry at the k select? Endomorphs raging at ectomoporhs and mesomorphs walking through less affected by time? Everyone throughout my life has told me when you hit your thirties you will be in pain after waking up sleeping on the wrong side of the bed. You can't drink as much. Your dick won't be hard. Where does this shit come from?
Myths are based on past experience, not contemporary experience.
Do you think your life up to 35 was physically easier or more difficult than it was for the generations that these myths were based on?
I'm going to go out in a limb and say if we'd been working in the fields or mines for 20 years by the time we were 35, we'd have more joint pain.
I think it also depends on how well people take care of themselves in various capacities. And genetics.
I agree with the OP though. Media and individual people have a tendency to over-exaggerate the impact. Even to the detriment of my own sanity as I started hitting certain age ranges and doom-pilled myself far more than I really needed to.