I watched a full grown adult tell a cashier their birth year was 1996. It physically hurt me.
You calling someone who’s only barely older than me a full grown adult hurt me
Welcome to the pain… uhhhh life, I meant life! Seriously, enjoy your 20s.
Im trying but it ain’t going so well 😭
That sucks, I’ve been there. If you haven’t already I’d look up mindfulness exercises. Getting a clear head really helps with digging out of bad places.
Thanks. Just got out a mental health program and entering another one soon so Ive learned a lot about them. Consistently applying the exercises is a different beast altogether though
I had to set an alarm. Now a little bit of quiet time is part of my morning routine.
Kids born in 2002 can legally buy alcohol in the USA.
Their mother’s really wish they had given birth to babies instead.
I’m 40 and I am legitimately trying to figure out why it is other millennials have back pain and other physical problems when I don’t. That’s not a flex, that’s a genuine question I have whenever I see one of us say “my back hurts” or “my knee hurts”.
You’re probably one of those fuckin weirdos that takes care of their body.
I don’t walk more than an hour a day and that’s just to the shops and back.
🤔 I drink green tea. And fruit juice. Do those things prevent back and knee pain?
…Do people not walk to the convenience store?
What is it that you guys eat and drink every day?
You either live in New York or outside of the US. Which one are you?
I don’t know if it’d be a good idea to say because I don’t want to doxx myself. But I don’t live in either of those areas.
I just do this stuff naturally. I walk to the store because it’s a waste of gas to drive and I don’t want to contribute to climate collapse unless I have to go a long distance, in which case I drive.
I make this green iced tea where I boil some water and steep the tea with lemon slices because it’s delicious and better tasting than shitty tap water.
I thought everyone did that. 😳
No actually, in my very unresearched and unknowledgable opinion the majority of people don’t really set out to walk much more than to and from their cars, the washroom, or the kitchen
That’s… worrisome.
Beer mostly.
I see you too are a man of culture
I don’t walk to my grocery store, despite it being half a mile from my house, because there are no sidewalks along the 6 lane roads between my house and the store.
The street in front of my neighborhood has been under constant construction for 7 years, and I’m afraid to ask them to add sidewalks because I’m pretty sure this would make the entire area entirely unwalkable even in an emergency due to the construction barriers they’d install for at least the next decade for that project.
Well, I did about 10 years of retail work that destroyed my back and knees, its not just about poor diet.
Oh, that sucks fam, I’m sorry. 😞
Sounds like you didn’t bounce your body off the earth enough times growing up.
See, I have the same problem (I wake up 43 years old and not sore) and I ran into the planet plenty of times as a kid. And plenty more as an alleged adult.
I’m 39 and have had back pain for 20 years already. Guess I should have had better posture as a kid?
Genetics?
Right there with ya. I just assume these people either lost the genetic lottery or, more than likely, are just obese.
Am skinny, grew up tall and skinny quickly, and spent most of age 18 - 26 doing low wage manual labour. Now 30 and I’m with the “my back hurts” crew. Also have scoliosis so that may or may not relate to it
Lifting weights can help a lot with various use related aches and pains. I’ve got a collection of small injuries that act up from time to time, mostly in tendons, and I find that almost all of them clear up when I lift regularly. The rest just requires some stretching.
I wnna get back into the gym, but just have a hard time making time when I spend 2 hrs a day driving to and from work and I gotta make my own dinner and clean up. 😩
How do you do it?
I have a home gym setup in my apartment. It takes up one corner of my living room, but I’ve got a squat rack/pull up bar, an adjustable bench, barbell, easy curl bar, dumbbell barbells (like two really short barbells), a weight belt for weighted pull ups, and a cable system I can hang from the pull up bar to do cable stuff, like cable tricep extensions. The rack I got can also fit a dip station so I plan is to get one of those eventually. It’s surprisingly compact. I live in a small one bedroom apartment so it’s not like I have tons of space. To me the convenience is worth having exercise equipment take up a good portion of my living space. I built it up over a few years, since the start of covid basically, so it seems like a lot of stuff, but only the squat rack takes up much space. To start you can get a cheap adjustable rack, barbell plate/bar set, and a bench, and with that you can work your whole body.
That is everything I’d need. Idk how I’d work that into my small ass 1 bdrm, but now you’ve got me thinking about it.
Thanks for sharing
Nope, got hit by a drunk driver when I was 20 and I’ve had back/neck problems ever since. There are about a million reasons someone might have pain that may or may not be their fault.
I dunno that was a strange problem on Reddit but it was happening to 25+ year olds
Haha, that cup
That Carl though, needs to get with the program!
Oh yeah? What program is that, cup?
Carlton, hi!
Gen-X be like:
Business is boomin’
Oh, you looking to expand your business?
Wow and my back actually does hurt, this is so accurate
