To ask if you agree with this concept

[Thepoweroflove777]

The first year you go into a new decade eg turn 30 is like a transition year into that decade. I saw the concept written down and somewhat agree

Sounds a bit naval gazery

No I don't agree, it's just 1 day further on

Not at all.

I found 29 to be one that made me feel older, and not in a good way. All the subsequent ones were fine.
Until 70. The prospect of that pissed me off big time and no, not the Psalm 90:10's three score and ten in any simple or literal sense. It weighed on me all year, I'd felt invincible until then. Some of my contemporaries reported the same thing.

All good now, though.

I don’t really understand what you mean? A transition into what?

There’s not a specified way to be a “thirty something” or a “forty something”.

My life in my 30s was different to life in my 20s but that was due to my specific life choices not my age.

If you feel it, it's ok. You don't need anyone else to agree with you..x

That makes absolutely no sense. Of course it's not true.

Decades are just arbitrary divisions, life is a continuum. There is no ‘transition’ to be navigated between 29 and 31.

so no.

No, it’s daft.

I've always felt that two decades ahead was old but once I'm in the decade before it doesn't seem old anymore.

Like when I turned 20 I thought 40 was old but once I was 30, 40 didn't seem old any more. So it that respect, the concept of 'old' changes for me with each decade.

No. Every day is a slight change from the previous. There are no significant changes without significant events, and being one day older isn't significant in the way that getting married, becoming divorced, a parent dying, etc. is.

Is this like when you pretend you’re 29 for an extra year?

No. It’s just a number. Far more significant are the things that actually happen in and around your body. Learning to live with your new physical reality is a transition year (or longer). I live with Long Covid. That first year after diagnosis, when I was learning how to live with it, was far more of a transition year than crossing a decade. Similarly when coming to terms with the death of a loved one. Or even with a joyful occasion, such as becoming a homeowner for the first time. Things that actually matter.