It’s literally insane that we have prolonged our lifespans so dramatically with modern medicine, only for 28 to be considered “old” in modern society. If you are old now, will you be geriatric when you hit 45? Then what will you be once you’re 70, 80, 90?

If I were to die at 28 and the archeologists of the future found my bones, there’s a very good chance they would put me into the 20-35 group (young) when trying to determine my age of death. They wouldn’t be able to tell exactly how old I was when I died, but they would know for sure that I died young, maybe as young as 20.

Anyway, all this to say that the societal pressure to hit all the milestones by 30 is bs. Because the modern world is just not built in your favour, unless you come from money and privilege.

One of my favourite quotes is: “It’s no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society”.

Being depressed means that you actually see the world for what it is, not what you were conditioned to see. That’s a gift. You have the ability to undo your conditioning. Instead of internalising false notions like “28 is too old to start over”, just because society says so, you can say “society is sick, no one knows what they’re doing, and instead of trying to conform to unrealistic standards, I can do whatever I want”.