Can confirm. Class of 2000. 42 years old.
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We're the reason we're called millennials in the first place. Graduating class of the new millennium!
The fuck you are. You're the last class of last millennium.
Wouldn't that be class of 99?
New millennium didn’t really start until 2001. So they are still right. (There was no year zero.)
God damn you're old, I'm class of 2000 and I'm only 41.
Ha, I'm a December baby.
Me too, but class of 99, also 42.
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But are you self-sealing?
Ditto.
If you ever re-watch Milo and Otis, you'll be traumatized at how many puppies or kittens they probably went through.
Been there 😥
Is that like graduation from high school at 18yo, for the non-americans in the audience?
Yes
Thanks.
I love the idea that my reality keeps others up at night. Also class of 2000.
the oldest millennials are 44 actually
Yes. And our back tells us sometimes.
I’m a young, spry, 39 year old millennial and my back is killing me.
I'm 39 and my hips are already gone and I have trigger thumb.
Damn millennials and their avocado toast habit
Don't forget how we killed like fucking everything.
A badge I wear with pride.
Yet Donald still roams this Earth. You get lazy or something?
glances into mirror
Oh.
Right.
...Shit.
And some of us have been for over 3 years...
Chronomancy!
What timing. I turned 41 this week.
I'm in this image and I don't like it
Yeah my kids are a hoot
I disagree. Time actually stopped around early 2010's. Seasons change and shit, but stuff isn't changing no more.
Started growing my beard in, for the first time in years. It’s white. Hell yeah I'm old
Sometimes it's weird to look back on middle school, and the teachers who brought our generation up as young kids being told about the future. I'm an adult now, and I feel like an adult now, but in a way it feels like I'm still a part of that group of dumb and naive kids. It doesn't feel that long ago at all. But the reality is that all of us are now pushing 40, and our time there is now wholly irrelevant, and we're so far removed from those years that it's fucking wild. A lot of those teachers are probably dead now.
I don't know how to articulate what it is I'm meaning to say here. It's just weird that we were kids so recently. I don't feel like my life has gone by all that fast, but middle school to 40 somehow did all the same. I feel my age, and I feel as though I've lived to my age, but my memories don't feel distant whatsoever. It feels like that was nine years ago.
Just like I feel like I was still living at home with my dad a few years ago, but I've been living in another country away from my parents for 7 years now, and my dad had been dead since last May.
He was such a good dad.
our parents felt the same thing
Your dad simultaneously saw you as the baby who slept securely in his arms, the child he saw through junior school, the teen who he tried to help steer past his own mistakes and the adult he wistfully spoke of with pride
Imagine how good he must feel to know that you remember him this way.
You have put it in the perfect words. Thank you.
Thank you. This is a beautiful sentiment.