“Sometimes you’re ahead. Sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.” —Baz Luhrmann

You do not look as old as beauty commercials tell you.

Seriously, the number of people who can't tell the difference between a 24-year-old and 29-year-old based on appearance is a very large number. And furrowing your brow in worry is just going to make it worse.

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Because you are, in fact, not old.

It is weird to think that kids born in the mid-1990s are in college now? Yes. But this does not make you an actual old person. The actual old people are just laughing at you when you say that.

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Older people who shame your spending and saving habits are out of touch and wrong.

Older people love to wag their fingers at us for not saving enough money, not buying enough houses and cars, and not investing in enough stocks. What they don't love to do is admit that they are the ones who steered the economy into the toilet, raised the cost of higher education, and refuse to retire from the high-paying jobs that allow people to save money. Save what you can, when you can.

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