Sunday, July 11, 2010

The "Not After 30" List

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Things To Avoid After 30
AskMen A. List // July 9, 2010
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Things Men Shouldn't Do After 30
Why? Because, no, you can't wear that hat wherever you want.
Sometimes it seems like the modern world is a vast, dishonest device, constructed to provide excuses for everything. In a culture where the young are the objects of all desire, of course, the most wheedling and transparent of these constructions concern aging.

You've seen it: "40 is the new 20" and all the rest. Dubious reassurances and half-considered theories that serve to allow us to remain unformed, embryonic and dependant until early middle age.

Biological life, however, hasn't really changed -- and the ending is as stark as ever. All that we have really managed to alter are our expectations. Want to mock the '50s executive in his gray suit and boring bungalow? Consider instead the figure of a balding man in a "Mighty Mouse" T-Shirt, eating cereal in the kitchen of his elderly mother.

Some things must be left behind at 30.



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