Observations About the World, Part Twenty-Eight

Photograph of the Atlas globe

Is Life Over After 30?
Thursday – April 9, 2026

Hearing that noise again? Well, I thought so, and perhaps there is some truth to the adage? Well, it all actually depends on perspective. First and foremost: what do people mean by "is life over"? Do they mean that you will die, or likely die after you have revolved around the Sun about 30 times, about 10950 revolutions around Earth's axis? Or do they perhaps mean something else? Well, I supposed the truth is hidden somewhere in the clouds between the Heaven and the Earth, and really answering that question requires a metaphysical examination, but I guess I should add that many people tend to just throw that adage or colloquialism out in the ether when they are attempting to imply some larger truth about the passage into adulthood properly so speaking, but in that case I guess that it would be just as true to suggest that life is over by 10 or maybe by 1? These things are after all quite arbitrary, read "Childhood", and many modern and profane scientists are even now claiming that the brain is not fully yet developed until 30, and to some extend this is true, but I would argue that these people are mistaken: it is not so much that the brain is not fully developed until around 30, but rather that the brain tends to be very stable after 30, and this means essentially that after adulthood is properly reach, a point that may not be specified as a number, the opportunity to develop away from the world or develop divergent from the world has passed, but this does not have to be the case when someone has reached 30 revolutions around the Sun; it could just as well happen when they have reached 20, 10, or in some rare cases 40 revolutions around the Sun. I should also point out that just because someone has reached a point where they are unlikely to change, this also does not mean that they cannot change, but yes, to a certain extent it must be said that life truly is over by 30, and I guess that whatever aspirations someone may have had, material or not, in their childhood and in their youth, is over and the likelihood of them turning around and changing is exceedingly low, but again this could happen much earlier, or later, and in some cases people are born in a kind of solidified state, which means that they were never able to reach their full potential, and people born in this state will only increase during this final phase of the Kali Yuga – the great rupture. Another and more mechanical way to describe this phenomena would be the analogy with the radio that is permanently unable to tune the right frequency: is that radio really working? Is it not the case that a radio that is unable to tune a certain wavelength/frequency is dead? Yes, it must be said that such a radio is dead, for it has lost its ability to function as a radio. Now, you may still refer to such a radio as a receiver, a receiver of random noise, something quite different from a radio with the ability to tune real signals. So yes, after 30, or proper adulthood, most people are dead, or they are deadly lost in the mysteries of the over world, mysteries that they may never uncover, and therefore they may never move past the corporeal, and these people are usually the most contend, they find a kind of security in familiar places disharmony and broken promises, truly these people missed the call to adventure, and now they are lost on the high seas forever; truly this is a tragedy that is ancient, ancient in the modern sense, read The Odyssey by Homer. But this fate befalls the vast majority of men, but these same men are unable to see the tragedy of this state of fixation called "Ordinary Life". Of course, there is no such thing as "Ordinary Life", and the monstrosity that is supposedly "Ordinary Life" in the modern world is ordinary in no sense other than in the sense of time. There are also many confused and modern machinations around this topic and after all this is a modern concept anyways, and usually the sense that life is somehow over after 30 stems much more form an obsession with psychoanalysis and the concept of "trauma"; the idea being that after a certain age, say 30, you may no longer outrun your trauma, and apparently everyone have some of these traumas, but if you are fortunate enough to be "privileged" in the social scheme you may just have to deal with fewer of these traumas, which means that most modern people are mentally unbalanced, but according to the supposedly "intelligent" website ChatGPT: calling these people "mentally unbalanced" may cause further trauma by triggering past traumas because the term "mentally unbalanced" apparently carries "stigma". So yes, it would be quite right and sound to consider these people past the point of no return, but then again, this is not for me to say because there may be exceptions, although such exceptions would just further reinforce the rule, if this be called a "rule" that is.

    In terms of advice in this connection, I am currently unable to offer any, because it seems that most people tend to create their own problems, and when they then are unable to solve those problem because they keep creating problems, they are dealing with a negative "feedback loop", and really the entirety of their substance, the entirety of the movement of their action becomes oriented towards creating further problems, and this is highlighted by the fact that most of these "traumatized" people have this strange condition called "post traumatic stress", which I alluded to earlier. So if people have post traumatic stress, then it would seem quite impossible for them to ever become normal, and in a way you may say that it requires mental fatigue and degeneration for people to actually find meaning in this supposedly "ordinary". This may also be the reason why people appear to be so dysfunctional in general, and this has seemingly as well only accelerated fairly recently actually, and especially during the course of the development of psychoanalysis; of course, the limitless acceptance of every disorder is also important in this connection and is of course also connected to psychoanalysis.

    So, is life over by 30? For the most part, but then again a lot of people are born in an already "solidified" state, and they are essentially noise magnets. The disordered nature of the naturally deviant attracts more and more disorder. Is this perhaps the singularity?

Reginald Drax – April 9, 2026.