Slightly on topic, but yesterday I discovered that I'm the same age as Rishi Sunak, and it's fucking with my brain that I'm the same age as the Prime Minister. Something about that just ain't right.

[–] ThePac@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Buddy if you didn't feel this at 40 then good for you!

[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I am the same age as Emmanuel Macron and it hurts too

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

Think about all the football players that have started and ended their careers already, all while being younger than you

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Idk... I feel like that's okaish...you don't want to end up on Biden/Trump age for a leader.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Older age isn't necessarily a negative factor in leadership, but I know what you're saying. However, I can't deal with the fact that I'm 43 and don't feel like a grown up, so does that mean our Prime Minister feels the same way about himself? I can't square that circle, y'know?

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

I don't know about Sunak specifically, but generally the types of people who succeed at politics have way too much unjustified self-confidence to introspect that much.

[–] Hauskrampf@ttrpg.network 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think it just something about public figures and that they can't possibly live a life like us or something.

I have the same thing, but opposite direction with the stranger things cast. Still can't belive they're the same age or older than me.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 3 points 11 months ago

I think it also ties in with the "olders and betters" mentality that we're brought up with. There's a sense of gravitas to the office of Prime Minister, and even if they're doing stupid shit there's a monkey bit of my brain that's like "ah, but they're old enough to know better than me". But now the PM is only four months older than I am, and my mum worked for his dad for a few years, so we could have (theoretically) turned in the same circles*, and he's up there in the highest office in the land, doing stupid shit and I'm looking at him and wondering who let this idiot kid be in charge.

*We really couldn't have though, he went to a very fancy school and was already married to a billionaire by the time my mum started working for his dad. His dad's actually sound.