So I had a seemingly big number birthday recently,

I feels like societal messages tell me I'm basically spending 1-5 decades longer waiting to die, when there's a lot of things I want to learn and try out.

When I look closer [a lot of] messages I get about my age are about being established and therefore buying stuff - cruises, paint, home security systems, trucks. Buying prerequisites are shown as part of what I actually want (experiences), and since I'm poor and childless that probably contributes to the "society tells me that what's left to do at this age is die" feeling.

I'd wonder if advertising makes this true for most age groups, and whether my lack of pop media creates bias which stacks with an overall pessimistic/antiauthority view.