Looking from 48 I’d say not. When I was 36 I was unmarried. Now I’m married with 2 sprogs. Feels like an eternity ago, and I don’t feel particularly old.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but if they’re anything like Reddit mods I’m in favour of the trebuchet.

I was 29, single and back-packing in SE Asia, then Oz, working in dive bars, hostels and selling strawberries for beer money. It was a bizarre time in my life that I enjoyed tremendously.