• Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      It’s great when all of the fun/exciting friends you had die or get locked up, and every potential love interest you come across is married/loaded down with kids/fucked up from a past relationship/is only interested in a complicated open relationship.

      I’m not projecting.

    • Ibuthyr@feddit.org
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      10 days ago

      This. Just had an existential crisis at 40-43. Slowly recovering and regaining a bit of perspective but holy shit did that hit hard. I’ve never had mental problems before, so this really fucked me up something good.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        I did that around 27 or so. I wonder if that means I’m good from here on out, or is that 40s one just waiting to reaaaaally fuck my shit up. 🤔

        Hope you’re doing better though. From experience, absolutely not a fun thing to go through :(

        • Ibuthyr@feddit.org
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          9 days ago

          It’s getting better. Has mostly to do with my job in combination with the rise of the Nazis. I may have something new and better on the horizon but even if not, I’ve managed to not give as much of a fuck and I say no way more often nowadays.

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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        10 days ago

        Well I’ve had mental problems my whole life so hopefully I’ll manage better, it’s coming up soon…

  • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 days ago

    My childhood was filled with proverbial dodging bullets and land mines. My adult life is a lot more chill because I have chosen to remove the drama that caused my childhood from my life.

  • djsiete@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    If only. I feel better than ever but it seems like my fortune is just shit and I’m entering a severe depression that leaves me angry and unable to enjoy life.

  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    This one really resonates with me.

    In my 20’s I was just some guy working in a factory.

    In my 30’s I learned about CNC lasers and CAD and got to do cool things. Now im 40-something and I get to do and see cool things, and even design cool things.

  • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Anyone who yearns for their life as child has developmental issues. I’m not trying to say that as a sick burn, I think it’s honestly sad and source of suffering for some people.

    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      One of the moat depressing things I used to hear as a kid was how this was the best part of my life and I should enjoy it.

  • LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    In a way you step out of the Truman show but it’s not necessarily greater than before.

    Im a little confused by that.

  • LazyBaby@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I really relate to this comic. I didn’t like being a child that much, and I feel alienated a lot on the internet by people constantly wishing they could go back to having no responsibilities. I really, really like being able to control my own destiny and decide what I wanna do, even though it comes with increased pressures and responsibilities.

    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Being an adult is awesome. I get to have a motorcycle, my own cat, I can build whatever I want, I can have chickens if I want, and I have a really cute wife. What could I do as a kid? Go to school? Live with my parents? Hang out with people who had the minds of children? Boooring.

    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Hell yes to this. Childhood, Highschool, and even in to college were some of the worst years of my life. I never want to repeat them. Sometimes I fantasize about what it would have been like to be “normal”, but I love who I am now and l do not want to give that up or go back.

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Age 10-20 was miserable. Hormones. Parents. Bullies in high school. Difficult to find work. College struggle and debt.

    Age 20-30 was better but still shit. Welfare. Homelessness. Police harassment. Juggling three jobs to pay rent.

    Age 30-40 was so much better. Life was in order. Wife and I both leveled up our education and got a career. Traveled for the first time (Hawaii then Japan). Had kids.

    Age 40 - life is getting better. Feels like the best days still happening.

  • Skyline969@piefed.caEnglish
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    10 days ago

    This is how it was for me. No societal expectation to care about things anymore. Don’t wanna go somewhere? Say you don’t feel like it or that you’re tired and boom, done. Nobody looks twice at you, which I suppose could feel devastating for some. For me it felt liberating.

    • lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      It’s when you probably have your life in order and are comfortable with who you are. It’s a good time when you are most you.

      Though for those who haven’t got either of those, it’s probably not going to be a good time. I feel for those people, I know a few.

      I’m happy with myself in my 30’s it’s always nice to think of telling my younger self of the stuff I’ve done. British business the younger would be very surprised and absolutely jazzed about it.

      • alcea@feddit.org
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        4 days ago

        True. Like imagine all those people who are “looking for someone to complete them” When said person has been staring at them in the mirror each.

        My younger self would be happy and impressed with what I have achieved “You can draw ???” (Altho maybe not so much wkth still being certainly “not the life of the party” but that was to be expected :P )