If you're some random schmuck and you turn 30 it's supposed to be over and you're supposed to settle down, but if you're an e-celeb you can be in your mid 30s or sometimes even early 40s and still be doing nothing but playing video games with your friends and doing travel vlogs and no one cares. Or if you're a Mamdani or Obama kind of politician you're like the freshest most charming face around.
Maybe we need to normalize suicide
>>772596you can just do whatever you want bro
>>772607it's not that deep, I doubt anyone cares that much about how old you are, some MFs are 50 and look 30, some MFs are 20 and look 40 anyways
>>772607I'm doing the same and I'm turning 40 in a few months. My life is a joke no matter what happens after. My youth was entirely wasted.
>>772596if you're male and not gay then no one cares.
no one cares how men look.
no one is looking at you except your own reflection.
>>772627>>772609Why do you assume this is about looks?
>>772627People look at me a lot.
>>772627Wrong
>>772607This
>>772626This
>>772596This statement doesn’t fit the title of OP
>>772627Nothing could be further from the truth.
Men are not expected to look pretty but don’t think they’re not antagonized for aesthetic flaws
Society gives more personhood to older people than younger people.
Youth isn’t as open in opportunities as you think.
Society patronizes you, trying to bar you from worldly affairs
>>772627beautiful young hands wrote this post
>>772644>Youth isn’t as open in opportunities as you think.Who are you trying to fool? Everyone was young once.
>>772643most cishet women are so afraid of becoming spinsters they'll marry the first man with a job that approaches them
>>772658A lot of experiences are paywalled and also it depends on how open your parents are to you getting new experiences and also how well you are at keeping your parents in the dark if you are gaining experience that they don't approve. Hopefully if you're good at those things and have decent resources and parents then you could gain good experiences but knowing how most people are you will most likely be missing at least one of those thongs.
>>772667i mean perfect days lol
>>772644This. Boomers get away with fucking murder at work. I'd dare say boomers have to even easier than cis women in many cases.
That's why boomers are the foot soldiers of the bourgeois narrative and believe that shit down to their core.
>>772667>i could live decades like the old janitorSpending most of your life doing mind-numbing labour at the bottom of a social order seems absolutely miserable, avoiding this is exactly what brings me such a great aging anxiety, the older you get, the lower your chances of ever getting out.
>>772676>Spending most of your life doing mind-numbing labour at the bottom of a social order seems absolutely miserable, I'm actually a janitor and you're sort of correct. But I kind of wish I had started doing at a younger age and just gotten used to the misery. I mean I've largely been miserable most of my life anyways so it wouldn't have changed much.
>>772683I'd rather not. I kind of like working the hours I work since I work at night and don't have to be around too much people. Plus I can often get my work done with an hour or two still left on my schedule.
>>772658Then you know that a lot of young people don’t have the means to achieve what they want
>>772660This.
People forget that children don’t have money or rights. They’re dependent on parents for allowance for worldly exposure.
Pop culture has blinded us to this truth, making childhood seem like an automatic free range utopia.
In reality childhood is more passive chattel slavery
>>772676what. being a janitor kicks ass. the pay is shite but if that wasnt the case i wouldnt mind being one
>>772730Really? You wouldnt mind people seeing you mop the floors, you wouldnt mind telling someone that is your job? Especially when it comes to women.
>>772732Yeah, they are important to my overall libidinal satisfaction. Cant sublimate it all.
>>772762A lot of us, especially here, are this way.
>>772733another sexhaving = brainworms evidence I guess
>>772733Yeah, people act like sex desire can be subliminated without some kind of ego death. Nah if the opportunity presented itself 99% of people especially men will take it especially if they haven't been hardened by some kind of principle. Non religious people against sex 9 times out of ten have 0 bitches even if they wanted.
>>772783Whats a ego death? Is it le good or le bad?
>>772660a lot of things that are paywalled stay paywalled if you're a 30 year old loser while opening up if you're a 20 year old rich kid
worse still, there are often schemes for the young to compensate for low income, but not for late bloomers. (e.g. in scotland bus travel is free for <25 and >65, but everyone else has to pay. rail discount cards are available for being <30 and >65 or disabled, or a veteran, or living in london, but everyone else has to pay full fare. most schemes to help beginner artists, etc, are age gated at 25.)
>>772785It depends. I've been told in a different thread that you need to go through ego death in order to get chicks but this other guy
>>772783 is saying you need to go through ego death in order to get women (or in this case sex but same thing) out of your mind. I guess it just on what you want\don't want.
>>772789What’s you’re describing is amenities also offered to elderly.
>>772805There are initiatives to help low prospect adults over thirty. There are job programs, therapy groups, etc
We need to go back to starting adult life at fourteen to offset the delayed maturation in post boomer society
>>772835Idk why people view procreation as the ultimate prize of human existence.
Like why?
Having offspring doesn’t dissolve the worldly crises that’s happening. If anything, procreation just sustains the problems of the human condition.
It makes no sense that poor people are the ones making babies they cannot afford and they’re not penalized for that.
>>772721Yeah and when they get older it tends to get even worse.
>>772853It's an inherited notion of success from a culture entrenched by centuries (yes, there's a biological drive towards reproduction, but that doesn't translate into procreation=the ultimate purpose of life, after all infertile people don't just all kill themselves. Success=starting a family is cultural). And like yeah, you can opt to not buy into it but from people who have bought into it it just sounds like cope, which makes you sound like a loser, and if there's a human want that's actually near-universal it's being respected by your community.
>>775801What’s worse is that when adults have kids, they just turn into moralistic Karen’s who think they’re god just because they have offspring to care for.
They don’t even respect children as fellow people.
>>775799This is why blue collar skills should be mandatory in schools
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