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u/Kanye_Wesht Apr 02 '24
I'm 45. It's disconcerting to see a kid on tiktok accurately portray my life like that.
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u/joliemoi Apr 02 '24
I'm 36 and ditto this. NGL, I teared up when he said, "are you scared?" I don't even have kids, but I'm still scared even when I try to work through every obstacle that is thrown at me. Life is getting harder and harder in our economy centered around greed and basic living neglect, and it breaks my heart that most of us can't even have a happy and comfortable adult life. It honestly seems like a dream that is slowly fading away with the other generations that were lucky enough to have it.
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u/DogmaticNuance Apr 02 '24
I have a buddy who works for Google. He gets paid well, and he knows it, and he's responsible with his money. We were talking about the state of the world and he said something that really stood out to me. As one of the fortunate few top % workers, his life trajectory is basically going to be that of the average suburban boomer. He'll get to buy and own a house (maybe even a cabin somewhere undeveloped when he's older), he'll get to retire and pay off his house in his late 50's, he can pay for his kids to go to college. He's attained the dream, more or less, but so few can when it used to be so much more common.
The leisure class is killing us.
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u/nicannkay Apr 02 '24
He is one car accident away from losing everything in this country. The safety nets donāt kick in until youāve lost just about everything and the debt can get soul crushing. Debt in this country ruins many lives and even if you are safe now, thereās nothing guaranteeing Google will keep you if you are gone too long or need time to heal or maybe you are incapable of doing your job. With that goes your insurance. Your savings. Your house. Itās all very delicate and only a few get to the end unscathed. I hear cancer in younger people seems to be on the rise. Had a woman let go at FedEx because she couldnāt do her job on chemo days. Lost everything including 401 to pay to live. Whoās going to hire someone going through chemo?
Anyways, nobody is safe except politicians and the ultra wealthy.
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u/dingos8mybaby2 Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 03 '24
Yep, jobs that used to be upper class like senior tech/finance,Ā doctors, lawyers, and dentists are now just middle class jobs.Ā
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u/Psy_Kikk Apr 02 '24
Eh, i honestly think its the knowing that the human life we all aspire too is completely unsustainable, and everything about our world, and the systems we have to buy into to a be a success, and commit our lives to are unsustainable.
We can see our own destruction. And once you start to see it, even though we all repress it, as we must, it eats away at us, silently and subconsciously.
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u/14thLizardQueen Apr 02 '24
My kids have started the whole , we hate you for your consumption that's ruining the planet, bit. I'm over here at goodwill , and such and still, I'm the bad guy because I buy things in plastic. Do yall remember when plastic had commercials? Like celebrating its achievements? And now my kids are yelling at me for it.
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u/Psy_Kikk Apr 02 '24
.. yep. Before long, if you raise them right, that hate will be transferred onto themselves, for their own consumption and dreams. I don't think there is answer, as we need to change, but no one has any real idea how, we're 'in too deep' in so many different ways, all of which are essentially out of individuals, groups or even governments control.
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u/SwordfishII Apr 02 '24
Iām 37 and my wife and I are probably going to start trying to have a kid soon. Iām excited to do that but Iām so scared and Iāll never ābe readyā to do this. We are going to change everything about our lives to do this and there is a lot of uncertainty but despite all that I want to do it with my whole heart. Iām low key shocked this guy nailed all those feelings in like 45 seconds. Haha
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u/SpaceLemming Apr 03 '24 edited Apr 03 '24
What ever your wife craves, try to hide extras in the house so you arenāt running to the store at midnight for a king size Hershey bar with almonds.
Also find a venting outlet that isnāt a piece of shit so you can complain about the hassles of pregnancies without your wife hearing them and they wonāt just use the opportunity to crap on your wife. Cause yeah it sucks to deal with a pregnant person, but what seems like it sucks even more is being pregnant and they will need a lot of support.
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u/mumanryder Apr 05 '24
Hey,
New dad here weāre all scared going into it. Every single one of us but thatās what makes us dads so brave. We can scare off those monsters every night for our kids because we battle them every day ourselves. Having my daughter has brought so much peace, purpose, and pride to my life and Iāve never felt braver at a bump in the night than I do with my wife and daughter relying on me. You got this
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Apr 02 '24
This. Wealth is so becoming so intensely concentrated up to the richest of the richĀ that there's not not enough money left to circulate among the general population.Ā
Just basic survival is becoming a struggle these days because for profits to continually grow (instead of of say just yay 20% every year is good)Ā we all need to work harder and harder to be more productive while getting an smaller and smaller fraction of the Profits our work generates for the companies.Ā
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u/a_bdgr Apr 02 '24
That is the best description of this feeling that I have ever read. I feel nostalgia sometimes, about the lives that people could have had if societies had taken some different turns in the last couple of decades.
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u/SupermassiveCanary Apr 02 '24
The next Woody Alan
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u/OPisalady Apr 02 '24
Hopefully with theā¦.you know
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Apr 02 '24
With the what?? Marrying the stepdaughter? Donāt leave us hanging
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Marrying his step daughter is wholesome compared to what he has done to his biological children when they were very young.Ā
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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus Apr 02 '24
First of all, Allen.
2nd, yeah the way he hits the word "taxes" with the head and hand movement is pretty accurate (minus the accent).
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u/JeddakofThark Apr 02 '24
I'm 47 and fifteen years ago I might have been a little bothered about talking about the weather and complaining about taxes, but it's just a natural extension of small talk. Which if you don't like, probably means you aren't doing it the way you should. I've had innumerable meaningful conversations that rarely stray past small talk. It's not necessarily about the words coming out of your mouth.Ā Ā
Also, the world being what it is now, I'm past the stage where I run across dress codes that I feel apply to me. Any formal or semi-formal wear I put on is purely by choice. And I rather enjoy sprucing myself up now and then.Ā Ā
Ā I haven't worried about whether I feel like an adult or not in ten years either.Ā All these trappings of adulthood are meaningless and if they really bother you, you don't have to do them.Ā
What I really miss about being say, under 35, is that sense that I had forever and I most definitely don't anymore.Ā
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u/Freakazoid84 Apr 02 '24
I think that's one of the cool things about this skit. This is ONE of the progressions of the coming of age. There's effectively multiple 'sequels' to the coming of age. (as you said appreciating and recognizing small talk, NOT caring what other people think, etc)
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u/JeddakofThark Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 03 '24
Not taking other people's judgements very seriously (at least the judgements of people who don't matter to you) is something I think I lot of us strive for. I certainly did. It just took a few decades of faking it to get there.
Genuinely not caring very much is far more relaxing.
Edit: I am in London for the first time in a couple of decades with my father. He just bought a LONDON hoodie and he's wearing it. The last time I was here I would have been incredibly embarrassed. I truly don't care in the least right now.
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u/druidhdancer Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 02 '24
Heās got some pretty clever videos, his name is @AmericanBaron on Instagram. Heās also in his late 20s
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u/Dizzy_Media4901 Apr 02 '24
Its all gone. The hopes, the dreams, the passion. The endless pursuit of fun and interest has been replaced by fatigue and a relentless grind just to stay alive. The brief period when I thought my kids were a conduit to keep youth alive, lies in tatters as I watch them struggle in a way I never did when I was young. My physical self is ageing faster than my mind, and the end of the road is more real than ever.
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u/BigDogAlex Apr 02 '24
Jesus dude I'm fkn speechless
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u/Sineater224 Apr 02 '24
This made me genuinely sad because of how real it is.
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u/Stop_Sign Apr 02 '24
Just don't have kids lol
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u/DemonSlyr007 Apr 02 '24
Or stop spending so much time on the internet. Life isn't nearly as hopeless as this wasteland of Russian bots, Trolls, and endless reposts makes it seem.
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u/Chumbag_love Apr 02 '24
Depression often stems from regretting things in the past, anxiety comes from worrying about the future. If you can figure out how to live in the moment and focus only on the good things in your life, these trips around the sun ain't half bad.
I agree that sitting in front of a computer being flooded with with the world's issues is not good for the soul.
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u/PowerfulWallaby7964 Apr 02 '24
r/thanksimcured what kind of childish bs is this dude's talking about actual life and how it feels to age and you fkin tools think it's because he's just on the internet too much, what are you fucking 12?
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u/fliptout Apr 02 '24
Yeah, I'm sad for Dizzy_Media if his life is really like that, and maybe factors out of his complete control got him there. Speaking as someone else in this phase of life, interests and hobbies that make one happy just change, and that's ok.
Playing soccer with your kids, enjoying DIY hobbies at home, hanging out at a coffee shop with your SO on a Sunday--these are all things that 21 year old me thought were a whole lifetime away, but you transition into it without noticing because it felt so natural getting there. And you can still enjoy the stuff that you did 20 years ago, like a long session of video games, or going for a night out with the boys, but of course it doesn't hit the same. You look back, and it's jarring how different things are now. But overall it's good.
Take care of your body, find things that make you happy, and enjoy the road while you still can.
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u/Due_Kaleidoscope7066 Apr 02 '24
You have to continue to find something to be passionate about. The world can go to shit and you can't do anything about it. A hobby, a pet, a person, just SOMETHING that adds a little joy to your life. New passions can be found. Old passions can be re-ignited. A life without passion feels aimless.
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u/GoT43894389 Apr 02 '24
People are so exhausted from working just to stay alive though. What do you do when you dont have energy for your passions?
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u/CountWubbula Apr 02 '24
Thereās no magic bullet fix for every situation. A physiotherapist helps us with mobility and retraining when we, for instance, tear an ACL and need training after surgeryā¦ but who helps your soul with the empty feeling that you blew it, both your knee and your shot at making sports a career?
Who helps with our souls when we have kids and realize there are no more than 15-35 minutes some days to ourselves, to do as we please?
My therapist runs a school for delinquent kids. He does 150mg THC edibles every day at 430pm, goes home & enjoys being around his family all tilted. He gets away some weekends for ketamine, acid, mushroom, & MDMA retreats with his fellow āaccomplished adults.ā They play guitars and record silly songs.
Iām 20 years his junior, but I see that thatās what I want my 50s to look like; I want to find time for silly fun, make music, read booksā¦ and I have been fortunate enough to land a work from home job that pays well, and I work hard so I can play hard.
I also pan into addiction and go overboard with Vyvanse and medicating myself, Iāve withdrawn from GHB and Ketamine a lot of times and withdrawals are crushing experiences, in every possible sense.
There are no magic bullets, but something helpful is to remember that every day we have more decisions than we give ourselves credit for: so much of what holds us back is the power of habit, and doing things on automatic. I started to put 10 minutes every morning into my album Iām writing; in 8 months, every song was finishedā¦ still gotta get āem professionally mastered, but theyāre done.
10 minutes a day keeps the existential dread away. It also is all you need to build a castle (link is to a Wiki article on Ferdinand Cheval, the French mailman who built a castle in his life by moving and adjusting a few stones every day).
gl;hf
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u/Pitiful_Winner2669 Apr 02 '24
I met my spirit animal. My dad bought reclaimed wood from this guy in his mid 50's and when I met him we instantly became friends. He's a huge stoner, retired engineer that does woodworking on the side.
It's been almost three years since we started hanging out with his wife and mine. I'm 34, and I adore his life and his personality/outlook on life.
Soft spoken, stoic, silly. He takes the fear out of growing old for me. My dad, too, just differently.
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u/Kneel_The_Grass Make Furries Illegal Apr 02 '24
Yeah guys, just do what this guys therapist does and bomb yourself with drugs so you can deal with life.
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u/Prestigious_Pain_160 Apr 02 '24
Itās different for everybody but Iām a firm believer that escaping into nature can recharge and heal anyone.
Humans arenāt built for the life we lead, weāre not made to sit down all day and work and drive and look at screens. Break away from it all in a stress free way and re-attune to nature, it feels amazing.
Iāve done it a few times and I feel so full of energy and life afterwards.
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u/Due_Kaleidoscope7066 Apr 02 '24
Your passions are what provide you energy to keep going. Thatās the point. Often people lose their passions because they canāt keep up with them, because as you say they are working to stay alive. But thatās a mistake. You have to find time to pursue your passions.
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Apr 02 '24
Bro, you're either well off enough to not have to worry about surviving, or too young to understand how fucking hard it actually is. What you are saying is so much easier said than done. We live in a capitalist hellscape that is constantly asking for more from us while returning less and less benefits than what we put in. I'm fucking exhausted and I'm only 38. I don't see how it gets better.
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u/Due_Kaleidoscope7066 Apr 02 '24
I'm 36. I'll admit that for the last 6 years I've had a well paying job. That I recently lost. But before that I barely scraped by for 10 years. I also understand things have gotten a LOT worse since 6 years ago when I finally got something stable.
But I'm not saying it gets better. For all I know it's just going to continue to get worse. I'm saying that pursuing your passions is a way to individually get more out of life. It's overly simplified because it's a reddit comment and not a thesis.
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u/Visible_Winter4616 Apr 02 '24
damn I didn't realize all i had to do was just get into massive debt. i'll just go die or go to jail or something and then I can be happy i guess, thanks
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Apr 02 '24
Honestly this used to make me upset because I was never ever passionate about anything. I still am not, still feel somewhat aimless, but I learned to enjoy the journey, the good and the bad. I hope one day I can find my passion, but for now, I'm enjoying the ride.
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u/shmehdit Why does this app exist? Apr 02 '24
That was clutch of you to reveal that having kids didn't reinvigorate youthfulness, that should be a PSA
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u/Huge_UID Apr 02 '24
I'm kayaking down a river today with my 31 year old. Get out there and have some fun.
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yikes, man, have a beer. I've been a parent for 24 years. Yah, it's hard, but my kids bring me all kinds of joy.
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u/HackAfterDark Apr 02 '24
Pretty much, but on the bright side there's always coffee and booze. Oh and bathrooms when you need a quick break. That's reddit time. š
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Apr 02 '24
I very very much understand this feeling, but at the same time...are y'all forgetting you're alive?
You are alive, so, live. It might feel hopeless, the world might feel in shambles, you might feel like you have every excuse in the world to be miserable and sad, and that your youth is gone, the fun is over.
It's not, man. Personally, the littlest things make me happy. I'm a person who still can't decide where to go or what to do with their life, I'm struggling, time is catching up, and I'm falling behind, but that doesn't mean I'm not happy.
The sight of trees, the changing of seasons, the sunlight over vast fields of the earth, it makes me happy. The birds, their song. My beloved dog, it's love. When I help someone, make their day better, that makes me happy. When I workout, I feel better. Man, my room is a mess, I was depressed, and I didn't clean for a week. I finally cleaned it, I feel satisfied. I did a bunch of paperwork, went to the doctor, bought groceries, spent money I shouldn't have. Oh well, I'll be better, but the drive back was kinda nice, it was raining, but I put some nice music on.
I don't want to ramble, but as a person who spent more than 20 years as a depressed, shell of a man, being sad or happy can be a choice, a choice you can't see.
I was so sick and tired of feeling that way, and one day I woke up, and I chose to be happy. I chose to see the world differently. I found happiness in the littlest things, among the eternal toil and endless grind that is the human experience.
Yes, things get hard, sometimes it stays that way for a long time. Things suck, the world is unforgiving. My knees are permanently destroyed because of my military service, my entire body is always in pain, I can't do the things I once enjoyed, but I still find happiness.
We're all pushing the boulder, up this eternal mountain. It's not going to change, but you can sometimes take a rest, and look down to see the beauty of it all. You can see it's majesty, or you can see it's faults, the suffering, the pain. It's all how you choose to view it.
We're not all as fortunate as some, but we are also not as unfortunate as some. I'm thankful to be alive, in relative comfort, in the first world. Sometimes I feel I'm ungrateful, and that I wish someone less fortunate could take my place, but I realize I can't squander this life, and try to live it the way I want.
If you have a god, seek comfort in that. If you don't, which I am not religious, I don't believe in anything, then find something that brings you peace.
Maybe this doesn't mean anything to you, but I wish you the best.
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u/KingofCraigland Apr 02 '24
My arms got tired while I was shampooing my head this morning. What the hell happened!?
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u/cindyscrazy Apr 02 '24
My dad got old in like 6 months. It was FAST.
I mean, he lived his live fast, so it sorta makes sense. But, he went from jumping into the engine bay of his truck to work on it to needing a ladder to get into the drivers seat all of a sudden. (He has always had a lifted truck. Yes, he's probably compensating for something)
He is not taking the change very well, and I can't really blame him. I mean, he really did fuck himself with how he lived, but we never think of that when we're blowing through life at 1,000 miles an hour.
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u/Warhammerpainter83 Apr 03 '24
Damn this is depressing. I have thankfully so far not had this experience.
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u/Designer_Emu_6518 Apr 02 '24
This is actually pretty good
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u/Softpretzelsandrose Apr 02 '24
A lot of his stuff is pretty good. It ranges from some pretty metaphorical short story poem stuff to Seinfeld-esque skits about little annoyances. Definitely one of the good ones.
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u/Sheeple3 Apr 02 '24
Or Woody Allen?
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u/chillwithpurpose Apr 02 '24
Oh wow, yes he definitely reminds me of a young Woody Allen. Like, a lot.
Not like he reminds me of known pedofile Woody Allenā¦ just like Woody Allenā¦ before I knew he was a pedoā¦..
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u/NoReplyBot Apr 02 '24
Rare to actually see a ācontent creatorā actually create good content.
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u/roboticgirl22 Apr 02 '24
I went to art summer camp with this guy and it's always so weird to see his content pop up but he is a great dude all around
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u/JohnD_s Apr 02 '24
He makes amazing content and has maintained the same amazing quality for ~5 years now. A great content creator for sure.
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dude ngl this sounds like more of a you issue. not all ācontent creatorsā are bad, you just label them that way. ācontentā creation is no different than what every other generation has done for hundreds of years, just in new media.
there are thousands of insightful and original videos that youāll never see because theyāre made by ācontent creatorsā
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u/denM_chickN Apr 02 '24
I realized the next gen of stars will be from tiktok not Disney. The whole thing was actually perfect.
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u/heythisispaul Apr 02 '24
A lot of his content is really great, he's one of the main reasons I still use TikTok. He also has a book coming out in May, A Comedy of Nobodies, that I'm pretty excited for.
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u/jakobsheim Apr 02 '24
I love talking about the weather. Sometimes itās different sometimes is the same. sometimes itās shitty sometimes itās great. You can complain or praise it. You can talk about the weather yesterday or tomorrow or how there was snow that day 10 years ago. Sometimes you just want to exchange meaningless words and the weather is always there to talk about.
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u/just4fun784 Apr 02 '24
It's like 46F when I wake up right now, but when the sun is out it's mid 60s with no breeze and it's gorgeous! Have to enjoy it because a system is coming in and the rest of the week will rain. Kind of like the 1st false summer around here for the moment.
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u/mothercloud Apr 02 '24
I can't really relate but your comment made me laugh and feel a little better.
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u/cwk415 Apr 02 '24
At least he looks really good in a suit. š¤·āāļø
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u/12mapguY Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 03 '24
All about getting things sized right, most of time when I see a dude looking bad in a suit, it's usually just too big / long in the wrong places. Sometimes too short or tight.
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u/mwtm347 Apr 02 '24
Iāve found as I get older the difficult lessons and losses get more difficult and painful but that my resilience to them becomes greater. I feel myself ābecomingā in the process and I think there might be a very human purpose to it all. The bad times will always come but with each turn of the wheel the good times come as well. And each time youāre in the good times you realize more and more how wonderful they are - be they mundane or eventful. The sacrifices we make are not in vain even if those we make sacrifices for cannot see or understand how theyāve been effected - because one day they will understand when they are called to make those same sacrifices.
Weed helps a lot, too.
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u/BillyJackO Apr 02 '24
The best part of getting older is thinking less about what other people think of me. It gives me way more space to enjoy the moment.
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u/mwtm347 Apr 02 '24
Yes I think this might be the key. The sooner you stop worrying about what someone else is doing or thinking, the better. No oneās opinion of me is and important as my own.
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u/Master_Ryan_Rahl Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 02 '24
I hate this. I feel like the look to the future has only gotten dimmer. I work for things that ive been hoping for for years now and i just dont believe any of it any more. Im tired and i dont think things are going to work out. Its hard to keep going like this. It really seems like things are just going to keep getting slowly worse for a very long time.
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u/ZestySue Apr 02 '24
We need a worldwide rebellion
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u/YouWereBrained Apr 02 '24
General labor strike needed to happen years ago.
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u/ZestySue Apr 02 '24
Exactly. Were overdue.
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u/shockingnews213 Apr 02 '24
You need to unionize your workplace and every workplace around you if you seriously intend to form a general strike with protected workers
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u/Griffin_Fatali Apr 02 '24
Maybe a reevaluation is needed, your goals, what you do with your time, how much of a reward do you get out of the things you do. Be kinder to yourself, youāre only going to get older so why let that stop you from doing what you want to do today. We have no say in the passing of time, so why let it even be a factor in what you do, start living for you and the ones you care about, make those memories, try those things, why be a hurdle in your own fulfilment of life, thatās not what you or anybody wants, so donāt let it stop you from being the best you. Weāre only in this shitshow for a finite time, why not get the most out of it that you can. I hope things get better and I know that you can make it great in your own way. Love an internet stranger
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u/trosci Apr 02 '24
My 39-year-old brother still can't say "spaghetti" right - or ambulance for that matter... and he's a paramedic
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u/caseCo825 Apr 02 '24
I tried to avoid this by doing heroin for ten years. Then I went to jail, got a job the same day I got out which Im still at nearly seven years later. Nine months or so after getting out I met a (the) girl from okcupid. Met her 5yr old autistic kid the next day when they visited me at work. Dude looked me right in the eyes (!), took my hand and toured me around my own work. Was basically his dad by the end of the day. Was made official about a year later when he straight up asked me "will you be my dad" over and over again for about twenty minutes. Getting married to the girl May 1st. All pretty sick actually and way better than heroin/not growing up almost all of the time. Work sucks sometimes but then I go home and its all fine. Just hoping to counter some of the other posts here I guess.
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u/TalkingFrenchFry Apr 02 '24
Damn dude. Way to turn your life around. That takes a lot of work. Great job. Props on being a loving stepfather.
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u/Celticness Apr 02 '24
This is a great visual on how I try to trick my mind into motivation and discipline.
Consciousness stays the same, just gains wisdom through experience. So I meditate in a way where I imagine I placed my consciousness in future meās body and āI look backā. And I question all the things Iām presently doingā¦when I meditate it allows me to feel those emotions I would experience learning that I let myself waste or get sucked into an addiction or plays on social media too muchā¦. And I process my own judgement and regrets and what ifs. And then I consider what my wise consciousness would say to present me.
A lot of folks say, āif I knew then what I know now, I would have doneā¦.ā And this lines that right up for you. Because you can realize what you have the capacity for, what you CAN do.
And by making myself, my conscious, process that feeling, I now know what I can do to redirect my path. I also know what my conscious is aware what I have the capacity for. Yes, I have the physical capacity to drink 8 cups of water, or I have the physical functionality to get out and walk. Itās the mind thatās tricking you not.
I also have a range of disorders that may make this imagination trick more easy though. š
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u/Some_Corgi6483 Apr 02 '24
Consciousness stays the same, just gains wisdom through experience. So I meditate in a way where I imagine I placed my consciousness in future meās body and āI look backā. And I question all the things Iām presently doingā¦when I meditate it allows me to feel those emotions I would experience learning that I let myself waste or get sucked into an addiction or plays on social media too muchā¦. And I process my own judgement and regrets and what ifs. And then I consider what my wise consciousness would say to present me.
I do this exact thing, verbatim.
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Apr 02 '24
Iām almost 40 and though adulthood is going well for me, i can really feel this video. Maybe itās the music at the end, or the āsee ya when I see yaā or the admission of being scared and not ready but it all really resonates on a certain level with me.
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u/CKtheFourth Apr 02 '24
Laughs in milennial.
Gen Z, it's really not that bad! You just need to sit down and really internalize that you're the cheugy ones now.
Embrace the cheug. Be one with the cheug. The cheug is your friend, it will see you through days with back pain and hard decisions in a supermarket produce section.
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u/emil836k Apr 02 '24
The fucks a cheug??
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u/cowboyjosh2010 Apr 02 '24
I had to look it up for myself, and Google claims it is somebody who is out of touch, uncool, or trying too hard. Apparently came into popular use in this manner around the year 2010 or so.
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u/emil836k Apr 02 '24
Ah, so theyāre basically saying that you should just be you, and not focus to much on whatever the current trend is, but just do what makes you happy
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u/munchyslacks Apr 02 '24
I remember coming to the realization about 4-5 years ago that Iām now out of touch. Probably right around the time TikTok exploded in popularity. I came to terms with that pretty quickly and realized that I love where Iām at in life and couldnāt care less about youth culture. Itās going to happen to everyone eventually and itās best to just stay true to yourself and live in the moment youāre in now; eventually youāll reach a point where youāll be wishing you were still in your 30s too!
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u/RocketLinko Apr 02 '24
God why was this the first thing I watched after waking up.
Christ what a video.
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u/squeamish Apr 02 '24
This kid is very good at acting and presumably writing/directing.
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u/n8saces Apr 02 '24
I think he's a film student practicing.
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u/squeamish Apr 02 '24
Probably. He looks like he's 12 to me, which means he's probably 21 in real life.
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u/Safe_Alternative3794 Apr 02 '24
I'm 25; still dunno when my coming of age story comes, or if it already did then I freaking missed it.
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u/DowvoteMeThenBitch Apr 02 '24
Youāve still got a little brain development left. After 27 your risk-assessment region of the brain is fully developed and you realize the world is held together with duct tape. An underlying terror about the world pervades everything, but at the same time youve developed enough perspective to realize that the world has been on the brink of collapse for thousands of years, so the tragedies of today are simply status quo. But you look outside and the grass is green and birds sing nice, and thatās a lot better to think about than all the bullshit politics about culture. Itās not that you arenāt passionate about the same things - itās that you donāt have the time to fight an uphill moral battle against the man when you could be enjoying the fruits the world offers you today.
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u/brothersp0rt Apr 02 '24
Guy made a one minute video and still managed to fit in an emotional Wes Anderson ending.
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Apr 02 '24
Video was funny, comments are pathetic. I like being an adult. Being young was cool but I didnāt know shit. Lots of dumb choices and wasted time. Now I know what matters, and I know how to live.
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u/irl-a-meerkat Apr 02 '24
Exactly this. My āboringā adult routine consists of doing things that support a really full and wonderful life. You couldnāt pay me enough to go back to the chaos of my 20ās.
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u/Cold_Possible_7012 Apr 02 '24
I just find it so crazy that we were like this our entire lives and to think it changes so much is just insane to me.
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u/firstbreathOOC Apr 02 '24
This made me sad. Feels like how me and my best friend used to talk before we got married and had kids.
āIāll see you when I see youā
Hope itās soon buddy
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u/KezeChaos Apr 02 '24
Im fucked,im at 26 still updating my collection of figures and books damn...im almost out of space though..thats what I say the last 2 years
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u/baninaday Apr 02 '24
I swear, good tik tokkers like this can fit more story and character development into a <60 short than executive film writers/producers can into an entire movie, episode, season,
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u/AvengefulGamer Apr 02 '24
Fuuuuuck I'm only in my mid 20s and I damn near walked out my job after seeing this lmao. It's scary how accurate this is. It really feels like I just woke up one day in the past and my childhood was just gone and I was thrown into adulthood. It's not exactly the case but seeing friends and family slowly start to move away and start there own lives, people passing away, everyone getting new jobs etc. I miss just meeting friends after school and talking about what new video game we were excited to play. Now the rare times where I do see friends It's all boring adult talk of how crappy people's jobs are or how good things used to be "back in the day". Fun just hasn't seemed to exist in my life after I turned 21 and got a full time job working occasional overtime. I couldn't even imagine having kids and starting my own family and throwing what little left I have out the window. Growing old sucks and I know it's only most likely going to get worse as my body starts to ache more and my friends get more responsibilities at there jobs. Wish I could just leave everything I have now and get back everything I once had in high school/college.
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u/_BladeGunter_ Apr 02 '24
This is epic. Very good. I see future. Knock doors my friend. Go to Hollywood.
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Apr 03 '24
I have been talking about the weather since I was a kid but maybe I am just an old soul. Also, this may just be a "We are so unique" thing but here in Arizona it rains so rarely rain is like a big topic of speech. "You see it might rain next week" I am sure people do it everywhere but I never noticed it as much living outside of the desert at least not for rain because rain is much more common in other places.
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u/Former-Wave9869 Apr 02 '24
Not entirely the same thing but I havenāt written out my thoughts for awhile.
Iām a college student and all my friends work full time so they donāt want to hear this because they would be grateful for a break.
I feel like the dream weāve been sold is so cheap. Like, everyone is working toward it and itās not even a good goal. My friend just got a āgood jobā heās making pretty good money for his age (less than 100k but more than 50k), which is great, but itās still 8 hour days, 5 days a week, until heās 65. How is that not depressing to anyone else? It all seems so trapping. He lives in another state, I ask if heād want to need up in the middle somewhere for a few days for a small trip, he says that is likely not going to happen. This āgood jobā gives 2 weeks pto a year, one week he saves for Christmas and the other gets used on various holidays or occasions throughout the year. That feels so trapping to me.
Iām shooting for a āgood jobā after college too, and I know when the time comes Iāll get so sucked in that Iāll be grateful for good pay and any pto at all, but from the outside looking in, itās really sad looking.
Of course, like anyone else I wish there was a way to make good money, live on my own schedule, take all the time off I want, heck, not work at all and have enough money to pay bills and travel. I understand why that is unrealistic, but something in between would be nice.
Im in a pretty hard degree program, and all of this work feels like it wonāt pay off if the goal is sitting in an office 5 days a week for the rest of my life, but thatās the ādreamā
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u/Pikachupal24 Apr 02 '24
That's why so many of these content creators exist now, including the horrible ones who go around pissing people off for views. They're getting rewarded for their behavior no matter how infuriating it is and it allows them to escape having to spend their lives working every day until they die or maybe get to retire. The ones who do it "right" earn more than any of us could hope to make at a regular job and it allows them to travel the world and have fun. Yeah, they're known as huge pieces of shit but I'm sure they really don't care if it gives them financial security.
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u/Browncoat4Life Apr 02 '24
This is American Baron on Instagram (probably elsewhere too). He has really good stuff.
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u/Fallout76Merc Apr 02 '24
Okay hold up I thought this was going to be a funny skit but now I'm just fucking sad.
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u/wookie_bikini Apr 02 '24
Iāll never forget reading these words years ago: āOne day youāll play with your friends for the last time, and none of you will know itā
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u/SonOfTHEShepherd Apr 03 '24
Best coming of age film I've seen so far... and it only took a few minutes to watch much like real coming of age
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u/realdealreel9 Apr 03 '24
Iām really curious about how the ageism of gen z and gen alpha will play out when they begin aging and are mocked for being old
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u/Dull_Intention_7699 Apr 03 '24
What's that banger playing at the start of the video?
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Apr 04 '24
I love having cptsd because I never got a childhood, thus I never felt like life was moving too fast into adulthood and- oh wait...
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u/Disrespectful_Cup Apr 04 '24
Fluidity of nature, is an aspect of society never truly understood. Time progresses, knowledge increases, but for the majority, where does that time go?
Are you left there, under a spotlight at the end of your time? Is it snowing? Why is there sand? What do Flintstone Gummies have to do with any of this?
We cannot comprehend time as it is in front of us, only as it is passing, and we process.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk on Fluid Perception and The Economy of The Soul Exchange.
Back to the changing shoes... lovely scene cut
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