• Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      18 days ago

      I just hope my 40s suck less. I’m almost stable and my country is probably going to collapse. And then the ecosystem around us will follow suit, yaaaay…

      I have some people to jointly buy land with, and a zero waste, zero emission farm plan in place to weather the storm. Maybe. If we can all get our shit together super soon… it won’t be much but it’ll be ours and we’ll defend it fiercely. It’s the American way.

      We’ll definitely be a local stop on the railroad, though, and I already know others who will do the same.

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        In your 40s your body begins to break down. Often your mind slows down too. And you’ll have people relying on you, whether at work as a senior colleague, your children, your aging parents/other relatives, your friends whose bodies have begun to break down, or whatever responsibilities/opportunities you’ve taken in your various communities.

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    There was hope then at least - eating ramen and working three jobs because the degree and the work was supposed to make things better. But then hitting your thirties and realizing that the mistake you made wasn’t being born wealthy.

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      18 days ago

      It gets worse when you get a kid, cant sleep at night, and a house mortgage for life. Just figured I would cheer you up. :p

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      This is so true for real. When I was in my 20s it’s true, I had ramen almost every day, but I also had a constant friend group I was always around. I never went to college but I was close with highschool friends for years, until mid to late 20s. Then it just… Stopped.

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        The crazy thing is, when i was in my 20s, it was a common joke on the internet that people in their 30s or earlier don’t have friends. I always thought that is some post rafe comic le funny meme. I had so many friends that i saw daily. I had too many friend groups, too much things to do with them. At the end of my 20s it suddenly stopped. It wasn’t that one friend after the other had a change in lifestyle or whatever, but now getting 4 friends together at the same time, seems utopian. One of my friends got married and like 6 of us met to have a good time together. Everyone was like: why don’t we do that more often? We should do that again. That was over 2 years ago and we in fact did not do that again.

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    19 days ago

    It’s chill, we’re all gonna die of cancer from all the microplastics in our brains anyway. Or in Civil War II or something. Whatever.

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    Well at least you get to retire eventually.

    Lol. JK. You’re going to be a wage slave until you die, probably during the climate change induced famine.

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      Only if you get student loans. Just don’t go to college! It’s not like the world needs doctors, scientists, engineers, dentists, teachers, meteorologists, judges, librarians, well-educated citizens in general… Oh wait.