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It's all the negatives of getting old; watching your friends drift away as they start their own families, your parents and siblings getting old and die, watching everything in your life slowly putter out as the magic fades; without any of the positives of things like family or community to shore you up. Everything rots away and you're left with the bleakness of oblivion, no hope of anything continuing. Anyone who has experienced considerable ageing among his family members (or already in himself), knows how blackpilling it is. It's really rough, once people pass their early 50s (or sometimes even sooner) you start to notice the slip-ups, forgetfulness, the declining of fine motor skills, the difficulties understanding new information. Human existence is a tragedy, there are so few years that you are allowed with full mental and physical strength. Your peak years are mostly wasted with education, where you have barely any control over your own life, because you have little to no money nor autonomy. Add to that the time spent sleeping, working, hygiene, housework, shopping, appointments, visits to the workshop - what do we have left? Everyone who has to work for a living basically leads a precarious existence, regardless of whether they are a simple worker or a well-paid employee. Before they have built up a comfortable fortune and a well established understanding of the world, the body goes downhill.
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yeah
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just stop using this shitehole
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>>32581120
>Your peak years are mostly wasted
imagine not believing your best years are ahead of you at all times. what a pathetic state of existence. kill yourself so you don't have to cry any longer and be in our way, you pussy ass bitch.
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10/10 pasta, would read again OP
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>>32581189
This. OP last year I went 4 months without going on 4Chan. I only came back out sheer boredom after and I limit myself to 1 hour a week since. It's definitely possible to leave this site if you really want to
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>>32581392
what'd you do instead?
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>>32581215
1000% this. Imagine not wizardmaxxing.
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>>32581427
haha right? just rot but now also alone without talking to anybody?

at least online i hope that maybe i can make a new friend and leave my shitty ones behind me

like i said this to someone and they were like ' o noes sending wuv'
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>>32581392
How did you feel?
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Live after 30 is awesome. I've gained so much wisdom, it's almost unreal.
Meanwhile, you are determined on having an absolute shit-show of a life.
Not only that. You also want to drag other people down.
You're cancer, you're toxic.
People wonder if you can count to three.
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>>32581120

>> watching your friends drift away as they start their own families,

lol. So OP according to you life after 30 sucks because all your friends grew up, got married and started doing something with their lives. Ie. Because they aren't sitting around being lonely pathetic sad sacks, your life sucks. kek.One would expect they probably grew up and started getting married long before 30. So, really you probably mean life after 23 right? But if we're really being honest you probably didn't have any friends to begin with. When you say friend you probably mean someone you talk to online, and by having their own families, you probably mean they don't waste their lives online anymore. Right?

This is entirely in your power. You can in fact get a job, make actual friends in real life, and find a gf. You could choose to do those things. You could choose to do more with your life to give it meaning, like helping others. But you choose not to. So that's self imposed.

>> your parents and siblings getting old and die,

At 30? How old were your parents when they had you ffs. In their 70s with your siblings all midaged adults? Wtf are you talking about?

This post sounds like an edgelord teenager trying to pretend 30 is old, but it isn't.
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>>32581120
Have you considered sewercide?
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>>32582428
here
here
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>>32582428
This, I'm so fucking done with all the whining and negativity
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>>32582516
>>32582428
>I got mine
kek at normies
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>>32581120
If an old man can enjoy what little youth he has in his 80s, you can enjoy the youth you still have at 30. Now 30 is it's own world, but it isn't the end. 30 is a step up from 20; that's all it is. You're not 45, and even if you were, you're not 55. Now if you were 70 years old and you did nothing your entire life? Then yes you're fucked. However, you still have a long life ahead of you, make the most of it.
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>>32581120
I sometimes consider offing myself so I don't have to do the dishes, I have few anchors like you say, but honestly lifes super nice. I have silk pillowcases. I just got a air fryer and pressure cooker. I buy expensive ingredients from the grocery store every day that I can walk to from my nice apartment in a beautiful area. I might start going on vacations regularly. Like I still wanna find someone and have a family but lifes pretty sweet even if I don't, and I don't make a lot of money, and like in several years the economy is prolly going to be roaring. I'm learning languages and wanna maybe live on a boat and travel in my 40s. I can prolly semi-retire somewhat early. I have friends and am getting better at relationships of all kinds. Maybe I can buy robot body parts in the future or something.
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>>32584778
>buy expensive ingredients from the grocery store every day
kek at how goyim cope, if only there was a way to profit off their coping habits and at the same time sell them more useless shit to cope with
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>>32581120
>35
>Live with parents in my childhood bedroom
>Never made anything out of myself and work a minimum wage job

Don't really know what to do and see what you are talking about. My sister keeps saying I should move into their bungalow in the backyard (which is just a room with no utilities) but I dunno

Think it's at least a step up from living with parents? And will shake me up to get my thinks in order
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>>32584884
bro i suffered a lot when i was young in terms of availability of resources, you have no idea how nice it is for me, and also the expensive eggs that treat the chickens better actually taste better too
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>>32581120
>We decay
Yes
Feeling bad about that is cringe though. Don't be cringe. Value life anyway.
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>>32585112
>expensive eggs
>a luxury few people can afford nowadays
the absolute state of goyim
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>>32585286
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>>32584778
hey i not gay nor sexy but maybe I can be your maid. I hate cooking but don't mind doing the dishes
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>>32581215
shut up faggot
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>>32581120
I’m 34 and I feel this way. Thankfully, my body count is almost 250 between Thai hookers and regular girls (50 girls 180 Thai hookers)

I don’t even like going outside. I just enjoy food I make in my air fryer and drink 8% ipas in my micro apartment and listen to comfy millennial YouTube channels.

Being left alone and not having to deal with other peoples bullshit is so nice
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>>32585286
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>>32587847
>>32589102
enjoying yourself anon?
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I'm 33 and my hair is greying, like, there are flat out white hairs on my chin, in my hair, visible.

It's not 50, once you are past your 20s your biological peaks are all past you, it's just slow, gradual ageing, we don't realise it but 24-25 is where it all stops, for women its even younger.
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>>32581120
>Everything rots away
Judging by your post, the first thing to rot is one's mind.
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>>32584739
>kek at normies
In your head, normies are just the people that did not fail at achieving all the things you would like to have. "Oh, but I am superior and much more intelligent!" No, you're most likely just a sad and incompetent piece of shit.
This is just very sad cope from you. Improving nothing.
Now you may laugh at this post.
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>>32581120
just do what you really want to do in life. Make that game. Movie. Write that book.
Paint that painting.

Whatever you want.
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>>32582516
>At 30? How old were your parents when they had you ffs. In their 70s with your siblings all midaged adults? Wtf are you talking about?
it happens. i'm in my mid 20s and my parents are pushing 70. they had me late
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>>32585112
>and also the expensive eggs that treat the chickens better actually taste better too
You're adorable anon. I mean that without condescension. You have a nice spark.
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>>32588121
sorry, no guys
>>32593011
im all over the place
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>>32581120
It sounds like the quick of the issue is unfullfilled ambitions. I too worry about this in regards to my parents. I really want them to live to see me not being a loser. It is ironically and unfortunately, quite a paralysing fear. It does help to tilt away from the end result from time to time and focus on smaller benchmarks.
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>>32593021
Small steps to enlightenment is the key, as professed in the late Heath Ledger's last film, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, which like... it was okay. Very creative script.
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>>32593045
I am always skeptical of enlightenment, it seems like it annihilates all ambition and I want to succeed in a tangible and earthbound manner. I can always align my chakras and astral project once I am an octogenarian invalid but succeeding in the world is something I have to focus on right now.
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>>32581120
I never had those things to begin with. but yes. life is pretty much pointless if you don't reproduce
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>>32593126
That's one kind of enlightenment based around Atman being an illusion. There are many others, often based on assumptions that may or may not be true. The goal of enlightenment generally seems to be inner peace, though there are even exceptions to that. Some forms of enlightenment bring black pills or essentially infinite battle. Some forms of enlightenment bring infinite peace and infinite battle simultaneously, famously, samurai or vikings.
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>>32581120
as
>>32581215
said, aging is optional. You're miserable because you

1) Have no purpose in life and
2) Have never made any serious effort to care for your health as you age

This is most apparent when you say shit like
>slip-ups, forgetfulness, the declining of fine motor skills, the difficulties understanding new information
There's a reason why every culture in recorded human history has the archetype of the "wise old man". You should be getting more intelligent and sharp witted as you age, not less.

If you're only 50 and your body is already in noticeable decline then that is your FINAL WAKE UP CALL to get your shit together and start taking care of your body before it truly is too late. In an absolute sense, it's never too late to start improving yourself but the older you get, the harder it gets. You should have been taking your health seriously your entire life, at bare minimum by the time you started getting close to 30. How the fuck do you slowly watch your health decline over decades and not once stop and say
>wow maybe it's time I start doing things differently
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>>32593133
Interesting. I guess I don't know enough but I would be into a philosophy that enhances vitality and will as opposed to cultivating a more accepting and desultory nature.
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>>32593126
>>32593153
posts like these really illustrate those quotes about even the abject losers in america having this perception of themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires"
>yeah i'll worry about being happy when i'm old, right now i'm focused on getting rich...what? yeah, i still live with my parents, so what?
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>>32593153
You seem like a monotheism or Mahayana guy... or general Philosophy, as Philosophy is the friendship and getting to knowing of wisdom itself. Perhaps starting at existentialism/absurdism, stoicism, epicureanism, and finally studying Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, which you should have started off with but it seemed the least interesting at first. Then you can continue from there if you want as time and interest allows throughout your life.
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>>32593169
I don't want to be rich or happy I want to make something so cool that it makes other people's lives more interesting to live even if it's only for an hour.
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>>32593194
I am already quite well versed in philosophy. Atm I am enjoying pessimist works.
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>>32593232
No you don't. You have fantasies attached to that dream.
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>>32593235
Actually not well versed more just knoeledgeable on an autistic surface level
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>>32593238
>No you don't. You have fantasies attached to that dream.
My fantasy is living with purpose and incrementally working towards my goal. I would like to make something comparable to Cerebus by Dave Sim or Maldoror by Lautreumont. Something odd and monomanic.
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>>32593247
*monomaniacal? idk
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>>32593239
It's alright we all are.
>>32593250
Emptiness or at best a dopamine hit will be waiting for you at the end of this path. Not saying you shouldn't do it but...
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>>32593256
>Emptiness or at best a dopamine hit will be waiting for you at the end of this path
The end of most paths is unsatisfying. Life is bigger than me and I am not afraid of misery.
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>>32593260
>most
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>>32593268
Listen you make a fair point, I won't deny that. But if I am being completely honest with myself the greatest high, the greatest possible feeling that I have ever encountered in my entire life has been the feeling of manic creation. Absolutely nothing can compare to "being on a roll" creatively. Not love, not friendship, not sex: nothing. And I have no doubt that if I were to cultivate inner peace or greater insight that I would find that this feeling of manic creation pales in comparison. I do not want to find that out. If anything is able to extinguish this feeling in favour of contentedness then I don't want to know about it, not now at least. This might be a massive mistake and I might pay for my metaphysical transgressions dearly, I might regret and be faced with my own solipsism and think back on this interraction that we are having at this moment. It's just that I don't care at the moment. I want to make something good.
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>>32593282
The muses often leave but yeah that's a type of enlightenment too. It's sublimation.
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>>32593350
how do I summon the muses?
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>>32584759
thanks for this >>32584778
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>>32593148
>How the fuck do you slowly watch your health decline over decades and not once stop and say
a combination of "but [x] gives me dopamine and my top priority is to have as much dopamine as possible as easily as possible, i can't handle life without cheap easy shots of dopamine" and a perpetual "i have time, it's not like i'm about to turn 60"



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