I was raised primarily by my grandparents in a rural area. Life was relatively slow but I did have internet and would post here often. Now everything is just so fast and changing rapidly I don't feel like I can keep up. Not only that but everyone is just on edge and ready to initially be rude. Not to mention all the red tape that's been put up on every part of life. I'm only 30 but I feel like I'm three generations behind. Life doesn't feel free anymore. I can't even move back to where I grew up because they've built apartments and shopping centers everywhere that it's changed so much.
>>34541778>I'm only 30If the phrase "I'm only 30" can go through your brain and leave it unfiltered, living with people much older than you truly did a number on you. You do realize that in subjective time half of your life is over by age 20, that's why everybody is in such a rush. Doesn't mean you have to be in a rush. But life will be over soon all the same
>>34541820You expect to die by 40? Even if I don't rush it just feels like the whole world is in a rush. You got to keep up, I get that, but I'm just tired of keeping up. There's no time to just slow down or even pace yourself.
>>34541827I'm just saying, life is short and the time after 20 feels about as long as the time before 20. in terms of how it feels it's the mid pointThe way I see it is this. If in doubt, it's better to rush a little bit too much. It's better to focus on work a little bit too much. Etc. Because even though there is great value in being able to slow down and appreciate life, people ultimately fall into two categories, successful or laid back.That doesn't mean that you can't "make it" at an old age. But you can't just live life as if there was unlimited time. A lot of people grow old and never have kids. And that, is evolution.
>>34541778>everyone is just on edge and ready to initially be rudThat's because a lot of people from a very specific place that I won't mention bcs I don't want to be banned from >>>/adv/ have invaded this website. But you can connect the dots.
>>34541875That's true but I just mean everywhere. I'm real life and on all parts of the internet
>>34541886>That's true but I just mean everywhere. I'm real life and on all parts of the internetWell, they also invaded a lot of real places though. Things are worse than they look. Even normies are being very, very, mean "chuds." People are slowly getting radicalized, and it's not like anyone can change that, things are going to where they will.
>>34541858This is one of the most retarded copes I have read on this site. I get were you're coming from, but nobody at 30 can do jackshit to get the years back. There's nothing to rush, you're starting to think slower, and life is demanding ever more from you. If you rush you burnout and that's fucking death at this point. Not only you will have nothing, you will have a miserable stressed life, no doubt you have that already.So piss off, and don't try to break the eggs of people who're not complaining. OP's issue was the world is revolving too fast, your issue is you're an old loser, or worse a young guy with a loser mindset making a self-fulfilling prophecy true.
>>34541949OPs point personified rofl. Get a load of this guy.OP - We are just growing up. We feel like kids, but we are old men to kids. I think this has always been the case in every generation. Where we can take solace is the fact we don't need to keep up. We are old enough to know the rush people put on themselves in their 20s is all artificial. Your trajectory is really set much earlier in life. What we can all do though is have a happy, middle class life with a family, a wife and a grill.Now you get why boomers are the way they are. They just want to be comfy, because they went through this same phase too.
>>34542129True but it feels like that simple life isn't achievable anymore. I left my desk job to work blue collar because I hated office bureaucracy and politicking but it seems worse here. It doesn't even seem like people want to slow down. Even people in their 40s and 50s are living this fast life now. And, not to sound like the younger Gen complaining about boomers, but the boomers helped invent this life. They didn't retire and kept working well past when they were supposed to. They also started this fast life in the 60s. I'd like to just live middle class with a family, wife and kids, but it seems like that world is long gone
>>34542202That world has not existed for a few generations now, but it is getting more frenzied. There are larger economic factors that are heading towards implosion and probably will tone things down a bit job wise, but no one knows when that will be. I sympathise with you and feel the same (I am a little older). I have only worked Office jobs, but there is politics and disunity/disorganisation everywhere. I think you will find this in every job, in every industry. I don't believe the working class jerk off people brag about online. My parents were trades people. It is and always has been harder and more stressful work, with more competitors and bad actors. The underlying problem to everything is economic. People are stressed because cost of living is high, jobs are few and most people and businesses are overleveraged and financed in a way that has not been sustainable for a very long time. The entire culture from consumer to large business is operating on the hopes of a winning big because that is how things have operated for a long time now, not long term sustainability. Anything that does have that focus is simply not competitive. You don't get rich by running a business turning a profit these days, you get rich by running a business that looks like it can capture market share, selling it, and then investing those funds into high yielding investments for compounding interests. You don't get rich by working consistently for 40 years and budgeting. You get rich by getting a net worth of 1.5-2 million as early as possible in life and having it compound. There is no other way ahead.I give these examples to point out that the underlying stress and fast paced culture we live all boils down to the financial environment we live in. I believe this will change in our lifetime. The gap between those with time in the market/assets and those without is growing worse every year and it's impossible to catch up if you don't have a head start now.
>>34542268The thing is I work in a field that isn't competitive. We all have stable jobs and income but they're just gossiping and forming cliques for fun. Yeah, hustle culture really helped make things worse and more fast paced. I don't know if it'll collapse because the barrier to entry is getting lower and lower. Evem people living on the streets have a smart phone.
What's your speed? What makes sense to you? I say there's no need to be in a hurry.
>>34541931normies in real life are saying things that 4 years ago would have made pol blush.
>>34543152Ideally something like Mayberrt. Realistically just the life my grandparents had. My grandfather worked the same job for like 25 to 30 years after the army in a factory not even ten minutes from hid house. Now that place is closed.
>>34541778https://youtu.be/lqZehFAwoTM?t=32It's over as soon as you turn 18 and leave the school system without a well established social circle. You go to work, but you won't make any friends, just coworkers. You join a sports club, same deal. It's over, because everyone already has their social circles locked in since childhood. You'll be nothing more than a coworker, destined to be alone for life. Social life and relationships are like trains you have to catch at the quay, a race against time that takes place during adolescence. And by extension, logically of course, no social life and no women.But normies don't understand this because they are clueless normies who think you can walk into a bar full of strangers and magically form a social life like in The Sims. Only women can start from scratch and create a social life and get a boyfriend from scratch because of their status as women.Whether you're 30 or 40 it doesn't change anything, maybe for the normies, but for you and me Chud, a year is like any other, the sands of time flowing towards nothingness, nothing more.. nothing less.
