I'll never understand if I'm depressed or if it's just that being over 25 sucks. Everyone seems dead inside by 30, but they all pretend they're happy.
I've been going through the same. For me it's an element of disillusionment with the world. The veil has been peeled back and what's underneath is exceedingly ugly, superimposed on the beauty of nature. The juxtaposition of natural beauty and the awfulness of the human condition makes functioning difficult for those sensitive to destabilization. We're brought into this world, expected to take part in a clown show, and are gaslit when we question the tiny clown cars. It just sucks
>>84899427My life has only gotten worse as i've gotten older. so maybe.
>>84899427It could be both. You're depressed BECAUSE being over 25 sucks
>>84899427It's both depression and life over 25 sucks.
>>84901404It's age where you can no longer cope.
>>84899510yea same... it kept getting so bad i just started neeting because i realized i'm meant to be a loser
>>84899427Well yeah, 25 is around when your metabolism begins to slow down, as does your libido, and disillusionment sets in the closer you get to 30. Being over 35 is when you REALLY begin to notice, and even ED has a chance of kicking in.>t. 37
>>84901490I really can't maintain erections that well at 25. My health is detiroating.
>>84901490>>84901500jesus christ it ends that early? that's terrifying
>>84901534It doesn't end at exactly 25 but that's when you're really staring into the abyss.
>>84901500Whew, it's only just now kicking in for me. idk what to tell you man....ALTHOUGH, when I was 25, I began to take my health seriously. I started doing cardio, going on LONG distance bike rides, eating right, etc so I think that may have staved off the process for some time. I'm still running nearly every day now, but I feel more like I have post-nut clarity 24/7. I really can't even get aroused for days on end.
>>84901541I don't enjoy anything either. Always seem kind of" not there" in social interactions like what Roger said about syd. I think the heroic dose of psychedelics is the end for a lot of souls.https://youtu.be/0BcKrk5tFnE?is=0uKybfU2Z47yAskQ
>>84899427life over 25 is awesome, I have money, in the best shape of my life, just no bitches and no coochie and my prospects are hags, fat bitches, single mothers and BPD demons.
>>84901500That's because you watch too much porn and have death grip syndrome. Abstain for a week and you'll be good.Either that or you're fat as fuck and even God can't help you.
>>84901609People always talk about BPD bitches like they grow on trees. Where the fuck are you finding them? I need a crazy cunt to ruin my life.
>>84901627You can tell they all do their eye makeup the same way, target, gas stations near mental health facilities, therapists offices, weed dispensaries,
>>84901659>gas stations near mental health facilitiesLiterally where I work. I'll keep an eye out.
>>84901693Sexual assault allegation maxxing.
>>84901745Hey, at least I had sex!
>>84899427It's both, a war should've killed me by now
>>84901772Happens to all autists eventually But at least you had a good ride. Get it ride? Lol.
i don't get this. you can do whatever you want with the rest of your life. if everyone around you seems dead inside and it irks you, do something else. is this part of the whole locked into a "children, marriage, and mortgage by [x]" script? because i don't get that either, but that might be from having family that only lives to 100 and beyond.
>>84901812I agree to a point. But modern society incentivizes people to be wage slaves since western society is built on slavery. Breaking out of it is very difficult. Not impossible. But very likely not worth the effort when the odds of success are against you.
>>84901861i know. i think i'm more advocating for breaking out of societal mindsets altogether, but am aware that that goes against every single message given throughout our entire lives. i still worry in the back of my mind about being too old for children despite not wanting children. i guess it's more just thinking about yourself in comparison but only in the sense of your actual age. 25 is old to a 20 year old and ancient to a 12 year old, but it's the prime of your life to someone 45, a baby to a 60 year old, unfathomably long ago to 80s and beyond. i don't really worry about leaving any sort of lasting legacy or ties so that removes that worry from the equation. i think it's just a bit silly to start calling yourself decrepit when you're in your 20s. why let anyone younger than you make you feel bad about yourself? why anyone older, for that matter? who gives a shit what they think? it's your life.
>>84899427>>84899492Sometimes i feel like i'm moving at warp speed through life. I'll remember being 4-5 years old and how much everything has changed scares me. It's not that i want to regress to that age or am obsessed with nostalgia, it's more so that world feels so foreign. I would actually prefer to relive 21-28 if i had a choice. I'm 31 now, have some health issues i've been dealing with and realized how many opportunities i missed out on. If i felt better overall, i think i would feel more positive about the future. I'm nihilistic of an atheist, but i definitely think i lean towards being someone who thinks life sucks, but that's part of it. I feel i can't relate to people who are chronically happy and seem to always have good things going for them. The past few years have definitely killed a part of me.
>>84901897Gen Z is way more concerned with aging and Millennials are obsessed with age regression. The whole unc meme is kind of ridiculous, not because it's not true that you're not an adult, but that it's treated like being elderly. I also don't think it's normal for things to change so drastically over a short period of time. 27 years in the past wasn't enough time for as much change as happens now. In some ways it is, but not with technology. The way we define generations and obsess over what are "environment" was like, i.e. media and technology, is not normal. It's very recent. People in the 1700s probably didn't do this in the way we do. When i was a little kid Game Boy Color existed, but most preschoolers-kindergarteners weren't glued to a game boy. 10 or so years later ipad/iphone kids were just starting to be raised. The closest i got to playing around with a phone at that age was a fake plastic 90s cell phone. I'm 31.
>>84902007I have a theory that it's because they aren't allowed to experience youth. They're groomed to be addicted to their phones throughout school then forced to work shit jobs to just barely get by. They haven't been able to experience normal human life with other people. And they realize that and try to stay young so they can have those experiences they missed out on. But they don't even know what they've missed out on or how to get it.
>>84902007yeah, i agree with you. the rapidity of technological evolution and the constant churning out of media only exacerbates this problem. i'm not really sure why gen z is so focused on aging and even minor age differences between themselves. it's like they keep finding new ways that it's wrong to ostracize each other and just make up something new each time. in a sense it's natural because of how youth is treated by everyone in this extremely fetishistic, clearly a bit jealous and hostile, and transactional way so of course they're going to demarcate themselves with whatever boundary they can, and of course if they're getting shit on for being young they'll valorize it instead in basic rebellion. but this obession that 25 is the dead end and even earlier for some seems new. people have freaked out about turning 30 for a long while, but it seems like all of gen z is genuinely having quarter life crises. it's strange.i think it has something to do with the extensive age-gating measures put into place partially as a reaction to just how little protection there was for our generation (30) or prior. we went from an honor system of "click here if you're 18" that everyone knew everyone else abused to understanding why, exactly, that was fucking over legions of children in doing so, and in trying to have protection for them have instituted all this paranoia about anyone being even a year older than them. kicking them out logan's run or children of the corn style once they hit 24 or 25, and suddenly thrust into an entirely new bracket where, i guess, they don't quite feel like they belong yet. it doesn't help that the millennials aren't exactly handling their aging well or that everyone has been fed explicit generational warfare for over a decade now. that 25-35 bracket seems like people just disappear, i guess starting families. no wonder it's isolating. when i was in hs i was the weird one for being uncomfortable being around people +1/-1 years. now everyone is.
>>84902112that's a good theory. it does seem like you're right, and it doesn't help that they're given the same messages simultaneously by every authority figure to "enjoy your youth now, it only gets worse as it goes on/you'll regret it later" and yet also that they need to be grinding grinding grinding and always building, always focused, because one wrong step could send them careening off course. neither perspective is necessarily wrong (you should enjoy your youth and chronologically no you don't get it back lol, and you can fall "off course" very easily) but neglect to mention that life unfolds in ways you'll never expect or be able to plan for. the key is being able to adapt and improvise rather than rigidly plan, but obviously pure chaos will only cause more chaos and you need some sort of internal discipline. when you mix all of this with the resentment people even slightly older have at reminders of (what they perceive as) themselves being "replaced", or someone else having what they wish they still did/ever had and "squandering" it - which they pretty clearly express all the time, often mixed with pure lust - it's an absolute psychological meat grinder for anyone growing up at any point, but especially right now where everything is trying to make you feel like you're missing out as much as possible to sell you something. it's no wonder they're so anxious about it all. i don't care if they call me unc or post-wall because that's how kids always are, but i worry about the way they're tearing themselves apart and demoralizing each other over growing up in any way or even for still having the same core interests and personalities they once had.it's interesting. feminists have spoken about the exact phenomena men seem to be experiencing now regarding aging and looks for a long while, but they said it was exclusive to women. i never thought that was quite true, but it's pretty clear that the sheer intensity of what is going on with men right now IS new.
