this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
1066 points (98.6% liked)

Comic Strips

18033 readers
1091 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] CorruptCheesecake@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I'm 28 and I feel ancient. I wish I could start over in life, but I can't. I wasted my teens/20s and now, right when the long painful shitty grind until death is about to start, I still don't have shit, have accomplished nothing, never traveled or dated or moved out or got a degree or hit any of the typical milestones and am an unlikeable, crazy, unemployable pathetic loser everyone's forgotten about. Being born as this specific idiot person that I am is the worst thing that has ever happened to me.

[–] HoopyFrood@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have stuff, a job, kids, a wife, and all that and i’m still a miserable loser. Enjoying life is a thing you have to chose to do in spite of your circumstances, rather than because of them.

For further reference, see Elon Musk: the dude literally has it all and i catch myself genuinely feeling sorry for how pathetic he is from time to time, that man couldn’t enjoy life even if he had literally everything

Dude has an unlimited supply of ketamine. He probably is actually enjoying life most of the time, unfortunately.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

You'll always feel old, and you'll always look back at yourself a decade prior and marvel at what a fool you were for feeling old back then when you were really so, so young. This is a universal experience.

I didn't really get going on anything until my mid 30s. I just cleaned floors and answered phones. Ended up meeting another late bloomer. We both graduated from mid college programs at the end of our 30s, and now we're both limping through our "careers" in our 40s.

Yeah it might have been better if we started earlier but we didn't. And I sure as fuck look back at myself at 30 thinking how even with 000 to show for it I was still young and full of future, even if I felt like an ancient loser.