UrsusArctos wrote:and the "Scourging of the Shire" means that there's still a Wizard to deal with!

I know...

A little udapte to said I'm on Amino. The Evangelion amino, to be precise. Can I go to discord chat since it with my Amino account?

Line wrote:A little udapte to said I'm on Amino. The Evangelion amino, to be precise. Can I go to discord chat since it with my Amino account?

Yo!

Line wrote:Can I go to discord chat since it with my Amino account?

From what I can see, no. You need a new Discord account of your own. Feel free to sign up, though.

Ooo sadness. Ok, I do it later.

There is another fear of mine of not accomplishing anything important in my life as an adult.

prolly a necropost but my trick is just have an existential crisis everyday
so getting older is no scarier than the weird ass existentialist absurdist cluster fuck that is my mind on any given day

I've been geared more into health and fitness as I approach 30, I don't feel it's as big a deal as Millennials make it out, I feel like we've been infantilised, adulthood seems to be something we run away from...

I personally feel much happier as an adult than as a teenager. Childhood was fine for me but I always felt it was limiting. Even so I don't really think of myself as an adult before I was 23 or so. You say this about millennials and yet as someone in-between generations Zoomers seem far more absolutely terrified of it.

FelipeFritschF wrote:I personally feel much happier as an adult than as a teenager. Childhood was fine for me but I always felt it was limiting. Even so I don't really think of myself as an adult before I was 23 or so. You say this about millennials and yet as someone in-between generations Zoomers seem far more absolutely terrified of it.

I did not feel I had properly come into adulthood until maybe 25 - 27, but yes, being a teenager in retrospect, sucked, everything lacked clarity for me, nowadways I'm grateful I can appreciate the scope of these things and reality itself, nothing is more important than real life, being able to appreciate art for what it is and not what I expect it to be was one of those revelations for instance, a sort of total disdain for sabre rattling over "who is best girl" was another.

Right now I'm kind of at an interesting point in my life as less than a week from now I'm turning 18 and officially entering adulthood. It feels kind of like standing at the edge of a precipice. I'm not sure where I'll go or even what I want to do with my life at this point but I think it's important to remember that I have time and it's okay not to have everything figured out just yet. I think that we all have some level of awareness of inevitability of aging and turning certain ages often has the ability to make us reflect on our lives. I feel as though at this point in my life I've figured out who am as a person and have developed my own sense of identity and beliefs more than ever, but sometimes it's still hard dealing with feeling lost and without a way in the world. It's nice to know that I'm not alone though.

I'm 38 as of today, starting to close in on 40. At least at this point in my life I'm close to eliminating all of my debt. I've paid off my third car and my student loans, which had been a massive weight around my neck since I became an adult. All that's left is a couple thousand in medical bills (which I'll pay off within the next couple of months), and then I'll finally be able to focus on saving up for a small piece of land and a small prefabricated house. Hopefully within 5 years I'll finally have a place of my own that can't be pulled out from under me. After that my goal is to leave some sort of mark on history so that I will be remembered. It's nice to finally have a plan of action for the rest of my life. I suppose my end goal is to escape the US and find somewhere I can grow old and die in peace. After examining my homeland's trajectory over the past 20 years, I've realized I don't want to grow old here or die here.

Oh hey, I'm in my 30s now, almost 33. Crazy to realize that I joined this community 20 years ago. I should change my name to Sachi_33.

One thing I've realized being in my 30s is that everything they say about your 20s being a terrible roller coaster is true, the era of profound confusion as they say. But in your 30s things begin to click together in unique ways as the previous chaos and noise starts to make a little more sense, and you likewise begin to phase out the things in your life no that longer serve you and start really appreciating the things in life that you do cherish. Not to get too Hegelian, but it is almost reminiscent of the thesis/anti-thesis/synthesis model; your early youth and teenage years are when you develop a thesis on how to approach life, while your 20s and early adult years challenge your thesis in every way possible, but your 30s and beyond are when you have the opportunity to truly synthesize these models rather than rejecting one for the other. Let's just say I spent a lot of time beating myself up for some of the choices I felt I was forced to make in my 20s in order to survive, but as the world itself seems like it has also been falling apart over these several years, I began to recognize that the difficulties I was facing were not unique to my own situation, but were in fact the common material conditions everybody is facing right now and I need to adjust and adapt my own model accordingly.

My advice to others is to not let go of those childhood dreams, because we live in a world currently where so much seems to be going wrong. The so-called adults in the room are not better than you, and many of them are responsible for the current direction of things. It is up to you to forge your own path. Your drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens.

Sachi wrote:The so-called adults in the room are not better than you, and many of them are responsible for the current direction of things. It is up to you to forge your own path. Your drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens.

I hope you don't mind me piggy-backing off this (your whole post I definitely agree with though), your peers in your age-group are also going to make the exact opposite decisions and have the exact opposite beliefs as you from time to time but even when you fail or mess up, that doesn't necessarily make others *right*. Maybe that's my own personal prejudices getting in the way of seeing things more broadly, but as a millennial I tend to find myself at odds with almost all other millennials in terms of approaching life, morals, those kinds of things. Perhaps I've been burned too much but as I get older I start to realize I wasn't the only complete idiot in the room during my teens and twenties even if it felt like I was.

Damn bro, I am turning 38 this year and I have 2 kids. I don't know where the time went lol. Just enjoy the time that you have, enjoy what you can. The world has almost ended like 5 times in the last 10 years and it keeps on going. I am just glad to experience life. Bro I had Pho for the first time like 5 months ago and I cant get enough. lol. I got to watch all of the Game of Thrones, play Bioshock, Mass Effect, travel, raise humans. Get partially banned from this forum when I was 15 and return every 10 years to see whats going on. There is always going to be hard times man, I really never felt grown up, and I hope I never do. I've fallen in love and had my heart broken, and broken some hearts, regrets, but mostly good memories. Just keep on enjoying it. We are all getting old, we are all going to die, so make the most of it.