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>>10997289
is this a photoshop? genuinely asking

27 year old soon-to-be boomer here, and although I'm very successful, I've been struggling with this age range a lot. It seems the most painful thing missing is that dreamlike outlook on what the future might hold that I had in my teenage years to about 23 or 24. Things were really intense then. It's also difficult to realize that most of your old friendships fade away as others experience the same things, the same changes. To me it feels like a collective emotional isolation of people who grew up together, most of them suffering and toiling (or not) everyday hoping things will one day feel like they did before, or at least get better.

I've come to the conclusion that this stage of life (25-30) is a unique and difficult transition period unlike any of the previous ones. It's well known that men age like fine wine, and you can very well continue improving, but only if you take it by the reins forthrightly. Adopting a permanent negative attitude during this stage is death, because this is a critical stage in your life, perhaps the most critical. You have to make the decision on how the rest of your life will play out now, because this is likely the turning point. I write this as I am struggling with a very difficult health issue that will take the most willpower I've ever had to exert to overcome.

This is it, this is all you have, and it's time for you to make a decision on how the rest of your life will play out.

An old quote from Seneca has been on my mind a lot lately: "We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."