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How does /biz/ deal with growing old?

I and my friends didn't have much money, but we had plenty of time. Time to ride around in an old car doing burnouts, playing video games and other dumb shit. Time to crash parties. Time to get involved in some light debauchery. Time to rail against authority when it came down on you after you flex a little freedom.

It felt like it would never end. We were always bored and waiting. Waiting to go to college, waiting to be un-grounded, waiting for that stupid class to end. Waiting for total freedom.

We had so much time, and we were always waiting, feeling like we're on the cusp of something else. Something bigger, something better, something different. The problem is that freedom comes so slowly that you don't realize when you finally have it, you've dumped responsibilities into the mix. These days you have no time, and you don't spend any time waiting. Everything must happen now. Now you have to get up for work at a shitty career you never thought you'd end up in to support the family you never thought you'd have with what sounds like more money than you ever thought you'd earn, but it is all spent so damn quickly.

You sit back and wonder where it all went. What changed? What happened? One day you were bored and restless waiting on the cusp of something else. Something big.

The millstone around your neck grows so slowly you never notice it until it's unbearable.
All that remains is angst, despair and memories that remind you of a simpler time long gone. You wish for it to come back and wish for it all to be like it was but with each passing year you become more jaded until even those memories are taken away from you.


Thread theme: https://youtu.be/U4ZPHtzmvCE

>> No.9936093

Getting older is hell on earth and anyone saying otherwise is just coping. Anyone with a brain would want to be 19 forever.

>> No.9936118

>>9936048
>Waiting for total freedom.
99.9% of men will never experience this. Total freedom comes with financial independence. Most of your friends unfortunately will not be able to join you.

>> No.9936180

>>9936093
>>9936093
Bullshit
Op is just a faggot who has wasted his life smoking weed, partying with bunch of other retards and playing vidyas. Thats not a life. Thats being regular pajeet. Like other 200 bilions ppl before u. Noone gives a fuck about ur life passing away. Lolz
If u have any sense of life and any need of self-development u will enjoy every step of ur life. Its called stages.

>> No.9936250

>>9936180
I actually have a career and a wife. If you don't have nostalgia for the past and don't feel any anxiety about being closer to death every passing year there might be something wrong with you. Or maybe you haven't thought about it much. This is why people are religious, because this ife is inherently based on suffering nad saddness because of our mortality.

It's hard to deal with.

https://youtu.be/PaZ1EmPOE_k

>> No.9936252

>>9936180
#YOLO, amirite? Seriously though, I hope you get hit by a bus.

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9936296

You can never go back

>> No.9936319

Honestly, you're doing it wrong. Things should get better every year. Otherwise you need to reevaluate your life and path. Also, you can fuck college girls well into your 30s, so stop crying.

>> No.9936323

>>9936250
Lol, again having a wife put u nowhere else than other 200blna of people.
Career? In last sentence u said that it was a shit career. Did u bring any change to the world? To the place u live in? Or u just bought tv, a new car and went on holidays were all ur so called friends were going? For example i was doin a volunteer work. Ive teached a totaly fucked up kid how to add and multiply. Her father run away, mother was semi-alcoholic, she was in 4th grade and count count to ten. For me it was small victory. There were others.

Yes we will die. Keep on doing things because time will pass despite the fact u stopped.
If u dont change other peoples life in a good way u r just a organic matter that fertilize human civilisation. Lol

>> No.9936344

>>9936252
Fuck of pajjet, ive YOLOed all around the fuckin world. And im still fuckin alive lol

>> No.9936376

I have a career, a wife, and kids now. It sucks to look back on your youth and think "fuck, I wish I was still like that," but then I see the friends and acquaintances I grew up with who've stayed at the party too long and it's pathetic. You know what's sadder than being a boomer wage cuck? Being a 40 year old NEET trying to live like a teen. They've accomplished nothing with their lives and they are depressed as fuck and isolated because of it. You're not meant to be 19 forever, not meant to just play video games and fuck around pointlessly, but remember that you also don't have to be boring and miserable just because you're an adult with good things your life.

>> No.9936536

>>9936048
I am happy and I will die happy. I made peace with everything, and I have accepted that you can't control life. I learned to enjoy randomness and adventure, I learned to think outside the box and stop trying to fit in by locking myself in a lifestyle that is going to make me miserable. I have decided to do what I want, at any time, anywhere, anyhow. And it doesn't mean living a hedonistic lifestyle, because when you are subject to metaphysical desires, you are not free. With this state of mind, growing old doesn't scare me, 'now' is as much better and unpredictable than 'tomorrow' will be, I'll just have different goals in mind, different views on things, whatever. I have to admit that money allowed me to get some eagle view on life, to take things with more hindsight, but this state of mind can be achieved without too much, as long as you are not stuck in misery and toxic desires.

I don't know what to say, OP. I feel like the question of 'how do you deal with time' shouldn't even be asked. Look at you, you are still waiting, you are waiting for simpler times to come back. If when you were a kid you where waiting for the future, and now you are mourning your past, it's because your don't live the present enough

>> No.9936742

>>9936048
I haven't been bored ONCE in my life.
Tired yes, but bored? Never.

>> No.9936787

>>9936323
>He doesn't realize his version of significance is someone else's version of insignificance, and the reality is none of it is significant
Only stupid people can be happy because only stupid people don't realize how actually meaningless everything we all do is. OP is right, better to enjoy whatever this existence is to the fullest, it doesn't matter how... why the fuck did we as a species create this living hell for ourselves?

>> No.9936795

>>9936536
this is correct

I'm happier than ever and my life is full of meaning at 31. Turns out doing what everyone know they should be doing is the right thing to do. newsflash

>> No.9936813

>>9936093

>mfw I realized that there's nothing good about getting older, eventually you just get sick and then you die.

>> No.9936872

The worst part is the responsibilities everyone takes on. It forces them to move, to work long hours, to stop replying to their friends.

The best things in life are driven by being free, spontaneous decisions with no negative consequences or feelings. No anxiety, nothing really matters.

You can't just go round your friends on a Tuesday and stay up till the early hours eating rubbish watching TV and playing vidya. Work drains the soul and kills enjoyment.

>> No.9936922

>>9936048
Good question that we all have to come to terms with. I just try to better myself, whether physically or mentally. The harder part is when it really starts showing in your face. Wrinkles, bags, tired eyes, thinning hair. Young hot cashiers referring to you as ‘sir’ and give you the boring small talk you’d give to 40/50 year old women when you had that job. Nothing is forever my man, I had a whole year to be 19 and I lived it well. Now im 30 and I know I only have one whole year at this age, so I’ll live it how I feel. Just work on building up you, work today to make life easier for future you.

>> No.9936973

>>9936250

>Career
>Wife

That’s your problem dumb nigger. I had a shitty youth working two jobs with parents constantly fighting and then I failed college and became addicted to drugs. Now I’m 32 y.o, got a few million, literally never felt happier kek. This was advice my dad once told me: everyone is attractive, everyone is fun, and everyone is somewhat interesting when they’re young because being young is like having a credit card. Then you become older and realise you aren’t very good looking or funny or interesting, but when you were young no one noticed so your mind tells you things were better then. But it’s just the varnish wearing off. Now the real wood is showing lol. I will admit I’d rather have stayed 26 forever, but honestly I’d never want to go back to being 18, except to relive banging some virgins. That was gud. Most of it is just nostalgia though.

>> No.9937000

>>9936048
You should unironically talk to a therapist and/or psychiatrist.

>> No.9937010

>>9936973
That’s some damn good advice from your father, so true. You sound like me except instead of a few million I have a few ten-thousands

>> No.9937334

I don't know, you accept you're probably not going to get young. The gang I thought I would miss the most turned on me long ago. But the senpai is everything I wanted to have since forever and I don't think we're lacking and being duty bound to them is the closest to free I've ever felt. I basically saved for them and the spending is very much controlled. You can do childish things with children and watch your chinese cartoons and then do adult things with adults. And if you miss being car races at midnight I don't know, play some videogames.

>> No.9937442

>>9936180
>weed
>alcohol
>video games
>rebelling against authority

I don't you ever met a pajeet before.

>> No.9937488

I have kids and wouldnt change it for the world. I still have my freedom and go away whenever i want but i dont overdo it. Youve got to do everything in life not stick to some predefined choice. You can be the family man and you can be the rich player on tour at the same time. Just dont take advantage of people you care about

>> No.9937531

>>9937442
Actually ive travelled across india for 3 months, and they were at least fighting. Western people r fat lazy fucks.

>> No.9937612

>>9936787
Actually not.
If u consider that big bang has happend we might have only two options two met the creators; travell to place where it has happend or travell beyond what is happening right now (place where world still doesnt exist - if u break light speed we might see in the moving light (light of BB) what has been before us - everything u see is a propagatin light) any path we take we must proceee as a civilization, maeby as a genetically modified humans or AI, as an digital nomands living in a bionic body. No matter where we go, we have to make a change from the current state. Enthropy theory.
https://youtu.be/msIjWthwWwI
World does not give a fuck about ur putty career, ur fat wife, and moronic kids until u do something that matters. Moving numbers in excel some shitty company doesnt count.

>> No.9937859

>>9936048
Sounds like you got sucked into normie life. I know the feels. All my friends are boring as fuck these days. I can barely hang out with my best friends for an hour before a wife calls and yanks the leash. In that hour span, they just whine about everything their wife won't let them do until she inevitably calls and they panic and sprint back to her. It's why I'll never get married.

>> No.9938288

on one hand i despise you normalshits and your desire to invade every space
on the other hand it makes me happy to see you suffer
the just world fallacy actually isn't a fallacy, it's just that terrible people don't want to accept they're terrible people

>> No.9938367

>>9936787
Everything is meaningless(without God), however why would that worry you? Since you cannot change that in any way, worrying about it makes no sense.

>> No.9938375

>>9937612
Are you as dumb in real life as you appear to be from your posts? Asking for a friend.

>> No.9938397

>>9936319
This. Just be happy you're not a woman their value starts dropping off a cliff starting from 25. As a man you can keep living a college-esque lifestyle until you're like 40 provided you have money and take care of yourself physically
>t young looking 32 year old boomer that still parties and has lots of casual sex

>> No.9938552

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnxf4nPwgIo

This got dark soon, but nothing is forever anon
so enjoy "for a bit" , all and everything you can

>> No.9938663

>didn't get married
>didn't get locked into a career
>self-employed, work when i want to
>constantly going on trips and seeing the world, meeting cool people
>always making music and playing shows with my friends in the local music scene
>much younger gf
>will never get married just rotate young women
>will be rich from crypto in a couple years

you just did it wrong OP. you fell for a societal meme and now you're trapped looking back at the energy and hunger that you should have preserved and nurtured and improved upon at all costs. i'd kill myself if i had to go back to 19. those weren't good times. these are the good times, right fucking now. i reached the freedom i was waiting for, i went out and got the life i wanted to live when i was freaking out every day in college like a faggot and dreaming about the future. and it's only going to get better from here.

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>>9936048
seeing my oponents crash and burn, seeing roasties hit the wall and die in misery. all while i'm scaling new heights with more confidence and resolve than ever, having been there done that. can't lie it feels good. if you still crave parties and sex after you're 25-30+, you're bottom line retarded, i was already bored of it at 16. there are better things in life

>> No.9938764

>>9938663

And then you’ll hit 55

>> No.9938770

>>9937612
HAHAHAHHAHAHAH

>he fell for the big bang meme
>he probably believes in evolution too!

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9938808

It's going to be okay anon.

>> No.9938865

>>9936048
Man that Code Veronica save room theme hits me right in the feels, I used to put down the controller and listen to it for hours at end, it made me feel secure somehow. Listening to it again I realize how simple times were back then, nostalgia is a weird thing

>> No.9938884

>>9936048
Obsession over youth and the accompanying lack of responsibility has been observed most in civilizations who have had it too easy and are about to get dethroned by the sizzling drive and want of the never-had-it masses.
The west is dead. Long live whoever comes next.

>> No.9938900

>>9938764
you have to make sacrifices and be realistic. you can't have it all. either you travel the world and live it up or you raise a family, which would be nice in a vacuum but it's not worth the risk and stress and sacrifice. maybe i'll have a different perspective when i hit my late 30s but right now i pity my buddies having kids and falling off the face of the earth in their late 20s and early 30s after just getting out of grad school. it's like they'll never have the pure freedom of doing whatever the fuck they want. they don't seem happy or satisfied with life. they seem like they're simply getting by.

i've actually thought about having kids and raising them on my own without a wife. i don't think that's fair to the kids though. i just don't see any traditional women anymore. they're either instagram thots or feminist cunts. it's not a meme either, there are no good girls left in the west, a least not where i live.

>> No.9938964

>>9938900
Same. I always thought by the time I hit 30 I would be content getting married, having kids, living in the suburbs and working until I die supporting them. Nope. I would rather hang myself right now than live that life.

>> No.9938987

sounds like brainlet projection you faggot

hurr durr me friends ride bikes but now we're not good enough friend because me wife and her kids

>> No.9939180

>>9936048
that song is amazing

nostalgia inducing

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>That 23+ year old boomer who still listens to Skrillex and reminiscent about call of duty and halo 3