Submitted 7 months ago by Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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I am actually ridiculously good at keeping myself entertained. I could stay in the basement forever…
I’m probably the opposite and I HATE it. I have virtually no free time. And once I finally get it I can’t decide what to do with it because I get bored of anything after ~30 mins. And yet it still feels like I don’t get enough free time, smh.
The list of things I’m going to finish would take me until the heat death of the universe. The last atomic fragments would be reaching homeostatic equilibrium, and I’ll be sitting on my phone checking to see how cheap I can order a replacement part for a broken PS2 so I can finally play Psychonauts the way it was meant to be played.
Feels relatable… too relatable.
It’s like Netflix. Overwhelmed by choice but yet not enough time to have a strong emotional connection to what it is you are doing.
So you just scroll.
I get it from a job that snipes me out of fun moments that’s 24/7 breathing down my back. Oh what you give up to stay alive.
But I also just do the fun stuff anyways. Or the stuff I said I would do. Because I agreed with myself to do it.
Better to have more time than less. I got maybe 10-15 left and interests just keep piling on
Yeah the older I get the more shit I want to do, there surely isn’t enough time for it all.
Oddly enough the older I get the more I feel like I’ve done it all.
I’m 36 years old. Society insists that by now I should be in the middle of a career. I’ve had three careers; I was let go as an auto mechanic during the 2008 recession, my job as a flight instructor ended due to problems internal to the company, let’s leave it at that, and the prototyping shop I was project manager of most recently folded during the pandemic. I’m loathe to start over again.
Society also insists that I should be a husband and father by now. I never wanted children, and both of my ex-fiancees are mostly why I am now a bachelor in my mid-30’s. I need an ex wife like I need a hole in my head and that’s all any attempt at starting a “family” would bring.
Meanwhile, I’ve driven across the United States from coast to coast, I’ve flown the length of the Appalachians solo, I’ve built houses, furniture, electronics, race cars, airplanes, all manner of ridiculous objects (I managed a prototyping shop, after all), I’ve played concerts, I have artwork hanging in a gallery, I’ve seen the aurora borealis, two solar eclipses, comet Hale Bopp and once with the help of an unnecessarily powerful and lightly loaded airplane, I took off at dusk and watched the sun rise in the west.
I survived two shootings, a riot, ten hurricanes, that goddamn tornado and a global pandemic.
And even among all that I still watched a lot of TV, saw a lot of movies and played a lot of video games. Accoutrements of old hobbies gather dust because I’ve…finished them.
So what now?
60 more years? What are you, 10? :-P
Unironically the aberrant lifespan for humans is just over 80 years.
So if you start working when you’re 15 and work until retirement age which in America is 66 you’ll have less than 20 years to just enjoy being alive.
And by then you’ll probably have some kind of condition that will make existing harder like back pain or arthritis or the myriad of other possible ailments.
We’re literally giving our prime to corporate overlords who use our work to live the life we should all have as a baseline.
You could get a fully work-from-home job, what ever that could be.
You could order your food delivered home.
You could buy a pullup bar or a bench and adjustable dumbbells and you could take care of your strength.
You could buy a treadmill or an indoor trainer and you could take care of your fitness.
I mean, if you really wanted to you could pretty much stay at home for a very long time.
I’m 45 and suffer crippling, life long mental illness. Eventually you get used to counting the days. It’s tiring but at least I don’t want to step in front of a train.
I have. Trains hurt anyways so be glad you don’t want to.
It could be worse. Think of spending your years on a futile effort, one which you sacrificed your youth and health to try to achieve, and having to look back on that.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Cheer up, maybe your shift will be over much sooner than that!
How nice it must be to have someone paying for all your food and shelter and survival. So you can just sit there and waste away. How nice for you. How’s that doing for your personal character development?
What are you? 14?
Go watch TV boomer. The adults are talking.
We have 2-10 years left before we all die due to climate change. If we look at someone’s age in relation to when they die, rather than when they were born, we are all about the same age. This is our retirement, our golden years. Good luck
I’m not gonna be dead in ten years. Climate change is real and a HUGE issue, but I don’t think we only have ten years left.
That’s your call to make. Go ahead and spend your remaining years how you want.
nytimes.com/…/james-hansen-global-warming-report.…
livescience.com/…/the-safe-threshold-for-global-w…
www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/…/z1304_00250.html
npr.org/…/climate-change-carbon-dioxide-emissions…
apnews.com/…/climate-change-finance-un-elections-…
And these are just the overall predictions. I don’t have enough time to link all of the climate disasters that have already happened. Pay attention, look outside. We will be lucky if we get 10 solid years.
It’s so crazy! Almost like when the majority of all energy created nationally is from renewables… the majority of hydrogen production (whose only byproduct is water) will also be from renewables…
Wrong post?
Lost lemmings?
Ghostmane was so much cooler in 1934. Time does a number.
stembolts@programming.dev 6 months ago
If everything is equally boring, go lift weights and force yourself to suffer. After the suffering, the world glows like a lightbulb because your body is so relieved the suffering is over.
Another boring activity, mental health diagnosis and treatment.
May as well right? Since everything is boring, you would have no preference for one task over another.
Unless shitpost means “I want to complain don’t help me,” in which case I will have to avoid this community in the future.
You’re young, try everything once. Sorry if I missed the joke, wish you the best.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Plus exercise is well mnown to increase dopamine in your system helping you feel good