My childhood was filled with proverbial dodging bullets and land mines. My adult life is a lot more chill because I have chosen to remove the drama that caused my childhood from my life.
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2026
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This one really resonates with me.
In my 20's I was just some guy working in a factory.
In my 30's I learned about CNC lasers and CAD and got to do cool things. Now im 40-something and I get to do and see cool things, and even design cool things.
It's amazing what can happen when you finally stop looking at everything like a teenager.
If only. I feel better than ever but it seems like my fortune is just shit and I'm entering a severe depression that leaves me angry and unable to enjoy life.
wait until you see what 40 feels like..
Pretty great so far, honestly
I really relate to this comic. I didn't like being a child that much, and I feel alienated a lot on the internet by people constantly wishing they could go back to having no responsibilities. I really, really like being able to control my own destiny and decide what I wanna do, even though it comes with increased pressures and responsibilities.
Being an adult is awesome. I get to have a motorcycle, my own cat, I can build whatever I want, I can have chickens if I want, and I have a really cute wife. What could I do as a kid? Go to school? Live with my parents? Hang out with people who had the minds of children? Boooring.
Hell yes to this. Childhood, Highschool, and even in to college were some of the worst years of my life. I never want to repeat them. Sometimes I fantasize about what it would have been like to be "normal", but I love who I am now and l do not want to give that up or go back.
You π€ me
Anyone who yearns for their life as child has developmental issues. I'm not trying to say that as a sick burn, I think it's honestly sad and source of suffering for some people.
One of the moat depressing things I used to hear as a kid was how this was the best part of my life and I should enjoy it.
I literally found my purpose in my 30s. Nothing was meaningful nor worthwhile in my 20s
it took me about two years to truly realize i was in my 30s (I'm a bit stupid) but once that happened a massive weight lifted from my shoulders. i suddenly realized, wait, I'm a grown-ass man, i don't have to deal with this bullshit. i became more confident, took no shit from people and stopped dealing with teenage drama. yes about 10 years too late but that's when i realized some of the shit i used to entertain didn't even matter.
Nah man, this is literally how it works. You ever notice how alot of folks who have kids or married someone they shouldn't have super young feel like they never got out of their 20s? They never had the time to understand their own nature or the nature of the culture around them.
That social anxiety, the assumed judgment, the paranoia that everyone's looking for a moment of weakness to exploit... Ya know, the feeling of being an adult who still feels like a teenager.
Your 30s are where you lose that, or at least I feel like you should. Early, mid, late, whenever. It's just important that you do
Age 10-20 was miserable. Hormones. Parents. Bullies in high school. Difficult to find work. College struggle and debt.
Age 20-30 was better but still shit. Welfare. Homelessness. Police harassment. Juggling three jobs to pay rent.
Age 30-40 was so much better. Life was in order. Wife and I both leveled up our education and got a career. Traveled for the first time (Hawaii then Japan). Had kids.
Age 40 - life is getting better. Feels like the best days still happening.
I'm 35. Still waiting for life to stop being miserable. No hope in sight.
i had so much hope in my 20s. now in my 30s it's gone
Yeah dunno what these guys are talking about. I think I got depression, not that one like people imagine, but real constant struggle to do anything.
samezies
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Midtwenties and it feels over in a lot of ways. The majority of friends I've made growing up or in college are gone. People have spread out and started focusing on their own lives. Even people that I only ever knew online have began moving on.
In a lot of ways this has been fine because I've just turned inward and started focusing on myself too, started being selfish about what I want. I miss seeing a lot of my friends in person rather than random texts or seeing their stories on snap.
It's very confusing at times because I enjoy being able to do whatever I want when I want without consulting anyone but I also miss having people to do things with.
Something I really cherish is a scheduled phone call with two of my college buddies, themed on a movie or TV show we agree to watch that week.
One of us just abruptly made a group chat and asked if we'd be down, and we've been doing it for years now, I highly reccomend!
Let people go. You cant hold onto them forever, even in the best of cases. I have people who i consider my best friends that I haven't seen in years. Maybe never again.
The river of life has many branches, we just floated down different ones. Dont take it personally.
I've let go of them but the issue is finding new people to replace them.
Accept lamer people like work colleagues and such.
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I'm 40. I feel like my life is over. My career was destroyed by Trump and all this AI bullshit. I fear becoming an old man and not being able to afford basic life essentials.
Maybe start fighting back?
Or, you know, sit there and get old and take it like a coward
Or, more likely, keep pretending that youβre not still WAY too comfortable to do fuck all
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There's still pleanty of fun and meaningful things I can do in my 30s
20s-30s: Time & energy, but no money.
60s-70s: Money & time, but no energy.
40-50s: Not enough of any of them.
Very little of my life was worth living until I was in my 30s. It was specifically due to changing societal attitudes towards homosexuality that allowed me to finally live in peace.
Glad to know she's still active. I miss her in webtoons
This is how it was for me. No societal expectation to care about things anymore. Donβt wanna go somewhere? Say you donβt feel like it or that youβre tired and boom, done. Nobody looks twice at you, which I suppose could feel devastating for some. For me it felt liberating.
ITT: a bunch of βmiserableβ people who are way too comfortable and happy with their lives to fight back against what they claim is making them so (performatively) βmiserableβ
My bet on why people don't identify with that anymore is shifting social expectations and economy leading to having kids way later than in their day.
Which... I love my kids, wouldn't trade 'em for anything. But they can definitely make you feel old both by just watching them age and the extra responsibility reducing the freedom/spontaneity you might have had more of earlier in your youth. If you had kids in your early 20s, this starts earlier. If you don't start until your 30s, you're probably already starting to settle a bit anyway just from being more established in a career and such.
I'd also be curious to know rates of messing around with harder drugs and drinking and such. My sense is those have gone down, and that kind of thing can be hard on your body.
Just spit balling here.
I like to think I did my 20s right, if that means anything. Partied often, built my career, worked on my established, longstanding friendships. I lived a bit wildly, but I also think that I gradually wound those things down. I have been in my career since I was 20, but in my mid-20s, my friends would show up to my jobs at night, I'd change out of my suit in the bathroom, and we'd all take a train into Manhattan, on a Tuesday or Wednesday. It's something I couldn't even consider. Our nights started at 1030, 11. Now, that's essentially when they end for me.
I'm now in as late as your 30s get, have kids, and that lifestyle is a very distant past, which I'm happy about. I have friends who still like to live it, and that's cool. I'll hang out with them, but I also have no problem tapping out early, and they also don't care that I do. We're all past the point of "uno mas," which is funny because it's been the name of our group chat for the past 15 years, and it's okay. I had fun, it's no longer what I want to do for fun, and that's cool with me and everyone.
It's nice to all grow to a point where peer pressure has seemed to finally met it's demise, although I do always say peer pressure is a great motivator of youth, and I wouldn't change my youth for a second, because my present is great.
My 30s might have been more awesome if I hadn't reset my life/career every 4-5 years. I'd have been super bored and miserable in a different way if I'd stayed the course, but I'd have more money to waste on synthesizers in my big empty house, I guess.
My egg cracked a few weeks after I turned 29. My 30s are gonna be an interesting time for sure, but I can actually imagine a future for myself now!
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