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Fifth category: Everybody has forgotten about YOU, and you essentially no longer exist.

Bottom right

There's also the "still acting like they're 16 years old" and they're as bad if not worse than all the other cathegories

40s is the same, but one of them is dead

I'm number four. I mean, I was. Those people have probably all forgotten about me by now.

I beg to differ.

I'm absorbed mostly in work but also a little bit of 3, however the "something" is merely trying to stave off a heart attack and premature physical degradation in general, and not so much some grand lofty fitness goal.

And also 4. The amount of negativity that entered my brain through social media reached critical mass during the early stages of Covid and I axed pretty much all of it and never returned.

#4

you guys still got friends?

You know, for about a decade, everyone was pushed to share everything they did on social media. It was a mistake. It was a mistake on the scale of cigarettes and smoking inside and in airplanes and in hospitals and in schools. No one thought it was a stupid idea, and a lot of people pushed it as the only way to get jobs and show you're a clever chimp that can internet so hard because interneting hard was the cool new thing.

Lower right is the hangover from that. Anyone I didn't find or didn't find me between 2008 and 2018 wasn't ever worth connecting with. The people that did find me were nice to hear from once, and we haven't talked ever again, despite being connected, for 10+ years.

My grandparents and their parents, etc. went their whole lives never seeing people again and not knowing what happened to them because they moved one time and they didn't know their new address. Whole movies were about that. Elvis had a song about that. The last episode of the first season of The Real World ended with everyone moving out of the apartment, and once that landline and address no longer went to those people, it was 100% possible that those people would be gone from each others' lives forever.

Y'all, we're not supposed to collect and keep 27,000 casual contacts throughout our lives. It's unnatural. Our brains are not built for it. We're made to have a few dozen up to 100-ish close connections that mean something, including family you don't pick.

Email some old friends you don't text with daily. Send anyone you truly care about an email to say hi. If they respond, then great. If not, don't worry about it. Enjoy high fidelity communications with those who mater to you.

Option E: "Walking around in the woods"

It's kinda like washing reality off with the reality you can't have.

Have a few who check 3 of those boxes

Shit I am all of them.

Is there a 5th option for "life is already over"?

I am on the right side of this picture.

Bottom right for a few years now, but it really only applies if social media is the only way you can think of to get in contact.

Here I am going strong in the bottom right!

The disappeared ones. I'm one of those.

I'll tell you what we are up to. We are

Im checking three of the four quadrants. I work to much, I havea too many kids and I have dropped most of my social contacts intentionally. And im usually constantly angry i don't have the discipline to train consistently to stay fit. Currently I'm also not healthy enough to work out, waiting for a doctors appointment to hopefully fix that shit.

I'm the bottom right except no insta, no FB, etc. and only an email address.

I'm happily none of the above.

I wish I had arranged my finances better so I could live the dream of being bottom right in a nice very functional house in the forest, with enough self-reliance and supplies to last for months and months without poking my head out of my shell.

Disappeared can have a lot of dif meanings behind it these days.

A distinct lack of "drugs/degeneracy" category

The bottom 2 categories feel like a personal attack on me.

Looking forward to being on the bottom right.

At some when people get too busy to be concerned I'll delete my snap and insta leaving nothing behind. I just don't understand why people feel the need to share everything they're doing constantly or how they get upset if you don't have the energy to react to it all.