Uwaaa, gimme back my childhood

[ThrillingHuman]

No, srsly, I wanna be a kid again. It feels like the longer I live, the less enjoyment I get out of life

 

[Erysion]

Now we know why Peter Pan kills the lost boys to keep them from aging.

 

[Kenjona]

Adulting sucks.

 

[Lloyd]

Just be more successful.

 

[RavenRunes]

You must be middle aged - it gets better, when you're properly old, you can thwack your walking cane in the spokes of little shits pulling wheelies on BMXs and make them break their faces all over the pavement. You can swear at kids and no-one has the guts to tell you not to. (stock answer when caught swearing at brats: What?! I learned the word from your spawn, you slatternly ho!)
I am soooo looking forward to it. Just another 25 years to go and vengeance is legit mine.

 

[owotrucked]

I'll give the exact opposite advice from Lloyd. If you stop trying to be successful, you'll be able to live and die in an enjoyable way, rather than bear with the misery merely to get a fleeting success just before it's your turn to be isekai'ed.

Anyway that's my feeling: I'd rather live a short unburdened life than a slow agonizing one. Go out with a bang, not with a whimper

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Nu. I want your adult shekels.

 

[NotaNuffian]

I don't want to regress to childhood cuz it sucks, I want free time and freer money.

"Money isn't omnipotent, but having no money makes you impotent."

"Problems that can be solved by money aren't problems, the main problem is having no money."

-Two very wise proverbs from my seniors.

My dream job as a child: Engineer, scientist and builder.

My dream job as an adult: Trust fund kid.

 

[Kenjona]

Childhood is wasted on children.

 

[KiraMinoru]

You must be middle aged - it gets better, when you're properly old, you can thwack your walking cane in the spokes of little shits pulling wheelies on BMXs and make them break their faces all over the pavement. You can swear at kids and no-one has the guts to tell you not to. (stock answer when caught swearing at brats: What?! I learned the word from your spawn, you slatternly ho!)
I am soooo looking forward to it. Just another 25 years to go and vengeance is legit mine.

The people who say retirement in old age are good times are absolutely full of shit, it’s just another lie adults tell young people to trick them into diligently working hard for society. The truth about old age is that’s when you’ve got all your health problems popping up after working your ass off for society and you can no longer do all the things you wanted to when you were young. Aching back, you get tired from barely doing anything, you’re slow can’t move like you used to, you begin to lose control of your bowel movements, you end up needing people to look after you, good chance you’ll end up getting diabetes or other shit, the list goes on and on.

I’m in the want to die by 40 camp. That’s around when shit starts to fall off hard.

 

[RavenRunes]

hah, who told you that was a given though? My grandma recently died at 99, one month 100. Until the last couple years when she got alzheimers, she was fit and healthy and deffo had all her marbles. Moderate exercise, didn't work (husband left her loaded when he died of cancer in his 70s), lived in nice quiet stress-less place with her own land. Good genes too, long-lived family in general.
Of course, that's not most people's reality - she was lucky. But I'm 44, ain't nothing fallen off me yet. I never do more than necessary to not get fired, never get sick, sleep well, eat what I like, walk/jog an average of 20 miles per week, insist on 'me' time, and do not give a shit about what people think.