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It's like essentially an objective fact of life(barring any unique health related circumstances that someone overcomes with time making things easier).
The gaps just become bigger.
A University student becomes overwhelmed with how much easier high school seems now.
A graduate becomes overwhelmed with how much easier and stress free school life was.
A 30 year old looks back on their 25 year old self and thinks they're so old now and had so many more options.
A 40 year old is going to look back on their 30 year old self and realize how relative 'old' is(even though it's treated as a binary).
And I've even had a friend who is literally 40 complain to me about it, and all I had to say to him is think about how this is going to sound when you look back on you saying this at 50. And at this point he immediately understood exactly what I meant, because he could remember thinking how old he was at 30(and I remember him saying it specifically, which is why I pointed it out to him but the conversation didn't even have to touch that point since it's just such an obvious fact of life).
His 30 year old self might not have fully comprehended it at the time. And he's doing pretty well by most metrics and living a good life, but self-pity never helps.
It just apparently just takes people different amounts of time to realize how much of a fundamental truth it is.
People get old, but it retrospect things always seem laughably easier. Because they are quite literally are easier in a physical and social sense.
I don't know if someone can really internalize that at a young age, but if they did it would likely benefit them quite a lot.
There's a reason people mock the 'Satou is literally me' posts. And they're not wrong.
