How did you get over wasting most of your youth?

>>81576102 (OP)
I spent ages 14-25 alternating between full-time work and university studies. Everything before that is largely irrelevant to anyone who isn't a psychologist. If you had the chance to "waste your youth" then you were clearly born into an extremely privileged lifestyle to begin with. I work and gain education because the alternative is literally death.

>>81576102 (OP)
By realizing everything I did was because I wanted to. Thinking back I genuinely didnt have a desire to fit in or participate in normalfag activities, I just wanted to play vidya. If I genuinely wanted to do something useful with my youth, I would have.

>>81576102 (OP)
Had a big come-back in my late 20s - started dating in my mid-25s, all types of girls, then lost my virginity at 26, had a serious gf for 2 years, regular sex, now after breakup have a FWB and loving single life at 28
IMO most men don't truly start their adult life until late 20s, before that is just extended teens. I was a fucking loser weeb NEET for most of my life until mid-late 20s when I became a decent man, got a job, got money, got my own apartment, got pussy, etc.

by not wasting my youth

>>81576146
Woah everyone!
Look at this guy!

>>81576156
hi! thank you! it's great to be here!

>>81576102 (OP)
I was given a personal laptop in grade 6 and never had any responsibilities or curfew. I spent the majority of my life online. Every summer vacation was spent rotting away on whatever random sites I could find. The internet was my everything.

I'm 30 now and regret it deeply. I hate the internet and how I was raised. I feel terrible about how common it is to raise kids like this nowadays.

When I get pregnant (hopefully soon) and have a kid. I'm not giving them a phone or a tablet till they are much older. I'm gonna go camping with them constantly and try to get them into productive and mentally healthy hobbies. I want them to achieve dopamine by bettering themselves and being in nature, not by posting for strangers for social media clout.

>>81576124
It sounds like you still got more out of most of those ages than me then.
>>81576136
>I genuinely didnt have a desire to fit in or participate in normalfag activities
I feel the same for the most part. I never cared about parties or really having friends or using social media. But I still wasted the time by not doing the stuff I wanted to be doing.
>>81576137
What did you do to change?
>>81576247
How do you plan on finding a man?
It sounds like you did at least do stuff you enjoyed for the most part.

I spent all my teenage years playing vidya, watching anime and jerking off. I wouldn't change a thing.

>>81576102 (OP)
By spending my 30s working relentlessly in all aspects of my life to improve myself. I'm barely three years in and already doing so well. I'm gonna make it.

>>81576469
>How do you plan on finding a man?
By being a female. It's really that easy.

I already have a man. Just waiting to be more financially stable before having a kid. Though I don't know if that's possible with living in India I mean Ontario

>>81576102 (OP)
Robots are going to hate this viewpoint but..

I wasted my academic potential to be a "social butterfly" (parents and grandparents used to say this lol).
I was popular and partied and did all that stupid movie shit and now I'm a fucking burnout acoholic loser schizoid with no real career prospects because I dropped out of college after two years since I partied and sold drugs instead of going to class.

I didn't "waste" my childhood in the sense you people typically think of and it resulted in my adulthood being meaningless. No amount of young pussy or chasing stacies was worth this,
I wish I just asked out a shy mid girl in high school, married her, then became career focused.
maybe there's still time...

>>81576490
>By being a female
No offense but it really does seem like you live on easymode there. Like it's much harder for a man that messed up to find love since you have different expectations than it is a woman.
Almost no men care that you don't have a proper job by age 30 or don't have great social skills or a well built body compared to what women think about men.
How did you find your man anyway?

>>81576102 (OP)
I miraculously got a qt gf almost 10 years younger than me when I was about to get wizard powers, who fucked my brains out for years and made it her mission to make up for the time I lost (she knew I was a khhv before her). So I got to experience love, intimacy, sex, live out some of my fetishes and kinks with her, coming home to an apartment filled with the smell of delicious food my lover cooked for me, cuddling in bed for a whole day, etc. If not for her I would likely have killed myself either directly or slowly through substance abuse. We are not together anymore for several reasons but she patched up my soul well enough to give me the willpower to live the rest of my life.

>>81576514
You are 100% correct. Men absolutely have it harder and anyone that says otherwise are rather delusional or lying.

Loneliness is very soul crushing and I feel horrible for how many men have to deal with it. If they complain about it then they get called a pussy, if they are frustrated and lash out then they're an incel. It's rough and I legitimately wish everyone the best in life. Everyone deserves a cozy and healthy relationship.

>How did you find your man anyway
Sounds silly but highschool anime club. I thought I was lesbian during the time so I turned him down when he asked me. But years later when I realized I was a heterosexual warrior I asked him out.

>>81576102 (OP)
i am wasting it right now and im well aware of it

>>81576862
This is the absloute worst. Staying in this prison, fully aware I'm wasting my time and yet being too weak to escape the situation, or straight up not being able to.

>>81577000
i would say something encouraging but at this point i feel like it's already over

I should have never been born to begin with. I was destined to die young. You cant waste something that was never meant to be in the first place. The fact I had any time here at all is a fluke.

>>81577607
I feel like this sometimes too desu

I listen to smokedope2016

>>81576102 (OP)
I wasted it by not working.

>>81576102 (OP)
I just let things go.