>over halfway through 2025

>>212270575 (OP)
>January 2020 feels like last month
>Was actually over half a decade ago
>Closer to 2030 than we are to 2020

>>212270935
you aint heard nothing yet
>2012 was over 13 years ago
>2006 was 21 years ago
>lotr 1 was filmed 27 years ago (1999)
>the hobbit an unexpected journey (2011) was filmed 15 years ago, which was only 7 years after lotr rotk came out (2005)
>harry potter 1 (2001) is closer in time to JFKs assassination than it is to today

>>212270575 (OP)
>>212270935
Have sex, work out, eat good food, maintain good relations with family, pick up a hobby, go on two vacations a year, buy a house, get a promotion, complete a big personal project and the passing of time won't matter so much

>>212271054
I bought a house and now I am spending my excess money on tools and furniture and all the other little gay shit you need to keep a house in order and I haven’t been able to focus on anything for the last 3 months and I want to kill myself.

>>212271051
>2006 was 21 years ago

Unironically the biggest changes I've made to my life have been happening because I've turned to Jesus. Literally ask God to take away anything you don't want in your situation and he'll do it for you. I asked him to remove the desire for pornography and lust of the eyes from me. You know how Christians go around calling people brothers and sisters? It's literally like that for me now. Pornographic act is just, like...that's my brother and sister going at it. They're not supposed to be doing that but I'm definitely not supposed to be sitting there watching. I mean think about your biological brother and sister. You woudln't want to be anywhere near them if they were in the middle of sex. So why watch two complete strangers do it? It's senseless.

He re contextualizes a bunch of stuff immediately. Seriously. You can't do it alone. No one said you ever had to. Turn to the Lordl

>>212270575 (OP)
It's been a great year for me, best one in a decade desu

>moved out of parents home
>bought a car
>got a new higher paying job
>went on a 3 week vacation to vietnam/thailand where I fucked hostel whores and actual whores

Haven't been this hopeful for the future in years. Looking forward to what the rest of the year has to bring.

>>212270575 (OP)
Don't worry, 2024 can only get better or at least it can't get worse

>>212271296
Brb Im gonna goon to latinas dressed as nuns ripping huge farts in 4k now.

>>212271296
i cannot just convince myself to believe that shit, i unironically feel like im too smart

i got laid off at the beginning of june and i just drank every other day doing nothing else. i literally can't believe it's july already. i'm legitimately frightened how fast that i wasted that month.

>>212271054

start doing THIS

>>212271054
make me

>>212271403
I have been telling myself this since 2020 but I am completely out of copium at this point. Every day is painful and I feel like I’m trapped in hell.

>>212270575 (OP)
I’m seriously thinking about killing myself bros. I keep having dreams about my oneitis from college and then I wake up very depressed and full of regret about how my lack of confidence and self esteem issues back then prevented me from trying to pursue her despite the interest she showed in me. She used to sit down next to me before class and talk to me, she even asked me for a ride to her car one time when she could have walked. And I knew she liked me but I just convinced myself I was being delusional because I thought k was way uglier than I really was. I was so stupid. Funny thing is this only started Halle ing recently in the last year, but since turning 30 they’re happening so often and I’m just so depressed over it. I hate my life now and can’t get over my regrets. I’m thinking about just going to a shooting range and blow on my brains out. I hate my job, gf, wife, house, no friends, no close relationship with my family, no money to start over. It’s over for me bros. JDIMSA

>>212271587
You should try buying an old pickup truck and try to get into fishing. Feel sad? Just go fishing.

>>212271054
Don't listen to this guy it's a trick

last movie i enjoyed anything was Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
life is grim

>>212271111
Checked
Shouldn't your wife be doing all that?

>>212271648
I don’t like fishing. I don’t have any hobbies anymore and cant get into new ones.

>>212271699
I have 0 game and can’t into women so its over on that front before it even started.

>>212271051
>>harry potter 1 (2001) is closer in time to JFKs assassination than it is to today
Stop... Make it stop.

>turn 30 next year

>>212271701
It’s not about the fish. Its about going out into nature and just sitting there enjoying the very act of existing. When the sun hits your skin and the wind brushes your hair across your face you will feel better.
I always just let the fish go if I catch anything because they deserve better.

>>212271051
>>>harry potter 1 (2001) is closer in time to JFKs assassination than it is to today

>>212270575 (OP)
Time passes. People age. And each year seems shorter than the year before. It's important that life works this way, relative to each person. This is why we devote the early years of youngsters' lives to education. It's important that kids grow up with understanding and knowledge so when they get older, they feel the purpose to teach young people what they know. This is human.

>>212271839
I go out in nature all the time. We have mikes of trails where I take my dog for a walk and spend the entire time fantasizing about being in college again about my oneitis. Same when driving to work, showering, trying to go to sleep, I literally cannot stop fantasizing about her lol

>>212271839
You can do that without the pretense of fishing.

>>212270575 (OP)
I’m no longer really worried about aging and the passing of time anymore since I’m getting married in September. Apparently if you meet your life goals then aging doesn’t feel like failure and death

>>212271959
Jesus fuck you are unsalvageable.

>>212271967
Get back to us in a decade when you've grown bored of your nagging wife

>>212271964
PUT THE LURE IN THE POND

>>212271801
I'm turning 30 in 2 weeks. Genuinely suicidal

>still no car crash
>still not struck by lightning
fuck this shit

i want to die peacefully in my sleep please i'm so tired

it doesn't get better

>>212272141
Why anon? Shit happens man, you get older. As long as you got a job, got a place to live, and aren't a drug addict then you're doing better than most. You'll be okay

I turned 40 and I hate my job but it's not that bad. I can just make good food and jack off and go for walks. The neets were right all along.

>>212272353
I have a non-full time job, live with my mother and I'm alcoholic

>>212272212
Whenever I drive on the highway I feel a yearning for the oncoming semi trucks bumper.

>>212271054
>maintain good relations with family
I'm def pissing on my mother's grave.

>>212270575 (OP)
What the fuck, 2025 just started. I literally haven't done shit.

>>212272484
Watch Vanishing Point and get inspired.

>>212270575 (OP)
>We are now closer to 2050 than 2020

>>212271801
>>212272141
>>212272353
>>212272446
i'm turning 40 in march 2026... 9 months away

>>212271402
Same. I got my accounting degree and now feel a lot safer about my job opportunities. I also got some money from investments to live off of while I try and find a job.

>>212272571
Context?

>>212270575 (OP)
one of the worst years of my life. Thought I met someone new and they fucked me over like the last girl did. I thought for sure this time it would work and my life was moving forward

>>212271801
>>212272141
>>212272353
I turned 30 last year and from 2024- to now is the most pussy I have ever gotten. 19-22 year olds all want to talk to me now and before this I was an awkward autist, never had a relationship til like I was 26. It's not that bad man

>>212271801
Next month for me. I’m looking forward to it, I wasted my 20’s

>>212272621
i pay rent by working at walmart in my 40s, i live in a rented basement in a small town

>>212272542
Soon we'll send eager colonists to Mars... Where they will probably die pretty quickly.
>Be dead planet with no magnetic field around it.
>Humans show up to colonize
>Dig deep holes to hide from freezing temperatures, scarce oxygen, and the constant threat of solar flares
>mfw they should have known it was still impossible to live on me.

>>212272839
Any tips and tricks for fucking cunts as an "old" man? Have 'tism if that matters

>>212273003
A mars project would be a civilizational thing. No one currently alive would see a thriving Mars colony.

>>212272571
>>212272994
don't take pictures of your co-workers anon. it's VERY weird

>>212272542
there is no fucking way this is real..
.. is there?

>>212272994
You’re the type of person I envision when someone disagrees with my epic Television and Film takes. Thank you

>>212273070
these are well memed photos from /biz/ but i agree and i don't take photos of people without permission

>>212271296
good post than you. great way of looking at it

>>212270575 (OP)

I'm 40 this year... Mothuhfuckah...

>>212271051
>harry potter 1 (2001) is closer in time to JFKs assassination than it is to today
kek

>new young girl at work
>obviously repulsed by my existence
lol

>>212270575 (OP)
im gonna be 30 in less than six months

>>212273069
No, but we were born just at the right time to get to watch the fall of the western world… fuck.

>>212273012
Not him but get a basic wage slave job like at target walmart, fast food etc
It's like school, you're next to cute girls and forced to talk and stuff. You'll hit one of them eventually or at least you got girls to talk to to help you gain confidence.

>>212273069
Oh, that won't stop exploration... Lives are cheap, and filthy rich fucks will gamble on a chance to be in the history books.

>>212271701
You can, you just prefer wallowing in self-pity.

you go about in pity for yourself

>>212270575 (OP)
Going from 16 to 21 in 5 years is genuinely magical, fuck I love growing older and discovering new things about myself and meeting new people

>>212274064
:) nice

>>212270575 (OP)
>I will be 36 this year
>in 2035 I will be 46

>>212271051
>American education

>>212270575 (OP)
Time keeps on slipping slipping slipping... into the future!

>>212271111
>>212271728
Fellow housebro here.
Figuring out interior design as a single straight man is a massive challenge. I feel for you.

>>212273332
I get this alot too. Quite glad my job means I don't really have to work with anyone

>>212274064
Good. You're on the right track. By the time you get forty, it changes again. 20-35 are prime livin' years. But do yourself a favor and get at least a bachelor's degree and buy a home. If you don't, you'll get wrecked. I've seen it happen many times. I worked the best years of my life away. Now I'm middle-aged, but I got the education and own the home. Despite that, it's still not easy. Use your time wisely. The world has changed much in the last twenty five years.

>>212271054

>>212270575 (OP)
Reminder that we are now closer to 2050 than 2000....

>>212272353
I've still never had sex. I missed out on a key growing experience, got sticky passionate teenage love in the back of your car. I can never have that now.

>>212274428
Still don't have
>computer you can actually have a conversation with and it does everything for you
>flying cars
>jetpack
>robot girlfriends
>trivial space travel

>turn 30 this month

>>212274484
>>robot girlfriends
This one hurts the most

>>212274534
Based cancer bro

>>212274435
Not having sex dosen't matter. It's a big deal when you're young because you're exploding inside to get it. Past a certain age, it becomes a distraction and then a liability. How many happy married bros do know? I don't know any, and I have lots of friends and lots of cousins. They love their kids, but they hate being married.

>>212274292
I have gay brain so its fine but everything is so damn expensive and I CANT FIT ANYTHING IN MY TINY HATCHBACK

>>212274484
We do have looots of diversity and inclusivity thoughbeit

>>212274636
I stopped caring about the actual act around age 25. The crying myself to sleep stuff ended. That doesn't mean I'm not sad for throwing away a decade+ of my life

>>212274705
Yes I love this vibrant culture!

>>212270575 (OP)
>still unemployed
i want to end it fr

>>212274736
If you spent those years learning skills, teaching yourself, and reading, then it certainly wasn't wasted.

>>212274897
it's all pointless. shits all rigged anyway

>>212271402
Omg sex and money! Your life is complete!

Pathetic.

>27
>bachelors degree as an engineer
>bought a home earlier this year
>mortgage is fine and manageable
>i have a lovely little garden and a neat patio
>bought a newer car (still 10 years old but eh) with low mileage and it costs me $300 per month on the loan
>planning to start my own company and sell a product on the side while working my regular job so I can put the money I earn into stocks so I can actually retire someday
>still a depressed wreck of a human

Wtf does any of this mean when no matter what I do I feel like shit and have no hope for the future?
I am actively working towards leaving my country because I do not see any possible future where this place doesn’t collapse in my lifetime.

>>212274180
It's all downhill after this. By that I mean your body starts heading downhill and you need to try that much harder to keep it healthy

>>212272353
I'm a recovering addict who blew up my 20s and just became a lawyer at 33 now i get to wage slave again woo... sometimes I think i should have kept taking benzos and smoking Crack

>Turning 37 in 2 weeks
Meh, at least I'm back in college again because my body went to shit. On the plus side i got 90% VA disability this spring because of it and might get that 100% soon once my claims are processed. It's never too late to change things up i guess.

>>212273455
We are cursed to live in interesting times

>>212275108
I'm doing gym to maintain some level of fitness, but I dont eat very well. My joints feel fucked already and I'm tired all the time. Crazy that they expect me to work till 67 to start receiving a pension.

>>212275148
I earn double the money I did 3 years ago. I sometimes think how do people on minimum wage get by. But I was getting by fine, I just had completely different expectations.

>>212274897
lol

>>212274380
i keep hearing that after 40 you have more clarity and enjoy life more because you know what you like and don't like better, is that true?

>>212276346

No, you're just as miserable and confused as you were when you were in your 20s, only now you have to worry about erectile dysfunction and heart attacks.

so life is basically 20ish years of enjoyment and happiness (actually, it's more like 10, since you're not even really fully self-aware until you become a pre teen) followed by 50-60 years of misery? is that it?

so you have fun in elementary, high school and college but once you enter the workforce your life is nothing but misery and loneliness?

>>212276490
Not if you’re smart and save and invest in good stocks or crypto. Then you can retire at 35-45 instead. Or just save up and move to Mexico for 5X as long as you could live in America.

>>212276626
>smart
>retire at 35-45
You're relying entirely on luck in that instance.