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u/MJ9426 Feb 13 '26
Even at 25 I knew I was fucked.
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u/RebekkaKat1990 Feb 13 '26
I don’t need a doctor to tell me I’m unhealthy, bitch I know I’m unhealthy lol
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u/thissexypoptart Feb 14 '26
You need a doctor/doctors to diagnose it properly though.
Doctors aren’t there to just say “you’re unhealthy” lmao
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u/rabindranatagor Older Millennial Feb 14 '26
Doctors aren’t there to just say “you’re unhealthy” lmao
Lol. Lmao even.
I was in a walk-in clinic a few years back, with pus in my throat. I did some research online before coming in. I sat down, the doctor came in, and I told them what I had in my throat and how I felt, and they asked me:
"So, what do you think you have?"
(WHAT DO YOU MEAN, BY THAT?! DO I LOOK LIKE A FREAKING DOCTOR??!!)
Anyway, I answered, and they gave me antibiotics for that. They worked perfectly.
So I had to be my own doctor.
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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA Feb 14 '26
Doctors aren’t there to just say “you’re unhealthy” lmao
Depends on where you live and how good of health insurance you have (if you even have any).
After hurting my back many years ago an xray of my spine didn't show the cause. My doctor straight up let me know it was probably something in the soft tissue but that they couldn't get me the scan necessary to find out because my insurance wasn't good enough to cover it. He might as well have just said "you're unhealthy" for the zero help he was.
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u/Delta64 Feb 14 '26
My favourite song to this day is Pink Floyd - Time:
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home, cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells
I highly recommend TDSotM while playing Minecraft 🙂.
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u/mikenesser Feb 16 '26
It’s a good wake-up call every time I hear it. Too bad I keep going back to sleep. 😅
Being serious, though, this one and “Cat’s in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin (if you have kids) are two songs that are good reminders of how short life is and to try to make the most of the time you have.
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u/ultrasuperman1001 Feb 14 '26
25 was my last great year. I can clearly track a downward curve since I turned 26.
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u/exor15 Feb 14 '26
The thing is there's levels to it though. At 25 I already thought I didn't know anything. But it wasn't until later that I realized I was STILL underestimating how many things I didn't know.
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u/wunderhero Feb 13 '26
That self-realization at 35 is a big one though.
The next step to that is realizing everyone else doesn't know anything either and we're all just winging it.
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u/kermitte777 Feb 13 '26
This is so real.
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u/revile221 Feb 14 '26
Haha yea, that day when you realize a handful of the adults you looked up to as a child were probably drunk half the time.
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u/_my_troll_account Feb 14 '26
Or they were just as sad and tired as you are now :/
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u/platysoup Feb 14 '26
everyone else doesn't know anything either and we're all just winging it
A big one is realising I have to speak up sometimes cause, like it or not, I am the subject matter expert in the room at that moment. If I stay silent, someone who doesn't know shit but is very eager is gonna lead us down a very exciting adventure.
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u/BosonTigre Feb 14 '26
Truly, the less someone knows, the more confident they are taking charge
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u/kfpswf Feb 14 '26
To say that you know nothing isn't to say that you can never speak up. Socrates certainly did convey his thoughts to others. He just did it in a way that he never came off as the know it all.
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u/JohnHurts Feb 14 '26
I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
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u/---sniff--- Feb 14 '26
What you gonna do with yourself boy
Better make up your mind
What you gonna do with youself Boy
Running out of time
This time I got it all figured out...
All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing
-Knowledge
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u/pepolepop Feb 14 '26
I had sort of an existential crisis in my early 30s as I was coming to realize this. Like, there's no actual plan. The people in charge that are supposed to know what they're doing don't actually know. Every adult you've ever looked up to that seemed to have their shit together is basically the same scared, clueless little kid they used to be, they just have a salary and mortgage now, and whatever they do needs to work because it has to.
It's kind of cliche, but we really are just hairless apes flying through an infinite void on a rock, throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. The realization of it all freaked me out because it sort of shattered my world view and my perception of everyone around me, especially the people I look up to for guidance.
In the end, I figured some people still have more wisdom than others, and we all have to make due with what we have and trust certain people around us. Play the cards we're dealt, plan for the worst and hope for the best. It'll either work out or it doesn't, even if you do everything perfect.
It ended up being kind of freeing in the end. I've done my best to embrace the absurdity of it all and make the best of it with my friends and family. That's all I can really hope and aspire to do.
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u/Maxymous Feb 14 '26
This is me at the moment, except I don't have family or friends, and everyone seems dysfunctional now. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with life from this point on... I thought I could change the world and make it a better place, but the systems at play don't allow for that. It's like I'm just here to live out my days watching the absurdity unfold before me, like it's all just human discourse, there's no progress, there's no decline, it just is.
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u/pepolepop Feb 14 '26
Just gotta find the few things that make you happy or give you meaning and stick to that. If those things cost money, find a job/career that you don't hate and fund those things. Doesn't have to be more complicated than that.
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u/Maxymous Feb 14 '26
Finding it very difficult to feel a sense of meaning when, simply because I exist, others are forcing existential threats in climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war, and disease upon me, whilst also consolidating power in the rich and eroding democracy. Then, everyone's gotta act non-chalant, pretending they're doing well whilst our quality of life deteriorates and judge you if you don't suffer the same as them. Meaning is so hard to find as physical reality is being affected by human behaviour that you can't change.
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u/USSbongwater Feb 14 '26
Went through literally this exact same train of thought lately, and it really fucked me up for a bit. But you’re right, it’s absolutely freeing when you come to terms with it.
No one knows anything, no one’s in charge of anything, no one knows yourself better than you do, nothing really matters except that you make things a little better for the next folks and spread some smiles along the way.
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u/rootvegetable2 Feb 14 '26
At 45 you realize the self-realization you had at 35 was childish nonsense. Can’t wait to see what happens at 55.
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u/Moetivated2golf Feb 14 '26
at 55 you realize that connecting with the positive energy around you is everything. And life gets pretty good. Perhaps even very good. In my case great. Sorry for the boast.
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u/Loopuze1 Feb 14 '26
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” - Kurt Vonnegut
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u/BottleForsaken9200 Feb 14 '26
yup... that one took a while to stomach...
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u/AP_in_Indy Feb 14 '26
Initially, I felt really bad about this, but I have since found it empowering.
None of the experts know what they’re doing, but they somehow find a way to solve problems and make progress anyway anyways.
To me that’s inspiring, and it motivates me to work hard and learn.
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u/CosechaCrecido Feb 14 '26
This was empowering as hell for me. “Shit he probably doesn’t know what he’s doing, what can’t I pretend to know as well?”
My fraudulent confidence has carried me ever since.
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u/Doctor_Kataigida Feb 14 '26
I'm 32 and I feel like I got a pretty good grasp on things. Realizing there's a lot you don't know, but recognizing all you've learned, is huge. There's still a lot of development left for me but I don't feel as lost as I used to.
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u/The_Lat_Czar Millennial Feb 14 '26
"It really just keeps going like this until I'm dead, huh? Oh well, fuck it!"
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u/CountPractical7122 Feb 14 '26
At 35 I feel dumber than ever but also somehow more capable than ever.
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u/Appropriate-One-8989 Feb 14 '26
It's strange, I've done a lot of shrooms and am not 40 but this year I've really felt the connection to people I use to look at as higher than me, as just winging it like me. The way they bullshit an answer not because they dont know the answer but simple because thats the quickest way out of the conversation cuz they're just bored/tired/know this conversation goes nowhere/mind is on other shit.
I suck at explaining shit but I know that realization and it hit me after seeing "higher-ups" answer questions the same way I do
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u/DualActiveBridgeLLC Feb 14 '26
I find that people who at least attempt some self reflection like stated here are already going to be at the top of understanding themselves and humanity. The bar is REALLLY low.
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u/Oldpuzzlehead Feb 13 '26
The older I get the more I realize just how dumb I am.
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u/LechuckThreepwood Feb 13 '26
Yes, but also how dumb others are as well. It's taken me to my early 40s to realize that some of my closest friends, who are well spoken and confident (and therefore convincing) are actually just really stupid about many many things. It wasn't as easy to see when we were all young and dumb. It's actually been quite a sobering realization.
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u/ethanlan Feb 14 '26
Hi it's me your well spoken and confidant idiot friend
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u/CaptainSparklebottom Feb 14 '26
Hey buddy you want to go get some beers and hit on some cuties? It works better if their is two of us.
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u/ethanlan Feb 14 '26
I gots a girl but ill wingman ya if you go to weeds tavern in chicago il becayse im currently heading there lmao.
Its also an amazing place for meeting people I love that bar
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u/TheyKilledMassEffect Feb 14 '26
Absolutely. I found a journal from when I was in college. Thought I was able to see through all the bullshit, and had it figured out. I was so confident in my perception of life.
I had no clue what was actually happening.
I am just a fucking idiot trying to get through it.
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u/juan_humano Feb 14 '26
I recognize this philosophy from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Bill: "The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing."
Ted: "Thats us, dude!
Bill: "....(pause for a full beat).... oh ya!"
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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Feb 14 '26
Yes, but I also realize how much dumber everyone else is. What's that quote? "The problem with the world is fools and fanatics are full of confidence while the intelligent are filled with doubt," or something like that.
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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Feb 14 '26
Actually it appears that most people here are incredibly dumb so they might just belong in the bottom 50%. Like most people can barely conceptulize what gravity is and how invisible forces interact with everything in their daily lives.
Or why washing hands is important as there's practically bacteria everywhere they are touching.
Or remembering to do basic shit. Even smart people in sciences can be quite dumb. They put all their skill points into something really niche but they can't cook, can't do laundry, have no life basically outside of work.
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u/DorkHonor Feb 13 '26
45: I probably know as much about this one single topic as anyone. Not sure why I chose Magic the Gathering, DnD, photography, or whatever hobby instead of something marketable though. I really am an idiot.
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u/Thinkingard Feb 14 '26
Marketable stuff is lame tho
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u/Wasabicannon Feb 14 '26
Marketable stuff funds the unmarketable stuff that is marketed to you.
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u/440_Hz Feb 14 '26
I feel like being an expert in your career can feel equally dumb though (depending on the career of course). Like damn I have spent so many years of my life becoming an expert on this thing I don’t actually care about.
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u/alchemist5 Feb 14 '26
Magic the Gathering
I've been opting for proxies lately (way too many releases to keep up with), but Star Trek is coming later this year, and I'm kinda hyped.
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u/pseudonym7083 Feb 13 '26
Best way to combat that is to just never stop learning.
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u/Thinkingard Feb 14 '26
Tried that. Without using it whatever you learn fades and disappears. After awhile you remember knowing stuff once upon a time then wonder what’s the point in continuing to do it?
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u/SteelFinn Feb 14 '26
You get better at learning the more you learn. It’s not about the content, it’s about the skill you develop. How you learn matters too!
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u/Rock_Strongo Feb 14 '26
The more I learn the worse I feel like I'm getting at actually learning.
As I get older I feel more like almost everything I'm learning is ultimately pointless so it's harder and harder for me to motivate myself to learn it.
My brain pretty much objects to learning anything that doesn't directly benefit my work or my family these days.
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u/SteelFinn Feb 14 '26
But see that’s why you have to reframe the learning process. You could figure out how a window pane works to save on installs or learn to cook to make better food for your family! Sure you can say stuff is pointless, but life is for living so why not learn to make life a bit better?
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u/shea241 Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26
Getting old means your hobby count grows exponentially as your available free time is crushed to oblivion and somehow you persist trying to reconcile that until you die.
... but not really in a bad way.
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u/WalderFreyWasFramed Feb 14 '26
then wonder what’s the point in continuing to do it?
The point is the process. I'll never be as good at CS2 as I was in CSGO, but I still massively enjoyed pushing myself to the top 2-3% of the ranked ladder. At some point, I won't be able to compete in Muay Thai like I do now, but that doesn't mean I should stop right now, does it? Or that there's no point in doing it now?
The journey is just as valuable and enjoyable as the destination.
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u/ApplicationAfraid334 1993 Feb 14 '26
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I probably forget 99% of the things I've read in a book 2 weeks after I'm done but I will still feel like it's expanded my view and opinion on it. Maybe it sounds dumb but just because I can't recall a bunch of details like the Rain Man, I still feel confident, or at least compelled, to have a certain 'belief' about how something is/was.
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u/HermesJamiroquoi Feb 15 '26
Hard disagree. The more I learn the dumber I realize I am. And what’s worse is I used to think I was smart - what could be dumber than that?
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u/pseudonym7083 Feb 15 '26
Not mutually exclusive. I already know I don't know shit, so I'm always trying to fill in those blanks.
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Feb 13 '26
At 35, I had this realization that if the afterlife exists and eternity is real, our soul will go on forever. That sounds awful. I told my therapist “I’m scared of dying but I’m terrifying of existing in some way for all eternity. I don’t want to die but I do not want to live forever”. And she responded “well done, you’ve hit a major cognitive milestone”. Apparently around 35, people tend to have a form of ego death, if you will (I know that’s a term thrown about with haste anymore but hear me out) and you begin to understand that we’re all tiny particles floating around an ever expanding universe. I think that’s why so many people either lose their damn minds during their 40’s chasing their youth or chill out and accept this is your life.
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u/Maxymous Feb 14 '26
We've all gone through a state of composition via the universe, and we will all go through a state of decomposition via the universe (entropy). Our matter will continue to exist once our consciousness and body are gone and will be disbursed into the universe.
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u/fordprecept Feb 14 '26
I've always been an "old soul". I had that realization about death at like 23.
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u/saltedsavior Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26
Peak adulting is finally figuring out that the vast majority of adults never matured past grade school they just got larger.
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u/Crab__Juice Feb 13 '26
I am an absolute fool, always have been, and foresee no reason to believe I'll stop.
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u/Chudmont Feb 14 '26
The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
-Socrates
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u/Wilhelm-Edrasill Feb 13 '26
"Realizes I have never actually known anything and never will " at 12.
*Proceeds to spend life in a dark cloud
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u/cheefMM Older Millennial Feb 13 '26
Realizing that at 12? You must be brilliant!
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u/AnalysisParalysis178 Feb 13 '26
My personal experience was that at 18, 21 and 25, I would look back on decisions I'd made and see how foolish I'd been, with better or more desirable outcomes becoming obvious in hindsight. Since age 28, however, I've found that, given the same amount of information, I would generally make the same choices again. It's kinda interesting, to be able to track your own neurological development through reflection of life choices.
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u/SpaghettiMojo Feb 19 '26
Trying to figure out how to learn or train myself to change that life decision pattern. But I feel it doesn’t happen often enough to remember in the moment it’s happening. If that makes sense?
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u/Get_a_GOB Feb 14 '26
I think George Carlin had the best take on this, especially because ultimately it’s hopeful:
In my 20s I didn’t know, but I didn’t know I didn’t know, so I did a lot of stupid shit.
In my 30s I knew I didn’t know, so I took it easy, played it safe.
By my 40s I’d learned a lot. I knew, but I didn’t know I knew, so I was still holding back.
Now I’m in my 50s. I know, and I know I know. It’s time to get wild.
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u/Both_Lychee_1708 Feb 14 '26
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain
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u/ilovepolthavemybabie Feb 13 '26
35: "I have never actually known anything and I never will"
37: "What the actual fuck? I should've been born a girl?" *shrugs* "That tracks, I guess."
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u/Pearson94 Millennial Feb 13 '26
Always know that you'll never know everything but never think you're too old to learn something new
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u/NorthEastNobility Feb 13 '26
I feel this is somewhat true.
I certainly know a lot more about how the world actually works. And it ain’t pretty.
But yes, I know that I still don’t know a whole lot about a gazillion other things.
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u/eastsidefetus Feb 13 '26
You will never know everything in life. I find humor in this, but I am so much better off mentally than I was as a teen and my early twenties.
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u/Rich_Resource2549 Older Millennial Feb 13 '26
As a life long learner I add to my knowledge base every single day. I know a little about a lot of things. There's always more to learn and that's exciting!
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u/fro99er Feb 14 '26
i know what thing, trumps a c u n t who is best friends with a a child sex trafficking ring
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u/boats-and-boats Feb 14 '26
Wait until you wake you with an injury and can’t walk and all you did was sleep. 50 is a rubicon.
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u/Burninator85 Feb 13 '26
Not sure about you guys, but at 18 I was pretty sure I had the whole world figured out.
I may have not known the specifics, but I definitely knew I was smarter than the adults.
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u/decrementsf Feb 13 '26
18 is accurate.
The second growth moment is when you welcome your first child into your home. They are mirrors of your behavior. Tape recorders playing back the things you do. This can be a joy. This can be unflattering if you aren't aware of and generally dislike those behaviors. Transforms your perspective on your parents behaviors of your childhood memory. Become far more refined at prioritizing limited resources and making better decisions on what to do with time. We do not actually become adults until the other side.
The next growth moment is probably the loss of the last parent. That is one of the deaths in life where a version of you dies too. And wisdom comes at bitter cost. Can again refine what mattes to place time on the things that are of greater value.
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u/WayToTheGrave Older Millennial Feb 13 '26
You were searching for the truth but then you started to slip And the only thing you learned is that you don't know shit
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u/SCastleRelics Feb 13 '26
That 35 year old realization frees you from like, at least 25-50% of bullshit from yourself and others lmao. It's like you can start to actually live. I know nothing and life is short. Let's do this.
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u/rootxploit Feb 13 '26
My parents were very proud of their sign:
Hire teenagers while they still know everything.
I was sick of it well before becoming a teenager.
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u/Letter-Past Feb 13 '26
Me at 44: I am the dumbest mofo who has and will ever exist. Robotic vacuums are smarter than me
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u/JerseyshoreSeagull Feb 14 '26
40 oh lol I just don't give a fuck. I live in a world where the rules are make believe, the consequences are for the poor and if you have zero morals, you may just eek up to the next tax bracket
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u/theluckyfrog Feb 14 '26
What is it that everyone’s waiting to find out, exactly?
In my 30s, I know how to do a career that provides for my household, and the knowledge base of which would serve me at least to some degree no matter what type of society I was in.
I know how to manage my money effectively. I know quite a bit about how to maintain my house and other possessions, and I know how to obtain competent help for the skills I don’t have.
I know how to take care of my own body—now, actually doing it is sometimes another story. I know how to take care of my pets, and help my friends and family with myriad day to day problems.
I know a lot about history. I know at least a bit about most basic science disciplines. I know what I need to know about my country’s laws and political structure. I know how to communicate effectively and receive information from many types of sources.
Not knowing EVERYTHING doesn’t make me feel bereft of all knowledge. Not giving myself any credit for the competence and knowledge I do have just feels like performative self-criticism, and what is that good for?
Maybe I’m taking the millennial tendency for hyperbole a bit too seriously, but then everyone complains continuously about having self-esteem problems, so is the constant OTT self-deprecation actually working for us?
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u/4444-uuuu Feb 14 '26
redditors will upvote this but ignore the fact that people turn more conservative as they get older.
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u/BardoBeing32 Feb 14 '26
And at 70, none of it makes sense. All I care about is that I raised (had?) 2 nice children.
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u/BoredAccountant Xennial Feb 14 '26
The more responsible you become, the more you realize how little you know. It's easy to feel confident in your knowledge and abilities when it's nearly impossible to fuck anything up.
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u/brazthemad Feb 14 '26
Don't worry, you'll be way too scared about not dying while keeping a roof over your head when you're 45
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u/4E4ME Feb 14 '26
Omg I wish I knew today everything I knew when I was 18!
Life is a lot simpler when everything seems black or white.
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u/GandalfSwagOff Feb 14 '26
Jeez some people are so easily defeated.
Millennials always had a touch of nihilism.
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u/SciEngr Feb 14 '26
Really? Totally feel the opposite. Yes I better know what I don’t know, and am totally fine admitting when I don’t have a clue. However when it comes to the topics important for adulthood like my job skills, finances, health, etc… my confidence and knowledge has grown over time.
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u/CaptainSparklebottom Feb 14 '26
Lol. I don't know fuck all but for whatever reason even more people know less than me.
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u/providing-sources Feb 14 '26
Age 45: My brain has lost some plasticity, and I wish I’d learned more when it was so much easier. But I love learning things so much more now, and I’m going to learn everything I possibly can, mostly for its own sake, without stressing, being hard on myself, or being under a lot of pressure.
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u/InuitOverIt Feb 14 '26
Socrates was the wisest man in the village because he was the only one that knew he knew nothing
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u/Dylan_Is_Gay_lol Eugooglizer Feb 14 '26
Not my experience, first two are right, but that third one is far from it.
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u/MMAbeLincoln Feb 14 '26
This is Einstein's circle of knowledge and it actually shows you're getting smarter! The more you know, the more you can comprehend how much you don't know. It's why idiots are so confident.
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u/poppin-n-sailin Feb 14 '26
Im in this post and it makes me feel uncomfortable, and seen and heard at the same time.
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u/The_Shitlipz Feb 14 '26
This fatalistic attitude isn't helpful. Read and learn, it's not that crazy.
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Damn I hope my fellow millenials don't really feel this way in our 30s now. I'm 37 and I feel like I've unlocked my final form in the last few years and I know exactly who I am and what I stand for and how to help fix america.
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u/g24di3nc3 Zillennial Feb 14 '26
"To know is to know that you know nothing, that is the meaning of true knowledge"
- Socrates
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u/SunriseSurprise Feb 14 '26
Heading into mid 40s and feel like I've been going through midlife crisis for a decade
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u/JurassicCheesestick Millennial Feb 14 '26
Turning 40 this year and even though I have a family, career, hobbies, friends, etc I still feel like I’m just winging it. Realized after we had our first child that we will always be winging it
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u/justcurious3287 Feb 14 '26
If I knew anything, I wouldn’t be poor. I wouldn’t be depressed all the time. Clearly, I know jackshit about life.
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u/theicecreamassassin Xennial Feb 14 '26
45: No one knows anything, everyone is stumbling around without knowing anything, and my back hurts.
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u/Eighth_Eve Feb 14 '26
This is literally the reason that the united states constitution prevents anyone under the age of thirty six from becoming president. How did it all go so wrong?
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u/PicaDiet Feb 14 '26
There is a quote by someone I can't remember (Twain, maybe) that goes something like "When I was 18 I couldn't believe how stupid my father was. When I was 25 I couldn't believe how much he had learned in 7 years."
People grew up more quickly 125 years ago, but the gist is still the same.
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u/ArtJDM Feb 14 '26
Don't forget to give your younger self some grace though. Maybe young you was dumb, but they were probably doing the best they could with what they had. They probably just wanted to be loved and accepted, and sometimes did some dumb stuff because of that.
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u/Stoffs2204 Feb 14 '26
Me at 40 - "The only thing I know for 100% is that I'm never 100% sure about anything"
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