I’m a regular guy, I’m about 23 years old, I work at a job with a flexible schedule, the job is more or less acceptable, although sometimes it’s very annoying because of the extra repairs. Lately, I’ve been really wanting to go to festivals with cosplayers and stuff, but time is tight, and because of AI and data centers, there is even less time than there could be. And I never even went on a date, I constantly postponed everything for later, and now it seems to me that everything is lost.
Don’t plan for the apocalypse. Plan for everything to stay the same, but slightly worse, because that’s historically what happens when everybody thinks the world is going to end.
Do the things you want to do now. It only gets harder as you get older, especially if you’re interested in having kids someday.
Yep, do the fun shit now!! Invest a little but dont scrimp. Buy the fancy coffee sometimes. Go on a trip. You could get cancer next year.
Dont ever plan on there being a concrete future. Live in the now. Save a little bit of money for if you get fired etc.
Dance like there’s no tomorrow, because there isn’t
More raves.
I mean, I’ve been to many, and yet still feels like a better use of time than this career I’m building.
One of the really great things about the USA is our national parks, so if you’re in the US you should go see as many of them as you can before MAGA starts selling them off to oil/mining companies and real estate developers.
You’ve heard of a “bucket list”, but have you tried Apocalypse FOMO?
There’s always tomorrow, but you won’t regret doing it today. My 20s were a blur of not taking time for myself, grinding away at a shit job, thinking I’d have more time next week/month/year, and losing touch with friends as they went through the same shock of employment. I can’t truly say I had the resources to do more in my 20s, but somewhere in my 30s, I became notably less anxious and more willing to do things on a whim as I realized time was ticking faster and faster. Not everything needs a full plan. Not everything has to be perfect. Not everything has to be min/maxed. You don’t have to justify your entertainment to anyone.
You’re not out of time. You’re likely at a similar awkward time where you’re still finding your footing as an adult, as opposed to a student. Humans will always continue to party through catastrophe. We wouldn’t be here if our ancestors didn’t. Take a walk. See a concert. Start your cosplay. Try a ren fair. Try a punk flea market. See if anyone wants to meet up.
You have time. I’ve forgotten more than you’ve remembered and I’m still a long way away from being done with this place.
De-ideology oneself:
Ideologies/prejudices/assumption-rivers/“religions” REACT, & that’s fatal, in The Apocalypse.
Vipassana meditation makes one less controlled by reacting & more FREE to CHOOSE one’s course-of-action in situational-crunches.
ANY variant of letting-go-of-thoughts/cognitions/mechanism, simply BEing AWARENESS, whether Theravada Buddhist, or any other, whether tied-to-slow-steady-breathing, or to whole-skin-awareness, or whatever, will work, but combined-arms, removing all the mechanistic “doing” of mind, & becoming only BEing, would be right.
Circle-drumming & surfing both improve this mental-capability, btw…
Zag, when your-death wants you zigging, if you see what the principle means…
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Fight. You will regret not actually doing anything against this shit.
Posting on the Internet, calling your representative and buying badges is not doing anything, by the way.
In what sense to fight? Go outside and fight with other people for the rest of the resources? Sorry, I didn’t quite understand your question.
They mean sink low enough so you have nothing to lose xD
