• DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    To be fair, it wasn’t for lack of trying that I didn’t die young. I did all the drugs, but somehow I got past 27 anyway.

    • Malica@lemmy.zip
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      4 hours ago

      You and me both. My husband and I thought we’d be out before 40 and now we don’t know what to do with ourselves

  • Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    My father was both, so my mom turned out ok I think. And it’s not that I didn’t expect to still be alive, so much as I hadn’t really fully conceptualized life in my 30s and 40s? It was as foreign a concept to me as what happens in a story after the “happily ever after” and the credits roll. What do you mean, what happens next? Story’s over. And I have even less of an idea now of what to do with myself than I did then, I just know that a plucky attitude and a “well, I’ll figure it out somehow” didn’t do the trick.

  • Greystripeycat@lemmy.today
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    6 hours ago

    Fuuuuuuuuuck. I feel bad for all of us. We don’t deserve this. We can be good, kind, and loving. Also as weird and wonderful as we want.

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    11 hours ago

    Eh. My mom and dad are really cool and pretty progressive people. But my mom has terrible anxiety and my dad has adhd. Guess who got both?

    • daggermoon@piefed.world
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      12 hours ago

      They should have. Not a day goes by where I don’t curse my parents for bringing me into this lonely capitalist hellscape. A head’s up would have been appreciated.

    • SippyCup@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      I damn near ended up in the military I was so shocked to survive high school. Fuckin what the hell was I going to do? My routine! It was all gone!