Nostalgia

[sserafim]

I wish I could be a kid again. I feel so much nostalgia for the past and my childhood. I wish that I could go back to better days. I wish that I didn't have to be independent and make my own way in the world. I don't want to have to support myself. There's nothing that I would hate more than having to adult (work for a living, pay bills, rent, taxes etc). I never even wanted to grow up anyways, and I wish that I were never born in the first place. I never asked for any of this, yet I'm burdened with all of these problems (of life and survival). My uncle said that my mom has no more (legal) obligation to (support) me since I'm past the age of 18, and that it's "shameful" that I'm still living at home with her, but I don't agree with this. Parents should support their children unconditionally, as it was they who brought them into this world and burdened them with existence.

 

[Malaria]

I miss being a kid too. In particular I miss the time from when I was five years old till about eight years old.

 

[sserafim]

I miss being a kid too. In particular I miss the time from when I was five years old till about eight years old.

I wish I never grew up and that I could've stayed a kid forever

 

[Oliver]

Everything was new and exiting back then. The childlike wonder you had was something else. I really miss the early 2000's. Back before life had completely fucked you over. The sky was never this blue again.

 

[Final_Choice]

I miss some parts of my childhood, not having responsibilities and having necessities and possibly more taken care of it amazing and I'd love to have that again. Though there's a lot of aspects of my childhood I do not miss and I'm glad it's behind me, so I'm not sure if I'd also like to go back. If I could go back without those then I'd absolutely love to go back and be a carefree child once more.

 

[sserafim]

I miss some parts of my childhood, not having responsibilities and having necessities and possibly more taken care of it amazing and I'd love to have that again. Though there's a lot of aspects of my childhood I do not miss and I'm glad it's behind me, so I'm not sure if I'd also like to go back. If I could go back without those then I'd absolutely love to go back and be a carefree child once more.

I wish that I didn't have to eventually have responsibilities and necessities. I wish that I didn't have to eventually take care of myself (if I don't ctb lol). I wish I could be a carefree kid again; I hate the fact that I grew up (against my will)

Everything was new and exiting back then. The childlike wonder you had was something else and I really miss the early 2000's. Back before life had completely fucked you over. The sky was never this blue again.

Literally. For me it would be the mid and late 2000s though

 

[Malaria]

I wish I never grew up and that I could've stayed a kid forever

Same. I hate being an adult, it sucks so much. Us adults, we have all these freedoms, sure, but no time to enjoy them because many of us work long hours. Or if not, many of us are too depressed to enjoy those freedoms.

 

[davidtorez]

I feel the same way. Up until the age of 14 was a great time for me. So much fun with friends etc. Adulthood is pointless slavery .

 

[sserafim]

Same. I hate being an adult, it sucks so much. Us adults, we have all these freedoms, sure, but no time to enjoy them because many of us work long hours. Or if not, many of us are too depressed to enjoy those freedoms.

My main reason to ctb is to avoid having to work. I would hate to have to earn a living. Work is literally modern day slavery. I don't see how being an adult gives you more freedom. I think that it actually lessens your freedom because you have to become a slave to the system

Adulthood is pointless slavery .

Literally

 

[Malaria]

My main reason to ctb is to avoid having to work. I would hate to have to earn a living. Work is literally modern day slavery. I don't see how being an adult gives you more freedom. I think that it actually lessens your freedom because you have to become a slave to the system

Literally

Well you can vote, smoke, drink, sign your own documents, generally make your own decisions without needing the consent of your parents, etc.

 

[davidtorez]

My main reason to ctb is to avoid having to work. I would hate to have to earn a living. Work is literally modern day slavery. I don't see how being an adult gives you more freedom. I think that it actually lessens your freedom because you have to become a slave to the system

Literally

Seriously, the way we are expected to live truly disgusts me. We work every day at jobs that we hate in order to maintain lives that suck.

I think, really, 8 hours in a 24 hour day leaves a lot of time, right? But an hour to get ready, and hour to get there, an hour to get back. That's 11 hours dedicated to just the shit job. 5x a week, that's 55 hours.

Then there's sleep. 8 hours a night for that (except on the nights you dedicate several hours of that to lying in bed writhing in agony over not being able to sleep and having to get up so fucking soon). 7x a week for that- there's another 56 hours.

Then there are chores. We'll skimp on kitchen hours and call it an hour a day to cook, eat, clean the kitchen. Boom, 7 hours a week. Probably what... 5 to run errands, 2 doing laundry, 3 for basic home maintenance... that's 17 hours for chores.

That's 128 hours in a week that don't fucking belong to you. And that's if you don't dedicate time to the gym or other optional shit that makes living more manageable. There are only 168 hours in a week, guys.

All this means that on an average week with no overtime or shit like moving, seeing a doctor, or going to the dmv; 40 hours are actually mine. So the first question is, why does my job get more of my time than I do? The time I DO get, I don't even enjoy, because I have to THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE REST OF THE TIME in order to prepare myself for it.

And then comes buying the shit to distract myself so I don't have to FEEL SO BAD ABOUT IT. The little treats that tell you "see, you're not doing all of this for nothing." You know the ones. The material things that actually make you more fucking miserable than you were before? Yeah. And aaalllllll this stuff we buy just extends the timeframe before retirement.

OH RETIREMENT. Thank god I did all that work, so I could lie in a recliner and piss myself, staying alive beyond the time of having a fully functioning brain or body, in order to appease the people around me for a little while longer. Enjoying the fruits of our labor? Yeah. Sure.

So basically thinking about building a little shanty and dropping off grid and dying early living a life I picked for myself instead of this godawful crap this world is trying to shove me into
This is from another member here . It's so perfectly started and accurate

 

[druggedonsurvival]

Same here. I dreaded growing up as a kid and had a pretty good childhood. I knew by the time I was a teenager that it was just downhill from there. Also, happiness seemed to come so easily as a child. Being an adult sucks, and it's just dishonest to tell kids otherwise.

 

[sserafim]

Well you can vote, smoke, drink, sign your own documents, etc.

Yeah but I don't care about that shit. I'd take being a kid any day over having these so-called "freedoms"

 

[Oliver]

The problem is that the cost of living is becoming ever more expensive. We are being squeezed in to little crummy apartments like fucking sardines. Fucking drowning in bills after bills. It's fucking ridiculous. Back in the 50's, 60's and 70's you could be a postman and have your own house, car + enough money for groceries, vacations twice a year etc. It's ridiculous today. Borderline slavery and completely unworthy.


Sorry for the overuse of the f-word - it's just gotten ridiculous at this point...

 

[davidtorez]

Seriously, the way we are expected to live truly disgusts me. We work every day at jobs that we hate in order to maintain lives that suck.

I think, really, 8 hours in a 24 hour day leaves a lot of time, right? But an hour to get ready, and hour to get there, an hour to get back. That's 11 hours dedicated to just the shit job. 5x a week, that's 55 hours.

Then there's sleep. 8 hours a night for that (except on the nights you dedicate several hours of that to lying in bed writhing in agony over not being able to sleep and having to get up so fucking soon). 7x a week for that- there's another 56 hours.

Then there are chores. We'll skimp on kitchen hours and call it an hour a day to cook, eat, clean the kitchen. Boom, 7 hours a week. Probably what... 5 to run errands, 2 doing laundry, 3 for basic home maintenance... that's 17 hours for chores.

That's 128 hours in a week that don't fucking belong to you. And that's if you don't dedicate time to the gym or other optional shit that makes living more manageable. There are only 168 hours in a week, guys.

All this means that on an average week with no overtime or shit like moving, seeing a doctor, or going to the dmv; 40 hours are actually mine. So the first question is, why does my job get more of my time than I do? The time I DO get, I don't even enjoy, because I have to THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE REST OF THE TIME in order to prepare myself for it.

And then comes buying the shit to distract myself so I don't have to FEEL SO BAD ABOUT IT. The little treats that tell you "see, you're not doing all of this for nothing." You know the ones. The material things that actually make you more fucking miserable than you were before? Yeah. And aaalllllll this stuff we buy just extends the timeframe before retirement.

OH RETIREMENT. Thank god I did all that work, so I could lie in a recliner and piss myself, staying alive beyond the time of having a fully functioning brain or body, in order to appease the people around me for a little while longer. Enjoying the fruits of our labor? Yeah. Sure.

So basically thinking about building a little shanty and dropping off grid and dying early living a life I picked for myself instead of this godawful crap this world is trying to shove me into
This is from another member here . It's so perfectly started and accurate

This was posted by another member here and is so on point.

 

[Malaria]

Yeah but I don't care about that shit

I like being able to drink personally ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[sserafim]

Seriously, the way we are expected to live truly disgusts me. We work every day at jobs that we hate in order to maintain lives that suck.

I think, really, 8 hours in a 24 hour day leaves a lot of time, right? But an hour to get ready, and hour to get there, an hour to get back. That's 11 hours dedicated to just the shit job. 5x a week, that's 55 hours.

Then there's sleep. 8 hours a night for that (except on the nights you dedicate several hours of that to lying in bed writhing in agony over not being able to sleep and having to get up so fucking soon). 7x a week for that- there's another 56 hours.

Then there are chores. We'll skimp on kitchen hours and call it an hour a day to cook, eat, clean the kitchen. Boom, 7 hours a week. Probably what... 5 to run errands, 2 doing laundry, 3 for basic home maintenance... that's 17 hours for chores.

That's 128 hours in a week that don't fucking belong to you. And that's if you don't dedicate time to the gym or other optional shit that makes living more manageable. There are only 168 hours in a week, guys.

All this means that on an average week with no overtime or shit like moving, seeing a doctor, or going to the dmv; 40 hours are actually mine. So the first question is, why does my job get more of my time than I do? The time I DO get, I don't even enjoy, because I have to THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE REST OF THE TIME in order to prepare myself for it.

And then comes buying the shit to distract myself so I don't have to FEEL SO BAD ABOUT IT. The little treats that tell you "see, you're not doing all of this for nothing." You know the ones. The material things that actually make you more fucking miserable than you were before? Yeah. And aaalllllll this stuff we buy just extends the timeframe before retirement.

OH RETIREMENT. Thank god I did all that work, so I could lie in a recliner and piss myself, staying alive beyond the time of having a fully functioning brain or body, in order to appease the people around me for a little while longer. Enjoying the fruits of our labor? Yeah. Sure.

So basically thinking about building a little shanty and dropping off grid and dying early living a life I picked for myself instead of this godawful crap this world is trying to shove me into
This is from another member here . It's so perfectly started and accurate

Life is just more trouble than what it's worth (for me at least)

The problem is that the cost of living is becoming ever more expensive. We are being squeezed in to little crummy apartments like fucking sardines. Fucking drowning in bills after bills. It's fucking ridiculous. Back in the 50's, 60's and 70's you could be a postman and have your own house, car + enough money for groceries, vacations twice a year etc. etc. It's ridiculous today. Borderline slavery and completely unworthy.

It's all just so pointless and meaningless

 

[davidtorez]

Life is just more trouble than what it's worth (for me at least)

I think alot of people would agree with you. I know i do. It's definitely not worth the trouble , not to mention all the disabilities and sickness that will come with old age .

 

[sserafim]

Same here. I dreaded growing up as a kid and had a pretty good childhood. I knew by the time I was a teenager that it was just downhill from there. Also, happiness seemed to come so easily as a child. Being an adult sucks, and it's just dishonest to tell kids otherwise.

Even as a kid I never wanted to grow up; I never wanted to become an adult. I feel bad for the kids who were brainwashed into looking forward to growing up. They present the concept of adulthood to you on a silver platter and through rose-tinted glasses, but that's not the case.

 

[KafkaF]

I wish I could be a kid again. I feel so much nostalgia for the past and my childhood. I wish that I could go back to better days. I wish that I didn't have to be independent and make my own way in the world. I don't want to have to support myself. There's nothing that I would hate more than having to adult (work for a living, pay bills, rent, taxes etc). I never even wanted to grow up anyways, and I wish that I were never even born in the first place. I never asked for any of this, yet I'm burdened with all of these problems (of survival). My uncle said that my mom has no more (legal) obligation to (support) me since I'm past the age of 18, and that it's "shameful" that I'm still living at home with her, but I don't agree with this. Parents should support their children unconditionally, as it was they who brought them into this world and burdened them with existence.

Your uncle sounds like a sociopathic asshole, no offense.

 

[druggedonsurvival]

Yeah but I don't care about that shit

I feel like most of the things you can do when you become an adult is just coping mechanisms. Smoking, drinking, gambling, porn... I am glad I can drive, though.

 

[sserafim]

Your uncle sounds like a sociopathic asshole, no offense.

He says that I don't actually want to die (because I haven't ctb yet), and that if I'm dissatisfied with the world and how it works, then I can always kms

 

[Oliver]

I feel like most of the things you can do when you become an adult is just coping mechanisms. Smoking, drinking, gambling, porn... I am glad I can drive, though.

100%. "A cope a day keeps the rope away" lol.


I think it just gets harder to cope as you get older.

 

[sserafim]

I feel like most of the things you can do when you become an adult is just coping mechanisms. Smoking, drinking, gambling, porn...

Literally. It's an escape from reality and the void of emptiness that modern life gives the soul due to capitalism. Everyone is running away from themselves; they don't want to feel the emptiness inside

 

[Malaria]

I am glad I can drive, though.

This is something I really want to do. I feel like I can do more things and go more places if I can drive. I'm not fond of the gas prices currently, but hopefully they'll go down soon.

 

[sserafim]

100%. "A cope a day keeps the rope away" lol.


I think it just gets harder to cope as you get older.

The things that adults do are just a cope from the meaninglessness, pointlessness and futility of life. No wonder why so many people have addictions (me included but they're like internet, this forum and caffeine), and look to alcohol and substances as and for an escape: because life itself sucks and this reality is depressing

 

[Oliver]

Literally. It's an escape from reality and the void of emptiness that modern life gives the soul due to capitalism. Everyone is running away from themselves; they don't want to feel the emptiness inside

To be fair. I think both communism and capitalism are horrible ideologies. Only the elites thrive in those societies. I don't know what the solution is though...

 

[Malaria]

The things that adults do are just a cope from the meaninglessness, pointlessness and futility of life. No wonder why so many people have addictions (me included but they're like internet, this forum and coffee). Because life itself sucks and this reality is depressing

Admittedly, the only addictions I have are social media, fast food, and caffeine. All things I already was doing as a kid...

 

[KafkaF]

He says that I don't actually want to die (because I haven't ctb yet), and that if I'm dissatisfied with the world and how it works, then I can always kms

I'm sorry, I spoke too soon. He's not a sociopathic asshole. He's a dumb, sociopath piece of shit.

Seriously, no understanding of what depression is like and no empathy.

 

[sserafim]

To be fair. I think both communism and capitalism are horrible ideologies. Only the elites thrive in those societies. I don't know what the solution is though...

Maybe there isn't one…