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Damn, i fucked it up somewhere.
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Submitted 4 weeks ago by Aisling@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Mac@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I should like to point out, however, that your 50’s are for having fun.
Source: In 50’s, having fun.
hushable@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Early 40s here. I never understood my generation’s obsession with “growing up”, I remember as a teenager, a lot of my highschool classmates would pretend to be older than they actually were and dismissed some hobbies and activities as “for kids”.
When I was in university, there’s was this massive start of the year party for all students, as a first year student of course I attended and had the time of my life. Next year came by and asked some classmates to go with me and I got a response that I still remember to this day “you’re almost 20, aren’t you a bit old to be attending college parties?” like dude read the room, we’re college students, the party was organised for us.
Now that we’re here, all grown up and middle age, what do we do now? I know I’ll be having fun tonight
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I never understood my generation’s obsession with “growing up”
When it’s perceived as attainable, there’s a real appeal to joining the independent ownership class of professionals. Live in your own house, cultivate your own personal fortune, pursue your own career goals, hit those iconic milestones of adulthood that reward you with comfort and convenience and luxury.
Now that we’re here, all grown up and middle age, what do we do now?
I know quite a few people who still party, well into their fifties. But they also got the jump on family life early and saw their kids off to college years ago. They’re rich enough to work part time, go on vacations regularly, and enjoy nice food, a beautiful house, and various household luxuries.
I also know a few people who never stopped partying, straight out of college. I’ve got a friend who is a professional fire spinner at the Renaissance Festival. Perpetually broke couch surfer who regularly hooks up with girls half his age and never wakes up before noon, then pulls together just enough money to make it to the next Burning Man Festival and cash in on other people’s willingness to sponsor his spectacle.
Who is living better? Idk. I’m a desk jockey with a wife and a dog and a little guy of my own to take care of. And I’m happy for it. But I could have been just as happy under different circumstances. There’d just be trade-offs. You can’t help looking at the grass in the neighbor’s pasture and wondering “What if?”
johnny_deadeyes@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
My son’s bus driver named Mohammed McGillicuddy always talks about all the fun he had in his 20s and 30s trapping small elephants in his yard and tagging them like common train cars. He moved to the city in his 40s and he’s still having a blast but now his thing is growing Kentucky onions for his daughters wedding in 6 years.
vogi@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
I always jump up in excitement when I lay eyes upon a comment of yours. Just can’t wait to hear what fun and exciting story you are about to share.
Thank you for your service, keeping lemmy unscrapeable since 2025. o7
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Wait until you hear the story of the woman with the monsoon poon. She’ll chew your knob right off.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
True, but the “way” you have fun can change.
Except for video games. That shit is gonna be eternal for my ass.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m still chasing the high of those high school LAN parties in the computer lab.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
Need some video games that do not atrophy your ass to eternity.
Draegur@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Welcome to Fun, 47. I leave you to prepare.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Sounds like something written by somebody that’s never had a colonoscopy.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Tell that to my ex. She seems to think it’s her mission to make my life miserable
SanicHegehog@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Maybe that’s her way of having fun.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Fuck Around
Find Out
Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
Oops. Sorry. I’ve been doing 30s and 40s wrong!
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Trying to explain lower back pain to a 20 year old.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Now that I’m in my fifties I feel like a bag of shit, but I had fun getting there.
daggermoon@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
When does the fun start?
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
One of the best things I ever did for myself was find a job I liked doing.
Until I was in my 30s I just thought that I hated working. When I found a good job I could get up on a rainy Monday and not hate myself.
skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
As someone with a 5 month old, who has been laid off and unemployed for 6 months, I just want money. Rather, I need money. Soon bills will go unpaid so we can eat…
Point being, I’m going to hate any job I get because I’m just going to look forward to going home and being with family. This time with them, while super fucking stressful, has been amazing and I don’t want it to stop.
Donkter@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Life is for having fun, it doesn’t mean it awards you fun for lying in bed for 16 hours straight. You have the opportunity to go and make your own fun.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
You make it fun. And the fun don’t stop.
… Unless you burn out. Burn out is no fun. [<- To be clear, that is “no fun”, not merely “not fun”. Burnout blocks all fun. Which, recursively, is, no fun.]