Submitted 8 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to [deleted]
"Unmarried in your 30s should honestly be rebranded as - "congrats you didn't pick the wrong person out of panic"."
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1243344/unmarried-in-your-30s-should-honestly-be-rebranded-as-congrats-you-didn-t-pick-the-wrong
My brother is in his 40’s. No children, never married. Just bought a house.
I have to assume he saw all the trouble I got into chasing women, and made better choices.
But I’m happy with my wife, so I dunno.
Any life that measures its self in dollars was a waste.
I don’t know if he is measuing his life in dollars. He doesn’t seem to really do much.
I’d say a life spent in front of a gaming computer is a waste, which would apply to him sadly. I may not have always made the smart choice but I can definitely say I’m happy now.
Yep! That’s totally why I’m still single at 40! Yep.
See I’m not the problem, I’m actually smart! Totally not an undesirable worthless pile of human garbage! Nope nope nope!
We’ve all been sold on what life is “supposed” to look like. Go to school, get married, start a career, have kids… not enough people question if that’s really what they want. Life can be whatever you want it to be. Those things aren’t required, and if that’s not the life you actually want, then all those things will do is tie you down.
Or ‘congrats you didn’t break it and buy it before you could even drink alcohol’
… and remember, at 30 years old, you may well be only 1/3rd of the way through your life
henfredemars@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
I wouldn’t be so quick to judge. There’s truth to that, but life is about doing not about potential. Anything worth having requires work and comes at risk.
I can’t fault someone for taking a chance at what they saw as a very real possibility of being happy.
pennomi@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Also I think people forget that even though a relationship ended, it (presumably) still brought happiness while it lasted.
You shouldn’t avoid doing good things just because they might end someday.
666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Healthy mindset, agreed
dingus@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
All I see online anymore seems to be bitter takes. Yours is a refreshing view and I’m finding myself wishing I could find a lot more of it.