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I have to say, there is an established solution to this problem: having a functional and comminicative extended family/social network. Car trouble? Your uncle and cousin can help you fix it tomorrow. Paying rent/mortgage? Not when you live in the big family home with 3 other generations of people that's been paid off for the last 50 years. Cooking dinner? Grandma and aunt Bethel do it every night with help from the kids. Doing your taxes? Family friend Joe is an accountant and is glad to answer a few simple questions for you.

Unfortunately, most peoples' families are annoying as fuck.

Especially when you own a house. It never ends.

Nobody on their death bed ever wishes they'd spent more time working.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/reference/csam-scanning/

ehm why was the photo flagged as csam by cloudflare??

i'm from Italy, is this an eu thing?

edit: ok if i open the post from lemmy.world the image is there, so maybe is a lemmy.zip thing?

You 100% must learn how to not give a fuck sometimes. I’ve found that alcohol helps with this.

I wish they had something to like shut my brain off and just do the shit I need to do without the significant amount of effort it takes. I just don't care about so many things that need to get down and I'm nervous to do half of them for no good reason.

Adderall helps me actually pay attention. And stay quiet.

But Jesus all this other shit that goes on makes everything insufferable.

Hang in there, it gets worse

country music talked about that years ago ... I still enjoy quoting an old song from Hank Williams from the 1940s

"I'll never get out of this world alive!"

https://youtu.be/JyR8b_05HFc

I'm just always cutting the grass and staring at my overgrown garden.

You become aware of the futility of existence, how in another 50 years if youre lucky none of this will matter in the slightest because you'll be dead, just as life becomes the hardest to cope with.

So anyone 25-40 and still pretending to smile - youre a fucking warrior.

I cant find the relevant SMBC.

Yeah dude, the most important part about chilling is shutting off the worry tap and fully ignoring it for a while

You were brainwashed to think that you are supposed to be hyper individualistic - you arent.

God I feel this in my core.

ouch. I'm reading this while chilling.

I just constantly ignore my to do list because otherwise I would never relax.

Meh, not really. Things to sort out come in batches and are spread out.

For me the surprising thing about adulting was how many exams there are. I genuinely believed that once I got my degree I would be done with studying for exams but no, there's always another one to pass. Language exams, professional certifications, license exams for different hobbies. This shit never ends.

Depends where, the personal circumstances, and how much money one has. In "civilization", it's so horribly easy to succumb to existential dread and chronic anxiety.

There are places where your waking life is figuratively or literally flipping burgers, constantly bombarded by requests for something to be fixed, and you're given little to no time to pause except for which to go home, eat and sleep. Then there are places where you could wake up one morning and just walk out into the beach, trying to figure out what to do next.

I feel like thinking this just speaks to the level of dysfunction with which we were raised. We are taught that the point of life is to go do things or drive a car or watch Netflix. The point of life is to survive and reproduce. Everything else is supposed to be secondary.

I don't see it that way. If there's always something you have to be doing, then that's the life you chose. Yeah, there's some things that are usually necessary. Your job will take a third, sleep another third and the rest is up to you to decide. If the remaining third is spent doing things you don't like doing the majority of the time, then change it.
My life is fucking boring, but I can say I spend my third doing exactly what I want. There's odd things in there that come along and take time away but they aren't a constant. Want to live this life? Say no, do less, chill more. Life is what you make it.