This is a great comment. I had my existential crisis at 23-25 and my god at 32 I am actually happy. There’s a lot of shit going around but I am happy with my identity, my understanding of the world, economics, politics, and people, and I feel like an individual. I have my hobbies and interests and humor and confidence. It sucked for those few years but it was an important growth period in my life in identifying what truly made me happy and sticking with it
I think the most important thing I finally understood was how to completely stop caring about things if they don’t bring me happiness. Funny enough one of the best lessons I had was through a video game that just didn’t respect my time and I realized I don’t need to play for efficiency anymore, I can just play for fun, and if I’m not having fun, I will play something else. That extrapolated into understanding what and who matters and what and who doesn’t, and being able to prioritize my habits and my attitude towards the external world. It helps me identify and cut through the fluff and recognize the parts of things that are good and bad, and even if much of society and the economy want to hide things behind the bad (using my time or money disproportionately), I can recognize it now.
Also understanding that I am a data point, and while I am just one data point, acting in a way that would communicate to the companies that I do business with that I enjoy or don’t enjoy something and not allowing them to dictate how I should live my life. I feel like I’ve reclaimed a version of child-stubbornness or innocence where I can see something for what it is, and push past it or stick with it, with a bluntness that only really children have. A disregard for norms
Same comrade, agreed on all points. Glad I realised I was not enjoying life and felt alienated from everything around me in my early 20s so I could make the decision to change everything before I had any major commitments.
Did have to leave a simple office job to spend a few years going through hell but came out of it in a better place.
This is a great comment. I had my existential crisis at 23-25 and my god at 32 I am actually happy. There’s a lot of shit going around but I am happy with my identity, my understanding of the world, economics, politics, and people, and I feel like an individual. I have my hobbies and interests and humor and confidence. It sucked for those few years but it was an important growth period in my life in identifying what truly made me happy and sticking with it
I think the most important thing I finally understood was how to completely stop caring about things if they don’t bring me happiness. Funny enough one of the best lessons I had was through a video game that just didn’t respect my time and I realized I don’t need to play for efficiency anymore, I can just play for fun, and if I’m not having fun, I will play something else. That extrapolated into understanding what and who matters and what and who doesn’t, and being able to prioritize my habits and my attitude towards the external world. It helps me identify and cut through the fluff and recognize the parts of things that are good and bad, and even if much of society and the economy want to hide things behind the bad (using my time or money disproportionately), I can recognize it now.
Also understanding that I am a data point, and while I am just one data point, acting in a way that would communicate to the companies that I do business with that I enjoy or don’t enjoy something and not allowing them to dictate how I should live my life. I feel like I’ve reclaimed a version of child-stubbornness or innocence where I can see something for what it is, and push past it or stick with it, with a bluntness that only really children have. A disregard for norms
Same comrade, agreed on all points. Glad I realised I was not enjoying life and felt alienated from everything around me in my early 20s so I could make the decision to change everything before I had any major commitments.
Did have to leave a simple office job to spend a few years going through hell but came out of it in a better place.