Idk I just wish they’d stop rebooting things.

Maybe you want some change in your life. Nothing wrong with pursuing something new. You should never stop learning and growing (if that’s what you want to do).

I think media is very good at making people feel anxious. Anxious, sad people who worry about social status, age, being productive to the status quo etc are easier to sell things to. Try not to let it make you over think and just do what you want to do with your life.

I’m probably around the same age as you, and lately it’s really been hitting me how short life really is. When I was young, the idea of old age seemed so far away that it was basically infinity. Now I can basically see it coming and it will arrive in the blink of an eye.

It honestly blows my mind that all of human history is made by people who are so young, just reaching maturity, and then their candle being snuffed out as the next generation repeats it. Even “old” people are young in a sense on a cosmic scale. They aren’t old enough to have seen the patterns and flows of longer history which we have to learn through historical materialism.

Also in a way it makes the human-to-human and human-to-nonhuman environment that much more quaint. We’re constantly passing the torch on to the next generation, and so human progress is an unbroken chain spanning thousands of years.

I think I know what you mean. Media stars seem like they’ve achieved transcendence and been immortalized forever in these cultural artifacts we carry with us and continually revisit. In fact there is no transcendence in this world, no matter how successful you are or how much joy you bring to others. Time comes for us all. We are not heading toward a societal terminus or conclusion. Things lurch ahead unstoppably and the brutality of time’s passage grinds even the moments that loom largest into nothing.

These are interesting things to ponder and ruminate over! They can be useful for breaking yourself out of a rut, as long as you don’t become a classic mid-life crisis case. Going to grad school is the 30-something crisis, I’m sorry to inform you. Not that you shouldn’t do it, I recently considered doing the same thing. Just know that it won’t fundamentally lead anywhere much different from where you are now.