Is it normal that life seems to keep getting more hopeless?
Everything keeps getting worse and I just can't handle the pressure. I wish i could disappear and not exist.
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I hope you read this, I have a question then -
So it seems each decade brings something all it's own. In my experience, and I wonder if this is common enough -
0 to 10 is all about fun.
11 to 20 is when peer pressure starts to get bad.20 to 30 we try to build our lives, maybe college, career, marriage etc. We think we know everything.
30 to 40, life starts to stagnate, our dreams get more distant, we long for "the good ol days". Marriage may fall apart.
40's - Well, I am 45 now and every day seems the same. It is hard to get excited about anything. I feel lucky to still have good health. I know enough about reality so I dare not dream. People my age and older seem too wrapped up in their own lives to even know anyone else exists. Just trying to get by each. I actually think about death quite a bit since I am likely more than 1/2 way there. Having a hard time accepting my age. On the other hand, at least the world has a little more respect for us than nit does younger folks.
SO, what is it like in one's 50's and 60's? Do things get better? Worse? 40's is so damn depressing. Anyone can chime in, hopefully my elders especially.
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I guess you can relate to age 40's as well.
As I said though, the only given by now at least is that the world has a bit more respect for us, doesn't try to tell us how to live nor does it try filling us with false hope.
Remember in our 20's they said if we went to college, lived clean, stayed out of trouble etc that one day we would have an excellent career, spouse, home, car, vacations, and life?
Yeah...
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I got lucky with my marriage. But all that stuff about hopes and dreams fading, and thinking about death more. That touched a nerve.
I seem to remember you have a kid - is that right? If so, do you feel like being a parent makes you more aware of your own aging and mortality? For me that's when I started to feel older. It made me contemplate my place in the world and realise that I'm here for a very short time.
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