Edit : Post left unedited below. Sorry i wrote this after waking up and misread. I still hope it helps. That "long time" is going to feel short before you know it. 60 years is a blink.
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If everything is equally boring, go lift weights. Not to get stronger, just for the experience of suffering. Suffering is novel, unique, different from boredom. You may grow to enjoy the suffering, many do. Because after the suffering, the world glows like a lightbulb because your body is so relieved the suffering is over. (Plus chemical brain stuff I won't get into.)
Another boring activity, mental health diagnosis and treatment.
May as well right? Since everything is boring, you would have no preference for one task over another.
Unless shitpost means "I want to complain don't help me," in which case I will have to avoid this community in the future.
You're young, try everything once. Sorry if I missed the joke, wish you the best.
I'm probably the opposite and I HATE it. I have virtually no free time. And once I finally get it I can't decide what to do with it because I get bored of anything after ~30 mins. And yet it still feels like I don't get enough free time, smh.
The list of things I'm going to finish would take me until the heat death of the universe. The last atomic fragments would be reaching homeostatic equilibrium, and I'll be sitting on my phone checking to see how cheap I can order a replacement part for a broken PS2 so I can finally play Psychonauts the way it was meant to be played.
It's like Netflix. Overwhelmed by choice but yet not enough time to have a strong emotional connection to what it is you are doing.
So you just scroll.
I get it from a job that snipes me out of fun moments that's 24/7 breathing down my back. Oh what you give up to stay alive.
But I also just do the fun stuff anyways. Or the stuff I said I would do. Because I agreed with myself to do it.
Oddly enough the older I get the more I feel like I've done it all.
I'm 36 years old. Society insists that by now I should be in the middle of a career. I've had three careers; I was let go as an auto mechanic during the 2008 recession, my job as a flight instructor ended due to problems internal to the company, let's leave it at that, and the prototyping shop I was project manager of most recently folded during the pandemic. I'm loathe to start over again.
Society also insists that I should be a husband and father by now. I never wanted children, and both of my ex-fiancees are mostly why I am now a bachelor in my mid-30's. I need an ex wife like I need a hole in my head and that's all any attempt at starting a "family" would bring.
Meanwhile, I've driven across the United States from coast to coast, I've flown the length of the Appalachians solo, I've built houses, furniture, electronics, race cars, airplanes, all manner of ridiculous objects (I managed a prototyping shop, after all), I've played concerts, I have artwork hanging in a gallery, I've seen the aurora borealis, two solar eclipses, comet Hale Bopp and once with the help of an unnecessarily powerful and lightly loaded airplane, I took off at dusk and watched the sun rise in the west.
I survived two shootings, a riot, ten hurricanes, that goddamn tornado and a global pandemic.
And even among all that I still watched a lot of TV, saw a lot of movies and played a lot of video games. Accoutrements of old hobbies gather dust because I've...finished them.
I'm 45 and suffer crippling, life long mental illness. Eventually you get used to counting the days. It's tiring but at least I don't want to step in front of a train.
Unironically the average lifespan for humans is just over 80 years.
So if you start working when you're 15 and work until retirement age which in America is 66 you'll have less than 20 years to just enjoy being alive.
And by then you'll probably have some kind of condition that will make existing harder like back pain or arthritis or the myriad of other possible ailments.
We're literally giving our prime to corporate overlords who use our work to live the life we should all have as a baseline.
It could be worse. Think of spending your years on a futile effort, one which you sacrificed your youth and health to try to achieve, and having to look back on that.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
We have 2-10 years left before we all die due to climate change. If we look at someone's age in relation to when they die, rather than when they were born, we are all about the same age. This is our retirement, our golden years. Good luck
And these are just the overall predictions. I don't have enough time to link all of the climate disasters that have already happened. Pay attention, look outside. We will be lucky if we get 10 solid years.
How nice it must be to have someone paying for all your food and shelter and survival. So you can just sit there and waste away. How nice for you. How's that doing for your personal character development?