Just turned 26 years old, staring down 30. I still have no idea what to do with my life and I don't have a significant other. Taking things day by day, enjoying the weather and nature is what seems to give me any sort of reprieve.
@labrax.0
3 жыл бұрын
I'm 20 and same even when I was a little kid I had no idea what I wanted to do but I'm just going to keep on going on and on
@alejandrodenigris544
3 жыл бұрын
I’m 24, just graduated uni with a engineering degree, got a good job and a gf but i just feel so out of place, like we were promised something else about life. I guess we didn’t knew how good we had it as kids.
@jazaniac
3 жыл бұрын
@@labrax.0 that’s fine. I was scared of this feeling at that age and hard committed to a career that I later learned wasn’t a great fit for me. Take your time.
@labrax.0
3 жыл бұрын
@@jazaniac I will thank you for taking the time I appreciate your words
@iraqisailor
3 жыл бұрын
Same here 😶
@JamesCKuo
3 жыл бұрын
“If youth knew; if age could.” - Sigmund Freud
@fater8711
3 жыл бұрын
@kathan This means that the elderly people have more knowledge ( not specifically knowledge, more like wisdom), and youth have more physical capability. If youth knew what the elderly people know, they would be more mature or something like that, you get it. If elderly had the same physic, they'd do wonders with it, because of wisdom and that. Hm, that's what I understood at least. Sorry for my English, I'm Arabic
@BCream
3 жыл бұрын
Henri Estienne, not Freud.....
@Milk7ss
3 жыл бұрын
@@fater8711 precedes to type in perfect English
@homecow2000
3 жыл бұрын
Deep thoughts by Jack Handy
@fater8711
3 жыл бұрын
@@Milk7ss Oh :0; thanks man :)
@WalterWeight1
3 жыл бұрын
I encountered this fear when I graduated from high school. All my close friends had moved away, part time work didn’t seem as light hearted and fun anymore, now that I too was one of the adults out of touch with the younger kids, even though I was only 4-5 years older. I decided to go to uni, possibly to learn something, probably just to sink back into a familiar routine I had become so accustomed to over the 13 years prior. Although it wouldn’t be the same. My friends weren’t there, the world was unfamiliar and I didn’t have a reason to be studying, nor the motivation to do so. I’m still relatively young and I’m yet to find any semblance of the old days where I was care free and had too much time on my hands. It’s something you got told about when you were young. About how when you grow up, you’re responsibilities pile up, you get virtually no time to go outside and play, and the world begins to bite back. But you didn’t listen to the adults, what did they know after all? Before you realise it, step by step you’ve sunk into the disjointed reality they always described, but you just took as a lie to scare you into doing your homework, to get good grades, and to go somewhere in life. It’s something you can only learn in retrospect, once you’re old enough to understand how good you had it, but too old to take advantage of it. So yeah, I’m shit scared of growing old too, because I can’t imagine how awful seeing my whole life in retrospect is gonna be.
@fater8711
3 жыл бұрын
Yikes dawg, now I'M AFRAID and I'm very young
@zanderhenriksen6776
3 жыл бұрын
I'm quite young myself, just started in university half a month ago or so... I went through a similar experience as you, but once I finished college/high school, it all changed. Things didn't change, I changed. I've come to realise that things are exactly what you make of them. If you believe time is cruel, happy people are annoyingly naïve, that's how it is and always shall be. If you see everything as the opposite, the cloudy fog in the hill, mountain or whatever may be your case, as beautiful and smile at it, that's how it shall be. As people often say, "smile at life and it shall smile back". You don't need to be old and enlightened, young and naïve or any of the sorts to achieve happiness. I'm amazed at how I went from being grumpy and behaving like an old woman with juvenioa to people saying I'm the most lively person around. Shockingly, it nearly happened overnight. Tl;dr: don't rely on external factors to achieve happiness or whatever you seek in life, change comes from within. God, now I sound like an old twat. Edit: but basically, if you feel old, you look old ("old spirit"). If you feel young, you look young and lively. The external doesn't matter that much.
@sansamman4619
3 жыл бұрын
I have one comment to add, You are not actually afraid of getting old, you are afraid of the unknown which is different. Being afraid of getting old is a fear you have right now, being afraid of looking back (at your life) when you are old is being afraid of the unknown…
@andrewgodly5739
3 жыл бұрын
What I've learned from old people is that no matter what they did in their youth, they'll feel like they wasted it. Even if they did amazing things. It's all a matter of their perspective
@karim9903
3 жыл бұрын
@@andrewgodly5739 exactly, disappointment always stems from expectations, people expected so much from their lives bcs they get told by media and family that they can do everything they want and can reach their dreams, so we grow up with high expectations, thinking we are meant to do great things in life but that's not true, only the smallest percent really reach their dreams and even these people aren't fulfilled because of our human condition, and well the rest of us live an ordinary live and feel betrayed and disappointed by life bcs they think they didn't reach their potential and what they were meant to be, but that's all an illusion
@mystiverse
3 жыл бұрын
I like to think about the Stoic view about death when feelings like this come over me... death is a natural part of the order of the universe; it's neither good nor bad in itself but the value judgements we make about it is what makes us so terrified. I think this can be applied to old age as well. And besides, the best time to eat a fruit is when their season is almost over and the decay is on the horizon :)
@anitapallenberg690
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for that beautiful thought !
@rodrigochiberioseixas193
3 жыл бұрын
So... You are saying, that we should eat more old people?
@thelaurens1996
3 жыл бұрын
@@ahalya2364 I'm dying XD (And isn't that the point, equally aren't we all)
@alex.g7317
3 жыл бұрын
@@rodrigochiberioseixas193 No... exclusively old people.
@Spuishee
2 жыл бұрын
YES! THIS right here helps me immensely as well, with all of the struggles of life. I even tattooed ataraxia on chest to not forget what it is that truly heals, to adapt a tranquility about it all.
@Monster_Mover_Stocks
3 жыл бұрын
Wow...you mortals really have it tough. Seriously though, I'm turning 60 next month and I remember how down I was when I turned 30. I'd kill for 30 again. It's unbelievable how the years turn into decades at the blinking of an eye. Enjoy it while it lasts because Father Time takes no prisoners.
@thedog5k
3 жыл бұрын
I’m only 21 and having a serious quarter life crisis. All those years in grade school - hs and with absolutely no worries. Gone in a snap. A month used to be an eternity. After working a shitty job that ate up most my time the last few years, I feel like it didn’t even happen.
@gracefitzgerald2227
3 жыл бұрын
I will be 50 in 2 years. Im fine with it. I partied and lived life to the fullest and have recently slowed down to delve into philosophy to get me prepped up for what’s to come.
@indfnt5590
3 жыл бұрын
@@thedog5k yooo. Get into the mortgage industry!! You won’t regret it. Most positions don’t require bachelors( I know people lie) and they are paid above minimum wage. Definitely a lot of room to grow in all areas of the company is training. The commission based ones are good too: Loan Officer/ underwriter. Don’t feel down, you just haven’t been given the right opportunity in life. They don’t teach us about so many different well paid positions in school. I hope you check it out, this will the financial stability to worry about what you want to do with your life. 🙌
@GalaxRD
2 жыл бұрын
@@thedog5k you...you never had a single stressful moment in high school or grade school never a bad teacher or a stressful assignment???
@robjohnson2116
2 жыл бұрын
I don't mean to play devil's advocate or anything, but you have quite the username and profile picture for a 60 year old man.
@totallynotayush492
3 жыл бұрын
growing old just seems like something inevitable, maybe it doesn't feel as bad because im still young, but this feels like a reminder telling me that i should make the most of what i have now, try to do everything i want to, because in the future, i want to be able to say that i did all i could and have no regrets. thank you Sis for the thought-provoking video.
@Vextrove
3 жыл бұрын
Hmm... Perhaps this attitude will make it harder to accept when it really begins to show
@SatanasExMachina
3 жыл бұрын
I've dealt closely with quite a few loved ones passing in old age, and the one binding factor was their regrets. Not a single one regretted anything they did, but all of them regretted the things they didn't do. It's the missed experiences that we think on in the end. Have as many as you can, because you only live once, and only for awhile.
@SmoltingWassie
2 жыл бұрын
Growing old isn't inevitable if you die young. Big brain move right there.
@killerlambo9150
11 ай бұрын
Bruh im 15 and im terrified
@miked.7245
3 жыл бұрын
I act like I did when I was 16 and when I look at how other middle aged people act I'm happy to act like a kid until I die.
@ye9803
3 жыл бұрын
yeah I unintentionally got stuck at age 13 or something
@Nedmac320
3 жыл бұрын
Skate or die
@xavier4519
3 жыл бұрын
@@Nedmac320 i'm learning to skate at 18 fuck it
@strangeyoungster319
3 жыл бұрын
@@xavier4519 go for it dude its never too late
@zkcrisyee
3 жыл бұрын
@@xavier4519 At 18 you’re still a baby, in comparison with the rest of life. Life expectancy is around 80 years old today, whereas it was 53 around 100 years ago. That means you’re only in your 10s… you got 7 long decades left. Just 1 out of 8. Go for it, you won’t regret spending time practicing a talent you love. I wish I had taken piano/guitar sooner.
@itsnotadriantho
Жыл бұрын
I’m only 19 years old but I’m approaching 20 in 3 months. Kinda a teen crisis. It sucks because I can remember clearly being in kindergarten, not a worry in the world. It’s crazy how fast time goes. I’ve recently watched home videos of me and my family back in 2003-2008 and it made me sad. I know it’s going to hit even more different when I watch them in 20 years. I cry because I don’t want the people I love to age. Even popular KZitemrs. I just don’t want no one to age. I hate it. I also don’t wanna envy younger people than me in the future. Honestly I can’t picture myself being 50 one day but the truth is I am and that’s life. I hope I get over this fear soon. I know I’m lucky to be 19 right now.
@killexpert5095
Жыл бұрын
Ey buddy. Where are you now?
@breezy5013
Жыл бұрын
I’m the same age as you. I feel the same way man
@itsnotadriantho
Жыл бұрын
@@killexpert5095 chillin, it’s only been 5 months lol. I am 20 tho now. Just tryna enjoy life
@killexpert5095
Жыл бұрын
@@itsnotadriantho I too am 2003. Funny how old pictures can make us nostalgic for periods we've never experienced. Even funnier how we can talk us into remembering things from our child- and early adulthood. Nostaligia is a dirty liar, as everyone knows. But even Memory's more about selectively reconstructing the past in a creative way, filling in details that weren't there but might have been.
@killexpert5095
Жыл бұрын
@@itsnotadriantho The past is but a haunting idea of what might have been. And the future's that thing that taints the present with short events that may or may not occur. The presence is the only thing you can grasp because at least you know it will have passed before you did so. That's where the great battle of being happy is fought. No matter how rich, popular and beloved you are: It is still going to be the same, your mind, your mood dependent partially on what you ate, how much you slept, and whatever, and depending on the habits of how you think and perceive the world. The level of ease, stress, anxiety or humor your thought patterns tend to conjure up. The presence is what you need to be master. How many polluting the whole experience because of the prospect of experiencing moments, in which their short comings will manifest themselves on the world; When it's about being too unattractive, unlikable, unintelligent and insufficient in life... The whole experience of life is comprised of how many of such rare moments? So what's it matter.
@limeybonesjones7395
3 жыл бұрын
I'm 19, I recently woke up one day and realised my mother is turning 56 and my father 59 and me almost 20 as I type this is September of 2021. I'm scared of losing those I care about. The river of time is going to keep flowing, that is inevitable
@greenamogus
Жыл бұрын
just like Thanos
@madelaine7724
6 ай бұрын
yo how are you doing now?
@Pheonarx
5 ай бұрын
@@greenamogus lmao
@dewthennakoon
2 ай бұрын
I just completed my nineteenth birthday last week. I barely happy these days about getting old and all of my family members are sick and not happy. I barely study these days. can't move on all I can see is life is sad and we can't control it when I get older my family will leave me. my mom and dad will die. I'm an only child I don't know how to survive this sadness like. I don't want to age and dead and I don't want born again. I don't want to be part of this cycle can' t stop thinking like that. I'm terrified.
@clyve9
2 ай бұрын
@@dewthennakoon you better get over it fast, I'm 26 and I have felt this way since I was 18, I did eventually lose family, but now I'm also homeless from drowning in self pity
@luisvazquez6179
3 жыл бұрын
When I was little, like 7 years old I told my dad that I was scared of dying; when I close my eyes I saw myself death. His answer wasn't the best (he told me to pray). Time passed and I got over it, but it really sucks to face an inevitable fate
@stefanwullems
3 жыл бұрын
@@careypridgeon You’re assuming that the only way to be immortal is to be the only one who is immortal and that you would develop conditions (which is not necessary). If this were reality, it would probably come from the halting of biological aging. Since this would come from science, it’s probably going to be public knowledge, so you won’t be the only one. Most conditions are age related, so halting aging will halt the development of these diseases as well.
@itsmootdamnitnotmute905
3 жыл бұрын
Dude, I'm 58. My existential crisis didn't hit me until i was 53. Finding content like yours and Exurb1a's helped in lots of ways and I'm grateful for it, but finding Camus is what ultimately pulled me out of the dark. It gave me an explanation as to why I love Python like I do. Always look on the bright side of life. Though being diagnosed with ADHD at 54 and prescribed regular amphetamine may have helped as well........
@Artsu1993
3 жыл бұрын
You really mean python the program language?
@itsmootdamnitnotmute905
3 жыл бұрын
@Artsu Sorry, I meant Monty Python - Always Look on The Bright Side of Life references the song at the end of their movie "Life of Brian". If you haven't seen it, I recommend it highly - absurdist humor at its best.
@VantaDraws
Жыл бұрын
Is there anything to look forward to whilst getting older? I haven’t been able to find anything talking about actual positives about it and it’s not a help to getting rid of the mindset of apathy: why bother doing anything, if when you get older you’ll just get more miserable? If our younger years are our best, there’s honestly no point living past what is considered “young.”
@guidogroenescheij6472
Жыл бұрын
The 'enjoy it while it lasts' mindset is absolutely mindboggling to me. Yes. Yes I will enjoy it while it lasts. And I'll enjoy the next thing too. And the next thing. I'll enjoy starting my first job, getting my first promotion, being a parent, a grandparent. I'll enjoy retirement, and telling stories about all I've done, and all I will do to the long term loved ones I will have met along the way, or to the new people I will meet. I'll enjoy my life. Views such as the one expressed in this video choose to focus on that which is lost through time, not what is gained. Being down about losing things, or the prospect of doing so is natural. But dwelling on loss does not help anyone, focus on that which you've gained and will gain, because there is a lot. Sadness about getting older is natural, I believe sadness about the prospect of getting older is a choice. And an easy one to make. It is easy to envision all you will lose, because you have it now, it is more difficult to envision all you will gain, because that requires creativity and foresight. Maybe this is where optimism and pessimism differs.
@MrSandChess
3 жыл бұрын
I've always been afraid of getting old. My fear has always stemmed not from the fact that I'm going to die, but from the fact that I might not be making the most of my youth, and that some day I'll try to do the things I should have done when I was young and by then I'll be too old. I guess it's more of the fear of missing out.
@idontknowhoiam6758
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I also feel the same
@deivijones1145
2 жыл бұрын
Then start today not tomorow
@iiCounted-op5jx
Жыл бұрын
BROOOOOOTAL, I feel the same bro, my teen years are being wasted rotting in front of a computer all day
@dreamfaller6372
Жыл бұрын
This. This is exactly it.
@danielstank2185
3 жыл бұрын
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
@livescript4462
3 жыл бұрын
There's a song called 24 by Red House Painters you might appreciate; "So it's not loaded stadiums or ballparks And we're not kids on swingsets on the blacktop And I thought at fifteen that I'd have it down by sixteen And twenty-four keeps breathing in my face...."
@starisrandom2016
3 жыл бұрын
💙
@seansmith3058
3 жыл бұрын
Solitude is an essential thing to make peace with. I've seen a lot of people who feared it make unwise choices just to avoid it, and then their lives were basically set.
@sweettea735
3 жыл бұрын
I spent a whole night thinking about growing old and I couldn’t stop crying 😭
@livescript4462
3 жыл бұрын
man.
@ipadair7345
3 жыл бұрын
Same, multiple times.
@hoodieap2858
3 жыл бұрын
Shit is so sad and unfortunate like existing is so suffocating
@sweettea735
3 жыл бұрын
@@hoodieap2858 isn’t that the sad truth 😂
@atrocious6139
3 жыл бұрын
Yet you spend the finite time you have on KZitem in a pointless comment section
@thesparrow5095
3 жыл бұрын
I wish I never existed but because I do I cry knowing about this
@bokaboss3973
3 жыл бұрын
I turn 19 today . This was on my recommended so decided to give it a go . I'm scared of getting old , not for myself but my parents, my friends, the people around . In their existence lies mine . I don't believe that I have my own individual self . I believe that this great grand story we call life is an interconnected web of people and stories. Will things remain the same ? I don't know . I wish that I would have the opportunity to finally reminisce some day .
@thinginground5179
3 жыл бұрын
happy birthday
@SmoltingWassie
2 жыл бұрын
"If you're young enough to still have family and friends, join an MLM and get them to buy in under you, for this is the meaning of life" - Aristotle.
@davytyler
3 жыл бұрын
I turned 32 about a month ago and this has been dwelling in my mind from time to time. Well timed Sis.
@Tschoii90
3 жыл бұрын
Soon to be 32 myself. Lifes a bitch and then you die I guess.
@ashtondillard6906
7 ай бұрын
I think statistically people hit there peak at 35 so you’re fine. I don’t really consider someone old until like 55-60+, I’m 23 and feel this way sometimes and just have to remind myself I have another 40-60 years left on this planet yenno?
@quamch2774
3 жыл бұрын
Really good thoughts on getting old, but I dont find the necessity of looking at getting old as something bad or terrifying, since time is unstopabble and for us to enjoy the finite time we have being alive is, simply, spending it optimally doing what we most enjoy. Why be bothered by something we can't change?
@apustajachileno
3 жыл бұрын
this comment is so basic
@atrocious6139
3 жыл бұрын
@@apustajachileno but true and informative
@miked.7245
3 жыл бұрын
I know right? And if time is infinite then isn't each of our actions infinitely meaningful? Either way there's no reason not to try and enjoy the incredibly interesting and rare thing it is to be a human being.
@thedog5k
3 жыл бұрын
@@apustajachileno the 1st stage is denial
@user-vx3wc8yc9v
Жыл бұрын
@@atrocious6139 It's neither and the comment disregards the point of the discussion.
@sammiethesalmon
Жыл бұрын
i’m only going into 8th grade. it’s not me getting old that i’m scared of. it’s losing my loved ones when i get older. i see myself growing already. i wish i was that little girl i used to be. people say “oh your still young you have lots of time”. but no. one year till highsxhool, four years till college. i have 5 year till college. (my math might be wrong). i’ve gotten to the point where i don’t really wanna hangout with my friends anymore. i just wanna hang out with my parents. stay at home and play board games with my grandpa and help my grandma cook. i keep thinking of the day when i’m all alone, no one to love me. and what if i’m alone forever. i keep thinking about my loved ones gone through the years i get older. i wish i can just pause time. i keep telling myself get off my phone and do soemtjing with your family. but it never really happens. and i’ll always have guilt in me. if i was in an interview, one lesson i would tell is dont take anything or anyone for granted. i can’t imagine my life as i get old. i want a family that i can comfort and i’m hoping in the dark times they can comfort me too. while still having my loved ones now in my life. idk if any of my friends feel this way. probably not. so usually to the people who do i just wanted to tell you your not alone for feeling this way ❤️
@PersianCyrusII
Жыл бұрын
I’m about to turn 16 going into 11th grade and I’m reallly nervous. Soon im going to start driving and then I have to pick a college. I’m scared of moving away from my parents. I don’t want them to get old. My grandparents are most likely going to die soon probably under a decade. But we’re better off living life without these thoughts. Every human goes through this. Instead just have fun and make the most of your teenage years before you regret it. If you need somebody to talk to you could talk to me.
@suf6716
3 ай бұрын
@@sammiethesalmon i had it too...but things change massively too and your feelings too...this fear of losing your family must never get in the way of you securing a good future where you might be able to pay the bills for your family too and take care of them in their old age... that's how it should work they loved you you love them back and take care of them...one day you might have your own kids and they say nothing makes you happier than seeing your kids around you
@dewthennakoon
2 ай бұрын
I just completed my nineteenth birthday last week. I barely happy these days about getting old and all of my family members are sick and not happy. I barely study these days. can't move on all I can see is life is sad and we can't control it when I get older my family will leave me. my mom and dad will die. I'm an only child I don't know how to survive this sadness like. I don't want to age and dead and I don't want born again. I don't want to be part of this cycle can' t stop thinking like that.
@sammiethesalmon
2 ай бұрын
@@dewthennakoon i am also an only child and i feel like its gonna be hard when im all alone because i have no siblings to grieve with. but its just part of life, and we all learn and grieve in different ways. these comments make me feel good that im not the only one feeling all of this.
@dewthennakoon
2 ай бұрын
@@sammiethesalmon yeah. And I'm now feeling a little bit better too. Because I don't even know if i Die soon or later. But if I live in the present moment without thinking too much. I'll be happier. Life isn't That long . we have to stop thinking and ofcourse I found a way to relax I'm not that religious or something but when like I'm sad because I'm getting old. I'm old because I was born. And lord buddha is someone who Understand the sadness of life. If I follow his path One day I'll be free. Maybe It's Not This soul And I don't think I'm smart enough to figure out a way alone. I'm going to be good person every day( someone don't think too much) and help others and animals . In my religion I have heard of a next buddha will born so many years later. I know its maybe a billion years ahead But I'm going to be a good kind person that one day when he's born Not my this soul but Just one soul I'll meet him and I'm going to be good enough he can only help if a person have a wisdom or something like that I'm not good at English
@d4v0r_x
3 жыл бұрын
when i was young, i was alone, but not always lonely, because i could do things. now i'm old, and being alone feels like death
@nickolazcarters
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly.
@Pimpmister78
3 жыл бұрын
You saying this made me feel better. I know other people fear it, but it felt like someone else actually aslo felt it, just you saying it. All we can do is make the best of our life as it is. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. It's not a crime, it's just the cost of having life.
@icebox544
3 жыл бұрын
I just turned 18 and I feel this exact way. I feel like my life is basically over even though I know it’s only just begun.
@kinhamid9665
2 жыл бұрын
Same here mate. The fact that I'm still called "young" even though I'm panicking to figure out how to spend the rest of my life is eating away at me.
@thedog5k
3 жыл бұрын
As children they pump our heads full of dreams. After all, kids are pure potential. But as our lives drag on and time passes, our lives become cemented in history. We become more depressed as we fail to achieve those expectations. And if you dare to share any ambition with another, they tell you to be more “realistic”
@thesaddestdude3575
3 жыл бұрын
Or the films we used to watch as kids, all telling us how we would have adventures and find love.
@thedog5k
3 жыл бұрын
@@thesaddestdude3575 Disney made me think relationships were something to look forward too Takes a while to get out of that
@thesaddestdude3575
3 жыл бұрын
@@thedog5k The worst part is how life passes you by, i was always told that i would meet somone as a kid, but as a grew up i noticed how nobody wanted me and at some point your youth is over. And when you talk about being lonely people call you an incel and tell you that its your own fault, i mean i guess it is. But i tried and in the end i never found anyone. I mean i tried. But nobody wants somone who is ugly and ill. The movies never told me that.
@milesmorales2869
3 жыл бұрын
@@thesaddestdude3575 if u don't mind me asking what's ur illness
@nobody-vw9ci
Жыл бұрын
@@thesaddestdude3575 i feel you dude
@gaypossum6774
8 ай бұрын
I think my fear of aging comes more from the fear the beauty industry has instilled in me. At 17 I remember asking my beautician how to prevent wrinkles. I’m scared that I’ll lose my value to the ppl around me because I’ll no longer be viewed as beautiful. I’m terrified of my body deteriorating as my mind does the same until I can’t do anything myself and no longer know who I am, ending up like my grandparents. I know realistically showing my age isn’t as big a deal as it feels to me, but I keep hearing how my generation look so old for our age and knowing that women are often seen as unattractive once we reach our late 20s/early 30s. I’m sure it seems like a bigger deal than it is to me just because the internet shows the most extreme ideas, but knowing there are ppl out there who stop valuing women once they no longer look like teens, and wherever I go I keep seeing ads trying to sell me anti-aging products. Idk, I just feel like I need to rant about this, sorry for doing it here
@Shameless_Daff
3 жыл бұрын
31 going on 32. The obituary thing about Facebook hit home - as many of my friends I confided in were older. I can’t ever bring myself to mourn their loss by posting any memories on there, but I see some find comfort in talking on a post on his page. 30 was especially cruel in that my body has severe arthritis now. If only I could go back to my early 20’s where I drank and cried my youth away. I can’t help but feel my heart grow watching a 23 year old friend experience love and be surrounded by the company of his friends. I feel envy almost in his sure belief of purpose that I once had.! Solitude is my friend, while many others I have removed by my own accord. Finding Solace in nature or a good book helps sometimes, but it certainly isn’t easy. Thank you for this.
@DoctorRickSanchez
2 жыл бұрын
_32 is a real young adult tho you're not middle aged until 45-60 you're not old until after 67(retirement age). Don't feel old you have a whole 30 years under your belt to go hope this helps and hope you feel better youngin', also sorry for your losses🗣🙏_
@idamoballegh1227
3 жыл бұрын
For a month I was crying each day because of aging. I was turning 19.
@appleslover
3 жыл бұрын
@Snow Crystal that's literally me
@GirlDo3
3 жыл бұрын
Me ever since I was 11 lol
@starisrandom2016
3 жыл бұрын
@@GirlDo3 SAME!
@nickolazcarters
2 жыл бұрын
Me as 21
@peppermint5117
2 жыл бұрын
@@GirlDo3 same, i wish i could just properly experience childhood, even when I was 4-9 I was extremely pessimistic, I didn't enjoy myself but I judged others
@paolahf
3 жыл бұрын
I don't know. I'm on the verge of turning twenty and I'm already beginning to develop a fear, not of getting old, but of growing irrelevant; as a woman I know my value within society (a dysfunctional one in that regard) the perception general strangers have of me relies in my youth, on whether or not I'm perceived as attractive. I don't want to be irrelevant, or be regarded as a waste, as the echoes of what was once beautiful or worthy. I try, ironically, making myself feel better by remembering the perception I had of women as a child. I also try to think about how much I know now compared to a few years ago and that I'd like to think that young me would be proud of the person that I turned out to be; about how maybe my vocabulary will be more ample, how I'll have read lots of books and maybe speak more languages. In western society youth is overvalued, youth entails energy, beauty and strength but also ignorance, often disregard for things that are important like friendship, family, kindness and culture. Life is hard, but I think it's maybe not the best wasting it away for things that are out of our control.
@LuceroAlvarado
3 жыл бұрын
I feel you, and I think we're all a waste if you think that irrelevant means something like "nobody's gonna remember me in +100 years", I had a really bad anxiety episode when I first realized that, to the point I was thinking about having a child by ~35 just to feel a little less irrelevant (I'm a 26yo lesbian in a 3rd world country and I just broke up with my gf). But now I feel good living just for the sake of living, really.
@paolahf
3 жыл бұрын
@@LuceroAlvarado Certainly, essentially, living is an absurd concept. To me there are two alternatives, either commit suicide or just go on. So I just choose the lather, and from that I choose everything that makes existing a bit more bearable for myself and others. From your name I'm guessing you're somewhere from Latin America. Qué gusto encontrar a otra latinoamericana por aquí, jaja.
@alexschlax5876
3 жыл бұрын
I totally agree w what u said. Being a young "fertile" woman in western society (specifically heteronormative society) is grossly fetishized. And the romanticized belief that all women should have kids and spouse bf they're 30 just fuels the fear of growing old. I'm gonna be 21 in 6 months n already worry abt what I want to do w my life while I still have the time/energy for big lifestyle changes. It's like there's this pressure to have my life figured out abt now, but I think that's largely thanks to our western culture having unrealistic expectations for young women in general; and I feel it's subconsciously influenced the choices I've made for myself. I think it's natural to be intimidated by the thought of growing "old" n to fear death itself. But I'd rather be some old badass woman than be a young ignorant girl, the knowledge u learn n accumulate along the way is more meaningful than being young n ignorant, even if ignorance is bliss :)
@LuceroAlvarado
3 жыл бұрын
@@paolahf Así es! De México! Jaja un gusto también! A seguirle, pues.
@LuceroAlvarado
3 жыл бұрын
@@alexschlax5876 I can't wait to be an old badass woman! One can only hope.
@Rubbinghandsschemingsomething
3 жыл бұрын
My biggest fear is getting older, weaker, and dumber simultaneously.
@deepikavijakumar9553
3 жыл бұрын
I needed this. Just a couple of minutes back, I was absolutely terrified with the thought that I am getting old and my parents are getting old. The knowing that all this is going to end, knowing there will come a day when I won't see my dad, knowing that I will no longer look the way I look now, gosh, absolutely terrifying. And I just don't know how to deal with this.
@clarab325
2 жыл бұрын
I used to struggle so much with this, every time I would even think about getting older I would start crying (and I’m not someone who often shows their emotions). It’s a little bit better now but I’m still so scared that I’m not going to achieve anything in my life, I’m fighting though Btw the sentence “The light is fading, the audience has left, and yet you insist that the play is just getting started” really hit me, that is what I feel (even if I’m still very young), and what I fear I will feel in the future, when I’m 50 and have nothing to look back or forwards to
@wadysawfarat5836
3 жыл бұрын
I'm turning 30 now and I feel better than ever. Stay strong folks and live Your best, because there is only one life.
@HCforLife1
8 ай бұрын
The issues start in late 30's. You are still young in terms of older population, but old judged by young ones. You are not getting younger - so you realize that you slowly drifting toward that 50s, 60s and death
@dsj82
7 ай бұрын
In about 5 years time aging will intensifi. It comes when you least expect it. Suddenly you wake up and realize you are no longer young. You can see it in your face. Oh 3 years from now since your comment is 2 years old
@borleyboo5613
2 жыл бұрын
I’ll be 66 in March and I’ve been a little sad at getting older. It is scary but then, every living thing dies at some point. It’s as inevitable as the sun rising tomorrow. Make the very best of the time you have and live in the moment. Be who YOU want to be and to blazes with convention. Grow old disgracefully if you want to. I certainly shall do as I reach the age of retirement. I’ll dye my hair pink and wear eccentric clothes and big boots or wellies. And sod what anyone thinks. 👍😃
@movedchannels1543
3 жыл бұрын
Aren’t we all. Getting old is closer to death. Death, of which is unknown. Religion is merely a way to cope with the end. You realize your life is coming to an end. Perhaps a paradise, perhaps an endless nothingness like a sleepless dream. The only memories you can think of are the horrid ones. There are good things but in the end it’s pointless. As we grow old everyone else does too. One day our parents and loved ones will die. 30 years from now where will you be? Growing old is the unknown. On a more positive note: growing old can teach you many things in life. Never focus on the unknown ahead. Focus on yourself and live in the moment.
@illitaret8780
3 жыл бұрын
Yes exactly it is unknown, none of us knows what is in store. But I’d rather be an optimist and wrong, then a pessimist and right.
@user-ui8my9zs7o
3 жыл бұрын
Death is the healer of all sickness. Age is nothing to worry about. You only allow yourself to be "old"
@jazaniac
3 жыл бұрын
@@illitaret8780 I’m not sure about that. Optimism can be just as detrimental as pessimism in certain circumstances. Medieval lords used this optimism to manipulate their serfs into slavery by promising them an eternal reward if they followed orders. If all of those serfs had been pessimistic enough about the afterlife to realize this, maybe they could have taken more control over their own lives.
@montypythonandtheholygrail9687
3 жыл бұрын
I’m not scared of getting old. And anyone who is is a fool
@movedchannels1543
3 жыл бұрын
@@illitaret8780 yeah I’d rather be an optimist about it too! This was lowkey just a little vent, sometimes I get paranoid about death soo yeah
@SeekersofUnity
3 жыл бұрын
So epic to hear you sharing your own thoughts. Thank you :)
@sizzlinplate9501
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I really needed an upload from you today
@Crakygamez
3 жыл бұрын
I love your thought on this man. Its like daily food for your reflection on becoming a better person.
@Raramation
3 жыл бұрын
In a way I think it's a good sign that you get the feeling that you dont want to die. It's an indication that your existence is meaningful and interesting. Life is awesome.
@ronondex6
3 жыл бұрын
It's somewhat fascinating and somewhat sad isn't it. As a kid so many want nothing else then to grow up even though we hear the words of warning of the old. But we will be different their peril won't effect us how could it from outside the advantages of being an Adult seem so enticing. But with each year the nagging feeling that they might have been right grows louder in ones head. It first really hits you when you leave school and you don't see your mates daily anymore that you grew up with in and out of school. Some of your friend grow somewhat distant as they spend more and more time at work. But it's not to bad yet. Then in university you still see your friends somewhat regularly and have time and some money to spend with them. But after that when you and your friends all work now the slow gnaw of time shows itself more and more in the open. Your grandparents die and your friends start family's. Every one is just busy all the time including you. Your body lacks the strengths of youth it once had more and more. Instead of going out every weekend or so with the mates you try your best to relaxe from work and get some sleep or sink some times on your hobbies. All this is your reality now and you wonder if that is really it. This is all there is to it just continue the struggle to your grave. You can't stay a child forever, as the story of Peter Pan shows so well, staying in Neverland forever is no way to live. But alas their is no worth in complaining about this kind of inescapable torment. "One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. One must imagine Sisyphus happy""
@metametodo
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. We may be alone, but occasionally we receive pleasant words and wisdom, like this.
@hoodieap2858
3 жыл бұрын
True but Sisyphus will never be happy
@ronondex6
3 жыл бұрын
@Nozzle You're right, Sisyphus will never be happy, but that isn't the point that Camus is trying to make imo. He doesn't need to be happy we just have to imagine him as such. "He (Sisyphus) concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Happiness is a not a state one can exist in for a prolonged period of time. That much is made sure by the human condition and life and it's unpredictability. Camus trys to reconcile the fact that our lifes are just a struggle to the grave. So the question proposes itself if that is the case how can we make the best out of it? By imagining Sisyphus happy. Instead of crumbling under this grim reality we rebel against it fully knowing the we can't win. That death is unavoidable and defeat is ever present. This simply act of defiance enables us to break free of what objectively should be constante torment and suffering. It grounds us in the present and guides us what to do in our time given. And thous sets us, or in this case Sisyphus, truly free. He is the master of his own fate. Even in his condition of eternal condemnation.
@metametodo
3 жыл бұрын
@@ronondex6 That's the paradox in it for me. I have a part of me that rationally acknowledges how, in final analysis, anyway I live, anything I build and do, is completely subjective and thus, ultimately unreal, all of which dies with me. So this side of me ended up being the force which incited me to avoid living a life, in principle, aiming to avoid forcing myself to suffer without a reason, it's an absurd to do that while knowing the ultimate reality. Meanwhile, I know how a more fulfilling life is considerably connected with being close to the reality, almost embracing the flow of life, embrace the rock that is your burden. As if all the implications and consequences of embracing and struggling with life were something that is more natural, simple, and logical than living a life based on analysing and recognizing the true absurdity that is our condition, and - supposedly - avoiding unreasonable struggle and suffering. It's as if this specific kind of struggle, that is embracing the absurd, is existentially _less_ taxing and stressing than rationally and consciously avoiding those very ailments. It's as if, whilst being aware that you're _not_ being objective, creating and maintaining a complex subjective realm of experience is the best - and even easiest - thing to do, completely aware that all the sweat and suffering it cost you was on something that isn't real, not beyond yourself. This is bananas to me. And indeed, at the moment I can't swallow it. That 'first part' of me has made me avoid building any life and kept me in severe depression for a decade. I'm going through changes but that "rational" analysis and conclusion still is what makes more sense to me, even though ultimately there clearly are holes in my rationale of life. How can a subjective act of defiance challenge an objective torment and suffering... sounds nuts. Sounds as if being out of your mind is the most rational thing to do.
@ronondex6
3 жыл бұрын
@@metametodo It is like you say indeed bananas or absurd ^^ What you describe encapsulates Camus observations perfectly. Life is indeed inherently meaningless and insignificant within the scale of it all. All we create, all we are, all our friends family and earthly possessions will end in a blink of an eye in the cosmic time scale. We can't change this fact of nature through our rebelling, just like Nozzel said Sisyphus isn't happy. So how can we put Camus philosophy into use even though we rationally know its unreal. This is the crux of it, how do you fight your own destructive rationality and challenge it with constructed rationality. I don't think there is a clear or "right" answer to it, besides what makes it work for you. For me the way to obtaining it is taking responsibility. There are two modus operandi either nothing matters and everything is meaningless so why try or everything I do matters. So to choose between valued responsibility or impulsive low class pleasure like Peter Pan. Why lift a load or Sisyphus rock in the first place if there is nothing in it for me in the end ? Responsibility, pick one and carry it. You get to choose yours but you have to choose on and start carrying that rock up the mountain because if you don't you end up like a sled dog without its sled tearing pieces out of its own leg because its bored. For me in part it's the responsibility of picking my suffering and bear it. Trying to be a "good" person and to try not to make it worse for me or the people I care for. Every one has a really good reason not to be a good person be it unfair suffering or the meaninglessness of it all. But if you life out that resentment you make everything you're complaining about infinitely worse and not just for you but also for the people around you. There is this idea that hell is a bottomless pit and that's because someone can always figure out a way to make it a lot worse. Life is suffering that's what the religious people have been right about for so long. So what to do in the face of it ? Accept it and try to reduce it for yourself and the people around you, make that part of your responsibility. We all know to a degree what is wrong with us so start there too. Take the smallest thing that is wrong with you, that you can tackle in your condition, and start there. Piece for piece you will make yourself better. That's your responsibility if you just choose to carry it. The only way to overcome the suffering of life is to be a better person. That is hard and it takes responsibility. You want a meaningful life, everything you do matters, but everything you do matters. "He who has a how can bear any why." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Nobility of purpose that's the way you can rebel against it all like Camus advises. To pick up the rock and be "happy" . "The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."
@hazptmedia
11 ай бұрын
I’m 17, I am beginning to feel this way, even though I’m still kinda young
@zemotika
9 ай бұрын
Yeah it’s weird man, it kinda just flashes by. I’m 26 now and feel like 17 was just yesterday. I still feel young af but I’m aware of my age and of time creeping up on me
@MSHNKTRL
3 жыл бұрын
At one point, I could not imagine myself at 30. now at 44, getting older is just a matter of knowing what doesn't serve me anymore and having the faculty to do better.
@mitch5222
Жыл бұрын
Any help for getting rid of this fear?
@MSHNKTRL
Жыл бұрын
@@mitch5222 idk, if you pay attention, you see everything differently from time to time.
@Amozzo
8 ай бұрын
I’m 13 and my parents are in their 50s I am so scared to lose the ones that I love
@pippip8237
8 ай бұрын
I can relate except only my dads in his 50s my moms approaching it soon. I’m panicking over it. I want them in my life forever. 🙁
@dookins2081
8 ай бұрын
Man, this was beautifully composed, dictated, and written. As a person who is terrified of aging (33) I resonate deeply with how harsh this all comes across. Because aging is harsh. Unstoppable. Inevitable. But I also hate how truthful the options presented here are. Make peace with it, or become unhappier every year. Or of course, opt out of life. You want so badly to be a fourth option. And man the whole facebook thing full of obituaries was so DARK XD it struck something in me, really disturbing. lol that got me. Still, all in all, great stuff.
@duncanclarke
3 жыл бұрын
I think I commented this on a previous video, but I really love the way your aesthetic and style has evolved over time. The chromatic aberration, film grain, and colour changes make the visual experience a lot more dynamic.
@haydentuite8267
3 жыл бұрын
I love the content you create man. I can tell there’s so much passion that goes into it. Keep doing the stuff you love. “Don’t be hesitant to make anything to your fancy, as long as is specially made as art.” -Jimi Hendrix
@camelusdromedarius3789
3 жыл бұрын
I've drifted apart from many friends, I've seen many of my family die, I've more wrinkles than a person has at my age, but I've never been afraid of being old. If anything, I've always wanted to be old. My grandfather was my father figure, and he lived to the fullest even in his old age. Him and I were sparring regularly just 2 years before he died of stage 4 lymphoma. He had so much experience, wisdom, love, and goofiness to him all the way until the end. He only improved as he grew older, and so him in his old age was the peak of his wisdom, understanding, and happiness. With that example, how can I not too be excited to see a life fully lived until the end?
@Beardash123
3 ай бұрын
I somehow had this as a kid, and I remembered this again.
@carlociotola7137
3 жыл бұрын
This video is anxiety condensed. In the most literal way, there is uneasiness and fear about the future. And it's a thing I can deeply relate to, and I coped with that, with the acceptance that it is a projection of my thoughts and action. And in being so, it's not tangible. The only thing we truly have is the present. So, while aging does arouse this feelings, it's also important that we know that we only have one age, and it is the one we have now. There is no need to think of what is not present, if not to take action.
@weipengful
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this, I really needed this This has been on my mind alot recently, and its been getting in the way of my preparation for my grad exam from high school, because I cant help but start thinking about this when I’m studying, and it really got in the way This provided me some ‘closure’ and recognition of such thoughts I suppose, and it helped me to be less distracted in whatever I was doing
@yousefgeorge3060
3 жыл бұрын
Happy birthday mr. 55 old man! 🥳 🎉
@PushPushPush2k
3 жыл бұрын
If this is true happy birthday!
@slyppery7923
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Sisyphus. I always appreciated your videos before this one, feeling they touched on topics that other people need to hear. But this video goes above and beyond that. This video feels personal. I sincerely thank you for talking about such a normalized topic in a deeper manner, especially the "virtualized obituary" part... I always thought about these things as a kid but never got answers or any closure to the topic because nobody else thinks this way, nobody else is so aware about the normal parts of life being just as melancholic or awful as everything else. This really reinforces the point of "life is suffering by default". Even if hearing the truth is rather depressing, there's no one I'd rather hear the truth from. Thank you.
@ncrtrooper1782
3 жыл бұрын
I'm not scared of dying, I'm not scared of my loved ones eventually leaving, and I'm not scared of my body aging. I'm scared that I missed many opportunities. I look back and see someone shut in. I'm glad I learned not to after quarantine and, ofc still being safe and responsible, I'm enjoying every moment, every football game, every opportunity to walk up on stage, everywhere I can put my name under a good deed, I'm enjoying it.
@riyavirulkar3859
3 жыл бұрын
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older
@riyavirulkar3859
3 жыл бұрын
Can't stop thinking about these lyrics. Roger said the idea of this song is, To be here now, this is it. Make the most of it. I recently turned 20. And how i wish time could just stop here.
@cosbybro8501
3 жыл бұрын
my favorite modern philosopher! ty for your thoughts! Your not alone in your wandering hope all is well.
@Myeah-myeah
8 ай бұрын
I started to feel like this when i was a freshman in highschool. Im a junior now and i still feel like this even though im still very young and i just can't let go of it.
@olsaaan
3 жыл бұрын
Getting old isn’t as depressing as it’s made out to be, it’s the natural circle of life
@IamRocque
2 ай бұрын
@@olsaaan It’s depressing to a certain degree. Your youth left the building at some point, your body is changing once more and not in ways you probably would hope, your inching closer to deaths door which puts everything you’ve done up to that point into perspective. I’m only 22 but in 40 years I’ll be 62 if I live to see it. Based on current life expectancy I have about 55 more years to experience life before im expected to die and take my possibly infinite dirt nap. Who knows I may be one of the folks to make it to 100 years if I’m alive another 78 years from now.
@bellbottombebop5089
3 жыл бұрын
"Dont say no to getting older, say yes to becoming a milf" -Natalie Wynn, Contrapoints
@nitsuguaaa
Жыл бұрын
A few months from now I'll turn 19 yet I am already scared of getting old. Not because one day I'll die, to be honest I couldn't care less, but realizing that the world is growing old as well. I just want time to stand still, to keep these days I have. Days that I am just sitting at the desk doing absolutely nothing, days that I am with my family and enjoying my time with them, days where life is simple. I just hate that I didn't took advantage of my past years. If I had known death sooner I would've spent all my days with the people I love and not stuck looking at my phone all day or ignoring my family. I hate being 70 or 80 years old thinking "did I live a good life?". I don't want to burn my days aimlessly staring at the screen or waiting till I graduate college and spend the rest of my life slaving away for a minimum wage. Now that I know every passing day is one step closer to an abrupt end, I want my life to go exactly as planned. To have so much money that I can retire as young as possible. Not to spend it for myself but to use it to cherish every second with the people that I hold dear. I am not scared of dying, but I am scared of losing time with my loved ones. Cherish every moment with them, spare no second enjoying your time with them.
@iiCounted-op5jx
Жыл бұрын
SAME HERE BRO, I am realizing how good I have it that my family is still alive and it took me until 17 to realize how important spending time with my family is, because one day, they may not be here anymore, and that terrifies me so much, I also want time to stand still, I want things to stay like this forever but I know one day I'll be looking back at these days as the "good old days" after reality hits me
@keykirby45
3 жыл бұрын
Like a certain movie quote goes: ‘Get busy living, or get busy dying.’
@Velociferon
2 жыл бұрын
I used to be terrified of death. For years i walked through life with an anxiety of death to point where i wasnt even living. I had stopped celebrating my birthday at 22 bc it became too much to bear. However i eventually learned to live and enjoy living not in spite of death but bc i will one day die. It helped me come to terms with death and my only goal now is to make my death as regretless as possible.
@iiCounted-op5jx
Жыл бұрын
people always say "oh its fine because its just like before you were born" but that doesn't help me
@CarlosGomez-lp9zi
3 жыл бұрын
wow man. your videos are amazing lately. i'm so glad you decided to make this turn, to more intimate videos. This is art, and I love it. This year I've been feeling really numb and uncomfortable, and for a little bit, you have made me feel something. so, yeah, thanks for that, I really like your work.
@thesevenkingswelove9554
2 жыл бұрын
i am only 16 and I want to be 5 again. i dont know why but I always wanted to grow up and be an adult, ironic that now that I am not even an adult, I want to be a child solely because children have no responsibilities and are free to explore what they want. As you get older a lot of responsibilities are given to you like studying etc, for me its only studying but I know once I grow older there will tons of responsibilties. Studying itself is hard I cannot imagine how much harder it is going to be as an adult.
@peppino3609
Жыл бұрын
i want to know what it feels to be old but then my parents, grandparents, uncles will all be gone then
@tayntedmemories
Жыл бұрын
My biggest fear is. After death. The thought of. never experiencing anything again, it just freaks me out. My mind just. seemingly can't comprehend that, and every time I try, it sends me into an instantaneous panic.
@zacharygriego6797
Жыл бұрын
So then what helped you
@laylam9997
4 ай бұрын
i cant with all the middle schoolers in the comments saying they’re scared dude im turning 18 in 3 months 😭😭😭 literally shaking rn. why is this world so cruel to us i wonder what we did to deserve this
@harrisbrown3588
3 жыл бұрын
Glad I took care of most of this struggle with some acid. It'll come back in due time, but it's been staved off for a smidgen. Your new beats are nice.
@devlinmcguire7543
3 жыл бұрын
I do too man, don't feel alone.
@MrNisse5
3 жыл бұрын
I will never forget the heartfelt catharsis I had reading The Man In The Glass by Peter Dale Wimbrow Sr. As I finished reading it, thinking that, is this the goal? Can there ever be anything close to a goal? What does matter, or does it even matter? to loved ones? To oneself? To ones world?
@bobfuhr4520
10 ай бұрын
At 77 my doctor died, my dentist died,my wife died.all my good friends died my dog died to arrive at 77 is terrible.
@jt6711
Ай бұрын
I hope you are okay
@jacobzimmerman8630
3 жыл бұрын
Love seeing this on my birthday, thank you for the amazing content you’re the best
@aronlatis8695
3 жыл бұрын
"In fact, the opportunities to act properly, the potentialities to fulfill a meaning, are affected by the irreversibility of our lives. But also the potentialities alone are so affected. For as soon as we have used an opportunity and have actualized a potential meaning, we have done so once and for all. We have rescued it into the past wherein it has been safely delivered and deposited. In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured." - Viktor Frankl I do apologize for the lengthy text, but I believe it is worth the read.
@matty1094
3 жыл бұрын
really good. thank you. saved
@J5L5M6
3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. I smiled and chuckled often during this one. Thanks!
@weston69
3 жыл бұрын
this came out on my 18th birthday. thank you for easing my worries once again, rock push man.
@Praecantetia
3 жыл бұрын
Age always raises the question of preservation.
@goldmouthmija
3 жыл бұрын
You’re such an amazing person/this is an amazing channel
@apoqliphort3614
3 жыл бұрын
I recently reached a point where I feel right in this world. It involved accepting all that this existence entails, and focusing instead purely on myself. Who I am. What I want. What I can get out of this life. Now I live for enjoyment and the genuine goals I've managed to make for myself. I really like the concept of memento mori, as it often helps me see what I want from life before it all ends. I've accepted death and pain and I feel more happy and alive than ever. Debilitation from aging be damned, the world be damned. I want to burn bright, so that's what I'll do.
@laylam9997
5 ай бұрын
Im graduating high school in 5 and half weeks and I’m so scared 😭 I couldn’t even tell you why because I don’t even really fear dying, I just don’t want to be old?? And by old I mean 18, like I’m not scared of being 30 or 80, I’m scared of being 18!
@jt6711
Ай бұрын
Hey man, I really hope you feel better you’re the only one who has my issue right now, I’m gonna turn 18 in December and i can’t help but cry everyday, of you maybe, somehow found a way to be in peace and accept your age please tell me, I really need to feel ok too
@rocktheqasbah
3 жыл бұрын
I love your channel man. You've helped me through some tough shit
@averywisemantle3785
2 жыл бұрын
Sissyphus55 is the realest dude! He ought to open a café in Algiers and smoke enough cigars to sound like a car on a gravel driveway.
@EranHertz
3 жыл бұрын
Do your best to make as many friends that you can while you still can, and preserve them. After 30 it's getting much harder to make new friends, after 40 it's very rare. The second half of your life is going to be very hard without them. I wish I knew that.
@werewook
3 жыл бұрын
I find that long lived elderly people are usually happy and childlike. It's not impossible to keep that mindset in the undeniable face of aging.
@Tschoii90
3 жыл бұрын
Ah yea? I would recomend spending 1 year in an retirement home.
@iiCounted-op5jx
Жыл бұрын
it gets harder to keep you inner child alive as time goes on
@iiCounted-op5jx
Жыл бұрын
in regards to my first comment, only few get to retain that happiness, the grumpy old man stereotype exists for a reason, and that's what I fear, becoming a grumpy old man with no soul one day
@palomacarignano6916
3 жыл бұрын
Okay, but why is the music at the end almost kind of haunting. Music of another era mocking us, as if saying, "You shall too pass."
@GOODZ7777
3 жыл бұрын
god i hate those existential thoughts. especially when you feel like your missing out since life and youth are so limited.
@shivamPandey-ku5eu
3 жыл бұрын
When you allready depressed so you don't care about getting old and dying as it might be relieves from suffering
@thesaddestdude3575
3 жыл бұрын
I can relate to that. But im still scared.
@zainjaved18
Ай бұрын
I’m 15 and i’m so scared of death and growing Old, i wish i could stay young forever but that’ll never happen. I think i need therapy.
@philochristos
2 ай бұрын
The worst part of getting old for me is that all the time is in my past, I've missed out on a lot, and there's not much time left.
@futurethewolf5624
Жыл бұрын
My skin is falling off my bones right before my eyes.
@jamesmayer7875
3 жыл бұрын
Background music is interesting, thought it was my inner head noises at first
@RobbieManic
2 жыл бұрын
In the years before my grandad died at the age of 88, my mum asked him "why don't you go out and see your friends?" to which he replied, bluntly, "they're all dead!" I raised my finger to say he was being hyperbolic, but stopped when I realized it was a genuine fact - everyone of his age that he knew (friends and family) had died. He wasn't being grumpily hyperbolic or cynical for the sake of completing the bitter old man aesthetic, he was genuinely alone in who he could relate to of his age.
@EsterRedpill
Жыл бұрын
Now, that’s terrifying
@Nevermore941012
Жыл бұрын
I turned 29 3 days ago, the thought of my last year in my 20´s filled me with a enormous pressure to end on a high note, I’m honestly terrified
@EsterRedpill
Жыл бұрын
Remember it’s just a number, you’re still young. While there is life, there is hope.
@PushPushPush2k
3 жыл бұрын
Aye bro. Content like this that's true and honest is better than a glass of water in he'll.
@michaellarrick8881
Жыл бұрын
I’m 25 and have the chronic fear of the unknown which I originally mistook for a fear of getting old. I don’t think that many people fear aging. They fear not knowing the future. I often think about a possible future where I never find my life partner and only have myself. Most of my friends have long term relationships and are now engaged and married. As where I have never had a relationship past 9 months. I always have chosen money of relationships. And though I do well financially now, my personal life is quite empty at the end of the day.
@johntomson1873
3 жыл бұрын
The only real thing we get each birthday is older
@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062
3 жыл бұрын
And less able to get wasted.
@joshuabyrne2220
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video Sisyphus! Loving the more personal content
@icedoutgecko9607
Жыл бұрын
Growing old alone is one thing. but growing old with someone you truly love is entirely less depressing.
@iiCounted-op5jx
Жыл бұрын
sadly many of us may end up being alone in that time of our lives
@wandererstraining
3 жыл бұрын
I've been aware of this for a long time, but I've been really feeling it, lately. I'm 35. My mom died when I was 27. Last year, my little brother killed himself. Out of my original, close family, only my dad is still alive. It feels very desolate and lonely. With that said, I feel good in my body. I still feel very youthful. But as a strong, young man, I know very well that unless I have an accident, I'll see most people I love die.
@Celeste-in-Oz
3 жыл бұрын
how can you have such insight for a young guy? I'm 53 and - yes it really is that shitty - it's very shitty getting older. But there is an upside that you didn't quite mention, although you got close. I now see that having fun and playing around *is* the serious stuff that matters most. And that's actually fun.
@whinda4702
3 жыл бұрын
I feel more lonely everyday, I’ve been divorced twice and have no urge to be in another relationship. I’m sad
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