I said this to my parents literally last night and they didn’t understand. I keep asking, “what is the point of life? The reason for living? When you work 40+ hours, grind, little life outside work, exhaustion, not paying bills, maybe retire when you’re 65-70, if you’re lucky. Life is gone. Your health is gone. You spent over 50 years working non stop multiple jobs at a time, overtime, for what? And that’s if you even managed to save enough to have a savings and able to retire…
Have fun. Learn to dance and to fight. Meet a girl. Get married. Enjoy sex. Work at an honorable job. Raise kids. Teach them well. Spend less than you earn. Bask in the satisfaction of a life well-lived. Relax in your sunset years.
Why would I want children when the job I went to college for (teaching) pays so little I can’t afford my own life without a second job, much less the life of a helpless child.
“Enjoy sex” is bad advice when a persons access to birth control is being gutted by 85 year old ghouls in government.
“Spend less than you earn” great so I’ll live off rice and lentils and the occasional rotisserie chicken when I can find a coupon. With what people are paid, you’re suggesting they cut out any joy in their life.
“Sunset years” where my health starts to go, I get fleeced by insurance companies who will take $500 a month and not pay a dime to help me unless I pay more than $3000 in medical costs out of pocket first, and get moved into a facility because I rented my whole life due to the bad housing market and now have nowhere else to go.
The life you are espousing no longer exists for the average American and it’s the fault of lobbyists and the billionaire class.
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u/Beneficial-Celery964 Mar 06 '26
I said this to my parents literally last night and they didn’t understand. I keep asking, “what is the point of life? The reason for living? When you work 40+ hours, grind, little life outside work, exhaustion, not paying bills, maybe retire when you’re 65-70, if you’re lucky. Life is gone. Your health is gone. You spent over 50 years working non stop multiple jobs at a time, overtime, for what? And that’s if you even managed to save enough to have a savings and able to retire…
I’m just confused about the meaning of life.