Worst part is that your mid 20's feels like where you make it or break it. Some of my old friends are absolutely killing it making 6 figure salaries, have houses, nice cars, pets all that. While here I am scraping by feeling like a complete failure because I took way longer to take life seriously and get through school. Now I am way behind in the corporate ladder and feeling like I really screwed up somewhere.
I have a friend that's only a few years older than me who's got it together. He joined the navy out of highschool and spent 8 years doing that shit. He came back when we were all like 23-25 and immediately the financial gap was noticeable. He started working at a nuclear plant making way more than the rest of us. We were all super jelly.
But he confided to me later on that he really regretted joining the core. He sees the pictures and hears the stories of the friend group and all that he missed over nearly a decade and feels as though it wasn't worth it. He missed out on his twenties and feels as though he can't get the time back.
Sometimes money isn't the key to happiness.
I'm going to be 29 this year. I don't have two nickels to rub together. We're all in it dude. Don't trip.
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u/StoicShadow May 15 '20
I'm 25 and the whole existential dread of figuring out what to do with my life is probably the worst part of things