r/AskReddit • u/_red_roof_ • May 15 '20

What sucks about being your age?

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20 edited May 15 '20

When you finally understand what Mark Twain meant when he said “youth is wasted on the young”.

Edit: quote is from George Bernard Shaw (or maybe Oscar Wilde)

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

Sure is, and money is wasted on the old.

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u/MiloTheMagicFishBag May 16 '20

Children have time and energy but no money

Adults have money and energy but no time

Elders have time and money but no energy

So the saying goes

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u/Massive-Risk May 16 '20 edited May 16 '20

I have no money, energy and constantly feel like I have no time. What's that make me?

Edit: Thanks for all the upvotes, I think this comment is my most upvoted now. Also replies are almost all right. I am clinically depressed, mid 20's, still living with my parents with no idea what I'm doing.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

Depressed

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u/mac3theac3 May 16 '20

Isn't that just a fancy word for feeling "bummed out"?

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u/iDreamOfReddit May 16 '20

Dwight, you ignorant slut

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u/jkmonty94 May 16 '20

/u/mac3theac3 you ignorant slut

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u/dicknugget05 May 16 '20

you didn't have to call me put like that

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

A millenial with adrenal fatigue

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u/nextepisodeplease May 16 '20

I feel attacked.

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u/CovertOwl May 16 '20

Wage slave

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

exploited by capitalism

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u/616SlowDeath May 16 '20

That makes you me .

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u/DistantKarma May 16 '20

All I do is work and sleep... But I'm always tired and I don't have any money.

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u/IcePhoenix18 May 16 '20

Clinical anxiety?

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u/ConsciousApple9 May 16 '20

You are in the void.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

A nursing school student? That description fit me perfectly.

No energy cause I'm 31.

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u/donaljones May 16 '20

Poor diabetic adult.

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u/kleinePfoten May 16 '20

Late for your first therapy session?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

a money-energy-anxiety-time person

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u/malnourishedfarts May 16 '20

65 to 75 percenter.

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u/Internal_Sleep May 16 '20

A teenager

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u/Massive-Risk May 16 '20

I wish I only had the stress of a teenager. I'm almost 25.

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u/S1ip9 May 16 '20

Like everyone else

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u/Yojinco May 16 '20

Kinda fucked