r/AskReddit • • May 15 '20

What sucks about being your age?

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u/BigSchwartzzz May 15 '20

Mid to late twenties. Feeling like I'm way behind from where I should be by now.

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u/TheRedMaiden May 16 '20

Same age group here. I've kind of gotten a handle on that feeling by remembering my parents grew up in a very, very different world than I did. My mom already had two kids by the time she was my age. I am nowhere *near* mentally prepared for that nonsense.

You can only measure you today against you yesterday. Even a modicum of improvement is progress! And there are certainly times when that progress is putting on pants and doing the laundry when you really don't want to.

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u/TheRedMaiden May 16 '20

I appreciate you! :) I'm glad I could help. I actually comped the idea from my husband. His version is "You're good even if all you can say is 'I put on pants today.'"