Youth

Starship Troopers by Heinlein

Wait until you hit 50...

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>18 wish i was 14
fuck kid, be fucking grateful, I wish i was fucking 18 again i'd get so much damn puss

Dude you're still a teen. What you do now, provided it's not horrible, will be looked back upon nostalgically at some point in the future. In fact, try writing a story, don't need to share it with a soul. Keep it, forget about it, and read it at some point in the future. It may be cringy, especially if you continue writing and improve your craft thus exposing you to how awful your writing probably currently is, but it may very well be a source of great nostalgia in years or decades to come.

Fucking 20? I'm approaching 30 and it's just CRINGE for a 20 year old to be frustrated at how 'old' he is. It's pathetic! Your life has barely fucking BEGUN, seriously, you know so little that it HURTS! Go out there, work, make money, pay bills, experience love and loss, experience LIFE! You're still a child to most of the world, Hell, even at not far from 30 I'M viewed as very young by most people with my whole life ahead of me! I think you need to go and talk to some old people. Seriously, guys in their 50s and older, and try telling THEM that you're frustrated at how 'old' you are. I had to work with a BUNCH of crusty old fucks when I was 18-21 years old, it sucked for the most part because many of them were thoroughly unpleasant, but boy did I learn. Get some fucking perspective you ungrateful shit.

Here's another fact for you; your market value is dogshit in the relationship market. Men want young women, 18-25 is essentially the ideal age range and it teeters off drastically after 30 because their biological clock is ticking. Women can only have children until about 35-40 years old. MAYBE a little while afterwards but I hear it's very difficult and expensive. Really, women need to have their family by 35 or they're not HAVING a family.

Meanwhile, women? This is the main point... they don't want some young guy. They could get equally as pregnant from a 50 year old man as a 20 year old man. The difference? The 50 year old has 3 decades more experience, more wisdom, more time to gather resources, more knowledge of the world, and that is a MASSIVE advantage. Women are generally hypergamist by nature, which means they seek someone as well-off as they are or, ideally, even better-off. Sure, your sex-drive is probably stronger, but what use is that? "This kid probably has little to no money, certainly doesn't OWN a home or vehicle but is perhaps at best in the beginning stages of owning one, he doesn't have much in the way of skills... but he'll fuck me several times a day, though also he might be so unexperienced at it that he might not be any good at it." Yeah, a 20-year-old sounds like a real catch for a woman... guess what, I'm in the same boat. Not even 30. The typical 50 year old is FAR more appealing than myself. Especially since I'm struggling quite a bit and I'm only renting a room and don't own a vehicle.

>Trying to freeze time or go back to the fun days before the responsibilities of adulthood started taking over.

Unironically VNs. If you just want the comfy feeling of being a responsibility free High School but also an interesting story with plenty of comfy moments I suggest reading Symphonic Rain first and foremost.

If you just want responsibility free vibes with comfy interactions with cute girls in your daily life, and a decent story I would next suggest Clannad, Kanon, Katawa Shoujo, White Album 2, and Memo.

If you are okay with turning off your brain the Dacapo series and Snow Sakura might also do the trick.

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I don't know if that's normal or not, but I'll tell you, I am absolutely much happier being 29 than I was when I was 19. Being an adult is hard, but it has definitely got some advantages.

This post is wrong because it's pessimistic. :3

Anything pessimistic and negative is wrong.

I'm in a similar position. I'm about to leave for college. I've wasted the past 4 years of my life on Yea Forums, video games, and mindless distractions. I have literally no friends and never had a girlfriend. I can't even remember the last time someone invited me to something with them. I am not depressed but everything is in place for me to be. I don't want to be older or younger, I just wish I had a girlfriend. Someone that I could truly relate to. The Discord acquaintances I met and subsequently ghosted will never amount to anything since I no longer want to be a degenerate playing games all day. It's all so tiring and it will just get worse. I applaud all the older anons who have kept fighting the good fight and never gave in. I don't know how I'm going to make it in college.

I don't consider myself a pessimist, feel free to point out anything that I've said that is pessimistic, but there's very valid use in negativity. Try to shield yourself from anything negative, and you're inviting naivety. Naivety will do you no good. It's generally seen as an endearing trait in women, but even then, too much naivety could be very damaging and could expose them to a lot of malicious manipulation. The world is a dangerous place, there is evil in the world, in fact whether you know it or not there's people who would like to kill you just because of who you are. As a Christian, there's many Muslims that would like to kill me. As a White man, there's many far leftists that would like to see me dead. I'm also proud to be White, and I'm a self-admitted right-winger, which exposes me to even more desires for my end by the left or at least heavy censorship and public condemnation.

Don't avoid negative views or opinions, because you'll witness them in life regardless. Strengthen yourself, don't coddle yourself.

t. Old man. Stop rambling coot the young bloods are speaking. Fucking kills me when old people tell us how young we are. As if I don’t know. Goddamn Phony.

lol I said I'm not even 30 yet, very young. Looking forward to my 30s, too; gonna continue working at my writing career. Actively attempting to get traditionally published; it's inevitable as far as I'm concerned.

You stay a teenager mentally, you just have a bunch of adult shit to do to, 20 is still young enough to blow all your money hedonistically, enjoy yourself for a year or two

I'm 31, I assume you're a male because everyone here is, life doesn't really have to end for you until 40, men peak around 30 so you've got plenty of time.
If you're a women though this is probably your last year.

This, although it starts getting pretty pathetic acting like a teenager at age 30, there's nothing really stopping you.
No one will look twice at a 20 year old doing it though.

Men don't peak at 30. Maybe in terms of physical capability, but I firmly believe a woman would quickly go for a wealthy guy in his 40s-50s over a physically fit guy in his 30s who has a reasonable amount of wealth for his age.

Good luck with the book but you are not “very young”. Relatively young to 60 year olds I guess. What a phony youth. Late twenties and he says he’s young. That kills me.

I've already self-published several books, including non-fictions, ghostwritten several books, wrote several custom stories for people's personal enjoyment, and made thousands of dollars at it over the course of roughly 2.5 years. I've also already had attempts at traditional publishing, simply going to be making more. As for age, look to sports. Late-20s are men's physical prime, nowhere near decay yet, in fact may even continue to improve even into their 30s to some degree. A teenager is still a child, inexperienced in the world, and the early-mid 20s, just like the late 20s, is a steady progress to figuring things out. Little if any physical loss in the 30s especially if the man actively works at keeping in physical shape, and I've worked with a 64 year old fellow from Liverpool whom I couldn't keep up with as an overweight 19 year old. Kind man, very intelligent, could speak to anyone and was as happy to talk as he was to listen even to snot-nosed punks who knew nothing. Now, in my late-20s, I'm still but a bundle of potential as far as he's concerned I'm sure. I'm just more refined, in better shape, and slightly more accomplished than I had been back when he was my journeyman and I his apprentice.

I really do think you need to try talking to more people, seems like the vast majority of individuals you've been interacting with have been your own age, which if you're merely in your teens, is totally understandable. Teenagers are generally limited to contact with adults outside of teachers, co-workers, parents and family. Or rather, perhaps, adults are generally limited from contact with teens. Certainly the case with men anyways. You need more male adult figures in your life to get an idea of what life is really like from people who lived it. It'll open your eyes, and teens do very much need their eyes opened because their amount of life experience is so utterly minuscule. Even that 64 year old Englishman I mentioned, he said as far as he was concerned, he still felt 18. Amazing physical shape, even he didn't consider himself old. Whenever I looked to what he ate at lunch, it was typically veggies and/or peanuts. Must have been a vegetarian.

Look at you, Lecturing just like a geezer. I don’t care how goddamn fat you were at 19 and sure as hell don’t care about some ultra geezer Englishman. Good luck and all but, you are a phony youth.

Also prime doesn’t equal youth old man.

>I've already self-published several books
You say that as if it's an achievement. You forgot the add the part mentioning nobody reads 'em. Self-publishing amounts to nothing unless it's successful. And if you were successful off your self-published crap, ya wouldn't be posting here.
I kinda stopped reading after that, because if you lead with that, it can only go downhill from there.

Depends on your definition of 'successful'. Overall, I made hundreds of dollars per month on my writings. Nearly $3000 in the year of 2018, and at around $1500 right now so I'm on track to match that again this year. I'd call that some degree of success, given that the vast majority of writers make nothing or next-to-nothing. As mentioned I've also sent several stories to traditional publishing companies and have been denied each time. Sounds shitty, but hey, that's a step that most writers likewise haven't yet taken. Hell, I may very well be in the top 10 or probably at least top 50 highest-earning writers on Yea Forums, doesn't mean I can't still come here and post in a sensible and reasonable manner even to uncivil or unreasonable individuals.

Fuck off boomer. I’ve never had problems with attracting girls. They’re far from being a priority anyways in this stage of my life. I’ve worked since I was 13. I’ve already graduated university (USA). user, I don’t care about your manchild desires. I read great man and then I look at where I am in life and were they were at this point and can only feel rage for not being the best from the rest. I wish only to join them on the pantheon of grearness, but I see only a thin tightrope to guide me over the abyss to Mt. Olympos that gets thinner and closer to snapping with each passing year. Do you understand my premonitions? Is it really so irrational?

The most important thing to a man is hope. The last three words of the Monte Cristo departs us with the greatest wisdom: wait and hope. Youth grant one the veil that he has time to make up for his mistakes. His mistakes are not final, but developmental. This ends upon reaching a critical age (not sure when, but I’d say 25, but most definitely between 30 - 40).

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>You need more male adult figures in your life to get an idea of what life is really like from people who lived it.
Where do you find these male figures?

Daddy

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I've worked with them, some have been teachers who were easy to talk to and open with their experiences, both good and bad. You could try just striking conversation with people, and I'd suggest that whether it's male or female, whether they're your age or several times your age. People need to talk more, I think. Generally when I have a conversation with someone, it's unanimously enjoyed. Perhaps it's just because I've managed to develop myself from social awkwardness by voluntarily stepping out of my comfort zone and basically forcing myself to interact with people instead of avoid such. Yeah, I made a fool of myself from time to time, but this is how I viewed that; if I say or do something dumb that makes me look like an idiot, what's the chances that they'll remember that the next day, or in a week. A month? A year? HIGHLY unlikely. Whatever the case, on the other hand, it will benefit me my whole life because now I know that whatever dumb idea I had about social interaction, it was WRONG, and so I an avoid saying/doing that again. Now, people seem to really like interacting with me, generally.

This is one small example that comes to mind, and it's brief. I was walking along and noticed a man and a woman who seem to have just parked, or maybe are just getting back on and ready to head out. They're on motorcycles, quite nice ones, and they were at least in their 50s. I made a simple comment as I went, and in a rather serious deadpan manner.

"I see, so you're that sketchy new biker gang I've heard about." I didn't stop walking the whole time and shot my hands up and looked front-and-centre. "I didn't see anything, moving along! Moving along!" They had quite a laugh about it, I laughed as well after the second comment as I kept laughing, and the (I assume) husband replied "sketchy is right" as I went while he chuckled. I had a big grin on my face as I went, the laughter had come quick from them and seemed really genuine. I felt very glad that I made the remark, I felt like it brightened my day as well as theirs. Who knows, maybe it has become an inside joke for them now, "the sketchy biker gang." Or maybe it was a one-off and they've already forgotten. I don't care, I liked it, and there's been many other times in which I made passing comments that were accepted warmly. Only on one occasion did I compliment someone on something passively on the street and it was taken dismissively or rudely. Feminists had given me the impression before that complimenting women you don't know passively on the street is tantamount to harassment and is very rude. My experience is that they brighten up and give thanks with a smile. I experimented with it more, only complimenting if I mean it, and it always goes well. Feminism is cancer.

Fathers aren't always good examples to go by, sadly. I'm very much different from my own, and glad for it.

Just read the first chapter. Very good, made me wonder what the highest mountain in the moon is.

Botchan.

What is it user

Autism.

DUDE
YOUTH
LMAO

you're telling on yourself, old man. you really just had to write three paragraphs generalizing about your own pathetic life. are you a masochist? god that whole third paragraph is just BRIMMING with such a scummy self-loathing. sorry you couldn't fuck in your 20s. hopefully you can be one of the weird daddy types who holds onto a coked out 22 year old for a little bit that you aspire to be. hope you can dance.

Portrait of the Artist is good like that other user said. You sound like you'd like Factotum too. Megg Mogg and Owl for a fun comic.