I’m a regular guy, I’m about 23 years old, I work at a job with a flexible schedule, the job is more or less acceptable, although sometimes it’s very annoying because of the extra repairs. Lately, I’ve been really wanting to go to festivals with cosplayers and stuff, but time is tight, and because of AI and data centers, there is even less time than there could be. And I never even went on a date, I constantly postponed everything for later, and now it seems to me that everything is lost.
There’s always tomorrow, but you won’t regret doing it today. My 20s were a blur of not taking time for myself, grinding away at a shit job, thinking I’d have more time next week/month/year, and losing touch with friends as they went through the same shock of employment. I can’t truly say I had the resources to do more in my 20s, but somewhere in my 30s, I became notably less anxious and more willing to do things on a whim as I realized time was ticking faster and faster. Not everything needs a full plan. Not everything has to be perfect. Not everything has to be min/maxed. You don’t have to justify your entertainment to anyone.
You’re not out of time. You’re likely at a similar awkward time where you’re still finding your footing as an adult, as opposed to a student. Humans will always continue to party through catastrophe. We wouldn’t be here if our ancestors didn’t. Take a walk. See a concert. Start your cosplay. Try a ren fair. Try a punk flea market. See if anyone wants to meet up.
You have time. I’ve forgotten more than you’ve remembered and I’m still a long way away from being done with this place.
One of the really great things about the USA is our national parks, so if you’re in the US you should go see as many of them as you can before MAGA starts selling them off to oil/mining companies and real estate developers.
You’ve heard of a “bucket list”, but have you tried Apocalypse FOMO?
Dance like there’s no tomorrow, because there isn’t
De-ideology oneself:
Ideologies/prejudices/assumption-rivers/“religions” REACT, & that’s fatal, in The Apocalypse.
Vipassana meditation makes one less controlled by reacting & more FREE to CHOOSE one’s course-of-action in situational-crunches.
ANY variant of letting-go-of-thoughts/cognitions/mechanism, simply BEing AWARENESS, whether Theravada Buddhist, or any other, whether tied-to-slow-steady-breathing, or to whole-skin-awareness, or whatever, will work, but combined-arms, removing all the mechanistic “doing” of mind, & becoming only BEing, would be right.
Circle-drumming & surfing both improve this mental-capability, btw…
Zag, when your-death wants you zigging, if you see what the principle means…
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well one. go on a date. you have progressive ecological destruction going on so enjoy as much nature as possible. I would choose outdoor things over indoor if they are in an interesting area. So a concert in a field meh but like going to something at ravinia (its in chicagoland) and getting lawn seats then yeah. have you been to a ren faire? Better yet is there an sca group in your area? try and go to one of their things. Any non for profit cons like dragon con or gen con. Go to any state parks, national parks, zoos, museums, or whatnot you have not gotten to that you can get to. Do any activity you have preference for. For me that would be like martial art classes as I don’t like sports and its kinda cool. travel by bike, walking, and public transit. Bike in particular. If you think civilization will fall then a good bike that you like and are familiar with in good repair and kept up on maintenance will be huge.
I’ve stockpiled alcohol.
In the end times I’ll be the guy running the local pub.
Sounds like a good excuse to bust out my homebrew equipment and get back into it!
I want enough alchohol and pills to not be doing stuff in the end times.
Don’t plan for the apocalypse. Plan for everything to stay the same, but slightly worse, because that’s historically what happens when everybody thinks the world is going to end.
Do the things you want to do now. It only gets harder as you get older, especially if you’re interested in having kids someday.
Yep, do the fun shit now!! Invest a little but dont scrimp. Buy the fancy coffee sometimes. Go on a trip. You could get cancer next year.
Dont ever plan on there being a concrete future. Live in the now. Save a little bit of money for if you get fired etc.
Civilization is on the decline, well past its peak, and probably will be for another hundred years at least. At a personal level I’d advise you not to worry about it too much. The things you can do to make the world a better place are the same things they’ve always been.
Fight. You will regret not actually doing anything against this shit.
Posting on the Internet, calling your representative and buying badges is not doing anything, by the way.
In what sense to fight? Go outside and fight with other people for the rest of the resources? Sorry, I didn’t quite understand your question.
Calling your reps is doing something. It’s the bare minimum, and by no means enough, but it’s the first step everyone should take when they feel strongly about something. Constituent Services offices (the staffers you’ll talk to) absolutely track every call and they make a specific note about what you called for. This is one of the few ways to put pressure on our elected officials without being a billionaire. Again, it’s the bare minimum amount of engagement and won’t solve anything on its own, but it’s one of the tools in our toolbox. Please don’t discourage folks from calling their reps.
I honestly have never called a rep, I have no idea what I’d say, except I hate them all and everything they’re doing. Is that helpful? Not really
It’s super easy, you say whatever you want to say. For example: if there’s a bill you want your rep to vote no on, tell them that. If there’s a set of issues you want them to change their stance on, tell them that. These calls usually don’t last more than a minute, and it’s not really a conversation, it’s just you telling them what you want. I realize it can be a bit daunting, but it’s what they’re there for.
thank you. was like what with adding that to the others although I have no idea what buying badges means.
Open a Roth IRA today and put 5-10% of your income towards it. 23 is a great time to start dating. Download some apps, read a dating advice book. Join some social media dating groups.
Not that this isn’t good advice, but in the context of the fall of civilization, I don’t think that IRA is going to be helpful at all.
The thing is, he’s asking for things he won’t regret, so like, that’s kind of a limiting factor here.
Hol’up. How is throwing money into a hole so you’ll never use it not something to regret? 🫥
You would have to be either extremely lucky or extremely unlucky to never use your retirement fund. You’ll use it.
That is some seriously stupid “logic”, sorry.
Exactly how much heads-up are you expecting to get, personally, before let’s say the banks cave? Before the food’s gone? Before the gov’ts lose control?
Follow-up: with so many fingers on so many buttons, clearly, how do you find any time at all to spend your money you’ve so artfully stashed for just this occasion? How do you do it, oh guru? 😶
It’s not stupid, because not preparing for the future is never going to benefit you. It only hurts you. Not preparing for your future is the #1 thing people regret from their youths. Come 40, you’ll regret every cent you waste on stuff you don’t need versus your retirement plan.
Define fall of civilisation, because you make it sound like the end of times, while for me it could mean to go back to how my grandparents lived as kids.
Please tell me you predate the internet, I don’t want to be THAT old
Yes, I’m just old enough to have seen people smoking in planes.
Now I don’t feel as old lol, we were on dial up when I was a teen and finally got access to high speed when I hit college, then shortly after I got high speed for myself at my apt. Before that there was smoking in malls and restaurants.
Not the person you replied to but:
Technically I predate the internet
That doesn’t exactly mean much tho…
I was born in 2002, y’all westerners got the internet very early, but internet didn’t really exist in the part of China where I lived up till my family emigrated… many developing countries also didin’t have internet…
Parents didn’t really use the internet till like 2014/2015, and the first thing they did was make a WeChat account and now they just go on there all the time lmfao
More raves.
I mean, I’ve been to many, and yet still feels like a better use of time than this career I’m building.
