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What has been the biggest surprise about getting older? (lemmy.world)

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[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

That I just keep getting older. I kind of expected a bunch of life events into my mid thirties, but I was pretty hazy about everything after that. Now here I am, getting older, not really sure what to do.

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

And the other way around: the banality of everyday. Large parts of my working life are just a blur, because so little of relevance happened. My life is just kind of running on autopilot.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

The autopilot sucks. My work is interesting, but I stopped doing a lot of things when we had kids, and I stopped even more when the pandemic hit.

[-] monobot@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I have never planned for getting this old,no idea what to do.

this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023

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