Anyone who yearns for their life as child has developmental issues. I'm not trying to say that as a sick burn, I think it's honestly sad and source of suffering for some people.
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2026
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I really relate to this comic. I didn't like being a child that much, and I feel alienated a lot on the internet by people constantly wishing they could go back to having no responsibilities. I really, really like being able to control my own destiny and decide what I wanna do, even though it comes with increased pressures and responsibilities.
Hell yes to this. Childhood, Highschool, and even in to college were some of the worst years of my life. I never want to repeat them. Sometimes I fantasize about what it would have been like to be "normal", but I love who I am now and l do not want to give that up or go back.
I literally found my purpose in my 30s. Nothing was meaningful nor worthwhile in my 20s
There's still pleanty of fun and meaningful things I can do in my 30s
In a way you step out of the Truman show but it's not necessarily greater than before.
Im a little confused by that.
ITT: a bunch of βmiserableβ people who are way too comfortable and happy with their lives to fight back against what they claim is making them so (performatively) βmiserableβ
Ahhh delusion is a wonderful thing! It's how we end up with 50+ people racing motorcycles into medians...
My 30s might have been more awesome if I hadn't reset my life/career every 4-5 years. I'd have been super bored and miserable in a different way if I'd stayed the course, but I'd have more money to waste on synthesizers in my big empty house, I guess.
Glad to know she's still active. I miss her in webtoons
Well, that really varies from person to person, doesn't it?
My 30s were worse than my 20s.
Having to work full-time sucks.
It might be different for people who love their job or for those who are rich enough not to worry about work at all, but for me, the time when I had to work full-time was more or less the end of the 'good times'.
Wait! You didnβt have to work full time in your 20βs? Iβve been working full time since I was 21
I think I was around 26 when I started working.
Lucky
Yeah that's crazy to me. I started working full time at 18. 26?! How?!
I was also working at 18, just not full time since I was going to college
Midtwenties and it feels over in a lot of ways. The majority of friends I've made growing up or in college are gone. People have spread out and started focusing on their own lives. Even people that I only ever knew online have began moving on.
In a lot of ways this has been fine because I've just turned inward and started focusing on myself too, started being selfish about what I want. I miss seeing a lot of my friends in person rather than random texts or seeing their stories on snap.
It's very confusing at times because I enjoy being able to do whatever I want when I want without consulting anyone but I also miss having people to do things with.
Let people go. You cant hold onto them forever, even in the best of cases. I have people who i consider my best friends that I haven't seen in years. Maybe never again.
The river of life has many branches, we just floated down different ones. Dont take it personally.
I've let go of them but the issue is finding new people to replace them.
Accept lamer people like work colleagues and such.
Find a socially based hobby! I've been going to a weekly language exchange for a couple of years and it's just as much language practice as it is social hangout.
This^ And that's the beauty of the 30s because I think that's about when you likely start to realize and understand this. It's freeing.
Itβs hard because there seems to be no place to hang out and meet people either. Not for a date, just to chill and make friends.
Join a club! Having a group of people you see every week that are happy you're there is what got me out of my worst depression. I'm in a run club and organize a mountain bike club, but if that's not your speed there's lots of others. An improv club/class will probably give you incredible social skills. But there's roleplay clubs, book clubs, bowling/league night, kickball, knitting, and probably a bunch I can't think of.
One of the last true 3rd places I've found is dog parks. If you go consistently at the same time each day you'll be seeing a lot of the same people, who generally are down to chat. You can talk about their dog to break the ice, and I doubt people would even mind if you don't have a dog.
seconding what the other person said. just go hang out in public places, preferably ones where you can do something and have a natural reason to approach people.
it isn't going to happen immediately. but eventually you will strike up conversations with people, and some of those will be good conversations, and some of those will be with people you like, and some of those will be with people who like you. and then you gotta actually get their contact info or plan to meet up again, maybe doing other things.
Is this really a product of age, or is it success? I'd probably be doing fine if I had a successful webcomic.
You'd be making dollars!
My bet on why people don't identify with that anymore is shifting social expectations and economy leading to having kids way later than in their day.
Which... I love my kids, wouldn't trade 'em for anything. But they can definitely make you feel old both by just watching them age and the extra responsibility reducing the freedom/spontaneity you might have had more of earlier in your youth. If you had kids in your early 20s, this starts earlier. If you don't start until your 30s, you're probably already starting to settle a bit anyway just from being more established in a career and such.
I'd also be curious to know rates of messing around with harder drugs and drinking and such. My sense is those have gone down, and that kind of thing can be hard on your body.
Just spit balling here.
I like to think I did my 20s right, if that means anything. Partied often, built my career, worked on my established, longstanding friendships. I lived a bit wildly, but I also think that I gradually wound those things down. I have been in my career since I was 20, but in my mid-20s, my friends would show up to my jobs at night, I'd change out of my suit in the bathroom, and we'd all take a train into Manhattan, on a Tuesday or Wednesday. It's something I couldn't even consider. Our nights started at 1030, 11. Now, that's essentially when they end for me.
I'm now in as late as your 30s get, have kids, and that lifestyle is a very distant past, which I'm happy about. I have friends who still like to live it, and that's cool. I'll hang out with them, but I also have no problem tapping out early, and they also don't care that I do. We're all past the point of "uno mas," which is funny because it's been the name of our group chat for the past 15 years, and it's okay. I had fun, it's no longer what I want to do for fun, and that's cool with me and everyone.
It's nice to all grow to a point where peer pressure has seemed to finally met it's demise, although I do always say peer pressure is a great motivator of youth, and I wouldn't change my youth for a second, because my present is great.
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