• Izzgo@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        I hope I never reach that - can’t afford to be alive then.

        Same. And I’m 69. Got a few good working years left, then…

    • AzuleBlade@lemm.ee
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’m hoping suicide booths are a thing by the time I retire, something like in Futurama. I’ll just blow all my savings on a yearlong worldwide cruise or something and then call it a life. The other option is moving to a 2nd world country with universal healthcare to make it stretch, the first option sounds more fun though to be honest.

  • LSNLDN@slrpnk.netEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    And this is why I’m not having kids lol imagine subjecting new people to this shit

    • Letstakealook@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’m in the same boat. Things are likely going to get worse as well. It would be rather cruel to subject people to the coming horrors to satisfy your own ego.

  • Squirrel@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    My MIL got cancer and died one year after retiring. She was the kindest person I will ever know. Life is bullshit.

  • echoplex21@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    This show should go down as one of the best comedies of all time. The way they meshed humor with philosophy and religion was a masterstroke. The ending always gets me to bawl (only About Time was able to replicate that ). The cast all around was perfect. That fucker Michael Schur did it again.

  • OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I should’ve been dead by the age of 24 due to an aneurysm, yet I’m still here in my early 40’s. So I lived my life taking risks and expecting the early death, only to still be here long past my expiration.

    Every ounce of my luck must be spent keeping me alive, because my life is abnormally unlucky in every other aspect.

    • Hank@kbin.social
      8·
      1 year ago

      Are you sometimes stuck in awkward smalltalk and hope your aneurysm would just pop in that exact moment?

        • Hank@kbin.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          I would do the same I guess. I bet having this thing in your head forces you to have a top tier dark sense of humor.

          • OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            It seriously does, if I didn’t joke about almost everything I think I would’ve gone mad.

            Not to mention the number of people that assume that since I can act normalish, no long term damage was really done.

            It’s infuriating, I had to retrain myself to understand basic emotions and sarcasm, yet some still regularly use (heavy) passive aggressive comments. Or, that any of my issues due to it will magically disappear as it makes them uncomfortable.

  • June@lemm.ee
    9·
    1 year ago

    My ex wife’s dad worked his ass off, was wildly frugal and did nothing through his entire life up to retirement. 3 years after retiring he started showing signs of early onset dementia. It’s now been three years and it’s progressed terrifyingly fast. The man never lived and his opportunity to is gone.

    I’m no longer thinking so hard about retirement and am looking more at living now through the rest of my ‘good’ years first. I’m still putting money toward my 401k, and I’m still hoping to retire someday, but it’s not the big hope anymore. I’d rather work till o die having lived the best life I could than do what he did.

    • TheCaconym [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      None of us here are likely to “retire” anyway as climate-change-induced agricultural yields collapse will in turn destroy our modern societies before that

      • pm_boobs_send_nudes@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        If you became a criminal defence lawyer, I can tell you that most of your clients would be ones who have committed crimes. Only a few would be ones who haven’t. The work is still fun and you should remember that the standard of evidence is “innocent until proven guilty”. More often guilty people go scott free than innocent people getting convicted(happens, but if you are even a little competent, it’s almost impossible).

        A lot of times the police also concocts stories and twists facts. It’s also one of the very few professions where there is a person dedicated to making sure you fail at your job(the opposing counsel). With all this, you have to be very smart and cold. They will use everything against you. And remember, the world is always “grey” and never black and white. You can find dirt on even the likes of Gandhi (racist against blacks and also slept with his 16 year old niece) and Nelson Mandela. No one is “pure” or “good”. It’s all a spectrum.