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First thing my parents did when they retired was pick a university degree to take to keep their minds active.
If someone can for fun complete a maths degree at 73, pretty sure it’s not too late for whatever you want to do.
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Mood. After dropping out of uni and getting depressed, finally building up the courage to redo it. It’s not a study with super job prospects imo (history), but hey, at least it interests me.
I sadly don’t have the form of assburgers where I’m a math nerd, but oh well
I started over at 30. New country, new field of study, new everything and although it wasn’t easy (mostly because I didn’t even know the language), it could be done. Now, at 40, I’m learning Japanese just for fun and to keep my mind engaged. If you think someone at 28 is too old, I hate to break it to you, but you are terribly wrong. You’re too old only when you decide you are too old.
Being retired does allow you for a lot of free time.
The way I try and look at it when I’m starting to go on a downward spiral about the life I’ve wasted, is that I remind myself that the first ~20 years of my life weren’t even my own. I was born, then I was a toddler crapping in my nappy, then I went to school where I had to put on a uniform and listen to bells and teachers all day.
So basically, even though I’m 40, half of that wasn’t even my own life anyway. It was spent playing a role for the sake of others. And considering that I live in a socially conservative shit hole, it’s no wonder that I took so long to find myself once I was out of school. Or that it had to come from solitude and not from any awareness or encouragement from peers.
All things considered, it could be worse. I could’ve become an honorary boomer that yells at the kids to get off the lawn, in between scrolling conspiracy theories about Jewish space lazers and litter boxes in schools. But I didn’t and now I hopefully have another 40 years still left to live authentically.
With 18 life is basically over
To anyone struggling with - imagine self in 2050, cursing own ass that You did not it 24 years earlier. Would 2050 be too late? maybe? so start at that earlier.
Even if there be no 2050, You will be the one who did a fight… then, what if, there will be 2050 and You do curses…
Ok kids, 30 is barely entering midlife. People start over at 40-50 all the time.
in 5 generations people are going to be born fully developed and employed
