How do you deal with the fact you're 30+ and have nothing ahead of you in life?

nothing ahead

I'm looking forward to retirement.
Also who knows, maybe I get laid by some cosmic accident. Weirder things have happened.

i don't, i now optimize my life for absurdity, as long as i have absurd moments everything is fine

you're cooked unless you're already retired

Didn't ask for your financial advice lil gup.

you might as well be looking forward to 72 virgins in heaven, ain't no retirement for our generation

I have a few bad moments of deep depression, but mostly I try not to think about it and just continue to coast through life until I die.

I get high and stick and just consume media. Mostly anything horror related. Play Dead By Daylight, read horror novels/comics etc. Occasionally I'll go to the gym a few times a week but that's about it. I accepted I would never amount to anything a long time ago

By getting over it and realizing most people my age are in the same situation. And even worse, the people younger than me are in shittier situations.

this basically, i know people who are astonishingly successful and make 100k+ a year, i know ill never be like that simply because i dont have the drive and i dont even really want it. i just want to not feel inferior to those people. i could be happy smoking weed and just being a hermit if it wasnt for the comparison to other people and what life "could" be. i dont know

Mostly anything horror related

How can you still give a shit about horror? It's a failed genre, no one actually gets scared by watching horror movies past age 13. Do you just appreciate good sfx or are you a sadist?

The only way I was able to stop comparing myself to others was looking back at where I started from. I had a shit life growing up, both my parents died before I was 18 (my father specifically died when I was 7) so being able to live on my own and do what I want wasn't imaginable when I was growing up so I'm able to avoid the comparisons because of that but I imagine for anyone who had normal upbringing it would be harder

I appreciate the sfx the ambiance of horror movies, games etc. I can't really explain why I'm such a fan to be honest but it was always my go to genre as a teen and in my 20s. It is shit but I enjoy it anyways

How do you deal with the fact you're 30+ and have nothing ahead of you in life?

By hermiting as a NEET. The inceldom is fucking brutal though.
Everyone who loved me is now dead. I have wanted to die for years.
Hopefully, I'll be dead long before 60.

I do nothing except work and occasionally my pointless little hobbies when I have the mental energy to partake in them. 90% of my paycheck goes into savings because I have nothing to spend it on. I've saved $33,000 in the past year and a half, and it brings me no joy except knowing I am not a burden on the people I love. I hope I die soon enough that those people can benefit from my life insurance money. I have little hope for anything more than this. Everything seems pointless. I wait to retire and disappear, alone as always.

I live in the moment as I always did. Except it's not some normie bullshit exciting in the moment kind of delusional crap. My in the moment is playing a videogame, watching videos, jerking off, shit like this.

I have never had anything in life so I can't even imagine an alternative. I am a blank slate, a ghost. Nothing matters to me and I don't matter to anyone.

i sleep and wake up. sometimes my family makes me do some stupid bullshit but im just livin

by living exactly the same way i did when i was 17 for the rest of my life, idrc anymore and i know nobody but my family will ever love me, at least i don't have to work, god rest billy's soul

This
My entire friend group lives with their folks while working crap jobs that will barely give them hours
Sadly, I can't live with my parents so I went to uni (stupid decision, I know)
Ultimate plan is to save money while in school, pray that i get a remote or walking distance job and rent a room for a few hundred bucks
I gave up hoping for le middle class family life with a picket fence

Why don't you guys make a last-ditch effort? You could be a doctor by 35 and fully qualified making $250k/year by 37 - take a year off this if you already have a degree. It's not much time, but it's something.

What do you have to lose?

why dont you just spent the rest of your life working and making a lot of money for nothing you value?

idk about everyone else but I wouldve done that right out the gate if I gave half a fuck about being rich. but I never did and I never will.

literally get a hobby or accept you're just mindlessly consoom until you perish
I'm doing game development to cope

I don't want to be a doctor I think that would be hell

i'm rich and still lonely as shit

I cope by drawing and animating cartoons

Retirement

KEEEEEEK

based scrooller

programming socks, poppers, dildo collection, and studying to get a better job.

Every single doctor I know is stressed as fuck working 24h shifts and then passing out in alcohol and drugs, and the ones who are happy about it are hype adrenaline retards who cannot endure a calm day in their life. Not an option for me.

Those are hospital physicians - they chose that shit, fuck them. Family medicine is the least competitive residency and you can work 3 days a week making $150k+.

Talking about post-30s

Immediately goes to fetishes

kys

Movies don't scare me at all but some games can still be absolutely terrifying.
t. Horror enjoyer, age 31

I can also get jumpscared by games but horror movies are boring as fuck if you don't identify with the murderer

Is it hard to be a doctor if blood makes you faint?