40s is the same, but one of them is dead
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I was going to say: There's no space for dead, moved to Austin in the 10s, or crippling pain killer addiction.
I beg to differ.
I'm absorbed mostly in work but also a little bit of 3, however the "something" is merely trying to stave off a heart attack and premature physical degradation in general, and not so much some grand lofty fitness goal.
And also 4. The amount of negativity that entered my brain through social media reached critical mass during the early stages of Covid and I axed pretty much all of it and never returned.
I'm number four. I mean, I was. Those people have probably all forgotten about me by now.
#4
you guys still got friends?
You know, for about a decade, everyone was pushed to share everything they did on social media. It was a mistake. It was a mistake on the scale of cigarettes and smoking inside and in airplanes and in hospitals and in schools. No one thought it was a stupid idea, and a lot of people pushed it as the only way to get jobs and show you're a clever chimp that can internet so hard because interneting hard was the cool new thing.
Lower right is the hangover from that. Anyone I didn't find or didn't find me between 2008 and 2018 wasn't ever worth connecting with. The people that did find me were nice to hear from once, and we haven't talked ever again, despite being connected, for 10+ years.
My grandparents and their parents, etc. went their whole lives never seeing people again and not knowing what happened to them because they moved one time and they didn't know their new address. Whole movies were about that. Elvis had a song about that. The last episode of the first season of The Real World ended with everyone moving out of the apartment, and once that landline and address no longer went to those people, it was 100% possible that those people would be gone from each others' lives forever.
Y'all, we're not supposed to collect and keep 27,000 casual contacts throughout our lives. It's unnatural. Our brains are not built for it. We're made to have a few dozen up to 100-ish close connections that mean something, including family you don't pick.
Email some old friends you don't text with daily. Send anyone you truly care about an email to say hi. If they respond, then great. If not, don't worry about it. Enjoy high fidelity communications with those who mater to you.
Based perspective on this, thank you. :)
Have a few who check 3 of those boxes
Option E: "Walking around in the woods"
It's kinda like washing reality off with the reality you can't have.
Is there a 5th option for "life is already over"?
I am on the right side of this picture.
Bottom right for a few years now, but it really only applies if social media is the only way you can think of to get in contact.
Here I am going strong in the bottom right!
I'm loving how many bottoms there are in this thread
Same, I’ve come to realize life is best alone. Solitude is the best dude.
The disappeared ones. I'm one of those.
I'll tell you what we are up to. We are
Yikes! You can't just tell people about the
People are disappearing left and right! I need to tell the world about this before
Im checking three of the four quadrants. I work to much, I havea too many kids and I have dropped most of my social contacts intentionally. And im usually constantly angry i don't have the discipline to train consistently to stay fit. Currently I'm also not healthy enough to work out, waiting for a doctors appointment to hopefully fix that shit.
I'm the bottom right except no insta, no FB, etc. and only an email address.
....and a Lemmy account
A piefed account more technically, but yes. I technically have a lot of minor forum-like accounts around the web, but no crossover with my IRL friends, nor do I think I would enjoy interacting with them via these platforms.
I wish I had arranged my finances better so I could live the dream of being bottom right in a nice very functional house in the forest, with enough self-reliance and supplies to last for months and months without poking my head out of my shell.
I'm happily none of the above.
You're on Lemmy, you're the bottom right corner
Not really though. I haven't been on the big social media platforms in forever, even during my 20s I was already gone. That doesn't withhold you from visiting parties, chilling with friends, going places, etc. The only big platform that I'm still on is WhatsApp, because it's the main way to message people here, and that's how you can go places. But I haven't go Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, TikTok, and whatever the fuck people use to consume ads nowadays
I was happily in the bottom 2, now I just need to get back on the career grind..
please help, the software industry is in a rut and my child needs food.
Have you tried being an AI? I hear tech is only hiring AI now.
Disappeared can have a lot of dif meanings behind it these days.
Yeah like, does the pub count ?
Been spending the last 20 years at the Winchester, waiting for all this to blow over.
My insta is empty. Apparently I've disappeared
The bottom 2 categories feel like a personal attack on me.
A distinct lack of "drugs/degeneracy" category
I think that's a subset of "disappeared". If you followed up on the people who disappeared, it's a coin flip as to whether they just hate people or have fallen on hard times.
What about those of us who both hate people and have fallen on hard times?
Lil bit of this, lil bit of that
Hey, just because I'm a degenerate doesn't mean I don't care about maintaining healthy relationships with my friends!
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Looking forward to being on the bottom right.
At some when people get too busy to be concerned I'll delete my snap and insta leaving nothing behind. I just don't understand why people feel the need to share everything they're doing constantly or how they get upset if you don't have the energy to react to it all.
I just don’t understand why people feel the need to share everything
Sign of life. Some people keep posting what they're doing even if no one cares, just a reminder they're still alive and breathing.
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I know a guy who is three of these things. Goes to the gym 6 days a week, works in a hospital, starting a business, has a wife and a kid, and he still manages to have time to hang out once or twice a week. Man is as successful as I am not
How successful can he be if he failed at using birth control?
As someone who is some of those things as well, I would love to know what the wife and/or child are doing during all those activities. Because something has to give when you're doing that much.
In my experience, that balance is really hard, and even in the most hospitable, high-quality-of-life places, that balance is not exactly always something that is nurtured and valued by the systems in place.
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I'm proudly in the "obsessed with work" category (organizing working class unions)
No ones going to be working soon. Are you going to pivot?
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