Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
I just turned 30 today. I did not need to see this
If it makes you feel any better, you would have turned 30 today regardless of what you have done in the past (unless you don’t make it to 30 (unless quantum immortality is real)).
Happy birthday! And if you aren’t happy with your efforts so far in life, better to tackle that looking forward than regret it looking back, though be kind to the yourself of today so you don’t regret spending your life preparing for the future instead of enjoying the moment.
I’m 33. You’ll be okay, I promise. I just started getting my shit together.
20 is a baby. 30 is a newly adult person. actually turning 30 didn’t do much for me but a delayed realization that I’m over 30 did wonders. I stopped feeling like a teenager who has to put up with drama, or the youngest person in the room who has to suffer people’s bullshit for no reason. huge weight lift from the shoulders.
It’s just hard because everyone in my life had achieved something by my age. Even my more “grown up” friends I’ve made recently are like 25 and looking to get married and buy a house.
I know comparison is the thief of joy, but it really feels like I’ve wasted my life.
marriage is not an achievement and there’s a housing crisis. also looking to get something doesn’t mean you’re even close to getting it but whatever even if they did have those, it’s not in any way an indictment on you.
marriage doesn’t mean anything unless you have someone you want to be married to. the right time is when you’re ready to do it and it makes sense, not a specific age. if you’re a man, you’re even more free to wait as the societal pressure (or biological, if one wants kids) isn’t nearly as high as it is for women. not that it should be a deciding factor anyway for women but I’m just saying.
from what I’ve seen from people around me, being unmarried is infinitely better than marrying the wrong person.
take a breath, do right by yourself. 30 is ridiculously young to have “wasted your life”. lots of people find themselves in their 30s. as it is usually a time you start getting your shit together, now you will have an opportunity to actually think about what you want to do and how to do it.
This comic reminds me of the same gripe I had with the movie Click.
The message seems to be “Life is short and precious, so appreciate every moment, because it’ll be over before you know it.” Which sounds nice, and sweet, and thoughtful, and is complete and utter horse shit.
There are times when life just plain sucks. When it’s boring or tedious or even torturous, and it would be 100% worth skipping if you could. When you have a headache at the airport and have just found out your flight has been delayed by 3 hours. When your tooth cracks at 4am and you’re waiting for hours in agony until a dentist opens up. When you finished a long work day and just want to get home and collapse, only to find the roads are blocked in a massive traffic jam. These are not fulfilling experiences. You do not learn or grow in any way, except to become more tolerant to enduring unfulfilling experiences. Of course it would be better if you could skip those things!
But yu can’t
And the message is to make the best out of those bad moments somehow because like it or not, they’re still a part of life and you only will have exactly one life. If you try to skip out the bad moments instead of making them better you only spend a lot of time not living
Again. Total horseshit.
Skip out on the bad moments if you can! Are you crazy?! Live your life! Don’t simply choose to accept monotony just because it exists! You’re saying you shouldn’t try to actively avoid bad moments?! What the fuck kind of grin-and-bear-it nonsense is that?!
Even the bad experiences of your life shape who you become, a life with no hardships would probably be dull, ofcourse it’s a balancing act like most things in life
If the movie had any actual balls it would have leaned harder into the parallels between his magic remote and suicidality, and it would have shown a lot more of the agony of choosing between experiencing the absolute worst things in life versus escaping entirely into nothingness.
But it was a kid’s movie so there we are.
I read it as life is short and precious, and most of it fucking sucks.
Isn’t it funny how we want to spend our lives doing what we want to do?
Haha well you’re dead now and it’s too late! XD
The days are long but the years are short.
Acting like dying is a bad thing. Lol. Don’t threaten me with a good time.
When I was in the 8th grade, I distinctly remember one day getting off the bus and making my way to homeroom, and a thought occurred to me: “I still have four more years of school before I graduate. I’ll never make it!”
I’m typing this approximately 35 years later. I never did make it through high school; I dropped out three times (the third time the school asked that I not come back). Ironically, I graduated with my masters last year.
~Talk about a wild ride.~
Huge congratulations.
My younger coworkers keep saying on Mondays, “i wish it was friday already!”
I told them they’ll wish for that time back someday…
and then they called me grandpa and i gave them a werthers original, and everyone stood up and clapped
The song is “Time” by Pink Floyd for anyone that doesn’t get the reference. If you like that song, Dark Side of the Moon is definitely worth a listen
I’m 27 and somehow I just listened to this album for the first time 2 weeks ago. “Us and them”, “Time” and “Eclipse” break me down to full blown ugly crying every time I listen to them 😅 that shit touched my fucking soul.
This was my peak ‘life sucks and I’m just slowly dying’ song as a very young adult, drinking Screech alone in my parent’s basement and contemplating all sorts of dismal stuff.
Fantastic song, but if I find myself listening to it on repeat in the near future it’s straight to the shrink. Gotta fire your own damn starting gun before you lose the strength to pull the trigger.
Yep, that’s the stuff.
I’d never heard of it
All good, it’s pretty regional as the Wiki attests to.
Is it enjoyable or kinda shit (or both, depending on who makes it)?
So the branded Screech is kinda meh imo, a sort of harsh dark rum. Tasted like depression which suited me fine at the time, lol.
Proper screech (bathtub moonshine style)? I’ve never had the chance to try some, unfortunately.
Edit: apparently the recipe for Screech changed over Covid, new stuff is supposedly smoother.
Time is slower when you are young. Summers lasted forever. Now I blink my eyes and my toddlers are almost in high school.
I am definitely in the same time vortex as you experience
I’m just here hoping people get the Pink Floyd reference.
Who?? Must be a tiny band nobody’s ever heard of
Oh by the way, which one is Pink?
He’s a friend of Monty’s.
How daft can you get?? Pink is the first name, Floyd is the family name of the guy… Uncultured swine!
That lil punk!
Bob Geldof
Naw the Who are a band that Horton heard.
No, The Who were one of the other bands.
I’m 47 and it’s really starting to accelerate. Enjoy your youth. Time is short. Do what you enjoy now.
The solo is perfect.
Some kid was being a smartass to me so I told him I hoped he aged horribly. He is 23 now and balding.
Is he…your son?
so when does the curse kick in, you hairy asshole? :P
There was an Adam Sandler movie about this. “Click”? Saw it once. Couldn’t again. Not because I don’t like most of his movies. This one just ended up being too sad.
It’s actually the only one of his movies that I somewhat regularly come back to think about. Not to slag his more serious or funnier movies, but something with the remote fast-forward analogy, and how often I wish I could skip or speed over a real-life situation- it really hit close to home, especially the illustrated consequences of that.
For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.
—Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (2012)
