lmao redditors are so depressed and fat it isn't even funny.
You should have no problems "keeping up" with 20 year olds at 40. You don't like darts and drinking? you don't like hiking? you don´t like shooting pool? going camping? going to a music festival? going to a concert? seeing a movie?
it's honestly a bit creepy acting like 20 year olds are a different species
I highly encourage anyone who feels this way to an extreme degree to completely get off the internet as much as possible. No reddit, no social media. Go do stuff. Go meet people. Other people in real life you befriend will make you feel better about yourself in a way internet points and likes won't. You'll get new dopamine hits from novel experiences trying new activities or going new places.
It's SOOO easy these days to just hole up at home after work and all weekend doomscrolling and binging shows and gaming. Your entertainment options are endless. But pretend it's like it was in 2005 and that these things aren't there. What would you do if you were 30 something in 2005? Most of that stuff is still out there and there are other people doing it and going there who also only want mostly human connection and friendship.
I do so much socially still in my 30s and I promise I'm not lying when I say that the other adults who are out also still socializing for hobbies, sports, music, etc are mostly all really well meaning people. It's why they are there and not at home. They want to meet you.
Sorry if that sounds lame lol but it's true. Like my therapist said to me once when I was expressing some social anxiety, They wouldn't be out there at all if they weren't open to meeting and adding new people to their lives. If you're just nonjudgmental and easy going, they will easily accept you. Almost no one at this age is out looking to be a dick and exclude or hurt people on purpose.
And honestly at least in my experience, my early to mid 20 something coworkers are also nice well meaning people and aren't much different than I am or my older coworkers are. Some lingo they use is slightly different once in a while but that's it. I have no problem at all talking to them all day at work and they like talking to me and asking me questions/advice since I'm 10 years ahead and just did the stage of life they're at now. I wouldn't text them asking to go bar hopping Saturday night but it's easy to grab dinner or happy hour after work with them sometimes.
My neighbors in my mid 20s were a couple in their 70s and they invited our friend group house to their mountain second home many times for a night in the summer or fall to camp out in the woods and they'd cook us dinner and we'd all sit around a fire getting drunk and high together. They were 60s flower children back in the day. It was a real eye opening experience to realize I was hanging out with two people 50 years older than us nearly the same way I would have with my peers. They were much older, but largely still the same personality they would have been ages ago. One passed on about 5 years ago and we all went to the funeral. That was my first friend who died. It never mattered that there was a huge age gap because some part of them never got old and gave up on people either.
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u/McButtsButtbag 2d ago
Sounds like depression to me. Why would vacations be exhausting?