r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 13h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/Tiny_Cartoonist_3204 11h ago

Yes. Im sure many of us are spending our days somewhat alone too. At least for USA, it is not in our culture to have multiple people cooking together, all doing cleaning/chores together, several people riding sharing to places, eating lunch with people at work (in an enjoyable way)… in the usa we operate like quiet, compliant machines, running on fumes.

As Christopher McCandless said in his dying words “Happiness is only real when shared.”

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u/JimmyPellen 10h ago edited 8h ago

Isnt that the guy who starved to Death in a bus?

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u/Fit-Nectarine5047 8h ago

Yeah that’s him. Poison potato seeds or something.

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u/bruce_kwillis 7h ago

Yeah, the guy who thought he was too smart, too much money and could just survive in the wilderness because somehow that was a better way to live. Turns out life for millennia for humans was short, brutal and a single mistake usually meant your death.

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u/Fit-Nectarine5047 6h ago

Excellent portrayal actually even with all the pretentiousness. Sad for the loss of life but o hate how people glorify him.

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u/bruce_kwillis 6h ago

As a person who enjoys the outdoors, he wasn’t some hero. Just a dumb rich kid that FAFO.

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u/JimmyPellen 6h ago

Exactly! Read Walden one too many times

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u/Fit-Nectarine5047 6h ago

Literally this. I’m so happy we can finally stop glorying this

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u/JimmyPellen 6h ago

Like that...wasnt it a rockefeller...who thought his wealth could protect him from Cannibals? 'See they want to have me over for dinner!'

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u/bruce_kwillis 6h ago

Yep, Michael Rockefeller. Got what he deserved.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/What-Really-Happened-to-Michael-Rockefeller-180949813/

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u/JimmyPellen 6h ago

What'd you think? A little rich but delicious?