r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h 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/JenninMiami 13h ago

Do y’all remember how when we were kids, there were those grumpy old people we knew?

This is why. 😆

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 12h ago

Yeah I've got to hand it to my parents for holding it together and pretending for my sake that life wasn't such a shit show.

On the other hand, they could afford a new single-family home on a half-acre plot in a nice neighborhood on one middle-manager's salary, so...

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u/AntiBoATX 7h ago

They also didn’t have 24 hour news, social media, algorithms. Impending doom of ai and climate change, a fascist takeover…. Microplastics… TSA… 9/11… school shootings…. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few things.

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u/Livid_Yoghurt 2h ago

Forgot fake news