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nixCraft 🐧
Life in your 40s+ is about peace, not chasing trends or impressing people. It's about hitting the reset button and distancing yourself from anyone who drains your energy. Some of you may think and say, 'Oh, you are depressed, aren't you?' No, I’m not. I’m in a *deep reset*. That is all.
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Show threadRachel RawlingsFeb 16
@nixCraft And life in your 50s is about "how long have I been doing this shit" and trying to find little glints of joy to hold off burnout a little longer so you can make it to a reasonable retirement.
Show threadvandenberglegsFeb 17
@linuxandyarn @nixCraft you've been reading my mail
Show threadRachel RawlingsFeb 17
@vandenberglegs @nixCraft Please. I try not to even read my own mail. Is that my Gmail inbox counter or the stock market?
Show threadMichele AdduciFeb 16
@nixCraft totally agree, but unfortunately you can't distance yourself from your own kids, that drain most of your energy 😅
Show threadExpired TokenFeb 16
@madduci @nixCraft Kids are energy drains, but they give back that energy, too! It not immediatly visible, but they totally give back (but not the energy from the forgot-to-turn-lights-off-again, though 😅)
Show threadarutazFeb 16
@nixCraft I'm 45 and just distanced myself from someone draining my energy. Best thing I'm done for a long while.
Show threadPiotr GaczkowskiFeb 16
@nixCraft tell it to the broligarchs
Show threadChris PittsFeb 16
@nixCraft Agreed. But why wait until 40? I certainly wish I'd learned to do it a lot sooner.
Show threadneocolapsarFeb 16
@nixCraft Totally agree.
Show threaddiana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱Feb 16

@nixCraft

Life in my 50's is being thankful I learned the command line 40 years ago and still have my mental health 🫠

Show threadPaul_IPv6Feb 16

@nixCraft

if you like your 40s, you're going to love your 50s. even more of the same, along with being able to enjoy the results of that reset.

Show threadlrFeb 16
@nixCraft
Every 10 years
Show threadJay DeimanFeb 16

@nixCraft I 100% concur. In my younger days, I had a much higher tolerance for bullshit from people. Now that time is getting shorter, I just want to spend my time either alone, with my partner, or the genuinely good people that I'm friends with. I just stopped engaging with shitty people.

No more bullshit.

Show threadCavallo PazzoFeb 16
@nixCraft This post came just as I was making a decision about someone important to me. 😂
Show threadYannick A. HaarschnittFeb 16
@nixCraft unfortunately, I'm dysthymic. Yet still I agree.
Show threadKayFeb 16
@nixCraft well expressed!
Show threadDroppie [farcebk] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘Feb 16

@nixCraft your perspective could not possibly be more inimical to my existence. it feels naive or even smug. in my 40s i transitioned. it didn't work, coz i don't pass, so after several years of just trying to put on a brave face, i gave up & quit the physical world, staying home alone in my house. that was over two decades ago. in the intervening period, much of the world has descended into naked violence [rhetorical, political, legal, physical] against peeps like me, so the chances of me emerging from my home again are even less now in my 60s than in my later 40s & 50s. i'm glad if some humans sufficiently have their shit together to be as blasé as your statement, but hey, not all of us do.

#Depression #SelfLoathing #SocialPhobia #FailedTransition #PostOp #Transwoman #Transphobia #Unworthy #Nihilism #ExistentialFutility #SuicideIdeation #spoons #PrimalScream

Show threadAllan ChowFeb 17
@nixCraft truth. Most people are simply not worth your time
Show threadSystems PondererFeb 17

@nixCraft Relatable, I had kind of a moment just before 40, and am also in a process of a reset.

Wishing you the best, may you be a different person than when you went in…

Show threadMichielFeb 17
@nixCraft word!
Show threadJoseph Leedy Feb 18
@nixCraft I just turned 40 a few months ago and I feel this in my bones.
Show threadganboldFeb 18
@nixCraft close to 30, but I can relate so much with it