Trust me, you don't wanna know what's going on.
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Kurt Vonnegut said that one of the scariest things that every happened to him was the day he looked around and realized people he'd gone to high school with were running the world.
Older than 60, I can confirm.
Just when you think you're getting a grip, everything shifts.
This is the question to the ultimate answer. The answer being "42."
Roughly mid-thirties. Then the remorse sets in.
Incorrect. You don't get there. EVER.
I really did start to feel like I had a better handle on things by mid 30s. Then it really sharpened in my early 40s. Not sure how clueless you might have still felt around then.
Reached mid-thirties, I'm still having no idea what the *** is going on, the longer I live, the less everything around me makes sense (and I don't think it's me that changes that much...).
Watching what's going on in the US for instance, just results me in shaking my head in disbelief, without having any idea what's going on...
The goal is not knowing what's going on, it is not caring about any of it
Such an appropriate post to find on my birthday.
Historically? Mid-20s when you enter the work force and start wondering why groceries are so expensive. And then you lose your mind and get angry that life was so much better when you were 10 and not paying attention to that.
Me everything I watch a new movie/TV/anime.
"Wtf", "What?", "Nani?"
Also wtf is Tenet, does anyone even know? Or is Christopher Nolan just making a whole 2 hour movie to call his audience dumb? So fucking confusing, so much action, 0 plot.
If you invest a lot in to learning as much as possible when younger, then by like late 20s you can get a decent sense of things. But even then it's a tiny percentage of everything.
My friend mentioned to me that there are two types of cinnamon.
I happened to pass a spice stall at a local shopping center and started chatting about cinnamon. The guy behind the counter knew quite a bit, but pointed out that he wasn't an expert.
The aren't just millions of books you'll never read, there are millions of books you will never haver any idea that they exist.
One more year should do it..
We're entering irrational times, ones that you can only navigate with your heart.
I think the question is how much money do I need to know what is going on?
No fucking clue while being early 30s. When I was much younger, I thought my parents and adults around me knew much about the world. At my 30s I know one thing - world is fucked up and nothing can be in one's control. All we have is to try to react properly to the world around us. Other than that, no idea what is happening and doubt anyone ever had an idea.
It is not about age, it is about listening, and not listening to only one thing/person, but listening to anybody, not intercepting the talk, just take it in and think about why that person is saying what they saying how, don’t blame them for saying something “illogical” in your view, try to find reason in it by asking clever questions that do not insult the other person.
If you manage to do so, you can understand why what is and how it is, by talking to enough people, age is irrelevant.
Usually when you get to that point in life .... your either dead or almost dead
... finding out what's going on or loving that long both sound like very risky propositions.
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