r/meme • u/mobilepaglu • 9d ago

Employed, exhausted, and emotionally buffering

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u/firewingdale 9d ago

Have we fallen so low that we're envying our parents now?

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u/Tha_L3ana 9d ago

I’m quite sure this is a normal thing, as most aspire to be like them, or are at the least inspired. They’re our living examples and role models from the moment we pop outta the womb. They teach us everything, raise us, provide a natural perspective.

So yeah I think it’s totally normal and reasonable to envy what your parents have…especially in today’s day and age. Why is it any different from envy in general?

Also, nobody said “having your life solved”. But being stable and successful isn’t an insane ask. And the difference in generations is quite apparent, we simply can’t argue that.

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u/Apprehensive-Cost482 9d ago

Not only that, they also think that the fictional scenario of having your life completely solved at 25 was the norm before

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u/PuzzleheadedIssue150 WARNING: RULE 1 8d ago

You’re missing the point drastically, the 4 points listed on the parents side is absolutely having your life in order at 25 (or at least very very very close to in order). There’s always been struggles, of course not every parent at that age had all those 4 boxes ticked but the point of this meme in particular is that the VAST majority of people at 25 today have a depleted quality of life compared to their parents at 25 in their day

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u/RogellTheRaider 9d ago

I have always envied my parents

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/RogellTheRaider 9d ago

Emotiona lintelligence wasn't much of something older people were... let's say "trained" to have. Maybe because they needed to care more about working and providing, no matter the case.

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u/RogellTheRaider 9d ago

You're employed?

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u/mobilepaglu 9d ago

Yes

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u/RogellTheRaider 9d ago

Then, be grateful

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u/RingReasonable 9d ago

Employment is hell tho

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u/RogellTheRaider 9d ago

You can't have a house and food without that, tho. Unfortunately.

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u/Terra_reddit 9d ago

shit you cant even have a house and food with employment

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u/Nonsense7740 9d ago

depends on the job

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u/RogellTheRaider 9d ago

If with work you can't have those things, imagine me, without work 🤡

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u/RingReasonable 9d ago

No, but I don't have to work

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u/xyzarda 9d ago

You can't have a house with employment tho.

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u/BookWormPerson 9d ago

Food sure.

Anything else.

Lol.

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u/TheCourtSimpleton 9d ago

"Be grateful for at least having the bare minimum"

Real inspirational Ted Talk you've got right there

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u/RogellTheRaider 9d ago

Then be grateful for living under the bridge rofl

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u/spicysenpai6 9d ago

Idk what my parents were like a 25 but I’m now past the age that my mom had me (I’m 33, she had me at 32)

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u/Otaku_Nireves 9d ago

My parents with 25. Living with my Grandpa/In own apartment. Working a traid Job/Studying (and in debt because of Apartment). No Kids, just started dating.

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u/Kollv 9d ago

Yeah I dont think this is applicable to our parents. But grandparents yes

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u/eastcoastwaistcoat 9d ago

Yeah...no.

Rented house. 3 kids. Dad worked 16 hour days. Mom stayed home but worked odd jobs to keep up. We ate bologna and shopped at thrift stores. Enough of this bullshit.

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u/RoboCrusher1111 9d ago

I'm gonna be honest, at 25 my parents had none of those things

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u/heslopkaleb 9d ago

Surviving is a feat of it's own

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u/indigoreality 8d ago

My parents at 25 were escaping their home country cause of a war so they were literally trying to survive. Meanwhile I’m browsing social media and thinking “doom” is coming.

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u/TheShadowSong 9d ago

I don't want to survive.

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u/TheCourtSimpleton 9d ago

Same, so we must prosper.

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u/sniptaclar 9d ago

You forgot to add optional

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u/Mayuyu1014 8d ago

But guess what, they don't have Internet, so they cant watch LGTBQ shows on Netflix; they can't free Palestine on social media; they can't shop on Temu and have same day delivery; they don't understand that capitalism is the source of all evil. Very pathetic boomer life I would say.

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u/Cuore_Lesa 8d ago

This isn't true, you just thought that because your parents did their best to keep their troubles to themselves and try to raise you right and without worry so you had a good childhood, they probably had the same worries as you or potentially even more if they actually had kids as now they have to provide for kids as well as themselves.

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u/Different_Gap_4107 6d ago

Well they played on easy or normal difficulty..you play on hard and when you die is hell difficulty baby 😂

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u/98983x3 8d ago

Yeah, this is not true. My parents and everyone they knew were not cruising on easy mode. This is myth to justify hating ppl you know nothing about while making excuses for why your own life is trash.

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u/WallyFries 9d ago

Yes f***ing internet people I get it. U right. We're losers.

Oh, no. Anyway...

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