>>23954153It's just not fair, bros. I'm out here grinding 10-hour shifts, 6 days a week, breaking my back to make ends meet, and yet I'm still stuck living at home with my parents, barely able to afford anything beyond the essentials. Forget about dating or even thinking about moving out—those things might as well be dreams at this point. Meanwhile, you see people like Pan Piano, who just have to play some tunes on the internet while showing a little skin, and suddenly they’re married, living in their own house, and raising two kids. It’s like life has different rules for some people, and for others, it’s just a cruel, unending cycle.
I never even had a girlfriend before. My parents always pushed me to study, to be ‘responsible,’ to focus on what they said would lead to success. And what did that get me? A childhood I barely remember enjoying, teenage years spent waiting for life to finally start, and now an adulthood that feels empty and pointless. You keep hoping that someday things will change—that all that sacrifice will mean something—but it never does.
It’s not even about wanting to be rich or famous. It’s about having enough to move out, to maybe start a relationship without the embarrassment of still living with your parents, to build a future that doesn’t feel like it’s slipping further away each year. But the reality is harsh: your life can feel like a joke when you see that the traditional “work hard, get rewarded” mantra is just an illusion meant to keep you in line.
How are you supposed to get up and go to work every day when deep down you’re haunted by the idea that this might just be it? That maybe your life will never be more than this cycle of work, eat, sleep, repeat, while others thrive on talents or circumstances you simply don’t have? It’s suffocating. It feels like life has already passed me by, and all you’re left with is the ache of what could have been.
