A house, two cars, a healthy relationship ,a career, livable wage, 2.5 kids, a dog. ya know, the expectation many children were told in school.
Everything I hear on social media says this is a myth.
This made me ask more questions.
If there was a plan, who made the plans for us?
If it’s a myth, why is it being being taught?
I’m not dead or in jail, so I’m doing alright. When I think about it, a lot of the things we were fed as kids was never the whole story, nor was it all true.
I generally don’t use social media (outside of lemmy) because most of it is about trying to sell parts of your life to people that usually lacks context. It’s great for sharing ideas and information though.
Not really, never had a strong plan to begin with. I’ve sort of drifted through life on the path of least resistance. But I have a house and cars, very little stress, and a lot of free time, so there’s that. No dog no wife lol.
Yeah… mid 30s, stable healthy friendships, been with my long term partner for ten years, we have a nice house and two dogs, my career is going great, we’re comfortable.
I’m living with my cat in a rental apartment and that is absolutely according to plan.
More or less. I have a good career (albeit one I’d like to escape if ever possible), a wife and a good marriage, 2 kids, 2 dogs, 2 cars, and a modest house.
We’re doing alright for ourselves.
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No plan, but I’m happy and have more in superannuation than some, so I can’t complain.
25, no friends, never had a romantic relationship, barely ever go outside the door, living with my parents, still drudging through the last year of uni and still dealing with the aftereffects 1 year of lockdown had on my brain. But hey, at least i have lots of free time to stare at the ceiling.
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There was a plan? Someone could have told me about that 40 years ago!
Seriously though, yeah, I guess. Not completely a traditional plan since I skipped the whole university and singles life part and instead went right to work, got married and had kids (which turned out great, kids all moved on to do their own stuff by the time I was 40, so now I have money and health at the same time, which would be pretty cool if I had some time).
TBH neither my partner nor I give a flying fuck about traditional anything, we just kinda do what sounds like fun and isn’t too likely to fuck things up for future us. Not a whole lot of long-term planning going on over here.
Never really adhered to the lifescript™. A lot of my goals and milestones I’ve accomplished pretty late, but that’s just how things turned out. All in all my life could be a bit better but it could also be a lot worse.
Depends on whose plan you mean. My life certainly isn’t perfect or awful, I’m content with what I’ve got, but things could be much MUCH better with a few changes that are unfortunately out of my hands.
Absolutely not.
Hey, just wanted to say I love your sex memes
lol thanks, contribute please!
I’m already posting everywhere, sometimes I just want to have a quick laugh and open one or your memes…
Doing pretty good.
No cars because I don’t need it, still saving for a flat (also, met my gf a year ago so we still have some time). Kids in a few years probably, I don’t like dogs.
I wish I did dogs after kids, I just don’t have the bandwidth to take care of them to the standard I did before.
Glad to hear you are doing well, do you ever feel survivors guilt when you read about people struggling to get by?
I live in Europe, so I already had survivor’s guilt during university when I learned about college debts in the US.
I am well aware that I’m doing good, and I try to feel grateful for that everyday.
