Yeah, I just assume that almost every person older than 40 is out of touch and doesn't know how the world works unless they prove otherwise.
I was not sitting at home smoking weed playing video games; I was getting my doctorate and trying every side hustle I could to keep all my bills paid without having to ask for loans or handouts from anybody.
Want me to be real honest? I would swipe right every night before I went to bed until tinder locked me out. Did that for about 5 years.
And when I finally did get a date (one. I got one date during this entire time), she just sat there on her phone the whole time and gave short little one word answers. Might as well not have even counted since it was basically just a dine and dash. I couldn't even get a hug for that 50ish dollars. Damn man.
There's no peter pan syndrome here; I grew the fuck up.
And what really put the final nail in the coffin for me was realizing that
1) growing up is highly over-rated and you don't really get as much reward as you might think, even if you play it perfectly
2) women never have to grow up, and get more reward than they could ever dream of, even if they fuck up continually
