When the pandemic hit, I felt like two years were missed because we didn't go abroad or something like that and it wasn't until 2023 that we did again but I still feel left out because it has felt to me like everyone by their early-mid 30s unlike me have stopped all the travelling and stuff like that because it feels everyone I'm seeing or hearing about in that age demographic is getting married, are married, have kids, having kids and so on and reinforces in me as though the "good days are gone".
It makes me feel like I've missed 10 years or more as though it was a "better time to live" and also I didn't have the same confidence to say yes to things as I do now and more socialising got better as I aged and starting working and driving my own car in my mid-late 20s but I felt younger then whereas everyone else that age may have worked longer than me and was already forming long term relationships, getting engaged and so on.
24 Dec 2025, 2:31 pm
