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I just saw two teenage girls outside a High School smoke actual cigarettes.

When I was their age I started smoking because that everyone around me did. It was cheap and didn't have warning labels. If you went to get a coffee, everyone smoked cigarettes inside the shop. Then you could only smoke outside, sitting on the outside serving area. And now they complain if you smoke outside as well.

But what about todays teenagers? Why would two High School girls smoke cigarettes? Were would they pick the habit up? It doesn't make sense? It isn't "cool" anymore?

Does anyone feel like life is mainly when you're young? This is for both men and women, attractive or not, any ethnicity, religion and sexuality. You basically go from main character at 20 to a side character at 40. This is my observation:

When you are young everyone is curious about you and who you will become. Anything is possible even if you drop out of college there is potential. You see your current work as a stepping stone for the story of your life. You are ambitious and full of energy. You want to prove yourself and everyone is into you.

But then you are 45 you refuse to give work your all, unless you are a business owner. Knowing that your workplace doesn't care about you. And that family and relationships are more important than your occupation. Which is just to get money and survive. No one will thank you for getting a workplace injury. And you know this. The employers will not hire you because that they know that you know this.

When you are 20 everyone cares if you are single and with whom you have sex. People get jealous and protective over who you sleep with. But no one cares who a 40 year old is sleeping with, unless they know you personally. Doesn't matter if you are married or single. No stranger will get jealous or concerned.

One Redditor put it perfectly:

>You know how you set your presents to the side to watch the younger kids open theirs on Christmas? Life is basically like that

I could be very wrong. And of course some people live their best lives at 50. And their worst years might have been their 20s. But I am speaking about how strangers perceive you in a general sense. Am I wrong here?

I am diagnoses with ADHD. I agree that I do see the "signs." But they can be applied to everyone?

For instance, someone might be friendless in college. But having no issues doing group assignments. Or even present individual work for their class, all alone. Despite everyone else doing it as groups and feeling second hand embarrassment for you. Does that mean that "normal" people have more social anxiety than the autistic person? I don't know.

Anyway, here are some signs regarding me:

1. I never really had any friends and have been a loner all my life. But it might have been due to bullying. People with autism have friends?
2. I have trouble remembering making eye contact. But if I remember I can do it just fine. Autistic people are scared of eye contact?
3. I am almost 40 and never even been on a date. But this is "normal" for straight cis men?
4. I am currently in long term unemployment. But lots of people with autism excel in their career so it cannot be it?
5. I dropped out of High School and took my time getting a Masters Degree. But that is more of an ADHD thing?

Again! This could be applied to anyone. Autistic or not?

I was banned for around 7 months. Accused of being a bot or something due to liking and reposting too much. I did the procedure, sometimes I got a mail about my account being restored. Sometimes they rejected it. But even when my account got restored, it still had a suspended status when I logged in.

Then, one day I applied again, paraphrasing: "please unban me". No elaborate text to convince some AI or anything of that sort. And this time I was able to use my account, all my followers were restored as well. Just like that.

Just wanted to share for those who get rejected. And those that get their account restored, but still remain suspended. Yes, it can be restored suddenly. And no, there is no magic keywords or anything. It is all random chance.

During the Shah's time, Iran and the Soviet Union had agreed that each country's share of the Caspian Sea would be 50 percent. But the Islamic Republic is giving it all away just to survive for a little longer.

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Few know that the Reconquista was supposed to continue. When Ibera got liberated they started taking back North African cities to Christendom. It was supposed to be a complete reconquest. Which is why we have Ceuta and Melilla. But they suddenly stopped? Some say that it was due to America being discovered. But I find that hard to believe. Is there any special reason?

I do not know if this is too graphic for this subreddit. The movie is 23 years old now. I think that this movie and specific scene exemplifies why life sucks. I will give some spoilers.

She was beaten by her father at 9 for telling him that his friend raped her. She was bullied and used by her "friends" growing up. They took money and cigarettes from her and then left her alone. She had sex with any older man who wanted. Then she did it for payment. And these customers abused her so much. One was torturing her and intended to kill her. So she killed him and started a murder spree for revenge.

There is this scene that I never forgot. She tried getting a normal job as a secretary at a law firm. And the lawyer who interviewed her got upset that she even tried. He said something akin to: "You had your fun growing up and not caring about the future. We other people worked hard, we studied, do you think we did it all for fun? Now you have to pay the price for being lazy..." She had enough and attacked him.

This scene changed me, it has gone over 20 years and I keep thinking about it. I know that she is an extreme case. And my life was not even close to be tragic like hers. But it paints antinatalism perfectly. Don't you think so?

The things bothering me happened 10+ years ago. Like choosing not to buy BitCoin when it was cheap. Opting not to prioritize my job when I studied. You know what I mean. There are also dating stuff, such as fumbling that one woman. Being too nervous to flirt. Or not choosing that other project earlier in your career path

Despite them happening so long ago. I think about them all day, every day. For over a year now! What if instead of being a single 40 year old, I'd be a married father? I could have had a high status job as an accountant instead of my current job.

It is really exhausting! How do you deal with this?

I have been to the Philippines before. Mostly around Manila and Subic Bay. It was during April so it was very warm and sunny. This time I want to experience a proper monsoon season along the pacific coast.

From Googling, I have learned that the peak place and season is Catanduanes and Eastern Samar during August–October. But how will this play out in real life? From what I gather, many locals actually leave for the inland. And life there will be in "isolation."

• Does this mean that shops and restaurants will be closed a lot. I also would't want the hotel staff to stay just because of me.
• How badly will the monsoon interfere with mobile networks and Internet? Might have to invest in an Starlink?
• Also, what if you want to swim for a bit? I doubt that it will be as Subic Bay in April, with warm and clear water. Will it be cold and dirty?

How isolated are you on a rural area on the east during the monsoon season?