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Wear hearing protection if you go to concerts or play in a band.
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Very sorry to hear it didn't work out. Could you share how you got over it? Any other advice / experience that might be helpful for others?
Oh, it’s been a year and a half and I still feel lost, miserable, betrayed, and so on. My life literally got flipped upside down. I’m definitely not the right person to ask how to get over it. My attempts mostly include focusing on my children and their lives, a lot of going to the gym (daily), kayaking in the summer, snowboarding through the winter, reading, side projects. I’m still in the “never going to be in a re…
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Well, you’re clearly way of the mark here, since you completely missed my point. The weirdness is in your head, mate. (Although the generalization is your responsibility.) I mean, people like you, i.e. people who become parents at a relatively young age, literally have their brain chemistry altered to protect their offspring, WAY before you have actually experienced life as an adult. I could make grand speculative de…
> people like you, i.e. people who become parents at a relatively young age, literally have their brain chemistry altered to protect their offspring, WAY before you have actually experienced life as an adult. Do you have any links or terms to Google to support this? On one hand it sounds reasonable. But on the other hand for the entirety of human history up until the last several decades what you think of as "relativ…
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I think it wouldn't be terrible to have kids as a teen - provided you have a supportive family and partner. Of course, I've never tried it for myself, but that's my general sense. If my children have kids young I won't be distraught and will provide as much help as possible - expecting it to be quite a lot for the first 5-10 years.
I imagine that dealing with the feelings of failing society, which has taught us that having children is the worst thing you can do in your life, would be the hardest part. It was still hard to deal with that sentiment when I had my children in my late 30s, even though by that time I had enough life experience to realize that it silly to worry about what other people think. The mind is an interesting thing.
I think you're from a different society than me! Most of the world doesn't think this way.
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> Trump, COVID, Russia have erased years of investment gains. I really, really , really hate to defend Mr. Trump, but on his first day of office the Vanguard total stock market index closed at $116.91; on his last day of office it closed at $198.86, a 70.01% increase (14.19% annualised). There are numerous reasons to criticise the former president, but the performance of the stock market during his tenure does not ap…
If You only care for short term, then sure, You can try to use this argument, but in long term the division that his irresponsible political strategy fueled can only end bad for whole economy (who said there cannot be another civil war? last time I checked most people believed that war in Europe is impossible).