Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
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I'm betting the Joker told you to kill me as soon as we loaded the cash. No, no, no, no. I killed a bus driver. Bus driver? What bus driver? All right, time for another trusty TikTok reaction. Today we have some videos of adults complaining about being adults. Always a fun one. What adults? Always one that... These don't frustrate me at all. I think the benefits suck, okay? Suck otherwise.

I enjoy watching these kinds of videos. Let's uh, let's begin. I thought being in your early 20s was like supposed to be fun. I see all these bitches having so much fun. I am miserable. Miserable to my core miserable. This sucks. I'm suing whoever told me that this was supposed to be the most fun time in my life because it is, it is not. Definitely not. Not even close.

You should sue that person because whoever told you that your 20s were supposed to be the greatest time of your life was lying to you. You've got now all these young people that expect their 20s to be fun, expect their 20s to be one long party. But that's not how it works. Because guess what? Your 20s kind of suck. Actually, they suck a lot. You have no money. You're just starting out. You have no experience as an adult. You have no clout or credibility. Um,

You're most likely single. At least you will be at the start of your 20s. So you're alone. You're at the very beginning of everything. You're not reaping the rewards yet because you haven't done anything. This is another one of the reasons why it's so ridiculous that people talk about aging like it's embarrassing. Someone turns 32 and they're like, oh, don't remind me I'm 32. Oh, you know, I'm

I'm 25. This is my 30th, 24th birthday. Why do you want to be 24? If anything, being 24 is embarrassing. It's not embarrassing to be older because being older just means experience and wisdom, or at least it should mean that. Oh my gosh, I'm going to be 40. I can't wait to be 40. I cannot wait to experience my 40s. It's going to be great. It's going to be a blast. I have less time now to hang out at bars. That's the only, but I don't want to do that. I could still go to a bar.

If I wanted to, I walk by the bars down on Broadway here in Nashville, and I see the masses of people standing around sweating, drinking out of plastic cups, no personal space. Everything is loud. Everyone's shouting. And there's no part of that that seems even slightly appealing. And yet that is the only thing.

The only thing that I could do in my 20s that I am less able to do now. So your 20s are for building. They're for building the life that you will enjoy later. But that requires work. And that's the problem, is that you got a lot of these younger people don't want to do the work. He said it. He said it. All right, here's this one. Hi, can someone tell me what the f*** is going on? Like, what are we doing?

After you work your job and you pay your bills and you go to the gym and you eat good and maybe you socialize and you sleep and then you take care of yourself. Like what? What's the end goal? Retirement? No. Even when you meet your goals, you travel, you save up for something financially, you buy a house, you have a baby. What then? Like it's really this day in, day out, every day forever? Until what? The big finale is we die? Like...

Like, what's going on? What are we doing here? Yeah, I mean, that's basically right. And that's, yeah, that is life. Life sucks, and then you die. This is the whole thing. The whole kit and caboodle. This is what it is. Get up every day, you do the things you got to do, go home, go to sleep, repeat it, and then you die. That's it. That's why you need to have some source of meaning in your life.

And what gets me about videos like this is just how much of a revelation that seems to be to a lot of people. The search for meaning, the pursuit of meaning, that's like the fundamental thing that mankind has wrestled with since the beginning of time. So how are you just coming around to it? If all you care about is what is immediate and temporal and directly around you, then yeah, life is meaningless. Effectively.

Because this is it. This is all there is. 70 years from now, maybe a little bit more or less, depending on how old you are, you'll be nothing but a memory. 100 years from now, barely that. 1,000 years from now, there will be no evidence that you ever existed on the planet. And a few billion years from then, the planet doesn't exist. So you need to have meaning that transcends that. You have to have meaning rooted in the eternal, in God. If your search for meaning does not extend beyond...

what you physically see around you, then you're kind of screwed because then all you're left with is trying to artificially create sort of a sense of meaning in your life and

But the problem there is that you're always aware of the fact that it's artificial. You're aware of the fact that you've just kind of arbitrarily selected this as the meaning. There has to be a meaning that existed before your life itself started. Way too heavy. Way too heavy for a TikTok reaction. If you own a smartphone, a computer, or any internet-connected device, there are many thousands of companies out there who know you better than you know yourself. They're called data brokers, and they make billions of dollars a year tracking your activity across the internet

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Okay, well, I'll tell you how you quit your job. I mean, in your case, there is another option. You can marry a man who will support you and you can stay home and raise the kids. That's an option for you. The problem is that, first of all, no man wants to marry a woman who screams and complains like this. And no man worth his salt is going to look at that video and go, wow, yeah, I want that woman to raise my children. Because they're coming off like just another kid who needs to be raised or was not raised well.

The other problem is that getting married and having kids still means that you need to be an adult. It especially means that you need to be an adult, right? Because what you're looking for is a life of no work, no responsibility, no obligation, which to me sounds like hell, where you've got just nothing to do. Nobody needs you. Nothing to do.

That's like nothingness. I mean, it's sort of imagining a state of existing in nothingness. And I find that to be horrifying. And yet you pine for it. And yet the problem is that you can't have it. I think a life like that would be one of great misery.

where there's nothing to do, nobody needs you to do anything, you are not needed at all, again, I would find that life to be miserable. And I think you would too if you had it. But the bad news or the good news, depending on how you look at it, is that that's not an option. You don't get to have that life. Well, I want to have a life where I don't do anything and everything's, well, you know, sorry, you don't get to have it. You don't get to have it. Not an option. Not on the table.

I mean, you might as well be having a temper tantrum because you want a time machine. Yeah, I'd like to have a time machine too. Can't have one, sorry, doesn't exist. Not on the table, not on the menu of options. So that's it. I mean, that's not the reality that you live in or will ever live in. All right, I can only do one more of these. Misery Monday, I am a child. I don't wanna work, I don't wanna work, I don't wanna work. Horrific.

Obviously, it's unseemly for a man to be carrying on this way. Even as a joke, it is unsightly, truly. I just have no sympathy for this kind of thing anyway. If you hate your job, go get a better one. Have you tried that? Have you actually tried that? Because I think that 95% of the people that make these kinds of videos actually have not really tried.

Because trying means more than just like sending in one resume. All right, I'll give it a try. No, try not. Do. Trying is, if you're trying. There is no try. If your attempts to move up, to get a better job, better position. When I say try, I mean like,

This is something that you should, it's a project that will, that lasts for years. You know, it's not just, if you're going to say, oh yeah, I try, I've tried. I tried once last Tuesday for 30 minutes. Then you didn't try. But I still go back to, and this is especially the case for men, not wanting to work at all. I don't get it. I don't even understand that desire. I really don't. I can't relate to it because it's,

I can understand not liking a particular job that you're in. I hate this place. Jim Smith, you've done a hell of a lousy job. You're fired. Get out of here. That I totally understand. I've had jobs I hated. I mean, everybody has.

So that I get. I'm not even being dismissive of that because having a job that you have to do every day and you hate it, that could be quite miserable. But then the question is, okay, what's the solution? Once we've established, okay, you hate your job, it's a miserable job, it's terrible. Okay, all right. So what are you doing next? What are we doing about that is the question. But then when you get to the point where you're just wishing that you didn't have to work at all, then that goes back to,

What you're actually wishing is that there is nothing that anyone needs you to do, which means that you are pining for an existence where you are not needed at all, where you are an unnecessary member of the human race. And I just don't think that's quite the paradise that maybe the good folks of TikToks are assuming.

I was planning to watch more, but I think that's all I can do. I think that's enough. I think we've been through enough together, you and I. So, that's it. Okay, bye.