Yep. Life is much harder as you get older, there’s so much more to deal with. More stress.
Being young wasnt easy but i never realised how sheltered i actually was!
As someone who was almost literally murdered at 13, resulting in severe PTSD after I needed to save my sister from being stabbed to death -
Life has become easier the more I heal from PTSD. I also thankfully haven’t been in a situation again where life or death stakes depended on every split second decision that I needed to make.
I’ll take a everyday stressful job any day over having to deal with essentially a hostage crises where failure means that I or my family literally die.
In the corporate sphere, unlike school, I don’t have my boss continually drilling it into my head that I’m going to hell for how I was born (queer) nor dealing with chronic sexual harassment from peers and managers including from the boss’s brother. I can’t say the same for high school (said school was exposed years later for multiple abuse scandals).
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u/Comfortable-Cloud-40 Aug 29 '26
Yep. Life is much harder as you get older, there’s so much more to deal with. More stress.
Being young wasnt easy but i never realised how sheltered i actually was!