“I have loads more to do in this life”
The word “more” is doing a lot of heavy-lifting there. He’s done nothing with his life. I know I laugh at him but my prime feeling towards him is one of pity. He’s the same age as I am and he just seems so far behind our peer group on so many fronts.
I live in a city (not UK) that has exceptionally high housing costs and I don’t know anyone above 35 who doesn’t own their own property. It’s really tough on people and they’ve had to scrimp and save but they’ve done it and they’re proud of their achievement.
I don’t think I know anyone our age who works part-time by choice who is physically capable of doing so, unless it’s due to small children/childcare.
Pretty much everyone around 40 who I know has a nice life. Certainly not 24/7 excitement but they have homes, interests, hobbies, they volunteer, many of them have children. Some have high-paying careers, many don’t but they work hard and are independent. They’re up at 7am, working all day, getting out and about in the evening, and none of them are aw cosy in bed by 9pm. They have some spending money that they use to go out for a nice meal on a Saturday night, or put it towards a nice holiday. They’re ot spending their part-time low wage on manky candy canes while claiming benefits because they eat so much shite they make themselves sick.
I would genuinely be so upset if a friend of mine was so unambitious that they’d prefer to live in a drug-riddled flat complex and spend 12 hours a day in bed instead of working full time and trying to make a life for themselves.
His family must be mortified.
He’s basically failed to launch.
Sorry but he just makes me so angry. What a waste of a life.