Hey older women with no kids - what did you in your 30s and 40s? Any recommendations or regrets? I’m in a wide open landscape and don’t know what to do.
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Replying to @ssica3003
I just started my 40s so I don't know what's next but so far I have worked, read as much as I want, have a lot of hobbies, got deeply involved in the occult, wrote poetry, got married, taught myself to code, learned French cooking, and just in general did whatever I pleased.
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Replying to @dys_morphia @ssica3003
In the last 2 years I got a really enjoyable job where I'm arguably overworking a bit, but there's zero guilt about late workdays and takeout if that's what I feel like doing. Also as
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I would say the one drawback is that having kids apparently gives people a sense of meaning to their life (at least until the kids grow up) so you have to grapple where that meaning comes from a lot sooner. OTOH you have enough time to read philosophy and find that meaning.
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Been on the "meaning" train for quite a while already, no worries there, but my question does relate to that. People have kids to escape the meaning problem imo, because it's hard!
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