Before Covid I felt like a kid in my early 20's. Now I don't feel anything. Like legit nothing. It's like so much has happen in 2 years and nothing even phases me anymore.

Does anyone feel the same? Before covid I would feel way more relaxed and chill. Now, I don't know how to act like a normal human. I don't feel anything. I feel tense and on edge every day. I haven't seen my friends in a while. I haven't been in a relationship in a while either. It's like in 2 years the whole world went upside down and everyone has aged so much. I can't be the only one, right?

I notice even the hot girls I use to have a crush on are fucking aging a lot. Covid has only been 2 years! It's really causing havoc and taking its toll on people. This pandemic is no joke. 

I also feel like burnt-out has been on the rise like crazy too. A lot of people legit just threw in the towel and said fuck it I retire, or I am done. 

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LOL! We will be getting boosters and vaccination every year now. Who even created Covid? There is so much news about random stuff, but who legit is responsible for this? I swear Covid is man made. There is no way something like this is a natural.

 

Covid is manmade. Made in a lab in Wuhan, China.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

idk man. i felt this for a while but then moved to LA for the summer and it reset everything.

wasn’t in banking at the time and was slacking off while i lateraled, so might not be replicable.

BUT i’ve become a lot more social / outgoing since Covid and that hasn’t changed since i started in banking. the first year of it helped me realize these opportunities won’t be around forever and i shouldn’t take that for granted

 
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No doubt we are dealing with the worst mental health crisis in human history right now. I get what you mean man, and looking at the data that's available and what all has come out I think it's fair to say those years were stolen from us without reason. 

I feel angry more than anything else. And vengeful. Some heads need to roll for what Western governments have been doing the last few years, but sadly political accountability in this world is as fictitious as the wet market natural evolution theory for Covid.

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It's crazy! I still can't fucking believe this shit is actually real. Been masked up for literally 2 years straight and not able to live life normally. Things are looking up though. Hopefully 2022 is the last year for Covid. That would be a blessing honestly! It would be so good to enjoy Christmas again and New year's without all this stuff going on. 

 

and get laid

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

Fauci to Gitmo

I come from down in the valley, where mister when you're young, they bring you up to do like your daddy done
 

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we used to tar and feather people in this country for being elitist little shits

 
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A while back I had a friend from Israel that would visit me every few years. I made the observation that his view on life and planning and the future were different than mine. I couldn't quite explain it, and it wasn't "bad", it was just a very different way of looking at life. He told me that it was due to growing up in Israel in the 80s/90s when you didn't know when/if a fatality would affect your life. You could be standing on a street corner and a bus bomb could go off and that would be the end of your life (or maimed in a significant way) and there was, essentially, nothing you could do about that. People in Israel just had a different outlook because danger was everywhere. 

Now, I'm not comparing the plight of Israel with Covid, but I do think that Covid has been a large enough situation where it has the potential to change our outlook on any number of things. So, no OP, it's not just you. I think all of us can point to something that we see differently now because of the way the last couple of years have shaped all of us. 

 

Man I feel the same way, I'm younger than you but COVID hit spring of my sophomore year and I felt like a sophomore up until my SA. It was almost as if time stood still. My SA stint got me out of feeling like I was a sophomore, but I still feel like I'm going nowhere in life, it's a weird feeling. I also have problems caring about most anything anymore...

 

I feel the same. Covid got me fucked up honestly. Literally the pandemic had people from lining up for sneaker releases to fucking buying out all tiolet paper at costco/walmart. For a moment I was like what the fuck I need to start buying shit out too if everyone is hogging everything LOL! 

 

1) you should have still seen your real friends and loved ones the whole time - lost 2 years of life are worth more than ~0.001% chance of dying of covid for young healthy adult

2) if you're vaccinated, you should have returned back to fully normal, which was 1 year ago. what are you waiting for? covid will not disappear within our lifetime. it's still out there - why have you decided to return to normal life now and not a year ago after vaccination? nothing changed since then other than your vaccine now has much less effect.

3) I actually think being more relaxed and chill now is much easier. before pandemic I was scared and anxious of a bad client meeting. now I saw that life of the whole human species can disappear at any moment and nothing is in our control - so why worry about some client meetings or anything at all. I also saw stock market making people rich within a year and changing lives. so now I care less about work and rely more on investments. I'd rather wait for my $200k to turn into $400k than get buttfucked in IB for a year. before pandemic I was actually planning to transition to IB for bigger pay. and the last year I've been getting a lot of HRs offering me IB positions, and I'm not interested anymore. the difference in pay is actually less than one fortunate or misfortunate investment can make or lose you, so why ripping your ass in IB - better place money in well-priced/underprice companies and wait.

4) you could still go on dates and have relationships. a lot of girls felt lonely and were looking for somebody. a lot of waitresses/etc. lost their income sources are were looking for men.

5) if you think girls in their 20s look too old, you might be a pedo. I don't care if a girls in her late 20s gets hammered every day since 16 - she won't look old. she might look like shit though, but not old.

6) people are retiring cause stock market sky-rocketed and many people feel comfortable to retire now. imagine you worked for 15-20 years and had $2M in 401k and next year it turns into $4M - do you really still wanna work for let's say $250k per year?

 

Bro Chill.  What I mean is Covid got people stressed out to the point it felt like everyone aged a lot more than normal. More fine lines, wrinkles, deeper dark circles and stuff. Obviously hot girls are still hot, but they are aging way more than normal times. The pandemic is taking its toll on people mentally/physically. 

 

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