You're doing fine. :)
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to lotrmemes@midwest.social on 29 Oct 16:23
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Collatz_problem@hexbear.net on 29 Oct 16:48 next collapse

He spent 20 years worldbuilding and wrote Hobbit before it.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 01 Nov 11:10 collapse

the only difference between us and tolkien is that he wrote down his daydreams

Whopraysforthedevil@midwest.social on 29 Oct 16:54 next collapse

He was already a university professor and fought in WWI, tho…

Glowstick@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 16:56 next collapse

You’ve had lots of experiences too I’m sure

CobblerScholar@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 17:56 next collapse

Most men that age went to war

poplargrove@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 20:57 next collapse

Professor at a certain Oxford university no less.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 21:53 collapse

Which is better than being professor at an Oxford university pathologically plagued with doubt.

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 11:08 collapse

Just wait until after WWIII and you’ll be set. Shouldn’t be too long now.

qarbone@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 12:21 collapse

Did any famous people dodge the draft (and also underachieve their whole life) and succeed? I need a more achievable role model.

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 12:52 collapse

Those two things are successes in their own right, don’t sell yourself short.

AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 17:21 next collapse

Aight back to bed until I’m 46

DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 03:21 collapse

What if you’re already 46? Asking for a friend.

Spesknight@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 07:13 collapse

This still applies, what are a couple years going to do? Point is, It is never too late…

Rhaedas@fedia.io on 29 Oct 20:41 next collapse

But never fully finished it. Should have started earlier.

Soup@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 20:42 next collapse

Also most people are kinda on auto-pilot/following the rails until they finish school(and that’s fine). Even the ones who did really crazy shit very likely had parental guidance which means it’s not your fault your parents didn’t craft you into a race car driver or whatever.

Once they really get out into the world they’re, what, 22-26? Older sometimes? We hit 30 and say “in 30 years I’ve done nothing” as if we had full agency and control for that entire time. You know how old the average person is when they’ve had twice the life experience of another average person who just turned 30? Probably around 40. That’s it, you’re good.

AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 21:28 next collapse

But wait, I’m in my 60s.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 21:59 collapse

No worries, Laura Ingalls Wilder didn’t finish the first Little House book until she was 65!

kn0wmad1c@programming.dev on 29 Oct 21:56 next collapse

He was 38 when he started writing The Hobbit, FYI

KrankyKong@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 00:15 collapse

Dang, I guess it is too late then. I was really hoping my call to action would come any day now.

callouscomic@lemm.ee on 29 Oct 23:47 next collapse

And what was he doing for decades PRIOR to that which possibly gave him the experience and skills…

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works on 30 Oct 16:17 collapse

Fighting in WW1? Let’s not hope for WW3 here…

frezik@midwest.social on 29 Oct 23:54 next collapse

Alternatively: you are having quality life experiences, do good by your friends, and engage with your community. You don’t need to compare yourself to historical overachievers.

I have to remind myself of this constantly, because our culture won’t.

Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee on 30 Oct 00:19 next collapse

I am?

mayo@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 06:27 collapse

Just being alive counts

qarbone@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 12:12 collapse

It does?

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 01 Nov 11:08 collapse

the overwhelming majority of humans who have ever lived “accomplished” absolute jack diddly squat, they just spent their lives picking berries and making twine.

compared to that we can “accomplish” miracles with a laptop and a browser, just go add some information on a niche wikipedia article and you’ve contributed more to humanity than most people could have ever dreamed of.

theangryseal@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 02:18 next collapse

As a musician I used to say, “Leonard Cohen began his music career in his 30s. I can do this.”

I’m not Leonard Cohen in any imaginable way. Oh, and I’m past that point now too. :p

fubarx@lemmy.ml on 30 Oct 03:54 next collapse

The Philosopher and Mathematician published some of his best work in his 90s: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

You’re doing fine.

MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 07:54 next collapse

Cant wait to write my novel The Empror of the Necklaces when im 45 and be just as successful

bstix@feddit.dk on 30 Oct 18:12 collapse

Ok, then I’m doing “King of the Hola Hoop”

Hadriscus@lemm.ee on 30 Oct 18:49 collapse

I’ll sue you for plagiarism ! this sounds uncannily like my draft The Overseer of the Torus

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works on 30 Oct 22:38 collapse

How did y’all manage to get a copy of my Demigod of Loops?

LouNeko@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 17:31 collapse

But also, when he was in his 20-40s there where 2 World Wars back to back. So what’s your excuse?

BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee on 30 Oct 19:46 collapse

Thank god no one lives in a warzone right now. That would be crayzy

LouNeko@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 20:13 collapse

The vast majority don’t. The vast majority lives in India and China, which is arguably just as bad.