/late/ - Late Nights

Just ask yourself what kind of wonders this sort of contemplation as an introspective adult can give you? Does the irreversible erosion of that childlike perception from your developmental years through accumulated knowledge ultimately diminish or enrich your ability to be happy? As you grow older, you begin to develop a more nuanced grasp of what 'happiness' even is, for better or worse.

It didn't for me. My situation started getting better during my senior year of high school. I do feel hopeless about my life situation and the state of the world, but there are times I feel genuine happiness despite being a lot more jaded than I was when I was younger.

>Does happiness end with your teen years?
Nope, just puberty and high school.

I always pitied miserable people, when I was in my 20s.  Whenever I saw a movie about drug addicts, or villains whose sadness, nihilism or anger created the conflict of the story, I thought about how not to be like that, because I found it pathetic: these dumb bastards all waste their lives because they can't conceive of just moving on from their tragic backstories.

Maybe the common denominator to these characters is that they drag the past with them like a ball and chain. 
 But then, Batman had a tragic backstory, and you have to wonder why he became a hero instead of a villain.

I think the answer to that comes down largely to aesthetic sense, the ability to care about more than his own needs, and optimism about people and the future.  It's these qualities, more so than a willingness to wear your undies over your pants and jump off buildings, which defines "heroism."

Modern life requires a little heroism.

>>3958 (OP) 
I'm in my 40s and yeah. You'll never feel the same lightness again and if you pretend that you eventually it'll be just sad.

My best memories are also from the 90s/early 00s and the world was less of a fuck then now anyways (or rather, it was the same fuck considering Epstein et al. we just didn't know about it I suppose).

Also enjoy getting older and random health problems out of nowhere.