Were not getting younger, things happen, mostly bad things, sometimes small good things that keep us going, but mostly bad things and our health declines at a rapid pace.
I talked to an old buddy of mine a long time ago in a game i played regularly, he said he had cancer and couldnt afford meds, fuck knows what happened to the rest.
Point being the people who were cool, hip and young are now either old farts sick and dying due to years of unhealthy living, those still alive are either neeting into certain doom(like me), or wage slaving their asses off, some rare individuals got "successful" at life and got well paying jobs and families with well regulated lifestyles.
Many of the really cool dudes did years of alcohol and drug abuse, i myself got barely off the edge myself with a few scratches and as many dead friends as live ones left over the years.
I shudder to think of the fate of those many people i knew over the years and never heard from again, many suffered issues from depression to alcoholism, but how long can you hope to hold out against overwhelming odds, at a long enough timeline everyones chances of survival drops to zero.
Its horrifying to think about how many good souls logged off for good and are now lost in whatever realm they reside in, the old internet was comfy as fuck.
Time is not on anyones side, sad as it is, but there are still good times to be had for those whos fire still was not quenched.
Despite all the pressure and attempts against people like us from normgroids and glowies alike, we are somehow still alive and what is worse, in a fucked up way we are "winning" what is in essence a spiritual war waged across all existence.
Dont give in to the gloom and doom, things are real shitty but be glad to witness them for we may never see such a shitshow in the universe ever again and we might be the last souls to watch it trough to the end and say: "we kept fucking telling them", this is truly epic in a pathetic cosmic joke kind of way.