Urgent Care is good for non-emergency things that you still need to see someone right away for. Things like UTIs. I've gotten prescriptions and some lab tests at them.
Aging - Health and Wisdom
- Thread starter Commander Troi
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I'm pretty sure I'm the youngest person who actively frequents this site (though I could be wrong-- but I've noticed most of you are dinosaurs compared to me!) so anything I could possibly say here everyone here already knows, so I guess I'm going to say stuff here more as a reflection for me to think than anything else. So here's some stuff I've learned about Existing As A Human Being after having fifteen years of experience doing so.
1. It's hard. And from what I've observed it only continues to get more hard. Obviously it isn't impossible, I see hundreds of people doing it every day, but being a teenager is a lot harder than being a kid and I can only assume being an adult is harder than being a teenager. After all, I don't need to worry about things like bills and taxes and paperwork and work.
2. You need to work way harder than I expected you would. This kind of ties into point number 1, but so much responsibility is suddenly being dropped on me like a grand piano and I can only anticipate more proverbial grand pianos coming to plummet on me with age.
3. Growing up fucking sucks. Should be self-explanatory.
4. The world fucking sucks. Also self-explanatory. Doesn't mean everything in it is bad, of course, but, like... when you turn on the news there's about an 80% chance you're gonna see something horrible and I'm sick of it. Don't good things ever happen anymore?
5. People are hard. I guess when you're a kid and your brain is smaller and smoother you don't really have to try at interpersonal relationships but God help me I have been thrusted into the cruel social environment of high school and I have next to no social skills whatsoever. Everything I say is the wrong thing (but then again, looking back at my younger years I was basically like that one scene in the TNG episode The Offspring where Lal asks why kids are laughing at her, and when told what laughing is she goes 'without understanding humour, I have somehow mastered it!'. That was what I was like for the first, like, 12 years of my life. Lol)
6. You lose people way more than you'd think. Whether it's because they died or they hate you now or you just lost touch or whatever. You lose a lot of people and relationships. I guess nothing lasts forever but like, everything sucks.
Sorry this mostly came off as complain-y or overly dramatic or whatever but like I haven't actually been thinking about this type of stuff and it's like, wow, when you're a little kid you just want to be grown up, but then once you actually start the process of growing up it's like, put me back! I'm not ready!
1. It's hard. And from what I've observed it only continues to get more hard. Obviously it isn't impossible, I see hundreds of people doing it every day, but being a teenager is a lot harder than being a kid and I can only assume being an adult is harder than being a teenager. After all, I don't need to worry about things like bills and taxes and paperwork and work.
2. You need to work way harder than I expected you would. This kind of ties into point number 1, but so much responsibility is suddenly being dropped on me like a grand piano and I can only anticipate more proverbial grand pianos coming to plummet on me with age.
3. Growing up fucking sucks. Should be self-explanatory.
4. The world fucking sucks. Also self-explanatory. Doesn't mean everything in it is bad, of course, but, like... when you turn on the news there's about an 80% chance you're gonna see something horrible and I'm sick of it. Don't good things ever happen anymore?
5. People are hard. I guess when you're a kid and your brain is smaller and smoother you don't really have to try at interpersonal relationships but God help me I have been thrusted into the cruel social environment of high school and I have next to no social skills whatsoever. Everything I say is the wrong thing (but then again, looking back at my younger years I was basically like that one scene in the TNG episode The Offspring where Lal asks why kids are laughing at her, and when told what laughing is she goes 'without understanding humour, I have somehow mastered it!'. That was what I was like for the first, like, 12 years of my life. Lol)
6. You lose people way more than you'd think. Whether it's because they died or they hate you now or you just lost touch or whatever. You lose a lot of people and relationships. I guess nothing lasts forever but like, everything sucks.
Sorry this mostly came off as complain-y or overly dramatic or whatever but like I haven't actually been thinking about this type of stuff and it's like, wow, when you're a little kid you just want to be grown up, but then once you actually start the process of growing up it's like, put me back! I'm not ready!
Yes, things get harder once you are past your teens. You find that as you sortie out into the world as an independent adult, it gets harder. Lots of drudgery in being an adult, such as the examples you gave, bills, taxes, etc. It stays hard, for decade after decade.1. It's hard. And from what I've observed it only continues to get more hard. Obviously it isn't impossible, I see hundreds of people doing it every day, but being a teenager is a lot harder than being a kid and I can only assume being an adult is harder than being a teenager. After all, I don't need to worry about things like bills and taxes and paperwork and work.
2. You need to work way harder than I expected you would. This kind of ties into point number 1, but so much responsibility is suddenly being dropped on me like a grand piano and I can only anticipate more proverbial grand pianos coming to plummet on me with age.
4. The world fucking sucks. Also self-explanatory. Doesn't mean everything in it is bad, of course, but, like... when you turn on the news there's about an 80% chance you're gonna see something horrible and I'm sick of it. Don't good things ever happen anymore?
5. People are hard. I guess when you're a kid and your brain is smaller and smoother you don't really have to try at interpersonal relationships but God help me I have been thrusted into the cruel social environment of high school and I have next to no social skills whatsoever.
6. You lose people way more than you'd think. Whether it's because they died or they hate you now or you just lost touch or whatever. You lose a lot of people and relationships. I guess nothing lasts forever but like, everything sucks.
You lose your grand parents when you are young. As an aging adult, you eventually lose your elderly parents, your elderly aunts and uncles.
Friendships often fade, over time.
For as long as I remember, the news has almost always been negative.
BTW, I was one of the kids who was bullied at school. I viewed high school graduation as liberation, because I could finally get away from those people.
