spent the weekend with my granddad, he is 85 now and got married at 25

he started the family in a poor, socialist country, in a depth of the cold war, with no real career prospects or financial security

average 25 year old men these days are 10x better off and don’t even consider starting families

feels backwards 

it was still a better time then... growing up now is more draining

I think growing up then was easier when you could easily have a decent family without external factors like social media and internet having mass influence on you, growing up then life was easy the goal was easy but now each and everybody got a near impossible goal or dream set and sometimes might end up being depressing