What Gets Better with Age? The Power of Maturity, Accountability, and Progression A philosophical reflection on leadership, resilience, and the human condition.
By D. L. Dantes | November 8th, 2025

one of the loser-ist storys ill ever tell that i remembered cause i sneezed

so… i started watching anime in the summer after 6th grade (maybe mid 6th grade, i forget it was all kinda a blur) in that time i also got into kpop. and i was obsessed, to say the least

I was the worst kind of fan, i stanned 4 felix from skz cause i thought he was hot and started learning korean too. I scrolled online for ‘kawaii’ aesthetic pictures. i changed everything cause i wanted it to be more 'japanese super sugoi’ it was horrible. (so glad i didnt know rcta back than cause i 100% would have, i was doing clothespins on my eyes cause i wanted to be more asian. im telling you it was BAAADDDD)i desperately wanted to **become** an anime girl. i changed my casual mannerisms to be cuter, wore skirts more often, grew out my hair and got 'waterfall bangs’ but…. (and this is where it gets evil) while changing my mannerisms to be cuter… i changed how my voice sounded, used the cuter emojis blah blah.. but i also… TRAINED MYSELF to sound like an anime girl. when i sneezed. the weird ass fucking sneeze where it sounds like youre whimper-moaning. i TRAINED MYSELF TO WHIMPER-MOAN SNEEZE…… so as time passed i grew out of that phase and now have a more normal, healthy appreciation of anime, kpop, japan, and all of the culture surrounding the three….. however….. THE FUCKING WHIMPER-MOAN SNEEZE WONT GO AWAY. no matter how hard i try to repress it, no matter how different i try to sound, trying to retrain my reactions…. IT WONT FUCKING STOP. i dont know what to do at this point. every time i sneeze around someone new i have to either sit there and let them give me the weirdest fucking stare ever, or embarrassingly explain that i taught myself to sneeze like an anime girl when i was in my asia glazing phase, and honestly i dont know which is worse.

i have to try to supress my sneezes when i feel one coming on in public, but thats also bad, cause my go to is plugging my nose and whispering the word 'asparagus’ over and over till it goes away and then pursing my lips for 12 seconds (idk man thats what my mom always said) or just let people hear me sneeze like a FUCKING loser.

If you are too serious about everything, you will only know thoughts and emotions. You will not know life. - sadhguru

14. The Mutual Fade

We both loosened
our grip.
Let’s call it even.

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What Gets Better with Age? The Power of Maturity, Accountability, and Progression A philosophical reflection on leadership, resilience, and the human condition.
By D. L. Dantes | November 8th, 2025

One of the most peaceful habits you can build is letting people do whatever they want and simply adjusting your distance.

Sometimes life throws us a curveball for no reason that we can fathom.

But do not despair. We are not alone. We can persevere. This, too, shall pass, like the heat of summer. - The things you can see only when you slow down

It’s not so much growing up as it is about dealing with suck. And boy is there a lot of suck. However, the suck of these days is less than days gone by where suck was actual physical harm instead of petty mind games.

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America’s boys need noble masculinity — not lowered expectations

okay no but actually going back to the last post i reblogged (this one by @snapcracklepop-myjoints) there is this weird divide of people on this hellsite where one half was parentified to death & the other was moddy coddled into adulthood.

am i treated well? no. i carry the emotional & physical labor of his household every day. but by god im glad i can cook, clean, entertain & play therapist over whatever the fuck those guys got going for them.

i see it more and more where people my age can’t do anything. part of the reason i dropped out of college, other than family issues, was because the people i was working with couldn’t do anything for themselves.

like. yes you SHOULD be able to make ramen & pasta & frozen pizza at 10yo. You should be able to do dishes at 8. Fold your own laundry at 6. Scrape your plate at 4. Put your own shit away at 2.

yall cant do any of that at 20 and its fucking mind boggling. your parents are going to die one day. they will not look after your ass forever.

people tell me my life sucks and yeah, it does, but not because im doing the things i am. i should be doing them anyway. its just the pure scale of doing everyones thats the problem. and thats what people do not understand.

anyway. gonna go do laundry now. ciao

I don’t teach or preach human perfection. I believe we become like Him by the Holy Spirit within us. It’s possible to live a pure life like Christ did but I promise the church herself will often fight faith to stay the same and live the rest of her life going to church living like the person who never went to church to begin with. I’m not saying that’s everybody but if blessing is your focus for coming to God and not transformation, you won’t truly love God anyway. You were self-centered from the jump and until that thing shifts and changes, you’re adversity waiting to happen. Your motive and your why has to change because God will not bless you to keep you acting like you apart from Christ. I’m sorry. We’d called that terrible parenting. Spoiling your child and now they’re more bratty than before. No discipline. No respect. No manners. Character all messed up.

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Unpopular opinion, but I don’t know why anyone would want the age of consent to be 21. Assuming that you’ll be treated as a minor UNTIL you’re 21, it just sounds like an awful idea. Not everyone has the privilege to stay with their legal guardians.

I really do wish that we stop generalizing everyone. Some assumptions may be right, but you’ll never know an individual person’s experience. People don’t just suddenly became Mature Adults the moment they’re in their twenties.