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Last night, I watched Before We Go – an independent mediocre romance movie on Netflix about a beaten-down man who is dreading seeing his ex-girlfriend at a wedding reception in New York City. He’s approaching that point in his life where he’s supposed to have it together, but doesn’t. Seeing the one that got away is his worst nightmare, second only to going to the wedding reception itself. It was a depressing concept for a film, but not as depressing as a video that surfaced on Reddit today of a stone-faced man who is clearly at the same crossroads everyone finds themselves at once they turn thirty.
Via Reddit:
I don’t know what it is about this man, but we are all him. Maybe he’s just had thirty of those Coronas and has no idea he’s actually being filmed. Maybe his empty eyes are because he’s the only one of his friends there without a date. Or perhaps he’s simply playing up his millennial depression for the sake of going viral. Either way, it’s all too fucking real and he is every single one of us in some way, shape, or form. .
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Did anyone else laugh really hard at first, then start to have sobering thoughts about their future about halfway through? And then finish it up with another uneasy laugh to make themselves feel okay?
It was funny until I saw myself in him
Damn, this made me sad. Blonde in the black dress can holler though.
Too real.
Real world Nick Miller.
What’s depressing is that this guy probably has his life figured out, is established, makes good money, and probably wasted time with the wrong woman and now its too late to find a hot chick that isn’t a single mom. Fuck.
What happened to me?
It’s never too late. I thought it was. The last 3 girls I’d been with? 30 years old and needed to hit the gym, 30 years old and a full blown alcoholic that had to drink not to shake, and 33 years old and outright fat. Yeah, my standards have dropped since college, fuck me. But recently, I tripped, fell, and landed into a smokeshow 24 year old nympho. Anything can happen.
Can’t say I’d do exactly this but I never have any fucking clue what to do in those videos anyway. Maybe I’m just not a fun person… Maybe I’m just not a fu….
🙁
His face screams “Can’t deal with this bullshit, I need a drink.” We’ve all been there.
The left blonde though? Sneaky would
I’m here at 24 already. I’m not single but my girlfriend is in two of three weddings we have to go to this year alone.
thats really neat dude
The not having at date point as a 30 year hits hard. Once you realize everyone else there not in high school is coupled up, and you’re not getting laid, that guys face makes sense.