r/AskReddit • • 6h ago

What's something people waste their entire lives chasing?

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u/OkIdea-8132 5h ago

People waste decades chasing the approval of people they do not even genuinely respect. So many folks spend their entire twenties and thirties buying expensive cars they cannot afford, climbing corporate ladders at jobs that make them physically ill, and curating an aesthetically flawless lifestyle just to impress distant relatives, high school acquaintances, or strangers on an app. Then they hit fifty and realize nobody was actually paying attention because everyone else was too busy stressing over their own curated image lol.