Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "Men Think “It’s Too Late For Me. My Life Is Already Over”" video.

All of us old guys showing up in here, telling the young guys to make it happen, the only thing holding them back is themselves. Hell yeah.
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I rebuilt my life at 44 when the ex decided to divorce me.. that was 2013. I bought land, built my house on it, built a 32x48x12 shop where I rebuild old cars. I own over 30 old muscle cars... no, they are not all nice, most are projects. I paid off the mortgage and building loan in 8 years, on a 10 year note for both. I am not super wealthy either, I'm a 100% service connected disabled Iraq veteran. You can look up what my income is... Yeah, I did it on that. I will be 55 in a couple months, living an awesome life, doing what I want to do, and I just drove 3 hours one way to buy a Super T10 four speed transmission to put in one of my GTOs. Yeah it goes from suck to blow in a nanosecond when everything you worked for is ripped away and you have to start over. I did it in my mid 40s. If you're younger than I am and was, THERE IS NO EXCUSE. Get off the couch and make it happen. If you think my life was easy, things were handed to me, or that I had lots of opportunities provided to me.. then why would I enlist at 19? Then again at 30, with 7 years between the first and second. Its been a rough life to say the least, but you have two choices. Quit and become worm food, or keep going and actually do what needs to be done. Your tombstone will have two of the least important dates on it. The day you're born, and the day you achieve permanent equilibrium with ambient temp. The dash between those dates is what matters. Make the dash worth living.
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@Begeye-bh5ux how is it toxic to tell young guys that they have to work for it like us old guys did? They're not females, they aren't going to be give anything just because they exist. They'll have people who want to take everything they build and earn from them, so it can be given to females. Thats reality. Best thing to do is accept it, and get to work. Believe me, they'll never do as much work as I did, and they'll get much farther in life than I did, as long as they never get divorced. Every time I got somewhere in life, it was given to someone who not only did nothing to help me build it, but wholly undeserved it. If it happens again, there is going to be a fight and the world will probably know my full name.
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@Begeye-bh5ux did I misread or misunderstand what you said before? :)
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Begeye-bh5ux comments on a video are not enough to get me upset. Its curious that speaking plainly, like a man does, has young people thinking you're "upset" in a reply.
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@bowilliams8643 if I can help all of you young guys avoid the mistakes I made, the problems I had, and the nightmare of family court, then its good. I had to learn the hard way, there was no internet until I was living with the one that would eventually be my second wife. We divorced in 2013, near the start of men talking about this stuff. The old men used to mentor the young ones, that stopped with my parents generation. We need to bring it back.
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@Begeye-bh5ux ah but the question is./. are you younger than I am, or are you a boomer? I figure boomers are unaware of the finer points of online trolling... so I am guessing younger. I'm from the generation that could set the clock on a VCR.
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@Begeye-bh5ux well of course, in 5 billion years the sun will go red giant and either engulf the Earth or turn it into a crispy cinder and unless we leave the planet and colonize the stars or something, the universe will shrug us off like snowflakes on a jacket.
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