"My Youth Is Wasted and Life is Passing Me By"

Summary

In the latest video by Gerbert's Void, the creator delves into the perception of time, especially as one ages, and how monotony can influence this perception. He discusses how routine, lack of life achievements, and even modern digital media contribute to the feeling that life is speeding by. He emphasizes the importance of community, family, and enriching life with meaningful experiences to combat this sense of accelerated time. However, he also acknowledges the modern challenges of achieving these elements due to societal and economic factors. Ultimately, Gerbert's Void encourages viewers to make a plan to take control of their lives rather than being swept away by the currents of routine and digital media.

Highlights

• Gerbert's Void opens up about the feeling of time slipping away as we get older and more stuck in routines. 😮
• The role of memory is pivotal in time perception; without new, significant memories, years can blur together. 📅
• Digital media consumption on platforms like TikTok can shrink the perception of time due to lack of full sensory engagement. 📱
• Historically, life was monotonous too, but past times had deeper community bonds and less emptiness. 🏘️
• Today’s lack of strong community and family ties creates an empty feeling that makes life less memorable. 🙃
• Gerbert suggests the need for a personal plan to avoid getting trapped in monotonous time loops. 🧩

Key Takeaways

• Time feels like it's speeding up as we age, especially due to monotonous routines and lack of major life changes. ⏳
• Memory plays a crucial role in how we perceive the passage of time; meaningful memories make time feel fuller. 🧠
• Modern digital media acts like a 'time warp,' sucking hours away without creating lasting memories. 📱
• Despite repetitive routines being normal historically, today's added emptiness exacerbates the feeling of time slipping away. 🌍
• Building a community and having a family enriches life and combats the void of monotony. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
• To avoid life passing by unnoticed, it's essential to make a proactive plan that challenges societal norms. 📝

Overview

Gerbert's Void dives into the theme of how time seemingly speeds up as we age, mainly due to monotonous routines and a lack of major life experiences. He points out that our memory heavily influences our perception of time; meaningful memories tend to make time feel fuller and richer. In contrast, repetitive routines without significant events can make months or years feel like a blur.

The creator further explores how modern digital media such as TikTok and YouTube plays a deceptive role in distorting our perception of passing hours. While these platforms provide a constant stream of information, they often don't engage all our senses fully, leading to a "time warp" feeling where hours disappear with nothing substantial to remember. Historically, even though life was similarly monotonous, stronger community ties helped fill life with meaning.

In today's world, Gerbert emphasizes the challenge of forming strong community and family bonds due to societal and economic pressures. He advocates the importance of making a proactive, life-enriching plan, which involves going beyond societal norms and striving for something more fulfilling. Otherwise, life may pass by quickly, leaving one with an overwhelming sense of emptiness and regret for not having created lasting memories.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Initial Thoughts In the opening chapter 'Introduction and Initial Thoughts,' the narrative begins with a set of provocative and metaphorical expressions. The speaker likens their stance to carrying an AK-47, suggesting a state of readiness or defense. Trust is questioned with a reference to trading loyalties akin to the fluctuating value of Ethereum. The chapter briefly touches on conspiracy with a mention of Building Seven, hinting at unresolved mysteries akin to the events surrounding it. In contrast, the speaker's personal life reflects a casual approach to relationships and a steadfast pursuit of financial gain, likened to the high-stakes race of the Kentucky Derby. These elements together paint a picture of a person navigating a complex world with a mix of skepticism, ambition, and detachment.
• 00:30 - 01:30: Contemplation on Time and Aging The chapter titled 'Contemplation on Time and Aging' revolves around the speaker's introspection on the relentless march of time and its implications on life. The narrative begins with a casual remark about getting a slurpie from 7-Eleven, which suddenly pivots to a deeper contemplation about the inevitable passage of time. The speaker, now 32 years old, reflects on their current state of life, expressing a sense of disbelief and concern over not having accumulated wealth or significant achievements. This sets a tone of existential reflection and a bit of existential frustration, as the speaker grapples with the realization of growing older without meeting certain life expectations. The chapter captures the essence of midlife reflections and the common mundane interruptions that accompany them.
• 01:30 - 02:00: Google Form and Blackpilling Moment In this chapter titled 'Google Form and Blackpilling Moment,' the speaker reflects on the perception of time moving faster, a sentiment echoed by their audience through emails expressing concern about life slipping by. They mention reading various confessions from their audience. Additionally, the speaker plans to create a new Google Form centered around the theme of a 'blackpilling moment,' which they consider to be an interesting prompt for their audience. This form will be linked in the description.
• 02:00 - 03:00: Perception of Time and Memory The chapter discusses the perception of time and its relation to age and memory, emphasizing that time seems to move faster as one gets older. It touches on the notion that while societal norms consider certain ages as benchmarks for mental sharpness, scientific studies indicate that mental agility and cognitive development peak at different times. The speaker suggests that these ideas are somewhat subjective, reflecting on how age shouldn't be a barrier in pursuing new goals or content, although this may also serve as a form of self-reassurance.
• 03:00 - 04:00: The Loss of Youth and Sharpness The chapter discusses the importance of youth, emphasizing that experiences in teenage years and early twenties are crucial. It highlights the notion that if individuals do not engage in certain life experiences, such as long-term relationships before turning 20, it might negatively affect their future, particularly regarding marriage prospects. The chapter conveys a sense of something valuable being lost if youth is not seized, underscoring the significance of grasping opportunities during this phase of life.
• 04:00 - 05:30: Existential Thoughts and Time Perception The chapter explores the perception of time and its relation to existential thoughts. It discusses how quickly passing time can invoke fear and anxiety, emphasizing a deeper sense of loss beyond the fear of missing out. The speaker connects this theme to concepts previously mentioned in another video titled 'Why Men Aren't Growing Up.'
• 05:30 - 07:00: Monotony and Memory The chapter discusses the inconsistency in how humans perceive time and reflects on the relativity of memories over periods.
• 07:00 - 09:30: Monotony vs. Past Lifestyle The chapter discusses the contrast between monotonous routines and dynamic past experiences. The narrator recalls February as a memorable month filled with distinctive events, compared to March, which felt repetitive and forgettable. This reflects on how memory affects our perception of time's passage, with varied and engaging activities standing out more in our memories, while routine activities create a sense of a 'blank space' in time.
• 09:30 - 12:00: New Media and the Time Warp Effect The chapter explores the influence of new media on our perception of time. It discusses the concept of the 'time warp effect,' where time seems to shrink or expand based on the number and intensity of memories created. For instance, a year filled with numerous experiences might feel as short as a month. This phenomenon is attributed to the context provided by memories, which are foundational to our perception of time's passage.
• 12:00 - 15:00: Emptiness and Modern Life This chapter reflects on the monotony of modern life and how a repetitive daily routine can lead to a sense of emptiness. It discusses the perception of time, emphasizing that repetitive experiences tend to blur together in our memory, making time feel as if it passes quickly. Conversely, a month filled with diverse and eventful experiences can feel much longer, as if it extends into a year.
• 15:00 - 17:30: Consequences of Media Consumption The chapter discusses the varying nature of time and experiences, particularly in the context of media consumption. It presents the idea that time can feel either 'stuffed' with experiences or 'empty,' depending on how one engages with media. The transcript suggests that two people of the same chronological age can have vastly different experiential ages based on their media consumption and the diversity of their experiences.
• 17:30 - 20:30: Advice for the Youth The chapter discusses the concept of memory, particularly in the context of routine and familiarity. It uses the example of a person who has been working at the same desk for 28 years to illustrate how our perception and memory of things can become static over time. Initially, the desk was new and memorable, but as it has not changed, it has become a fixture in the person's memory that no longer requires active logging. This serves as a metaphor for advising the youth to seek new experiences to keep their memories and lives dynamic.
• 20:30 - 20:00: Conclusion and Final Thoughts In this concluding chapter, the focus is on the theme of monotony in daily life. It examines how repetitive routines and adherence to strict schedules can lead to a sense of not truly living. The chapter invites reflection on how past lives might have been similarly monotonous, which prompts readers to consider how they might break away from such patterns in their own lives.

"My Youth Is Wasted and Life is Passing Me By" Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 [Music] I be walking around with the AK47 like I'm in Syria you thought that she was loyal we going to trade her like ethereum why did building seven fall I guess it's a mysterium yeah all these hoes want a piece of gerby I might go and do a [ __ ] dirty I'll be raising to the money like Kentucky Derby um uh
• 00:30 - 01:00 I don't want you to slurp me [ __ ] go to 7-Eleven get your boy a slurpie peace all right that was all right that was all right I guess it's a mysterium time time keeps on going and it doesn't stop I'm like 32 years old now no [ __ ] no money I mean what the hell is going
• 01:00 - 01:30 on seems like it is it just me or is time just going faster and faster I don't think it's just me I get all these emails saying you know my life's passing me by I'm gay you know just saying all this crazy stuff and even these confessions um by the way I'm going to do a new Google form that's uh it's probably going to be like your most blackpilling moment or something like that I thought that was a good prompt so that'll be in the description
• 01:30 - 02:00 um I'm I'm going to do more of those it's good content but time time keeps moving faster and you know there's a degree to where it's arbitrary you know it doesn't matter how old you are it's never too late but that's a little bit of a cope you know we have studies that say you reach a certain mental sharpness at an age you know your brain fully develops at 25 but there's actually like a a quickness a sharpness that Peaks at around like your late
• 02:00 - 02:30 teenage years or when you're like 20 and um they say after you turn 20 and you've never if you've never been in a long-term relationship your chances of having a marriage goes down quite a bit um there's a lot of stuff like that you know you there's there's something about youth that is important and if not seized it is unfortunate you know there is some something lost there it's
• 02:30 - 03:00 mentally worrying and so when we perceive time is just quickly passing Us by it's frightening it's it's more than like existential but uh or or or like common fear of missing out there is actually a real something really is really a bummer truly and I've touched on this before in my why men aren't growing up something like that video
• 03:00 - 03:30 there's a certain concept I talked about and by the way that video was released like almost a year ago it's crazy um that was just for me I mean it was just wild seeing that was a year ago but there was a concept I touched on time here's why this happens the way we perceive time is not consistent it's not constant some for example I look back on
• 03:30 - 04:00 February of this year and say that was kind of a long month I have a lot of standout memories from that month it seems like that was a full month whereas March I was kind of just doing the same routine it's almost like a blank space right so there's this concept of you look back because the way we cognitively perceive the passage of time is through our memory
• 04:00 - 04:30 that's that's what gives it all its context it's uh that's what it's all based upon is our memory that's how we perceive it going so the so time shrinks or expands based off how many memories you are creating which means you know there could be a year that feels like a month
• 04:30 - 05:00 if you're just doing this if you just live this very monotone the same you're doing the same thing every day it could just go by like that in the moment it might be constant but our the whole way we perceive it is based off our memory so you look back and it all blurs together but in the same way if you have a very you know busy uh very eventful month it could feel like a year
• 05:00 - 05:30 you could stuff all that time there or it could expand and nothing you know it could be completely empty a year and if you really think about it that means like you know time is not at all equal you know you could be the exact same age as someone and they could have lived way longer based off the amount of experiences they have logged in their
• 05:30 - 06:00 memory when you've just been doing the same [ __ ] for 28 years for example you know this desk right I don't perceive this desk the same like I don't log everything in my memory it's all accounted for I remember assembling it and organizing it for the first time but I haven't changed it since then so it's all just it's there it's the same so if
• 06:00 - 06:30 you're going by your day and you're seeing the same thing over and over it's like to a degree it's like you're almost not even living so that's one thing it's monotony there's a you know if your life is monotonous you uh you adhere to a strict schedule you do the same things that's one aspect of it but it's not the whole thing because in the past people's lives have
• 06:30 - 07:00 also been monotonous um you know people lived in like the same farm and they just like did farm work and chilled in the same Village their whole life but there's something there there's more things about specifically today that make time that speed up the passage of time and by the way the the speeding up of the passage of time interestingly enough is
• 07:00 - 07:30 uh mentioned in a lot of apocryphal or end times literature of time moving faster and whether this is like a metaphysical thing the hand of God is speeding time um or it manifests in these things I'm going to talk about I don't know I just thought that was interesting but okay it's not just monotony sure a lot of people's lives now are monotonous but it's also characterized by an emptiness see people in the past maybe you know they didn't even have the
• 07:30 - 08:00 ability to travel or go far they stayed in the same place but they had certain their lives were not as empty they had strong belief systems strong communities strong families I think about any other time in history and there's no there's no frame of comparison for having people's lives be as monotonous and as empty as they
• 08:00 - 08:30 are today it's not just about schedule or routine or you know cuz that's that's good that's like being an adult but if you don't have a family if you know most most people have friends right but not a community you know people go to work and they see their friends on the weekend hang out for a little bit then just they go back to work it's not like you know even if
• 08:30 - 09:00 you live with some friends or you have a small little family like people's households used to have like a bunch of people in there that you knew very well um you know there was never a time in history where you had to go seek out Community it was inbuilt there um and Community comes from family this is what all in my opinion all
• 09:00 - 09:30 like what sociologists worthy of name agree that Community comes from family people have to form families in order for Community to actually be present in a society that's a little bit of a s side step but it's monotony and emptiness you know you think about a guy who just gets out of high school or
• 09:30 - 10:00 college you go you go get a an office job all your time is spent there it's heavily routine uh you go home at that point all you're going to do is is cope now now here's the third thing that speeds up time it's obviously it's New Media it's digital media it's well observed how this it's like a Time Warp people talk
• 10:00 - 10:30 about how they will scroll on Tik toac especially algorithmic entertainment that sorts out it finds what you want it constantly uh an endless feed things like this YouTube's algorithmic Tik tok's algorithmic um but but even even stuff that's not as algorithmic like television like if you're watching Netflix or whatever it still is a a bit of a Time
• 10:30 - 11:00 Warp it speeds up time people talk about how they could just fall in these things and then like hours fly by um and there's there is a reason that is and it links back to your memory because while there you could say there is actually a lot of data that you are getting from the Internet it's it's a lot of information but in the same way it's not it's like faux information I you know I think I scroll on reals like
• 11:00 - 11:30 4 days ago I can't remember what I saw it's just like a blur and this is because uh you're not really you're not really you are receiving this information but you're only engaging what sight and hearing two of your five senses in interacting with this media and it's like faux versions it's like vibrations from speakers headphones and pixels on a
• 11:30 - 12:00 screen so you're not actually getting a full array of sense data that logs in your memory and that gives you experience that then enriches time so you look back on and it's not really like you did anything that's why it's like a Time Warp because during it it goes fast because there's just information it's it's stream of cont Consciousness continually feeding
• 12:00 - 12:30 algorithms and then looking back it's nothing because your brain doesn't process it like actual life and the average Zoomer spends what like seven hours a day on their phone and a lot of jobs are just like sitting on a computer so that speeds it up even more so there so there's monotony that's always been there but that is an aspect of your life
• 12:30 - 13:00 that is an aspect of time that will speed up time is the lack of novelty the lack of making novel experiences that log in your memory it's also emptiness you know even if you do the same things every day looking at it like purely logical you could say that having a family or having a community having more people in your life that you care for that you work for um logically that does add more
• 13:00 - 13:30 variables more variance whatever but I think it's even more than that I think it just adds a depth that enriches your time makes it feel makes it feel more more dense it's not even just about the the more data entering your brain it's like it's something transcendental about it and then media and all these things are unique to
• 13:30 - 14:00 now makes time spend it it it you know that just makes people's lives fly by and you know it's a it's a wicked concoction because now that people's lives are more empty right there's not you know like our our whole our culture our our country is quite empty there are little spots of culture if you know where to look especially cities but most
• 14:00 - 14:30 people's lives are are quite um devoid of things like that it's quite empty if you just go outside and walk around um it's like I don't I don't want to hark on this too much but people out here talking about go outside I feel like they're they're just like old people who don't know what it's like to be young and go outside because there's actually nothing especially if you don't live in a city or like a big
• 14:30 - 15:00 city like you go outside and you realize how empty everything is how like there's no cohesion there's no social trust it's just like [ __ ] nothing and of course this emptiness this emptiness in people's lives is going to be filled by media people you know if you you find yourself eating dinner by yourself a lot right when you come home from work or school if you if you don't have a family
• 15:00 - 15:30 if you're home alone whatever you're not just going to sit there and eat your dinner now you're going to watch television or YouTube and this is obviously going to it's going to kind of take you away from the experience and just you're not going to be able to look back at that you know all this empty live all this empty time all this emptiness in people's lives is filled by this media which as I said speeds up the process of time warps time it deletes time
• 15:30 - 16:00 functionally let's see if I have anything else to say give me a second now I guess to end this video on a more positive less doomish note if you're like if you're a guy in your early 20s you're getting out of high school you're getting out of college not a lot of dating experience you go straight working a working a job a full-time job and now you have to try to meet someone you're doing all this
• 16:00 - 16:30 just to pay the bills like now you're fully in it and that's going your the time's going to pass and it could you know it could just be tens 20 all these years later and it's just gone so it's going to have you're going to have to I can't offer individual Solutions people's situations are different but once if you find yourself in that position you have to it's going to take some sort of radical personal action got to figure something
• 16:30 - 17:00 out some way because here's the thing about a nino5 like I think a lot of Boomers uh are like they they get it wrong I I would totally be down to work a 9 to5 if I was working for a family which like starting a family now is tricky the dating Market is [ __ ] uh the relationships are un stable and if I was working for a
• 17:00 - 17:30 currency that actually had value and wasn't rapidly diminishing it's like it's not the job it's that it's working for [ __ ] nothing what am I working for just to live and then die like get real so there's that um yeah if you're in that system that's tricky you're in the further stages if you're before that if you're still in school you have to understand that like once you're out of
• 17:30 - 18:00 that [ __ ] you just get tossed into uh you're very likely just going to get tossed into a world swallowing monotonous Dole death spiraling cycle I don't know you what okay see here's the thing like people always like oh you're such a Doomer and then I try to think of a solution it's like like what do you want me to
• 18:00 - 18:30 say I'm like a I'm a 12-year-old kid I'm just dealing with this [ __ ] the the same as anybody else but I don't want I don't want to I don't want these videos to bring people down so it's just like a weird balance I got to play because I do you know there is Merit in like describing a problem I'm not sitting here bitching this isn't like emotional I'm not actually emotional about it I'm kind of chilling understand what it is um and and by
• 18:30 - 19:00 mapping it out I hope people can come to their own Solutions but you need a plan what you need is a plan if you don't have a plan you're just going to get swallowed up by this [ __ ] you're not going to be able to seize your life it's just going to All Drain away you're going to have to cope with all this media and the years will fly by the seasons will pass like days and you will Willow and die alone you will wither not Willow you will
• 19:00 - 19:30 wither and die alone brother you got to you got to plan this [ __ ] out you gotta you got to play chess not Checkers dog if you just follow the script you're [ __ ] that's what I would say I suppose peace out little mama