I still can't believe that people I know, my peers, are making babies. I'm too lazy to make a salad.

The line uses self-deprecating humor to capture a common millennial/young-adult dissonance: watching peers reach major life milestones (parenthood) while feeling personally unprepared for even small acts of self-care. By juxtaposing “making babies” with the trivial effort of “mak[ing] a salad,” it compresses a larger anxiety about adulthood into an everyday image, suggesting that maturity is experienced less as a clear threshold than as an uneven, comparative process. The quote’s punch comes from exaggeration, but its underlying point is serious: social timelines can make ordinary fatigue or executive dysfunction feel like a moral or developmental failure.