'75 here. All you youngsters can get the hell off my lawn.
Actually, what I’ve noticed is that I don’t so much feel older as I do the “kids” keep getting younger. Was I like that at their age? Yep, probably, but I felt mature and adult then. To some degree. That thing about how you never really feel like an adult? I still get that a little bit. But after three decades of being an adult, it has also set in a bit.
Mostly, I’m opinionated, and I remember things from the past 40 years because I was alive for them, so they aren’t history to me, they are a part of the life I experienced.
So as you guys get older, I think you’ll find that - like whatever happens after Trump, unless it does continue to get worse (which is quite possible), there will come a time when a younger generation won’t know what it felt like to live under this fascism, and you, having lived through it, will have your mind blown because it’s history to them.
Which I guess has helped me when I think about figures from history and the past in general. While I can’t imagine living before the era of cars, I do know that whatever time frame you look at - to the people living at that time, it was all contemporary and modern. And so when you see people that had relationships with other people and arguments and such, you really do realize that we’re all human.
Also, the older I get, the more I realize just how precious life is. And when you’re young, you really are going to live forever. But every single day that passes is gone forever. Every month takes you further forward. Each year goes by and never comes back. When your 20s are gone, they won’t ever return. Don’t let that upset you, just make sure you aren’t coasting along and wasting time, waiting for what comes next, because if you spend you life waiting for what comes next, you die without anything ever coming next. Don’t “make every moment count” - do take time to relax. Just make sure that you are not ONLY relaxing, and don’t put everything off to the future. Do what you can to enjoy the life you have as best as you can while also trying to keep improving things.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Me at only 41 years old:
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hey there youngster! I’m 42. So, make room in that casket. We’re gonna snuggle.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Damn hookup culture you young people get up to these days.
hornedfiend@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
ImageI would say something like this rather. We are the lich kings!
regedit@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Trust me, if I was the Lich King with the Lich King’s army and powers, there would be a lot fewer billionaires…
regedit@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You are me. I am you. Old enough to be burdened with the memory of a world before the internet, doomed to watch the death of freedom because of it.
Old, like me tag
UniversalBasicJustice@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
That keyboard is fascinating. Explain yourself.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Damn, I remember in the late 90’s playing Everquest with some guy in China that knew almost no English thinking how fucking amazing it was to be playing a game with someone on the other side of the world. Now I sit around thinking how the unabomber maybe wasn’t so crazy. I work in cybersecurity and all I want to do is go back to the AOL era
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m 45 and I don’t know what you younguns are on about. I don’t have knee issues. I don’t have major back issues. Heck I can still out work an Amish crew.
Y’all need to stretch more.