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[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 28 minutes ago

Bruh, someone from '99 is only 26

[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 4 points 54 minutes ago

Okay. I was born in the early 70's. Lemme just brush the dust off, and I'll join you.

[-] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 points 14 minutes ago

As one legend to another: Before the Ancestors, there were Legends. That's what the 70's kids are.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 41 minutes ago

Sigh, they always forget the gen X.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 26 minutes ago

That's what happens when the boomers refuse to let go.

[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Wtffffff I just woke up. I don't need this right now.

I was 2 when the Berlin wall fell.

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 0 points 20 minutes ago

I just want to watch futurama reruns and eat take-out chinese

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

What I do if I am that old person who is tired and still not happy

Send help

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

I keep telling you! It's your diet! Stop eating bagels from the trash!

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Trash bagels WITH AVOCADO. Would you believe?? Goddamn millennials..

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 39 points 5 hours ago
[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Hey there youngster! I'm 42. So, make room in that casket. We're gonna snuggle.

[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 3 points 53 minutes ago

Damn hookup culture you young people get up to these days.

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 6 points 3 hours ago

That's right ladies, I'm exhausted

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 7 points 3 hours ago

Huh, I guess I'm old, but the joke's on you -- but I won't make you happy. 😎

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 25 points 5 hours ago

'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.

[-] asbestos@lemmy.world 2 points 51 minutes ago

What a beautifully written comment. Thank you

[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

I remember watching a CRT television belted to a five-foot tall roller stand, and we had suspended all classes that day, even though we were at school. We had just sat there, crying and watching the news, as both towers were smoking, then one had collapsed and myself and other kids had screamed, wailed, and one vomited there on the carpet. Occasionally someone would get pulled away to take a phone call, and they didn’t come back the same. They changed. We all changed.

I still remember Kevin Cosgrove’s last phone call.

Newberg, Oregon, September 11th ‘01.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

For me, it was my first day at Texas Instruments. I had to show up to a mandatory Outlook training session (which was hilarious as I was being hired for a helpdesk position. I'd used Outlook since the first version in 1997 and supported it…). A guy came in and turned on the televisions.

I called my wife, who was working in the flight path of DFW airport. We also tried to get hold of my stepmother, who was working in the tallest building in downtown Dallas at the time.

It was much chaos, as I'm sure you remember, as nobody really knew what was going on or what further attacks might happen.

So for me, I was a young adult, married for about a year and a half when it happened - I got to live half a decade as an adult in the pre-9/11 world.

It's hard for me to remember that for newer generations, all this bullshit that really started taking off hardcore after 9/11 is normalized. I saw our rights being taken away, the constant fear increase, the hatred for Muslims that blossomed into racism coming back out of its dirty closet, the rise of fascism.

It wasn't always that way. :(

[-] lonlazarus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 hours ago

The elderly urge to comment on this thread

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago

I'll take getting older over the alternative every time.

I'm not happy I'm sixty. But, I am happy I'm not dead.

[-] edwardbear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Ain’t that the point of it all.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Joke's on you. You're gonna have to live through the worst of what's coming.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 8 points 4 hours ago

Can confirm, I feel old and tired all the time. Not gonna fuck around (in a bad way) with my partner. Unfortunately, I'm also not gonna fuck around much in a good way, because I feel old and tired all the time.

[-] BenM2023@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Dude, get your B12 levels checked. Was feeling old and tired, so I went to drs for something else, he ran bloods just to make sure. Came back ok except B12 deficient. Now I get a B12 jab every 12 weeks and top up with high dose B12 pills every day after 4 weeks. Tiredness gone, cold feet at night gone, visual migraines gone grumpy old git moods gone. Oh and fucking around in a good way is way more on the cards!

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 43 minutes ago

And 90% of westeners has D vitamin deficiency. I get a little monthly vial prescribed to pump those values up.

[-] osanna@thebrainbin.org 12 points 5 hours ago

holy shit, I am born in the mid 80s. I must be decrepit.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 9 points 4 hours ago
[-] osanna@thebrainbin.org 13 points 4 hours ago

I have it on good authority (mine) that the 90s were only 10 years ago!

[-] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 hours ago

Yup, 1998 specifically will eternally remain the boundary between the old days and recent stuff.

[-] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Early '85 here... I'm scared of getting out of the chair after reading this one, might get a hernia.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

I guess that means I'm ancient. In the context of Stargate I'll take it, just call me Janus.

[-] West_of_West@piefed.social 7 points 4 hours ago
[-] xkbx@startrek.website 2 points 4 hours ago
[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 hours ago

Not that's his brother, your thinking of Lar.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Olo. Hans Olo.

[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago

1965 clocking in. I want slippers and some soup.

[-] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Got the stuff for you here to make everything right as rain.

[-] anguo@piefed.ca 5 points 4 hours ago

All the "being old" feels aside, why would you be happy with a "tired" person?

[-] starik@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

They’re ready to settle

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 4 hours ago

They're not 'running around' or 'playing games'.

[-] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

As an August 89 kid... I don't know what to feel.

Either way I am offended and this has ruined my day

[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

‘85 here, I’m so tired.

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 3 points 5 hours ago

Back in my day

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