CwChalk
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- Oct 4, 2017
You make a great point there, and it got me thinking of it from another angle. When you're kids, up to early teens, the world's a mystery you start to quickly uncover. Normally you learn the risque details of life from your friends in school, and whispering on the playground. Be it an amazing action movie, a new album, or even what sexual phrases exist, there's usually a similar-aged scholar among your friends. Before you know it, all the ten year olds are dropping their favorite movie quotes, claiming they had 'foreplay' last night, and calling each other faggot without knowing what the word means.
Chris doesn't have this. What did he talk about to his gal pals? I can imagine the girls talking sex, drugs, rock n roll, politics, clothes, and cars, and Chris just sitting there, oblivious, or trying to force the dialogue to Pokemon, or I Love Lucy.
How was he so impervious to culture in school? You get bullied if you enjoy The Love Boat or Gilligan's Island when the other 80s kids are watching Rambo. Surely you learn and feign interest even if its just for camouflage.
Huh, I never considered this aspect before.
How old was he when pokemon became a thing, 15 or 16? So he got into a children's show and card game in high school, an age where a lot of his peers were probably just getting their first job and planning ahead for college or university. It's not too unusual, there was always a few groups of young teenagers who got into card games like Magic and gathered to play at hobby stores. Chris took this a step further by dressing up as the show's main character and for a time wore a costume every friday, which is something one would expect of a child. I doubt he was able to relate to his high school gal pals on any level if the extent of his life experience at that point were just things that kids 6-7 years younger were playing or discovering. Even with his gal pals around he was still kinda isolated.
Fast forward to now, now as an adult his nostalgia for his childhood has been replaced with a nostalgia for high school. He can't even relate with adults 10 years younger than him, the extent of his life experience now are things most adults either don't care for or grew out of years ago and have pressing day to day responsibilities. I guess without having consistent friends there was no influence of any sort to help keep him on an even keel or grow, and without anything to look forward to he instead looked to the past to a time when had people resembling friends. With his childhood memories being nothing more than fragmented moments of uncertain clarity, his teens are something he can remember sequentially. He only changed in very minute ways, and when you don't make changes that matter, you stagnate.
Edited for corrections. God damn it I swear I'm developing dyslexia as I get older.
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