Shit that reminds you that you’re getting old - Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Damn young’uns

[General Patton]

Same here. "The Kids Aren't Alright" by The Offspring makes a lot more sense now.

A while back I decided to listen to "Story Of My Life" by Social Distortion. It's a song that I heard a lot on the radio in my teenage years that I always enjoyed playing.

I heard the lyrics in that song after not playing it for years and I realized just how harder the lyrics hit me now compared to when I was 16 and like "this song is catchy."

After that long I finally got what he was singing about. Especially "good times come and good times go. I only wish the good times would last a little longer."

I hate that I understand it now.

I have been dealing with this for the past few years. So many family members, friends, and High School classmates are already dead. I'm not even that old yet.

I've been with my husband since I was 20, and decades later after meeting all his friends and hanging out with them in my younger years, about 2 out of the 4 guys I've known are now dead (both died young), and there's only one person in his old friend group now who is still alive.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Remember when the Higgs boson was discovered?

That was already about 14 years ago now.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

my single-digit niece was admonishing me that I should put a music bed on my silent youtube video to improve my hits
I had to explain it was just to share a vacation video easily to people and not an attempt at superstardom

 

[strumpets exeunt]

I had to explain it was just to share a vacation video easily to people and not an attempt at superstardom

But just ask yourself this: do your in-laws want to watch you dick around Rehoboth Beach in dead silence... or would they rather see your oversize beach novelty tee wearing self groove to the sweet vibes of "Dreamscape" by the 009 Sound System?

To add content: I was driving my kid to his orthodontist appointment this morning and I said something along the lines of, "Wow, I haven't thought of that in 30 years." To which my son replies, "Oh, you mean the '90s?" When he then asked my wife what weird motions and gestures I was making in the drivers seat, she had to inform that that I was withering away into a shriveled husk.

 

[starborn427614]

How fast time seems to pass these days. "The days are long, but the years are short".

 

[Pole Smoker]

a girl at work shows me a shirt with sailor moon on it and asked, "who is this", and i tells her, "bitch, that's sailor moon", and she goes, "who", and i says to her, "just how fucking young are you to not know who sailor moon is. thats like saying you dont know who goku is." and she says, "who", and im pretty sure, pretty sure, i looked down at my hands and saw them actively shrivel into wrinkled little bony spindle sticks