Do you prefer the world around you in your younger years or these days?

[belamyi]

I came to think how depressing was, comparatively, the world of twenty years ago, and I am not even talking of being gay and all that... in that aspect, everything is pretty much the same... I think.
Yet, now that I think of it, beyond the satisfaction of general material progress, now I recall that I always find all presents so defective...

 

[Peloso]

Twenty years ago? You Xers don't know shit.

 

[rareboy]

Nostalgia is always tempting.

There is one moment I would like to have back from the past.

Otherwise, I don't tend to visit there much. It really is a different country.

As an (aged) adult, I now have much more control over my present most of the time and so prefer it slightly. Not control over all events, but control over how I deal with them and try to turn them to positive outcomes.

 

[belamyi]

Twenty years ago? You Xers don't know shit.

We Xers do know very well that your older farter younger years were the paramount of shit, but I was not contesting that...

I was merely stating that the 2000s were precisely shitty enough, without needing to go farther-further back into Middle Age-pre-X...

 

[belamyi]

Nostalgia is always tempting.

There is one moment I would like to have back from the past.

Otherwise, I don't tend to visit there much. It really is a different country.

As an (aged) adult, I now have much more control over my present most of the time and so prefer it slightly. Not control over all events, but control over how I deal with them and try to turn them to positive outcomes.

I wasn't talking about my own older-farter life now either... but life around me wihch, obviously, affects me too.

 

[Peloso]

Nostalgia is always tempting.

There is one moment I would like to have back from the past.

Otherwise, I don't tend to visit there much. It really is a different country.

As an (aged) adult, I now have much more control over my present most of the time and so prefer it slightly. Not control over all events, but control over how I deal with them and try to turn them to positive outcomes.

As a damaged, bitter and unhappy adult, I like to spend a lot of time in the past. There are worse ways to achieve solace.

I think your take on this has less to do with your views on how things are these days than the wisdom of simply having lived. Coping with how one reacts to the world around them is one of the perks of aging. It's a necessary, infinitely helpful and surprisingly easy skill to learn.

To have the same coping strategy when one is in their twenties would suck all the joy out of being young.

 

[Peloso]

 

[belamyi]

^ Thankfully I never was young

Even if I had, that would have added some unique flavour
I think the worst part of being young is being young out of time, feeling that everything is shit around you... the purported joy of youth is almost always protracted infancy: just like love, people do not actually love their couple, so most people do not actually enjoy their youth to the full, their are just as mindlessly happy as a baby or a dodderer.

 

[belamyi]

If the video is unavailable, how did you come to post it? Oh, wait, you changed it.

 

[Peloso]

We Xers do know very well that your older farter younger years were the paramount of shit, but I was not contesting that...

I was merely stating that the 2000s were precisely shitty enough, without needing to go farther-further back into Middle Age-pre-X...

Wow. Not the barrage of defensive memes I was expecting. Nice work, kid.

 

[Peloso]

I think the worst part of being young is being young out of time, feeling that everything is shit around you... the purported joy of youth is almost always protracted infancy: just like love, people do not actually love their couple, so most people do not actually enjoy their youth to the full, their are just as mindlessly happy as a baby or a dodderer.

I look at my journal entries from the 80"s when I was young, cute, ambitious and full of boundless energy and I can't believe how miserable I was. Such drama over nothing.

Even if I had, that would have added some unique flavour

I imagine you would taste like heavily salted fried arugula.

 

[belamyi]

I look at my journal entries from the 80"s when I was young, cute, ambitious and full of boundless energy and I can't believe how miserable I was. Such drama over nothing.


I imagine you would taste like heavily salted fried arugula.

And were I would get the salt from, not having bathed in the sea for over a decade, and taking meals with hardly any trace of

I am not a fan of fried meals if I can avoid them... and frying greenery..?

 

[Peloso]

Cocksucking should provide you with a modicum of your daily sodium requirement.

See what I did there?

 

[belamyi]

Cocksucking should provide you with a modicum of your daily sodium requirement.

See what I did there?

I prefer umami cocksucking: not available anywhere.

If they do not say that I do it extremely well, definitely we are both doing it wrong, and should not have gone for it.

 

[Vannie]

Young people don't fart?

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Have more money, but less hope.

 

[LeicsDom]

I am very glad I grew up long before the advent of social media

 

[backagain]

The past is the past and cannot be relived. The present is what is the reality. Just part of life.

 

[Rickrock]

It's such a mixed bag. When I was young I was more hopeful and had more energy and people around me seemed nicer. Now I have more legal freedoms but some people don't seem so nice. If I could have some of each time, that would be ideal, but overall I don't want to go back to those times when I was young, I prefer now.

 

[belamyi]

Young people don't fart?

They do not old-fart.