And I’m not counting things like what you do or get when you grow up like having a bank account or getting a real job. Nor am I accepting the whole ‘I just grew up’.
My sign of my childhood ending or accepting that it has ended is when all of the nu-metal bands I was introduced to and listened to a lot of us just ended up fractured. They all didn’t endure the passage of time and it was really just a matter of you had to be there to know how popular they were or the scene was.
The bands I used to have listened to have gone the way of Classic Rock on the radio. Spammed tracks from some bands because that’s all the DJ knows or that’s all they’re allowed to play.
For me it was after my baby penis fell off and my adult one finished growing in.
The kid that wants to hold his mom’s hand and to have his dad tell him he’s proud of him will always be in there somewhere. The kid who’s scared of the basement with the lights off. The kid who just wants to play GoldenEye with his brother. He never went anywhere. He’s still in there and comes out when my kids need him.
I don’t have the energy to play video games anymore
Feeling excitement about this perfectly ironed shirt
You know how to file your taxes.
The first time I went ‘fuck, it’s snowed’ instead of ‘yay, snow!’
(I still love snow, but only at weekends 😆. Better now I can work remotely)
I’m about 15 years from retirement and I’m still a child. I don’t see it changing any time soon.
Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 becoming retro consoles
When you are more excited to go to sleep than to wake up.
My parents being dead.
I don’t understand what the fuck the kids are saying anymore. The slang is so incomprehensible that urban dictionary is necessary.
The popular music is garbage and Garbage is forgotten.
I can say “back in my day” without it being funny.
I can reference my ex-wife without it being ironic because I am not youthful and without grey hair, so I may have an ex-wife.
I can say “when I was a little girl” without it being irreverently funny because I am a clearly a guy.
Anyone who thinks new music is shit stopped looking for new music. Which is also a sign.
and anyone who thinks popular music was ever any good has overdosed on nostalgia.
The popular music is garbage and Garbage is forgotten.
About that:
I realized something many years ago: people of a certain age always tend to think music from their time was better. But they all fail to see that whatever music from their generation is still around is the good shit from that time. For example, this still plays on the radio but this thankfully doesn’t.
Whatever young people listen to now is everything: the good and the bad, and mostly the bad. Their shit hasn’t had time to decant yet.
So yeah, to an older listener, today’s music is mostly shit, because it is - just like the music from their past was mostly shit when their past was today 🙂
The popular music is garbage and Garbage is forgotten.
I dig that line
I will let you know .
Your childhood ends when your heart stops. You’re never going to stop being someone’s kid, no matter how old, mature or posh you might get. All that changes is that mom won’t tell you no…
…unless you’re Elon Musk. His mom has stepped in publicity even a couple times.
Having to explain things you grew up with to your niece because they’re not part of the world anymore comes at you without warning.
When I don’t understand what young people say. Worse: when they don’t understand what I say.
you can learn the lingo it really doesn’t change that much from generation to generation, but they will never learn the decades of Simpson references you have on lock.
you can learn the lingo it really doesn’t change that much from generation to generation
That’s not the problem: if I talked to a kid with that kid’s generation’s talk, they would look at me with an air of pity. Just like I looked at adults trying to be hip when I was a kid. Older folks who don’t stay in their place aren’t well received, and I’m one of them now, so I abstain.
if you don’t lean into the fellow kids meme then being hip with the lingo will be uncomfortable for everyone involved, but understanding and participating are 2 different things.
