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Man, I'm 17 years older than you. It ain't that different.
You know, other than the aching joints, the gray hairs sprouting, having a strange urge to yell at anyone that steps on your grass (even if you don't have grass), and a growing certainty that the newest generation are inherently crazy.
But other than that, it's exactly the same as 33.
Good to hear that the early 40s are not that bad. I'm 31 now and that ensures me I have at least 20 more good years.
Well, no promises. 51 could be the top of the hill everyone says you get over, I dunno yet ;)
No bullshit though, even with the bad things that I went through in my late thirties and early forties, the age part of my forties was awesome. It's this wonderful balance of being automatically assumed to be a grown ass adult in any given situation until you prove otherwise, but also being allowed to indulge in hobbies without attention.
And, for me, that's when I hit peak confidence and self awareness.
But, I'm enjoying the hell out of fifty so far. It's like I hit a half century, and a lot of the bullshit of the world doesn't bother me as much. Something comes up, and my first thought is "well, after a half century of this kind of bullshit, this is nothing". It's like magic lol.
I'm not far behind you, I don't think the younger generation are crazy at all.
When we were young we wanted shit the Olds considered mad, it was actually worse during the cold War, there were things you couldn't talk about.
Boomers were epic assholes though, and dumb as fuck, so maybe that biases me, the Youngs just seem adorable in their unbelievable passion for shit that vague barely seems to matter. Everybody needs a hobby.
that part was meant as a joke about old farts always saying the next generation is worse than their own.
Tbh, no single generation is free of assholes, nor is any free of good people. That's because people are assholes for the most part, and every generation has people that aren't :)
But, yeah, the amount of energy pumped into very niche things seems to be unusually high for kids currently. It never ceases to make me happy though.
They're welcome to it, they deserve some passion in life.
I remember caring like hell about the earth, even trying to do things, that was considered about as threatening as the trans movement is to the same people now.
I fucking love millenials, they were so perfectly curious and interested, they learned things. There might have been millennial assholes, but I respected them because they seemed to be assholes because they cared and were idealistic, which is a perfectly reasonable way to be an asshole to me.
I feel the hell out of that.
It's part of why I married a millennial lol. Which sounds like an old school b movie. The horror! "I MARRIED A MILLENNIAL AND BARELY ESCAPED WITH MY SOUL!"
But yeah, that extra sense of caring, that seems to keep going up, even with all the anxiety and uncertainty the younger set has. They aren't afraid to help people, to reach out. Not saying everyone, but it's a lot different than when I was a kid, or a teen, or a young man.
It gives me hope, despite being a cynical old fart.
They genuinely don't belong in the world we were born in, they ... are too fucking human.
We had to fight, for what came so noturally to them, makes my heart weep;
"My generation will put it right" Land of Confusion, Genesis.
Yeah, right😒
The fuck does that even mean?
Listen that song (https://youtu.be/TlBIa8z_Mts). Or read the lyrics.
No, I know the song, I was alive when it came out.
I just don't know what it has to do with what I said
That every generation thinks "we will do it right" and think the previous generation didn't know how to do it or that they did something on purpose.
Ahhh, gotcha.
I've got all of that already. I'm mainly concerned that I'm not even close to a relationship and kids D:
Not everyone has to have them.
That's true. Trouble is I really, really wanted to be a dad. But c'est la vie.
Don't give up hope. We had a 1% chance to have a child. My daughter was born when I was 41. So you have plenty of time left!
WHAT!?