What really hurts is being a kid when this came out and putting it on for your own kid. Then you realize you are now older than SC is supposed to be in the movie. Time is a mother fucker.
Time is our friend. Your kid might be calling it a mother fucker in 27 years too, but until then you have 27 years of hanging out with that mother fucker. (hanging out with time, not the child, but I guess you'll also be hanging out with the child. You'd be the mother fucker in that situation amirite? Hahaha.)
Yeah and double that time and you're now at deaths door or already got there a few years before, time and aging is pretty scary when you realise how short a decade really is. As a kid it seemed so long, as an adult you realise it just flashes by
I'm going to disagree based on the fact that we had software in the Windows 95 days ('face morph' or 'photo morph') that did this kind of thing. A big Spielberg blockbuster a few years later with better resolution seems perfectly possible.
I guess it depends on what a person was doing in the mid 90s with a home PC
I'm aware that my sister was born in 2003 and that she turns 22 this year, and yet I still can't fully compute the fact that 2003 was actually 22 years ago
I’ll tell you what does it for me: When you watch a movie with an actor/actress you liked your whole life but haven’t seen for a while and you’re like “damn! They’re getting old………..” and then it hits you, I’M GETTING OLD.
There is also something distinctly 2003 about the white button up shirts. The hottest guy in my school would wear one with baggy pants and a visor. I know it was bigger in the rave scene, but I just don’t know why lol
I’m still stuck in ‘98 sophomore year at college. It really does feel like yesterday. My crew is all pushing 50. We live in a world that “hyper-sexualizes us into eternal juvenilia” When we are young we are told to desperately want to be grown up, as we age we are told that we should do anything to be young again.
To be honest, I’m glad I’m ageing. All that angst when being young certainly looks tiring in hindsight. I certainly wouldn’t want to go back to those days. While at the time I thought I was having fun, only now I can see that I was mostly just distracting myself to avoid feeling alone and having to deal with myself.
I think there's a tendency to romanticize past memories but I think you're right, my teenage years and early twenties were filled with angst, a desperate desire to belong and finding it unbearably difficult to be alone. I had a great time, but not sure I'd rush back to be that person if I could.
My knees can’t support me jumping from walls and trees anymore and I’m beginning to have difficulties focusing on small text. I feel fully justified longing back to better days.
Right!?! That shit was HECTIC. Like flying by the seat of your pants, no one has a clue what they’re doing or how to do it. Was it fun? Yes. Was it subtly terrifying? Also yes.
Your 30s is where it starts. My sister just turned 30 and she brought up how quick her 20s feel like they went by at this point.
I’m 38 and told my wife the other day I was feeling melancholy due to the fact we’ve been together 12 years already. I don’t want to go back and change a single thing, I just want to relive the last 12 years with her. One lifetime together just doesn’t feel like enough. Especially when we only got to be young together for so little of it.
Doesn’t sound like the same problems I’m having to be honest, I don’t like my life now, and am very lonely despite trying all the things I’m meant to try. I’m working hard at everything, but gettting no where with money or happiness or relationships. I know that doesn’t mean I’ll never get there, but it all feels hopeless a lot of the time. I’d kill to go back to my twenties and do things differently, but that’s a flight of fancy so I try not to think about regrets or how much worse my life has gotten as I’ve gotten older. All my friends have successful careers and families or at least partners and I feel left behind, and because of that I don’t fit in. And I’m too old for anyone younger to invite me anywhere and old enough if would be weird for me to initiate that. Basically I’m in a real ‘nether zone’ socially.
I think romanticizing for a lot of us comes from wanting to do it again with what we know now. A lot of those times were fun, and they didn't have to be as stressful as we made them because we didn't know what was going on.
100%! I was in a psychiatric infirmary with a mental breakdown and severe anorexia in 2003 (23 years old). You would never see me having fun with a crowd as this. I was alone all the time. Now I look back and really feel sorry for the kid I was. I just couldn't have any fun. I'm still a bit anxious but holy shit those years were sad..
100% agree. I'm nostalgic for the teen years and the awesome music of the 70's (I mean hearing that when it was brand new. Of course I can still listen to it now), but I'd sooner set myself on fire than live through those years again.
I have the opposite problem. I wasn’t angsty at all when I was young. These last few years have been a complete shit show and the last 3 days have made me lose faith in humanity. I’m so scared what’s going to happen.
I once went to a bar and was, oh, it's a bunch of 40 and 50 yr olds, too old for us. Then I realized WE are a bunch of 40 and 50 yr olds and hate any place with 20 somethings.
I started college in 2003. An existential crisis was instigated by the realization in 2021 that the incoming class of college students was made up of people who were born the same year I started college.
Wow, I am 21 as of now. Squeezing it in a few lines is very difficult but i always think that people twice my age really lived twice my joy, suffering and emotions. I mean, even as 21, I feel like i have lived a lot, and i wish and desire to give a significant part of me if i can once again turn 18 or 19 to be very least. But you are 42, and this hypothetically implies that I magically become a new born after reaching 21 and again grow up to 21. Wowwww.
So, What advice/knowledge/wisdom would you like to give me, Respected Sir? Anything which you wish your young version should have known about it or any regret or whatever which is in your heart. Thank you very much in advance. Hare Krishna!!
I was 34, which felt old at the time.... but I would kill to be 34 again now that I'm 55.
Not to get too "dark" about it..... but I'm 55 and all I can think is about how many good years can I possibly have left. 20 or so? Like with how fast time flies anymore, 20 years is a blink.
Agreed. Then all the physical pain sets in. Then more issues. Hospitalizations. Close friends start to drop off like flies. Divorced or deaths. Unplanned widowee. Then you are realizing damn I wish I did more stuff when I was younger as we continue to race to our ends..
Enjoy life when you are young because travelling easy after retirement is a lie for many.
It's funny how you framed the YOLO. It made me think that it should really be associated with being more careful since you only have that one life. Lol
I have to admit that I've had quite an eventful and unique life. I knew early on that I didn't want to grow old and regret not doing things.
I was also 21 in 2003. I agree so long ago, but not at the same time. These comments have gotten me feeling a bit nostalgic. I just came across a picture of my mother from 2002 and realized that she was the same age then that my wife will be this year. It's hard for me to believe.
Time stops for no one.
I'm sure it is lost in the comments below or above, but the comment that "I wanna go back to the times when I didn't wanna go back to any times" really resonates with me right now. I feel that I have a lot to look forward to at this point in my life. My kids are still young and I'm not so old...yet. However, back in 2003, I truly only looked forward. I miss that naïve, optimistic person I was then.
I was 19. I turned 41 yest and was chatting with my best friend about how old 41 seemed at that age and how I felt literally the exact same mentally and physically as I did at 18-22 too. And it all feels just like a year ago. Woe is me....
What i'd give to have experienced my 20s in the 2000's or 2010's..... not to be so pessimistic but damn $15 drinks at the clubs suck. And as much as I myself like to take pictures and videos at concerts, seeing old festival footage of people just rocking out and enjoying themselves makes me yearn for those times. I've definitely had those experiences too, but then I go to some concerts and no one can put their phone down
I’m the same age as you. I remember moving from a small town to Seattle when I had just turned 22. Life was felt so new and exciting, and I grew up a LOT in the 3 years I lived there.
21 years later, and I’ve lived an entire different life since then. I was in a band, toured the west coast and Eastern Europe. Got married, and was more in love than I could ever be (and probably will be). Finished college, started a career. Bought a house. Got a divorce. Restarted my career a couple times. So. Many. Experiences.
And yet… I still remember how I felt, and who I was back then. But that’s not me anymore. But it is. And when I go back to Seattle, I can still sometimes bring those feelings back. Time is a mystery, but we all succumb to it.
Ouch this one hurt 😭😫😫 life never was the same after I want to say 2010 was the absolute end things were already starting to go bad I'm broken that now my kids I brought them into this sad world of destruction and they'll never know what any thing back then was like.
They are 41 and 42 years old (so 1 year difference) and they met in their freshman year at Wesleyan University. They are not related. But I guess their taste in music made them family!
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u/yamimementomori Jan 23 '25
Back when they were Kids.