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.
At one point when I was in my mid to late-twenties, my workplace’s neighbor had their sprinkler system fail and flood their business. It was so bad that a bunch of water seeped under the adjoining wall and we had about a half an inch of water across a third of our fairly large store. There were maybe a dozen or so of us working there at the time, and we all got called in to rapidly move merchandise out into a big truck so that it wouldn’t get spoiled by the damp air before the remediation guys could do their thing.
So there’s all of these people, most of them younger than me, but not by a lot, running back and forth with crates of merchandise, and I looked around and immediately saw how chaotic and inefficient it was.
So I said, “Okay, you stand by the truck. You stand by the front door, you stand just inside. You stand a little further in than that. The first person just picks up a crate, and we bucket brigade it all out to the truck.”
It was an obvious solution, and it made the work go by so much faster and easier, but apparently I was the only one who thought to do it. I realized that in that moment, in a moderately large group, I was the most responsible adult in the room.
And I’m pretty sure that was when my childhood ended.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. -C.S Lewis
following this i would say when you stop wanting to be grown-up. and that certainly tracks for me
I become 20 next year… Yeah, that’s probably a good indicator
You still have a few years.
20 sounds so old though
I’m only 29 but if I think back to being 20, I was not the same person. I don’t know your life, but responsibility piles on fast.
20 sounds so old though
Treasure that moment in time my friend, because tomorrow you’ll wake up and you’ll realize you’re 60 and you haven’t see those 40 years fly by. Take it from me, now you think you have the time but you really don’t: time accelerates the older you get. And that scary shit is for real.
When I realised I can’t go crying to my parents anymore and started crying into my pillow instead.
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.
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 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 🙂
dancing in the street still gets played on the radio
The popular music is garbage and Garbage is forgotten.
I did that line
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.
Oh come on! When rock music was mainstream there were no shortage of actually good popular music.
Don’t take this thought from me!
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.
I mean she found a cassette tape in her grandmother’s TV cabinet and asked me what it was but yeah that too.
When you are more excited to go to sleep than to wake up.
On the other hand, the older I get, the more excited I am to greet the next day.
I also enjoy an earlier bed time than I used to, usually.
Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 becoming retro consoles
“Excuse me sir, could you tell me what time it is?” 🧒->👴
When children in our apartment building started saying formal hellos while passing by. I still feel old when they do that…
Another one was the death of my father, but that’s more depresing.
Lower back went out
When I became financially and legally responsible for my own choices.
When one of your parents dies when you’re only 6 years old.
I’m about 15 years from retirement and I’m still a child. I don’t see it changing any time soon.
People say that everything before becoming a parent yourself is just extended childhood. Can partially confirm. If the kid is with someone else, you can also be a child again.
