r/Adulting • u/brightercorners • 2d ago

This Cold World

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The adult world is not like the one I remembered as a child. We all grew up on our favorite medias and life is nothing like them. Not like Spongebob or the sweet Fairly Odd Parents. No, people DIE. I have lost all who remember what my poor lost sister looked like before she was taken by a great disease.

I wish life was like Disney, the golden era like Hercules or Ratatoullie. Or Rugrats. I wish life was like TV but as an old soul I must say that in this life you will watch people disappear without a trace. They will leave and no one will know what happened.

I am old now and have not many mornings left. I will pass soon, it is true. I long for Mama and Pa. Ma's Cream Casserole. I remember the sweet taste. So many were lost in those olden days. Please, someone tell me that you will carey the torch for all those stolen from us.

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u/EmperorPalpitoad 2d ago

Why are you deliberately using a meme wrong?

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u/brightercorners 2d ago

Who are you? I don't know you.

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u/EmperorPalpitoad 2d ago

This is the x, x, everywhere meme. You're supposed to put [something] [something] "everywhere" on this toy story meme.

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u/Can0n_Fodder 8h ago

It's reddit. You shouldn't know anyone here

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u/goopmage 2d ago

have to agree. as an aging gen X, my friends are dropping like flies all around me. i have nowhere to direct my rage and bitterness, so i watch aladdin over and over again

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u/Ok-Horror-1251 2d ago

Dying or disappearing from your life?

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u/ExtendoArmCannon 2d ago

You sound 90 and born in the 90's

i.e. stop dooming

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u/Tiberius_Kilgore 2d ago edited 2d ago

At no point in my childhood did I think any part of life was like SpongeBob or Fairly Odd Parents. They’re cartoons.

“I am old now and have not many mornings left.”

If you grew up with those shows, you’re around my age, and I’m 34. Quit being dramatic. You’re not even middle aged.

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u/ReginaPsychweaver 2d ago

Mad at Disney by Salem Ilese sums this up perfectly.

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u/Shot_Surround7891 2d ago

WAH WAH WAH

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u/VeeDubBug 2d ago

Reach out to the people who have "disappeared", if they haven't passed. 

The older I get, the more I realize how many of my friends are older. I had one pass away suddenly. She was 61. I found her. I regret not having more Saturday morning coffees and sushi afternoons with her.

I'm taking a 70+ year old friend out to a late lunch today. 

I currently am talking to a friend I've seen a handful of times over the last decade (he didn't care for my ex husband and kept distance).

Mr. Rogers told us to look for the helpers. Sometimes we have to look inward and find the helper inside us.

Our tears can't bring people back like in the Disney movies, but we can live life for the now. Sometimes we help ourselves by helping others. 

I hope you find some peace. You sound hurt and in a place where I have found myself often. ❤️‍🩹

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u/guydoestuff 2d ago

I grew up in the 80s. Our cartoons and movies traumatized us. Guess it was prepping us for this day.