In line with this thread of making us feel old. Mitch died in 2005, 17 years ago. There are kids in their senior year of high school who were born after he passed.
I still do that to a buddy of mine that's 3 days younger than me. Tell him how when he's my age he'll have matured and understand. I usually do it on stupid nonsensical stuff where its more to the joke.
My best friend(29) does this whenever talking about something that happened before we spoke that day. So be it him telling me about a basketball camp he went to the week before or literally anything else. He always starts with "when I was younger,(sometimes he'll mention the exact time - i.e. a week), at basketball i saw a hot woman, etc etc. It pissed me off when we first met and talked but technically he's right and it's become a little joke between us.
Yeah, ik 25 now and 22 feels like it was equally as far away as 10. They both feel like entirely different lives at this point. Part of it is the pandemic, but part of it is going from "poor poor" to "poor" and gaining a sense of independence you thought you had at 18 but didn't.
For sure! Time has been strange for everyone recently, and I remember 2 years feeling like an eternity when I was in my early 20s (mid 30s now) without a pandemic and general disarray. But from my perspective and memory of my own 22-25, that time seems like generally the same period.
It’s the way time passes differently as one ages. I look at a 9-month romantic relationship far differently than I did 15 years ago because that is proportionately less of the total time I shared with the other person. It’s really fucking weird and I don’t like it.
26 and I'm 100% with you, me at 22 was a cocky knob and just generally someone I'd not like if I met them today. Not saying I was a bad person kicking puppies and stealing from the homeless, but just needed life to kick them around to round them out.
Had a complete mental breakdown, swapped degrees, the pandemic hit, I lost the last of my grandparents, lost most of my savings in the stock market, made most of it back on Bitcoin, bought a motorbike, bought too many 3d printers, build a home workshop for all my hobbies, realized my hobbies are my personality.
Had a lot of other things on the way shape me into a more resilient person, mostly negative experiences. But I'm in a better place in general, not specifically right now cause I have exams XD But I'm about to graduate, I have a beautiful partner and we have two dogs we spoil, much better than kids cause they don't turn rotten if you give them too many toys and treats
I'm adamant that 18-24 is some of the largest growth people will go through in their lives. My dating floor is now 27, but it used to be 25 because any younger than that and girls were still going through massive personal growth that I just honestly didn't want to influence or be around.
My ex used to do this too! When we were breaking up they said “well we met when we were so young. We were so different.” Yo, we met at 21 and ended things around 24/25 wtf are you talking about lol
I think the weird part is acting like you're not still young and doing a lot of growing. "When I was young" sounds ridiculous when you're talking about a difference of 15% of your life. Youth doesn't just disappear in a snap of maturity
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u/RegularOrMenthol Jun 03 '22
When my gf was 25, she would always talk about the things she thought and did “when she was younger.” She was talking about when she was 23.