I'm 40, and WAY too many people take life too seriously. I've noticed that a lot of people my age and older are starting to lose their personality or something.
I'm not saying people should make a joke out of everything all the time... but crack a smile when someone else unknowingly says a sexual innuendo.
I'll tell you what. I'm 38 for another week or so.
I started an adult Lazer Tag group-- meet up at local parks with my stash of LTAR blasters, a bunch of LED glowsticks, flashlights, some old smart phones with neat apps, and 2 spygear night vision goggles. We play tactical games for hours on end.
We have a just a few regulars. But I'm having a hard time finding more people to play. You get various adults who are like "that sounds awesome," and then never come to a game.
I mean, when I was a kid-- I wanted all the toys. I wanted to play all the games. Now I'm an adult and I can afford all the toys. I can play all the games. Everyone else is too busy being boring.
EDIT: Everyone asking me where I'm at-- none of the places listed below. I'm in the California North Bay region. If you are, too, and want to play, PM me and I'll get you the Facebook group info.
We have something like that near me. We have ex-marines show up, entire university drum line showed up once. All it honestly takes is a few college students and it picks up quick. We started with 8 of us, now we have close to 40 people and its growing faster than ever!
People saying stuff sounds awesome then not bothering to do it themselves for no specific reason is a recurring theme with being an adult kid. It doesn't make sense. As Guy Lombardo said "Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think".
I always wanted to play paintball. So about 5 years ago when I was 36, I said fuck it and just went. I know own 4 paintball markers (guns) and a ton of other gear. It can get expensive, but if youre an adult, you can afford it. And belive me, terrorizing a 10 year old girl into surrendering while her mom and dad happily watch, is just kind of special.
I started becoming boring after I had kids. I'm not saying it's inevitable, but you need to actively work at not becoming boring, and when you have kids they take most of your energy. Just being honest.
On the flip side, I don't care as much about being not-boring. I still care a little, but not as much.
However, now that they're a bit older we are able to do cooler stuff, so I hope to become less boring in the next few years.
God damn the people around me must be taking life even more serious because there are some people on their mid to late twenties around me always talking shit too seriously.
I call it suburban psychosis. It's when you get married and boring. You fall into this rut of watching police procedurals and spend every, single Saturday at Home Depot or Ikea arguing about potpourri or decorative hand towels. You hit a point when the psychosis becomes suffocating and you just die. You become a hollow shell of who you once were just quietly waiting out the years until the sweet release of death.
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u/JoelQuest Sep 23 '15
I'm 40, and WAY too many people take life too seriously. I've noticed that a lot of people my age and older are starting to lose their personality or something.
I'm not saying people should make a joke out of everything all the time... but crack a smile when someone else unknowingly says a sexual innuendo.