Anyone else miss the old days when life was chill?

Socrates wasn't wrong. History goes in cycles. None of this "Woke" stuff is new, it is what every society sees just before the end of a cycle, collapse, and history marches on led by a civ that isn't so far along on its life cycle.

The 80's were a good time for me. Great music and growing up having crushes and going out. More conversation with people as opposed to everyone looking down on their phones today. Life can still be fun even today. Just came back from Japan and it was the best trip of my life. Keep living and make good memories as you grow older and realize "You're living in the golden years."(Dickenson, Bruce)

in the late 80s and early 90s i went to a sleepaway camp in the forest about an hour north of my hometown. the camp, with its forest and lake has since been paved over for a housing plan filled with McMansions and manicured lawns.

i dont believe there ever were good old days but i do wish children could experience the positive things i once did.

I don’t know. In the good old days you had to pay hard earned money to see grossly obese people, full-body tattoos, and bearded ladies at the carnival freak show. Nowadays you can see them for free every time you leave the house.

I know this is a troll, but it's an exceptionally bad one. An old white male career politician being sworn in as president is absurdist and surreal, exactly like all but 2 presidents in US history.

What’d you like about Japan so much?

I find it interesting but isolating.

Life was chill.

Your aspirations as a kid were confined by parents and school etc. The goals in sports and life were well-defined.

The you become an adult and are expected to work 5 days a week. Your friends are scattered all over. The grind of life takes its toll and meeting up with anybody more than 30 mins away is a task.

Any goal in life is nebulous and never ends.

Solution: take control of your own life and give things definitions. Then follow through and own your destiny.

Friends? What adult person bases their happiness with “friends” and “meeting up with people?”

Solution: realize that you are one day closer to death every time you close your eyes to go to sleep. When that death finally arrives, you won’t have to deal with any of the things that bring you down any more. When things seem overwhelming, just repeat: “Death is my reward and it is coming. Death is my reward and it is coming.” Just like that, you can go back to your day and feel an immediate relief from stress and anxiety.

Summertime between the ages of 8 to ~14-15, not a care in the World and the summer seemed to last a long time before school started in the Fall.....that was the best.

The old AFL is missed, as is Classy Freddie Blassie and Pepper Gomez. No more...Have Gun Will Travel, The Lone Ranger, Wanted Dead or Alive, no more Shindig or Hullabaloo. Hell no more Wolfman Jack.

Men were men once upon a time no confusion at all.

Hell, penny candy, comics were a dime. I pity these kids today,

My life is chill. If yours is not, then it’s your choices. All I do is work my day job I like, golf every day, workout to look good and get strong for golf, and work on a side business I started. I love it all. Here’s some advice, stop reading political articles all day and your life will magically get chill.

Once when life was chill
The Huns could still pop over the hill
Lop off a few heads
Make sure you wuz deads
'Twas true back then, and true still

Thanks to MSM and it's backing, those days are gone. ?

back when a man could love another man without it being all over social media

Thank you for this laugh. Really needed it!! :)

What’s your day job that you like?

I don’t hate mine but it’s lame af just a desk job

The biggest difference between being a kid vs adult for me is regular access to a community I wanted to associate with.

Like, school was boring-but you were surrounded by people your age and could make friends with them and that contact was guaranteed besides the random people who dropped out.

I'm assuming that lots of posters here did XC+track in college and loved near their school. That was even better. You got to know 100+ people on a campus where you could access most amenities by walking so you were constantly bumping into people and having unexpected encounters.

Now as an adult my life is wake up, drive to work on highway (no interaction with others), work with people from all sorts of backgrounds (which is interesting but not as good for creating meaningful relationships), drive home on highway. If I have chores it's more driving to go to places like the grocery store which in most towns is in a completely different location than the residential area so it feels totally detached from my life, go home where maybe or maybe not I live near people I want to interact/have a good chance to interact with.

There's a lot more emphasis on my solo hobbies now as an adult because that casual interaction is just gone. I think the real grind of adulthood is that unless you have a good setup a majority of your needs for human interaction need to be crammed into the weekend when as a kid you could fill that requirement every day. Probably also why there is such to start a family as an adult, in many ways it's the only guaranteed positive interaction you get with another person.

Cool book about this I've read is Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam.

Heck no! I much rather be fairly busy have enough money to not worry about what I'm going to eat.. first memory till first payed internship kinda sucked.. life is much better now.

On top of that I'm better at running, can do things that require more than 2$/meal.. life is pretty great

Growing up as a child was great. At that time you figure that the older adults would figure things out. That would be incorrect for sure! Lol

The best the USA could do for leadership is Biden or Trump? We are doomed.

PS: We should have nuked China after the first case of Covid hit our country.