Anyone else miss the old days when life was chill?

10 years old is the best age.

I feel like i'm in an absurdist surreal comedy at times. It makes it all a lot better. Try it.

Life just ain't the way it used to be man. I used to go shopping with my mom when I was young in 2008. I had friends who I swam with and wrestled with. Don't ya wish you can go back in time to relive glory days? My friends and I used to have WWE style matches in the pool. Good times. I can cry.

My elementary school duck and cover drills were way better than today's active shooter drills.

Nah. The existential dread was always there, we just tend to forget that part when looking back nostalgically at the good old days. Someday you’ll look back at this time and wish you could go back to whatever age you are now in the 2020s.

Life for me was pretty good growing up, wish I had run better times, with that said the biggest dilemma I faced was whether I would take my musical instrument home...or not.

I ain't really sure but it seems I remember the good times were just a little bit more in focus.

Like ducking back behind the curtain at your local vhs rental.

Your only training information was from your coach, training book, or Runner's World.

You could cut out newspaper results with your name and time in print. Fun having something tangible you could put in your training log or shoe box.

When I was a kid in the 70s, in the summertime, I would go to swim lessons in the morning (very cold in New England). In the afternoon, I would run out the front door and see who was out playing in the neighborhood. When it was dinner time, our parents would just open the front door and yell for us to come in. After dinner, it was out the door again to see who was out playing and hope that the ice cream man would come by. We would ride bikes by ourselves until just before it got dark.

My dad was an engineer and made enough to own a home in the burbs, two cars and raise two kids without my mom having to work. We did pinch pennies because of inflation. But just about everyone's mom was at home when kids were little back then.

A few years ago when my son was about 6, he was playing in our front yard by himself. Someone driving by stopped and asked him if he was ok and whether his parents knew he was playing by himself. Someone would probably call child protective services if I let him walk a quarter mile down the street to the park at that age.

True 'school shootings' happen under once per 4 years - there have been 12 in over half a century.

Thoughts and prayers to the victims, but I never felt scared of a school shooting at all; I also don't feel scared that I'll be shot in a random shooting as they're so uncommon.

This began on January 20, 2021.

Old days is a relative term. I know an older guy who reminisces about the year 1958. To him, 1978 or 2008, the world had already gone to hell in a hand basket.There was probably a Saxon warrior who sat around in the year 923 and thought of 887 as the good old days.

I miss the good old days when you traveled on a horse and ate hardtack, slept on the ground with rattlesnakes and got dysentery from the food you killed and ate along the way. And you were totally self reliant, just good luck or death.

"In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means. Nevertheless, every man desires to reach old age; in other words, a state of life of which it may be said: “It is bad to-day, and it will be worse to-morrow; and so on till the worst of all.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Deno still "wrestles" with his "friends" and he's like 80. It's never too late to have a little fun ;)

Life is what you make it. You want a change, you gotta make it happen. Loving life right now

it was way, way before that mate...

There's a line from Socrates in 400 BC about "modern" children having become too accustomed to luxury.

Yeah, sometimes even a certain smell will take me back to when I was young. I remember smelling it for sure but not exactly sure where it was coming from. If I could, I'd make a candle out of it, but I'm pretty sure I'd never sell out bc I'd probably only sell one. Probably to my brother (lol) because we have the same nose, same clothes, and everything else. I remember me and him playing at the creek that was just a stone's throw from where we used to roam. Back then, nothing really mattered. If we all had to choose between student loans and treehouse homes, I think we'd all take the latter.

Remember when we used to play pretend, and give each other names? When we'd imagine building a rocket ship and flying it far away? We used to dream of outer space, but now people laugh in our face saying, "wake up, you need to make money'.

Yo... I do miss the good ole days when times were chill.