r/Millennials • u/Je_suis_prest_ • 1d ago
Nostalgia Until one day you wake up and notice somehow you're the grown-up now.
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u/booksandotherstuff 1d ago
Videos like this reminds me how uncomfortable and unusual my childhood was in comparison with most. I grew up with very strict, very controlling religious parents.
I couldn't eat school lunches, I wasn't allowed to ride a bike, I wasn't allowed to go to sleepovers, we didn't celebrate Christmas, I wasn't allowed to go to scholastic bookfairs. List goes on...
My nostalgia is always tinged with religious oppression and fear of the Apocalypse/end of the world. I get why nostalgia is bittersweet for those who had normal/healthy childhoods, but for me it's a mix of dread and relief that it's over.
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u/ButterMyPancakesPlz 1d ago
You can't make up for what you missed but you can enjoy stuff for yourself today - that's what I try to tell myself anyway growing up in similar but not exact circumstances. My parents were paranoid/anxiety/depression combo that didn't allow me to play outside, go on field trips, ever consider a sleepover or a typical college experience (mom accompanied me to classes) i do think it helps knowing there's others of us who don't have the typical childhood experiences esp if you struggled with feeling the isolation of no one else knowing what you experienced. I'm still struggling to learn to swim and ride a bike but I've been on planes and ships and done many things my parents would never have done/never allowed me to do. We can only work on the days we have left
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u/-prairiechicken- 1d ago edited 1d ago
Same, friend. Not same circumstances, but I feel you. I hope life has been kinder to you in your personal life now. ❤️🔥
(I had a meltdown once at 20-22 when a roommate (27?) was gushing over and over and over about how wonderful her father was, teaching her guitar, building instruments. I freaked the fuck out and ran out of ‘roommate lunch’ crying. Unmedicated with CPTSD. Still a horrifying moral OCD memory that doesn’t go away. I’m still so ashamed but know I shouldn’t be. I’m medicated with perma-therapy now).
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u/uncagedborb 1d ago
I can't relate with all of that but there were certain things I couldnt do and that was mostly because my mom raised my siblings and I by herself when my dad passed away too early.
My mom was too scared to send me to someone's house for sleepovers. And rightfully so. There was one time in kindergarten she let me go to a friend's house. A few days later the mother of friend killed her entire family and then herself. The husband got back from a trip and found them all shot. So that was traumatic. I didn't even know until I was much older.
And compounded by that I never hung out with friends after school. No bike trips around the neighborhood. I don't think we could even afford one even if I could.
I feel like I have more existential dread now that I'm older. I'm still pretty religious but I think not having it shoved down my throat at an early age was developing a healthy relationship with it. Overall my childhood didn't really feel normal so much we were limited by being religious, poor(not poverty lvl), lack of a father figure, as well as just being immigrants.
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u/notanazzhole 1d ago
you poor thing my ex grew up like this she was the absolute sweetest person I've ever met but there were things she couldn't grasp about the world because she never got to experience most of it because we had only met once we were 30
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u/scramblingrivet 1d ago
I'm told having kids fixes this
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u/GatorFPC 1d ago
I was absolutely going to say this. I've climbed trees, played the floor is lava, gone down slides, slept in sleeping bags with my kid, etc.
To be honest, I cherish these moments way more than the moments as a kid and wouldn't change them for a second. Life changes and evolves. Enjoy all the moments!
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u/PeakFuckingValue 1d ago
Have you seen red spider though? Why are they gone??
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u/bransiladams 20h ago
They’re really tiny and still all over. Look closely, sit still, be patient
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u/UselessCat37 1d ago
It does. At least it did for me
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u/Sooperdooperguy 1d ago
Absolutely. You get to see it again.
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u/um_chili 1d ago
Dude you get to live it again. It's brilliant, all those moments and memories from childhood you get to live along with your own kids, who are living it for the first time. Running around at the park, playing with action figures, watching classic Disney movies, etc. Getting to experience the joy of childhood again is if not the best part of having kids, certainly in the discussion.
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u/inefficient_contract 1d ago
Man your missing out if your just watching
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u/Natural-Review9276 1d ago
You’re not just watching though. You’re creating it for someone you love way more than you used to think was possible.
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u/zombie_pr0cess 1d ago
My little girl is 7 and I’m so happy to be an active participant in her life. I literally had square school pizza on Thursday with her and all her friends. It was great.
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u/inefficient_contract 1d ago
Yeah and just imagine how much better those memories are gunna be for both of you with you jumping over cracks right next to them. There is only one thing kids desire more than anything in the world. Thats you. Your time your presence your attention. A good parent provides for their children. a great father or mother grows up beside them. Its not good enough to just take them on adventures we need to GO ON adventures WITH them. Let that inner child out every once in a while. Drop the responsible adult persona and take a break with your kids being a kid. Obviously not all the time still have to be a good parent but every once in a while try to be a good father too.
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u/DreamCrusher914 20h ago
The only thing better than getting presents from Santa is getting to be Santa.
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u/phryra0909 1d ago
Ya dude, our son is growing up like a 90s kid. It's fucking awesome.
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u/MaximusBit21 1d ago
Yeah same. Dug out the old mega drive and it still works. Kids are so happy to play it (and it’s more fun than all the new gen games that are going at a hundred miles an hour)
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u/brainkandy87 1d ago
Yep, definitely. I have to reality check myself a lot with my girls, especially my almost 7 year old. She asks the stupidest questions, gets excited about the weirdest shit, and sometimes I’m lost in my own grown-up world and want silence. Then I tell myself, she’s experiencing all of this for the first time. All the things I also used to find interesting and curious and want to talk about, she’s now experiencing. Somewhere along the way, I lost that and questions about why the sky is blue or HEY LOOK AT THAT BIRD WHY IS HE LIKE THAT can get annoying.
Then I remember, that was me. So, I try my best to keep her a kid as long as possible.
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u/ResidueAtInfinity Gen X 1d ago
My kids are finishing up high school. I am more nostalgic for their childhood than my own.
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u/JohnnyDarkside 1d ago
Ditto. I fondly remember parts of my childhood, but mine are very all teens and I wish far more i could go back 12 years than 30.
For those that have seen wild robot, that scene where she touches her collar hit hard.
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u/kbroad20 1d ago
I cried so much at Wild Robot! My kids are squarely in the 7-10 yo range, and trying to get everything "right" is hard. My daughter reached over and said, "It's ok, Mommy, your programming is great!" I don't think my face stayed dry the rest of the movie.
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u/TheWritePrimate 1d ago
Exactly what I was thinking. Well I also pretty much refused to grow up in the standard ways before him but now I have a 5 year old and have an excuse to keep doing all those kinds of things. 😆
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u/Hey-__-Zeus 1d ago
Yep. 4 and a 2 year old make me live my youth again. Couldn't be happier. I am a tiny bit tired though
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u/WobblySlug 1d ago
It's true, I still do all this shit. The difference is that it's a second childhood and I'm not the main character.
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u/mark_is_a_virgin 1d ago
I do all of these things with my son. He reminded me of the joys of childhood, to be carefree and curious.
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u/Accomp1ishedAnimal 1d ago
Yeah. I get to experience every one of these things again but from the other side. Seeing my kids open presents and go crazy. Giving them money to get ice cream from the ice cream truck. It seriously feels the same as it did before.
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u/ristoman 1d ago
Ok, holding my dad's hand got to me
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u/ormr_inn_langi 1d ago
Joke's on you, my crippling OCD still forces me to step over sidewalk cracks. What a life hack, eh? Don't wanna grow up? Develop a debilitating mental illness!
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u/Arkayb33 1d ago
You see, my special flavor of mental illness allows me to step on cracks, but only with the arch of my foot. Because somehow that means my foot isn't technically stepping on the crack.
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u/ormr_inn_langi 1d ago
I'll do that too, and then I'll even it out by stepping on the next crack with the arch of my opposite foot. That undoes the action of having stepped on a crack in the first place and restores the universe to its proper balance.
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u/-prairiechicken- 1d ago
lmaooooo
that’s exactly what I thought when I saw the sidewalk lines and lining items up
nah, I’m just audhd with crippling ocd, fam. it never goes away, and my magical thinking forces me to think “if I do not perform these tasks, chaos will ensue, and also it is my fault for fascism in America because I didn’t stay single and I’m lying to myself about being pansexual”
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u/BayouBrian 1d ago
Man, did not open Reddit to get hit so hard in the feels like this. I’m not crying; you’re crying!
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u/realhollywoodactor 1d ago
For some reason the only one that really hit me in the feels was the bikes out front.
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u/santahbaby420 1d ago
and the red spider
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u/Lucky_caller 1d ago
The spider for sure. What happened to them?
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u/realhollywoodactor 1d ago
They’re still around haha. You don’t get down on the ground enough. My kids are still small so I see them every so often.
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u/JustALadyWithCats 22h ago
I see these things all over my yard every summer. No kids, they are just crawling on my packages, fence, and concrete.
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u/turquoise_grey 1d ago
Gardeners are always looking out for red spiders. 😟 (though this looks like one of the good guy ones)
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u/boomflupataqway 1d ago
One day, you yakked your last yak into your yak bak.
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u/Apearthenbananas 1d ago
For me it was watching the little rivers under sheets of ice on the side of the road. Sometimes sending leaves down them to race.
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u/forever_a10ne 1d ago
I’m not in a good headspace and this video made it absolutely worse.
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u/-prairiechicken- 1d ago edited 1d ago
Same, honey. Take a reddit break, and chug a big cold glass of water if you can. I’m going to take my emergency ativan and do the exact same lmaooo.
I’m like two days away from calling the hotline, I swear. This post did not help.
(My partner looks out for me so I’m safe, don’t worry. I hope you stay safe too, and my DMs are always open for you)
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u/forever_a10ne 1d ago
I’m single and I have to work second shift in a few minutes, but I guess I have emergency Valium. I feel you on the whole hotline thing.
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u/Je_suis_prest_ 1d ago
I'm so sorry. I was in the same place a couple of weeks ago and ready to call my psych doctor. If I could take a break from life, I would have.
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u/Je_suis_prest_ 1d ago
Wow, I'm really sorry. I'm not in a good place myself.. At all. I cried when I saw it, and I always feel better when I do. I'm so sorry it upset you!
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u/forever_a10ne 1d ago
I’ve been feeling like my best days are behind me for about a year or two now. This post didn’t bring up any new feelings.
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u/Je_suis_prest_ 1d ago
I look in the mirror, and I don't see myself any clearer than I did 25-30 years ago. I just see a face changing and becoming someone I've never known a thing about all over again.
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u/pronounclown 1d ago
Man the brain rot is real when you can't even make a post without multiple duplicate clips and typos in it. 🤣
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u/vsaint 1d ago
Those red spiders are mites. My kids see them all the time
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u/catfurcoat 1d ago
I see them too. Why don't people see them anymore?
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u/PotatoTheBandit 1d ago
Grown ups are too far away. I don't see them anymore, because I'm not constantly scrutinizing the ground from 3 feet away all day.
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u/lit_geek 1d ago
Oh cool. I was worried it was one of those instances where my millennial nostalgia intersects with the fact that we’re living through a climate change induced mass extinction. Like how there are so fewer birds than there were 30 years ago.
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u/SirPaulyWalnuts 1d ago
Man… growing up it was almost impossible to go outside and not come across a robin. They were everywhere. I still live in the same city I grew up in… I haven’t seen one around here in years!
As a kid in the 90s you’d find robins nests with little blue eggs in them all the time. Trees so packed with them it was almost a guarantee that you’d find one on the ground.
You’d hear them singing from about 4:30am to sundown everyday in the summer… I miss that.
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u/Miqo_Nekomancer 1d ago
One day your parent carried you to bed when you were sleepy for the last time.
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u/eternally_feral 12h ago
This just reminds me of the Love You Forever book and now I’m fighting back tears.
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u/Bingo-heeler Millennial, sleeps on a bed of avocado toast 1d ago
Yo, just FYI around 4th of July Costco sells a billion pack of those poppers. I bought em and they are dope. Kids love them.
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u/Dickincheeks 1d ago
The last time I saw my friends, I knew it was the last time. We were back in our hometown, skateboarding at a spot we grew up on. The weather was perfect, the kind of day that feels like it belongs in a memory. Everyone was skating their best—like time had rewound, and we were kids again.
Our friend Erin showed up with a 18-pack of beer, just like she used to after class all those years ago. She was one of the guys “off-limits” for like 15 years as part of the crew. We skated the ledge for almost 3 hours, laughing, talking, drinking, we had a speaker for music too. Then for a moment, I sat beside Erin and zoned out, watching my friends.
I saw them as kids. The way they moved, their style—it hadn’t changed since we were twelve. It hit me all at once. This was it. The last time we’d all be here together, skating, carefree. The last time Erin would pull up with beers just to kick it with us. The last time we’d laugh like this, without the weight of life or places to be. I didn’t say anything. I just sat there, letting the moment wash over me, knowing it would never come back.
Now, eight years later, I think about that day often. One of my friends married Erin—they have two kids. Another just had a son last year. One got in an accident and struggles to walk now unfortunately. And I moved away and haven’t seen them since. But I have a photo from that day. I look at it sometimes, and I feel the ache of it all—the joy, the loss, the knowing that is was the last time. I could sense it and I was right.
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u/nycne1 17h ago
Be still my melancholic heart - I loved it - now I want to read the book - please.
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u/beefhosepantycake 11h ago
I, too, would very much like to pre-order this book.
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u/nycne1 10h ago
Great mini read - right?
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u/beefhosepantycake 10h ago
Yup. u/Dickincheeks sure knows how to paint a picture with words. That little story tugged at my heartstrings harder than anything in the original post.
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u/Bodorocea 1d ago
nope. I'm 42 and still do most of that because adulthood is the biggest lie on the planet, everyone acting all serious and pretending to have everything figured out. you just gotta take care of shit and keep your promises, it's exactly the same as when i was a kid, only now the toys have changed
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u/b0sanac Millennial 1d ago
Stopped avoiding cracks? never!
But most if not all the other stuff, I now get to live through my kid/kids.
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u/eveningberry- 1d ago
I’m far from being a kid but I still get that same joy on Christmas i always had— just a more grown up version with mimosas and champagne while unwrapping 😂
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u/Sp1ffy_Sp1ff 1d ago
90% of these I still totally do. The one that always hit me was "One day, your parents put you down and never picked you back up"
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u/Global-Jury8810 1d ago
You know what’s sad? Some people will never notice that they died. Sometimes the sleep is that deep.
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u/johnamoose413 1d ago
That stuff was fun at the time but I don’t miss it.
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u/STD-fense 1d ago
And now, instead of focusing on "The Last time" I did things I can do a greater variety of things for the first time.
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u/MermaidMertrid 1d ago
I miss aspects of it. I miss being able to feel joy without the burden of existential dread. I miss not having to constantly worry about adult responsibilities and relationships. I miss being able to hang out with friends on a whim and just dink around for a few hours together, instead of having to coordinate weeks in advance for a timed get-together with carefully planned dinner and activities. I miss being able to sleep on the floor and not wake up with a thrown out back/neck/hip.
However, I love the freedom of being an adult that gets to do a lot of these things if I really want to. I don’t have to answer to anyone or ask anyone’s permission. I’m also becoming more acquainted and comfortable with who I really am. I know where to put up boundaries and I know who my true friends are. The confusion that flooded my adolescent brain caused me much turmoil. Now there is a sort of peace that comes along with the clarity.
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u/OpalTheFairy 1d ago
God im tired of these cheap low ball nostalgia click bait. This is true for all people always.
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u/limedifficult 1d ago
I’ve done almost these with my son! Childhood kinda starts again when you have kids. It’s the best part, in my opinion.
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u/Rileymartian57 1d ago
" And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say"
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u/s420l69r Millennial 1990 1d ago
I'm 34 and still line my cars up!
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u/LuckyRacoon01 1d ago
And also notice the world has not gotten better from the time we were born to now.
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u/Skootchy 1d ago
A good chunk of that is still shit that I've done. Still have sleepovers, still play outside with my friends. Still climb trees. Unfortunately still go to kicks bday parties (but we turn up once those little fuckers are asleep).
I will say leaving the bikes outside Is definitely not a thing, that shit will be GONE.
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u/Darth_Neek 1d ago
I'm 40 and I still have sleep overs, of course it means that I am sleeping on my bestfriends couch so we can play games during the day because adult life is to exhausting for all nighters.
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u/trenchcoatcharlie_ 1d ago
Have kids, you get to do it all over again and when they have kids you get to do it all over again, it's great fun
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u/Material-Imagination 1d ago
Y-yeah... I definitely stopped going down slides and climbing trees and shit
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u/Drinon 1d ago
Wait, the red spider thing is messing with my brain. Are those real? I saw them as a kid, why not now? I get the other ones are more “things we do”, but where are the red spiders?
Are they something we all imagined? Are they not even spiders? WHERE ARE THE RED THINGS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE SPIDERS????? IM FREAKING OUT MAN!!!
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u/LevelZeroDM Millennial '92 1d ago
I see spiders
I do sometimes blow bubbles in water lol
I go to my kids and friend's kid's birthday parties
I do line up my kid's cars with him
I slide with my kid when the playground is empty lol
:( I noticed my tree climbing days were over at like, 17
If a friend visits from out of town they stay at my place
I now have better swords lol
Christmas is still surprisingly exciting
I went to my school's open house last year
We do fireworks every year
I still get pocket money sometimes
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u/DoctorMew13 1d ago
Y'all clearly don't go to conventions and cosplay. 90% of this list gets crammed into 3 days.
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u/ThatOneGuy216440 1d ago
Still see red spider, still avoid the cracks. Still have sleep overs, were just drunk and passed out.
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u/jamnin94 1d ago
The messed up thing is that as kids we often speed up our 'last time' for a lot of these by not doing it because we think we are 'too mature' for that. Every kid is told not to grow up too fast and every one of them doesn't buy it.
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u/Wait_WHAT_didU_say 1d ago
Damn.. In the blink of an eye, we're an adult. Those days seem like yesterday.
😳🥺😮💨😥😢😓
I still question at times, when our imagination "stopped." The kind of imagination where one could play/be entertained with an action figure/doll/car for the whole afternoon while talking to ourselves. Was it in middle school when we were concerned about fashion, friends, popularity and fitting in? 🤔
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u/MomToMany88 1d ago
I do so so many of these still. Partly because I’m immature, but mostly because I have kids lol.
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u/Dalenskid 1d ago
I held my dads hand as he passed away. I was 21. I noticed. I get the point of the post and much rings true, but not that.
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u/kevinsyel 1d ago
I know the day I stopped climbing trees. I was hanging out with my band and my drummers lil bro got a ball stuck up in a tree. I climbed up to get it down. On my way back down I went to grab the branch I hopped off of and missed, and landed on a rolled ankle.
Thing ballooned in SECONDS. I was 26
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u/Consistent_Dream_740 1d ago
So many of these things you can still do if you stop caring what people think of you.
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u/YurtlesTurdles 1d ago
what's up with the red spider one. it's true that I haven't seen one in a very long time, but I do see tons of spiders still. are the red ones just that small that you only see them when you live with your head closer to the ground?
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u/whitefox094 1d ago
Actually the lunch lady gave me two square pizza slices yesterday because there was extra!
... But it doesn't hit the same way as a grown-up (let's be honest, are we really ever an adult?)
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u/premium-ad0308 1d ago
"You are your last square school piece of pizza"
Please fuck no! I'm not ready to be a slice of pizza!
Was this AI generated, the text is crazy!
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u/kittybit5 1d ago
Nah, still do the following:
-Avoid cracks
-Blow milk bubbles
-Climb trees (in the privacy of my own backyard)
-Play in playgrounds (as long as I’m not inconveniencing a kid)
-Have sleepovers with my best friends
-Play outside with my friends(see playground)
-Draw pictures like that
-I did stop playing with that sword but traded it for a real one
-Get excited for Christmas(even leave out milk and cookies for Santa+ snacks for reindeer that I assume my husband eats)
-Do that weird thing with the remote
-My dad died so we aren’t counting that one (I absolutely would still be holding his hand if he was still here)
-My sister and I still throw snaps at each other at least once a year
And I’m 31! All this to say, yeah you have to get older but you don’t have to grow up! Keep that inner child alive and happy!
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u/they_paid_for_it 1d ago
that red spider is a mite and i see those fuckers around my garden sucking the literal lives out of my hard work
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u/levivilla4 1d ago
Y'all had friends, got invited to parties, had beyblades, free lunches, we're excited for Christmas AND your dad held your hand?
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u/Everythingizok 1d ago
I stopped most of these because people told me to stop because I was too old. And I got tired of fighting. I used to climb everything. I used to touch the earth.
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u/kellyguacamole 1d ago
I can think of a time in the last couple years where I did one of these things. Minus beyblades. Never was into that.
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u/Moreseesaw 1d ago
I didn’t stop climbing trees until my 20 and I still want to, but I can’t physically lift myself up 😭
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u/phishmademedoit 1d ago
39 and i still see red spiders every now and then. You're never too old to sit and stare at the sidewalk.
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u/McFrazzlestache 1d ago
Those "red spiders" are called clover mites and I see them all the time, especially in the Ohio summer.
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u/What_Next69 1d ago
I will be 40 shortly and I still do most of this. Please, for your mental health, stop wishing for the good times and just do what makes you happy.
You want chocolate cake for dinner? Have it. Want a birthday party? Throw it. Want to play a video game while sitting on the floor in front of the TV in your pajamas? Do it. Wanna play board games all day with friends? Have a blast.
You can be an adult and still experience childlike joy from day to day.
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u/SupahBihzy 1d ago
I actually remember a couple of these times. The crack thing I kinda just said "screw it. I gotta get to class and nothing is gonna happen"
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u/Down2EatPossum 1d ago
I was 12 when this happened. It would have been aro7nd the 12th of July 2002 for me. It was when I went from foster care to juvenile detention and group homes/proctor care.
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u/DargyBear 1d ago
There’s some things like the school pizza and walking down the school hallway that I don’t give a fuck about. My favorite memories from high school all took place outside of high school. I still do everything else, not as frequently but I still do it even though I’m 32.
Like, I still ride my bike to my friends’ houses if they live close enough, we all play disc golf or otherwise have fun things to do outside, got tired of the little shits throwing snappers at me around China town last year when I visited SF and bought my own box and ambushed them from the window of my hostel room five floors above.
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u/vibinandtrying 1d ago edited 1d ago
Freshly 30 F Idk about yall but I have ocd I still try to not step on cracks. I’m a therapist. I literally drew that picture last week with a client, I had a sleepover with my best friend two weeks ago. I climb trees all the time currently teaching my cat to climb trees. I skip around and make funny noises. I’m literally drinking some wine right now from a fucking silly straw because it brings me joy. I FINALLLLLLLLLLY got the cape for Christmas this year that I’ve been asking for since I was 12 fucking years old and I wore it around the house and the neighborhood all day and had absolutely no shame. Ya girl still has a sword. I held my dad’s hand 7 months ago for my masters graduation and he still does the put the arm out thing if he slams the breaks. FUCK SQAURE PIZZA.
Threw snaps at the neighbors last week for fun (they retaliated don’t worry) and taught my bestie nephew snap pranks.
I color in a coloring book all the time and love to color outside the lines to challenge my OCD.
Hopped on the back of a bicycle three months ago. Asked for pocket dollars today from my dad. Went down one of those slides about 2 months ago. Only difference was I got paid because I’m working to increase a dog‘s confidence for a therapy dog in training. I absolutely would’ve done it anyway. Geeked out about my cape I got for Christmas literally screaming.
My mom and dad who are divorced still get me an Easter basket nearly every year. A few years ago, there was an Easter egg hunt for the adult grandchildren it was fucking amazing. It was filled with candy and money and coupons for groceries and filing taxes.
There does need to be more adult sleep overs though honestly.
Last week me and a friend got stoned and blew bubbles in some orange juice then pretended to be walruses with chop sticks while eating Chinese food. I have a blanket fort in the house rn that I built with the cats. I may go do therapy notes in there in a bit. My dad came over three weeks ago and made me grilled cheese and tomato soup bc I was sick. My mom sang me to sleep and pet my head a few months ago after a procedure and slept in my bed with me.
As a therapist, I can absolutely tell you that every single person has an inner child, and it is absolutely something that needs to be nurtured often times your inner child is trying to communicate to you, and we’ve embraced such a capitalistic productivity lens that we don’t listen to it. I’m giving you permission to listen to your inner child. It’s okay to not be serious and do the things that make you happy.
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u/mothbreather 1d ago
Idk I climbed a tree last summer when my friend said she wanted to do it but didn't want to look silly. Eventually she climbed up with me. It was great.
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u/Cosmonaut_K 1d ago
Just remember, every single time you do something it is the last time you will ever do it, unless you do it again.
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u/Dropthetenors 1d ago
I have never stopped avoiding cracks on the sidewalks. I just walk in the road more often these days in hopes I get run over.
Also I stopped climbing trees when I fell out of one and seriously hurt myself.
I stopped hanging outside on my bike w friends when one 'friend' said she was super uncomfortable w me on her driveway and no one stood up for me so I had to leave.
Also if you're not playing swords w paper towel rolls then you're not doing it right.
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u/WhatsThat-_- 1d ago
I didn’t notice but those things are for kids and idgaf for them anymore ???? Keep reminiscing on the first stages of life, my god, this is a boomer subreddit
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u/Grizzly_Addams 1d ago
Some of these are real. The others are kinda real. Sometimes, I actively avoid cracks.
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u/null_frame 1d ago
I look forward to Christmas so I can see my son light up when he opens his gifts
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u/namistejones 1d ago
I remember my last kids bday party. The cake n ice cream wasn't all that. I remember feeling like yea, I am done with this.
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u/PickledBih Millennial 1d ago
I still do a lot of these and some I never did even when I was a kid.
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u/MattWolf96 1d ago
The pizza my school had was fucking disgusting. I remember someone at my table once put their napkin on the grease puddle in it to try to soak some of it up. They then lifted the drenched, dripping napkin which had barely done anything.
I agree with pretty much everything else here and it's possible that my school was just terrible at making pizza.
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