The Good Ol' Days
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Do you remember when everyone didn't ***** about how much better everything is in hindsight?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I miss the pastures and horses that used to be near my house, rather than the hideous McMansions planted there now. In fact, I miss the days of no Supersizing, whether that was fast food, SUVs, or big, ugly houses.
But mostly, I like things the way they are now. I was much more bitter and cynical at 15 and 17 than I was at 35 and 37. Give it a few decades, youngsters. You can choose a different life for yourself if you want to, eventually.
But mostly, I like things the way they are now. I was much more bitter and cynical at 15 and 17 than I was at 35 and 37. Give it a few decades, youngsters. You can choose a different life for yourself if you want to, eventually.
*****I miss the good ol' days where I could say I wish people genuinely cared and not get glomped by my friends/family/escapistforum with pessimistic idealisms which swamp and degenerate our very society in which we live.
*****I miss the good ol' days where I didn't have to refute a claim which was based on a positive outlook on life, and get called "naive".
The second one is speaking more of the reactions I get from my friends at school....
**********I miss the good ol' days where a kid could take an AP Chemistry exam and actually pass it wonderfully.
I'm not kidding. The AP Chemistry exam can have you miss HALF of the multiple choice questions, and get average on the open-response based questions, and still get a perfect score. It sucks when tests are that hard.
*****I miss the the good ol' days when cartoons didn't have to have insepid bowel-movement based jokes or rely on idiotic humor that makes me want to kill myself.
Speaking relatively pessimistic here, the cartoons in today's youth are piles of vomit-induced humor. Where are the Gummi Bears? Where's Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers? Where's Ducktales? Blugh.. Now I feel really old. >_<
*****I miss the good ol' days where I didn't have to refute a claim which was based on a positive outlook on life, and get called "naive".
The second one is speaking more of the reactions I get from my friends at school....
**********I miss the good ol' days where a kid could take an AP Chemistry exam and actually pass it wonderfully.
I'm not kidding. The AP Chemistry exam can have you miss HALF of the multiple choice questions, and get average on the open-response based questions, and still get a perfect score. It sucks when tests are that hard.
*****I miss the the good ol' days when cartoons didn't have to have insepid bowel-movement based jokes or rely on idiotic humor that makes me want to kill myself.
Speaking relatively pessimistic here, the cartoons in today's youth are piles of vomit-induced humor. Where are the Gummi Bears? Where's Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers? Where's Ducktales? Blugh.. Now I feel really old. >_<
Well, you needn't partake if you don't care to, but I spent enough nights literally standing on a bridge contemplating going over the side to have earned my optimism just based on my continued existence in this world.Saskwach said:
If you'd like the gray lining to my silver cloud, I will also say that spending that much time in close proximity to death by falling gave me acrophobia. I have to take a glass elevator to work on the sixth floor every day and I have to stand in the corner where I can't see out the windows.
EDIT: Sorry to be all angsty and emo (or not) there - I've been thinking about that a lot recently because my life has gotten better quite recently, not because it's gotten worse. I am actually very optimistic today, and also conversely very grumpy, which is an odd combo.
I miss the days when i could consider these things to be untrue:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.58982#446507
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.59038?page=1
I also miss the days when I didn't have GCSE's in 3weeks
I miss the days when I didn't want to garrote a few people
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.58982#446507
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.59038?page=1
I also miss the days when I didn't have GCSE's in 3weeks
I miss the days when I didn't want to garrote a few people
I miss the days where school consisted entirely of me being present. Where my grade was only dependent upon whether or not I cared on certain days.
I miss the days when surrealist humor was moderately understandable. (I'm looking at you, every new show on [AS], I have no idea what's going on, and if that's the joke, then I quit)
I miss the days when cheating in school was expected, and not something to scare the living shit out of me, forcing me to prove in ten different ways that I've submitted original work.
I miss the days when my lunch came in a brown bag made specially for me before I left for school.
I miss the days when I thought beer was gross tasting.
I miss the simplicity of regular Calculus. Anything after infinite series makes me want to leap out of my chair and spear the professor like Achilles in the movie Troy .
I miss the days when I was bad at guitar, and didn't feel the need to constantly prove my prowess to random strangers.
/* note: on one of my calculus III exams I got a 70, then proceded to get kicked out of class that day the professor gave back exams because my celebration was a little bit disruptive, seeing how the class average was a 50, on your standard 90-100 = A scale. */
I miss the days when surrealist humor was moderately understandable. (I'm looking at you, every new show on [AS], I have no idea what's going on, and if that's the joke, then I quit)
I miss the days when cheating in school was expected, and not something to scare the living shit out of me, forcing me to prove in ten different ways that I've submitted original work.
I miss the days when my lunch came in a brown bag made specially for me before I left for school.
I miss the days when I thought beer was gross tasting.
I miss the simplicity of regular Calculus. Anything after infinite series makes me want to leap out of my chair and spear the professor like Achilles in the movie Troy .
I miss the days when I was bad at guitar, and didn't feel the need to constantly prove my prowess to random strangers.
I just have to laugh when teachers make exams in college specifically to have the class average in between 65-75 as most teachers do. If you think AP Chem is evil, just you wait, oh, just you wait...CodeChrono said:
/* note: on one of my calculus III exams I got a 70, then proceded to get kicked out of class that day the professor gave back exams because my celebration was a little bit disruptive, seeing how the class average was a 50, on your standard 90-100 = A scale. */
I can't imagine ever wanting to end my life. All my life I've been happy, and life generally gets better as you get older. I miss the things I did (and all that free time!) when I was young, but as you get older you have more freedom, more money, and better judgment. Perhaps it's growing up as an only child way out in the sticks, but I was never lonely or bitter. I'm not bitter now, still happy, but there are definitely things I miss and things I think changed for the worse. There are lots of things that are better, too - but that's another thread.mshcherbatskaya said:
It's good to know that there are people who basically default to happiness. Among other things, a clear-eyed, sensible person who is generally happy is fairly reliable proof that the world itself is not, in fact, made of shit. I worry that The World has gotten worse (mountaintop removal mining, vast pools of pigshit, oceanic islands of garbage the size of Texas) but My World has gotten much, much better. I still always notice good jump-off points, though. Reflex.werepossum said:
