Getting older

[lurch@sh.itjust.works]

idk adults said that to kids when i was younger. if you mean "young people" as in "young adults like under 30", then maybe. "it's just a phase" was also common. (the "phases" turned out to go like 20 years with most ppl i knew)

[samus12345@lemm.ee]

"Pfft, conformists!"

[flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz]

I remember most older people appearing "normal" when I was younger. But now that I'm almost 40 most of my peers seem unapologeticaly unhinged. Not fitting into what our parents thought as non-weird at all.

Actually, maybe kids these days see me as "perfectly normal old guy", and it's just a generational divide.

[anomnom@sh.itjust.works]

Norms have changed tons over my nearly half century years here.

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Everyone kept telling me that I would become more conservative with age, and that once I got a job in the "real world," and started paying taxes, then my priorities would change (presumably to lowering taxes?).

Literally the opposite has happened.

[lurch@sh.itjust.works]

yeah, resonable taxes aren't so bad. i often think there should be gigantic taxes on things like fossil fuels and plastic packaging. whatever happened to cream in milk cartons? it's all plastic now

[apytele@sh.itjust.works]

I evened out by getting into esoteric religion. Now I can tell you which angel to pray to when you need some imagery to focus on while you meditate about why you shouldn't think with your dick you horny dumbass. The virtue of chastity is here for you from the middle order of angels to help remind you to not fuck your ex. But I also know which lubes go with which types of toys so its not like I'm sex negative either.

[smokeydope@lemmy.world]

I see your five paragraph post on pagan occultism on /x/ and raise the ante by sharing five paragraphs of my personal tales using heroic doses of magic mushrooms to experience ego death, astral project, and telepathically communicate with cosmic consciousness.

[apytele@sh.itjust.works]

Even if it is all fake its not like you can prove a negative anyway and I may as well do it surrounded by cool rocks.

[cookiemonsterdebate@lemmy.world]

I have no idea who that guy is but he looks really happy and I only wish I had the same sparkle in my eyes. I wish him all the best loving being who he is. Thank god there are happy weird people sharing joy in the world!

[remembertheapollo_@lemmy.world]

Nope. At least not for some. It's like those quirks and oddities that you found fun or entertaining in your peers when you were school- or maybe college-age get set on a slippery slope, sometimes on a skateboard with a tailwind. Extremes of politics, weird beliefs in things like anti-vax or flat earth, pseudo- or bro-science, fundy religion, prejudices, addiction... age amplifies the fuckery in some peoples' heads and makes them completely resistant to anything contradicting that.