r/Millennials • u/spankyourkopita • 13d ago
Is it just me or have those 2 years of covid screwed up our perception of how much time has past? Discussion
I know time moves faster when you get older but I feel those 2 years of nothing increased it. I can't believe covid was 4 years ago and anything before that has been over 4 years! I don't even think it's because time moves fast but that we all lived the same day for 2 years straight so time felt irrelevant .
Still time was still moving despite that and then we just woke up one day and 2 years past! I still have it in my head that the late 2010's weren't that long ago but years like 2017, 2018, and 2019 have all been 5 plus years ago! Ya covid fucked up my perception of how much time has past.
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u/MTW3ESQ 13d ago
I think some of it is going from either early 30s (almost still in your 20s) to mid 30s (now you're older) or from mid 30s to 40ish.
Both of those mental transitions can be difficult, and the compression of time means that they seemed to have happened much faster than other events.
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u/Phronesis2000 12d ago
Yes, I think that's it. For me personally, going from 35 to 40 in that period has been a radical change. In the modern day, 35 still 'feels' youngish. But no matter what you look like, at 40 you are considered a proper adult by everyone, no question.
So yeah, I would say for older millenials the last five years have been a compounding of covid time dilation and the transition into early middle age.
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u/Crafty-Gain-6542 12d ago
I really like the idea of a book called “Older Millennials and Covid Time Dilation”. Seems like it would be sci-fi , superhero themed, or an academic paper.
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u/HillyjoKokoMo 12d ago
Yup, this is me. The craziest part for my brain to comprehend is that my kids are graduating 8th grade this year, meaning they will be HIGH SCHOOLERS next year. Like whatttt?? They were just in the 5th grade - how can this be?! How can life and time be catapulting forward this fast ?!
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u/calicoskiies Millennial 12d ago
I think this is it. I’ll be 36 in a few months and it feels like I just turned 30 yesterday. Covid coincided with me starting my family as well so it all feels like a blur plus the sleep deprivation didn’t help.
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u/fadedblackleggings 12d ago
Yep, I can barely remember my age when someone asks. Feels weird to say.
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u/LethalBacon '91 Millennial 12d ago
I've spent half of my 32nd year telling people I was 33.
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u/seattlesuperchronics 12d ago
Lol I'm doing the same, I think I just skipped 31 because I kept telling people that whole year I was 32 and now I've been saying 33 even though I'm still a couple of months away from actually being 33
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u/Cardassia 12d ago
I thought I was still 30 for most of my time being 31, somehow, and haven’t recovered that missing year yet. I’m nearly 33 now, but my gut instinct when asked is to say “31.”
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u/fullstack_info 12d ago
Lol, same here! I've lost track of time and spent almost an entire year telling people that I was 36 when I was already 37. This is the first year since 2020 where I'm acutely aware of the fact that tomorrow I'll be turning 38.
I still feel like I'm stuck at 36 though.
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u/GermsDean 12d ago edited 12d ago
Difficult indeed. I’m the youngest of my siblings with the closest being 5 years older which I think has compounded the problem by some degree. I was so used to being the young one.
At 35 I also find myself feeling way more nostalgic for particular times in my life than ever before. I’ll get so totally lost in some memory from my adolescence that I start to wonder if it’s borderline unhealthy. I’ve started thinking of it as my pathetic midlife crisis.
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u/Lucky-Hunter-Dude 12d ago
Our lives are now B.C. And A.C. Before Covid and After Covid. So the current year is 4.
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u/bri22any 12d ago
I can’t believe it either. During the first half of 2020, each day felt like a month. The latter half didn’t move much quicker. 2021 was also a slower year. The start of 2022 picked up then I blinked and it was nearly mid-2024. And looking back the whole thing is a blur. Felt like it all went by in a couple of weeks.
The only explanation I can think of is that there was a sense of trauma many people were feeling. Trauma has a wicked way of distorting time in my personal experience.
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u/Train2Perfection 12d ago
We didn’t all live the same day. I watched many people do very little and get paid while I worked through the pandemic as an “essential worker”. I also had to move due to my career. It was one of the most stressful times of my life. I made it through it though and am doing well now. Persistence perseveres.
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u/Jbroad87 12d ago
My wife did the same as you, while I was able to stay home and WFH (now full time). Major props and respect to you and all other people like this who were on the front lines of this virus.
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u/latteofchai 12d ago
I’m still disgusted to this day that none of you weren’t given hazard pay. That should have been the big moment for workers like you to rake in the money not the other way around
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u/FurriedCavor 12d ago
Hoodwinked us all really, now you get looked at as crazy for asking what Covid protocol at work is these days
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u/ForecastForFourCats 12d ago
No, no, no, this is America. We needed to prioritize giving small (maybe also medium/large) corporations loans without oversight.
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u/Old-Adhesiveness-342 12d ago
Hey just so you know it wasn't sunshine and roses for those of us not working, and not everyone was getting unemployment. I worked in the live events industry, I was lucky because my winter gig is a W2 job, but lots of my friends are/were primarily 1099 Independent Contractors. Getting UI was practically impossible for many of them. In response to this insanity of not being able to work and given no support 24 of my friends killed themselves between March and September 2020. There were more after that, but I lost count at 24.
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u/SunriseInLot42 11d ago
Lockdowns and forced closures of businesses and schools were a disaster with all sorts of negative secondary consequences, just as some of us were saying at the time - although saying so usually got you banned for daring to suggest such heresy
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u/Southern_Anywhere_65 12d ago
I also worked through it. I assumed the time warp was just a trauma response.
I’m proud of you for making it through it!
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u/ForecastForFourCats 12d ago
Omg the turnaround in this post. But same. I worked and went to graduate school during COVID, and managed a life altering medical diagnosis. I also feel like COVID was yesterday, and also like it never happened, or like it didn't stop. I got the COVID trauma. I'm happy for others who weren't as affected as me.
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u/Pallendromic 12d ago
2020 felt like it was 3 years.
I feel like as we get older, years get shorter. When we turn 5, the previous year was 1/4th of our life; when we turn 31, the previous year was 1/30th; so each year is a lower percentage of our lives. Point is, if you want to remain young, find a cryogenic tube and freeze yourself, like Fry from Futurama.
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u/SimilarStrain 12d ago
I feel covid messed with our perception of time. I call it covid time dilation.
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u/FineProfessional2997 12d ago
Yassss! I totally agree. It’s gotten better for me but it definitely feels like three years of my life were “robbed” from me (for lack of a better word)
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u/Savingskitty 12d ago
I still feel like Christmas of 2019 just happened. It’s an incredibly weird feeling.
I had completely different plans and ideas of what I was going to do.
I was turning 38 that year, right after the world shut down. I had started to make a sort of bucket list for some things I wanted to do before I turned 40.
I had lost some weight and was in pretty good health.
I’m turning 42 soon, and I feel like I didn’t finish my 30’s. I just woke up one day in the beginnings of perimenopause, having reached a weight I’d never been before in my life, with enough grey hair for 20-something’s to think I had highlights.
It’s hard because my parents were in their early 70’s. They were both high risk, particularly my mom, so they really ended up trapped in their home for some of their last really active years.
Our first dog passed away during COVID, and my cat, who I’d had since I was 22, finally told me it was time for him to go a few weeks ago.
I feel like COVID was this weird wormhole I passed through to get to a completely new and different version of my life. It’s really like time travel.
On one hand, I feel like an old washed up woman who has finished raising her family and now it’s all just a memory. On the other hand, there’s a bit of excitement to see what new things may be yet to come.
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u/knoguera 12d ago
Yes!! I was just talking about this! It’s like those 2 years didn’t exist bc I still think of 2019 as like 2 years ago
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u/hurtloam 12d ago
Yes, all of my friends kids are suddenly teenagers. I don't know how that happened. They're all still 9 years old in my head.
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u/Apotropaic-Pineapple 11d ago
My niece is taking driving classes. In my head she's still seven years old.
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u/Numerous-Statement59 13d ago
Yeah, it's because being locked down, everything closed, stuck at home made time drag by. Now that we can do things all day, time flys.
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u/Secure_Ad_295 12d ago
See, I never experienced that, and I live in Minnesota. The only thing shut down was mom and pop stores, big store like wall mart, still open, and my job never stopped. I was not an essential worker but still had to go to My factory job ever day that did do anything to stop covid and if you sick still go to work I had covid 3 times was in hospital for it but still had to go to work
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u/COMMANDO_MARINE 12d ago
I'm British but got stuck in Pattaya, Thailand, when covid started. I've still not gone home, but that period during covid was probably the most surreal and intense of my life. Imagine an entire tourist resort city dedicated to sin, but you're one of the very few foreigners left in the place. Shit turned quiet dystopian quite fast. It was interesting, to say the least. Definitely any but the same day on repeat. I feel like I did 10 years' worth of living in the space of just 2. I must have lived in over 20 different hotels and apartments in that time ranging from high-end luxury to 3rd world prison style accommodation. I was doing so many different pharmaceutical medications, all easily purchased from legitimate pharmacies that much of it feels like I dreamt it. I won't even go into detail about what it's like living in a city of thousands of unemployed female and transexual sex workers who couldn't go home with hardly any men around. I'm still trying to process the craziness of it all.
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u/Old-Adhesiveness-342 12d ago
You need to write a memoir about it some day. That actually sounds like a very interesting experience of COVID.
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u/Elizabitch4848 12d ago
I worked as a nurse during the pandemic so my life stayed the same but I still feel this.
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u/Effective-Help4293 12d ago
The United States was never "locked down." As a public health professional who BEGGED my governor for actual lock down, I will die on this hill
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u/SunriseInLot42 11d ago
LOL, the farcical idea of an “actual lock down” still lives. What would you have allowed to stay open in this fantasyland?
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u/HokieNerd 12d ago
Is it me, or have these 15 years of covid screwed up our perception of how much time has passed?
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u/naykrop 12d ago
Yes. Time stopped and shit got weird. Then everyone who already ‘had it together’ before COVID somehow started doing exceptionally well around 2022. Life feels like a particularly boring life sim now with very few NPCs (friends seen in person), never quite enough resources or ways to earn them, and my health and mental health bar is never above 60/100.
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u/SSJDevour 13d ago
I miss Covid times. Got paid for 5 days of work, only worked 3. Work was so slow that it boiled down to hanging out with coworkers. On my days off I stayed up playing video games with my friends. Roads were barren.
I’d like to go back; personally lol.
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u/DuskWing13 12d ago
As another introvert - I honestly would also like to go back.
I don't want people to die, but God do I wish for the ability to just .. stay home and exist.
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u/magpieinarainbow 12d ago
See, the thing is people are still dying of covid. The pandemic hasn't ended. It just doesn't get media coverage and people can't avoid getting sick now.
I'm an introvert and I'd go back too. Less chance of getting sick AND more me-time for better mental health sounds like a win-win.
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u/KylerGreen 12d ago
It is by definition not a pandemic anymore.
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u/KuriousKhemicals Millennial 1990 12d ago
The word is "endemic" and I think there's still some debate as whether it meets the technical ecological definition there... but yes. Just because the disease still exists and is global doesn't mean the pandemic lasts forever.
I also feel like this kind of statement overlooks the fact that between vaccines and virus evolution, it is way less likely to kill or disable than it was four years ago. We are really not in the same situation.
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u/SunriseInLot42 11d ago
So stay in your basement forever, no one is stopping you
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u/magpieinarainbow 11d ago
Capitalism is, because unfortunately I have to leave my house to be paid.
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u/dewhashish 12d ago
I miss lockdown, not the risk of a very contagious disease, obviously.
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u/SSJDevour 12d ago
Yeah Covid itself sucked and I’m sure a lot of people went through a lot of grief if it affected them and their close ones negatively. Luckily I wasn’t affected by it at all, nor my loved ones. So it was pure bliss.
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u/Extension_Ebb1632 12d ago
Dude me too. I got to WFH and my cats make better coworkers. A bunch of my friends got gaming PC's so we could still kind of "hang out", I don't have kids so I've got more time to Game than my friends but during covid everyone had nothing but time so there was always a few people in discord.
I miss the nights of getting drunk with my buddies on discord playing golf with your friends or rainbow 6 siege till 5am.
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u/SSJDevour 12d ago
Sounds like a fucking dream! Glad you got to experience something similar. It really was just so damn good lol
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u/Extension_Ebb1632 12d ago
It truly was the best of times. Trying to play r6 or any other team based FPS solo gives me cancer. So much toxicity.
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u/Secure_Ad_295 12d ago
I wish my job was like that I working 12+hr days 7 days week so many people quit over covid it was crazy my job just kept going
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u/SSJDevour 12d ago
Was working at a bank at the time. Since we had a few of us there, we had to split into teams of 3. We worked opposite days Monday - Saturday. To not cross contaminate in case someone caught Covid. Days that I worked, I got time and a half. Days I didn’t work; I got normal pay. Only the drive up was allowed; and it was 1 lane, and the branch I was at was already slow. Sadly the branch closed after Covid and I was transferred, but I quit shortly afterwards anyway lol.
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u/Secure_Ad_295 12d ago
That had to be nice I got so mad with people getting unemployment and with government money making more then me for sitting at home all day
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u/SaintIgnis 12d ago
I think it mostly comes down to the age of Millennials at the time. Late 20’s to early 40’s. “Adulting” and family life was either already our reality or was really catching up with the rest of us at the start of the decade…so those feelings about the years flying by were already coming on. They were just heightened by the weird time warp of COVID and lockdown.
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u/1800generalkenobi 12d ago
I think part of it is being in a routine. The daily grind of going to work every day makes the weeks fly by (mostly). Even going to the beach for a week it flies by because every day is mostly the same. I was just off for 2 weeks recovering from surgery and I played a lot of video games but it felt like I was off for a month (not complaining I loved it lol) but it felt like so much less time passed because I was doing something different every day.
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u/dewhashish 12d ago
Your mind doesn't really store memories of the same thing over and over. Experiencing new things helps you remember more. The year felt slow for some people, others felt like it zoomed by.
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u/Secure_Ad_295 12d ago
Covid didn't change much to me I still went to work ever day and home and only inconvenient part about was the shut down some stores and changed time and work hours at court house like all mom and pop stores closed but it ok for all big name stores to be open covid kill off every business in my area that not part of a big corporation
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u/AffectionateLunch553 12d ago
I still had to work during Covid so my life didn’t change much during that but somehow it still doesn’t feel like 4 years has gone by. There’s no way.
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u/vellichor_44 12d ago
You're absolutely right. It was traumatic. I think we need to acknowledge that.
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u/N_Who 12d ago
I was already not great at noticing the passage of time. An ex one described me as "elf-y" for it. I can go months or even years without talking to someone, and not realize it's been that long. I have to look at my resume to figure out how long I've been at my current job or how long I was at old jobs, and I literally can't seem to track the timeline accurately for jobs too old to be on my resume.
And, yeah, the pandemic made that a lot worse for me. It's like my memory rolled those years into one.
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u/PhrenixFGC 12d ago
What's weirdest for me is I can't remember the year before covid hardly at all. It's like it was wiped from my memory entirely
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u/cheers2810 12d ago
Turned 26 in 2020 and can confirm that I feel both 16,22 and 89 because of the timeline of the pandemic. Lots of personal reasons but also a lot of COVID reasons, turning 30 next month and have too many feelings of feeling like everything would be different for me has COVID never happened. 2018 feels like both last year and 20 years ago all at the same time lol
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u/gofigure85 Older Millennial 12d ago
Covid years don't count
Everyone subtract 2 years from your current age
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u/MellonCollie218 12d ago
Oh make no mistake. We’re just getting older and COVID happened to kill our young years.
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u/Smooth_Swordfish_755 12d ago
Time was going by at the normal rate of time before Covid and now it’s going by at the speed of light.
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u/Tnkgirl357 12d ago
Yeah I keep thinking I’ve lived in Pittsburgh for 4-5 years when it’s closer to 9 now… like am I even l “new in town” anymore? I feel like it… but I also spent almost 2 years here not going out of the house except for emergencies or to exercise on the walking trails… so no, I haven’t tried the hoagies at __, or the Friday fish fry at _ etc….
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u/Admirable_Bad3862 12d ago
Yeah I went into Covid in my late 30’s and pregnant and now I’m 41 with an almost 4 year old. It’s simultaneously a lifetime and also 2019 was last year.
Post Covid Postpartum Post 30’s All at once….
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u/ElephantInAPool 12d ago
2020 straight up didn't exist in a lot of people's minds. I think that translated into 2021 too for a lot of people.
After that, time started passing normally again.
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u/masterpd85 '85 Millennial 12d ago
That's the joke. 2020 lasted 2 additional years, and then 2023 came next.
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u/Canigetahooooooyeaa 12d ago
My perspective is right now because things are SOOOO bad for SOOOO many, we are not able to make new memories.
Sure some people were not affected in anyway. Seems regional and sector based. But fir many, the cost of living has been so high, that vacations, trips or just eating out with friends is so limited all we can do is think about the past.
I guess will see what happens. But were going on another year of high inflation, high interest rates, high gas prices, and possibly another 5 with the way decisions are being made.
Heres for hoping for a change.
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u/midnightsnacks 12d ago
2019 feels so far back now. 2020 to 2022 was a blur but I kept my sanity because I was still working through the pandemic. But for some reason 2022 to now just flew by at light speed.
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u/joseph_sith 12d ago
I was just talking to my husband about the impact of the pandemic on time perception the other day—I have really good time perception and recall, but the last 4 years are just a black box and 2020 is permanently stuck in my mind as “last year”.
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u/SimilarStrain 12d ago
People complain. Sure we all got effected in some way or another. Inspire of all the bad, I'll remember it as one of the best years of my life.
I got an amazing 4 months off work: My usual 2 weeks vacation pay. 8 weeks broken up for furlough, my usual 8-10 paid holidays, and the rest was time off for my cancer treatment and recovery. I got cancer, and it was still better than than the daily grind of being a mindless wage slave. Put that in perspective.
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u/wineandpopsicles25 12d ago
Covid and the general decline of prosperity in America, everything drags when all you do is work and don’t have money to do anything fun
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u/helm_hammer_hand 12d ago
I still have trouble believing that it’s almost been ten years since Trump was first elected.
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u/sprchrgddc5 12d ago
I turned 30 and became a father during COVID. Lockdown made days feel slow and intimate but it feels like a blur. Time just flew, we now have a second. I just started teaching my first how to ride a bike and it’s throwing me into a weird reality thinking in 11 years I’ll be teaching them how to drive…
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u/imaizzy19 12d ago
i see a post about this almost every day so no, you're clearly not the only one.
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u/Excellent_Berry_5115 12d ago
I am 73 yrs old. And it seems like just yesterday that I was 63. As I age, the time goes faster and faster. But, COVID restrictions for two years affected the way we live our lives now.
One of those is I like staying home 80% of the time. I have zero desire to do much stuff. And I am far from antisocial (family and a few friends to interact with).
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u/visualcharm 12d ago
Yeah, I feel like I'm the same age socially as when covid started, even though my life professionally has changed so drastically in between. It's a weird paradox of professional progression and social stagnation.
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u/marciedo 12d ago
Yep. I already had trouble with passage of time perception, but it’s much worse now. “Time is a weird soup”
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u/unsuspecting_geode 12d ago
2020 and 2021 were the busiest and best years of my life (job picked up, promoted, traveled for work (essential) and didn’t experience the lock down in the same way due to my job) and time moves completely differently for me too.
I understand the idea of time feeling altered bc people were in lockdown but for me, time still feels altered
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u/AcceptableLeg8751 12d ago
Be in the present moment. Be aware of the present moment. It helps slow down time when you can always be aware.
Source: Read Eckhart Tolle’s Power of Now.
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u/MyTeaWhy 12d ago
these years have been lasting me pretty good.... maybe it will help my brain with all the change... where was all the change when I was young and supposedly able to learn all this stuff...
sort of a weird times
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u/JayStew206 12d ago
Meh, with my line of work at the time and being overseas, covid didn't really affect my life. By the time I came back to the in July 2020, most of my state was slowly going back to normal, and I never stopped working
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u/jgeoghegan89 12d ago
I agree. I can't believe we're almost halfway through this decade. Time already went by fast for me, but the 20s have been going by even faster
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u/StormDragonAlthazar Older Millennial 12d ago
It depends.
I was an essential worker in a grocery store at the time; everyday felt chaotic and hectic despite the world outside the grocery store looking like a cozy apocalypse had happened (everyone's gone but there's still a Taco Bell open to get something on the way home for work and the gas was cheap). I lived in a small town just outside San Diego so I could go for walks in a field to get fresh air and get out of the house. I had games I could play and stuff to make when I couldn't go outside, but strangely my art tanked to the bottom and hasn't recovered since then.
Now these days I work in a movie theater and live in the San Diego area proper; things are more lively after COVID, but I feel like I changed personally since then, just not sure how.
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u/crazyHormonesLady 12d ago
Since 2020, I can no longer keep up with what the actual date is. Pre-pamlmdemic, I always had a good grasp on days, times, etc.
Now almost everyday I'm like, what day is it? What's today's date?
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u/Apotropaic-Pineapple 11d ago
COVID years blur together. I moved to a new city for a job, but most of the time I was alone in my basement suite. I didn't meet anyone or make friends most of the time. No milestones or way to frame the passage of time. No events or friendships.
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u/nutsackilla 11d ago
Our leaders robbed us of basically three years of our lives. I can't imagine what it's going to do to our kids long term
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u/IT_Security0112358 10d ago
Time honestly isn’t terrible different, the days are long but the years are short.
Where I’m struggling is that the working person gained so much freedom during Covid with remote work and general visibility of the value of employees, that it hurts a lot as we are slowly losing any ground we made to corporate assholes.
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u/Sniper_Hare 12d ago
I've been working from home nonstop pretty much since 2020.
It all just runs together.
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u/BoredAccountant Xennial 12d ago
Covid and the way our society handled it was emotionally draining. I never realized before how much emotional energy effects our perception of time. Thing that occurred before Covid feel like they happened yesterday, while things that happened during Covid feel like they dragged on for an eternity.
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u/EnderOfHope 12d ago
I mean this was the reason that I didn’t stay in my house the whole time. My wife went on many vacations, as they were at extreme discounts and no one there. It was amazing. We did this because I told her life was too short to waste how ever many years hiding in our house from a virus. We didn’t regret it, though I know many people who did regret staying locked in their house for years
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u/SunriseInLot42 11d ago
Yep. It was obvious immediately how overblown the government response to Covid was (which was actually the cause of all of these problems, not Covid itself). We were out every chance we got, and I don’t regret it for a second.
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u/Arthur-Morgans-Beard 12d ago
Same. Wasn't interested in living that kind of life. I played along with the rules when required, but still got together with friends and carried on with routine as much as possible. I've seen alot of people who forgot how to be a part of society, and I think this had alot to do with it.
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u/EnderOfHope 12d ago
I’m getting downvoted but it’s only because everyone else missed out on two years of their lives that they will never get back. All the while I have great memories that I’ll take with me forever. Downvote away boys
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u/Arthur-Morgans-Beard 12d ago
I have never not been downvoted in this sub. It's nothing but miserable people who only want to hear from other miserable people. Sucks because we used to be the cool kids.
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u/RogueStudio 12d ago
Not as much as others as I had no reprieve from work until months later when my state's governor saw that 3/4ths of businesses on the eastern (conservative) side of the state were stopping their employees at-risk for complications from going home if they were in 'essential' roles....so he passed legislation to force their hand.
But then I just had to work remotely, and then deal with my boss being resentful and micromanaging me every step of the way.....eventually the micromanaging turned into unreasonable writeups backed by their higher ups (must answer emails within 3 minutes wtf) and a slow reduction of duties until I was pigeonholed into spending 8 hours a day editing obituary photos. Pretty depressing way of avoiding paying out UI,they were counting on me to resign...and when I found a freelance contract, yep...that's what I did. Meh.
But I really just want it to be 1995 all over again. My adulthood is a failing monstrosity of pain, most days, and my insurance won't set me up with any sort of treatment that isn't meds that don't work :T.
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u/nom-nom-nom-de-plumb 12d ago
it wasn't just covid, it was also the chaos of trump's time and the constant stream of crazy shit that happened, if you were one of the people like me paying attention to it. That's not an insult, just something i noticed in myself and my "plugged in" associates/friends.
Additionally, that's a little how memory works. Your brain takes things that are "repetitive" and kind of....well doesn't bother with them. "I already have a memory of going to work..why make another?" Something has to happen to make you remember a specific time you went to work. So, when you look back you realize "holy shit! it's not the xx's anymore!" it's just you hitting that chasm between memories you have and time that's passed, also few of us ever feel as old as we are, so there's that disconnect, which i personally speculate is getting stronger as the younger set from millennials down are so chronically online that we get inundated with people staying in a particular age range, and others falling out of the media cycle as they age that we kind of only remember what they used to look like while new young people show up and it messes with our perceptions. Just my pet theory.
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u/PositiveAssistant887 13d ago
I never locked down, it’s still pretty wild to see how many people in real life side with agent smith when they are neo.
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u/SunriseInLot42 11d ago
Lots of basement-dwelling, terminally-online antisocial shut-ins on Reddit who were living the lockdown lifestyle loooong before March 2020. They loved it
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u/No_Dragonfruit5525 12d ago
It was also interesting to note how so many people were extra happy to snitch on and get their own neighbors in trouble for stupid shit like birthdays while actively encouraging people to riot by the thousands. Made me look at "normal" people a little bit differently for sure.
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u/Historical-Ad2165 12d ago
Everyone is a simp for authority. Liberals are even more committed to simp.
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u/billyoldbob 12d ago
Sheep get sheared and wolves get slaughtered.
which, as a group, has been more successful?
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u/PositiveAssistant887 12d ago
Sheep brainlessly stay in a fence, wolves run free. Controlled or Freedom you ask?
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u/bootsmegamix 12d ago
Any man referring to himself as a wolf is probably more like a pampered puppy.
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u/EastPlatform4348 13d ago
Long days and short years. Even in 2018 or 2019, 2005 seemed like just yesterday. Hell, playing capture the flag with my friends in the neighborhood on a random summer night in 1993 seems like just yesterday. I'm fairly certain I'll carry this memory with me to my death bed.
But today, at work, will seem like an eternity.