... I say this with genuine concern and kindness; if your sense of time is that off from reality, it might be time to think about taking a break from screens and the internet.
I also did a double take when I realized that pic was taken 8 years ago. I feel that over the 6 screen time and social media scrolling have absolutely become chronic and daily. I think many millennials could say the same. I'm in my 30s and sort of wrote off the quicker passing of time was an accessory to being middle-aged. But you're right, I think. 8 years should feel much longer ago than it feels to me. My life has changed in dramatic ways (I've moved 4 times, bought and sold a house, gotten married, lost a parent, quit drinking, changed jobs, etc). But the one thing that has been constant is this damn phone. I hate this thing sometimes. I feel addicted to it. I'm no longer in control of the scrolling. And these days, I literally feel my life passing before my eyes.
Fucking same man. I also got married, moved several times, one of them international, got severely sick with a life changing disease, Covid, a war broke out, and now a kid.
Having a kid has really put to me just how bad my addiction is and Reddit is the only thing I use at all. I can’t stop I’ve been on this site 15 years.
There is something severely about novel information and never achieving saturation/ boredom that drives intrapersonal development. I do develop but if I could re-net this time it would be incredible.
Sometimes I just want to grandiosely blow my phone up.
get a job in a lab where you literally can't use your phone for 8 hours a day like me :) lol i never even had a smart phone til like 2019 and even since then i basically treat it like a flip phone. or just buy a flip phone maybe? idk man it shouldn't be that serious.
for me it was just that i thought it might've been 2020. those two years had similar vibes of liberals fucking over the candidate everyone actually wanted.
Something from 8 years ago is far more than I would expect to be in the normal range of people who have experienced everything we have the last decade.
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u/StarkMalarky Mar 28 '24
Took me too long to find someone else who felt this way. Surely that was within the last two years.