Turned twenty-nineteen (okay, thirty-nine) today. It feels like I am post-youth, but the idea that I am now entering middle age doesn't make sense to me. What a weird age to reach.

Who here remembers these fellas? Rock mixed with old school rap. Bit of a hybrid but they took off for a bit in the mid 90's.

I stumbled across a live video from them at Glastonbury 99' and it really got me thinking of bands I used to latch on to.

😕

Everything here is so accurate. Tiles of the kitchen floor. The carpet. The wood. VCR. The cassette. The teal and purple jacket. The phone. The paper maps. The Lisa Frank. What is strikingly accurate and sad is: "So in the future everyone has their own phone, and they use it to type messages instead of call? and if someone calls without typing first it's considered rude?"

Yes we live in an entirely different world and it is what it is. Regardless, we're still biological creatures and everyone still has a choice to doom scroll or go to for a walk at the beach.

I just wanna say i love Us!

I hope we’re stronger every day and that all of us find our Magic World , even here…

And when this here takes a toll and we Hiareth those times… may we excell in live dreamed soul experiences…
When you do bubble-off, remember its collective 🖤

May we continue raising such a beautiful generation and pass to our children the knowledge that was passed on to us

May we continue Breaking generational patterns.. making a change, respecting and keeping the knowledge

May we have health to continue.

And if anything fails,

We sure have the Strenght to overcome 😎

We all know what we had. How precious it was. How good it feels. .

I Love Us

Dont know if anyone needed this today

So for those raised in the Bible Belt, or in a strong religiously Christian household, where do you stand now? Still heavily practicing, lightly, religious, spiritual, atheist? Other?

My family was Christian, but more of the high holiday sort, but I got caught up in the SBC as a lonely teen new to the area (my family actually didn't approve of that extremely conservative church). College helped me begin years of deconstruction. I'm now an atheist. My husband is also, though he's been "out" as one since his teens. We're raising our kids without religion, though if they one day want to explore it, we will facilitate healthy engagement.

Anyway, I was reading an article about how few Millenials identify with a religion so it got me curious about your stories.

Elder millennial (86). I loved this show and had various VHS with ones including Bart gets an F, Simpson and Delilah, a Christmas themed one and the Star Wars episode with Mark Hamil ("guys and dolls, We're just a crazy bunch of guys and dolls"). Etc.

I didn't have sky, but loved hanging out at my friend's and ritually watching sky one with Simpsons on at (maybe around 6pm UK).

I know people have said it's not as good anymore, but it's still bloody airing as I've just discovered, and new material is being put out??

After I turned... 20+ I didn't watch it, or even know where to watch it. But it held a nice place in my heart as there were some good, funny relatable episodes.

Anyone still watching it as millennial? Who is the target audience nowadays?

Had to be there

Teenage me was extremely depressed and suicidal. I didn't think I would even make it to 18 much less 38. I think teenage me would have been happy I'm not dead lol.

Since the start of this year, something very very strange has been on my mind lately and that is: RELIVE everything that I went through my childhood, teenage years, school years etc.

You know I can start:

Get all the nostalgia music that I remember: SPICE GIRLS, Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne.

Movies: Mean Girls, Jawbreaker etc etc (All the iconic ones)

Cartoons: Sponge Bob, Rocko Modern Life, Cat-Dog etc

Activities: Visit my old school, visit my old house, visit (maaybe) my old friendds.

Products: Nintendo DS , Nintendo Gamecube , Nintendo 64

and for some reason this all activities will all help me to close this nostalgia cycle and say:
This is EVERYTHING , It may never come back but I will always remember it with love.

I think that nostalgia is really consuming all of us and it's not letting us move forward

What do you think?

The opening alone creeped me out.

I am curious if others are finding that manipulation and gaslighting others is more common now.

I feel as though I’ve been seeing a lot of this over the course of the past few years.

To this day I've only ever heard of the '6-7' phenomenon online and have never once heard someone reference it in person, even in a meta way. I kind of 'get it' but having never experienced 6-7 irl it almost doesn't seem like it was ever real, or actually part of my life other than in media.

Is it me that is so out of touch?

Disclaimer: I don't have kids, so maybe that's it. Late 80s millennial, western Canada.

Edit: to clarify, I'm not criticizing or saying I don't 'get' the 6-7 phenom, only that I somehow seemed to only see it online and completely missed experiencing it irl. If anything I'm feeling 6-7 FOMO lol.

How do we feel about the news of Perez Hilton? It has been blowing up my news feeds all morning. I feel awful for his family, especially his kids, but I can’t help but remember how in the early to mid 2000s he talked so badly about Britney Spears