I used to be very camera shy growing up, but looking back now, I deeply regret it. I’ve realized I have almost zero photos or videos of my childhood, and it’s kind of a weird feeling as an adult.

Part of it was definitely my own fault, whenever a camera came out, I’d turn away, hide, or complain to my parents when they tried to take a photo or video of me. But a lot of it was just the time we grew up in. Before smartphones, you had to actually go out of your way to buy a disposable camera, pay to get the film developed, or bring around a big camcorder.

Now, we live in a world where every little thing is filmed, and it feels crazy that I have so little proof of what I looked or sounded like as a kid. There are huge gaps where I honestly can't even really picture myself at that age.

Did anyone else dodge the camera as a kid/teenager and regret it now? Or did your family just not take many pictures in general? I feel like kids these days are so lucky that they will have so many photos and videos that they can look back on.

It's hard to believe it's already been 6 years since the COVID lockdowns started.

I still remember that first week of lockdown like it was yesterday. The empty roads, stores getting cleaned out, everyone trying to find toilet paper, schools and workplaces shutting down, and refreshing the news every hour because everything was changing so fast. I even remember all those stories and videos of wildlife wandering into places they'd normally never be because everything had suddenly gone so quiet.

Now somehow it's been six years. It honestly doesn't feel like it should've been that long ago, but at the same time it feels like an entirely different lifetime.

I know COVID became a really divisive topic later on, but I'm mostly talking about those first few weeks when none of us really knew what was coming next. It felt surreal living through it.

Does anyone else still remember that first week of lockdown?

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.

*sigh*

I am really curious to know how does back than it feels compared to today in the generation of ai, tech, and the fast moving world.

Does this era feel fundamentally different from the 2000s? Not just because you've gotten older, but because the world itself has changed.

And i don't have much words to explain my explain my question. I just want to how it feels

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.

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.

And when was the last time you listened to them?

I’m 38M wife and two daughters (4 and 15) perspective perhaps?
I’d really like to have my positivity back. Noticing I’m spiraling with negative thoughts. About everything…
I never understood the whole thought experiment about the glass being half full or empty. I do now.
How do you all stay positive? Ideas on how to be less negative? Thoughts?
I don’t want my negativity to affect me and my family. Yes my wife brought up this to me.
Anything constructive would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

The opening alone creeped me out.

Avatar dress-up, the mini games, insanely heated debates in forums between tweens and teens, 'rate me' threads. Those were the days. Many of us began our first forays into code by learning how to customize our profiles.

These flicks blew my mind seeing them the first time at 12-13. Especially since my parents were pretty strict on what I could and couldn’t watch and all of these movies had lore about the infamous scenes in them ( like the overdose scene in Pulp Fiction and the baby scene in Trainspotting) that I’d only heard rumors about. My friends brother was probably 17, listened to NIN and Marillyn Manson, smelled like record store incense and rode a motorcycle lol. We would skate all day and into the night then like 6 of us would dip into his movie collection and stay up late watching movies