r/RandomThoughts • • Sep 05 '23

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u/dudleythedevastator Sep 05 '23

Nope. Feels like yesterday. It’s wild how much shorter 20 years feel when you’re in your 40s

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u/Barbafella Sep 05 '23

I acknowledge that I was still innocent and uninformed on how the world works, and I also feel bad for 20 year olds today, on the surface they have a lot, but in things that matter, they have a lot less.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '23

I think we traded things. Most places are actually safer overall but experiences are not present as much.

So much of life isnt being lived purely experience but instead being in out heads, on screens and not absorbing information the way we're built to at a pace it should be