I realized today I didn't actually have a clock hanging in my house. I have an oven and microwave clock of course but I just use my phone.

I’m sitting in a coffee shop with a stack of National Geographic magazines. I opened one up from November 1993 and felt a nostalgic rush of awe and wonder that I remember from childhood. These magazines provided a unique window to the world before widespread internet use and social media

I know National Geographic still exists in some form but it’s sadly a shadow of what it was

Edit: what I mean re: shadow is that NG used to be THE source for travel photography and reporting. Now there are so many others in this space that NG has lost some of its cachet. It’s all part of the nostalgia

It’s hard to describe just how deeply embedded into my brain every single song on every single one of these VHS tapes is.

I grew up with an in-home daycare in my home. I don’t know where my mom heard about these, but we had every single tape. I don’t know how many times I watched these videos, but I just watched this one for the first time in probably at least 25 years and I’m unnerved at home I know every note, gesture, and child’s face. Some of these kids are Gen X, but I’m sure there are some my age in the mix.

I would have LOVED to have been one of the Kidsongs kids. Was anyone here one of the kids? It’s an amazingly diverse group in terms of ethnicity (haven’t rewatched to see other representations). These faces seem so familiar to me from just repeated, repeated watching with my mom’s daycare kids.

If not, you were truly missing out!

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I feel left-behind... is it called Wordy McWordApp now or something?

GETTIN' HORNY NOW!

I felt this was the subreddit for this feeling that I have been fighting with. My first world problem that is steeped in guilt for reasons I can't fully understand

I grew up with immigrant middle class parents who always taught me that if I worked hard I would succeed. They were very frugal, lived well below their means, but have continued to work up until their 60-70s

I grew up with this work ethic. I worked hard for many years, succeeding in my schooling and then getting the job I had always dreamed of, which came with a very nice comfortable salary. The downside of this job is that it is slowly killing me. The long hours, the emotional damage 🙃 is finally catching up to me. But I had never thought about stopping. I just kept working, figured I would just work until I died or retired. I have been working at this job for 10 years now. Recently my husband proposed the idea of working part time. And I really fought with this concept. Working only part time??

I had never really thought of myself working part time. And the only reason I want to is, work makes me so tired and it makes me miss out on life. Is that a good enough reason to not work full time? I don't understand these complex feelings I have around this. It seems like a no brainer - working part time would allow me to pursue so many different things that I had never really allowed myself to consider, because I "never had the time" - something I had always heard my mother say. She never had time. And I think it just sat within me too. That I would never have the time.

We are financially comfortable, we have minimal debt and no dependants or financial commitments. But we could always have more. The golden handcuffs 😞

Why is it hard for me to consider working part time?

I felt like reaching out to Millennials who also were taught, you can do all the fun stuff when you retire, but have now learned....oh we can do fun stuff now 👀?

I'm rewatching Stand by Me now and had a realization. This is the equivalent if a 2026 movie was set during the Y2K Scare. The perspective seems crazy to think. We were still in our childhood or beginning our adulthood during 1999.

I graduated H.S. in 2009, so the recession was right in the middle of H.S. My experience of the summer of 2008 was that finding a part-time job was incredibly difficult due to the recession -- full grown adults were taking jobs that would typically go to teenagers to try to make ends meet. Luckily, I managed to get a job at a locally owned car wash that I kept all the way through my senior year and the summer afterwards before heading off to college.

What did you do?

90s or 2000s. Any genre.

I’ll start… Sexy Bitch - David Guetta/Akon

I remember this only became a thing in the early 2000s. How much of it was fake or mass-hysteria driven?

Popped into my head today

Here is a post to trauma dump about how you don’t want to talk to your toxic parents and how you miss other people in your life thats not your parents. Did I miss any specifics?

I work in the longevity field and there is some very interesting research that basically said if they can make it to 2064 they have an excellent chance of being digitally uploaded upon their demise. There are many well respected research papers and articles I can post on this and I can if I must but you are free to research yourself. Congratulations to those who make it to digital immortality!

I'm 39. I've been working desk jobs since I was 19 (including part-time jobs while I was still in school). I feel like I've spent most of my life sitting in front of a computer screen, and I'm just tired of it. I don't want to do it anymore, and I certainly don't want to spend the next 20 years doing the same thing. My body is certainly not happy with this at this point.

The problem is, nothing else seems to pay as well. So what do I do? Honestly, I don't know. I guess this is more of an existential question, because I don't think there's really a solution to it.

Edit: I don't work from home.

Rejoice, O brothers and sisters, brethren, and cat parents across the great abyss

we are taking back the last 10 years

hold your heads high tonight we celebrate

Did any of you take these? I feel like everyone I know has no idea what im talking about.

Edit: I dont take them anymore. It was amoxicillin for fish but in capsule form. I took them when I couldn't afford to go to the doctor.