In 1995 the alternative rock band called 'the smashing pumpkins' released their magnum opus 'Mellon collie and the infinite sadness', a bombastic, symphonic masterpiece with massive hard rock elements.
One of the seminal tracks on that album was a song called '1979' about the transition into adolescence of front man Billie Corgan.
It was sixteen years past 1979 when the album came out, hence it it came out today it would be 2008, so the image with funny captions is already outdated.
Anyone else feel like they're still young, but things just keep moving along? Like I never grew up but now a lot of adults I know are young enough to be my kids. I don't know. Getting old doesn't feel like I thought it would. It just feels like more of what I've already been doing.
I was sitting on the ground doing a puzzle with my kid the other week. Ended up with back pain for two days. I don't "feel" old until my body reminds me.
Them: "You... Have the position I want eventually. What did you do?"
Me: "Well. 20... No that cant be right... I mean... Yeah... 20 years ago... I graduated college... Then uhh. I'm... Uh..."
At this point either you make up some bullshit or you say it's just experience. Then you realize what a midlife crisis is and wonder if you are having one which like like 20% of the definition of a midlife crisis.
"Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when we look back everything is different."
You measure your life by the milestones. When your a kid these come quickly. First words, first steps, first day of school, first friend, first crush, and on and on. So many things happening all of the time. As we get older the time between these milestones grows. You work the same job, see the same people, have the same routines. The space between those milestones blurs together and it all feels the same. It goes by slowly, but when you look back it's happened all at once, where did the time go?
It's important to fill as much of that space between as we can. Be adventurous and try everything, hit new milestones.
