idk adults said that to kids when i was younger. if you mean “young people” as in “young adults like under 30”, then maybe. “it’s just a phase” was also common. (the “phases” turned out to go like 20 years with most ppl i knew)
I remember most older people appearing “normal” when I was younger. But now that I’m almost 40 most of my peers seem unapologeticaly unhinged. Not fitting into what our parents thought as non-weird at all.
Actually, maybe kids these days see me as “perfectly normal old guy”, and it’s just a generational divide.
Everyone kept telling me that I would become more conservative with age, and that once I got a job in the “real world,” and started paying taxes, then my priorities would change (presumably to lowering taxes?).
yeah, resonable taxes aren’t so bad. i often think there should be gigantic taxes on things like fossil fuels and plastic packaging. whatever happened to cream in milk cartons? it’s all plastic now 😤
Only young people think this. Everyone gets weirder with age. Or better said accepts their weirdness and dgaf.
ikr it’s like dressing goth as you get older bc you look in the mirror and are like: “I look old and decrepit… cool!”
“Pfft, conformists!”
idk adults said that to kids when i was younger. if you mean “young people” as in “young adults like under 30”, then maybe. “it’s just a phase” was also common. (the “phases” turned out to go like 20 years with most ppl i knew)
I remember most older people appearing “normal” when I was younger. But now that I’m almost 40 most of my peers seem unapologeticaly unhinged. Not fitting into what our parents thought as non-weird at all.
Actually, maybe kids these days see me as “perfectly normal old guy”, and it’s just a generational divide.
Norms have changed tons over my nearly half century years here.
Everyone kept telling me that I would become more conservative with age, and that once I got a job in the “real world,” and started paying taxes, then my priorities would change (presumably to lowering taxes?).
Literally the opposite has happened.
yeah, resonable taxes aren’t so bad. i often think there should be gigantic taxes on things like fossil fuels and plastic packaging. whatever happened to cream in milk cartons? it’s all plastic now 😤