Sometimes you should definitely go with your gut.
childhood
Even though the days of disconnecting your home phone and taking 20 minutes to log onto the internet so you could download one single mislabelled Evanescence track are over, it still feels like those were the good old days. Well, at least when you get older you can drink. For more, here are nostalgic images to trigger your longing (or hatred) for the the old days.
Some of these are petty indulgences, some of them are downright unfair and screwed up. Either way, it's somewhat cathartic to read. This Askreddit thread asked people what they were still mad about and many people had unresolved gripes from their childhood, others had more recent injustices. For more grievances, here's some infuriated people who are still salty AF.
It didn't take a lot to get something banned. Usually if anything was too fun, it was deemed a distraction and had to go. Sometimes kids would have a cool game going, then one kid would lose it, throw a tantrum and ruin it for everyone. Sometimes kids started black markets to sell contraband out of their lockers. Those were the days. For more nostalgic school stories, here are people's cringiest high-school moments.
If you experienced childhood somewhere around the turn of the century, then quite a few of of these pictures might hit you right in the memory nads. Remember back when you had to drive to a store to rent videos? Wild. If you want more '90s nostalgia, then check these out.
If you just keep doing something you learned in childhood without any self reflection, you might end up doing some stupid things for way too far into your adult life. Sometimes song lyrics or figures of speech don't make sense until you see them in writing. People are often wrong, even about their own health, but what sucks is when you're publicly, idiotically wrong for waaaaay too long.
These dads found themselves in the middle of some hilarious "don't tell your mother" moments. Sometimes, at a young age a pact develops between kids and their fathers, who just want to continue getting away with ridiculous things that are all kinds of lazy. Yes, looking at you anti-clothes ironing dad. Your game will only last for so long.
As you get older, it becomes more and more clear that your parents didn't really know what they were doing. Some lies were rooted in real concerns our parents had for us. Some were just hearsay. And in some cases, they were just trying to make fun of us. Thank God we have Google to undo what our parents did to us. Anyway if these made you have flashbacks, here's some more lies parents told their kids.
This twitter thread gave way to people looking back on those occasionally painful, cringe-packed, silly moments from the days of their youth that were on brand, for the way they find themselves presented to the world, present day. Sometimes we unintentionally act out who we are, before we know it further on down the road. If that means you're an injury-prone clutz, pull up a seat, and join the club.
Radio host Sam Sanders asked his fellow twitter users what kind of strange delicacies they created for themselves as children. The results were, really, pretty gross. Lots of peanut butter, ketchup, kraft singles and coca powder went into these people's upbringings. And not necessarily in separate dishes either.
Hey, adults are the ones who write all of these shows anyway so it just makes sense that they'd sneak something in for the parents. Some of these are references only adults would get, others are just straight up filthy. Anyway, after these you may look at your childhood a little differently.
Via Paul Zelevansky
In the 1967 film "Creative Person, Fred Rogers:", Fred Rogers talks about how he believes adults can impact a child's sense of worth, and ability to be themselves, amidst having it defined, before they can as individuals. This one might strike some chords!
