Anyone else find it surreal that we're all adults with lives and families?

[Quagmire]

Every time I see someone post about their spouse or kids it jerks me back to reality that we're all probably in our late 30s at the youngest.

When Im posting here and interacting I for what ever reason think of us as teens and early 20s.

 

[A Baby Maker]

I wasn't looking this but it'll be my response now that I've found it.

 

[Jawneh]

Yea, sounds about right. I fel like it too.

My slowly crumbling down body though. It keeps me grou mnded in today one ache and creak at a time.

 

[shortkut]

I’m masquerading as an adult

 

[Quagmire]

I’m masquerading as an adult

Im 3 raccoons in a trench coat, no wait, thats another poster but I cant recall their name

 

[Jawneh]

Im 3 raccoons in a trench coat, no wait, thats another poster but I cant recall their name

2.5 raccoons, and them being @Gloom-is-good

 

[Crystal]

Lives and families? What are those?

 

[Mark]

Every time I see someone post about their spouse or kids it jerks me back to reality that we're all probably in our late 30s at the youngest.

When Im posting here and interacting I for what ever reason think of us as teens and early 20s.

It’s no different than being around people you grew up with if you think about it. The only difference is, instead of going home for the night so your parents don’t bitch at you, you’re going “home” so your spouse doesn’t bitch at you or the kids don’t burn the house down. Instead of graduating from seeing your friends at school the next day to seeing them at the bar or game night once every blue moon, we’re just seeing them here.

 

[Holly]

Time is scary fast. I'm approaching 40 and back when I was in high school I always thought adults had their shit together by their mid 30s. How wrong I was. And high school cliques still exist, they're just called interoffice politics.

I'm still me, though. A bit older, a lot more lived experience, but I'm still me.

 

[Crystal]

I'm still me, though. A bit older, a lot more lived experience, but I'm still me.

Damn, I don't even that that going for me.

 

[Quagmire]

It’s no different than being around people you grew up with if you think about it. The only difference is, instead of going home for the night so your parents don’t bitch at you, you’re going “home” so your spouse doesn’t bitch at you or the kids don’t burn the house down. Instead of graduating from seeing your friends at school the next day to seeing them at the bar or game night once every blue moon, we’re just seeing them here.

The difference for me is I see my friends in real life and see when their kids are born and when they get married and all that stuff so it's a natural progression where here I just kind of forget and I'm taking back to us all being young as there's no face really put with anyone

 

[A Baby Maker]

Damn, I don't even that that going for me.

Nah, the real you burst onto the scene.

 

[Crystal]

Nah, the real you burst onto the scene.

Sadly for everyone, yeah. Gone are the days of quiet, little who the hell is Apollo?! Can't shut me up, now!

 

[Quagmire]

Sadly for everyone, yeah. Gone are the days of quiet, little who the hell is Apollo?! Can't shut me up, now!

Come play wolf do you can be muted

 

[Crystal]

Come play wolf do you can be muted

 

[Mark]

The difference for me is I see my friends in real life and see when their kids are born and when they get married and all that stuff so it's a natural progression where here I just kind of forget and I'm taking back to us all being young as there's no face really put with anyone

Yeah, I get it. It’s like the people you don’t physically see often. I went a several years without seeing someone I went to elementary school with, ran into them at a store the other year and they were all gray. Kinda like that “holy shit, what happened?” moment when he noticed my balding and I noticed his silver hair.

Sadly for everyone, yeah. Gone are the days of quiet, little who the hell is Apollo?! Can't shut me up, now!

Wait… that was an option back then? I don’t ever recall such. You on AIM versus you on the forums was a totally different animal.

 

[Crystal]

Wait… that was an option back then? I don’t ever recall such. You on AIM versus you on the forums was a totally different animal.

That's because you knew me, you got a peak behind the veil. I was a little more me in "private" quarters than I was in open forums, but I still held back, couldn't let anyone know my horrible, horrible secrets.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

what's a family?

 

[A Baby Maker]

what's a family?

 

[Crystal]

 

[Quagmire]

what's a family?

Gamewinners

 

[Fool's Requiem]

 

[Mark]

what's a family?

Those people with the same last name that turn up once or twice a year to start shit and vanish before they can face the consequences?

Nah? Just me?

 

[Crystal]

Those people with the same last name that turn up once or twice a year to start shit and vanish before they can face the consequences?

Nah? Just me?

They don't have to have the same last name, my brother had a different last name, still made my life absolute fucking hell while he could.

 

[Quagmire]

They don't have to have the same last name, my brother had a different last name, still made my life absolute fucking hell while he could.

And family doesn't have to be blood

My close friends I consider family

 

[Crystal]

And family doesn't have to be blood

My close friends I consider family

Very much this. My friends are far more family to me than my family.

 

[Mark]

They don't have to have the same last name, my brother had a different last name, still made my life absolute fucking hell while he could.

Touché. I was just trying to generalize.

And family doesn't have to be blood

My close friends I consider family

Same here. I’m closer to people I’ve met than people I’ve always known.

 

[Benzine]

Every time I see someone post about their spouse or kids it jerks me back to reality that we're all probably in our late 30s at the youngest.

i'm not late thirties!'


whenever i think on this topic the only thing i think of is how dumb all teh adults i knew growing up are

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Those people with the same last name that turn up once or twice a year to start shit and vanish before they can face the consequences?

Nah? Just me?

I'm usually the one required to visit...

 

[Crystal]

Touché. I was just trying to generalize.

Fair enough

 

[Gloom-is-good]

For someone who didn't think they would make it out of high school, much less adulthood, it’s wild to me. I count my blessings every day and am grateful for younger me pushing forward when things felt hopeless.

 

[Gloom-is-good]

Double posting to say that I also absolutely LOVE seeing yall here with me today! Being witness to you being parents/partners and overall just alive human beings bring my heart joy.

 

[Mark]

Double posting to say that I also absolutely LOVE seeing yall here with me today! Being witness to you being parents/partners and overall just alive human beings bring my heart joy.

Absolutely agree. There was a time I thought people were cheesy for looking forward to seeing the sun rise another day…



Peek-a-boo, fuckos.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Double posting to say that I also absolutely LOVE seeing yall here with me today! Being witness to you being parents/partners and overall just alive human beings bring my heart joy.

Warned for double posting

 

[Ben]

I keep the definition of "functional adult" very flexible and loose. Yes, I'm allowed to drive and procreate, but there are some "adult" things I'm just incapable of making myself do, like "have a savings account", or "call a doctor".

I only really manage to get shit done when it's to help someone else, to the extend of forgetting to cook dinner if I wasn't thinking about feeding my children/wife and even then I often forget to make myself a plate too. So I generally envy everyone who has their life even vaguely together .

At least my kids think I'm great, even if I don't know what the fuck I'm doing (besides "not what mine did.")

 

[Quagmire]

Warned for double posting

I was thinking about that the other day, I do that so much now

 

[shortkut]

I was thinking about that the other day, I do that so much now

Well

 

[shortkut]

You shouldn’t

 

[VashTheStampede]

Seriously

 

[VashTheStampede]

Knock it off

 

[dimmerwit]

I wish I was BigDaddy and could just warn you right now.

 

[VashTheStampede]

I wish I was BigDaddy

Honestly...

 

[shortkut]

I wish I was BigDaddy and could just warn you right now.

@BigDaddy

 

[Fire Queen]

joke's on all-a youse guys i'm still violating COPPA

 

[Mark]

joke's on all-a youse guys i'm still violating COPPA

Jokes on you for being a forum fetus.

 

[BigDaddy]

@BigDaddy

Warned for tagging.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Snitch tags get stitch bans

Or something

 

[Kat]

I keep the definition of "functional adult" very flexible and loose. Yes, I'm allowed to drive and procreate, but there are some "adult" things I'm just incapable of making myself do, like "have a savings account", or "call a doctor".

I only really manage to get shit done when it's to help someone else, to the extend of forgetting to cook dinner if I wasn't thinking about feeding my children/wife and even then I often forget to make myself a plate too. So I generally envy everyone who has their life even vaguely together .

At least my kids think I'm great, even if I don't know what the fuck I'm doing (besides "not what mine did.")

I feel this so much. I literally don't have a savings account lol.

The biggest lie adults tell children (and maybe each other) is that they have their shit figured out. Some do more than others, but nobody does completely.

 

[Gloom-is-good]

I've had a savings account that I opened in high school and it still exists! There is $1 in it..

 

[dimmerwit]

I'm the opposite of you guys it seems!

I have 8 savings/investment/pension accounts.