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

Quagmire · 2024-11-17T12:55:34+0000

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 Punched Face · 2024-11-17T13:31:54+0000

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

Jawneh · 2024-11-17T14:35:07+0000

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 · 2024-11-17T14:39:06+0000

I’m masquerading as an adult

Quagmire · 2024-11-17T15:31:31+0000

shortkut said:
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 · 2024-11-17T15:33:30+0000

Quagmire said:
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 · 2024-11-17T15:47:04+0000

Lives and families? What are those?

Mark · 2024-11-17T15:52:29+0000

Quagmire said:
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 · 2024-11-17T15:58:42+0000

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 · 2024-11-17T16:04:18+0000

Holly said:
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. :eek2

Quagmire · 2024-11-17T16:05:16+0000

Mark said:
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 Punched Face · 2024-11-17T16:16:48+0000

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

Nah, the real you burst onto the scene.

Crystal · 2024-11-17T16:21:13+0000

A Punched Face said:
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 · 2024-11-17T16:30:40+0000

Crystal said:
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 · 2024-11-17T16:31:09+0000

Quagmire said:
Come play wolf do you can be muted

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Mark · 2024-11-17T16:44:30+0000

Quagmire said:
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.

Crystal said:
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 · 2024-11-17T16:48:34+0000

Mark said:
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 · 2024-11-17T18:40:10+0000

what's a family?

A Punched Face · 2024-11-17T18:43:23+0000

Fool's Requiem said:
what's a family?

Crystal · 2024-11-17T18:46:43+0000

A Punched Face said:

Quagmire · 2024-11-17T18:59:47+0000

Fool's Requiem said:
what's a family?

Gamewinners

Fool's Requiem · 2024-11-17T19:00:09+0000

Fast And Furious Family GIF by The Fast Saga

Mark · 2024-11-17T20:07:45+0000

Fool's Requiem said:
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 · 2024-11-17T20:08:50+0000

Mark said:
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 · 2024-11-17T20:14:15+0000

Crystal said:
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 · 2024-11-17T20:15:02+0000

Quagmire said:
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 · 2024-11-17T20:19:11+0000

Crystal said:
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.

Quagmire said:
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 · 2024-11-17T20:19:40+0000

Quagmire said:
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 · 2024-11-17T20:19:54+0000

Mark said:
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 · 2024-11-17T20:25:58+0000

Mark said:
Touché. I was just trying to generalize.

Fair enough

Gloom-is-good · 2024-11-18T10:35:15+0000

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 · 2024-11-18T12:29:26+0000

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 · 2024-11-18T12:59:39+0000

Gloom-is-good said:
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.

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