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Don't change a thing unless you want to! I felt the same towards my late 20's and tried all kinds of things to change up my life, try to expand my world. Some of it was good experience, but a lot of it just took me further from where I really wanted to be. Now that I am in the later half of my 30's and married, its getting back to the things I really enjoy (which happen to be very similar to what I did in my teens - including hanging out here)
That's very encouraging! I feel like a pariah because I don't really feel like I need to change these things. Obviously I have to be responsible for myself and go to work etc etc etc but it shouldn't mean I need to suddenly get really into like, lawncare or anything like that.
Hej! I feel invited to share a secret with you :-) Ok, it's not a secret any more then, right? Ah, not a problem. I'm closing in on 60. And I still feel like a teenager. Ok with more money in my pocket, but that also takes some of the creative fun away ... I still try to enjoy the fascinating things out there --- despite the currently ongoing very annoying microbiological activity --- there is an unbelievable number of fascinating things on this small planet. Enjoy, while you still can.
Small example: recently I had a few neighbors over to look at 20 to 40 year old slides. Yepp. The old fashioned stuff with a projector :-) And my guest had never been to the US Southwest, their faces were gazing in awe. There is nothing like this where I live. So go, go out, look! And always take care.
A Margarita, once the dark ale is empty! Thanks, ~bartender.
And to ~tskaalgard: Live long and prosper and a little silly along the way! Cheers!
This post is giving me some optimism for the future. I'm only 19, but I really don't want to lose that curious spark in the future, like a lot of people I know have.
'Tis nice to read I'm not the only questionably mature ancient in these parts. ;-)
(turned 60 earlier in the year)
> I will continue to enjoy myself and I will stop caring what > others think about this.
I'd tell you what to do, but then you'd have to start caring what I think again. ;-)
I care what those I know think, generally; it's only the perennially unnamed "other" I speak of. What is your advice?
You must have recently had others look at you and transmit their thoughts: "why is he still living as if he were free?" Of course, it wasn't expressed that way. It was an "oh..." or a "you're still doing that?"
Speaking 20 years beyond your 30, the only way I can watch anime is in an all-night Miyazaki eggs-stravaganza.
I do generally find myself watching less anime - I do have the aforementioned responsibilities, after all!
Me too, but only because it really feels like there's less effort behind it (old school cell drawings is a dying art) and simply too much of it (ask for a recommendation and you'll receive 20).
I commend the studios/directors/artists that release their stuff very seldom and only when they think its ready. The Neon Genesis films are like this, and I don't particularly enjoy them, but I respect the level of thought and effort that went into producing them and the long time between releases.
Too much of a good thing, you know?
That's another thing too - there's just SO MUCH of EVERYTHING nowadays. Too much anime, too many games, too many series, etc etc. Impossible to keep abreast of it all.
Some accommodation with the machine is necessary...if only to better enjoy those days and times when you gleefully dis-accommodate it :).