I'm not someone who had a great childhood tbh, I'm aware of that and i know that so well yet i still tear up every time i get nostalgic. Like when i see instagram posts about stuff from shared childhoods (ex: scented erasers, sound of the mourning doves, 2010s internet, etc.) it genuinely makes me say "I wish i was a kid again" because everything felt so new and so fullfilling to me.
I thought about these thoughts a bit more and i realized that i might be romanticizing everything about past too much, and i feel like a lot of people around my age are actually doing the same without realizing it.
We constantly talk, show and create things about specific things like the examples i talked about when it comes to the past even though objectively stuff mourning doves are still just doves, and if we all discovered something like scented erasers today, i don't think many of us would have the same reaction to it as we did in our childhoods, i would honestly be like "oh cool" and forget about it the next day.
Humans are wired to attaching feelings to certain things we discover at young ages because the world feels new to us. Which is the point; the world feels new to us. As kids, we realistically didn't knew much either. We only knew about what we learned. The more we learned, the more we grew. The more we grew, the more we realized. The more we realized, the more expectations, problems and responsibilities we had. Which meant, less space in our minds.
I don't think the past was as beautiful as we think now, it was the same as today but we never saw that due to our nature. Maybe the past isn't becoming more beautiful. Maybe the present is becoming more complicated.
I dunno. Those are just my thoughts and my experience. Maybe i'm just being corny but i felt like i would post about this because why not!! I like talking about stuff like this sooo much.
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Imprntd Cysper04
Hm, nice blogpost and you did a really well write up on this one.
First of all, I'd like to say I'm sorry that you didn't had a great childhood.
I don't have a great one either but I did have a fair share of fun experiences in Early 2010's.
This made me think actually, I think we all could agree that life back then Early 2010's and earlier for those who grew up during those times life was somehow easier especially as a kid and also very fun.
That's the way how I could see it from this.
Eh i don't like to talk about and i'd rather just make fun of it sometimes when i feel like it. I still had nice times and I am doing fine now today thankfully.
Oh i absolutely agree. Especially 2010s internet used to be more friendly from what i can remember. 2010s had way nicer parts to it compared to present days.
by Kaan; ; Report
Hm, I don't know..... You must be talking about Early 2010's Internet and maybe I could agree with you on that when it comes to Major Social Network Websites like Facebook and YouTube which I could agree.
I didn't have much experience with Social Network Websites from that era.
My only experiences on Early 2010's Internet were just checking on YouTube and watching some videos.
Then by 2014 I got into Emulation and downloading games here and there.
I didn't got into Social Network Websites until 2016 when I was 12 and I had Facebook as usual.
And I don't have much to say about it.
I follow Video Game Companies like Sega and Nintendo and others.
And from what I remember the Algorithm was somehow decent and it got stuff right based on what I'm for.
(Unlike nowadays, we got bunch of toxic stuff like Politics and others on these website. :( )
I don't have much to say about YouTube as I don't have much grasp about it on a Larger Scale.
By 2017, I follow AVGN and some others and watching some other stuff that's not YouTuber wise.
And it's somehow smooth for me.
By Late 2010's, From how I see it..... I think it's quitely going to what it is now.
And I see bunch of toxicity especially by 2019 where I got these Drama YouTubers.
But so far now, it's a mixed bag to me.
On one hand Emulation wise we got easy access on bunch of ROMs for other systems and Emulation has been really greatly improved over how things were the previous decade.
And other types of media.
Then on the other hand, Community wise Major Social Network Websites has been unfortunately massively negative.
And websites like Facebook and even YouTube had massive algorithm push for Negativity and some YouTubers are quite happily exploiting it for Negativity.
But thankfully we got this website and KamTape which is a nice thing and now I'm mostly here than I do with Facebook and I mostly abandoned it though I check on it every once in a while.
by Imprntd Cysper04; ; Report
hi-finellyty
this is going on my bedroom wall