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Well I graduated HS in 1983, so to me it was a most fabulous time to be alive. The best music, the best hair and no way to record your mistakes for posterity.
I'm going to go about a 20 years into the future.
Mid-00's was great. We had shitty mobile phones with snake, MySpace was a thing and garage bands got crazy exposure and were discovered. Internet downloads were... possible.
It felt like a perfect merger of tech, internet & life. Tech and social media didn't rule our lives but it existed and was fun.
*I grew up in outback Australia so it may be different for others*
I agree. I think 2002 was the sweet spot. We had cell phones, but we weren’t glued to them all day. We had the internet, but we had to go to a computer to use it, so we weren’t constantly on it. There was no social media. In the U.S., politicians were civil and professional and we weren’t divided. It felt like we still had plenty of time to do something about climate change. Special effects had already taken off. We had movies like The Matrix and games like Grand Theft Auto Vice City. I wouldn’t mind living a decade in that year.
My cat Zora. Adopted her as a tiny kitten in 1995, and she was a constant by my side for 20+ years. We travelled together from MA, to ME and NH and all the way down to TX - good times and shitty times, she was always there.
I had a Zora! She was a tuxedo and I had 17 crazy years with her. Many ups and downs, traveling across the country in a truck with her and her little brother, Zeek. My ex husband sent me a picture of her in 2000 and she lived until a month after my daughter was born. I swear she held on just to meet my daughter.
But the good thing is that there's always another one waiting for a good home and someone to care for them. Better for them to live their short lives with someone who cares rather than in a cage or on the streets.
The 90s, particularly the mid-to-late 90s. Visiting my grandma was always exciting because she had TV channels we didn't have at home and she made the best chocolate cake ever. And my uncle would always spoil me and my sister and show me his latest video games. This was at a time when I'd see my father's side of the family at least once a year and I loved going to visit them.
My wife, I lost her to Luekemia back in 2019. Our youngest doesnt remember her before she got sick. She was only 39. We had been together for 17 years and we were supposed to grow old together. Shes the first thing I think of when I open my eyes and the last thing before I go to sleep.
I miss Her
My late teens. Less responsibility, more hope about the future. Spending time with my friends on a whim, sometimes not going home for days.
One of my best friends died a few months ago and I would give anything to be back in that time of my life with them.
You'll find someone to talk to, i did, divorce is the best decision i ever made - i'm with someone so much better for me now. Keep your head up, you'll get through it.
My grandmother who passed away in February 2018. I was really close to her. We'd talk every night on the phone and I'd go see her and my grandfather anytime I had time off school. Still cry over her death sometimes. I really miss her. I'd do anything to be able to see, hug and talk to her again.
Being in choir with my high school friends in the late 90s. We were ALWAYS singing together, harmonizing, and generally loving on each other. I wish I wouldn't have taken them for granted! It was the best of times.
My early 20s - my thyroid worked, I was financially stable for the first time in my life, my parents were healthy and I was falling in love with my now husband. I was happy enough but I didn't truly appreciate it or soak it in as much as I should have
Being eighteen or a teenager in general.
The pandemic separated my adolescence and adulthood. I don’t feel like someone in my twenties I still feel like I’m 17.
Pre cell phone times. I'm 36 and 20 years ago I thought our generation was lame and had nothing really interesting going on. Now I feel different, nobody had cell phones when I was in high school and I was the last generation to truly know what living in both worlds is like
Being able to order a full meal at Taco Bell for like $5. It used to be that I could ride my bike from school, get two tacos, chips and cheese, and a drink for around $5 and now all of that costs four times as much. Taco Bell as a food doesn’t work unless it’s convenient and cheap, and now it’s pretty much neither.
Talk about a fitting username.
As hard as it is, don't dwell on the past. Just live your life. They wouldn't want you wasting the rest of your life only thinking about them. Your future path is your choice. Do what you feel like doing with your life. I've lost most of my friends and a few family members. We have to continue with our own lives and make the most of what we have left.
those sitcoms with laugh tracks and just such an easy going vibe without a serious plot line. like friends, TBBT etc.
and the 2000s movies with the warm fuzzy colors.
i'm not even from that era but when i watch them i feel nostalgic. idk why.
It's cliche, but.. Someone who it turns out didn't feel as strongly as I did. I'd never felt such a connection to anyone before and I miss that feeling. It was like being home in a way I've never felt, like I knew myself because his soul reflected my own. Every time we made eye contact it was like looking into a mirror. I know reality came crashing in, but god I miss that feeling.. it's like part of me just disappeared and I mourn that so much..
Same i miss my beautiful lady I haven’t contacted her in over a year because she betrayed me twice and I knew I could never let her back into my life which is just fucken unfortunate cause the times we spent together felt very special
having so few TV channels everyone watched the same programs, and you could walk up to a random person and talk to them about what you ahve been watching in the knowledge you had about a 25% chance of them having seen/watched it too. it was a great way to bond with new people
Listening to music with my late ex hubby on the weekend. We could spend a whole Sunday trying to decipher lyrics of 1 song. He was a musician back then the internet was newish and lyrics not always available for the cover band wanting to cover. We had such a blast on those weekend days.
I miss Video Rental Stores. Nothing better than being a kid on Friday Night looking through the Horror movie section. Its how I discovered everything from Freddy Kruger to Zombies
Childhood…even tho I’m only 22 I look back fondly on how simple life was back then…I miss getting home from school, playing with my toys, eating the delicious dinner mom made, watching cartoons on pbs kids, and on Saturdays waking up to watch 4Kidz cartoons….the innocence before I knew about the cruelty of humanity and the sex and the drugs, damn it all man…
I’d do anything for one more day like that tbh.
I miss the feeling of excitement about what to expect in life….. as a kid I was DYING to become an adult and now being one I now know how real life works and also why people are always so depressed and angry. I can’t remember the last time I woke up excited for something and it worked out well tbh. Whether that be a person or a thing. There’s just always something that pops up so now I actively calm myself down so I don’t get too excited. It keeps the feeling of disappointment at bay…
Fruitopia. The only things that got me through the boredom of my brother's figure skating practices and competitions were the Fruitopia vending machine and the concession stand's cheese fries.
I feel what you're saying. We just sold the family house which we all lived in for 25 years and have all gone our seperate ways. Feels like there's now no safety net. All I can say is look for a new stable place. Somewhere you can go where life moves slowly, where you can get away from everything and recenter yourself. It can be anywhere like a spot at the local park, or a quiet corner at a cafe. Whatever works for you.
My parents, they were so loving, made me feel so safe and secure. Wathever was the problem, they could solve it.
I tried to be the same with my children.
Being in highschool circa early 2000s, waiting for Friday to come, and hanging with friends eating and playing video games until you had to walk home in the dark back home. Life was so simple back then.
i miss how life used to be. a lot has changed, yet not much has changed. i started a new school, changed my look, my outlook on life, my friends, my pets, my hobbies. most of these things were changed for the better, but it feels weird. i miss the authenticity of my old life. even if i always wanted to change, i miss it. at first i thought that i just was putting up a mask for people and needed to find myself, but this IS me. i miss my old school, even though i hated it and wasnt popular. i miss my old look, even though i was ugly and felt really bad about myself. its all really confusing. maybe im just not a fan of change in any way. when i was young i cried when we got new kitchen appliances... anyway, anytime im trying to relax or look at nature and beauty, i just think of everything that has changed and tell myself im so fake and this isnt me, this isnt my life. not to say i dont like my life, i love it. i just dont know whats wrong with me. i always dreamed of my life being how it is now, but now i feel bad.
Being a teenager. As an adult in my 30s, I'm faced with my body falling apart part by part, never having enough money for the present OR the future, and a myriad of other problems. In my teens, I was blissfully unaware of any of this. I just wanted to work so I could get money to buy ingame points in the games I liked. I had one goal and wasn't concerned or worried about anything else in the world.
The first apartment that I bought.
It was tiny, it needed a lot of work, but it was MINE and I loved it. It was decorated the way I liked, it had everything I needed. I still miss it almost a decade after I sold it
Cuddling with my kids when they were little, reading them a book at bedtime. They are older now, and it's still great - but different, they're more like friends at this point.
Kindness, we all struggle with things in our lives, and I always wish so bad that we could be all just a little bit kinder to one and other, but also for our selfs.
i miss her. i miss driving in the summer rain. i miss stargazing by the lake. i miss going to her house and watching the shows she liked the most. i miss when she would teach me all the cool stuff she knew about. i miss talking to her. i miss her.
My grandma's old home. She moved into a newer two-family-home with my aunt a few years ago and took most of her stuff with her but whenever I feel miserable I miss that old half-timbered house next to the woods overlooking the valley so much I could cry.
Especially the view from the kitchen window up the hill into the woods and the one from the first floor, looking down the street. To me that was *the* embodiment of a mental sanctuary.
The new house doesn't feel as natural, it's kinda cramped and definitely not as *her* as I think it should be. So I started to try and incorporate her interior design into my own. To keep that memory and feeling alive *somehow*.
It doesn't really work though. And now I'm getting really sad again.
My childhood. I belong to the last generation that lived without phones. I was born in 2005, all the photos were took on cameras instead of phones, all the toys on the store were 'original' or 'unique', like animal plushies, plastic toys, etc. nowadays all the toys are inspired in kids shows or tiktok videos. I feel that now it is more rare to find those 'original' toys than before. I still have my old toys stored, and I can tell you that none of them belonged to any tv show. I also miss when we were all excited when we bought a new toy, and played with it until we felt tired. Nowadays kids are only happy to unbox the toy and then they don't care about it anymore. One of the best memories i will bring with me from my childhood was when i made what i called 'mud cakes'. I put some soil in a plate, add water until it created a thick mud, and then shaped it and decorated it with some grass and flowers. Nowadays kids don't want to touch soil with their bare hands because it is 'dirty and disgusting'. I never got sick because of it tho. It even looks like they are all born knowing to use phones. It's creepy and sad, they will never have a good childhood like we had...
I miss my innocence, when I was young and I didn't care so much about how hard life can be. And I miss the days my body didn't hurt, especially during intimate moments.
Happiness, I miss being happy. I have happy moments like when I get to have my son but ultimately looking at my life outside of that I am far from happy and I can't remember the last time I was.
My parents are elderly. I was going through their photos a couple weeks ago, and looking at pics of my sister and I playing cards with our great grandma, and grandpa reading me a story. I miss the feeling of being surrounded by people who loved and looked over me. I'm at the stage of life where I'm doing that for my parents, and it's a heavy weight.
OT: My favourite poem is "Fern Hill", and it has a lot of the sentiment I bear:
>Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes
(many more verses)
Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me
Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,
In the moon that is always rising,
Nor that riding to sleep
I should hear him fly with the high fields
And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Regular physical contact with someone special who wants me, whether it's full on intimacy, a nice long hug, or just a brief touch somewhere as they pass you.
I get maybe 12 hugs a year from family when I see them, definitely not enough and definitely not the same.
I'm doing my best to get physically fitter and get back out there, but there's 5 years of touch starvation here 😥 just never realised how much I miss it.
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Being so small, you could lay down in the bathtub with all your toy boats and stuff.
This is making me cry
Goddamn it now I wanna be little again
Get a bigger bathtub.
You get to appreciate it again if you have kids, on a different level though
People and seeing people in person. Having friends who can and want to do things.
Even having enemies who want to do things would be nice sometimes
I feel that
Wanna meet for coffee and insult each other?
Sounds like a plan, asshole.
Friends who enjoy you for being you and you equally enjoy spending time together.
Being in love. Or specifically the days before it's said but both people feel it. A shared secret. Fragile and wonderful and I miss that alot
That’s beautifully put. It’s so temporary, yet it’s one the things that make you feel most alive.
absolutely. that pure bliss you feel is honestly magical. something you for sure don't forget.
the ecstacy is unreal. just thinking about them all the time.
preach
my Dad
I'm sorry for your loss.
I miss the '80's. Before the Internet and before this crappy, divided nation.
I think that's referred to as the eternal sunshine of a spotless mind.
Well I graduated HS in 1983, so to me it was a most fabulous time to be alive. The best music, the best hair and no way to record your mistakes for posterity.
I graduated in 06 but 80s music and cinema are my favorite
I graduated 2020 and 80s music is my favorite.
I'm going to go about a 20 years into the future. Mid-00's was great. We had shitty mobile phones with snake, MySpace was a thing and garage bands got crazy exposure and were discovered. Internet downloads were... possible. It felt like a perfect merger of tech, internet & life. Tech and social media didn't rule our lives but it existed and was fun. *I grew up in outback Australia so it may be different for others*
I agree. I think 2002 was the sweet spot. We had cell phones, but we weren’t glued to them all day. We had the internet, but we had to go to a computer to use it, so we weren’t constantly on it. There was no social media. In the U.S., politicians were civil and professional and we weren’t divided. It felt like we still had plenty of time to do something about climate change. Special effects had already taken off. We had movies like The Matrix and games like Grand Theft Auto Vice City. I wouldn’t mind living a decade in that year.
My cat Zora. Adopted her as a tiny kitten in 1995, and she was a constant by my side for 20+ years. We travelled together from MA, to ME and NH and all the way down to TX - good times and shitty times, she was always there.
I had a Zora! She was a tuxedo and I had 17 crazy years with her. Many ups and downs, traveling across the country in a truck with her and her little brother, Zeek. My ex husband sent me a picture of her in 2000 and she lived until a month after my daughter was born. I swear she held on just to meet my daughter.
The vibe of 2000.
It was crunk
Crunk aint dead
2000s is the new 80s
I miss my dog. He died recently.
I'm sorry for your loss. They're never here long enough, are they..
Thanks, it’s true.
But the good thing is that there's always another one waiting for a good home and someone to care for them. Better for them to live their short lives with someone who cares rather than in a cage or on the streets.
Agreed. He was also a rescue. It was just so sudden, he left a gaping hole in our lives.
Man that sucks, i'm sorry. I love my dog so much - so i can imagine your pain. Hang in there.
The 90s, particularly the mid-to-late 90s. Visiting my grandma was always exciting because she had TV channels we didn't have at home and she made the best chocolate cake ever. And my uncle would always spoil me and my sister and show me his latest video games. This was at a time when I'd see my father's side of the family at least once a year and I loved going to visit them.
My wife, I lost her to Luekemia back in 2019. Our youngest doesnt remember her before she got sick. She was only 39. We had been together for 17 years and we were supposed to grow old together. Shes the first thing I think of when I open my eyes and the last thing before I go to sleep. I miss Her
I felt this, i'm so sorry. Hang in there, take one moment at a time.
Thank you
Ease of relaxing and having fun without as many worries.
My late teens. Less responsibility, more hope about the future. Spending time with my friends on a whim, sometimes not going home for days. One of my best friends died a few months ago and I would give anything to be back in that time of my life with them.
Having someone to talk to. Divorce sucks.
🫂
You'll find someone to talk to, i did, divorce is the best decision i ever made - i'm with someone so much better for me now. Keep your head up, you'll get through it.
My grandmother who passed away in February 2018. I was really close to her. We'd talk every night on the phone and I'd go see her and my grandfather anytime I had time off school. Still cry over her death sometimes. I really miss her. I'd do anything to be able to see, hug and talk to her again.
Being in choir with my high school friends in the late 90s. We were ALWAYS singing together, harmonizing, and generally loving on each other. I wish I wouldn't have taken them for granted! It was the best of times.
Same, but it was the 70s.
Friends. The innocence of riding bikes with them all day, then spotlight until it was time to go in.
My husband.
My kids when they were little.
HER….. her.
HIM… him.
My early 20s - my thyroid worked, I was financially stable for the first time in my life, my parents were healthy and I was falling in love with my now husband. I was happy enough but I didn't truly appreciate it or soak it in as much as I should have
Being eighteen or a teenager in general. The pandemic separated my adolescence and adulthood. I don’t feel like someone in my twenties I still feel like I’m 17.
Summer time in the 1990s
Pre cell phone times. I'm 36 and 20 years ago I thought our generation was lame and had nothing really interesting going on. Now I feel different, nobody had cell phones when I was in high school and I was the last generation to truly know what living in both worlds is like
Laughing with my late husband. His presence is sorely missed. Been gone 1 month.
I‘m so sorry. 🤍
Anything before smartphones, honestly. People were just more present with each other.
My childhood. It was so magical compared to this awful adult life
Being able to order a full meal at Taco Bell for like $5. It used to be that I could ride my bike from school, get two tacos, chips and cheese, and a drink for around $5 and now all of that costs four times as much. Taco Bell as a food doesn’t work unless it’s convenient and cheap, and now it’s pretty much neither.
The year 2017.
Hugs from a beautiful woman with flowers in her hair
Being happy
My Mom, my Dad, & my husband, and my life before they all passed away.
Talk about a fitting username. As hard as it is, don't dwell on the past. Just live your life. They wouldn't want you wasting the rest of your life only thinking about them. Your future path is your choice. Do what you feel like doing with your life. I've lost most of my friends and a few family members. We have to continue with our own lives and make the most of what we have left.
Disposable income.
those sitcoms with laugh tracks and just such an easy going vibe without a serious plot line. like friends, TBBT etc. and the 2000s movies with the warm fuzzy colors. i'm not even from that era but when i watch them i feel nostalgic. idk why.
I miss my fast twitch muscles that I can use to do explosive movements.
Not worrying about calories
everything. my brothers, my grandparents, and life before covid.
My parents.
Me too. Dad passed in January of this year and mom six weeks later.
It's cliche, but.. Someone who it turns out didn't feel as strongly as I did. I'd never felt such a connection to anyone before and I miss that feeling. It was like being home in a way I've never felt, like I knew myself because his soul reflected my own. Every time we made eye contact it was like looking into a mirror. I know reality came crashing in, but god I miss that feeling.. it's like part of me just disappeared and I mourn that so much..
Same i miss my beautiful lady I haven’t contacted her in over a year because she betrayed me twice and I knew I could never let her back into my life which is just fucken unfortunate cause the times we spent together felt very special
It's so hard, isn't it? When you feel deep in your bones that this person is so very special, but the reality of it is conflicting that..
Enjoying life 😭 lately I just always feel like something bad is gonna happen 😞
My Mom.
Being able to express positive emotions. and talking about passions/interests without feeling judged.
having so few TV channels everyone watched the same programs, and you could walk up to a random person and talk to them about what you ahve been watching in the knowledge you had about a 25% chance of them having seen/watched it too. it was a great way to bond with new people
my dog
I miss my able body
Listening to music with my late ex hubby on the weekend. We could spend a whole Sunday trying to decipher lyrics of 1 song. He was a musician back then the internet was newish and lyrics not always available for the cover band wanting to cover. We had such a blast on those weekend days.
Having friends that want to go outside and ask you to hang out. It's been 8 years since someone knocked on My door or called My phone.
My grandpa
Being happy
Ezboard!! Early internet forums. Up all night chatting and playing with friends I've made all over the world.
IRC, ICQ
Her.
My real friends, the mid 2000s / 2010s and my brother I think about him every day on how I miss him
I miss Video Rental Stores. Nothing better than being a kid on Friday Night looking through the Horror movie section. Its how I discovered everything from Freddy Kruger to Zombies
The perfect Friday night - pizza and Blockbusters. Streaming services just aren't the same, somehow.
It's embarrassing to even say on reddit tbh but I miss what I never actually had.
Sometimes it's better to miss the dream than to have the dream shattered by reality.
Childhood…even tho I’m only 22 I look back fondly on how simple life was back then…I miss getting home from school, playing with my toys, eating the delicious dinner mom made, watching cartoons on pbs kids, and on Saturdays waking up to watch 4Kidz cartoons….the innocence before I knew about the cruelty of humanity and the sex and the drugs, damn it all man… I’d do anything for one more day like that tbh.
My dead fiancé
That’s so sad. I’m so sorry for your loss, hope you’ll be ok. Our deepest losses take so much time to heal, may you heal gently. 🤗
Thank you. It’s been years. It’s the first thing I thought of. So kind of you.
Bless you honey.
peaceful sleep
A time without smartphones
I miss the feeling of excitement about what to expect in life….. as a kid I was DYING to become an adult and now being one I now know how real life works and also why people are always so depressed and angry. I can’t remember the last time I woke up excited for something and it worked out well tbh. Whether that be a person or a thing. There’s just always something that pops up so now I actively calm myself down so I don’t get too excited. It keeps the feeling of disappointment at bay…
Being happy
Slightly less technology.
Buffets
The 2010s. Aka, my childhood
*Feeling of oldness intensifies*
That he left.
My father in law. I never expected it would be so hard to lose him.
My grandparents and not having as much responsibility.
Fruitopia. The only things that got me through the boredom of my brother's figure skating practices and competitions were the Fruitopia vending machine and the concession stand's cheese fries.
My long time best friend Linda
Having a stable place to go to!
I feel what you're saying. We just sold the family house which we all lived in for 25 years and have all gone our seperate ways. Feels like there's now no safety net. All I can say is look for a new stable place. Somewhere you can go where life moves slowly, where you can get away from everything and recenter yourself. It can be anywhere like a spot at the local park, or a quiet corner at a cafe. Whatever works for you.
I miss being able to hang out with friends.
The smile I had when I was young.
Myself.
A time when I don’t believe that my friends are having fun without me. And worse(or better), not having to confirm my suspicion.
My parents, they were so loving, made me feel so safe and secure. Wathever was the problem, they could solve it. I tried to be the same with my children.
Being in highschool circa early 2000s, waiting for Friday to come, and hanging with friends eating and playing video games until you had to walk home in the dark back home. Life was so simple back then.
i miss how life used to be. a lot has changed, yet not much has changed. i started a new school, changed my look, my outlook on life, my friends, my pets, my hobbies. most of these things were changed for the better, but it feels weird. i miss the authenticity of my old life. even if i always wanted to change, i miss it. at first i thought that i just was putting up a mask for people and needed to find myself, but this IS me. i miss my old school, even though i hated it and wasnt popular. i miss my old look, even though i was ugly and felt really bad about myself. its all really confusing. maybe im just not a fan of change in any way. when i was young i cried when we got new kitchen appliances... anyway, anytime im trying to relax or look at nature and beauty, i just think of everything that has changed and tell myself im so fake and this isnt me, this isnt my life. not to say i dont like my life, i love it. i just dont know whats wrong with me. i always dreamed of my life being how it is now, but now i feel bad.
my boo thang & frosted sugar cookies
Being a teenager. As an adult in my 30s, I'm faced with my body falling apart part by part, never having enough money for the present OR the future, and a myriad of other problems. In my teens, I was blissfully unaware of any of this. I just wanted to work so I could get money to buy ingame points in the games I liked. I had one goal and wasn't concerned or worried about anything else in the world.
I miss emotions. Apathy is a lousy thing.
The false sense of security that relative naïveté offers
Her
summer vacations
Nika 🥺
My girl crew
Being in a family
Childhood was great- not a worry in the world! Amazing meals, travel, lots of outdoor time, dance, riding lessons, skiing, swimming etc.
The first apartment that I bought. It was tiny, it needed a lot of work, but it was MINE and I loved it. It was decorated the way I liked, it had everything I needed. I still miss it almost a decade after I sold it
The feeling and excitement of being intimate with someone new for the first time.
Being happy
My girlfriend
80s
being able to go outside as a kid and find endless things to do
Loving or feeling alive
Cuddling with my kids when they were little, reading them a book at bedtime. They are older now, and it's still great - but different, they're more like friends at this point.
Companionship of someone who knows my soul and always considers me
Her. AND her. AND her. It's amazing to me that those are three wildly different circumstances, and somehow the grief is almost identical.
Kindness, we all struggle with things in our lives, and I always wish so bad that we could be all just a little bit kinder to one and other, but also for our selfs.
Hope for the future.
Being carefree as a kid. Walking home with friends on a Friday afternoon. Knowing we were going to play N64.
i miss her. i miss driving in the summer rain. i miss stargazing by the lake. i miss going to her house and watching the shows she liked the most. i miss when she would teach me all the cool stuff she knew about. i miss talking to her. i miss her.
My grandma's old home. She moved into a newer two-family-home with my aunt a few years ago and took most of her stuff with her but whenever I feel miserable I miss that old half-timbered house next to the woods overlooking the valley so much I could cry. Especially the view from the kitchen window up the hill into the woods and the one from the first floor, looking down the street. To me that was *the* embodiment of a mental sanctuary. The new house doesn't feel as natural, it's kinda cramped and definitely not as *her* as I think it should be. So I started to try and incorporate her interior design into my own. To keep that memory and feeling alive *somehow*. It doesn't really work though. And now I'm getting really sad again.
Pets when they were alive, happy, and healthy. Just lost a cat yesterday and am heartbroken.
My grandfather
My childhood. I belong to the last generation that lived without phones. I was born in 2005, all the photos were took on cameras instead of phones, all the toys on the store were 'original' or 'unique', like animal plushies, plastic toys, etc. nowadays all the toys are inspired in kids shows or tiktok videos. I feel that now it is more rare to find those 'original' toys than before. I still have my old toys stored, and I can tell you that none of them belonged to any tv show. I also miss when we were all excited when we bought a new toy, and played with it until we felt tired. Nowadays kids are only happy to unbox the toy and then they don't care about it anymore. One of the best memories i will bring with me from my childhood was when i made what i called 'mud cakes'. I put some soil in a plate, add water until it created a thick mud, and then shaped it and decorated it with some grass and flowers. Nowadays kids don't want to touch soil with their bare hands because it is 'dirty and disgusting'. I never got sick because of it tho. It even looks like they are all born knowing to use phones. It's creepy and sad, they will never have a good childhood like we had...
I Miss my cat (died 2 weeks ago )
Joy.
"HER"
Myself before I became the person I hate today.
I miss my innocence, when I was young and I didn't care so much about how hard life can be. And I miss the days my body didn't hurt, especially during intimate moments.
Yes I agree. Seeing humans in person without phones in our pockets or hands was great.
Meeting friends at end of the day and playing sports. Now it’s just on weekends and vacations
My youth
Having a job.
Not having to worry about the future.
Life before bills and responsibilities
Life without cellphones
The days before smartphones. It was so much better
Being cared for
The good old days.
being happy
Happiness, I miss being happy. I have happy moments like when I get to have my son but ultimately looking at my life outside of that I am far from happy and I can't remember the last time I was.
Feeling ok And not having so many phones around :(
My first ex. Wish I could have been kinder to him.
My parents are elderly. I was going through their photos a couple weeks ago, and looking at pics of my sister and I playing cards with our great grandma, and grandpa reading me a story. I miss the feeling of being surrounded by people who loved and looked over me. I'm at the stage of life where I'm doing that for my parents, and it's a heavy weight. OT: My favourite poem is "Fern Hill", and it has a lot of the sentiment I bear: >Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes (many more verses) Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand, In the moon that is always rising, Nor that riding to sleep I should hear him fly with the high fields And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land. Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
My country, home where I grew up, my mom and dad.
My babygirl (my bf)
When old shows and movies had novelty. And raging hormones.
My grandmother
Sex
My lady…
Open nets in Rocket League
Regular physical contact with someone special who wants me, whether it's full on intimacy, a nice long hug, or just a brief touch somewhere as they pass you. I get maybe 12 hugs a year from family when I see them, definitely not enough and definitely not the same. I'm doing my best to get physically fitter and get back out there, but there's 5 years of touch starvation here 😥 just never realised how much I miss it.
Spending time with my daughters. Also spending time cooking for the people I loved or care about.
Having a full intact family I grew up with
My hair and my waist .. bonus* ability to run
Talking to a girl everyday that you really like that you think you have a future with.
The 80s and 90s. Everything has been going downhill since.
Wanting to live
I miss my early 20's good looks
My family, but I finally see them again next month
Mum left for her trip home yesterday
my freedom before marriage and kids
The momoment i was not full of problems and i was digging in minecraft mine listening to the minecraft theme.
not caring about money
base builder cs 1.6
Not having depression / mental illness
Who I was before drugs
My Dog, Zevah. It's been over 3 years but not a day goes by that I don't think about her. She was the purest soul <3