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Hibiscus_Syrup wrote

If I remember anything I'll come back here, but I think the answer is that I don't miss anything.

If it's something from my childhood that I no longer have that I enjoyed then, I had it for reasons that disgust me now.

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ruin wrote

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

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existential1 wrote

Honestly just the lack of certain forms of dread that I didn't even know were possible.

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86944 wrote

I feel you on the pokemon games. Gen 3 was the first I played and I stopped around diamond and pearl. They've been made even easier and have weird gimmicks each generation.

Constant snow cover. Winter used to mean the ground was white for days or weeks. Now it snows so infrequently that the snow cover might last a day or two.

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zddy wrote

Innocence was nice. Nihilism is better though.

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malvarosa wrote

i miss not cooking or having to deal with my own nutrition. i hate cooking. yet so, so hungry.

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malvarosa wrote

I can cook, pretty good about 60% of the time but I resent the fuck out of it because I’m the only one in my house that knows how to. My grandpa did the cooking for the entire family and it was the best food anyone who tried it had ever eaten. He’s gone now and my partner can barely fry an egg. This close to burning the kitchen down.

But anyway: always looking for easy and nutritious recipes!

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malvarosa wrote

Ah yes, the ol “operator who blames their error on the operation they set out to complete.” A timeless classic!

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Abesti wrote

Nothing, really. My childhood was a mix of violence, abuse, homelessness, prison and sadness,

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Ennui wrote

I used to care a lot about being “successful.” I don’t miss the stressful perfectionist mindset that put me in and which I still deal with today, but I did enjoy feeling like I was going somewhere.

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ziq wrote

Breaking and entering to sleep in people's summer houses or in hotel rooms in the off season.

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cyberrose wrote

Living in a bigger city now, I (somehow) miss the village. Sure everything was limited and you need to get along with the people since you don't have other options but it also provided you with stuff you won't find in a city. The slow pace of the world, the endless inspiration for wasting time with stupid stuff, the freedom of doing what you want with minimal consequences...

But also: Without some of the people I met elsewhere I don't want to go back in such a setting. It just felt like "liberating" because you simply did not know the other options. Also it was much easier to reproduce oppressive behavior in various forms; but you won't notice that if you don't get in contact with others...

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OdiousOutlaw wrote

Days feel shorter than they used to. Maybe it's because I'm carrying a digital timepiece all the time. Hate it.

I also used to be able to enjoy doing something for more than an hour before I got bored.

To a lesser extent, I miss going to a blockbuster to beg my mom for a gameboy color game. Any gameboy color game. iirc, I would succeed less than half of the time.

The circumstances of my paternal grandparents' deaths really fucked me up for a while, I've got a lot of summer vacation memories associated with them. I used to want to live in South Carolina, but there's little to nothing there for me anymore.

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UwUltraviolence wrote

Our fireplace.

Mom had a wood burning stove that we would use for parts of fall n most of winter. I would sleep by it, some nights and the cats and dog would sleep by me as well. Mostly cause I had a blanket for the extra warmth. I'd just fall asleep to the sounds of embers burning their last. It smelled great.

When I hit like 16 n started going through boy puberty (🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮) she would let me help n chop the firewood.

I loved the smell of sweat mixed with just...pulverized wood? It was a very enjoyable and tactile thing.

Our house is now bulldozered and will be replaced with a 3 story monstrosity that looks like the 3 other houses that were demolished and built into the exact suburban but still hip mini mansion that has no room for nature. No tree or bushes or plants. Just enough space for a strip of lawn.

Sorry for ranting. I hate New houses I hate mcmansions and I hate that I miss the house I grew up. I despise nostalgia but am feeling too much of it these days.

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