nostalgia

[rusty_halo]

I haven't been reading LJ, um, pretty much at all, lately. (Profuse apologies, please don't hate me, etc.)

Comments

[bogwitch]

You're going to have such a hard time at 30.

My era was 1994-1996, Britpop. And I was 20 then. You should be in your prime now, or maybe you are and you don't see it yet (I really thought I miss the 80's and in the end I didn't).

[rusty_halo]

So in ten years I'll be all nostalgic over Spike and BtVS and following James Marsters around to conventions? Naahh....

Well, okay, I guess I'll miss running All About Spike (I already miss that, my poor abandoned website). And I'll miss the friends I've made, and the wonderfully creative fan community, and the great fanfic, and the travel's kind of fun.... guess I ought to enjoy it while I can....

[bogwitch]

Nothing ever stays the same. Except my life which remains consistantly boring.

"my poor abandoned website"

[trepkos]

- don't SAY that!

[minim_calibre]

It kind of gets better. In about, hrrm. 2-5 years, depending. Mind, I started feeling all you-kids-get-offa-my-lawn when I was 17

[rusty_halo]

Being as I'm *from* Seattle, my era actually ended around when your era began

You are so lucky. I always felt so guilty, like the hugest poser, for liking that music. I was an eleven year old from New Jersey; I really had no right whatsoever to listen to that music at all. But I couldn't help it, it meant the world to me anyway.

After a few years of feeling ancient before my time, time started to do something weird, where now five years ago seems like yesterday instead of a long time ago, and nothing seems as far in the past as it used to, back in the day.

That sounds really cool. I hope I start feeling that sometime soon....

[harmonyfb]

I'm 22 and I feel so OLD.

::cough:: You know, I turned 41 last month, and could, therefore, be your actual mama without any 'child bride' nonsense, so...allow me to scoff. Lovingly, but scoffing, nonetheless. ;)

[rusty_halo]

Well, I don't know, I felt ancient when I was 10, to be honest. It's just a comment about how I feel emotionally, not about physical age or anything like that.

There's a reason why I rarely have friends my own age, and why most of the people I talk to often are at least ten years older than me....

[thedeadlyhook]

Jeezus, you feel old? My made years were back in the '80s, Nineteen-Eighty-effin'-Four right in the middle of my collegey experiece, when everything was all Prince and the Revolution and the original New Wave, early, early, early MTV and all the music was either about love-'em-if-you've-got-'em or overbearing tensions about the Cold War. Those were Reagan's years, and Thatcher's, and it was party on or be tense, or preferably both at once, because you knew when you were getting out of school it wasn't too damn likely there'd be a job

[rusty_halo]

That was fascinating. Don't apologize.

You came of age in a really interesting era, one that I wish I'd experienced.

And I know what you mean about people ignoring the past. I wasn't there either, but dude, just read some history! Ignore the past, doomed to repeat it, etc, etc....

You're right that there's always good new stuff happening. It's just hard to find, especially if you're like me and tend to cling to one thing utterly and completely. Moving on is hard.

[thedeadlyhook]

Well, I'm still writing Buffy fic. Not really the poster child for moving on either. ; )

You'll always find something new to enthrall you, though. I can tell that much just by the level of passion you bring to things. That's what's really rare in this world, seems to me, that kind of lust for life. It's why it draws our eye so much when we see it, I think - the bright, hot fires are few and far between.

[7spoons]

I can barely even read books that cover several generations, because I get so upset as the time passes and leaves people behind.

ME TOO! Gah. I always felt like a freak for that. *clings*

Don't know if this will make you feel less blue, but there's an article in the Times today about Eddie Vedder et al at the Vote for Change concert. Sounds like he's still kicking it.

[rusty_halo]

ME TOO! Gah. I always felt like a freak for that.

Whoa. I had no clue anyone else was that strange. Neat. :)

Don't know if this will make you feel less blue, but there's an article in the Times today about Eddie Vedder et al at the Vote for Change concert. Sounds like he's still kicking it.

Thanks for the link. :) Eddie Vedder is so totally awesome. I would really hope that, if I am ever in a position of influence the way he is, I would use it the same way, to make the world a better place. There are so many lame, shallow ways to waste the power that comes with fame; I'm so proud of him for sticking up for what he believes in and trying to do what's right. [cue utter lame dorkiness] When I was a kid, I used to always wish that he was my father. He was certainly more influential, in a positive way, than my actual father ever was.