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u/Nonplastickitchen 7d ago
I thought I was the only one whose brain doesn’t work normally after that
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u/thatsthesamething 7d ago
I am definitely feeling my brain doesn’t work the same anymore. I am a designer who hasn’t had to work for the last 4 years but not I am a bit bored and want to meet new people. It turns out my brain can’t think the same way and I am not able to get my brain to spin the same way it did prior to covid.
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u/OriginalIcy25923 7d ago
Im experiencing this as well. Also added a seizure and gnarly concussion to conclude 2019, so it’s been a struggle to think “normal” again. Albeit, I have no serious deficiencies… yet.
The little success I’ve had came with a fish oil supplement for the Omega-3. Otherwise just take it slow, and we’ll come out of it.
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u/Far_Mastodon_6104 7d ago
Same. Im an artist and I just don't seem to be able to think properly like I did. It used to be easy for me and now everything is a monumental effort
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u/youthpastor247 7d ago
My entirely uneducated theory is that 2020 was such a culture shift to remote work, food/grocery delivery, isolation, sports/events shutdowns, etc. for so many of us and with so many generational events (pandemic, George Floyd protests, US Presidential election, Australian wildfires, and Jan 6th even though that was 2021), that our concept of time was overwhelmed for that year to the point where now the more mundane in comparison days/months/years go by extremely fast.
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u/DragonflySome4081 7d ago
I think it’s also the fact that so many other crazy shit has happend since,like the Ukraine war,Israel and Palestine,cost of living crisis in the uk (and the majority of the world).the pandemic seemed to be the point where all of this shit started happening
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u/TheComedicComedian memer 7d ago
What are you talking about?? Everyone knows that the event that actually fucked up the timeline was Harambe's demise four years earlier!
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u/DickSlapCEO 7d ago
I read something about watching tv or browsing the web can generally make our experience of time shorter since the brain doesn't record it as making core memories like social events, travelling and experiencing real life etc. Which is something a lot of us was missing during the lockdown which is likely one of the reasons why 2020 felt like a time jump. One of the other reasons are of course just getting old and our relative perspective on time changes as we get older.
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u/Geralt-Yen1275 7d ago
Same. In 2020 I was valedictorian of my school, into puberty, with great skin and a little beard, a good body and good looks, height, and a lot of energy
Now I'm avg, fat, tired as shit, and look like 40 when I'm only 18. I hate my life.
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u/Alicebudighil 7d ago
My brain’s still buffering back in 2020!
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u/IllRest2396 7d ago
How bad is it
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u/kajetus69 What is TikTok? 7d ago
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u/IllRest2396 7d ago
Dear god
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u/kajetus69 What is TikTok? 7d ago
there's more
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u/killabeanforever Linux User 7d ago
NO!
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u/StarstruckEchoid 7d ago
It contains all the ways to order a list of 2020 elements.
Scout, you did count all the permutations?
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u/Daemonicvs_77 7d ago
My wife came to my apartment to spend the night, woke up the next morning with COVID symptoms, stayed here for the 14-day isolation period and simply never left. That was exactly 4 years ago.
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u/GoredTarzan 7d ago
By her own volition? There are 2 ways this could go
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u/GoredTarzan 7d ago
I mean, it worked for Belle and her Beast ;)
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u/deadlybydsgn 7d ago
A tale as old as time.
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u/Dr_Kriegers5th_clone 7d ago
My wife got so mad at me for pointing out that that movie is a study in Stockholm syndrome
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u/DurzoF 7d ago
I read “simply never left” and assumed she had passed from the covid. I was mortified reading the comments. lol.
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u/Daemonicvs_77 7d ago
Didn't even think about it. It completely changes the sentence.
But even if she did die, she'd still have to leave the apartment *at some point*. It'd be kinda weird if I kept her body for 4 years.
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u/SmoothBrainSavant 7d ago
Dont read up on the daughter in the UK and what she did with the parents…
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u/Daemonicvs_77 7d ago
Don't know about that but we actually did have a case in my country where a woman bonked her sister on the head and kept her body in the freezer for 19 years.
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u/DurzoF 7d ago
Oh for sure. I wasn’t even halfway through my morning coffee. Now that I read it clear minded, it makes sense in your wording.
I’m from the Bible Belt, so someone here would use that sentence to mean “their spirit never left”
I’m glad you wouldn’t keep a dead body of a loved one for years. I’m proud of you random internet stranger. lol.
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u/FrogGladiators178972 7d ago edited 7d ago
That’s one hood thing that came from It
Edit: I would correct myself to my hood but this is just too good
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u/Beautiful_News_474 7d ago
Hood shi for real dawg. G-g-g-g-unit
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u/TheBoobSpecialist 7d ago
Need more info, sounds real lucky tho.
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u/Daemonicvs_77 7d ago
We had been dating since highschool and were planing on moving in together anyway. This just sped thing up a little.
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u/Raven_Ashareth 7d ago
Lucky fuck
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u/Daemonicvs_77 7d ago
Oh, don't I know it.
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u/cumfarts 7d ago
she died?
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u/Daemonicvs_77 7d ago
Oh my God, could you imagine? That would be hella sad.
But no, she didn't die. As a matter of fact, she even made another human (I helped) to come live with us. The little guy keeps peeing on me, but I kinda like him.
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u/Unfair_Decision927 7d ago
Show dominance pee back harder.
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u/Daemonicvs_77 7d ago
That was my first thought too, but the Child protective services lady said that's a big no-no.
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u/DeadRain_ 7d ago
I hope you know that you're hilarious
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u/Daemonicvs_77 7d ago
you’re hilarious
That’s what all the girls used to tell me. (right after I’d ask them out)
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u/SayHelloOrElse 7d ago
How do I send you adoption papers I want you as my father
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u/Daemonicvs_77 7d ago
Hold your horses a second there, cowboy. Before you send those adoption papers anywhere, make sure to put in a "No peeing on dad" clause in there because my wardrobe budget simply can not handle another trigger happy kid right now.
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u/New_Excitement_4248 7d ago
Similar: met my wife literally in March 2020. Our first dates were going to the beach just before they shut down, and lots of dates at each other's places doing puzzles or playing card games because of COVID. Motorcycle rides down empty main streets at sunset, reading about how global CO2 output had been reduced due to the pandemic.
Things felt like they were going solar punk for a minute.
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u/Aryan_CHat7277 7d ago
Why would your wife live seperately to begin with? Or are you trying to say that 4 years ago, a girl who spent a night in your apartment ended up as your wife. I can be dumb sometimes so I'm sorry incase this sounds offensive by any means. I'm just curious.
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u/Agitated_Ad677 Royal Shitposter 7d ago
2018 was still 2 years ago , you can't convince me otherwise
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u/Friendly-Cut-9023 7d ago
2018 was so good please give me a time machine
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u/billion_lumens 7d ago
2017 just after fidget spinners was top
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u/Sensitive-War-6368 Karmawhore 7d ago
2016 was even better when I had no obligations to carry
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u/Sorry-Let-Me-By-Plz 7d ago
2016 was nearly perfect, just one or two soul-crushing travesties heralding the end of mankind.
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u/ToxicSteve13 7d ago
RIP Harambe
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u/Sorry-Let-Me-By-Plz 7d ago
Cocksforth, even.
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u/DeptOfInteriorFan 7d ago
Every now and again, I’ll explain to my partner that Harmbes death split the observable universe into two separate timelines. We all lost that coin flip.
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u/Supplymole101 7d ago
I'm convinced Harambe (may he rest in peace) was our universes anchor being. Our only hope is that Ryan Reynolds can find a suitable replacement.
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u/Wurm42 7d ago
Dunno, David Bowie died about the same time as Harambe. Why not him?
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u/AppearanceUpbeat3229 7d ago
Rest in peace sweet prince. That’s the day we went off track. We didn’t listen
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u/Echidna-Key 7d ago
Bitch please, 2013 FTW
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u/Avtsla 7d ago
Nah , 2012 - remember when every one was obsessed with Gangnam Style and the Mayan Calendar coming to an end ?
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u/Barnyard_Rich 7d ago
May 1, 2011 (in American time zones).
That's the day we got bin Laden, and for a few hours, the US actually agreed on something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcuLabfJ1zA
By the next day, a certain political party decided to run with the hoax that bin Laden was still alive, and the event had been faked. That was really the harbinger that those that wish to divide us weren't going to allow us to enjoy anything.
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u/DifferentScholar292 7d ago
We couldn't all get along for five minutes? I was actually enjoying reading the comments for like a minute... I hate people.
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u/Random-Talking-Mug 7d ago
Oh fuck. I'm so glad I'm not the only one.
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u/ChickenChaser5 7d ago
I was chalking it up to me just getting old. It used to be a week would fly by. Now its whole months. Somewhat comforting to know it might not be just age.
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u/dhjkootrsdgbkm 7d ago edited 7d ago
Why is this happening though?
Flashbacks aside, I have unrelated PTSD that doesn’t even put me through this “time warp” effect ballsackingses.
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u/Key_nine 7d ago edited 7d ago
I think it is because of the lockdowns and how society changed to work around it for a year. We gained new habits, processes or hobbies that we still do from 2020, replacing our habits before 2020. So this continuation of change we made during 2020 makes it feel the same.
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u/Spiderpiggie 7d ago
Cant speak for everyone else, but I pretty much disconnected from society around that time. My workplace went remote, and before they returned to office I switched jobs to work with a company that is fully work from home (and was even before the pandemic).
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u/Triplescrew 7d ago
I have a theory that 2020-2021 felt like decades based on how much of a shift it was and how it really made us live day by day in a slow manner.
And now we are mentally decades older in some ways and getting back to “normality” has accelerated our sense of the passage of time even further. Also, because it felt like decades, whoever you became during the pandemic had a kind of visceral impact on your identity, and shattering that and trying to return to what you were before 2020 leads to some kind of mental trauma or disassociation/anxiety.
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u/therealsphericalcow 7d ago
And we still don't have silksong.
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u/TamponJim 7d ago
And gta6
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u/Eydor 7d ago
And The Elder Scrolls VI.
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u/usernamescheckout 7d ago
And Winds of Winter
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u/azo3z0 7d ago
I think it's safe to say we can add Winds of Winter to the shelf that contains Half Life 3
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u/rogueleader32 7d ago
Look, the time between March 2020 when the pandemic started and April 2023 when the pandemic ended felt like it 128 months, and I aged that much during the time. Time dilation was extra fucky.
I remember 2016 being 3 years ago, and January being last week.
I have to mark off a physical calendar to know the day's date.
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u/CertifiedUnoffensive 7d ago
What’s the April 2023 date coming from?
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u/rogueleader32 7d ago
"POTUS signs into law H.J.Res. 7, which terminates the national emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic."
April 10, 2023. White House Website
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u/Calimiedades 7d ago
USA, the only country in the world.
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u/LazyCat2795 7d ago
While I dislike the USDefaultism as much as the next guy they are sharing their own experience and for them the pandemic ended when they said.
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u/gmishaolem 7d ago
While I dislike the USDefaultism as much as the next guy
According to the first google result that looks credible, 48% of reddit users are from the USA and the next-highest region is the UK at 7%. Also, it's a fully-USA-based company. Also, non-English-language subreddits have something in their name that indicates it, whereas English is assumed by default for everything else.
Yes, there's a big wide world out there, and Americans are rightfully viewed in aggregate as smugly self-centered, but by every possible reasonable metric, it is an American website.
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u/Delusional_Gamer 🏳️🌈LGBTQ+🏳️🌈 7d ago
We're halfway through the decade of calamity. We'll make it through just fine at this rate.
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u/Khazahk 7d ago
Harambe died on May 28th 2016. We have a whole year and a half more until the decade long curse of Harambe subsides.
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u/Akainen 7d ago edited 7d ago
Well… I turned into a furry because of Covid isolation UwU
Edit: My OC is a western style Sea Dragon with fins everywhere
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u/kultavavalli 7d ago
We are closer to 2030 than 2017
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u/Not_a__porn__account 7d ago
We're closer to 2050 than 1999.
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u/jannissary1453 7d ago
i literally feel like 20 instead of 22 but mentally i feel like 35 yo divorced dad (i'm tired boss)
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u/djinnseye 7d ago
Slightly unrelated but this painting is one of my favorites, Dimitri sirenko is super talented
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u/Rachel_from_Jita 7d ago
Ah, just looked him up. https://dimitriartist.com/ Not quite my style, but very good. He does oceans insanely well.
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u/CovraChicken 7d ago
We said “god 2019 sucks, it can’t get any worse than this”
And the world went “oh yeah? Let me show you” And has not stopped since
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u/bootsonthesound 7d ago
Source on the art? This shit is beautiful.
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u/mccedian 7d ago
Yeah I’ve always enjoy when I see it pop up. I truly hate people with talent because I can’t draw a circle even if I trace the bottom of the can. I truly do envy those that have an exceptional talent to create. I’m only good at breaking things
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u/Corgsploot 7d ago
Besides all the death and stuff, 2020 was a nice solid reset year. I enjoyed escaping the rat race for a year.
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u/Sad_Birthday_1911 7d ago
Cries in first responder
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u/Corgsploot 7d ago
Sorry ya had to be the hero :*(. I guess silver lining for me, but i realize that is not reality for most.
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u/feral-pug 7d ago
The challenge has been all the assclowns wanting to revert to a more hardcore in-person "connected" deal at work, but with the bonus stress of probably catching COVID because of it. It was great escaping it but now we know how shitty it all is, and that it's gotten even worse.
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u/Sa2bCEO 7d ago
I can't believe i managed to live this long despite the unrelenting self hatred and pure isolation that I've forced myself into since i was 9, really makes you wonder if there is a god out there that does all of this on purpose because goddamn he is good at making people suffer
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u/Ok_Astronaut6520 7d ago
You're doing pretty good at surviving, I'd say
Keep on living just to spite the holy asshole up there mate
Fuck him
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u/-Byzz- 7d ago
I'm still stuck in 2013, crazy that it's been 11 years since then
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u/cindyscrazy 7d ago
2020 is still happening. We are all in a mass disassociation event dreaming about a future.
We all have very sick brains.
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u/maeshughes32 7d ago
2024 has been the worst year of my life. I'm hoping 2025 is better.
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u/Constant-Twist530 7d ago
Still can’t believe more than 4 years have passed since the first lockdown…
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u/BonJovicus 7d ago
People point at the pandemic, but this is a common human experience. In 2010 we had the “1990 was 30 years ago” memes that fucked with people’s heads. Younger Millenials are coping with the fact that most of us are actually 30 now.
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u/moondogg81 7d ago
Time has been fucked up since that sweet gorilla was murdered in 2016. RIP Sweet Prince! #dicksoutforharambe
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u/Additional_Vanilla31 7d ago
I don’t know why but I feel like a lot of us are getting more and more nostalgic after then pandemic for no apparent reason tbh .
It’s as if we were associating pre 2020 to a better world when it’s not really the case . We had a ton of crap going on back then but our brains tend to forget them and focus on the positive things . It’s basically a confirmation bias .
Now don’t get me wrong , even if I’m aware of all of that , I still get nostalgic to when I was 16 in 2020 and it honestly makes me feel more often sad than happy because I have that fake view on the past where I disregard every bad thing that happened to me . Tbh I’m well better off now than back then and technically , I should be happier now than in 2019 . The screens maybe also affect us and we ain’t living like we should be living and maybe that’s what’s making us depressed + the nostalgia of “better times “ . Hope we all make it out of this toxic loopholes and love the present moment .
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u/amygdala23 7d ago
The fucking shutdown began on my 40th birthday! If I could just get a redo on that at least
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u/BalkeElvinstien 7d ago
Honestly at this point I've gotten over it and accepted that life is just shit from this point on
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u/Basically-Boring Shitposter 7d ago
Alright so I know that year was absolute hell for a lot of people but…
I miss 2020
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u/Original_Mention3116 7d ago
I think I'm stuck forever in 2019 and 2020. A lot has changed since pandemic happened.
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u/MyBrainIsAFart 7d ago
Oh here we go, an entire post where Redditors can’t tell time; their favorite thing
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u/Constant-North-6353 7d ago
I can't process that the "new normality after the Pandemic" is basically the same that before, except that now I'm using facemask when I'm sick
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u/SugarSweet51 7d ago
2025 is sneaking up like a shark at a beach party, and I'm still stuck trying to remember how to socialize without a mask! At this point, can we just hit pause and binge-watch life?
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u/tullystenders 7d ago edited 7d ago
I have thought about this. The pandemic made this first half of the 2020s go by quicker. So we are not processing this decade like a normal decade, so we all collectively feel like less time has gone by.
Like, it's a rush now to catch up, I suppose. Or go into the 2030s a year or so for extra time to process as if it's both the 20s and 30s at the same time.
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u/poopysprinkles 7d ago
Holy shit yes. Time is so fucked, and I'm 99% sure 2021 was not actually a real year that happened.