Only young people think this. Everyone gets weirder with age. Or better said accepts their weirdness and dgaf.
idk adults said that to kids when i was younger. if you mean “young people” as in “young adults like under 30”, then maybe. “it’s just a phase” was also common. (the “phases” turned out to go like 20 years with most ppl i knew)
Everyone kept telling me that I would become more conservative with age, and that once I got a job in the “real world,” and started paying taxes, then my priorities would change (presumably to lowering taxes?).
Literally the opposite has happened.
I remember most older people appearing “normal” when I was younger. But now that I’m almost 40 most of my peers seem unapologeticaly unhinged. Not fitting into what our parents thought as non-weird at all.
Actually, maybe kids these days see me as “perfectly normal old guy”, and it’s just a generational divide.
Norms have changed tons over my nearly half century years here.
ikr it’s like dressing goth as you get older bc you look in the mirror and are like: “I look old and decrepit… cool!”
“Pfft, conformists!”
Yeah I’m still a anticapitalist weirdo exept now I get to teach college kids about punk rock and anti-police sentiment in modern music.
That sounds awesome. Keep up the good fight.
Most people even out. But they don’t get any less weird. Adults are less social, and being weird by yourself isn’t a big deal for anyone.
This is why weird was a terrible choice of attack words in the last election. Weird is good.
Doug Henning got weirder though.
He passed in 2000 at the age of 52. 😐
I loved watching him when I was growing up, but as adulthood and kids took over my life, he slipped away. Thanks for the memory!
I certainly evened out, but I’m going to die weird and I wouldn’t have it any other way
